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perf(codegen): inline mixed-layout constructor stores - #8363

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Summary

  • extend constructor-free construction to runtime-declared mixed layouts and stamped outlined allocations
  • recognize typed numberParam + finiteLiteral field initializers, covering the eight derived numeric fields in tree_wide
  • preserve pointer-store generation and incremental-mark barriers on the direct-store arm
  • add the exact issue benchmark fixture and IR regression coverage

Refs #8289.

Performance

Five interleaved runs of benchmarks/issue-8289/tree_wide.ts on macOS arm64, comparing origin/main with this branch (median):

Metric main PR Change
Retired instructions 23,412,462,462 7,622,290,049 -67.44% (3.07x)
Wall time 6.39 s 1.80 s -71.83% (3.55x)
Peak RSS 63,504,384 B 63,537,152 B +0.052%

The fixture output remains 20971480. The churn comparison remains instruction-neutral within measurement noise (4,651,981,862 to 4,648,010,989 instructions, -0.09%).

Validation

  • cargo test --profile perry-dev -p perry-codegen --lib (1,097 passed)
  • cargo check --profile perry-dev -p perry-codegen --lib
  • cargo fmt --all -- --check
  • python3 scripts/check_test_registration.py
  • bash scripts/check_file_size.sh
  • exact fixture output under forced evacuation, evacuation verification, and protected/poisoned from-space

No version bump is included.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Performance
    • Improved object construction performance for mixed pointer and numeric field layouts.
    • Reduced unnecessary constructor work when allocation metadata is ready, with measured instruction reductions on wide-tree workloads.
  • Reliability
    • Added support for numeric fields initialized with finite offsets.
    • Preserved pointer write barriers and validated layout readiness before applying optimized field stores.
  • Testing
    • Expanded coverage for outlined allocations, pointer-bearing layouts, numeric offsets, and wide-tree benchmarks.

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The change extends constructor prologue store elision to runtime-ready typed layouts, finite numeric offsets, and pointer-bearing fields. It propagates allocation readiness, preserves write barriers, adds focused tests, and introduces a wide-tree benchmark with a performance changelog entry.

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Constructor-free typed stores

Layer / File(s) Summary
Prologue store planning
crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_call/ctor_prologue_stores.rs
The planner accepts parameter-plus-finite-literal assignments, validates Number parameters, resolves field types, and records numeric addends and raw-f64 requirements.
Allocation readiness propagation
crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_call/new_alloc.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_call/new.rs
Allocation lowering reports constructor-store readiness for keyed-class allocations and passes that state into constructor planning.
Constructor lowering and validation
crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_call/new.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_call/ctor_prologue_store_tests.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_call/typed_shape_bake_tests.rs, changelog.d/8363-mixed-layout-constructor-stores.md
Constructor lowering checks INTACT, precomputes values, emits typed field stores, preserves pointer write barriers, and validates inline and outlined allocation paths. The changelog records the benchmark result.

Wide tree benchmark

Layer / File(s) Summary
Wide tree construction benchmark
benchmarks/issue-8289/tree_wide.ts
The benchmark recursively builds and counts binary trees at depth 18 across 40 iterations, then logs the accumulated count.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2602f

The new recursive benchmark constructs two GC-managed child objects as call arguments without first rooting the first result; an intervening allocation or collection could invalidate that reference and make the benchmark produce incorrect behavior, so the fixture should be corrected before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Allocation
  participant ConstructorPrologue
  participant LayoutHeader
  participant FieldStore
  Allocation->>ConstructorPrologue: provide constructor_stores_ready
  ConstructorPrologue->>ConstructorPrologue: plan typed stores and numeric addends
  ConstructorPrologue->>LayoutHeader: check INTACT for non-baked layouts
  LayoutHeader-->>ConstructorPrologue: return layout integrity
  ConstructorPrologue->>FieldStore: emit field stores and derived values
  FieldStore-->>ConstructorPrologue: apply pointer write barriers when required
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Possibly related PRs

  • PerryTS/perry#7884: Extends the same constructor-free allocation optimization in the planner, lowering path, allocation state, and tests.
  • PerryTS/perry#8182: Uses the same GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT checks for typed-layout constructor fast paths.
  • PerryTS/perry#7515: Modifies constructor field-store recognition for this.field = parameter assignment forms.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main performance change: inlining mixed-layout constructor stores.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the changes, references issue #8289, reports performance results, and lists detailed validation steps.
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In `@benchmarks/issue-8289/tree_wide.ts`:
- Line 16: Update the recursive build expression in build so each child result
is first stored in a local variable before invoking the second recursive build,
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function build(depth: number, s: number): Tree {
if (depth === 0) return new Tree(null, null, s);
return new Tree(build(depth - 1, s), build(depth - 1, s + 1), s);

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Root both child results before the second recursive allocation.

build(depth - 1, s) returns a GC-managed Tree, but Line 16 does not store it in a local before calling build(depth - 1, s + 1). The second call can allocate and collect before the parent stores the first child. Bind both results to locals before constructing the parent.

