fix(runtime): exclude prototypes from learned instance width

[proggeramlug]

Summary

• exclude registered declared-class and function-class prototype objects from learned instance inline-width samples
• pass the concrete owner identity to every width-learning call site
• keep ordinary instance spills training the class high-water mark

Root cause

Prototype objects intentionally carry their owning instance class id for reflection and prototype dispatch. The learned inline-width table keyed only on that class id, so installing methods/properties on a prototype could teach the allocator that future instances needed the prototype's much larger storage width.

In the ECS reproducer, an eight-field class's prototype spill trained a live width of 33. New instances were then born with a different ShapeId than the compiler-published eight-field method guard, so the exact guard could never succeed.

The fix retains width learning and changes its admission contract to include object identity. It rejects only exact pointers registered in CLASS_DECL_PROTOTYPE_OBJECTS or CLASS_PROTOTYPE_OBJECTS; a real instance with the same class id still updates the high-water mark.

Tests

• focused prototype/instance regression with default object-owned spill — passed
• same regression with PERRY_OBJECT_SPILL=0 legacy storage — passed
• cargo test --release -p perry-runtime --lib — 2,617 passed, 4 ignored
• spill-filter cohort — 5 passed
• cargo check --release -p perry-runtime
• cargo fmt --all -- --check
• complete upstream ECS functional corpus with the accepted prototype stack — 35/37 files and 461/463 cases, matching the established Perry baseline (only the known singleton shorthand and Symbol.dispose mismatches)

This is one of three serial exact-guard blockers found in the ECS query profile. The combined accepted stack reduced the six query units from 4.0688 ms/op to 1.1052 ms/op; this PR deliberately does not claim that combined speedup as an isolated effect.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved object storage behavior so prototype objects no longer influence instance field layout learning.
  • Preserved accurate field handling for regular object instances.

• Tests

  • Added coverage verifying prototype spills are ignored while instance spills continue to update learned field counts.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The spill learning helper now receives the object pointer and skips declared-class and function-class prototype objects. Tests verify that prototype spills do not update learned inline widths, while instance spills still update them.

Changes

Prototype spill learning

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Guard learned inline field updates crates/perry-runtime/src/object/spill.rs	Spill paths pass the object pointer to note_learned_inline_fields. The helper skips declared-class and function-class prototypes before recording learned inline field counts.
Validate prototype and instance behavior crates/perry-runtime/src/object/class_registry.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/spill.rs	Test-only access to the declared-class prototype root store was added. Tests verify that prototype spills leave the learned count at zero and that an instance spill learns 13 fields.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f8407

This change prevents prototype storage from inflating the learned width of future instances while preserving learning from real instances. It is mergeable with owner awareness that the runtime test should run serially and that its assertion must be gated or adjusted when learned-inline learning is disabled.

Suggested reviewers: thehypnoo

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes excluding prototypes from learned instance widths.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly covers the root cause, implementation, scope, and extensive test results, despite not using every template heading.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 83.33% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 2 files.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

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

509-545: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial

Run this runtime test serially.

As per coding guidelines, perry-runtime tests are not parallel-safe. Run this test with RUST_TEST_THREADS=1.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/spill.rs` around lines 509 - 545, Run the
`prototype_spills_do_not_teach_instance_inline_width` test serially by setting
`RUST_TEST_THREADS=1`, preserving the test’s existing assertions and behavior.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/spill.rs`:
- Around line 509-545: Run the
`prototype_spills_do_not_teach_instance_inline_width` test serially by setting
`RUST_TEST_THREADS=1`, preserving the test’s existing assertions and behavior.

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[proggeramlug]

Merging as a validated batch of three, stacked on current main.

check	result
cargo check --workspace --all-targets	exit 0
check_file_size · workspace_architecture · raw_handle_debt	0 · 0 · 0
check_gc_scanner_latches · gc_runtime_root_holders · check_test_registration	0 · 0 · 0
cargo fmt --all -- --check	0

Ratchets re-run against the current baseline immediately before merging, and fmt included — I broke main on both of those this session by validating one dimension and missing an orthogonal one.

#8577 and #8578 are worth reading together. Both are ShapeId-identity fixes surfaced by the same ECS reproducer, and both concern the exact method guards that #8505 (canonical-shape dispatch) and #8560 (PIC descriptor gate) introduced or narrowed. Each has a concrete failing identity rather than a hand-wave — 0x80000ac4 expected against 0x80000ad3 observed for the imported-class case, and a prototype spill training a live width of 33 for an eight-field class in the other. Two different routes to the same symptom: an instance born with a ShapeId the compiler-published guard can never match, so the guard silently never fires.

That is the failure mode those guards are most exposed to, and it argues for treating exact-ShapeId guards as a class that needs adversarial fixtures rather than per-bug fixes.

Mechanical fixes applied while staging (fork PRs, so they could not be pushed to the branches): dropped #8576's version bump — the maintainer bumps at merge time — and wrote the missing changelog fragments for #8577 and #8578.