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Stage 1 of #10868 step 2.5 (canonical shape identity): an object can carry its
own ordered key list instead of interning a layout. Default off — the
predicate is stubbed and can only answer true when explicitly armed.

Why this lands before the content key

Step 2.5 interns shape records, and an interned record is shared, so it
cannot be retired by ownership the way the 97.8% of records that die with their
object are today. A workload producing unboundedly many distinct key lists — a
Map-like object built by name, a per-request object keyed by user input —
would then accumulate shapes for the life of the process. There is a cost half
too: under one canonical keys array per layout an append can no longer mutate
in place, so an object whose key list is unique to it pays a copy of length k
per append, O(k²) over k appends. Dictionary mode bounds both, and it is the
only piece of that work that touches none of the content key's files.

The representation

A dictionary-mode receiver's ShapeId describes no keys at allkeys = NULL, logical_key_count = 0, the live inline bound frozen at the latch, a
semantic_generation from a third namespace — and its real ordered key list is
a private GC_TYPE_ARRAY in a new ObjectMeta::dictionary_keys.

Values do not move. The key at position i still reads inline slot i
below the live bound and the object-owned spill buffer at or above it. The mode
relocates names, never values, which is what lets the existing read, write,
delete and enumeration code run on a dictionary object unmodified.

A shape that claimed a key list the object no longer matched would be a silent
wrong value in every consumer that trusted it. A shape that claims nothing is
merely incomplete, so an unbranched consumer produces a missing property, which
a differential test against node catches on its first row. That asymmetry is
why the shape goes keyless rather than stale.

The branch is one function. object_keys_array is the sole runtime
derivation of a receiver's ordered key list, so branching there gives every
enumeration walk, in/hasOwn, delete, JSON.stringify, spread and
Object.assign node-identical behaviour with no second implementation of key
order, hole skipping or integer-key ordering. It costs nothing on an ordinary
receiver: a nonzero keys word returns before the branch.

Six fast paths had to be taught, and five are the same defect

keys.is_null() was being read as "this receiver has no own properties". On
a dictionary object that is false. Two of the five would have produced a
wrong value, not a slow one:

  • ic_miss.rs primes the inherited-read cache on that claim — an own
    property answered from the prototype chain;
  • native_call_method.rs's own-field shadowing scan becomes vacuously true —
    a vtable method winning over an own field (obj.toString = …).

The others (inherited_read_cache on a prototype hop, fast_paths' store lane
which takes its bound from the descriptor and its keys from
object_keys_array, reserved_floor's restamp) now decline, which is always
correct because the generic path reaches the same list through
object_keys_array. Rows 11 and 12 of the parity file are those two wrong
values, written as tests.

Identity, and why not one shared dictionary shape

One ShapeId per dictionary object, drawn once at the latch — O(1) per object
against today's O(k). Appends mint nothing: the array's address is not a
fact of a shape whose keys word is NULL, and an append moves no value, so a
cache primed on the receiver stays correct. A republication that swaps the
array (a compacting delete, which shifts values) draws a fresh generation,
which is what invalidates those caches.

Two dictionary objects must never share an id — a compiled IC compares
ShapeIds and nothing else — so the draw comes from a third generation
namespace
, disjoint by construction from the SHAPE_SEMANTIC_NEXT counter
(bit 63 clear, aborts far below 2⁶²) and from
deterministic_semantic_generation (bit 63 set): dictionary draws set bit 62
and clear bit 63. dictionary_generation_namespaces_are_disjoint asserts it.

GC

dictionary_keys is a traced, rewritten child edge exactly like spill
(#6812): one visit in the GcRewriteDescriptorKind::ObjectMeta arm of
visit_gc_rewrite_slot_descriptors, which is the single enumerator the
non-copying minor mark, the full mark, the copying-nursery evacuation, the
whole-heap rewrite and the dirty-slot rescan all drive — mark, move and
remembered-set coverage from one line. Every store is followed by
runtime_write_barrier_slot.

Nothing in the tree enumerates ObjectMeta's fields — no derive, no registry;
validate_gc_type_info pairs the type kinds, never the slot lists — which is
how expando came to be missing from the second, production-unreachable
enumerator in gc/layout.rs. That arm is now commented with why it diverges
and why it is safe, rather than left to be rediscovered.
test_object_meta_dictionary_keys_survive_copied_minor_move is the sabotage
target: it asserts the key list both survives and moves, so it
distinguishes a marked edge from a rewritten one. Remove the visit and it
reddens.

