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perf(transform): re-apply the literal-key member fold after const substitution — O[K] 1236 to 169 instructions (#10761) - #10766

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Part of #10761.

o["a"] written in source is already folded to o.a by the member lowering (the #529 fold in lower/expr_member/member_tail.rs). But module_const_fold substitutes a hoisted const K = "a" into the key position after that matcher has run, and nothing re-ran it — so the node stayed an IndexGet and codegen resolved it by name at runtime on every read.

O[K] + O[J] on {a:1,b:2,c:3}: 1236 → 169 instructions per iteration (7.31×) — exactly what the same pair spelled O.a + O.b costs. Identical at both fit ranges.

It also corrects a spec divergence: null[K] and undefined[K] silently read undefined before this change; node throws a TypeError.

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Per read on the const-key path, every callee at exactly 2.00 calls/iteration (no calls=1 cold-start contamination):

Ir function
204 try_data_get_bytes
94.5 keys_find_slot_by_bytes_resolved
54 is_anon_shape_class_id
52 js_object_get_field_by_name
35 …_f64
34 from_utf8
20 typed-feedback wrapper
15 memcmp
14 is_arguments_object
14 object_field_at_with_live
536.5 total

The produced node is bit-identical to the one o["name"] produces in source, so there is no new fast path and no new guard — the read reaches the per-site monomorphic inline cache the dotted spelling already used. Numeric-index strings are excluded, mirroring the source fold verbatim, so arr["0"] keeps IndexGet semantics.

What this does not do, stated plainly

It moves 0.000% on all five realsuite programs and ±0.015% on all four clisuite programs. Not one module-level const K = "…" used as a property key exists anywhere in realsuite, rungs or clisuite — that was checked, not assumed.

And it loses on three shapes: accessor +16%, prototype-inherited +27%, absent key +4.6%. In each case the fix arm lands exactly on the cost of the same read spelled with a dot — perry's dotted PIC lowering is slower than the plain by-name helper for those shapes, so the const spelling had an accidental advantage that this removes. The right response is to fix the dotted lowering for those shapes, not to preserve an inconsistency.

Guard honesty

There is one guard, is_numeric_index_string, and it cannot be made to fail on correctness — removing it passes both the 24-case fixture and a 33-case numeric probe. It is witnessed by measurement instead: Int32Array[K] goes 969 → 1343 (+38.5%) without it. Flagging that explicitly rather than presenting it as a correctness-witnessed guard.

Sabotage with phase 2 disabled fails 4 of 5 new unit tests, and the new fixture fails on base — so the change itself is witnessed.

Gates

Node identity 51/67/4 across realsuite/rungs/clisuite on both arms, only the known nest diff (#10733). perry-runtime 4074/0, perry-hir 764/0, perry-transform 157/0; perry-codegen 2157 pass / 1 fail identically on base (pre-existing manifest drift). cargo fmt clean, clippy 174 = 174, file-size / root-holders / binding-audit clean. GC stress 20 seeds × 2 arms, 0 offenders, on a fixture performing 96 from-space scans per run with an allocating getter. Peak RSS +0.02%.

Context for the wider issue

This closes the spelling gap but not the cost gap. Measured cleanly — accumulating into a float so the fixture's own |0 ToInt32 is not counted, which inflated the original numbers in #10761 by roughly half — a property read that cannot be hoisted (O.a = k; h += O.a) costs perry 142 against node's 14. The realistic array-of-objects shape is 121 vs 24.

So the remaining gap is per-access cost, not spelling and not hoisting. The attribution here found a monomorphic static read hit is 23 inline instructions of which 22 are loop-invariant receiver revalidation (96%), and that read_stub.rs — a 2048×2-way thread-local cache — sits below the call that answers every plain-object read, so it is never probed or primed. Both are follow-ups, and both are #10741's shape applied to property access.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01YaNfLEjMRdhCLtk3SB5MdJ

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Performance

    • Improved performance of indexed reads and writes in ordinary arrays, including compound assignments such as array[index] += 1.
    • Extended optimizations to arrays without explicit element-type annotations.
    • Added optimized handling for eligible numeric array-loop ranges while preserving safe fallback behavior.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected constant string property access so expressions like object[key] match direct property access semantics, including proper errors for nullish receivers.
    • Preserved correct behavior for numeric-looking keys and complex object access patterns.

perry-bot and others added 7 commits September 19, 2026 13:22
… every element access (PerryTS#10718)

