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Measurement for #10868, landing before any fix so that a fix's before/after is taken with the same instrument.

PERRY_SHAPE_MINT_DIAG=<path|1> attributes every ShapeId mint by cause, by key-list identity, by call site, and by what the transition cache did. It changes no behaviour; nothing branches on it.

Why an instrument first

Perry mints 2,287,869 ShapeIds per ts.transpileModule of a 1,201-line file, to describe 10,867 distinct layouts, and that layout count does not grow with the work. The band is 2^30 and exhaustion is shape_id_exhausted_abort()std::process::abort(), so that is ~476 transpiles to a hard abort. Counting mints does not say why; splitting them by cause does, and #10287's lane is the precedent — the wrong fix there made zod worse, so every candidate needs a before/after that a bare total cannot give.

What it separates

shape_descriptor_ensure_with_holes de-duplicates on six identity facts, so a mint means no existing descriptor matched all six. Against the family already indexed under the same keys-array address, the census labels each mint by which fact moved — taking the cheapest explanation the family offers, never the worst sibling that happens to be in the list:

label meaning
fresh_keys_new_list a new keys address AND an ordered key-name list never seen — a genuinely new layout
fresh_keys_known_list a new keys address whose key-name list is already known — a semantically identical shape
identical every fact matches a live sibling and the mint happened anyway — a facts_key / RECORD_FLAG_FACTS_INDEXED failure, and 0 on every workload measured
gen_unique only semantic_generation differs, from the SHAPE_SEMANTIC_NEXT counter — one mint per operation
gen_deterministic the same, but from deterministic_semantic_generation (#10287, bit 63 set)
key_count / slot_bound / holes / kind a structural fact moved
mixed more than one moved at once

The key-name list gets a content hash, so "a new layout" and "the same layout at a new array address" are different rows — that distinction is what turned #10868 from a budget problem into a defect.

Alongside: memo hits (the denominator), retirement count and retirement age, a family-size histogram, and #[track_caller] call sites. And the transition cache's own outcomes, where one split carries the diagnosis:

  • miss_empty — the slot is empty, a genuine cold edge;
  • miss_COLLIDE — the slot holds a different live edge; TRANSITION_CACHE_SIZE is 16384 and direct-mapped, one edge per slot;
  • evicting inserts.

On tsc that reads 8.4 % hits, miss_COLLIDE 1,221,842 against miss_empty 60,186, and 96.1 % evicting inserts.

The control that says the machinery works

pool — N objects given the same eight field names, added through a dynamic key so HIR cannot fold them into one closed-shape literal (the AST-node-factory shape) — mints a constant number of ids however much work it does: 4,534 at N = 1 k and 4,534 at N = 10 k, re-taken on this branch at v0.5.1629, with cache hits rising 84.6 % → 98.2 %. (The series was first taken on v0.5.1628, where it read 4,534 / 4,536 / 4,564 at N = 1 k / 10 k / 100 k with hits to 99.8 %.) The sharing machinery is capable; tsc's working set simply does not fit in 16,384 direct-mapped slots. Any fix has to keep that row flat.

Cost when off: nothing, by construction

Every call site is #[cfg(feature = "shape-mint-diag")] and the feature is not in default, so a stock build emits none of it. The module itself always compiles, so its tests cannot bit-rot behind a feature nobody builds. A measurement build adds --features perry-runtime/shape-mint-diag and gets the whole instrument.

Measured anyway, two trees at 89dd49442, fixtures compiled by each arm's own perry, output byte-identical to node on every row, per-iteration fitted N = 2,000 → 20,000, min of 3:

fixture main this branch Δ
same 93.59 93.59 0.00
pool 15571.81 15571.92 +0.11
del 21328.62 21334.33 +5.71
accd 16110.85 16113.09 +2.24
acc 19142.89 19145.02 +2.13
diff 220295.71 220302.70 +6.99

Unchanged to the method's resolution — the same row resolves to 0.01 %.

The gate is there because an earlier form was not free, and the shape of that cost is worth recording. With every hook unconditional the same rows read +0.15 % to +0.55 %. Gating #[track_caller] alone took accd/acc from +0.48/+0.55 to +0.28/+0.32. Gating the transition-cache probes as well left +0.32/+0.35 — and that residual tracked mint volume, not cache traffic (accd and acc mint 3 and 4 ids per object; pool and same, which mint ~none, were already at zero). So the last of it was the mint-side probe, and the answer was to gate every call site rather than to argue about which ones are hot.