The latch is proved to fire

Off, should_latch_to_dictionary is one relaxed load and a compare. Armed by
PERRY_OBJECT_DICTIONARY_MIN_KEYS=<n> (value-parsed, not presence-parsed —
#7991 shipped a knob that =0 turned on) or by test_arm_latch.

[object-dictionary] armed=… candidates=… latches=… publications=… regenerations=… prints from the [gc-schedule] exit summary, zeros included,
so three states are distinguishable rather than one silent zero:

reading means
armed=false the mode is off. Nothing is claimed.
armed=true candidates=0 armed and never reached — the bug shape
armed=true candidates>0 latches=0 reached, and every candidate declined

the_latch_counters_distinguish_never_fired_from_never_armed walks all three.
The must-fail control is appends_after_the_latch_mint_no_shape_ids: neuter
the latch and the latched arm's mint count rises to meet the unlatched arm's.

Also in this PR

ObjectMeta moved to object/meta_record.rs with its offset_of! pins — the
sixteenth word took object/mod.rs past the 2,000-line gate. mod.rs ends up
at 1,813 lines, 148 below where it started, and the record and the
transition cache were the two regions in that file owned by different lanes of
the One Path campaign, so the move also removes a shared-file hazard.

A receiver already carrying tombstones is refused: hole_count is a fact a
keyless shape does not carry and latching over one would drop it.
a_receiver_with_holes_is_refused states that as a decision rather than an
accident.

Measured, and one prediction refuted

perf stat -x, -e instructions:u, min of 3, fitted 500k → 5M, fixture carries
no | 0 (#10897), PERRY_NO_AUTO_OPTIMIZE=1. The fixture is the diff shape:
one object grown to 64 keys by name, then o.k47 — a spill-located key — read
in a loop. Output 48000 in both arms and under node.

arm marginal instructions per read
latch OFF (an ordinary wide receiver, spilled read) 163.00
latch ON (dictionary mode) 3,292.00
lane 13's anchor for a spilled read (§13.10) 145

The 163 is the useful control: it reproduces lane 13's 145 anchor on a
different tree and a different fixture, which is what makes the second row
believable.

P3 predicted ≤ 145 and is REFUTED, by 20×. Reporting it as measured rather
than reframing it. Per L8.3.8 the consequence is stated in advance: "if it
lands materially above 145, dictionary mode is #10503's kind of cliff and the
entry latch has to be tighter, not the mode cheaper."
The cost is not the key
probe — it is that a dictionary receiver DECLINES every fast path (six of
them) and then re-answers is_dictionary at each site, and that predicate
costs a try_read_gc_header plus a ShapeId slab probe every time.

Both arms are the same binary, because the knob is read by the runtime, not
baked at compile time. That is normally the shape of a broken A/B, so the arm
is asserted by behaviour rather than assumed: the two arms differ by 20× and
the latch-on arm changes observable enumeration order (below), which no
same-arm run can do.

The frontier, stated rather than left to be found

The latch-OFF arm of test_parity_dictionary_mode_order.ts is byte-identical
to node (72 rows). The latch-ON arm is not, on three rows, and they are one
root cause: a keyless shape reads as "this receiver has no own properties" to
a long tail of consumers. Six were found by audit before the first build; the
force-latch run found three more. Reproducible in six lines:

const o = {}; o.a = 1; o.b = 2; o.c = 3; o.d = 4;
delete o.b;
console.log(JSON.stringify(Object.keys(o)), JSON.stringify(o), "b" in o);
node / perry latch off : ["a","c","d"]           {"a":1,"c":3,"d":4}            false
perry latch on         : ["a","b","c","d"]       {"a":1,"b":null,"c":3,"d":4}   true

The delete holes the VALUE slot and leaves the key in the list. The third row
is the same class from the read side: an own property answered from the
prototype chain.