An indexed read on an ordinary `Array` cost 87 instructions per element,
against 6 for the identical arithmetic on a `Float64Array` and 16 for node.
None of it was a runtime call: callgrind attributes 88.3 instructions per
element to straight-line code in `main`, of which **56 are loop-invariant
receiver revalidation** re-executed every iteration — the NaN-box tag and
handle-band test, the forwarding-flag follow, and a six-load live-head guard
that re-reads gc_type, gc_flags, obj_flags, a volatile invalidation flag,
length and capacity.

perry already has tiers that hoist exactly this proof into the loop
preheader and version the loop. They were declining at a single gate in
`stmt/loops.rs` — `array_static_type_excluded` — a **declared static type**
test sitting in front of a tier that is otherwise fully runtime-guarded.
`const a: number[] = new Array(400)` reached it and measured 13.4; plain
`new Array(400)` infers `Array<any>` and did not, so ordinary JavaScript
never got the tier it already had.

Separately, and larger: `a[i] += 1` cost 948 instructions per element, 3.7x
the identical `a[i] = a[i] + 1`, and a type annotation did not help.
`lower/expr_assign.rs` minted the compound-assignment spill temporaries as
`Type::Any`, erasing the receiver's array-ness and the index's
integer-ness before codegen could see the statement — which is why no
annotation could recover it. The temporaries now carry the operand types.

  Array read          87.0 -> 13.5   (node 16.3 — perry now wins 1.21x)
  a[i] += 1            948 ->  273
  a[i] += b[i]        1025 ->  347
  bare loop            4.0 ->  4.0   unchanged to the instruction
  Float64Array r/w   6.0/8.0 -> 6.0/8.0   unchanged to the instruction

A particle simulation over four numeric arrays spends 60.9% fewer
instructions (41.21 G -> 16.12 G) and 59% less peak RSS.

The widened tier initially regressed a numeric window inside an otherwise
non-numeric array by 33%, because the array-wide layout walk runs per loop
entry. A window-scoped layout proof is used as a second chance after that
walk declines; both shapes are now 12-13% wins, and arrays that are
non-numeric from slot 0 are unchanged to the instruction.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YaNfLEjMRdhCLtk3SB5MdJ
…ent stores (PerryTS#10718)

An indexed write cost 105 instructions per element with zero runtime calls;
51 of them were loop-invariant receiver revalidation and 42 was a write-barrier
decision provable away from the value type. This widens the store admission the
way PerryTS#10731 widened reads.

a[i] = k + i 105 -> 17.4, a[i] = a[i] + 1 256 -> 24.5, a[i] = a[i] + b[i]
333 -> 35.9. The bare loop, both Float64Array paths and the indexed read are
unchanged to the instruction.

The barrier-stem census probe for idxset.recv_global gains a second statement:
the widened tier made its loop qualify, which would have left that stem with no
live witness. A future multi-statement store tier must re-shape the probe, not
delete it.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YaNfLEjMRdhCLtk3SB5MdJ
…already had (PerryTS#10743)

Fixes PerryTS#10743. Stacked on PerryTS#10746 (`2b2b89063`), which contains PerryTS#10731.

`a[i] += 1` and `a[i] = a[i] + 1` are the same operation and node compiles both
to the same cost. perry compiled them 11x apart -- 277 instructions per element
against 24 -- and the slow one was the idiomatic spelling.

HIR's `hoist_compound_member_assign` lowers a compound member assignment into two
immutable alias `Let`s plus the store, so the base and the key are each evaluated
exactly once and before the right-hand side. `packed_f64_range_loop_body_collect`
admits exactly ONE statement, so the lowering guaranteed the statement could
never reach the tier that makes the expanded form fast. Annotating the array
changed nothing: the obstacle is the statement count, not type information.

The temporaries stay. They are load-bearing -- an RHS call can reassign the
bindings they were read from, and the store must still land at the index
evaluated before it ran (`a[i] += (() => { i = 2; return 5; })()`). So the fold
is in the MATCHER, and it applies only to the guarded fast clones: the slow clone
lowers the statements as written, so a failed guard and every side exit still
execute the specified evaluation order.

Inside the matched subset the fold is exact, because
`packed_f64_range_loop_pure_expr_collect` is a whitelist that admits no call,
closure, `await`, update or assignment anywhere in the statement -- nothing can
write the locals the aliases read. This needs none of PerryTS#10741's mid-iteration
side-exit discipline: the folded-away statements perform no stores, so there is
nothing to un-do when a guard fails partway.

