perf(runtime): one validity word replaces the per-hop chain walk, and one flags word replaces two registry probes - #10842
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Understand this PR’s impact Explore downstream dependencies and potential security impact with Blast Radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe runtime adds global prototype-validity tracking for inherited-read cache entries. It replaces per-hop validation, marks prototype and exotic receiver objects, wires invalidation into mutation paths, moves cache processing earlier in IC misses, and expands tests for chain invalidation and construction paths. ChangesInherited Read Cache
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Refactor · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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proto_validity-->>inherited_read_cache: later lookup observes invalid validity
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1025-1025: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winGate hook B on receiver facts, not on diagnostic-only
miss_reason.When diagnostics are disabled, non-object and irregular receivers retain
R::NotOwnand can invokeinherited_read_cache_prime. The walk rejects them and preserves the getter result, but it still performs avoidable validation and can incrementDECLINESwhen statistics are enabled.Hoist the ordinary-object fact and include it in the gate.
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let mut miss_reason = R::NotOwn; + let mut receiver_is_ordinary_object = false; unsafe { ... let is_regular = shape.is_some_and(|shape| { shape.object_kind == crate::object::shapes::ShapeObjectKind::Ordinary }); + receiver_is_ordinary_object = is_regular; ... } ... - if matches!(miss_reason, R::NotOwn) && !inherited_declined { + if receiver_is_ordinary_object + && matches!(miss_reason, R::NotOwn) + && !inherited_declined + {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/inherited_read_cache.rs`:
- Around line 822-839: Update scan_inherited_read_cache_roots_mut to visit
entry.recv_proto_bits with visitor.visit_nanbox_u64_slot during root scanning,
alongside the existing key, hops, and holder slots, so the cached
ObjectMeta::prototype snapshot is rewritten by moving GC.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/field_get_set/ic_miss.rs`:
- Line 1025: Track whether the receiver has an ordinary object shape in the
surrounding ic_miss logic, assigning that fact from the existing is_regular
check. Update the inherited_read_cache_prime gate to require
receiver_is_ordinary_object in addition to the existing miss_reason and
inherited_declined conditions, so diagnostic-only miss reasons cannot trigger
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| pub(crate) fn scan_inherited_read_cache_roots_mut(visitor: &mut crate::gc::RuntimeRootVisitor<'_>) { | ||
| INHERITED_READ_CACHE.with(|cell| unsafe { | ||
| for entry in (*cell.get()).iter_mut() { | ||
| if entry.key_ptr == 0 { | ||
| continue; | ||
| } | ||
| visitor.visit_tagged_usize_slot(&mut entry.key_ptr, crate::value::STRING_TAG); | ||
| for i in 0..entry.hop_count as usize { | ||
| visitor.visit_usize_slot(&mut entry.hops[i]); | ||
| } | ||
| // The same object as the last hop, in its own slot so the hit | ||
| // loads it at a fixed offset. Visiting one object through two | ||
| // slots is what every other multi-slot root does; the second visit | ||
| // finds the forwarding record the first one installed. | ||
| visitor.visit_usize_slot(&mut entry.holder); | ||
| } | ||
| }); | ||
| } |
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Rewrite recv_proto_bits during root scanning.
Entry::recv_proto_bits stores the NaN-boxed ObjectMeta::prototype snapshot. Moving GC rewrites ObjectMeta::prototype, but the cache copy is not rewritten. The lookup then compares old and current bits, returns Lookup::Unknown, and re-primes the entry. Visit it with visitor.visit_nanbox_u64_slot(&mut entry.recv_proto_bits).
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/inherited_read_cache.rs` around lines 822 -
839, Update scan_inherited_read_cache_roots_mut to visit entry.recv_proto_bits
with visitor.visit_nanbox_u64_slot during root scanning, alongside the existing
key, hops, and holder slots, so the cached ObjectMeta::prototype snapshot is
rewritten by moving GC.
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Do not merge. This PR has a latent silent-wrong-value bug that I introduced and have just found while building the follow-up. Filing it against my own PR before a merge train takes it.
// gc/layout.rs:51
// A side-layout payload whose entire live prefix contains pointers. Bit 13 is
// independent from the two high state bits and travels with `_reserved` when
// copying GC moves the object, avoiding a per-array side-table entry.
pub(crate) const GC_LAYOUT_ALL_POINTERS: u16 = 0x2000;I took the "bits 12..13 were the last free Why it is a wrong value and not just a slow one
// gc/layout.rs:389
(*header)._reserved = ((*header)._reserved & !(GC_LAYOUT_STATE_MASK | GC_LAYOUT_ALL_POINTERS))
| (state & GC_LAYOUT_STATE_MASK);So a prototype that this PR marks can have its mark silently erased by an unrelated GC layout transition. After that, The reverse direction is also wrong, though only in the safe direction: an object already carrying How I found itBuilding the stage (ii) classification bit, I claimed bit 12 (
#8690 hit the same trap and wrote it down where the next person to spend a bit would not read it. The fix I am buildingBoth facts move to Marking also flips polarity to fail-safe: the prime will decline a hop that is not already marked instead of marking it itself, so a prototype-install site that forgets to mark costs a missed cache hit, never a stale value. Hit counters make a missed site visible immediately. I will also add a single bit map in one place so the next person spending a Measurements in the PR body stand — the mechanism and its cost are unaffected — but the numbers will be re-taken on the corrected build before this is ready again. |
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… one flags word replaces two registry probes Two stages of the same change, in one commit because the second cannot compile without the first: both facts live in the same word, and that word had to move before either was safe. ## Stage (i): the per-hop walk becomes one compare #10834 re-proves a cached inherited read with one ShapeId compare per hop, up to four dependent loads through prototype objects that are usually cold. It is proportional to the DEPTH of the chain, and it is a LOOP, so the hit can only ever live behind a call: an emitted property-read site cannot branch on a variable number of compares. The root cause is that a mutation of an object somebody INHERITS from is invisible to the objects below it. This is V8's prototype validity cell, collapsed to one global counter (`object::proto_validity`): * An object is MARKED (`OBJECT_META_FLAG_IS_PROTOTYPE`) by the `[[Prototype]]` install funnel, and the read cache REFUSES to record a hop that is not already marked. * Every shape-word CHANGE on a marked object bumps the counter, hooked at `stamp_object_shape_id_with_carrier_note` — the runtime's single structural-mutation publication funnel, which its own header already names as such. * `prop_plan_epoch_bump` and `class_lookup_surface_gen_bump` bump the same word, so it also stands for everything the semantic property epoch stands for, and for a re-registered class prototype object. A plain value store to an existing key deliberately does not invalidate: an entry records (holder, slot) and LOADS the value on every hit. ## Stage (ii): two registry probes become one bit A cached hit asked `is_arguments_object` (14.0 instructions) and `is_process_env_ptr` (5.0), both address-keyed registry probes, on every read. `OBJECT_META_FLAG_EXOTIC_READ_RECEIVER` is a per-object summary of both, set inside each registry's single writer in the same breath as the insert, and it sits in a word the hit path already loads — beside `elements`, which folds in too. Each probe keeps a `debug_assert` that a registry hit implies the flag, so an insert that skips the mark fails those suites loudly. Decisively for the next stage: an emitted read sequence could not have called either probe at all. ## The word these flags live in, and the one they do not Both started in `GcHeader::_reserved`, on the claim in that file's `OBJ_FLAG_*` block that bits 12..13 were "the last free bits". **They are not free.