perf: ECS round 4 — barrier early exits, inline captureless some loop, lean Map/Set lanes, empty-pop fast path, codegen-time const fold, inline hot-TLS values (−16.7%) - #8916
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…barrier classifications; Map dense key needs one round trip write_barrier_decoded_parent classified the parent's page and the child's page on every remembered store before reaching mark_dirty_old_page, where the one-entry dirty-page cache then usually answered. The cache's invariant (cached ⟹ recorded in DIRTY_OLD_PAGES and stamped dirty) is exactly what an inline-slot store on that page would establish, so the barrier now returns right after the SATB prologue when the slot's page is the cached one — the second and third push into the same bucket, and every push into a large array whose tail sits on one page, pay neither classification. dense_integer_key: as u32 saturates, so the round-trip compare alone decides every case the three range tests pre-screened. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FUvFrRNZyc5qknBiJbYbby
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds a dirty-page cache early exit to the GC write barrier, adds a regression test, documents the optimization, and simplifies dense integer key validation in ChangesGC barrier fast path
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1-1: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winKeep this fragment to one release-note subject.
Keep the final GC behavior in this fragment. Move the unrelated
Mapoptimization to a separate fragment. Remove internal trace-counter and benchmark-run details unless they are release-note requirements. Based on learnings, changelog fragments must “describe the final shipped behavior as one coherent release-note entry.”🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/barrier_decoded_parent.rs`:
- Around line 90-100: Update the test around runtime_write_barrier_slot to write
ptr_bits(old_child) through fields.add(1) before the existing second call, then
reset or snapshot the barrier trace counters immediately before it and assert
exactly one DirtyPageCacheHits event afterward. Retain the dirty-page count and
metadata assertions, using the trace assertion to prove execution took the
cache-hit path rather than ChildNotYoungSkips.
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In `@changelog.d/8916-barrier-dirty-page-early-exit.md`:
- Line 1: Rewrite the changelog fragment to cover only the GC dirty-page cache
early-exit behavior as one coherent release-note subject. Remove the unrelated
Map optimization, internal BarrierTraceCounter details, and benchmark-run
metrics while preserving the final GC behavior.
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| // Same page, next slot: the cache hit must leave the record untouched and | ||
| // must not require the child to be young — a value the classifier would | ||
| // reject still returns through the cache, because the page is covered. | ||
| let old_child = crate::arena::arena_alloc_gc_old(40, 8, GC_TYPE_OBJECT) as usize; | ||
| runtime_write_barrier_slot(old_obj as usize, fields as usize + 8, ptr_bits(old_child)); | ||
| assert_eq!( | ||
| remembered_dirty_page_count(), | ||
| 1, | ||
| "a store onto the cached dirty page adds no record" | ||
| ); | ||
| assert!(old_page_dirty_for(page)); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Make the test prove the cache-hit path.
Write ptr_bits(old_child) to fields.add(1) before Line 94. Reset or read the barrier trace counters around the second call, then assert one DirtyPageCacheHits event. The current dirty-count and metadata assertions also pass on the former path because old_child exits at ChildNotYoungSkips.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/barrier_decoded_parent.rs` around lines 90
- 100, Update the test around runtime_write_barrier_slot to write
ptr_bits(old_child) through fields.add(1) before the existing second call, then
reset or snapshot the barrier trace counters immediately before it and assert
exactly one DirtyPageCacheHits event afterward. Retain the dirty-page count and
metadata assertions, using the trace assertion to prove execution took the
cache-hit path rather than ChildNotYoungSkips.