When the feature is off the dump says so, in the rows it cannot fill:

  transition cache: NOT COMPILED IN — rebuild with
  `--features perry-runtime/shape-mint-diag` … The zeros below are absence of
  measurement, not absence of collisions.

A zero that means "not measured" must not read like a zero that means "no collisions"; that is this campaign's own recurring trap, one layer down.

armed() itself resolves through a three-state atomic rather than two booleans, so a thread that loses the resolve race cannot answer "off" and silently drop its events.

Verification

  • cargo test -p perry-runtime shape_mint_census: 8/8.
  • Must-fail, two sabotages on the tree, each reverted after: making the first sibling win instead of the cheapest turns the_cheapest_explanation_wins_regardless_of_family_order and an_exact_sibling_outranks_a_one_fact_sibling red; reporting an exact sibling as Mixed instead of Identical turns a_family_member_matching_every_fact_is_a_memo_failure and an_exact_sibling_outranks_a_one_fact_sibling red. Both rules are load-bearing, and identical == 0 is therefore a measurement rather than an assumption.
  • Full perry-runtime suite on both arms, skipping the one test that aborts the whole process on main (bun_compat::plugin::tests::calls_setup_for_objects_and_functions_without_running_hooks, a non-unwinding panic, pre-existing and reproduced on the control): this branch 4,194 passed / 9 failed; control 4,186 passed / the SAME 9 failed. Net: 8 passing tests, no new failure.
  • Feature-on end-to-end on v0.5.1629: pool 4,534 mints at N = 1,000 and 4,534 at N = 10,000; accd 3,002 → 30,002 with 1,000 / 10,000 cache lookups and 0 hits, 0 inserts, call sites descriptor_state.rs:664 and object_ops/keys_array.rs:263.
  • Fixtures /root/fr/mx/{same,pool,del,accd,acc,diff}.ts on perrymaster, each output byte-identical to node.

The off-cost A/B was taken at 89dd49442; the branch is rebased onto current main. The claim it supports — that no call site is compiled in — is structural and does not move with the base.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an opt-in shape diagnostics mode for investigating runtime shape creation and transition-cache behavior.
    • Reports categorize shape creation events, cache hits and miss reasons, retirements, memo hits, and related runtime statistics.
    • Optional caller-location tracking helps identify where shape activity originates.
    • Diagnostics can be activated through the runtime environment and periodically emit collected measurements.
  • Performance

    • Diagnostics are disabled by default and compile out when the feature is not enabled, preserving normal runtime behavior and overhead.

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This change adds an opt-in shape mint census. It classifies shape mints, records call sites, tracks transition-cache outcomes and descriptor retirement, and writes reports when armed through PERRY_SHAPE_MINT_DIAG.

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Shape mint diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Census engine and reporting
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/shape_mint_census.rs
Adds mint-cause classification, transition-cache counters, memo and retirement tracking, histograms, report output, and unit tests.
Shape publication instrumentation
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/shapes.rs
Adds feature-gated caller tracking and records key-list facts, memo hits, fresh mints, and descriptor retirements.
Transition-cache instrumentation
crates/perry-runtime/Cargo.toml, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs
Adds the default-off shape-mint-diag feature and records cache hits and miss reasons.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ShapePublication
  participant TransitionCache
  participant ShapeMintCensus
  participant DiagnosticSink
  ShapePublication->>ShapeMintCensus: record mint facts and caller location
  ShapePublication->>TransitionCache: record lookup outcome
  ShapeMintCensus->>ShapeMintCensus: classify cause and update counters
  ShapeMintCensus->>DiagnosticSink: write census report
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Reviewed as a reviewer rather than as the person who asked for the census. The staged
off-cost table is convincing and the #[cfg]-every-call-site approach is the right one —
gating by what a probe measures rather than by how hot its call site looks is a result
worth keeping. Two findings, one of which I'd fix before merge.

1. The Cargo.toml comment makes a capability claim the code does not provide.

The MINT-side counters stay unconditional, because they are on a path that already
costs hundreds of instructions and they are the headline the issue is about, so a
stock build can still take a before/after of mint volume.

They are not unconditional. note_mint is inside #[cfg(feature = "shape-mint-diag")] if census_on { … }, and note_retire, note_memo_hit and key_list_content_hash are
each #[cfg]-gated as well. A stock build measures no mint volume at all.

That is the correct shipped behaviour — it is what buys the +0.001% — so the fix is to
the comment, not the code. But it matters more than a stale comment usually would: it
tells a reader to expect mint numbers from a build that will silently produce none. This
PR already recognises that failure mode and handles it well elsewhere, with the dump
line "the zeros below are absence of measurement, not absence of collisions." The
Cargo.toml text sets up exactly the misreading that line exists to prevent.

