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Merge train 246 — one PR and the GC-pin re-audit it forced. Released as v0.5.1625.

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#10834 perf(runtime): give an INHERITED property read an inline-cache hit (1364 → 278 instructions)
ci(gc): re-audit and advance the PASS1_MARKED window pin (below)

The change

A read whose key lives on the prototype chain missed every cache in the runtime and re-walked the chain from scratch, every time. On tsc compiled by perry (7.9 s run) 523 k such reads were 7.2 % of the run.

Per loop iteration, perf stat -e instructions:u, min of 3, fitted 200 k → 5 M, one binary with the cache on and off, output identical to node on every row:

fixture off on node
own read (baseline) 130 130 14.8
1-level Object.create data 1494 408 14.4
3-level chain 2452 426 14.2
C.prototype.a = 1 1243 416 14.3
method through the prototype 1412 585 16.0
4 receiver shapes, one prototype 1803 589 49.7
accessor on the prototype 2866 2917 12.5

Marginal cost of the inheritance — each fixture minus its own-read twin — goes from 1364 to 278 on one hop, 2322 → 296 on three.

The accessor row is the honest cost and is recorded because it is the one that regresses: +51 instructions per read, since such a read still reaches the miss handler and pays a lookup that answers "declined".

Two invalidation mechanisms, neither subsuming the other: prop_plan_semantic_epoch() for anything that changes what a lookup would answer, and a per-hop ShapeId compare for a plain proto.b = 1, which is a key-add transition but bumps no epoch. Disabling the second fails exactly one test — which is how it is known to be load-bearing rather than decorative.

The pin the train had to clear

gc_runtime_root_holders.py refused the tree:

gc/census.rs:PASS1_MARKED: non_moving_snapshot source changed:
  crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/mod.rs; re-audit the window before updating its pin

PASS1_MARKED is the census's mark-phase snapshot — a Vec<usize> of real GC header addresses, deliberately untraced so the diagnostic does not keep its own subjects alive. It is populated by census_pass1_if_armed at the end of mark propagation and consumed by census_take_if_armed_at_full_sweep_start at sweep entry, inside one run_to_completion. The contract is that nothing in between allocates a GC object, relocates, collects, or runs a JS callback, and the gate pins the sha256 of the five files that could break it.

The pin was advanced, not re-baselined. #10834 touches two relevant places and both sit outside the window, on opposite sides of it:

Before advancing the one digest, the other four pinned sources were re-hashed and asserted unchanged — so this re-audit cannot be silently covering a second change. The note is appended to the entry's existing audit trail rather than replacing it, and the edit is two lines: the file was not reformatted, which matters because a reformat would have buried the real change in a 104-line diff.

What the gate did NOT refuse, and why that is the gate working

INHERITED_READ_CACHE is itself a thread-local holding raw heap addresses — exactly the "runtime-side cache of a raw heap pointer is a GC root, and the static checker cannot see it" hazard. It required no inventory verdict, because the reg_scanner! registration puts it inside the call-graph walk gc_runtime_root_holders.py performs. The holder is reached by a registered scanner, so the gate classifies it automatically.

The scanner MARKS rather than merely rewriting, deliberately: a hit LOADS holder + slot, so a weak slot the death prune has not yet reached is a read of recycled memory returning a wrong value, not a miss. Retention is bounded by the table at 512 keys and 512 × 4 prototypes.

Validation

Assembled on 91cc563573; source head asserted fresh; cherry-picked clean onto a main that already carries train 244's work in the same ic_miss.rs; no attribution trailers. Ten cheap gates green, cargo check --workspace --all-targets under -D warnings, all five pinned artifacts byte-identical before and after the gap sweep.

Gap sweep at PERRY_RUN_TIMEOUT=30, seven areas weighted to the prototype/property surface this change is about. 268 fixtures, every area asserted live, zero unexplained regressions:

class 84   gc_ 54   object 40   proto 39   shape 23   property 18   inherit 10

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an inherited-property read cache to improve repeated prototype-chain lookups.
    • Added runtime diagnostics for cache hits, primes, and declines.
    • Added garbage-collection support to keep cached references safe and current.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Cache entries now properly invalidate when prototypes, properties, accessors, or object relationships change.
    • Added safeguards for unsupported cases such as proxies and value-dependent lookups.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive coverage for cache correctness, invalidation, relocation, pruning, and runtime parity.
  • Chores

    • Updated the compiler and workspace version to 0.5.1625.

perry-bot and others added 3 commits September 21, 2026 01:54
A read whose key lives on the prototype chain missed every cache in the
runtime and re-walked the chain from scratch, every time. Callgrind on
`const P={a:1}; const O=Object.create(P); O.a`, 200 k reads, v0.5.1619:
~1300 instructions per read, against 130 for the same read of an OWN key
and 16 in node, which charges nothing for the inheritance.