** `gc/layout.rs` owns 12 (`GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT`), 13 (`GC_LAYOUT_ALL_POINTERS`) and 14..15 (`GC_LAYOUT_STATE_MASK`) in a separate constant namespace in a different file, and `set_layout_state` CLEARS bit 13 on every layout-state change. A mark placed there is not merely shared, it is silently ERASED — so the reader answers `false` for an object the writer marked, the invalidation never fires, and a cached entry returns a stale value. Found by measuring: claiming bit 12 regressed the `Object.create` fixtures from 383 to 1533 instructions per read, because those receivers all carry `GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT`. That regression is what sent me to read `gc/layout.rs` and find bit 13 under the mark this PR had already shipped. Both facts now live in `ObjectMeta::flags` bits 5 and 6, verified against #8690's reservation comment and every reader in the tree. It is the better home, not a worse one: the hit path already loads `meta`, so the facts cost the hit nothing, and nothing in the layout machinery can reach them. This commit also installs the complete `_reserved` bit map — both namespaces, one table — on `OBJ_FLAG_RESERVED_BIT_MAP_SEE_DOC` in `gc/types.rs`, and points `gc/layout.rs` at it. #8690 hit the same trap and left its warning in `ObjectMeta::flags`' doc comment, which is not a file anyone reads when spending a header bit. ## The polarity, and why the cache still marks The install funnel marks; the cache refuses an unmarked hop. When the prime meets one it marks it and ABANDONS the walk without recording anything — marking allocates a meta record, which can move `obj`, `next` and every address in `hops` — and the next read of that pair primes normally. That keeps the invariant that matters absolutely (no entry is ever recorded through a hop that was not already marked before the walk began) while making coverage self-healing: an install route the funnel misses costs one declined read, not a permanent loss. The refusal is not remembered, because marking bumps no validity and a negative entry would decline the pair for the life of the process. `class_prototype_object_root_store` looked like the place to mark the `Object.create` route and SIGSEGVs the suite: it holds a bare `proto_ptr` that it re-uses for an address-index rekey and a write barrier, so a mark that allocates leaves both stale. Any mark that allocates must be the last thing its caller does with the pointer. ## Measured `perf stat -x, -e instructions:u`, min of 3, fitted 200 k -> 5 M, two trees whose binaries `cmp` different, output identical to node on every row. Inheritance = fixture minus its own-read twin; the twins are unchanged to the instruction (`own1` 130.00, `ownm` 303.00, `ownpoly` 218.25). | fixture | #10834 | this | node | bun | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1-level `Object.create` | 278 | **226** | 2.1 | 0.4 | | 3-level chain | 296 | **226** | 0.1 | 0.8 | | class prototype | 286 | **236** | 0.0 | 0.5 | | method through the prototype | 282 | **232** | 0.7 | 0.6 | | 4 receiver shapes, one prototype | 370 | **319** | 4.0 | 0.4 | Still depth-independent: a three-level chain costs exactly what a one-level one costs, because the guard no longer has a length. That is the property the emitted sequence needs. Key-add churn with a live entry: 420 -> 368. `own1` 130.00 before and after. Over-invalidation of the GLOBAL counter, measured: a fixture that structurally mutates an UNRELATED marked prototype once per 64 inherited reads costs 710.91 per iteration against 710.92 for one that mutates the prototype being read. #10834's semantic-epoch check was already global, so the only event class this makes global that was not is a plain key add on an object used as a prototype. One invalidation costs one re-prime: 1494 - 356 = 1138 instructions. ## Tests `cargo test -p perry-runtime -- --test-threads=1`: 4136 passed, 0 failed. The coverage test is the one worth reading. It builds a receiver six ways — `setPrototypeOf` on a literal, `Object.create`, a class-default link, a class-evaluation link, two hops, and a key added to the prototype after the receiver exists — and asserts each read is SERVED BY THE CACHE, because a cache that declines everything returns exactly the values the chain walk would and is invisible in a program's output. Its first version shared ONE prototype across all six styles, so five of them were marked by the first and passed vacuously; giving each style its own prototype turned it red immediately. Each style now gets a fresh prototype. Plus: an unmarked prototype is refused rather than cached; the three invalidation controls from #10842's first revision (mark/hook, class-surface bump, semantic-epoch fold); and the 27 cache tests, the two GC root tests and the differential fixture against node. Hit evidence, from compiled programs with enough misses elsewhere to make `PERRY_IC_DIAG` dump: `hits=25811149 primes=1 declines=1` for a one-level chain and `hits=26087239 primes=1 declines=3` for a three-level one — exactly one mark-and-abandon per hop, then steady hits.
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Reworked and re-pushed; the DO NOT MERGE title is lifted. Both flags now live in The complete Net result is better than the version with the broken bit, because moving to The lesson, for the record: a control that proves your mechanism works does not prove your mechanism is the only thing writing its state. Every must-fail control in the first revision passed, because each one neutered my hook and watched a test go red. Not one asked who else writes bit 13. The bug surfaced as a performance regression in the follow-up stage, not as a failing correctness test. |
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- Around line 146-153: The tests in inherited_read_cache_tests.rs contain
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| inherited_read_cache_prime(obj, k).is_none() || { | ||
| // Priming is only reached after the caller's own-key search fails, | ||
| // so a prime here would be a caller contract violation, not a | ||
| // cache bug. Assert the value is at least the own one. | ||
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Make these tests assert the behavior they name. The current assertions do not exercise all three behaviors:
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deleting_the_shadowing_own_key_exposes_the_inherited_value_again,|| { true }makes the assertion unconditional. Do not replace it withinherited_read_cache_prime(obj, k).is_none(): that function requires the caller to complete the own-key search first. Remove this assertion or test the caller path. - In
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a_second_receiver_of_the_same_shape_shares_the_entry, the only hit assertion is skipped when theparent_class_idvalues differ. Assert that the IDs match, then perform the hit assertion unconditionally.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/inherited_read_cache_tests.rs` around lines
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| /// `_reserved` is zero, so an address recycled by the collector does not | ||
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Use ObjectMeta in the recycled-address explanation.
OBJECT_META_FLAG_IS_PROTOTYPE is stored in ObjectMeta::flags, not _reserved. A fresh allocation has a null meta pointer, and new metadata initializes flags to zero. _reserved is owned by GC layout state and can be cleared by unrelated transitions. This documentation should state the actual invariant because the current wording can misdirect future metadata-bit maintenance.
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/// Set-only, and monotone for an allocation: a prototype that stops being one
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| /// Set-only, and monotone for an allocation: a prototype that stops being one | |
| /// keeps the mark and costs one extra counter bump per structural mutation, | |
| /// which is conservative in the safe direction. A FRESH allocation's | |
| /// `_reserved` is zero, so an address recycled by the collector does not | |
| /// inherit the mark of whatever lived there before. | |
| /// Set-only, and monotone for an allocation: a prototype that stops being one | |
| /// keeps the mark and costs one extra counter bump per structural mutation, | |
| /// which is conservative in the safe direction. A FRESH allocation has a null | |
| /// `meta` pointer, so an address recycled by the collector does not inherit | |
| /// the mark of whatever lived there before. |
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/proto_validity.rs` around lines 126 - 130,
Update the documentation comment describing recycled allocations to reference
the ObjectMeta-backed meta pointer: state that a FRESH allocation has a null
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| crate::object::proto_validity::mark_object_as_prototype( | ||
| prototype.as_pointer::<crate::ObjectHeader>() as usize, | ||
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Root live pointers across the prototype-marking calls. mark_object_as_prototype and mark_exotic_read_receiver can allocate through ensure_meta_for_mark. The allocation can move the marked object and other live objects. The helpers root only their argument internally and do not update caller-owned raw pointers or NaN-boxed values.
In object_set_static_prototype_impl, root obj_ptr and proto_bits before the mark. Reload both before the array-header read, meta_capable_object, and the residual-registry write.