2. TcMiss::TargetLen is recorded for two different causes.

In transition_cache_lookup it is noted both when transition_cache_stamp_shape_shared
returns false and when (*keys).length != expected_len || (*keys).length > (*keys).capacity.
A failed shared-stamp is not a target-length mismatch; they are different reasons an edge
was refused. For a census whose stated purpose is to say why, that merges a distinction
the rest of the enum is careful to keep — Empty vs Collide is exactly the same kind of
distinction and is kept. Suggest a fifth variant (Stamp) and its counter; it is a
two-line change and the column is free.

Neither affects the measurements already posted to #10868: both are on the feature-on
path, and (2) only redistributes counts within the miss total.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs`:
- Around line 1049-1052: Update the transition-edge validation around
transition_edge_places_key and transition_cache_lookup so target-array length
mismatches are classified as TcMiss::TargetLen rather than TcMiss::PlacesKey.
Separate length validation from key validation or return a distinct failure
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shape-mint-diag feature, so the documented Cargo command resolves correctly.
- Around line 347-349: The best-label selection must mark equal nonzero
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Update the comparison logic around best and diffs while preserving the
exact-match behavior, and add tests covering both sibling family-order
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- Around line 379-425: Adjust the zero-based index handling in the mint census:
in the cadence check within the mint-recording function, trigger dump only after
each 1 &lt;&lt; 20 mints by checking the one-based count; in note_retire,
subtract the born index plus one when calculating age so an immediate retirement
reports age zero.

In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/shapes.rs`:
- Around line 612-615: Update the shape-mint instrumentation around the mint
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if !transition_edge_places_key(entry.next_keys, entry_slot_idx, interned_key) {
#[cfg(feature = "shape-mint-diag")]
shape_mint_census::note_transition_miss(shape_mint_census::TcMiss::PlacesKey);
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Record actual target-array length mismatches as TargetLen.

transition_edge_places_key rejects an array whose length differs from slot_idx + 1 before transition_cache_lookup reaches the later TargetLen accounting. This misclassifies grown or shortened targets as PlacesKey. Both paths return None, so the cache behavior is unchanged; only the diagnostics are inaccurate. Return a distinct failure reason from the helper, or separate length validation from key validation, and map length failures to TcMiss::TargetLen while preserving the fallback.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs` around lines 1049 - 1052, Update the
transition-edge validation around transition_edge_places_key and
transition_cache_lookup so target-array length mismatches are classified as
TcMiss::TargetLen rather than TcMiss::PlacesKey. Separate length validation from
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Comment on lines +16 to +18
//! `shape-mint-callsites` feature: a stock build pays nothing and still
//! produces every count, and a measurement build adds
//! `--features perry-runtime/shape-mint-callsites` to gain the site table.

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Use the declared feature name.

The manifest declares shape-mint-diag, not shape-mint-callsites. The documented command fails because Cargo cannot find that feature.

-//! `--features perry-runtime/shape-mint-callsites` to gain the site table.
+//! `--features perry-runtime/shape-mint-diag` to gain the site table.
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//! `shape-mint-callsites` feature: a stock build pays nothing and still
//! produces every count, and a measurement build adds
//! `--features perry-runtime/shape-mint-callsites` to gain the site table.
//! `shape-mint-callsites` feature: a stock build pays nothing and still
//! produces every count, and a measurement build adds
//! `--features perry-runtime/shape-mint-diag` to gain the site table.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/shape_mint_census.rs` around lines 16 - 18,
Update the feature name in the module documentation near the shape-mint census
description from shape-mint-callsites to the declared shape-mint-diag feature,
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Comment on lines +347 to +349
if diffs < best.0 {
best = (diffs, label);
}

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Mark equal-cost conflicting labels as Mixed.

When two siblings have the same minimum nonzero distance, diffs < best.0 keeps the first label. A KeyCount sibling and a GenUnique sibling therefore produce different diagnostic causes when family order changes. Preserve the exact-match rule, but return Mixed for equal-distance conflicting labels. Add both family-order permutations to the tests.