Proposed fix
-  return new Tree(build(depth - 1, s), build(depth - 1, s + 1), s);
+  const left = build(depth - 1, s);
+  const right = build(depth - 1, s + 1);
+  return new Tree(left, right, s);

As per coding guidelines, a GC-managed value's root store must dominate every subsequent site that can collect.

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return new Tree(build(depth - 1, s), build(depth - 1, s + 1), s);
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const right = build(depth - 1, s + 1);
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In `@benchmarks/issue-8289/tree_wide.ts` at line 16, Update the recursive build
expression in build so each child result is first stored in a local variable
before invoking the second recursive build, then construct Tree using both
rooted locals.

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Holding — gc_store_site_inventory fails, and the second half of it is the
interesting one. Validated in a batch with three disjoint PRs; #8361 and #8362
are clean and merged, and this failure names only your file.

crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_call/new.rs:748: raw generated heap/global store:
  blk.store(DOUBLE, &prologue_values[store_index], &field_ptr);

GC store-site CLAIM verification failed (#8185):
  stem 'ctor_prologue' is emitted by codegen but has NO IR witness in
  crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/barrier_stem_census_tests.rs — add it to
  VERIFIED_BARRIER_STEMS with a probe that reaches the tier, or the barrier can
  be deleted without any gate noticing (#8185)

Two separate asks:

  1. The store at new.rs:748 needs a GC_STORE_AUDIT marker naming its
    class — BARRIERED, EXTERNAL_BARRIERED, INIT, POINTER_FREE, ROOT or
    STACK — with the reason. For an inlined constructor prologue writing into a
    freshly allocated object, INIT is plausible, but that is your call to make
    and state, not mine to guess: the whole point of the marker is that a reader
    can check the claim.

  2. ctor_prologue needs an entry in VERIFIED_BARRIER_STEMS with a probe
    that actually reaches the tier. This is the part worth not shortcutting — the
    gate is telling you the new barrier has no IR witness, i.e. it could be
    deleted and every gate would stay green. That is the exact failure shape
    gc: a deleted write barrier passes every runtime probe — only a static IR assertion can catch it #8185 exists to prevent, and it is the same class as CLAUDE.md's "a gate must
    assert its subject was live".

Everything else passed in the batch: perry-runtime --lib 2585,
perry-codegen --lib 1098 (up from 1096, your new tests), perry-hir all
suites, and the other 48 gates including the compile tier.

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Both gate items are resolved and verified; merging, with the fix landing as an
immediate follow-up since this is a fork branch I can't push to.

1. GC_STORE_AUDIT(INIT) at new.rs. INIT is the right class here and the
surrounding code says why: the store writes into fields_base of a
freshly-allocated, not-yet-published object, and pointer-bearing stores still get
emit_write_barrier_slot_value_and_generation_tested immediately after
(if !store.requires_raw_f64). So the raw store really is initialization, not an
unbarriered mutation.

2. ctor_prologue witness — and I checked it isn't vacuous. The probe reuses
class_field_barrier_tests::ir(), which is exactly the shape that can register a
stem without actually reaching the tier. So I sabotage-tested it: repointed
ctor_prologue_ir() at stem-free IR and re-ran
census_every_registered_stem_has_a_live_verified_witness:

with the real probe   → ok
with stem-free IR     → FAILED (barrier_stem_census_tests.rs:529)

That is the property #8185 is about — the witness fails when the stem stops being
emitted, so the barrier can no longer be deleted silently.

All 50 gates pass, perry-codegen --lib 1098, and gc_store_site_inventory.py
exits 0.

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…ss (#8367)

#8363 added an inlined constructor-prologue store and a ctor_prologue
barrier stem, which left gc_store_site_inventory failing on two counts: the
raw store had no GC_STORE_AUDIT marker, and the stem had no IR witness, so
the barrier could be deleted with every gate staying green (#8185).

Mark the store INIT -- it initializes a freshly allocated, unpublished
object, and pointer-bearing stores still emit the value-and-generation
tested barrier right after -- and register ctor_prologue with a probe.
Sabotage-checked: repointing the probe at stem-free IR makes
census_every_registered_stem_has_a_live_verified_witness fail.

Co-authored-by: Ralph Küpper <ralph3@skelpo.com>
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