In js_process_env_impl, root obj before the mark. Reload it after mark_exotic_read_receiver, then compute boxed. Otherwise CACHED_ENV can retain the pre-relocation address.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/prototype_chain.rs` around lines 398 - 405,
Root obj_ptr and proto_bits in object_set_static_prototype_impl before
prototype-marking calls, then reload both rooted values before the array-header
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… one flags word replaces two registry probes Two stages of the same change, in one commit because the second cannot compile without the first: both facts live in the same word, and that word had to move before either was safe. ## Stage (i): the per-hop walk becomes one compare #10834 re-proves a cached inherited read with one ShapeId compare per hop, up to four dependent loads through prototype objects that are usually cold. It is proportional to the DEPTH of the chain, and it is a LOOP, so the hit can only ever live behind a call: an emitted property-read site cannot branch on a variable number of compares. The root cause is that a mutation of an object somebody INHERITS from is invisible to the objects below it. This is V8's prototype validity cell, collapsed to one global counter (`object::proto_validity`): * An object is MARKED (`OBJECT_META_FLAG_IS_PROTOTYPE`) by the `[[Prototype]]` install funnel, and the read cache REFUSES to record a hop that is not already marked. * Every shape-word CHANGE on a marked object bumps the counter, hooked at `stamp_object_shape_id_with_carrier_note` — the runtime's single structural-mutation publication funnel, which its own header already names as such. * `prop_plan_epoch_bump` and `class_lookup_surface_gen_bump` bump the same word, so it also stands for everything the semantic property epoch stands for, and for a re-registered class prototype object. A plain value store to an existing key deliberately does not invalidate: an entry records (holder, slot) and LOADS the value on every hit. ## Stage (ii): two registry probes become one bit A cached hit asked `is_arguments_object` (14.0 instructions) and `is_process_env_ptr` (5.0), both address-keyed registry probes, on every read. `OBJECT_META_FLAG_EXOTIC_READ_RECEIVER` is a per-object summary of both, set inside each registry's single writer in the same breath as the insert, and it sits in a word the hit path already loads — beside `elements`, which folds in too. Each probe keeps a `debug_assert` that a registry hit implies the flag, so an insert that skips the mark fails those suites loudly. Decisively for the next stage: an emitted read sequence could not have called either probe at all. ## The word these flags live in, and the one they do not Both started in `GcHeader::_reserved`, on the claim in that file's `OBJ_FLAG_*` block that bits 12..13 were "the last free bits". **They are not free.** `gc/layout.rs` owns 12 (`GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT`), 13 (`GC_LAYOUT_ALL_POINTERS`) and 14..15 (`GC_LAYOUT_STATE_MASK`) in a separate constant namespace in a different file, and `set_layout_state` CLEARS bit 13 on every layout-state change. A mark placed there is not merely shared, it is silently ERASED — so the reader answers `false` for an object the writer marked, the invalidation never fires, and a cached entry returns a stale value. Found by measuring: claiming bit 12 regressed the `Object.create` fixtures from 383 to 1533 instructions per read, because those receivers all carry `GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT`. That regression is what sent me to read `gc/layout.rs` and find bit 13 under the mark this PR had already shipped. Both facts now live in `ObjectMeta::flags` bits 5 and 6, verified against #8690's reservation comment and every reader in the tree. It is the better home, not a worse one: the hit path already loads `meta`, so the facts cost the hit nothing, and nothing in the layout machinery can reach them. This commit also installs the complete `_reserved` bit map — both namespaces, one table — on `OBJ_FLAG_RESERVED_BIT_MAP_SEE_DOC` in `gc/types.rs`, and points `gc/layout.rs` at it. #8690 hit the same trap and left its warning in `ObjectMeta::flags`' doc comment, which is not a file anyone reads when spending a header bit. ## The polarity, and why the cache still marks The install funnel marks; the cache refuses an unmarked hop. When the prime meets one it marks it and ABANDONS the walk without recording anything — marking allocates a meta record, which can move `obj`, `next` and every address in `hops` — and the next read of that pair primes normally. That keeps the invariant that matters absolutely (no entry is ever recorded through a hop that was not already marked before the walk began) while making coverage self-healing: an install route the funnel misses costs one declined read, not a permanent loss. The refusal is not remembered, because marking bumps no validity and a negative entry would decline the pair for the life of the process. `class_prototype_object_root_store` looked like the place to mark the `Object.create` route and SIGSEGVs the suite: it holds a bare `proto_ptr` that it re-uses for an address-index rekey and a write barrier, so a mark that allocates leaves both stale. Any mark that allocates must be the last thing its caller does with the pointer. ## Measured `perf stat -x, -e instructions:u`, min of 3, fitted 200 k -> 5 M, two trees whose binaries `cmp` different, output identical to node on every row. Inheritance = fixture minus its own-read twin; the twins are unchanged to the instruction (`own1` 130.00, `ownm` 303.00, `ownpoly` 218.25). | fixture | #10834 | this | node | bun | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1-level `Object.create` | 278 | **226** | 2.1 | 0.4 | | 3-level chain | 296 | **226** | 0.1 | 0.8 | | class prototype | 286 | **236** | 0.0 | 0.5 | | method through the prototype | 282 | **232** | 0.7 | 0.6 | | 4 receiver shapes, one prototype | 370 | **319** | 4.0 | 0.4 | Still depth-independent: a three-level chain costs exactly what a one-level one costs, because the guard no longer has a length. That is the property the emitted sequence needs. Key-add churn with a live entry: 420 -> 368. `own1` 130.00 before and after. Over-invalidation of the GLOBAL counter, measured: a fixture that structurally mutates an UNRELATED marked prototype once per 64 inherited reads costs 710.91 per iteration against 710.92 for one that mutates the prototype being read. #10834's semantic-epoch check was already global, so the only event class this makes global that was not is a plain key add on an object used as a prototype. One invalidation costs one re-prime: 1494 - 356 = 1138 instructions. ## Tests `cargo test -p perry-runtime -- --test-threads=1`: 4136 passed, 0 failed. The coverage test is the one worth reading. It builds a receiver six ways — `setPrototypeOf` on a literal, `Object.create`, a class-default link, a class-evaluation link, two hops, and a key added to the prototype after the receiver exists — and asserts each read is SERVED BY THE CACHE, because a cache that declines everything returns exactly the values the chain walk would and is invisible in a program's output. Its first version shared ONE prototype across all six styles, so five of them were marked by the first and passed vacuously; giving each style its own prototype turned it red immediately. Each style now gets a fresh prototype. Plus: an unmarked prototype is refused rather than cached; the three invalidation controls from #10842's first revision (mark/hook, class-surface bump, semantic-epoch fold); and the 27 cache tests, the two GC root tests and the differential fixture against node. Hit evidence, from compiled programs with enough misses elsewhere to make `PERRY_IC_DIAG` dump: `hits=25811149 primes=1 declines=1` for a one-level chain and `hits=26087239 primes=1 declines=3` for a three-level one — exactly one mark-and-abandon per hop, then steady hits.
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1039-1039: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winDecouple the hook B gate from the diagnostics flag.
miss_reasonis only narrowed toR::NonObjectGcType/R::ObjectIrregularinside theif diagblock at Lines 902-910. With diagnostics off it keeps its initialR::NotOwnvalue, so hook B callsinherited_read_cache_primefor non-object and irregular receivers. WithPERRY_IC_DIAGarmed the same receivers skip priming. The returned value stays correct becauseinherited_read_cache_walkre-proves the kind, but the decline counters, negative-entry recording, and per-read cost differ between the two builds. That makes a diagnostic run unrepresentative of the path this PR measures.Track the eligibility fact separately from the diagnostic reason.
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… one flags word replaces two registry probes Two stages of the same change, in one commit because the second cannot compile without the first: both facts live in the same word, and that word had to move before either was safe. ## Stage (i): the per-hop walk becomes one compare #10834 re-proves a cached inherited read with one ShapeId compare per hop, up to four dependent loads through prototype objects that are usually cold. It is proportional to the DEPTH of the chain, and it is a LOOP, so the hit can only ever live behind a call: an emitted property-read site cannot branch on a variable number of compares. The root cause is that a mutation of an object somebody INHERITS from is invisible to the objects below it. This is V8's prototype validity cell, collapsed to one global counter (`object::proto_validity`): * An object is MARKED (`OBJECT_META_FLAG_IS_PROTOTYPE`) by the `[[Prototype]]` install funnel, and the read cache REFUSES to record a hop that is not already marked. * Every shape-word CHANGE on a marked object bumps the counter, hooked at `stamp_object_shape_id_with_carrier_note` — the runtime's single structural-mutation publication funnel, which its own header already names as such. * `prop_plan_epoch_bump` and `class_lookup_surface_gen_bump` bump the same word, so it also stands for everything the semantic property epoch stands for, and for a re-registered class prototype object. A plain value store to an existing key deliberately does not invalidate: an entry records (holder, slot) and LOADS the value on every hit. ## Stage (ii): two registry probes become one bit A cached hit asked `is_arguments_object` (14.0 instructions) and `is_process_env_ptr` (5.0), both address-keyed registry probes, on every read. `OBJECT_META_FLAG_EXOTIC_READ_RECEIVER` is a per-object summary of both, set inside each registry's single writer in the same breath as the insert, and it sits in a word the hit path already loads — beside `elements`, which folds in too. Each probe keeps a `debug_assert` that a registry hit implies the flag, so an insert that skips the mark fails those suites loudly. Decisively for the next stage: an emitted read sequence could not have called either probe at all. ## The word these flags live in, and the one they do not Both started in `GcHeader::_reserved`, on the claim in that file's `OBJ_FLAG_*` block that bits 12..13 were "the last free bits". **They are not free.