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if diffs < best.0 {
best = (diffs, label);
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best.1 = MintCause::Mixed;
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The best-label selection must mark equal nonzero distances with conflicting
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Comment on lines +379 to +425
let index = MINTS.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed);
let Ok(mut c) = census().lock() else {
return;
};
c.keys_addrs.insert(keys);
let list_known = !c.key_lists.insert(key_list_hash);

let cause = classify_mint(
family_facts,
logical_key_count,
live_inline_slot_count,
semantic_generation,
kind_is_class,
hole_count,
list_known,
);

*c.by_cause.entry(cause).or_insert(0) += 1;
*c.by_site.entry(site).or_insert(0) += 1;
*c.by_site_cause.entry((site, cause)).or_insert(0) += 1;
let b = bucket(family_facts.len() as u64);
c.family_hist[b] += 1;
let e = c
.per_list
.entry(key_list_hash)
.or_insert((0, logical_key_count));
e.0 += 1;
c.mint_index_of.insert(id, index);

if index % (1 << 20) == 0 {
drop(c);
dump();
}
}

pub(crate) fn note_retire(id: u32) {
if !armed() {
return;
}
let now = MINTS.load(Ordering::Relaxed);
let Ok(mut c) = census().lock() else {
return;
};
c.retires += 1;
if let Some(born) = c.mint_index_of.remove(&id) {
let b = bucket(now.saturating_sub(born));
c.age_hist[b] += 1;

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Correct the zero-based mint index calculations.

fetch_add returns the previous count. Therefore, index is zero-based.

The current cadence can dump on the first mint. An immediate retirement can report age 1 instead of 0.

Proposed correction
-    if index % (1 << 20) == 0 {
+    if (index + 1) % (1 << 20) == 0 {
         drop(c);
         dump();
     }
-        let b = bucket(now.saturating_sub(born));
+        let b = bucket(now.saturating_sub(born.saturating_add(1)));
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let index = MINTS.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed);
let Ok(mut c) = census().lock() else {
return;
};
c.keys_addrs.insert(keys);
let list_known = !c.key_lists.insert(key_list_hash);
let cause = classify_mint(
family_facts,
logical_key_count,
live_inline_slot_count,
semantic_generation,
kind_is_class,
hole_count,
list_known,
);
*c.by_cause.entry(cause).or_insert(0) += 1;
*c.by_site.entry(site).or_insert(0) += 1;
*c.by_site_cause.entry((site, cause)).or_insert(0) += 1;
let b = bucket(family_facts.len() as u64);
c.family_hist[b] += 1;
let e = c
.per_list
.entry(key_list_hash)
.or_insert((0, logical_key_count));
e.0 += 1;
c.mint_index_of.insert(id, index);
if index % (1 << 20) == 0 {
drop(c);
dump();
}
}
pub(crate) fn note_retire(id: u32) {
if !armed() {
return;
}
let now = MINTS.load(Ordering::Relaxed);
let Ok(mut c) = census().lock() else {
return;
};
c.retires += 1;
if let Some(born) = c.mint_index_of.remove(&id) {
let b = bucket(now.saturating_sub(born));
c.age_hist[b] += 1;
let index = MINTS.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed);
let Ok(mut c) = census().lock() else {
return;
};
c.keys_addrs.insert(keys);
let list_known = !c.key_lists.insert(key_list_hash);
let cause = classify_mint(
family_facts,
logical_key_count,
live_inline_slot_count,
semantic_generation,
kind_is_class,
hole_count,
list_known,
);
*c.by_cause.entry(cause).or_insert(0) += 1;
*c.by_site.entry(site).or_insert(0) += 1;
*c.by_site_cause.entry((site, cause)).or_insert(0) += 1;
let b = bucket(family_facts.len() as u64);
c.family_hist[b] += 1;
let e = c
.per_list
.entry(key_list_hash)
.or_insert((0, logical_key_count));
e.0 += 1;
c.mint_index_of.insert(id, index);
if (index + 1) % (1 << 20) == 0 {
drop(c);
dump();
}
}
pub(crate) fn note_retire(id: u32) {
if !armed() {
return;
}
let now = MINTS.load(Ordering::Relaxed);
let Ok(mut c) = census().lock() else {
return;
};
c.retires += 1;
if let Some(born) = c.mint_index_of.remove(&id) {
let b = bucket(now.saturating_sub(born.saturating_add(1)));
c.age_hist[b] += 1;
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/shape_mint_census.rs` around lines 379 - 425,
Adjust the zero-based index handling in the mint census: in the cadence check
within the mint-recording function, trigger dump only after each 1 &lt;&lt; 20
mints by checking the one-based count; in note_retire, subtract the born index
plus one when calculating age so an immediate retirement reports age zero.