Per element, fitted across N=10,000 -> 50,000, three interleaved rounds per arm:

  a[i] += 1      277.05 -> 25.46   (node 16.9)
  a[i] -= 1      208.05 -> 27.45   (node 16.9)
  a[i] += b[i]   347.05 -> 35.86   (node 25.8) -- now exactly a[i] = a[i] + b[i]
  a[i] *= 1      206.05 -> 25.45   (node 15.1)
  a[i] |= 0      236.05 -> 52.46   (node 12.7)

The bare loop, both `Float64Array` rows, the indexed read and write and both
expanded spellings are unchanged -- their emitted LLVM IR is byte-identical
between arms, which is a stronger witness than a flat fitted number.

It moves none of the five real programs in PerryTS#10695, and the compiler's own trace
says why: `sim` still reports 3 x `body_not_admissible`, because its inner loop
is five statements containing two `if`s. This admits a body whose extra
statements are compound-assign ALIASES, not a body whose extra statements do
things. That remains PerryTS#10741.

New diagnostic: `PERRY_PACKED_LOOP_TRACE=1` prints
`[range-loop] admitted: compound_assign_alias_fold`. The existing traces report
only DECLINES, so there was no way to show that a fixture claiming to exercise a
guarded path actually reached it -- the exact gap that let PerryTS#10746 ship a GC
stress whose fixtures were all declined before the guard under test ran.

Correctness: 25 differential fixtures (evaluation order with a side-effecting
RHS, getters and setters on the array / on `Array.prototype` / on the index, a
prototype getter that truncates, deletes from or freezes the array mid-loop,
frozen and sealed in sloppy and strict mode, a non-writable index, holes, out of
bounds, past `length`, non-number elements, string `+=`, heap-reference stores,
offset and affine indices, module-global receivers, typed arrays, and all
fifteen compound operators) pass on both arms with byte-identical results.

Guard sabotage: removing the per-store numeric-bits value check produces 27
SIGABRTs across seven heap-limit seeds under `PERRY_GC_FROMSPACE_SCAN_ABORT=1`
(0 unsabotaged), with the from-space scan naming a survivor-space array holding
an un-evacuated nursery pointer through a slot that was never marked dirty -- so
this path does not bypass PerryTS#10746's write barrier, it is the same check on the
same store. Neutering the loop-entry guard turns four fixtures red, all of them
through the fold. The `mutable: false` condition is witnessed by a unit test and
an IR test; the `__cmpd_` name test and the initialiser grammar are scoping
restrictions with unit-test witnesses only, and lowering the folded body in the
slow clone as well turns nothing red -- all three are stated as unwitnessed in
the report rather than claimed.

Gates: node identity 92 identical / 1 diff / 0 compile-fail on both arms with
byte-identical results files (the diff is the pre-existing PerryTS#10733 `nest`
defect); `perry-codegen` lib 1650 pass including the barrier stem census and its
four sabotage twins, with NO census probe change needed; `perry-hir` green;
clippy 470 = 470 with identical per-category counts; `cargo fmt`,
`check_file_size.sh`, `gc_runtime_root_holders.py` and
`local_binding_type_audit.py` clean and identical on both arms; peak RSS worst
case +0.60%.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YaNfLEjMRdhCLtk3SB5MdJ
…stitution (PerryTS#10761)

`o["a"]` written in source is already lowered to `o.a` by the AST->HIR member
lowering (the PerryTS#529 fold in `lower/expr_member/member_tail.rs`). But
`module_const_fold` substitutes a hoisted `const K = "a"` into the key position
*after* that matcher has run, and nothing re-ran it — so the enclosing node
stayed an `IndexGet` and codegen's static-string-key arm resolved it by name at
runtime on every read: UTF-8-validate the key, hash it for the accessor Bloom
summary, classify the receiver, then scan the shape's key array.

Phase 2 re-applies the same rewrite. The produced node is bit-identical to the
one `o["name"]` produces in source, so there is no new fast path and no new
guard; the read simply reaches the per-site monomorphic inline cache that the
dotted spelling already used.

  O[K] + O[J] on {a:1,b:2,c:3}   1236 -> 169 instructions/iteration (7.31x)

which is exactly what the same pair spelled `O.a + O.b` costs. Identical at
both fit ranges.

It also corrects a spec divergence: `null[K]` and `undefined[K]` silently read
`undefined` before this change, where node throws a TypeError.