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Audited and merged. On the barrier early-exit. The soundness rests on the dirty-page cache invariant, and the thing worth checking was whether the new exit keys on the same page as the recording it short-circuits. It does: The SATB claim also holds: This adds a consumer of the #7187 cache rather than weakening its invariant, which stays maintained by On Validation — runtime 2760/0 ( On the census note in the description — accurate, and now fixed. It was not pre-existing in the sense of being nobody's doing: it broke at #8899 ( The +4.4% is not re-measured here; it was screened 15/15 on the idle mini. |
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codehz/ecs"5k entities: 3 commands each + sync" row, on top of #8897 (merged main measured at 4.14 ms/op on the Mac mini; Node 26.5.1 = 1.762 ms on the same host). Ten general mechanisms in eight steps, each screened with paired alternating runs on the idle Mac mini and confirmed over 15 pairs:r4a-confirm.json)arr.some(capturelessArrow)loopr4b-confirm.json)r4c-confirm.json)r4d-confirm.json)popfast path + single-pass length-0 re-armr4f-confirm.json)r4g-confirm.json)HotTlsr4h-confirm.json)r4i-confirm.json)Cumulative: 4.14 → 3.45 ms/op (−16.7%); Node 26.5.1 = 1.762 ms on the same host, so Perry is at ~1.96× Node from 2.35×. Write-up:
secret-tests/ecs-suite/PERRY_ECS_FOLLOWUP_2026-08-27_CLAUDE.md.write_barrier_decoded_parentclassified the parent (arena lookup + header decode) and then the child before consulting the dirty-page cache. The cache's invariant is "cached ⟹ recorded inDIRTY_OLD_PAGESand stamped dirty", and the minor collector rescans every recorded dirty page, so once a page is cached every further inline-slot store onto it is already covered whatever the child is — the check now runs first, keyed on the slot address (an external slot, or a slot below the parent, still takes the full path). The barrier family was ~10% of the frame's self time; the hit is counted underBarrierTraceCounter::DirtyPageCacheHitsand pinned byinline_slot_store_onto_the_cached_dirty_page_is_a_cache_hit.Mapdense integer key in one round trip —dense_integer_keypre-screened with three range tests (is_finite,< 0,> u32::MAX) before theas u32round trip;as u32saturates (NaN/negative → 0, +inf/too large →u32::MAX), so the round-trip compare alone already rejects every value that is not a finite integer in0..=u32::MAX. One conversion pair per dense Map lookup (-0still maps to 0 as before).arr.some(capturelessArrow)as an inline loop with a direct body call (lower_captureless_some_inline).js_array_some_capturelessdecided the receiver once and then, per element, re-resolved the head from its root, NaN-boxed the receiver and called the body through the function pointer (4.5% self). The lowering makes the same one-time decision on the same live bits —GC_TYPE_ARRAYhead, not forwarded, no indexed descriptors, the stickyPERRY_ARRAY_INDEX_FAST_PATH_INVALIDATEDbyte clear,length <= capacity— and runs the loop inline: the head is re-read from its root every iteration (a forwarded head goes through the newjs_array_live_headexport), indices past the live length and holes are skipped, the arrow's body symbol is called directly with as many of(element, index, receiver)as it declares, andtrue/falseresults decide inline withjs_is_truthyfor anything else. Every receiver the loop does not admit takes the runtime helper, which stays the fallback. Pinned bycaptureless_inline_some_passes_the_callback_body_directly(direct call + loop markers + fallback).find_key_index. The function carried the string-hash, pointer-index, hashed-numeric and generic-compare paths in one body; a PC histogram of the profile put a third of its 5.5% self time on the prologue/epilogue those cold paths force (eight callee-saved GPRs and four FP registers on arm64) and half on the dense-key range tests. The two shapes the numeric side-table exists for — a plain (untagged, non-NaN, non-zero) number against a small map's entries by bit identity, or against the dense integer range table — now run in an always-inlinedfind_key_index_hotinsidejs_map_get/js_map_has/js_map_set's callers; everything else goes to the outlinedfind_key_index_cold. A dense-range miss stays definitive for its span (every insert, delete, clear and GC rewrite keeps the table exact); a key outside the span, a tagged, zero or NaN key, and every string or pointer key take the cold path unchanged.hot_lookup_lane_agrees_with_the_cold_path_on_every_key_shapepins hit/definitive-miss/out-of-span/-0/NaN/tagged shapes on both a small and a dense