** `gc/layout.rs` owns 12 (`GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT`), 13 (`GC_LAYOUT_ALL_POINTERS`) and 14..15 (`GC_LAYOUT_STATE_MASK`) in a separate constant namespace in a different file, and `set_layout_state` CLEARS bit 13 on every layout-state change. A mark placed there is not merely shared, it is silently ERASED — so the reader answers `false` for an object the writer marked, the invalidation never fires, and a cached entry returns a stale value. Found by measuring: claiming bit 12 regressed the `Object.create` fixtures from 383 to 1533 instructions per read, because those receivers all carry `GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT`. That regression is what sent me to read `gc/layout.rs` and find bit 13 under the mark this PR had already shipped. Both facts now live in `ObjectMeta::flags` bits 5 and 6, verified against #8690's reservation comment and every reader in the tree. It is the better home, not a worse one: the hit path already loads `meta`, so the facts cost the hit nothing, and nothing in the layout machinery can reach them. This commit also installs the complete `_reserved` bit map — both namespaces, one table — on `OBJ_FLAG_RESERVED_BIT_MAP_SEE_DOC` in `gc/types.rs`, and points `gc/layout.rs` at it. #8690 hit the same trap and left its warning in `ObjectMeta::flags`' doc comment, which is not a file anyone reads when spending a header bit. ## The polarity, and why the cache still marks The install funnel marks; the cache refuses an unmarked hop. When the prime meets one it marks it and ABANDONS the walk without recording anything — marking allocates a meta record, which can move `obj`, `next` and every address in `hops` — and the next read of that pair primes normally. That keeps the invariant that matters absolutely (no entry is ever recorded through a hop that was not already marked before the walk began) while making coverage self-healing: an install route the funnel misses costs one declined read, not a permanent loss. The refusal is not remembered, because marking bumps no validity and a negative entry would decline the pair for the life of the process. `class_prototype_object_root_store` looked like the place to mark the `Object.create` route and SIGSEGVs the suite: it holds a bare `proto_ptr` that it re-uses for an address-index rekey and a write barrier, so a mark that allocates leaves both stale. Any mark that allocates must be the last thing its caller does with the pointer. ## Measured `perf stat -x, -e instructions:u`, min of 3, fitted 200 k -> 5 M, two trees whose binaries `cmp` different, output identical to node on every row. Inheritance = fixture minus its own-read twin; the twins are unchanged to the instruction (`own1` 130.00, `ownm` 303.00, `ownpoly` 218.25). | fixture | #10834 | this | node | bun | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1-level `Object.create` | 278 | **226** | 2.1 | 0.4 | | 3-level chain | 296 | **226** | 0.1 | 0.8 | | class prototype | 286 | **236** | 0.0 | 0.5 | | method through the prototype | 282 | **232** | 0.7 | 0.6 | | 4 receiver shapes, one prototype | 370 | **319** | 4.0 | 0.4 | Still depth-independent: a three-level chain costs exactly what a one-level one costs, because the guard no longer has a length. That is the property the emitted sequence needs. Key-add churn with a live entry: 420 -> 368. `own1` 130.00 before and after. Over-invalidation of the GLOBAL counter, measured: a fixture that structurally mutates an UNRELATED marked prototype once per 64 inherited reads costs 710.91 per iteration against 710.92 for one that mutates the prototype being read. #10834's semantic-epoch check was already global, so the only event class this makes global that was not is a plain key add on an object used as a prototype. One invalidation costs one re-prime: 1494 - 356 = 1138 instructions. ## Tests `cargo test -p perry-runtime -- --test-threads=1`: 4136 passed, 0 failed. The coverage test is the one worth reading. It builds a receiver six ways — `setPrototypeOf` on a literal, `Object.create`, a class-default link, a class-evaluation link, two hops, and a key added to the prototype after the receiver exists — and asserts each read is SERVED BY THE CACHE, because a cache that declines everything returns exactly the values the chain walk would and is invisible in a program's output. Its first version shared ONE prototype across all six styles, so five of them were marked by the first and passed vacuously; giving each style its own prototype turned it red immediately. Each style now gets a fresh prototype. Plus: an unmarked prototype is refused rather than cached; the three invalidation controls from #10842's first revision (mark/hook, class-surface bump, semantic-epoch fold); and the 27 cache tests, the two GC root tests and the differential fixture against node. Hit evidence, from compiled programs with enough misses elsewhere to make `PERRY_IC_DIAG` dump: `hits=25811149 primes=1 declines=1` for a one-level chain and `hits=26087239 primes=1 declines=3` for a three-level one — exactly one mark-and-abandon per hop, then steady hits.
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…er-primed edge, before calling out A read whose key lives on the prototype chain is never an own slot on the receiver's shape, so a site that only reads such a key never resolves its per-site cache, and every read of it reaches pic.token.ways with `present` false. That edge used to go straight to the exit, where the read paid the slow entry's prologue and dispatch (79 of an inherited read's 204 instructions, measured by the inherited-reads lane) just to reach the same lookup inside get_field_ic_miss_impl. It now asks js_inherited_read_cache_hit_f64(masked receiver, interned key) first (#10834/#10842's cache); TAG_HOLE is its decline sentinel, so the answer is one compare with the served edge as the true edge, and a decline continues to the one exit exactly as before. Nothing primes from emitted code. The call is a pure state read: declared in runtime_decls, a leaf in gc_call_effects and root_reload, and in the dominance checker's NONCOLLECTING set. Placement, measured: asking on every path into the exit charged each own-key miss a declining probe (+88 per read on a 64-shape site, +89 on a spill read). The never-primed edge is the one only an inherited-only site takes, so every other path is unchanged to the instruction. Typed-feedback builds keep the old edge, so their record edges stay byte-identical. The full-outline twin deliberately does not get the hook: it is already inside the runtime, and its miss handler asks the same cache first.
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Reframing, and a correction to a hypothesis about this PR. #10834 is live in main and inherited reads are slower than before it — 1600 vs 1525 on eight It was suggested this PR is what repairs that. It is not, and I want that on the record before anyone defers the actual fix. I measured this branch directly on the regressing fixtures:
This branch brings the eight-receiver case back to roughly cache-off parity and leaves the keyless case +78 worse than no cache at all. Its counters on those fixtures are still The regression has two causes and both are inside #10834, not in anything missing from here:
Both are fixed in #10860, off What this PR is worth, measured on its own fixtures and unchanged by the above: marginal inheritance 278 → 204, depth-independent (a 3-hop chain now costs what a 1-hop chain costs), own reads identical to the instruction. Those numbers stand — and #10860 and this PR compose: with both, the regressing fixtures measure 404 and 341 rather than 494 and 427. |
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Re-measured on fixtures without the own-property mutation, since that detail turned out to route past both of #10834's defects and every fixture in this lane inherited it. All four arms on ONE base (v0.5.1621), min of 3, fitted 500 k → 5 M, output identical to node on every row:
−74 per read on the shapes real code has — the same as the −74 measured as marginal inheritance on the own-key shape (278 → 204). The mechanism generalises even though the original validation did not. Depth-independence survives the fixture correction and is sharper on the real shape:
A keyless 3-level chain costs 2442 instructions per read on main today. #10860 takes it to 432 with a small residual depth cost, because #10834's per-hop ShapeId compares are still there. This PR removes the residue exactly — 340 at three hops against 341 at one — which is the one thing the validity word was built to do, and it shows up more clearly here than on the fixtures it was designed against. Review order: #10860 first. It is smaller, unstacked, off |
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…er-primed edge, before calling out A read whose key lives on the prototype chain is never an own slot on the receiver's shape, so a site that only reads such a key never resolves its per-site cache, and every read of it reaches pic.token.ways with `present` false. That edge used to go straight to the exit, where the read paid the slow entry's prologue and dispatch (79 of an inherited read's 204 instructions, measured by the inherited-reads lane) just to reach the same lookup inside get_field_ic_miss_impl. It now asks js_inherited_read_cache_hit_f64(masked receiver, interned key) first (#10834/#10842's cache); TAG_HOLE is its decline sentinel, so the answer is one compare with the served edge as the true edge, and a decline continues to the one exit exactly as before. Nothing primes from emitted code. The call is a pure state read: declared in runtime_decls, a leaf in gc_call_effects and root_reload, and in the dominance checker's NONCOLLECTING set. Placement, measured: asking on every path into the exit charged each own-key miss a declining probe (+88 per read on a 64-shape site, +89 on a spill read). The never-primed edge is the one only an inherited-only site takes, so every other path is unchanged to the instruction. Typed-feedback builds keep the old edge, so their record edges stay byte-identical. The full-outline twin deliberately does not get the hook: it is already inside the runtime, and its miss handler asks the same cache first.