Where the 1300 went, per read:

  native_get::try_data_get_bytes self              344
  class_prototype_object                           192  (118 of it SipHash)
  keys_find_slot_by_bytes_resolved  x2             180
  ic_miss::get_field_ic_miss_impl self             153
  has_property::closure_dynamic_prop_by_key         90
  shapes::shape_descriptor_by_id                    70
  is_anon_shape_class_id                            54
  class_decl_prototype_object                       41
  core::str::from_utf8                              38
  is_arguments_object                               28

Not one instruction of it is the `OBJECT_PROTOTYPES` mutex or a probe of
it: #6759 phase B already took every `GC_TYPE_OBJECT` off that table, and
the prototype of an `Object.create` receiver comes from the class
registry. The 2026-09-20 design note guessed otherwise; the measurement
is recorded in `prototype_chain.rs`'s header, together with the kinds
that still have nowhere else to store a prototype, so the next reader
does not re-plan on the guess.

This adds `object::inherited_read_cache`: a per-thread, direct-mapped
512-entry table from (receiver class id, receiver ShapeId, interned key)
to (chain, holder, inline slot). A hit re-proves the claim with the
semantic property epoch, the receiver's identity word, its recorded
prototype bits, and one ShapeId compare per hop.

The two invalidation mechanisms are both load-bearing and neither
subsumes the other:

  * `prop_plan_semantic_epoch()` -- Perry's existing enforced funnel for
    "what a lookup would ANSWER" changes: descriptor installs and clears,
    `delete`, prototype recording, class-prototype registration. It is
    not bumped by GC, which keeps this cache off the #7910 cliff where
    keying on the full epoch degrades a cache into a recompute.
  * a per-hop ShapeId compare -- a plain `proto.b = 1` is not a
    descriptor install and does not bump the epoch, but it is a key-add
    transition on that hop. Disabling this compare fails exactly one test
    (`adding_a_key_to_the_prototype_invalidates_through_the_hop_shape`),
    which is how it is known to be load-bearing rather than decorative.

GC contract. A hit LOADS `holder + slot`, so unlike the transition cache
(#6759 phase 3) this table cannot hold its addresses weakly: a slot the
death prune has not yet reached would be a read of recycled memory
returning a wrong value, not a miss. The root scan therefore MARKS and
rewrites every key and hop, which bounds retention at 512 keys and
512 x 4 prototypes and makes a stale address unrepresentable; the death
prune is registered in `DEAD_KEY_PRUNES` as the backstop that registry
exists to enforce. An earlier revision instead refused to prime a
nursery hop: it is correct and it is useless, because a read-only loop
allocates nothing, so nothing is ever promoted, so every prototype stays
in the nursery for the life of the process. Measured cost of that
refusal, on this fixture: +264 instructions per inherited read for a
chain walk performed and then thrown away.

Refusals are recorded too, and that is not a detail: most reads that
reach this cache are ones it cannot serve. Recording only the hits made
an accessor on the prototype 424 instructions per read SLOWER than no
cache at all, because the chain walk ran and was discarded on every
read. A declining walk therefore writes a NEGATIVE entry and the lookup
answers `Declined`, which tells the miss handler not to walk. A negative
entry can never return a wrong value, only keep a read on the path it is
already on, so it reuses the hit's identity, epoch and per-hop compares
unchanged. The one refusal NOT recorded is one caused by a VALUE (an
`undefined`, `null` or hole in the holder's slot): a plain store can
replace it while transitioning no shape and bumping no epoch, so
remembering it would decline the pair for the life of the process.

Hook points are three one-call sites -- the hit at the top of
`js_object_get_field_by_name` and inside `get_field_ic_miss_impl`, and
the prime at the one place in the runtime that already knows the key is
not an own property. `js_inherited_read_cache_hit_f64` is the same hit
as an emitted-code entry point for lane 4. `PERRY_INHERITED_IC=0` turns
the cache off so one binary can be measured both ways.

A cache that primes and then declines every lookup returns exactly the
values the chain walk would and is invisible in a program's output, so
the hit COUNT is reported two ways: `js_inherited_read_cache_stats` for
a harness, and an `inherited: hits=/primes=/declines=` row added to the
existing `[ic-diag]` report, on the existing `PERRY_IC_DIAG` arming
rather than an instrument of its own.