Whack-a-mole is the wrong fix and I stopped. The architectural answer is
the one the descriptor-consumer audit reached independently: the shape must say
"dictionary", not "empty" — i.e. ShapeObjectKind::Dictionary, which
is already one of the six components of facts_key. With it, every
keys.is_null() / logical_key_count == 0 consumer keeps its meaning on real
objects, object_is_regular returns false for a dictionary receiver so the
object_is_regular-gated fast lanes fall through on their own, and
is_dictionary becomes one field of a descriptor the caller already loaded
instead of a header read plus a slab probe — which is also most of the 3,292.

That enum lives in shapes.rs, which step 2.5 owns exclusively and is actively
rewriting, so this PR does not add it. It is the next change, and it is
lane 8's to make or to hand back.
Until then the latch is inert on main and
nothing here can fire.

Verified locally (CI here is unreliable)

  • cargo test -p perry-runtime dictionary -- --test-threads=1: 7 passed, 0 failed, including the GC pin.
  • Sabotage of the GC trace arm: the pin reddens on "the key list must itself move" — the array is never evacuated. Restored and re-verified green.
  • test_parity_dictionary_mode_order.ts, latch off: byte-identical to node, 72 rows.
  • check_file_size, raw_handle_debt (906, at baseline), gc_store_site_inventory, addr_class_inventory, shape_descriptor_census, gc_runtime_root_holders: all rc=0.
  • No new warnings under the crate's deny set. clippy --all-targets has ~12 pre-existing errors in unrelated files; not introduced here.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added opt-in dictionary mode for JavaScript objects, reducing memory growth for objects with many unique properties.
    • Added runtime diagnostics for dictionary-mode activation and activity.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved property access, assignment, method dispatch, inheritance, deletion, re-addition, enumeration, and serialization for dictionary-mode objects.
    • Preserved insertion order and standard JavaScript key-ordering behavior across supported object types.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for garbage collection, ordering, symbols, accessors, prototypes, and wide objects.

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This change adds default-off object dictionary mode. Dictionary receivers store ordered keys in ObjectMeta::dictionary_keys, use keyless shapes, avoid shape transitions for later appends, and add GC, access-path, latch, diagnostic, and parity-test coverage.

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Object dictionary mode

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dictionary storage and latching
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/dictionary.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/dictionary_counters.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/meta_record.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/meta_accessors.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/dictionary_tests.rs, changelog.d/10868-object-dictionary-mode.md
Dictionary receivers keep ordered keys in a private metadata array and use keyless shapes. Latching supports configured key thresholds and layout-id exhaustion. Generation namespaces, counters, diagnostics, metadata layout assertions, and focused tests were added.
Dictionary access integration
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/field_get_set/*, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/inherited_read_cache.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/native_call_method.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/reserved_floor.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/shapes.rs, test-files/test_parity_dictionary_mode_order.ts
Dictionary receivers use their private key list for reads and writes. Shape transition caches, inherited-read priming, vtable fast paths, reserved-floor stamping, and standard shape parity checks decline dictionary receivers. Runtime parity tests cover ordering, reflection, prototypes, symbols, accessors, deletion, and wide objects.
Dictionary metadata GC support
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/layout.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/layout_slot_visit.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/schedule.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/dead_owner_side_tables.rs, run_parity_tests.sh
The GC rewrite visitor traces and rewrites ObjectMeta::dictionary_keys. GC exit summaries include dictionary counters, and copied-minor evacuation coverage verifies that the owner and key list remain connected. Parity output filtering removes dictionary diagnostics.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant JavaScriptObject
  participant ObjectRuntime
  participant DictionaryMetadata
  participant GarbageCollector
  JavaScriptObject->>ObjectRuntime: add or update property
  ObjectRuntime->>DictionaryMetadata: latch or publish ordered keys
  DictionaryMetadata-->>ObjectRuntime: key list and dictionary generation
  ObjectRuntime-->>JavaScriptObject: read, write, enumerate, or delete property
  GarbageCollector->>DictionaryMetadata: trace and rewrite dictionary_keys
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/dead_owner_side_tables.rs`:
- Around line 689-756: Update the test’s owner handling around the
key-allocation loops to root both movable receivers with
RuntimeHandleScope::root_raw_mut_ptr. After each js_string_from_bytes
allocation, refresh the raw owner pointer from its handle before field access or
subsequent use, including the post-GC new_owner path; preserve the existing
assertions while ensuring no stale owner pointer is dereferenced.