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#[cfg(feature = "shape-mint-diag")]
let census_on = crate::object::shape_mint_census::armed();
#[cfg(feature = "shape-mint-diag")]
let (census_list_hash, census_file, census_line) = if census_on {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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Keep all mint-side census instrumentation in default builds.

The manifest states that only caller tracking and transition-cache probes require shape-mint-diag. The current gates also remove armed(), memo-hit accounting, mint accounting, and retirement accounting. A default build with PERRY_SHAPE_MINT_DIAG=1 therefore loses mint, memo-hit, and retirement events. It also never reaches note_mint(), which registers the exit dump.

Compile armed(), note_memo_hit(), note_mint(), and note_retire() unconditionally. Keep the content hash, family-fact collection, and other allocations behind armed(). Gate only Location::caller() and call-site attribution with shape-mint-diag.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/shapes.rs` around lines 612 - 615, Update the
shape-mint instrumentation around the mint flow so armed(), note_memo_hit(),
note_mint(), and note_retire() compile and run in default builds. Keep
content-hash, family-fact, and other diagnostic allocations conditional on
armed(), while restricting only Location::caller() and call-site attribution to
shape-mint-diag; ensure note_mint() still registers the exit dump.

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…nted (#10868)

Perry mints 2,287,869 ShapeIds per `ts.transpileModule` of a 1,201-line file
to describe 10,867 distinct layouts, and that layout count does not grow with
the work. The band is 2^30 and exhaustion is `shape_id_exhausted_abort()` ->
`std::process::abort()`, so it is ~476 transpiles to a hard abort. Counting
mints does not say why; splitting them by cause does.

`PERRY_SHAPE_MINT_DIAG=<path|1>` labels every mint by which of
`shape_descriptor_ensure_with_holes`' six identity facts moved against the
family already indexed under the same keys-array ADDRESS, taking the cheapest
explanation the family offers rather than the worst sibling in the list. It
hashes the ordered key-NAME list separately, so a new layout
(`fresh_keys_new_list`) and the same layout at a new array address
(`fresh_keys_known_list`) are different rows -- the distinction that turns
this from a budget problem into a defect. `identical` is the row that would
mean the `facts_key` memo failed; it reads 0 on every workload measured, and
it is listed so that is a measurement rather than an assumption.

Alongside: memo hits, retirement count and retirement AGE, a family-size
histogram, `#[track_caller]` call sites, and the transition cache's own
outcomes -- where one split carries the diagnosis. `TRANSITION_CACHE_SIZE` is
16384 and DIRECT-MAPPED, so `miss_empty` (a cold edge) and `miss_COLLIDE`
(the slot holds a different live edge) are different findings. On tsc that
reads 8.4 % hits, `miss_COLLIDE` 1,221,842 against `miss_empty` 60,186, and
96.1 % evicting inserts.

The control that says the machinery works: `pool` -- N objects given the same
eight field NAMES through a dynamic key, so HIR cannot fold them into one
closed-shape literal -- mints 4,534 at N=1,000 and 4,534 at N=10,000, constant,
with cache hits rising 84.6 % -> 98.2 %. Any fix has to keep that row flat.

Costs nothing when off. Every call site is `#[cfg(feature = shape-mint-diag)]`
and the feature is not in `default`, so the shipped runtime is unchanged; the
module itself always compiles so its tests cannot bit-rot behind a feature
nobody builds. Two trees at 89dd494, fixtures compiled by each arm's own
perry, output byte-identical to node on every row, per-iteration fitted
N=2,000 -> 20,000, min of 3:

  same 93.59 / 93.59   pool 15571.81 / 15571.92   del 21328.62 / 21334.33
  accd 16110.85 / 16113.09   acc 19142.89 / 19145.02   diff 220295.71 / 220302.70

i.e. unchanged to the method's resolution (the `same` row resolves to 0.01 %).
The gate is there because an earlier form was not free: with the hooks
unconditional the same rows read +0.15 % to +0.55 %, and the residual tracked
MINT VOLUME rather than cache traffic.

Tests: 8 unit tests over the classifier, which always compile. Must-fail, two
sabotages applied to the tree and reverted: making the FIRST sibling win
instead of the cheapest turns `the_cheapest_explanation_wins_regardless_of_
family_order` and `an_exact_sibling_outranks_a_one_fact_sibling` red;
reporting an exact sibling as `Mixed` instead of `Identical` turns
`a_family_member_matching_every_fact_is_a_memo_failure` and
`an_exact_sibling_outranks_a_one_fact_sibling` red.

