perf(regex): take perex 0.1.7 and lend the thread's scratch to a search (#10166) - #10372
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Three unadopted versions over the pinned 0.1.4: * 0.1.5 — a start-anchored program tries only its first start. Worth a flat ~870-960 instructions per call on the `.test()` probes of PerryTS#10166, measured against 0.1.4 on the same host. * 0.1.6 — `Search::restart_at`, for a host loop that walks one subject, and `impl ScratchOwner for &mut O`, which lets a host lend scratch instead of giving it up. The next commit takes the second; restart_at is separate work. * 0.1.7 — the `v` flag is complete: string members `[\q{abc|de}]` and the seven properties of strings. Perex reports 48,718 Test262 cases compared with no differences and nothing unsupported. 0.1.7 bumps the program format (HEADER 10 -> 11 words, VERSION 12 -> 13, a new SEQUENCE instruction and a filter section), and older programs are rejected outright. Perry has nothing to migrate: programs exist only as `GcProgram` / `ProgramCell` on the GC heap, and no cache keys on program words — not `.perry-cache`, not the auto-optimize cache, which key on source and objects. `State`, `Frame` and `Phase` are unchanged; `Shape`s header copy grows one
…g one per call PerryTS#10166's attribution put a third of a short `.test()` in scratch the call never needed to build: `find_near` constructed a `MatchBuffers` per call, a 32-register inline array zeroed and then moved by value into `Search`, which disassembled to `mov $0x150,%edx; call memcpy` — 336 bytes at every call. Nothing in that scratch depends on the subject, and a search initializes its own live state, so perex 0.1.6's `impl ScratchOwner for &mut O` lets one per-thread cell serve every search. The cell keeps whatever frames and undo length an earlier call needed, which removes the other half of the cost: `PERRY_REGEX_DIAG` counted a scratch growth on nearly every search, so each call was rebuffering as well as constructing. In steady state a loop grows nothing and constructs nothing. A search that asks for more than the cell holds grows it for the next call and lets this one run the owned path from the budget it entered on, so a single call charges exactly the work it charges today. Reentrancy is a runtime borrow rather than the compile-time one perex gives a single frame: a nested regex — a replacer callback that matches, or a poll that re-enters — finds the cell borrowed and takes the owned path, so two searches never share slots. The operation's memory limit still sees the slots: the lent path takes a `Charge` for what it lends, exactly as the owner it replaces did. No GC pointer is stored in the cell. INLINE_REGISTERS drops 32 -> 8 for the owned path, which is now only a fallback; the lent cell keeps 32 in LENT_REGISTERS, since it is allocated once per thread rather than moved per call.
`perex_host_failures_release_scratch_and_preserve_consumed_work` used `[a--b]` under `v` as its Unsupported witness, on the note that the union grammar compiled but the set *operators* did not. 0.1.7 implements them, so that arm now compiles successfully and the test failed on its own assertion that the compile errored. The cleanup coverage it was there for is unchanged: compile failures still release scratch and keep the work they charged, exercised by the remaining syntax-error and exhausted-work arms. `[a--b]` becomes a positive case instead — a real difference, matching the `a` at index 1 of "ba" and not the `b` at 0 — so the newly supported grammar is asserted rather than dropped.
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participant find_near
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find_near->>find_near_lent: attempt lent search
find_near_lent->>LENT_SCRATCH: borrow scratch storage
LENT_SCRATCH-->>find_near_lent: Done or Fallback
find_near_lent-->>find_near: return result or fallback
find_near->>MatchBuffers: execute owned search on Fallback
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| .and_then(|n| n.checked_add(cell.undo.len().checked_mul(std::mem::size_of::<Undo>())?)) | ||
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Fall back when retained scratch exceeds the current memory limit.
find_near_lent charges the retained LENT_SCRATCH frame and undo vectors before the search runs. An earlier search can grow those vectors, so a later smaller search can return StorageError::Limit even when its owned MatchBuffers would fit. find_near restores the entry budget after Lent::Fallback; the owned path still reports a limit error if its actual requirements exceed the limit.
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- let _charge = Charge::new(memory, bytes)?;
+ let Ok(_charge) = Charge::new(memory, bytes) else {
+ return Ok(Lent::Fallback);
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| let _charge = Charge::new(memory, bytes)?; | |
| let Ok(_charge) = Charge::new(memory, bytes) else { | |
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/regex/perex_runtime.rs` at line 328, Update the
retained-scratch charging in find_near_lent so an existing LENT_SCRATCH
allocation exceeding the current memory limit triggers Lent::Fallback instead of
returning StorageError::Limit. Preserve find_near’s entry-budget restoration and
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check_thread_locals rejects a raw thread_local! in perry-runtime (PerryTS#7469): the address belongs in this thread's hot cache instead of costing a _tlv_get_addr call on every access. That applies with force here — every search on the thread reads this cell, which is the opposite of what a cold declaration looks like — so it is declared hot, with a const initializer.