In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs`:
- Around line 1667-1672: Move dictionary::latch_object_to_dictionary out of
set_object_keys_array_with_live’s publication tail so it cannot allocate while
callers retain a raw obj pointer; otherwise make it the final operation in
field_set_by_name/tail.rs and field_set_by_name/fast_paths.rs after re-reading
the receiver through its handle. Preserve key-count threshold behavior while
ensuring no stale obj is used after latching.

In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/native_call_method.rs`:
- Around line 2183-2187: Update js_native_call_method to preserve dictionary
dispatch: derive keys with object_keys_array(obj) for dictionary receivers
instead of returning the null stub, while retaining descriptor.keys for other
objects. Use keys_array_len_capped_to_capacity(keys) as the own-key scan bound
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crate::object::js_object_set_field_by_name(owner, key, i as f64);
}
assert!(
crate::object::dictionary::latch_object_to_dictionary(owner),
"test premise: the receiver must latch"
);
}
let old_keys = unsafe { crate::object::object_keys_array(owner) } as usize;
assert_ne!(old_keys, 0, "test premise: the private key list exists");
assert_eq!(
crate::array::js_array_length(old_keys as *mut crate::array::ArrayHeader),
6,
"test premise: it holds the receiver's six keys"
);

// Read every value back BEFORE the collection. Without this the test
// cannot tell "the move lost it" from "the latch never stored it", and
// those need different fixes.
for i in 0..6 {
let name = format!("gcdict_{i:02}");
let key = crate::string::js_string_from_bytes(name.as_ptr(), name.len() as u32);
let value =
f64::from_bits(crate::object::js_object_get_field_by_name(owner, key).bits());
assert_eq!(value, i as f64, "test premise: key {i} reads back after the latch");
}
assert!(
unsafe { crate::object::dictionary::is_dictionary(owner) },
"test premise: READING a dictionary receiver must not un-latch it. \
The by-name read path stamps the receiver's shape to key its field \
cache, and for a dictionary receiver that republishes the private \
key list as a shape — a mode that survives writes and reverts on \
the first read."
);

js_shadow_slot_set(0, ptr_bits(old_owner));

let _ = gc_collect_minor();

let new_owner = (js_shadow_slot_get(0) & POINTER_MASK) as usize;
assert_ne!(new_owner, old_owner, "test premise: the owner must move");
let new_owner = new_owner as *mut crate::object::ObjectHeader;

assert!(
unsafe { crate::object::dictionary::is_dictionary(new_owner) },
"the moved receiver must still be in dictionary mode"
);
let new_keys = unsafe { crate::object::object_keys_array(new_owner) } as usize;
assert_ne!(
new_keys, 0,
"the meta record's dictionary_keys slot was not marked: the key list \
was collected out from under a live object"
);
assert_ne!(
new_keys, old_keys,
"test premise: the key list must itself move, or this test cannot \
distinguish a marked edge from a REWRITTEN one"
);
assert_eq!(
crate::array::js_array_length(new_keys as *mut crate::array::ArrayHeader),
6,
"the rewritten key list must still hold the receiver's six keys"
);
// The names survived; so must the values they address.
for i in 0..6 {
let name = format!("gcdict_{i:02}");
let key = crate::string::js_string_from_bytes(name.as_ptr(), name.len() as u32);
let value =
f64::from_bits(crate::object::js_object_get_field_by_name(new_owner, key).bits());

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Root each movable owner across key allocation.

js_string_from_bytes allocates through string_storage_alloc, which can collect and evacuate objects. The raw owner and new_owner locals are used after that allocation without being refreshed. The following field access can therefore dereference retired storage and corrupt or crash the test.

Keep each owner in a RuntimeHandleScope with root_raw_mut_ptr. Re-read the raw pointer from the handle after every key allocation and before later uses.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/dead_owner_side_tables.rs` around lines 689
- 756, Update the test’s owner handling around the key-allocation loops to root
both movable receivers with RuntimeHandleScope::root_raw_mut_ptr. After each
js_string_from_bytes allocation, refresh the raw owner pointer from its handle
before field access or subsequent use, including the post-GC new_owner path;
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if !keys_array.is_null() {
let key_count = crate::array::keys_array_len_capped_to_capacity(keys_array) as u32;
if dictionary::should_latch_to_dictionary(key_count) {
dictionary::latch_object_to_dictionary(obj);
}
}

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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Do not allocate while callers retain obj.

