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…has a key to filter
`js_for_in_keys_value` maintained a `HashSet<String>` of every own name at
every prototype level so that a name owned closer to the receiver hides the
same name further along the chain (ECMA-262 14.7.5, 12.6.4-2). It built that
set unconditionally: at every level it materialised a SECOND key array (all
own names, including non-enumerable ones) on top of the enumerable one, and
turned every name at every level into a heap `String` so it could be hashed
into the set.
The set can only ever filter a level >= 1, and a level that contributes no
enumerable keys of its own never consults it. So the set is now built on
demand, at the moment a level >= 1 actually has an enumerable key, from
exactly the levels already walked — which is the same content the eager
version held at that point, so the emitted key sequence is unchanged.
Measured with the new `PERRY_ENUM_DIAG`, one 400-character reply through the
compiled claude-code TUI, one binary and one environment variable apart:
eager (today) deferred
for-in calls 17,281 17,266
key arrays 69,124 34,532 4.00 -> 2.00 per call
String allocs 159,947 0
seen.insert 159,947 0 (SipHash of the whole key)
keys emitted 11,342 11,246
emitted at proto level >=1 0 0
shadow set built - 0 times
**Not one key in 17,281 `for-in` loops came from a prototype level**, so the
159,947 `String` allocations and 159,947 hash inserts filtered nothing at all.
Half the key arrays go with them: the all-own-names array is materialised only
once the set is live.
Those `String`s are 1.91 MB in total, which is why no allocation-byte ranking
found this — the cost is 160k mallocs, memcpys, hashes and frees, not the
bytes. Collection schedule is unchanged as predicted for a category this small
(41 vs 43 copying minors, 46 vs 48 budgeted full-cycle steps).
`VisitedLevels` keeps the walked levels inline (8 against a measured 2.00 per
call) so the rebuild's bookkeeping does not reintroduce one allocation per
`for-in` in place of the ones removed.
`PERRY_FORIN_LAZY_SHADOW=0` restores the eager path, so both live in one
binary and the A/B above is one environment variable.
Three tests, each verified to fail under sabotage: deleting the deferred build
fails two of them by name, and dropping the spill fails the third. The third
had to be rewritten to do so — its first version put the shadowing property on
every level, so the leaf still shadowed the name and deleting the spill changed
nothing.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014UZWia6L37DpA93VLtNK9m
The first version of `only_a_spilled_level_shadows_the_root...` gave every level the shadowing property, including the leaf. Deleting the spill arm left it passing, because the leaf's own copy shadowed the root's on its own: the assertion was true regardless of what the spill did. The doc comment now carries that reasoning, and the general rule behind it, so the test cannot be 'simplified' back into one that cannot fail. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014UZWia6L37DpA93VLtNK9m
…w can no longer be
`is_registered_buffer` is the largest single leaf in cc's profile
(`is_registered_buffer_slow`, 3.19 % of active main-thread CPU on
`cc_main_0905`), and it is reached from property access rather than I/O: a
"is this value a buffer?" test run on values that are not buffers.
Its gate is `BUFFER_LIKE_ADDR_WINDOW`, a process-global min/max span. The
98.0 % rejection rate in its doc comment is measured on `claude-code --help`,
which registers **10** buffers. A streaming turn registers **213**, scattered
across a **527 MB** span, so `[lo, hi]` covers half a gigabyte of ordinary heap
and stops rejecting. `PERRY_BUFFER_DIAG` (added here), one 400-char reply:
probes=34,603,009 admits=25,476,705 (73.63 %) rejected 26.37 %
true_positives=53,109 (0.208 % of admits)
window [0x4c95a298460, 0x4c979e7db80] span 507.9 MB
registrations=213 unregistrations=12 live_max=201
25.5 million out-of-line probes per reply, 99.79 % of which find nothing.
That is the failure `RegistryAddrFilter` was built for after PerryTS#9272 — its doc
names "entries are ordinary heap objects interleaved with everything else" as
the case a window cannot serve, and measured `is_registered_symbol` at 38.3 %
(window) against 99.58 % (filter). Buffers kept the window because it rejected
100 % of `is_uint8array_buffer`'s calls ON `--help`.
The capacity question that structure demands was asked BEFORE adopting it.