Full suite on both arms, skipping the one test that aborts the process on main
(`bun_compat::plugin::tests::calls_setup_for_objects_and_functions_without_
running_hooks`, a non-unwinding panic, pre-existing): this branch 4,194 passed
/ 9 failed, control 4,186 passed / the SAME 9 failed. Net: 8 passing tests, no
new failure.

Review follow-ups (#10885):

The `Cargo.toml` comment claimed the mint-side counters stay unconditional so a
stock build could still take a before/after of mint volume. It cannot: every
call site is gated, including `note_mint`, `note_retire`, `note_memo_hit` and
`key_list_content_hash`, so an unfeatured build measures NOTHING. The comment
was stale from the design before the staging measurement — and the durable
version is that we gated the mint side BECAUSE the residual tracked mint
volume. Gating `#[track_caller]`, then the transition-cache probes that LOOK
hot (1.4 M lookups per transpile), still left +0.32 % / +0.35 % on `accd` /
`acc`; those fixtures mint 3 and 4 ids per object while `pool` and `same` mint
almost none and were already at zero. The comment now says what the code does,
which matters here because the opposite error — being told data exists when it
does not — is exactly what the dump's "the zeros below are absence of
measurement, not absence of collisions" line exists to prevent.

`TcMiss` also recorded one counter for two different refusals: the target array
refusing the `GC_FLAG_SHAPE_SHARED` stamp, and its length/capacity no longer
matching the edge. Split into `Unshared` and `TargetLen`, for the same reason
`Empty` and `Collide` are separate.
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Both fixed, pushed as edef4347.

The Cargo.toml comment. You read it exactly right — it was stale from the design before the staging measurement, and the staging measurement is the reason it became wrong. The corrected text says the feature covers the whole instrument and that an unfeatured build measures nothing — not the cache split, not the call sites, and not mint volume either — and the commit message now carries the durable version: we gated the mint side because the residual tracked mint volume, after gating #[track_caller] and then the transition-cache probes that look hot (1.4 M lookups per transpile) still left +0.32 % / +0.35 % on accd / acc.

Worth naming the failure mode you spotted, because it is the mirror of the one the dump line guards. The dump protects against reading a zero as evidence; the comment created the opposite hazard — promising data that a stock build will never produce, so the reader concludes the subsystem is quiet rather than that the instrument is absent. Same error, opposite sign, and the comment was the more dangerous of the two because it is what someone reads before deciding how to build.

TcMiss::TargetLen. Worth the round trip — split into Unshared (the target array refused the GC_FLAG_SHAPE_SHARED stamp) and TargetLen (its length/capacity no longer matches the edge), for the same reason Empty and Collide are separate. It only redistributes counts within the miss total on the workloads measured so far, but the two refusals have different fixes, and a column that fuses them would send the next person to the wrong one.

Re-verified after the change: cargo check clean in both configurations, cargo test -p perry-runtime shape_mint_census 8/8, cargo fmt clean. The numbers already posted to #10868 are unaffected — neither edit touches a counted path.

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…nted (#10868)

Perry mints 2,287,869 ShapeIds per `ts.transpileModule` of a 1,201-line file
to describe 10,867 distinct layouts, and that layout count does not grow with
the work. The band is 2^30 and exhaustion is `shape_id_exhausted_abort()` ->
`std::process::abort()`, so it is ~476 transpiles to a hard abort. Counting
mints does not say why; splitting them by cause does.

`PERRY_SHAPE_MINT_DIAG=<path|1>` labels every mint by which of
`shape_descriptor_ensure_with_holes`' six identity facts moved against the
family already indexed under the same keys-array ADDRESS, taking the cheapest
explanation the family offers rather than the worst sibling in the list. It
hashes the ordered key-NAME list separately, so a new layout
(`fresh_keys_new_list`) and the same layout at a new array address
(`fresh_keys_known_list`) are different rows -- the distinction that turns
this from a budget problem into a defect. `identical` is the row that would
mean the `facts_key` memo failed; it reads 0 on every workload measured, and
it is listed so that is a measurement rather than an assumption.

Alongside: memo hits, retirement count and retirement AGE, a family-size
histogram, `#[track_caller]` call sites, and the transition cache's own
outcomes -- where one split carries the diagnosis. `TRANSITION_CACHE_SIZE` is
16384 and DIRECT-MAPPED, so `miss_empty` (a cold edge) and `miss_COLLIDE`
(the slot holds a different live edge) are different findings. On tsc that
reads 8.4 % hits, `miss_COLLIDE` 1,221,842 against `miss_empty` 60,186, and
96.1 % evicting inserts.