When the dictionary latch is armed, set_object_keys_array_with_live calls dictionary::latch_object_to_dictionary(obj) after publication. The latch roots and refreshes only its local obj; its js_array_alloc_pointer_elements and object_meta_ensure allocations can move the receiver. The raw obj locals in field_set_by_name/tail.rs and field_set_by_name/fast_paths.rs remain stale and are used immediately after the call.

Move the latch out of the publication tail, or make it the final operation in each caller after re-reading the receiver through its handle.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs` around lines 1667 - 1672, Move
dictionary::latch_object_to_dictionary out of set_object_keys_array_with_live’s
publication tail so it cannot allocate while callers retain a raw obj pointer;
otherwise make it the final operation in field_set_by_name/tail.rs and
field_set_by_name/fast_paths.rs after re-reading the receiver through its
handle. Preserve key-count threshold behavior while ensuring no stale obj is
used after latching.

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Comment on lines +2183 to +2187
// #10868 step 2.5 stage 1: see the shadowing scan above.
if crate::object::dictionary::is_dictionary(obj) {
let null_obj_ptr = &NULL_OBJECT_BYTES as *const NullObjectBytes as *mut u8;
return f64::from_bits(JSValue::pointer(null_obj_ptr).bits());
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Preserve dictionary method dispatch instead of returning the null stub.

For a dictionary receiver that reaches js_native_call_method, this return skips the own-key scan, inherited-field resolution, and class-vtable lookup. The null stub becomes the method-call result directly. A genuine real-object miss still uses the existing null-stub fall-through; it does not throw m is not a function.

Use object_keys_array(obj) for dictionary receivers and use that array’s length for the own-key scan.

🐛 Direction for the fix
-        // `#10868` step 2.5 stage 1: see the shadowing scan above.
-        if crate::object::dictionary::is_dictionary(obj) {
-            let null_obj_ptr = &NULL_OBJECT_BYTES as *const NullObjectBytes as *mut u8;
-            return f64::from_bits(JSValue::pointer(null_obj_ptr).bits());
-        }
-        let keys = descriptor.keys as usize as *mut ArrayHeader;
+        // `#10868` step 2.5 stage 1: a dictionary receiver's ordered key list
+        // lives in its `ObjectMeta`, so take it from the single derivation
+        // point rather than from the (deliberately null) shape edge. Falling
+        // through keeps the inherited-field and class-vtable arms below
+        // reachable, which the stub return did not.
+        let is_dict = crate::object::dictionary::is_dictionary(obj);
+        let keys = if is_dict {
+            crate::object::object_keys_array(obj)
+        } else {
+            descriptor.keys as usize as *mut ArrayHeader
+        };

The key-count bound below must use crate::array::keys_array_len_capped_to_capacity(keys) for a dictionary receiver because descriptor.logical_key_count is zero.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/native_call_method.rs` around lines 2183 -
2187, Update js_native_call_method to preserve dictionary dispatch: derive keys
with object_keys_array(obj) for dictionary receivers instead of returning the
null stub, while retaining descriptor.keys for other objects. Use
keys_array_len_capped_to_capacity(keys) as the own-key scan bound for
dictionaries, keep inherited-field and class-vtable resolution reachable, and
preserve the existing null-stub fall-through for genuine real-object misses.

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Boundary vs lane 8's Stage 1a (b858fe900) — this stacks, it does not duplicate

Checked before going further, because two sessions opening PRs for one piece has already cost this campaign once.

b858fe900 (feat/canonical-shape-identity, local to /root/wt-lever4, unpushed) touches exactly two filesobject/shapes.rs and object/shapes_store.rs — and adds:

  • ShapeObjectKind::Dictionary;
  • flags: u8 + _pad: [u8;3] → one flags_and_kind: u32 (record stays 32 bytes, both const assertions hold);
  • facts_key folding the kind discriminant instead of == Class.

Grepped against my surface, its diff contains zero occurrences of ObjectMeta, dictionary_keys, should_latch, object_keys_array or own_override. This PR touches shapes_store.rs not at all and shapes.rs by nine lines — a cfg!(debug_assertions) delegate so the parity assert asks the mode about its own invariant.