Numeric-index strings are excluded, mirroring the source-level fold verbatim,
so `arr["0"]` keeps IndexGet semantics.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YaNfLEjMRdhCLtk3SB5MdJ
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The pull request optimizes packed-f64 range loops for ordinary arrays and compound indexed assignments. It adds window-scoped runtime validation and rewrites eligible constant string index reads as property reads. Regression tests cover compiler lowering, code generation, runtime behavior, and JavaScript semantics.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Compound assignment lowering and fast-body folding
crates/perry-hir/src/lower/..., crates/perry-codegen/src/stmt/..., crates/perry-codegen/tests/...
Compound-assignment spill temporaries preserve source types. The range-loop matcher folds eligible immutable compiler-generated aliases for guarded fast clones while retaining the original body for slow clones.
Untyped array admission and window validation
crates/perry-codegen/src/stmt/loops.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/array/..., crates/perry-runtime/src/typed_feedback.rs, scripts/local_binding_type_allowlist.json
Runtime-guardable ordinary arrays can enter the packed-f64 range tier. The range guard validates and canonicalizes the requested array window when whole-array validation fails.
Literal string index rewriting
crates/perry-transform/src/module_const_fold.rs, test-files/test_gap_10761_const_key_property_reads.ts
The transform rewrites non-numeric string literal index reads into PropertyGet nodes across module initialization, functions, nested expressions, and closures.
Release notes and build-cache documentation
changelog.d/*, crates/perry/src/commands/compile/build_cache.rs
Changelog entries document the optimization results and semantic fixes. A cache-exclusion comment documents the range-loop admission trace flag.

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  participant TypeScriptLowering
  participant PackedF64RangeMatcher
  participant RuntimeRangeGuard
  participant FastLoop
  TypeScriptLowering->>PackedF64RangeMatcher: Lower typed compound indexed assignment
  PackedF64RangeMatcher->>PackedF64RangeMatcher: Fold eligible aliases and admit array loop
  PackedF64RangeMatcher->>RuntimeRangeGuard: Emit loop-entry validation
  RuntimeRangeGuard-->>FastLoop: Select fast clone for valid array window
  FastLoop->>FastLoop: Execute specialized indexed reads and writes
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🟡 Minor · Reject the build cache when PERRY_PACKED_LOOP_TRACE=1. · build_cache.rs:823-895

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Reject the build cache when PERRY_PACKED_LOOP_TRACE=1.

PERRY_PACKED_LOOP_TRACE is not in BUILD_CACHE_ENV_VARS, so a matching manifest can produce a cache hit. run_pipeline then returns before codegen, and range_loop_trace cannot print the requested admission output. Add the check to eligibility with the other diagnostic checks.

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     if std::env::var("PERRY_OUTLINE_ENTRY_REPORT").is_ok() {
         return Err("outline-entry-report".to_string());
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+    if std::env::var("PERRY_PACKED_LOOP_TRACE").ok().as_deref() == Some("1") {
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Landed via merge train 234 (#10786) as v0.5.1613afd77dbe30.

Your commits are on main unmodified (the train rebases, so SHAs changed; the trees did not). Closing because a train lands content rather than merging the source branch. All four of this chain landed together.

#10774's premise was verified independently rather than read from the comment, since the whole change rests on it: #6991 is CLOSED (2026-08-02), 64c1f56fb ("fix(gc): run the globalThis bootstrap in a no-move window (#7217) (#7249)") is an ancestor of main, and the GcSuppressScope it added is still at object/global_this/populate.rs:78 inside the exact function the gate cites. The gate was guarding a bug that no longer exists.

The boundary you identified is the useful part and it is preserved in the train body: a top-level binding read only at top level is not globalized, and this gate was its whole blocker; one read from inside a function globalizes it and it becomes #7109. That is why three fixtures move and the nine real programs do not — and you verified the mechanism (identical module-init denial mentions on both arms for all nine) rather than just reporting the zero.

Two representation-check flags worth knowing about, both correct absences rather than dropped work:

Validation: nine cheap gates, cargo check --workspace --all-targets under -D warnings, all five pinned artifacts byte-identical before and after, six unit suites with an empty failing set, and a ten-area gap sweep weighted toward #10774's blast radius — gc_ 54, string 49, shape 22, property 18, numeric 15, number 10, tostring 8, template 4, const_ 4, fixed 1 — zero unexplained regressions.

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