The control that says the machinery works: `pool` -- N objects given the same
eight field NAMES through a dynamic key, so HIR cannot fold them into one
closed-shape literal -- mints 4,534 at N=1,000 and 4,534 at N=10,000, constant,
with cache hits rising 84.6 % -> 98.2 %. Any fix has to keep that row flat.

Costs nothing when off. Every call site is `#[cfg(feature = shape-mint-diag)]`
and the feature is not in `default`, so the shipped runtime is unchanged; the
module itself always compiles so its tests cannot bit-rot behind a feature
nobody builds. Two trees at 89dd494, fixtures compiled by each arm's own
perry, output byte-identical to node on every row, per-iteration fitted
N=2,000 -> 20,000, min of 3:

  same 93.59 / 93.59   pool 15571.81 / 15571.92   del 21328.62 / 21334.33
  accd 16110.85 / 16113.09   acc 19142.89 / 19145.02   diff 220295.71 / 220302.70

i.e. unchanged to the method's resolution (the `same` row resolves to 0.01 %).
The gate is there because an earlier form was not free: with the hooks
unconditional the same rows read +0.15 % to +0.55 %, and the residual tracked
MINT VOLUME rather than cache traffic.

Tests: 8 unit tests over the classifier, which always compile. Must-fail, two
sabotages applied to the tree and reverted: making the FIRST sibling win
instead of the cheapest turns `the_cheapest_explanation_wins_regardless_of_
family_order` and `an_exact_sibling_outranks_a_one_fact_sibling` red;
reporting an exact sibling as `Mixed` instead of `Identical` turns
`a_family_member_matching_every_fact_is_a_memo_failure` and
`an_exact_sibling_outranks_a_one_fact_sibling` red.

Full suite on both arms, skipping the one test that aborts the process on main
(`bun_compat::plugin::tests::calls_setup_for_objects_and_functions_without_
running_hooks`, a non-unwinding panic, pre-existing): this branch 4,194 passed
/ 9 failed, control 4,186 passed / the SAME 9 failed. Net: 8 passing tests, no
new failure.

Review follow-ups (#10885):

The `Cargo.toml` comment claimed the mint-side counters stay unconditional so a
stock build could still take a before/after of mint volume. It cannot: every
call site is gated, including `note_mint`, `note_retire`, `note_memo_hit` and
`key_list_content_hash`, so an unfeatured build measures NOTHING. The comment
was stale from the design before the staging measurement — and the durable
version is that we gated the mint side BECAUSE the residual tracked mint
volume. Gating `#[track_caller]`, then the transition-cache probes that LOOK
hot (1.4 M lookups per transpile), still left +0.32 % / +0.35 % on `accd` /
`acc`; those fixtures mint 3 and 4 ids per object while `pool` and `same` mint
almost none and were already at zero. The comment now says what the code does,
which matters here because the opposite error — being told data exists when it
does not — is exactly what the dump's "the zeros below are absence of
measurement, not absence of collisions" line exists to prevent.

`TcMiss` also recorded one counter for two different refusals: the target array
refusing the `GC_FLAG_SHAPE_SHARED` stamp, and its length/capacity no longer
matching the edge. Split into `Unshared` and `TargetLen`, for the same reason
`Empty` and `Collide` are separate.

(cherry picked from commit edef434)
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 21, 2026
…alue (#10868)

`Object.defineProperty` minted 3 ShapeIds per object for a data descriptor and
4 for an accessor, linearly and without bound, while the transition cache
reported lookups and ZERO inserts. This makes the data case constant.

Measured rather than read. Instrumenting every decline reason showed exactly
one predicate refusing, 1000 times out of 1000, at `object_ops/keys_array.rs`:

    defineProperty key-add, edge outcomes:
      no publish: new_index >= inline_capacity      1000
      eligible                                      1000

The receiver IS eligible and the lookup DOES run.

Why it refuses every time: `INLINE_SLOT_FLOOR` is 2, and #7916 documents it as
a pure FOOTPRINT dial -- "purely a growth-headroom dial for objects that gain
properties by name after birth". A two-field literal therefore allocates
exactly two slots and has zero growth headroom, so the first key added after
birth lands at `new_index == inline_capacity == 2`, spills to overflow, and the
edge is never published. Every receiver forks onto a private keys array, and
from there the fork cascade does the rest: once the predecessor ShapeId is
private, even #10287's DETERMINISTIC generation is deterministic in a value no
other object shares, which is why an accessor costs 4 ids and not 1. A dial
tuned for bytes silently decided whether transition edges get published at all;
neither subsystem could see that from its own side.