Division as I read it:

lane 8 the shape FACT: the Dictionary kind, the record layout, facts_key
this PR the STORAGE and the mode: ObjectMeta::dictionary_keys + its GC edge, the latch and its instrument, the branch at object_keys_array / set_object_keys_array_with_live, the six fast-path declines, the tests

One mechanism of mine is superseded and should be deleted, not merged. I could not add a kind to lane 8's enum, so the dictionary shape is currently made distinct by a third semantic_generation namespace (bit 62 set, bit 63 clear), with dictionary_generation_namespaces_are_disjoint asserting it. With ShapeObjectKind::Dictionary in the record that workaround is dead weight: the dictionary shape should simply carry object_kind = Dictionary, and the namespace plus its test should go.

That is also better than what I built. object_is_regular answers false for a non-Ordinary kind, so several of the object_is_regular-gated fast lanes I had to decline by hand start declining on their own — which is the class fix argued for in #10942.

§L8.3.15f applies to this PR. The latch is stubbed and off by default, but it is armable from the environment (PERRY_OBJECT_DICTIONARY_MIN_KEYS, PERRY_OBJECT_DICTIONARY_LAYOUT_ID_BUDGET), so it is a trigger by that rule's wording and should not land ahead of the kind.

Proposed sequencing — not acted on, for the coordinator to set: lane 8's Stage 1a lands first; this PR then rebases onto it, drops the generation namespace in favour of object_kind = Dictionary, and re-runs its semantics and GC pins. I have not rebased, retargeted, or touched either of lane 8's files beyond the nine debug-only lines already here.

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The last #10942 defect is fixed and staged for this branch — fix/10942-delete-stale-keys-pointer @ ffba86288

Handing this back land-ready rather than as working-tree state, since it has to go on after the rebase onto lane 8's branch.

The cause is not dictionary mode. delete_rest.rs's clone-before-tombstone branch cloned the shared keys array, handed the clone to set_object_keys_array to take ownership, and kept using that address. The tail of that publication is where should_latch_to_dictionary fires, and latch_object_to_dictionary installs its own private copy. The tombstone then went into an orphan while the receiver's live list kept the key. The value slot cleared on the receiver either way — which is the whole reason JSON.stringify matched node. Full trace on #10942.

Verified against this branch's own parity file: test_parity_dictionary_mode_order.ts is byte-identical to node on both arms, latch off and PERRY_OBJECT_DICTIONARY_MIN_KEYS=0. Seven rows to zero, including tomb keys=["b","c","a"] — symptom 8's re-add ordering.

How to land it

The fix and its witness are separate because they have different bases.

  1. The fix is one commit on this branch's tip, ffba86288. delete_rest.rs is the same blob on main, on train 253, on b858fe900 and here (538fc15a3), so it rebases without conflict wherever this branch ends up:
    git cherry-pick ffba86288
    
  2. The witness is a pure append to dictionary_tests.rs, which only exists in your working tree, so it is a patch rather than a commit — on perrymaster at /root/lane16b/landing/0002-witness-dictionary-tests.patch (118 lines):
    git apply /root/lane16b/landing/0002-witness-dictionary-tests.patch
    
    object::dictionary_tests::a_delete_that_latches_tombstones_the_key_list_the_receiver_keeps. It builds a sibling first so the transition cache shares the array, asserts every precondition by name — ordinary at the start, four keys, below the clone branch's 16-key bound, GC_FLAG_SHAPE_SHARED set, and that the delete actually latched — then asserts the key is gone from the receiver's live list. Reverting the fix reddens it with its own message.

/root/lane16b/landing/combined.patch is both, for a tree that already has the rebase.

Two things to know before you merge

  • The fix is inert on main. I checked rather than assumed: the publish path performs no JS-heap allocation (alloc_shape_id is an atomic CAS; no arena_alloc_gc anywhere in shapes*.rs outside #[test]; the #[global_allocator] has no GC hook), so nothing can replace the key list under a publish until this PR's latch exists. It must not be merged into main on its own — there would be no reachable bug and no buildable witness. That is why the commit is based on this branch and I opened no PR for it.
  • A suite failure on this tree is not yours. object::inherited_read_cache::tests::a_second_receiver_of_the_same_shape_shares_the_entry fails here, fails on lane 8's b858fe900 with none of feat(runtime): object dictionary mode — a receiver can carry its own keys (#10868 step 2.5 stage 1) #10938 present, and passes at train 253 — so it came in with one of the four commits on feat/canonical-shape-identity. Routed to lane 8. With it excluded, single-threaded: 4229 passed / 0 other failures / 6 ignored.