… one flags word replaces two registry probes Two stages of the same change, in one commit because the second cannot compile without the first: both facts live in the same word, and that word had to move before either was safe. ## Stage (i): the per-hop walk becomes one compare #10834 re-proves a cached inherited read with one ShapeId compare per hop, up to four dependent loads through prototype objects that are usually cold. It is proportional to the DEPTH of the chain, and it is a LOOP, so the hit can only ever live behind a call: an emitted property-read site cannot branch on a variable number of compares. The root cause is that a mutation of an object somebody INHERITS from is invisible to the objects below it. This is V8's prototype validity cell, collapsed to one global counter (`object::proto_validity`): * An object is MARKED (`OBJECT_META_FLAG_IS_PROTOTYPE`) by the `[[Prototype]]` install funnel, and the read cache REFUSES to record a hop that is not already marked. * Every shape-word CHANGE on a marked object bumps the counter, hooked at `stamp_object_shape_id_with_carrier_note` — the runtime's single structural-mutation publication funnel, which its own header already names as such. * `prop_plan_epoch_bump` and `class_lookup_surface_gen_bump` bump the same word, so it also stands for everything the semantic property epoch stands for, and for a re-registered class prototype object. A plain value store to an existing key deliberately does not invalidate: an entry records (holder, slot) and LOADS the value on every hit. ## Stage (ii): two registry probes become one bit A cached hit asked `is_arguments_object` (14.0 instructions) and `is_process_env_ptr` (5.0), both address-keyed registry probes, on every read. `OBJECT_META_FLAG_EXOTIC_READ_RECEIVER` is a per-object summary of both, set inside each registry's single writer in the same breath as the insert, and it sits in a word the hit path already loads — beside `elements`, which folds in too. Each probe keeps a `debug_assert` that a registry hit implies the flag, so an insert that skips the mark fails those suites loudly. Decisively for the next stage: an emitted read sequence could not have called either probe at all. ## The word these flags live in, and the one they do not Both started in `GcHeader::_reserved`, on the claim in that file's `OBJ_FLAG_*` block that bits 12..13 were "the last free bits". **They are not free.** `gc/layout.rs` owns 12 (`GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT`), 13 (`GC_LAYOUT_ALL_POINTERS`) and 14..15 (`GC_LAYOUT_STATE_MASK`) in a separate constant namespace in a different file, and `set_layout_state` CLEARS bit 13 on every layout-state change. A mark placed there is not merely shared, it is silently ERASED — so the reader answers `false` for an object the writer marked, the invalidation never fires, and a cached entry returns a stale value. Found by measuring: claiming bit 12 regressed the `Object.create` fixtures from 383 to 1533 instructions per read, because those receivers all carry `GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT`. That regression is what sent me to read `gc/layout.rs` and find bit 13 under the mark this PR had already shipped. Both facts now live in `ObjectMeta::flags` bits 5 and 6, verified against #8690's reservation comment and every reader in the tree. It is the better home, not a worse one: the hit path already loads `meta`, so the facts cost the hit nothing, and nothing in the layout machinery can reach them. This commit also installs the complete `_reserved` bit map — both namespaces, one table — on `OBJ_FLAG_RESERVED_BIT_MAP_SEE_DOC` in `gc/types.rs`, and points `gc/layout.rs` at it. #8690 hit the same trap and left its warning in `ObjectMeta::flags`' doc comment, which is not a file anyone reads when spending a header bit. ## The polarity, and why the cache still marks The install funnel marks; the cache refuses an unmarked hop. When the prime meets one it marks it and ABANDONS the walk without recording anything — marking allocates a meta record, which can move `obj`, `next` and every address in `hops` — and the next read of that pair primes normally. That keeps the invariant that matters absolutely (no entry is ever recorded through a hop that was not already marked before the walk began) while making coverage self-healing: an install route the funnel misses costs one declined read, not a permanent loss. The refusal is not remembered, because marking bumps no validity and a negative entry would decline the pair for the life of the process. `class_prototype_object_root_store` looked like the place to mark the `Object.create` route and SIGSEGVs the suite: it holds a bare `proto_ptr` that it re-uses for an address-index rekey and a write barrier, so a mark that allocates leaves both stale. Any mark that allocates must be the last thing its caller does with the pointer. ## Measured `perf stat -x, -e instructions:u`, min of 3, fitted 200 k -> 5 M, two trees whose binaries `cmp` different, output identical to node on every row. Inheritance = fixture minus its own-read twin; the twins are unchanged to the instruction (`own1` 130.00, `ownm` 303.00, `ownpoly` 218.25). | fixture | #10834 | this | node | bun | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1-level `Object.create` | 278 | **226** | 2.1 | 0.4 | | 3-level chain | 296 | **226** | 0.1 | 0.8 | | class prototype | 286 | **236** | 0.0 | 0.5 | | method through the prototype | 282 | **232** | 0.7 | 0.6 | | 4 receiver shapes, one prototype | 370 | **319** | 4.0 | 0.4 | Still depth-independent: a three-level chain costs exactly what a one-level one costs, because the guard no longer has a length. That is the property the emitted sequence needs. Key-add churn with a live entry: 420 -> 368. `own1` 130.00 before and after. Over-invalidation of the GLOBAL counter, measured: a fixture that structurally mutates an UNRELATED marked prototype once per 64 inherited reads costs 710.91 per iteration against 710.92 for one that mutates the prototype being read. #10834's semantic-epoch check was already global, so the only event class this makes global that was not is a plain key add on an object used as a prototype. One invalidation costs one re-prime: 1494 - 356 = 1138 instructions. ## Tests `cargo test -p perry-runtime -- --test-threads=1`: 4136 passed, 0 failed. The coverage test is the one worth reading. It builds a receiver six ways — `setPrototypeOf` on a literal, `Object.create`, a class-default link, a class-evaluation link, two hops, and a key added to the prototype after the receiver exists — and asserts each read is SERVED BY THE CACHE, because a cache that declines everything returns exactly the values the chain walk would and is invisible in a program's output. Its first version shared ONE prototype across all six styles, so five of them were marked by the first and passed vacuously; giving each style its own prototype turned it red immediately. Each style now gets a fresh prototype. Plus: an unmarked prototype is refused rather than cached; the three invalidation controls from #10842's first revision (mark/hook, class-surface bump, semantic-epoch fold); and the 27 cache tests, the two GC root tests and the differential fixture against node. Hit evidence, from compiled programs with enough misses elsewhere to make `PERRY_IC_DIAG` dump: `hits=25811149 primes=1 declines=1` for a one-level chain and `hits=26087239 primes=1 declines=3` for a three-level one — exactly one mark-and-abandon per hop, then steady hits.
…c-resource registry `get_field_ic_miss_impl` asked `is_async_resource_handle(obj)` before the inherited-read cache could answer. Once that registry's latch is armed — which anything creating one `AsyncResource` does, for the life of the process — the probe is a thread-local registry lookup costing 16.0 instructions per call (callgrind, `--separate-callers=1`), and it ran on EVERY inherited read whether or not the cache could serve it. The lookup moves above it. It cannot be confused by an async resource handle: those are `Box::into_raw` native allocations outside the GC arena, so their word at payload +4 is the high half of a small counter rather than a live ShapeId, `object_shape_stamp` answers 0, and the lookup returns `Unknown` about ten instructions later without dereferencing anything further. Nothing that was below the probe moves, and the async-resource dispatch itself is unchanged. Measured (`perf stat -x, -e instructions:u`, min of 3, fitted 200 k -> 5 M, two trees, binaries `cmp` different, output identical to node on every row): | fixture | before | after | |---|---|---| | 1-level `Object.create` | 356 | **334** | | 3-level chain | 356 | **334** | | class prototype | 366 | **344** | | method through the prototype | 535 | **513** | | 4 shapes, one prototype | 537.75 | **515.75** | | key-add churn, live entry | 368 | **346** | -22 on every inherited row and **0.00 on every own-read row** — `own1` 130.00, `ownm` 303.00, `ownpoly` 218.25, all unchanged to the instruction, because an own read reached the probe before this change and reaches it after. This also documents, at the one read that depends on it, why the identity load at payload +0/+4 is safe on the three pointer-tagged values that #10828's rule 3 does NOT cover — `SymbolHeader`, `AsyncHookHandle` and `AsyncResourceHandle` are `Box::into_raw` allocations outside the GC kind table. Two are safe by construction (`registered` is 0 or 1; `index`'s high half is zero). The third, `AsyncResourceHandle.ids.async_id`, is safe only by MAGNITUDE — its high half is zero until a process creates 2^32 async resources — which is the same class of argument #10824 refused for buffer capacities. It is not load-bearing: `is_shape_id`'s range test rejects the word either way, and an emitted guard keeps that protection for free because a site's expected ShapeId is always in [0x8000_0000, 0xC000_0000). Anyone dropping that range test would be resting on the magnitude argument, and should say so. `cargo test -p perry-runtime -- --test-threads=1`: 4136 passed, 0 failed.
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…er-primed edge, before calling out A read whose key lives on the prototype chain is never an own slot on the receiver's shape, so a site that only reads such a key never resolves its per-site cache, and every read of it reaches pic.token.ways with `present` false. That edge used to go straight to the exit, where the read paid the slow entry's prologue and dispatch (79 of an inherited read's 204 instructions, measured by the inherited-reads lane) just to reach the same lookup inside get_field_ic_miss_impl. It now asks js_inherited_read_cache_hit_f64(masked receiver, interned key) first (#10834/#10842's cache); TAG_HOLE is its decline sentinel, so the answer is one compare with the served edge as the true edge, and a decline continues to the one exit exactly as before. Nothing primes from emitted code. The call is a pure state read: declared in runtime_decls, a leaf in gc_call_effects and root_reload, and in the dominance checker's NONCOLLECTING set. Placement, measured: asking on every path into the exit charged each own-key miss a declining probe (+88 per read on a 64-shape site, +89 on a spill read). The never-primed edge is the one only an inherited-only site takes, so every other path is unchanged to the instruction. Typed-feedback builds keep the old edge, so their record edges stay byte-identical. The full-outline twin deliberately does not get the hook: it is already inside the runtime, and its miss handler asks the same cache first.
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Rebased onto current main (which now carries #10860) and the numbers re-taken, not assumed. Also built own-read twins for the untainted fixtures, so these are finally marginal rather than absolute. The twin shadows the key on the same receiver rather than using a different receiver kind — same Min of 3, fitted 500 k → 5 M, two trees, binaries
Two things worth separating: The own twins are identical across both arms — 129/129, 129/129, 195/195, to the instruction. This PR costs an own read nothing, now measured on shapes that do not hide anything. Marginal inheritance is 224 / 225 / 225 — independent of chain depth and of receiver count, where main is 298 / 317 / 299. Three shapes that differ in every other respect, one number. That is the validity word doing the single thing it exists for. Rebase was conflict-free. Tests: 31 in the inherited-read suite, 0 failures (main has 25). The counter behaviour is the predicted one — Two pre-existing failures on main reproduce identically on this branch and are not from it: a SIGABRT in |
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Decline unmarked hops without marking them. mark_object_as_prototype(next_addr) can allocate metadata and relocate heap objects. The cache walk returns immediately, but its caller continues with the raw obj pointer and passes it to the generic getter without refreshing it. Remove the fallback mark and return None. Also remove the warm-up in inherited_read_cache_tests.rs:526-528 so the first prime must succeed, which exposes prototype-install paths that fail to mark their prototypes.
