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fix(runtime): scope property read PIC descriptor gate - #8560

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Summary

Property-read PIC population currently stops process-wide after any accessor is registered. Replace that global latch with the existing receiver-local descriptor flag so unrelated plain objects can keep warming their read PICs without weakening accessor correctness.

Changes

  • Remove the process-wide accessors_in_use gate from property-read PIC population.
  • Rely on OBJ_FLAG_HAS_DESCRIPTORS plus the receiver ShapeId transition; the emitted hit path independently checks the same descriptor flag.
  • Add regressions proving an unrelated accessor cannot poison a plain receiver PIC and an accessor-bearing receiver cannot seed a raw-slot PIC.

Related issue

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Test plan

  • cargo build --release clean
  • cargo test --workspace --exclude perry-ui-ios --exclude perry-ui-tvos --exclude perry-ui-watchos --exclude perry-ui-gtk4 --exclude perry-ui-android --exclude perry-ui-windows passes
  • (if user-facing) Added or updated a test under test-files/ or a #[test] in the affected crate
  • (if CLI / stdlib / runtime API changed) Updated docs/src/ (not applicable: internal runtime cache policy only)
  • (if touching a platform UI backend) Built -p perry-ui-<backend> locally on that platform (not applicable)

Additional checks:

  • ./scripts/pre-tag-check.sh --quick
  • ./scripts/test_affected_crates.sh --base origin/main
    • perry-runtime: 2,614 passed, 4 ignored
    • Perry CLI: 1,015 passed
    • perry-ffi: 29 passed
  • cargo fmt --all -- --check
  • git diff --check

Performance validation used 11 alternating A/B pairs of a 10,000-entity ECS query kernel, with a fresh process and correctness check per sample:

  • field accumulation median: 2.0912 ms/op -> 0.3224 ms/op (84.6% lower; 6.49x faster)
  • read-only query median: 0.4358 ms/op -> 0.3950 ms/op (5.0% lower)
  • all accumulation samples produced the exact expected sum

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  • I have NOT bumped the workspace version or edited CLAUDE.md / CHANGELOG.md (maintainer handles these at merge)
  • My commits follow the loose feat: / fix: / docs: / chore: prefix convention used in the log
  • I have read CONTRIBUTING.md and agree to the Code of Conduct

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved property access performance for objects without accessors.
    • Prevented accessor properties on one object from disabling caching for unrelated objects.
    • Preserved correct handling for objects with accessor-based properties.
    • Improved ECS benchmark performance from 2.0912 ms/op to 0.3224 ms/op.
  • Tests

    • Added regression coverage for property access caching behavior and related scenarios.

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The regression tests now root allocated receivers and lookup strings through RuntimeHandleScope. The changelog documents receiver-local PIC eligibility, descriptor-bearing receiver exclusion, and the ECS benchmark improvement.

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Property-read inline-cache regression coverage

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Rooted regression setup and behavior documentation
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/field_get_set/ic_miss.rs, changelog.d/8560-scope-read-pic.md
The tests pass rooted raw pointers to descriptor, field-access, and IC-miss helpers. The changelog records the receiver-local cache behavior and benchmark result.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 795a9

The change scopes property-read cache population to each receiver’s descriptor state, preserving accessor correctness while allowing unrelated plain objects to warm their caches. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and serial runtime-test execution.

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crates/perry-runtime/src/object/field_get_set/ic_miss.rs (1)

1328-1355: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the already-warmed cache case.

This test installs the accessor before the first miss, so it verifies only that the miss path does not seed a cache. Add or verify coverage for this sequence: prime a plain receiver, install an accessor, then execute the emitted hit path and assert accessor semantics. This validates the independent hit-path descriptor guard.

The PR objective includes independent emitted hit-path checking, but this test does not exercise that path.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/field_get_set/ic_miss.rs` around lines 1328 -
1355, Extend the test coverage around js_object_get_field_ic_miss and the
emitted PIC hit path to prime a plain receiver first, install an accessor
descriptor afterward, then execute the warmed-cache hit and compare its result
with js_object_get_field_by_name_f64. Assert accessor semantics are preserved,
ensuring the hit path independently checks descriptors rather than returning the
stale raw-slot value.
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Inline comments:
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/field_get_set/ic_miss.rs`:
- Around line 1299-1313: In both tests, immediately wrap the GC-managed pointers
unrelated, obj, and key in RuntimeHandleScope after allocation, then use the
handles’ updated pointers for subsequent descriptor setup, field operations, and
assertions. Ensure every later allocation site is preceded by rooting these
values so moving GC cannot invalidate the raw pointers.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/field_get_set/ic_miss.rs`:
- Around line 1328-1355: Extend the test coverage around
js_object_get_field_ic_miss and the emitted PIC hit path to prime a plain
receiver first, install an accessor descriptor afterward, then execute the
warmed-cache hit and compare its result with js_object_get_field_by_name_f64.
Assert accessor semantics are preserved, ensuring the hit path independently
checks descriptors rather than returning the stale raw-slot value.
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Audited and merging. Removing a process-wide correctness latch is the kind of change where a wrong answer is silent — a PIC hit does a raw slot load, so a receiver with a getter would return the slot value instead of invoking it. So the review is the safety argument, not the 6.49x.

The argument holds, and it is fail-closed on both sides. The old gate was global: any accessor registered anywhere stopped PIC population for every object in the process. The replacement is the receiver's own OBJ_FLAG_HAS_DESCRIPTORS bit plus its ShapeId transition. Two independent checks:

  • populationic_miss.rs refuses to prime a PIC for a descriptor-bearing receiver
  • use — the emitted hit path checks the same bit (class_field_inline_guard.rs, element_shape_guard.rs)

and note_descriptor_target (descriptor_state.rs:414) sets that bit on the GC header before an installed descriptor is observable. An unrelated object's accessor cannot affect an own data property on this receiver, which is what makes the narrowing sound rather than merely faster.

The new regression test is load-bearing — I checked rather than assumed. Disabling PIC population to reproduce the pre-fix shape:

test object::field_get_set::ic_miss::c3c_pic_tests::
  unrelated_accessor_does_not_poison_plain_receiver_pic ... FAILED
test result: FAILED. 0 passed; 1 failed

Clean tree: 19/19 passed. So the test fails without the fix and passes with it, in both directions.

Also good that the second test covers the converse — an accessor-bearing receiver must not seed a raw-slot PIC. One direction alone would have left the dangerous half untested.

Gates on the stack (with #8562, #8563, #8565): check_file_size, workspace_architecture, raw_handle_debt, check_gc_scanner_latches, gc_runtime_root_holders, check_test_registration — all exit 0.

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…tors (#8572)

The raw-handle ratchet is red on main: ic_miss.rs carries 12 bare reads in a
module with no ceiling (937 vs baseline 925). They arrived with #8560 and were
green when that PR was validated -- the baseline was 974 then, and #8559's
cleanup subsequently lowered it to 925.

All twelve are argument-position reads feeding non-allocating calls, which is
exactly what with_{mut,const}_ptr is for per rule 1 of raw_handle_debt_files.txt,
so they convert rather than needing a ceiling entry.

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