21 runtime tests cover the invalidation cases (shadowing own key added
and deleted, key added/deleted/redefined-as-accessor on the prototype,
`setPrototypeOf` on the receiver and on an interior prototype, null
prototype, a Proxy in the chain, accessor on the prototype, undefined
holder slot, a nursery prototype, death of a holder and of a key, and
the three properties of a negative entry) plus two GC tests for the root
scan's rewrite and its registration, and a differential fixture against
node.

That fixture found one divergence it does not assert: perry answers
`o.a` after `Object.setPrototypeOf(o, null)` from the prototype `o` was
BORN with, whenever `o` came from `Object.create(p)` or `new C()`. It is
pre-existing -- `PERRY_INHERITED_IC=0` prints the same wrong value, this
cache declines the case -- and is filed as #10827, with the reason the
case is absent written at the point in the fixture where it belongs.
#10834 adds one reg_scanner! line to gc/mod.rs, which is a pinned source for
the census snapshot's window contract, so the holders gate refused the tree.

Both of the PR's collector-side additions sit outside the mark-complete ->
sweep-entry window, on opposite sides of it: the scanner runs in the RootScan
phase, before census_pass1_if_armed at the end of step_mark_propagation; the
new DEAD_KEY_PRUNES entry runs from with_dead_collection_finalize at
cycle.rs:1548, after census_take_if_armed_at_full_sweep_start at cycle.rs:1505
has taken the snapshot out of the thread-local.

The other four pinned sources were re-hashed and asserted unchanged before
advancing this one, so the re-audit cannot be silently covering a second
change.
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The runtime adds a per-thread inherited-read cache. Property lookup uses cache hits and primes successful prototype reads. The cache validates entries, exposes counters, handles GC relocation and pruning, and includes runtime, GC, and parity tests. The package version is updated to 0.5.1625.

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Inherited-read cache

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cache implementation and validation
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/inherited_read_cache.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/inherited_read_cache_tests.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/prototype_chain.rs
Adds the 512-entry per-thread cache, validated positive and negative entries, statistics, C wrappers, GC hooks, and invalidation tests.
Property lookup integration and parity coverage
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/field_get_set/*, crates/perry-runtime/src/hot_diag.rs, test-files/test_parity_inherited_read_cache.ts
Adds cache lookup and prime hooks to field reads, adds inherited-read diagnostics, and tests mutations, accessors, proxies, prototype changes, and multiple receiver shapes.
GC lifecycle and release audit
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/*, scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json, changelog.d/10834-pass1-marked-reaudit.md, CLAUDE.md, Cargo.toml
Registers cache roots, adds dead-owner pruning, tests root relocation and registration, records the census re-audit, and updates the version to 0.5.1625.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant JavaScriptRead
  participant get_field_ic_miss_impl
  participant inherited_read_cache
  participant PrototypeChain
  participant GC
  JavaScriptRead->>get_field_ic_miss_impl: read inherited property
  get_field_ic_miss_impl->>inherited_read_cache: lookup receiver and key
  inherited_read_cache-->>get_field_ic_miss_impl: hit or lookup status
  get_field_ic_miss_impl->>PrototypeChain: walk and prime on uncached read
  PrototypeChain-->>inherited_read_cache: holder and slot
  GC->>inherited_read_cache: mark, rewrite, or prune cache references
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Comment on lines +246 to +253
static HITS: AtomicU64 = AtomicU64::new(0);
static PRIMES: AtomicU64 = AtomicU64::new(0);
static DECLINES: AtomicU64 = AtomicU64::new(0);
/// Declines answered from a NEGATIVE entry, i.e. without walking. Separate
/// from `DECLINES` because "the cache refused" and "the cache refused for the
/// price of one lookup" are different facts, and only the second one is the
/// claim `NEGATIVE_SLOT` exists to make.
static NEG_SERVED: AtomicU64 = AtomicU64::new(0);

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Keep inherited-read-cache counter tests isolated from parallel property reads. Under cfg(test), normal property reads increment the process-wide counters. A test that resets a counter and then asserts an exact value can therefore observe increments from another test that does not hold the shared test lock. Make the test counters thread-local, or ensure every cache-using test shares the same lock. The runtime CI commands set RUST_TEST_THREADS=1, but the default parallel test run remains vulnerable.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/inherited_read_cache.rs` around lines 246 -
253, Isolate inherited-read-cache counter tests from concurrent property reads
by making the test-only counters thread-local or by enforcing one shared lock
for every cache-using test. Update the counters around HITS, PRIMES, DECLINES,
and NEG_SERVED, preserving production behavior while ensuring
reset-and-exact-assert tests cannot observe increments from parallel tests.

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Superseded — train 246 already landed as v0.5.1625 (7bcb5a372c, via #10850). This is a duplicate PR opened against the same train246r branch; closing it.

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