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789, Update the cache-walk logic around the unmarked-hop check to return None
immediately without calling mark_object_as_prototype(next_addr), preserving the
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… one flags word replaces two registry probes Two stages of the same change, in one commit because the second cannot compile without the first: both facts live in the same word, and that word had to move before either was safe. ## Stage (i): the per-hop walk becomes one compare #10834 re-proves a cached inherited read with one ShapeId compare per hop, up to four dependent loads through prototype objects that are usually cold. It is proportional to the DEPTH of the chain, and it is a LOOP, so the hit can only ever live behind a call: an emitted property-read site cannot branch on a variable number of compares. The root cause is that a mutation of an object somebody INHERITS from is invisible to the objects below it. This is V8's prototype validity cell, collapsed to one global counter (`object::proto_validity`): * An object is MARKED (`OBJECT_META_FLAG_IS_PROTOTYPE`) by the `[[Prototype]]` install funnel, and the read cache REFUSES to record a hop that is not already marked. * Every shape-word CHANGE on a marked object bumps the counter, hooked at `stamp_object_shape_id_with_carrier_note` — the runtime's single structural-mutation publication funnel, which its own header already names as such. * `prop_plan_epoch_bump` and `class_lookup_surface_gen_bump` bump the same word, so it also stands for everything the semantic property epoch stands for, and for a re-registered class prototype object. A plain value store to an existing key deliberately does not invalidate: an entry records (holder, slot) and LOADS the value on every hit. ## Stage (ii): two registry probes become one bit A cached hit asked `is_arguments_object` (14.0 instructions) and `is_process_env_ptr` (5.0), both address-keyed registry probes, on every read. `OBJECT_META_FLAG_EXOTIC_READ_RECEIVER` is a per-object summary of both, set inside each registry's single writer in the same breath as the insert, and it sits in a word the hit path already loads — beside `elements`, which folds in too. Each probe keeps a `debug_assert` that a registry hit implies the flag, so an insert that skips the mark fails those suites loudly. Decisively for the next stage: an emitted read sequence could not have called either probe at all. ## The word these flags live in, and the one they do not Both started in `GcHeader::_reserved`, on the claim in that file's `OBJ_FLAG_*` block that bits 12..13 were "the last free bits". **They are not free.** `gc/layout.rs` owns 12 (`GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT`), 13 (`GC_LAYOUT_ALL_POINTERS`) and 14..15 (`GC_LAYOUT_STATE_MASK`) in a separate constant namespace in a different file, and `set_layout_state` CLEARS bit 13 on every layout-state change. A mark placed there is not merely shared, it is silently ERASED — so the reader answers `false` for an object the writer marked, the invalidation never fires, and a cached entry returns a stale value. Found by measuring: claiming bit 12 regressed the `Object.create` fixtures from 383 to 1533 instructions per read, because those receivers all carry `GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT`. That regression is what sent me to read `gc/layout.rs` and find bit 13 under the mark this PR had already shipped. Both facts now live in `ObjectMeta::flags` bits 5 and 6, verified against #8690's reservation comment and every reader in the tree. It is the better home, not a worse one: the hit path already loads `meta`, so the facts cost the hit nothing, and nothing in the layout machinery can reach them. This commit also installs the complete `_reserved` bit map — both namespaces, one table — on `OBJ_FLAG_RESERVED_BIT_MAP_SEE_DOC` in `gc/types.rs`, and points `gc/layout.rs` at it. #8690 hit the same trap and left its warning in `ObjectMeta::flags`' doc comment, which is not a file anyone reads when spending a header bit. ## The polarity, and why the cache still marks The install funnel marks; the cache refuses an unmarked hop. When the prime meets one it marks it and ABANDONS the walk without recording anything — marking allocates a meta record, which can move `obj`, `next` and every address in `hops` — and the next read of that pair primes normally. That keeps the invariant that matters absolutely (no entry is ever recorded through a hop that was not already marked before the walk began) while making coverage self-healing: an install route the funnel misses costs one declined read, not a permanent loss. The refusal is not remembered, because marking bumps no validity and a negative entry would decline the pair for the life of the process. `class_prototype_object_root_store` looked like the place to mark the `Object.create` route and SIGSEGVs the suite: it holds a bare `proto_ptr` that it re-uses for an address-index rekey and a write barrier, so a mark that allocates leaves both stale. Any mark that allocates must be the last thing its caller does with the pointer. ## Measured `perf stat -x, -e instructions:u`, min of 3, fitted 200 k -> 5 M, two trees whose binaries `cmp` different, output identical to node on every row. Inheritance = fixture minus its own-read twin; the twins are unchanged to the instruction (`own1` 130.00, `ownm` 303.00, `ownpoly` 218.25). | fixture | #10834 | this | node | bun | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1-level `Object.create` | 278 | **226** | 2.1 | 0.4 | | 3-level chain | 296 | **226** | 0.1 | 0.8 | | class prototype | 286 | **236** | 0.0 | 0.5 | | method through the prototype | 282 | **232** | 0.7 | 0.6 | | 4 receiver shapes, one prototype | 370 | **319** | 4.0 | 0.4 | Still depth-independent: a three-level chain costs exactly what a one-level one costs, because the guard no longer has a length. That is the property the emitted sequence needs. Key-add churn with a live entry: 420 -> 368. `own1` 130.00 before and after. Over-invalidation of the GLOBAL counter, measured: a fixture that structurally mutates an UNRELATED marked prototype once per 64 inherited reads costs 710.91 per iteration against 710.92 for one that mutates the prototype being read. #10834's semantic-epoch check was already global, so the only event class this makes global that was not is a plain key add on an object used as a prototype. One invalidation costs one re-prime: 1494 - 356 = 1138 instructions. ## Tests `cargo test -p perry-runtime -- --test-threads=1`: 4136 passed, 0 failed. The coverage test is the one worth reading. It builds a receiver six ways — `setPrototypeOf` on a literal, `Object.create`, a class-default link, a class-evaluation link, two hops, and a key added to the prototype after the receiver exists — and asserts each read is SERVED BY THE CACHE, because a cache that declines everything returns exactly the values the chain walk would and is invisible in a program's output. Its first version shared ONE prototype across all six styles, so five of them were marked by the first and passed vacuously; giving each style its own prototype turned it red immediately. Each style now gets a fresh prototype. Plus: an unmarked prototype is refused rather than cached; the three invalidation controls from #10842's first revision (mark/hook, class-surface bump, semantic-epoch fold); and the 27 cache tests, the two GC root tests and the differential fixture against node. Hit evidence, from compiled programs with enough misses elsewhere to make `PERRY_IC_DIAG` dump: `hits=25811149 primes=1 declines=1` for a one-level chain and `hits=26087239 primes=1 declines=3` for a three-level one — exactly one mark-and-abandon per hop, then steady hits. (cherry picked from commit e3fdbb8)
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…er-primed edge, before calling out A read whose key lives on the prototype chain is never an own slot on the receiver's shape, so a site that only reads such a key never resolves its per-site cache, and every read of it reaches pic.token.ways with `present` false. That edge used to go straight to the exit, where the read paid the slow entry's prologue and dispatch (79 of an inherited read's 204 instructions, measured by the inherited-reads lane) just to reach the same lookup inside get_field_ic_miss_impl. It now asks js_inherited_read_cache_hit_f64(masked receiver, interned key) first (#10834/#10842's cache); TAG_HOLE is its decline sentinel, so the answer is one compare with the served edge as the true edge, and a decline continues to the one exit exactly as before. Nothing primes from emitted code. The call is a pure state read: declared in runtime_decls, a leaf in gc_call_effects and root_reload, and in the dominance checker's NONCOLLECTING set. Placement, measured: asking on every path into the exit charged each own-key miss a declining probe (+88 per read on a 64-shape site, +89 on a spill read). The never-primed edge is the one only an inherited-only site takes, so every other path is unchanged to the instruction. Typed-feedback builds keep the old edge, so their record edges stay byte-identical. The full-outline twin deliberately does not get the hook: it is already inside the runtime, and its miss handler asks the same cache first. (cherry picked from commit 2101c18)
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- object/mod.rs 2030 -> 1979 via an ObjectMeta::flags split (meta_flags.rs) - prototype_chain.rs's new hand-typed handle floor routed through addr_class::is_above_handle_band rather than ratcheting the baseline - two -D warnings failures: an unnecessary unsafe, and non_snake_case on #10846's test name (renamed; emphasis moved to a comment)
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…layer 2, step 1)
Runtime half only; no lowering site consults it yet, so this commit changes no
behaviour. Split out so a half-finished state is a handover rather than a loss.