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Summary
Takes perex 0.1.4 → 0.1.7 and uses the first of the two levers 0.1.6 adds: a host can lend its scratch to a
Searchinstead of giving it up, so aRegExpcall stops building match scratch it never needed to build.#10166's attribution put a third of a short
.test()in per-call scratch:find_nearconstructed aMatchBuffersper call, a 32-register inline array zeroed and then moved by value intoSearch, which disassembled tomov $0x150,%edx; call memcpy— 336 bytes at every call. Nothing in that scratch depends on the subject, so one cell per thread now serves every search. The cell also keeps whatever frames and undo length an earlier call needed, which removes the other half:PERRY_REGEX_DIAGcounted a scratch growth on nearly every search, so each call was rebuffering as well as constructing. In steady state a loop grows nothing and constructs nothing.What the version bump brings, beyond what is measured below: 0.1.5 makes a start-anchored program try only its first start, and 0.1.7 completes the
vflag — string members ([\q{abc|de}]), the properties of strings (\p{RGI_Emoji}and friends) and set operators ([a--b]) all compile and match, with perex reporting 48,718 Test262 cases compared, no differences and nothing unsupported.Measurements
perf stat -e instructions:u, perrymaster, 1M-call probes minus their own string-building control, three runs each, spread under 0.01 %. Both arms built from33690c563, so this is the change alone.re.test(v), ASCIIre.exec(v)+m[2], ASCIIre.test(v), non-ASCIIFor reference on the same host and probes: Node 26.8.1 costs 475 per call on the ASCII hoisted probe and the pre-Perex runtime (
9495bfc95) costs 592, so this does not close #10166 — it takes 23.1× Node to 10.1×.Earlier measurements of the same probes on train 191 (
92eadb77ab) read 8,315 for the ASCII hoisted probe against today's 10,979 on the same perex version. Something in the eleven trains since then costs the regex call path ~2,700 instructions per call; the control program moved 0.7 %, so it is regex-specific rather than a general shift. That is a separate regression, not something this PR causes or fixes, and I am bisecting it next.Semantics and safety
Chargefor the registers, frames and undo it lends, exactly as the owner it replaces did. The thread keeps the memory; the operation borrows it.not_a_gc_pointerverdict inscripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json, and the holders gate passes.crate::perry_thread_local!rather than the raw macro (perf(runtime): allocation path spends 34% of self time in _tlv_get_addr — 24× behind Node on object churn with the collector already idle #7469), whichcheck_thread_localsrequires and which this change wants anyway: every search on the thread reads it, so the address belongs in the hot cache rather than behind a_tlv_get_addrcall. It is worth 107 instructions per call on the hoisted probe.INLINE_REGISTERSdrops 32 → 8 for the owned path, which is now only a fallback; the lent cell keeps 32 underLENT_REGISTERS, since it is allocated once per thread rather than moved per call.HEADER10 → 11 words,VERSION12 → 13, a newSEQUENCEinstruction and a filter section) and rejects older programs. Perry has nothing to migrate — programs exist only asGcProgram/ProgramCellon the GC heap, and no cache keys on program words.State,FrameandPhaseare unchanged;Shape's header copy grows one word, per search rather than per call. The shared tables grow by 67 KB.perex_host_failures_release_scratch_and_preserve_consumed_workused[a--b]undervas an Unsupported witness. 0.1.7 implements set operators, so it is now a positive case — a real difference matching theaat index 1 of"ba"— and the cleanup coverage it existed for still runs on the syntax-error and exhausted-work arms.Validation
Local replay on perrymaster (GitHub runners are down), on this tree:
cargo build --lockedwithout the publish-age overridecargo fmt --all --checkcargo check -p perry-runtime --no-default-features --features full,-D warningscargo check -p perry --bins,-D warningscargo test -p perry-runtime --lib -- --test-threads=1scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.pyscripts/check_file_size.shscripts/run_lint_gates.shThe single lint failure is
Public benchmark evidence freshness, the long-standing CI-only red on main.The override
The lock was resolved with
CARGO_RESOLVER_INCOMPATIBLE_PUBLISH_AGE=allow: 0.1.7 is minutes old against the 7-day soak window in.cargo/config.toml. Ralph approved this one-time override, as for the earlier perex bumps. Checksumfc61f41aef38c94e922057977bcb33bf185ab42242188719991ecfdc0fa1fe6b. Once written, the lock resolves without the override, which the--lockedbuild above proves.Search::restart_at, 0.1.6's other lever, is not in this PR. It applies to the three loops that walk one subject —perex_split.rs,perex_remove.rsand the replace fast path's span collection — and is separate work.CI
self-test-checkersfailed on the first push —check_thread_localsrejected the rawthread_local!— and is fixed by the commit above.gap-suiteshards 3, 4 and 5 fail here, and they are not this PR's: the identical three tests (test_gap_iterator_prototype_next_patch,test_gap_disposablestack_2875,test_gap_2899_2779_2777_static_helpers) regress on #10377, which touches nothing but GC byte accounting, and on train 202 (#10369), which is unrelated to both. Walking the train PRs back, shard 3 broke in train 199 (#10299) while shards 4 and 5 predate it. That is a main-wide regression with an owner being found;lint(public-baseline freshness) andsecurity-audit(the rustls advisory) are the usual inherited reds.