perf: avoid redundant shape and array classification - #8412
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe runtime now reuses resolved array flags and shape metadata across hot paths. The direct method shape guard returns an untrusted ShapeId stamp for caller validation. A regression test verifies exact class/shape-pair matching, and the changelog records benchmark results. ChangesRuntime fast-path optimizations
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The change reuses array header flags without ensuring every accepted Buffer or TypedArray receiver has a GC array header, which can cause invalid metadata reads, incorrect array behavior, or runtime failures. Merge should wait until receiver validation or a safe fallback is added. Possibly related PRs
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/array/header.rs`:
- Around line 71-89: Prevent array_object_flags_resolved from reading a GcHeader
for non-GC Buffer/TypedArray receivers: require a proven GC_TYPE_ARRAY pointer
or provide a safe non-GC fallback in crates/perry-runtime/src/array/header.rs
lines 71-89. In crates/perry-runtime/src/array/push_pop.rs lines 100-106 and
643-664, validate the receiver type before calling array_object_flags_resolved
or reusing its flags for push policy and numeric canonicalization.
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| /// Read the flag word of an array that [`clean_arr_ptr`] already resolved. | ||
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| /// Hot operations such as `push` need the frozen, descriptor, numeric-layout, | ||
| /// and extensibility bits together. Re-entering [`array_object_flags`] for each | ||
| /// question repeats allocator ownership classification even though the first | ||
| /// clean already proved the receiver is a live, non-forwarded GC array. | ||
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| /// # Safety | ||
| /// | ||
| /// `arr` must be the non-null result of [`clean_arr_ptr`] or | ||
| /// [`clean_arr_ptr_mut`] with no intervening allocation or safepoint. | ||
| #[inline(always)] | ||
| pub(crate) unsafe fn array_object_flags_resolved(arr: *const ArrayHeader) -> u16 { | ||
| debug_assert!(!arr.is_null()); | ||
| let gc_header = (arr as *const u8).sub(crate::gc::GC_HEADER_SIZE) as *const crate::gc::GcHeader; | ||
| debug_assert_eq!((*gc_header).obj_type, crate::gc::GC_TYPE_ARRAY); | ||
| (*gc_header)._reserved | ||
| } | ||
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Do not read a GC header from non-GC array receivers.
clean_arr_ptr permits registered Buffer/TypedArray receivers without a GcHeader, while array_object_flags_resolved performs an unchecked header read.
crates/perry-runtime/src/array/header.rs#L71-L89: require a provenGC_TYPE_ARRAYpointer or restore a safe non-GC fallback.crates/perry-runtime/src/array/push_pop.rs#L100-L106: validate the receiver type before callingarray_object_flags_resolved.crates/perry-runtime/src/array/push_pop.rs#L643-L664: apply the same validation before reusing flags for push policy and numeric canonicalization.
📍 Affects 2 files
crates/perry-runtime/src/array/header.rs#L71-L89(this comment)crates/perry-runtime/src/array/push_pop.rs#L100-L106crates/perry-runtime/src/array/push_pop.rs#L643-L664
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/array/header.rs` around lines 71 - 89, Prevent
array_object_flags_resolved from reading a GcHeader for non-GC Buffer/TypedArray
receivers: require a proven GC_TYPE_ARRAY pointer or provide a safe non-GC
fallback in crates/perry-runtime/src/array/header.rs lines 71-89. In
crates/perry-runtime/src/array/push_pop.rs lines 100-106 and 643-664, validate
the receiver type before calling array_object_flags_resolved or reusing its
flags for push policy and numeric canonicalization.
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Validated independently and merging — the change is sound and the win is real. One claim What reproduces exactly
Your −5.24% instruction figure lands on the nose. RSS is actually better than you The "0.81x Node" number is a host artifactYour hyperfine run put Node at 122.4 ms. The quiet-mini sweep measures Node's Against the real Node number this moves Worth internalising for the next perf PR on this corpus: a ratio measured on a contended Safety — I traced the invariant rather than trusting the commentRemoving the descriptor lookup and the
So the exact-pair comparison genuinely subsumes the kind check. The regression test is non-vacuous — checkedMy first sabotage attempt was too weak to prove anything (substituting a value outside the (class_id == expected_class_id) as i32 // was: && shape_id == expected_shape_id— fails Suites
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Summary
Removes redundant allocator classification and ShapeId descriptor lookups from the hot paths exercised by
shapes. Compiler-published(class_id, ShapeId)pairs remain the authority for direct method calls, and array pushes now reuse the header flags obtained from their initial validated receiver clean.Changes
Related issue
Closes #8406
Test plan
cargo build --release -p perry -p perry-runtime-static -p perry-stdlib-staticRUST_TEST_THREADS=1 cargo test --release -p perry-runtime --lib(2597 passed, 4 ignored)cargo test --release -p perry --bin perry(1005 passed)bash scripts/run_lint_gates.sh(all 50 gates)hyperfinecomparison: fix 99.7 ms, Node 122.4 ms (0.81xNode); baseline Perry artifact 154.0 ms on the loaded hostshapesmedians: 1,337,446,887 -> 1,267,314,788 instructions (-5.24%); max RSS 33,783,808 -> 33,898,496 bytes (+112 KiB, with identical 13,041,664-byte__TEXTand 393,216-byte__DATAsegments and flattime -lpeak memory footprint)shapes -5.25%,push_num -3.50%,push_cls -1.82%,churn -1.55%)Screenshots / output
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