map.find_value_indexanswered everySet.has/Set.addthrough the thread-localSET_INDEX: a hash of the set address to reach its table, then a hash of the value — two probes for sets that in the hot shapes (an archetype's component-type set) hold three or four numbers (componentTypeSet.haswas 7.5% of the in-place update path). A plain number against a set of at most eight elements is now decided by readingelements[0..size)— exactly the membership, since delete compacts and add normalises-0, and no tagged value equals a number — so a bit match is a hit and a full scan a definitive miss. Larger sets, tagged/zero/NaN values and every string keep the side-table, outlined.small_set_scan_lane_agrees_with_the_side_table_on_every_value_shapepins hit/miss/-0/NaN/tagged/delete-compaction/growth-past-the-bound.pop()on an empty plain array answers from the header fast path;length = 0re-arms an all-pointer head in one registry pass. The pop fast path required a non-empty array, so the drained pool'spool.pop() ?? []fell through the whole generic tower (subclass and plain-object probes, a tracked classification, the flag resolution) to reach the samelength == 0return; with the descriptor flag excluded,Set(O, "length", 0)is a no-op and there is no index to Get or Delete, so the answer isundefinedfrom the header read.rebuild_array_layoutonlength = 0of an all-pointer head ran the zero-slot rebuild and thenlayout_init_all_pointer_slots, which clears the same bit, forgets the same two record kinds and sets the state — two passes over the layout registries perpooled.length = 0; the re-arm now runs alone with an identical end state (the round-U truncate test additionally asserts no per-object record survives).perry_transform::module_const_fold, run fromrun_pipeline.rsonce every module is transformed).export const COMPONENT_ID_MAX = 1023is a module-scope immutable let and every read of it is aLocalGetthe typed-ABI clone rules cannot type, so a one-line predicate such asisComponentId(id >= 1 && id <= COMPONENT_ID_MAX) was refused itsi1clone and every call ran a module-global load plus the dynamic tag-coercion compare on both operands. It is deliberately not a pipeline pass: folded, those predicates become self-contained and the cross-module inliner harvests them — run inside the pipeline that consumed callers' inline budgets (world.setlostresolveSetOperation, −43%), and with a larger budget the inlined bodies still did the dynamic compare on the untyped call-site value. Run after all harvests are taken, no inlining decision moves; the fold precedes the HIR trace and the object-cache fingerprint so both describe the tree codegen consumes. Admission and the TDZ rule are pinned by the module's unit tests.HotTls. A hot-TLS slot and a named pointer field both resolve as TSD base →HotTls→ slot pointer → value; PC histograms of the post-4g profile put the remaining self time of the write barrier,js_map_clear(10k calls/frame, both hot offsets on its two TLS probes),is_registered_box_ptrandarray_prototype_addron that dependent chain rather than on anything they compute. SmallCopyvalues with aconstinitial state can live inHotTlsitself (TSD base →HotTls→ value), so the barrier's one-entry dirty-page cache, the memoizedArray.prototype/Object.prototyperows and the three box-pointer caches now do; the generic slot mechanism is unchanged for everything else, and the collector's root rewrite of the prototype rows walks the inline cells exactly as it walked the slot.js_write_barrier_slot_validated_parent, which made two out-of-line calls before anything was decided —decode_heap_addrfor the child, andincremental_mark_barrier_value, whose "no cycle anywhere" test sat inside the callee — and then entered the outlinedwrite_barrier_decoded_parent(six callee-saved registers) to run the one-entry dirty-page compare that answers the second and third push into the same bucket. The tag decode and the idle test now inline (their slow arms are cold, out of line), and the cache test is hoisted into the entry ahead of the outlined body (gc/barrier/leaf.rs), so a hit is a leaf path. Counters and the remembered set built are unchanged; pinned byvalidated_parent_entry_answers_a_cached_dirty_page_store_before_the_body.Tests: runtime suite (2763) incl.
gc::tests::barrier+map::, codegen lib (1329) +native_proof_regressions(280), transform lib (119), runtime array suites (264), lint gates and the merge-base ratchets replayed locally againstf9890759c(the shape-descriptor census step fails identically on pristineorigin/main— pre-existing, not touched here).https://claude.ai/code/session_01FUvFrRNZyc5qknBiJbYbby