`js_receiver_may_own_named_method(recv, name)` is the condition of a diamond
the CALLER emits: 0 takes the direct builtin call, 1 takes the universal
method dispatcher. It only ever chooses a branch. It deliberately does NOT
resolve the property and call it — an own slot can hold a builtin thunk that
dispatches by name again, and the previous attempt at this fix did exactly
that and overflowed the stack on
`test_bound_timer_dispatch_roots_args_during_async_hook_init_gc`. A
fail-closed answer may decline a fast path; it may not substitute an action of
its own.
It never answers 0 for anything it cannot prove. A wrong 0 is a silent wrong
value; a wrong 1 is only slower.
Three tiers, cheapest first:
* a primitive receiver, or no readable GC header -> 0 / 1 respectively;
* an ARRAY is answered exactly off the cell, with no global consulted:
`GC_ARRAY_NAMED_PROPS` already records this fact and is already monotonic;
* everything else consults one relaxed load of a process-global arm, and
only if it is set does the authoritative `js_object_has_own` run.
Why a global arm and not a per-cell bit: `GcHeader::_reserved` has no free
bits (`gc/types.rs`'s map says so, and bits 12/13 are actively ERASED by
`set_layout_state` — #8690 and #10842 each lost a flag there). Map/Set/Date/
RegExp keep own named properties in a per-thread side table, so there is no
per-cell bit to read and their `ObjectMeta` is usually null, which would mean
materialising a record to read an almost-always-clear flag. The global is the
`accessors_in_use` idiom the read path already uses.
The arm is set-only and over-approximating, both on purpose. Set-only because
clearing on delete would reopen delete-then-shadow, exactly as
`GC_ARRAY_NAMED_PROPS` is monotonic. Over-approximating because it is armed at
the TOP of `field_set_by_name`'s exotic-store gauntlet, above that gauntlet's
per-kind branches: there is no single install funnel down there — buffers,
stream handles and the meta/expando paths each store their own way — and a
missed installer is the same silent wrong value. Arming early covers every
kind including ones added later, and a spurious arm costs only the slow side.
Named keys only; an index write is not a method shadow.
`object_ops::has_own` becomes `pub(crate)` so the guard can ask the predicate
behind `Object.hasOwn` rather than re-deriving own-ness from a shape
descriptor — which is what fails here, since a Map/Set/Array cell's `+4` word
is `capacity` and not a ShapeId.
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…layer 2, step 1)
Runtime half only; no lowering site consults it yet, so this commit changes no
behaviour. Split out so a half-finished state is a handover rather than a loss.
`js_receiver_may_own_named_method(recv, name)` is the condition of a diamond
the CALLER emits: 0 takes the direct builtin call, 1 takes the universal
method dispatcher. It only ever chooses a branch. It deliberately does NOT
resolve the property and call it — an own slot can hold a builtin thunk that
dispatches by name again, and the previous attempt at this fix did exactly
that and overflowed the stack on
`test_bound_timer_dispatch_roots_args_during_async_hook_init_gc`. A
fail-closed answer may decline a fast path; it may not substitute an action of
its own.
It never answers 0 for anything it cannot prove. A wrong 0 is a silent wrong
value; a wrong 1 is only slower.
Three tiers, cheapest first:
* a primitive receiver, or no readable GC header -> 0 / 1 respectively;
* an ARRAY is answered exactly off the cell, with no global consulted:
`GC_ARRAY_NAMED_PROPS` already records this fact and is already monotonic;
* everything else consults one relaxed load of a process-global arm, and
only if it is set does the authoritative `js_object_has_own` run.
Why a global arm and not a per-cell bit: `GcHeader::_reserved` has no free
bits (`gc/types.rs`'s map says so, and bits 12/13 are actively ERASED by
`set_layout_state` — #8690 and #10842 each lost a flag there). Map/Set/Date/
RegExp keep own named properties in a per-thread side table, so there is no
per-cell bit to read and their `ObjectMeta` is usually null, which would mean
materialising a record to read an almost-always-clear flag. The global is the
`accessors_in_use` idiom the read path already uses.
The arm is set-only and over-approximating, both on purpose. Set-only because
clearing on delete would reopen delete-then-shadow, exactly as
`GC_ARRAY_NAMED_PROPS` is monotonic. Over-approximating because it is armed at
the TOP of `field_set_by_name`'s exotic-store gauntlet, above that gauntlet's
per-kind branches: there is no single install funnel down there — buffers,
stream handles and the meta/expando paths each store their own way — and a
missed installer is the same silent wrong value. Arming early covers every
kind including ones added later, and a spurious arm costs only the slow side.
Named keys only; an index write is not a method shadow.
`object_ops::has_own` becomes `pub(crate)` so the guard can ask the predicate
behind `Object.hasOwn` rather than re-deriving own-ness from a shape
descriptor — which is what fails here, since a Map/Set/Array cell's `+4` word
is `capacity` and not a ShapeId.
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…layer 2, step 1)
Runtime half only; no lowering site consults it yet, so this commit changes no
behaviour. Split out so a half-finished state is a handover rather than a loss.
`js_receiver_may_own_named_method(recv, name)` is the condition of a diamond
the CALLER emits: 0 takes the direct builtin call, 1 takes the universal
method dispatcher. It only ever chooses a branch. It deliberately does NOT
resolve the property and call it — an own slot can hold a builtin thunk that
dispatches by name again, and the previous attempt at this fix did exactly
that and overflowed the stack on
`test_bound_timer_dispatch_roots_args_during_async_hook_init_gc`. A
fail-closed answer may decline a fast path; it may not substitute an action of
its own.
It never answers 0 for anything it cannot prove. A wrong 0 is a silent wrong
value; a wrong 1 is only slower.
Three tiers, cheapest first:
* a primitive receiver, or no readable GC header -> 0 / 1 respectively;
* an ARRAY is answered exactly off the cell, with no global consulted:
`GC_ARRAY_NAMED_PROPS` already records this fact and is already monotonic;
* everything else consults one relaxed load of a process-global arm, and
only if it is set does the authoritative `js_object_has_own` run.
Why a global arm and not a per-cell bit: `GcHeader::_reserved` has no free
bits (`gc/types.rs`'s map says so, and bits 12/13 are actively ERASED by
`set_layout_state` — #8690 and #10842 each lost a flag there). Map/Set/Date/
RegExp keep own named properties in a per-thread side table, so there is no
per-cell bit to read and their `ObjectMeta` is usually null, which would mean
materialising a record to read an almost-always-clear flag. The global is the
`accessors_in_use` idiom the read path already uses.
The arm is set-only and over-approximating, both on purpose. Set-only because
clearing on delete would reopen delete-then-shadow, exactly as
`GC_ARRAY_NAMED_PROPS` is monotonic. Over-approximating because it is armed at
the TOP of `field_set_by_name`'s exotic-store gauntlet, above that gauntlet's
per-kind branches: there is no single install funnel down there — buffers,
stream handles and the meta/expando paths each store their own way — and a
missed installer is the same silent wrong value. Arming early covers every
kind including ones added later, and a spurious arm costs only the slow side.
Named keys only; an index write is not a method shadow.
`object_ops::has_own` becomes `pub(crate)` so the guard can ask the predicate
behind `Object.hasOwn` rather than re-deriving own-ness from a shape
descriptor — which is what fails here, since a Map/Set/Array cell's `+4` word
is `capacity` and not a ShapeId.
(cherry picked from commit 49d72fa)
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…layer 2, step 1)
Runtime half only; no lowering site consults it yet, so this commit changes no
behaviour. Split out so a half-finished state is a handover rather than a loss.
`js_receiver_may_own_named_method(recv, name)` is the condition of a diamond
the CALLER emits: 0 takes the direct builtin call, 1 takes the universal
method dispatcher. It only ever chooses a branch. It deliberately does NOT
resolve the property and call it — an own slot can hold a builtin thunk that
dispatches by name again, and the previous attempt at this fix did exactly
that and overflowed the stack on
`test_bound_timer_dispatch_roots_args_during_async_hook_init_gc`. A
fail-closed answer may decline a fast path; it may not substitute an action of
its own.
It never answers 0 for anything it cannot prove. A wrong 0 is a silent wrong
value; a wrong 1 is only slower.
Three tiers, cheapest first:
* a primitive receiver, or no readable GC header -> 0 / 1 respectively;
* an ARRAY is answered exactly off the cell, with no global consulted:
`GC_ARRAY_NAMED_PROPS` already records this fact and is already monotonic;
* everything else consults one relaxed load of a process-global arm, and
only if it is set does the authoritative `js_object_has_own` run.