Raising the floor is not the fix: it trades footprint against a standing RSS
budget and only moves the cliff to four-field literals. The correct behaviour
already exists next door -- `field_set_by_name/tail.rs`'s overflow arm
publishes the edge with no inline-capacity gate at all, which is why the `pool`
control (the same objects grown by [[Set]]) already mints a constant 4,534 ids
however much work it does. This is missing wiring, not a missing capability.

Two changes, because publishing alone would have measured as a wash: the
adopter gate refused overflow-located edges too, on the stated grounds that "a
keys-only install (an accessor claiming its slot) writes no value, so the
overflow entry such an edge implies would never be created". That reason is
correct for accessors and over-broad for data. So publish the edge when the
install will write a value, AND let the adopter take one in that case.
`ensure_key_in_keys_array_for_value` is the opt-in and
`define_property_force_store_value` is its only caller; every keys-only claim
keeps today's behaviour by construction. `cached_target_fits` is untouched (it
guards a different hazard), and the live-bound bump is now guarded in BOTH
adopt arms -- unreachable in the first-key arm today, since its precondition is
a null keys array, but an unguarded bump beside a gate that now admits overflow
slots is a trap for whoever widens that precondition.

Measured with #10885's census. Six controls, two arms built from their own
trees, `cmp`-distinct binaries, output byte-identical to node on every row;
mints via `PERRY_SHAPE_MINT_DIAG`, instructions fitted N=2,000 -> 20,000,
min of 3:

  fixture  mints @1k/@10k before -> after     instr/iter before -> after
  same     1 / 1          -> 1 / 1            93.58 -> 93.58
  pool     4,534 / 4,536  -> 4,534 / 4,536    15596.14 -> 15595.14
  del      5,516 / 14,516 -> 5,516 / 14,516   21365.89 -> 21387.20
  accd     3,002 / 30,002 -> 5 / 5            16188.99 -> 12539.77  (-22.5%)
  acc      4,002 / 40,002 -> 4,002 / 40,002   19244.19 -> 19315.15
  diff     22,516/184,516 -> 22,516/184,516   220937.30 -> 220936.49

`accd` goes CONSTANT -- 5 ids whether it runs 1,000 iterations or 10,000 --
with 22.5% fewer instructions, so this is a speedup and not merely a smaller
counter.

`acc` being unchanged TO THE ID is not a missed opportunity; it is the result
that makes the change sound. The accessor is a keys-only claim whose implied
overflow entry is never created, so it must keep the private path. A change
that improved both rows would have broken the keys-only-install argument rather
than fixed the data one.

tsc (`ts.transpileModule`, typescript 5.8.2 from source, output identical to
node): MINTS 2,288,352 -> 2,287,800 and distinct key-NAME lists 10,867 ->
10,867. Flat, as predicted before measuring: tsc's mints are 97.4%
`fresh_keys_known_list` + `key_count` from the [[Set]] CoW path, which is a
different fork source. The requirement here was must-not-regress, and a flat
tsc row confirms the attribution. The layout-count invariant held, so shape
IDENTITY did not move -- only mint volume.

`cargo test -p perry-runtime` on both arms back to back, same host state,
skipping the one test that aborts the process on main
(`bun_compat::plugin::tests::calls_setup_for_objects_and_functions_without_
running_hooks`, a non-unwinding panic, pre-existing): 4,204 passed / 0 failed
on both. `cargo check` clean in both feature configurations.

This is ONE fork source among several, not a fix for #10868. The exit criterion
there is: mints ~= distinct layouts on tsc, no abort, and same layout + same
facts => same ShapeId always. Reaching it needs canonical shape identity,
because the authoritative dedup (`by_facts`) keys on the keys-array ADDRESS and
that address is produced by a lossy 16,384-entry direct-mapped cache.

(cherry picked from commit 89f157b)
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Landed via merge train 253 (#10918) as v0.5.1633 — merge commit 0fa3915293.

Expedited at the owner's request. Carried with nine other PRs; the stacked ones (#10899/#10900 on #10886, #10901 on #10885) had only their unique commits taken.

Evidence on the assembled tree: perry-runtime full suite 4233 passed / 0 failed / 0 SIGABRT, perry-hir 471 / 0, cargo check --workspace --all-targets under -D warnings clean, cargo fmt --check clean, and all eight ratchets rc=0. The gap sweep and compiler-output suites were not run.

Closing here rather than merging — a train lands the commits directly.

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