`RegistryAddrFilter` accrues bits per admission and never clears them, so a
high-churn set saturates it — the trap PerryTS#9807 documented, where a 4,096-bit
filter held 162,258 keys and answered "may hold" to every probe. Buffers are
the opposite case: probing is hot, registration is rare. **213 cumulative
admissions against 1,024 bits and 3 hashes is a 10.0 % false-positive rate.**
The counter that establishes this ships with the change.
One binary, one environment variable apart:
PERRY_BUFFER_ADDR_FILTER=0 admits 25,476,705 (73.63 %) rejected 26.37 %
filter on admits 1,223,944 ( 3.54 %) rejected 96.46 %
**24.25 million out-of-line calls removed per 400-character reply**, true
positives preserved (53,109 vs 53,092 — the difference tracks one fewer
registration in that run; a Bloom filter has no false negatives).
Soundness is machine-checked, not argued: the existing debug assertion
re-derives every rejection from the authoritative tables, so a false negative
panics. The whole suite in DEBUG — 3,171 tests — passes with it armed.
Stacked on the `for-in` branch (PerryTS#9823) only because both add counters to
`hot_diag.rs`; the two changes are otherwise independent.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014UZWia6L37DpA93VLtNK9m
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe runtime adds lazy ChangesFor-in enumeration optimization
Buffer registry filtering and diagnostics
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The new diagnostics can report misleading buffer and concatenation data, and concurrent diagnostic output can be invalid. Fix these localized instrumentation issues before relying on the metrics. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ForInCaller
participant ForInWalker
participant ShadowSet
participant EnumDiagnostics
ForInCaller->>ForInWalker: start for-in enumeration
ForInWalker->>ForInWalker: walk prototype levels
ForInWalker->>ShadowSet: build set when deeper filtering is needed
ForInWalker->>EnumDiagnostics: record enumeration counters
ForInWalker-->>ForInCaller: return ordered keys
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participant BufferRegistration
participant RegistryAddrFilter
participant BufferProbe
participant BufferDiagnostics
BufferRegistration->>RegistryAddrFilter: admit registered address
BufferProbe->>RegistryAddrFilter: test address after window check
BufferProbe->>BufferDiagnostics: record probe and true-positive result
BufferRegistration->>BufferDiagnostics: record registration lifecycle event
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/buffer/header.rs`:
- Around line 466-468: Update the buffer registration tracking around
BUFFER_REGISTRY and buffer_note_registration so the live maximum is consistent
with the process-global BUF_LIVE_MAX: aggregate live buffer counts across
threads before reporting, or explicitly rename/label the metric as per-thread
throughout the hot-diagnostics output. Preserve registration behavior while
ensuring buffer_dump does not present a thread-local value as a process-wide
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- Line 779: Update the concat result paths associated with the enum diagnostic
reporting to accumulate the produced byte count in concat_out_bytes before the
report renders it, ensuring out_bytes and bytes-per-call reflect actual output
rather than remaining zero.
- Around line 896-897: Update the diagnostic snapshot calculation in buffer_dump
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| if crate::hot_diag::buffer_on() { | ||
| let live = BUFFER_REGISTRY.with(|r| r.borrow().len()); | ||
| crate::hot_diag::buffer_note_registration(live); |
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Label live_max as per-thread or aggregate it across threads.
BUFFER_REGISTRY is thread-local, but BUF_LIVE_MAX is process-global. Each registration reports only the current thread's registry length, so buffer_dump can under-report live buffers across runtime threads. Maintain a process-wide live count or label this field as a per-thread maximum.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/buffer/header.rs` around lines 466 - 468, Update the
buffer registration tracking around BUFFER_REGISTRY and buffer_note_registration
so the live maximum is consistent with the process-global BUF_LIVE_MAX:
aggregate live buffer counts across threads before reporting, or explicitly
rename/label the metric as per-thread throughout the hot-diagnostics output.