Why a global arm and not a per-cell bit: `GcHeader::_reserved` has no free
bits (`gc/types.rs`'s map says so, and bits 12/13 are actively ERASED by
`set_layout_state` — #8690 and #10842 each lost a flag there). Map/Set/Date/
RegExp keep own named properties in a per-thread side table, so there is no
per-cell bit to read and their `ObjectMeta` is usually null, which would mean
materialising a record to read an almost-always-clear flag. The global is the
`accessors_in_use` idiom the read path already uses.
The arm is set-only and over-approximating, both on purpose. Set-only because
clearing on delete would reopen delete-then-shadow, exactly as
`GC_ARRAY_NAMED_PROPS` is monotonic. Over-approximating because it is armed at
the TOP of `field_set_by_name`'s exotic-store gauntlet, above that gauntlet's
per-kind branches: there is no single install funnel down there — buffers,
stream handles and the meta/expando paths each store their own way — and a
missed installer is the same silent wrong value. Arming early covers every
kind including ones added later, and a spurious arm costs only the slow side.
Named keys only; an index write is not a method shadow.
`object_ops::has_own` becomes `pub(crate)` so the guard can ask the predicate
behind `Object.hasOwn` rather than re-deriving own-ness from a shape
descriptor — which is what fails here, since a Map/Set/Array cell's `+4` word
is `capacity` and not a ShapeId.
(cherry picked from commit 49d72fa)
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Stacked on #10834. Runtime only; no codegen edits. Supersedes this PR's first revision, which shipped a mark on a
GcHeaderbit that is not free — the analysis is in the comment above and the fix is below.perf(runtime): one validity word replaces the per-hop chain walk, and one flags word replaces two registry probes
Two stages of the same change, in one commit because the second cannot compile
without the first: both facts live in the same word, and that word had to move
before either was safe.
Stage (i): the per-hop walk becomes one compare
#10834 re-proves a cached inherited read with one ShapeId compare per hop, up
to four dependent loads through prototype objects that are usually cold. It is
proportional to the DEPTH of the chain, and it is a LOOP, so the hit can only
ever live behind a call: an emitted property-read site cannot branch on a
variable number of compares.
The root cause is that a mutation of an object somebody INHERITS from is
invisible to the objects below it. This is V8's prototype validity cell,
collapsed to one global counter (
object::proto_validity):OBJECT_META_FLAG_IS_PROTOTYPE) by the[[Prototype]]install funnel, and the read cache REFUSES to record a hopthat is not already marked.
stamp_object_shape_id_with_carrier_note— the runtime's singlestructural-mutation publication funnel, which its own header already names
as such.
prop_plan_epoch_bumpandclass_lookup_surface_gen_bumpbump the sameword, so it also stands for everything the semantic property epoch stands
for, and for a re-registered class prototype object.
A plain value store to an existing key deliberately does not invalidate: an
entry records (holder, slot) and LOADS the value on every hit.
Stage (ii): two registry probes become one bit
A cached hit asked
is_arguments_object(14.0 instructions) andis_process_env_ptr(5.0), both address-keyed registry probes, on every read.OBJECT_META_FLAG_EXOTIC_READ_RECEIVERis a per-object summary of both, setinside each registry's single writer in the same breath as the insert, and it
sits in a word the hit path already loads — beside
elements, which folds intoo. Each probe keeps a
debug_assertthat a registry hit implies the flag, soan insert that skips the mark fails those suites loudly.
Decisively for the next stage: an emitted read sequence could not have called
either probe at all.
The word these flags live in, and the one they do not
Both started in
GcHeader::_reserved, on the claim in that file'sOBJ_FLAG_*block that bits 12..13 were "the last free bits". They are not free.
gc/layout.rsowns 12 (GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT), 13(
GC_LAYOUT_ALL_POINTERS) and 14..15 (GC_LAYOUT_STATE_MASK) in a separateconstant namespace in a different file, and
set_layout_stateCLEARS bit 13 onevery layout-state change. A mark placed there is not merely shared, it is
silently ERASED — so the reader answers
falsefor an object the writermarked, the invalidation never fires, and a cached entry returns a stale value.
Found by measuring: claiming bit 12 regressed the
Object.createfixtures from383 to 1533 instructions per read, because those receivers all carry
GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT. That regression is what sent me to readgc/layout.rsand find bit 13 under the mark this PR had already shipped.Both facts now live in
ObjectMeta::flagsbits 5 and 6, verified against#8690's reservation comment and every reader in the tree. It is the better
home, not a worse one: the hit path already loads
meta, so the facts costthe hit nothing, and nothing in the layout machinery can reach them.
This commit also installs the complete
_reservedbit map — both namespaces,one table — on
OBJ_FLAG_RESERVED_BIT_MAP_SEE_DOCingc/types.rs, and pointsgc/layout.rsat it. #8690 hit the same trap and left its warning inObjectMeta::flags' doc comment, which is not a file anyone reads whenspending a header bit.
The polarity, and why the cache still marks
The install funnel marks; the cache refuses an unmarked hop. When the prime
meets one it marks it and ABANDONS the walk without recording anything —
marking allocates a meta record, which can move
obj,nextand every addressin
hops— and the next read of that pair primes normally.That keeps the invariant that matters absolutely (no entry is ever recorded
through a hop that was not already marked before the walk began) while making
coverage self-healing: an install route the funnel misses costs one declined
read, not a permanent loss. The refusal is not remembered, because marking
bumps no validity and a negative entry would decline the pair for the life of
the process.
class_prototype_object_root_storelooked like the place to mark theObject.createroute and SIGSEGVs the suite: it holds a bareproto_ptrthatit re-uses for an address-index rekey and a write barrier, so a mark that
allocates leaves both stale. Any mark that allocates must be the last thing its
caller does with the pointer.
What these numbers are, and how they were checked
The fixtures this PR was developed against all store to the receiver in the
loop (
O.x = k, inherited from #10834's and added there to keep the bodyloop-variant against node's optimiser). That one incidental detail gives the
receiver an own property and a single identity — which, it turned out, routes
past both of the defects #10860 fixes. The mechanism was validated on the one
shape where it could not fail.
So it was re-measured on the shapes real code has: a keyless
Object.createreceiver, and eight receivers rotating at one site. All arms on ONE base
(v0.5.1621), min of 3, fitted 500 k → 5 M, output identical to node:
Object.createreceivers via array−74 per read on the untainted shapes, identical to the −74 measured as
marginal inheritance on the tainted one. And depth-independence lands
exactly where the design says it should:
#10860 leaves a residual +17 at depth because #10834's per-hop ShapeId compares
are still there; this PR removes it exactly. That is the one thing the validity
word exists to do, and it is clearer on the real shape than on the fixtures it
was designed against.
Stated plainly because it is the honest version and a stronger claim than the
original numbers were: this was validated on a shape where it could not fail,
and then shown to hold on the shapes that matter.
Measured
perf stat -x, -e instructions:u, min of 3, fitted 200 k -> 5 M, two treeswhose binaries
cmpdifferent, output identical to node on every row.Inheritance = fixture minus its own-read twin; the twins are unchanged to the
instruction (
own1130.00,ownm303.00,ownpoly218.25).Object.createStill depth-independent: a three-level chain costs exactly what a one-level one
costs, because the guard no longer has a length. That is the property the
emitted sequence needs.
Key-add churn with a live entry: 420 -> 368.
own1130.00 before and after.Over-invalidation of the GLOBAL counter, measured: a fixture that structurally
mutates an UNRELATED marked prototype once per 64 inherited reads costs 710.91
per iteration against 710.92 for one that mutates the prototype being read.
#10834's semantic-epoch check was already global, so the only event class this
makes global that was not is a plain key add on an object used as a prototype.
One invalidation costs one re-prime: 1494 - 356 = 1138 instructions.
Tests
cargo test -p perry-runtime -- --test-threads=1: 4136 passed, 0 failed.The coverage test is the one worth reading. It builds a receiver six ways —
setPrototypeOfon a literal,Object.create, a class-default link, aclass-evaluation link, two hops, and a key added to the prototype after the
receiver exists — and asserts each read is SERVED BY THE CACHE, because a cache
that declines everything returns exactly the values the chain walk would and is
invisible in a program's output. Its first version shared ONE prototype across
all six styles, so five of them were marked by the first and passed vacuously;
giving each style its own prototype turned it red immediately. Each style now
gets a fresh prototype.
Plus: an unmarked prototype is refused rather than cached; the three
invalidation controls from #10842's first revision (mark/hook, class-surface
bump, semantic-epoch fold); and the 27 cache tests, the two GC root tests and
the differential fixture against node.
Hit evidence, from compiled programs with enough misses elsewhere to make
PERRY_IC_DIAGdump:hits=25811149 primes=1 declines=1for a one-level chainand
hits=26087239 primes=1 declines=3for a three-level one — exactly onemark-and-abandon per hop, then steady hits.
Summary by CodeRabbit
process.envandarguments, avoiding incorrect cached reads.