Preserve registration behavior while ensuring buffer_dump does not present a
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Record the produced byte count.
concat_out_bytes is rendered here, but the new hooks only increment call counters. Every report therefore shows 0 MB and 0 B/call even when concatenation produces output. Update the concat result paths to record bytes, or remove this metric.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/hot_diag.rs` at line 779, Update the concat result
paths associated with the enum diagnostic reporting to accumulate the produced
byte count in concat_out_bytes before the report renders it, ensuring out_bytes
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Use a saturating difference for the diagnostic snapshot.
buffer_dump loads BUF_PROBES and BUF_ADMITS independently. Concurrent updates can make admits > probes, so probes - admits can panic in debug builds or wrap in release builds. Use a saturating difference or a separately tracked rejection counter.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/hot_diag.rs` around lines 896 - 897, Update the
diagnostic snapshot calculation in buffer_dump to use a saturating subtraction
for probes minus admits, including the value passed to pct, so concurrent
updates cannot underflow. Preserve the existing output fields and formatting.
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Stacked on #9823 (both add counters to
hot_diag.rs); the changes areotherwise independent. Review the top commit only.
The diagnosis, from one counter
is_registered_buffer_slowis the largest single leaf in cc's profile —3.19 % of active main-thread CPU on
cc_main_0905, larger than_tlv_get_addror any collector frame — and it is reached from propertyaccess, not I/O. Its inline gate is
BUFFER_LIKE_ADDR_WINDOW, aprocess-global min/max span, whose doc comment claims 98.0 % rejection —
measured on
claude-code --help, which registers 10 buffers.PERRY_BUFFER_DIAG(added here), one 400-character streamed reply:213 registrations scattered over 527 MB. A min/max span over that is half a
gigabyte of ordinary heap, so the documented 98 % rejection is 26 % here,
and 25.5 M out-of-line probes per reply run of which 99.79 % find nothing.
The fix already existed in the tree — and I checked its capacity first
RegistryAddrFilterwas built for exactly this after #9272; its doc names"entries are ordinary heap objects interleaved with everything else" as the
case a window cannot serve, and measured
is_registered_symbolat 38.3 %(window) against 99.58 % (filter). Buffers kept the window because it
rejected 100 % of
is_uint8array_buffer's calls on--help.Adopting it required asking the question #9807 exists to teach. That filter
accrues bits per admission and never clears them, so a high-churn set
saturates it — #9807 documented a 4,096-bit filter holding 162,258 keys and
answering "may hold" to every probe. Buffers are the opposite: probing is hot,
registration is rare. 213 cumulative admissions against 1,024 bits and 3
hashes is a 10.0 % false-positive rate, and the counter that says so ships
with the change rather than being an assumption.
Mechanism: one binary, one environment variable
PERRY_BUFFER_DIAG, 400-char replyPERRY_BUFFER_ADDR_FILTER=0(today)24.25 million out-of-line calls removed per reply. True positives are
preserved (the 17 difference tracks one fewer registration in that run; a Bloom
filter has no false negatives).
What it is worth end-to-end — reported honestly
sample, same binary, one env var apart, leaf counts on the main thread:is_registered_buffer_slowis_registered_buffer(inline caller)The inline caller absorbs part of the saving back — the filter's three
hashes have to run somewhere. So the recoverable cost is roughly half the
3.19 % the profile attributes to the slow path, not all of it. Against ~15,100
main-thread samples that is about −0.8 percentage points.
Turn CPU is therefore flat, and I am not claiming otherwise. Quiet box,
4 paired rounds, order rotated,
cc_main_0905and node in the same session:off(window only = today)on(window + filter)cc_main_0905−0.8 pp of a 4.0 s turn is ~0.03 s, an order of magnitude under this rig's
spread (3.86–4.42 s), so the rig cannot resolve it and the flat result is the
expected one rather than a contradiction. The
sampleA/B is the sensitiveinstrument here and it moves exactly as the counter predicts.
Positive control: the
offarm reproducescc_main_0905(4.01 vs 4.02 s), sothe gate really does restore today's behaviour.
Soundness — machine-checked, not argued
The window already carries a debug-only assertion that re-derives every
rejection from the authoritative tables, so a false negative is a panic rather
than a misclassified pointer. That assertion now covers the filter for free.
The full suite in DEBUG — 3,171 tests, assertion armed — passes.
Registration admits into the filter before the latch arms, preserving the
ordering rule
RegistryAddrWindowdocuments.Ground
Work permanently removed: 24.25 M out-of-line calls, a thread-local
resolution and a hash each, per reply. Neither metric regresses.
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