Also on #10942: shapes_slot_list.rs:854 turned out not to be a bug, and the fix I proposed there would have silently disabled the tombstone lane for every dictionary receiver. Do not apply it.

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Landing series is final — four patches, one command, and a README next to them

/root/lane16b/landing/ on perrymaster. For a tree that already has this PR rebased onto lane 8's branch:

git apply /root/lane16b/landing/combined.patch
patch file what
0001 object/delete_rest.rs the fix (also commit ffba86288, unchanged)
0002 object/dictionary_tests.rs two tests, both proven able to fail
0003 object/dictionary.rs comment only
0004 object/shapes_slot_list.rs comment only

README.md in that directory has the mechanism, the reverse-checks and the numbers.

The two comment patches, and why they are in a fix series

Both stated something false and both cost real time — one of them mine.

  • 0003restamp_dictionary_shape said the HashMap insert "can therefore collect and MOVE the receiver". That is a discipline the code keeps, written as a reachability fact, and the two read identically. I quoted it as a fact and carried a wrong claim into a priority discussion. It now says the handle is a rule this code keeps, records that the mint cannot collect today (alloc_shape_id is an atomic CAS, the shape table never reaches arena_alloc_gc, the #[global_allocator] has no GC hook), tells you to keep the handle anyway — a publisher that later starts allocating must not silently become unsound — and tells you not to cite the line as evidence that a publish can move anything.

  • 0004publish_object_shape_delete_transition said "the key count comes from the ARRAY, not the lineage" while reading the shape's word. That wording is what got the line filed as a bug, and the proposed fix would have published keys = 0, logical_key_count = N, been rejected as InvalidFacts, and silently disabled the tombstone lane for every dictionary receiver. The comment now records why the code is correct for every receiver, that a dictionary's 0 is the invariant rather than an accident, and not to change it.

0004 touches a file that is pristine on main, but its text references debug_assert_dictionary_parity, so it belongs with this stack and not on main alone.

Re-verified after the comment edits

cargo check clean, full rebuild clean, suite --test-threads=1: 4230 passed / 6 ignored, with the pre-existing lane-8 a_second_receiver_of_the_same_shape_shares_the_entry still the only red. All 7 dictionary_tests pass. The parity run (0 rows differing from node on both arms) was measured on the same code modulo these two comments.

proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
gc_pin_sites (#7645 custody) -- REAL. shared_sab.rs originated a pin with a raw
`gc_flags = GC_FLAG_PINNED | GC_FLAG_TENURED` write. The block is a
process-global alloc_zeroed with no GC_FLAG_ARENA, so it is malloc space and
the young-pin latch must stay disarmed for it: that is exactly
`gc::pin_object_non_young`, which the write now routes through. Its doc
requires a case in `pin_object_non_young_call_sites_are_never_young` for every
caller, so one is added, allocating a real SAB and asserting the block is never
young. The header-survival assertion moves to masking reads (the gate's rule A)
and GC_FLAG_PINNED leaves the import list, since a bare mention of the token
reads as a pin creation.

shape_descriptor_census -- a legitimate NEW callsite. #10936's region_guard.rs
asks `target_layout::object_header_size_bytes(ctx.target_triple)`, the same
canonical helper as the other 42 sites, rather than baking a literal. Baseline
refreshed: exactly one entry added, summary 42 -> 43, nothing removed.

global_sink_isolation x2 -- both FALSE, same scanner defect. It resolves
identifiers by name across the crate with no scope or comment awareness:
#10941's comment ended "those two words are THE NEXT CELL" and `CELL` resolved
to a real `static CELL` in pointer_event.rs; #10938's test-local
`const DETERMINISTIC` resolved to `stub_diag.rs`'s `static DETERMINISTIC`.
Neither file touches a process-global. Reworded the comment and renamed the
const to DETERMINISTIC_BIT; the scanner defect is filed rather than patched
here, because a first attempt at fixing it dropped five identifiers the audit
had always counted, invalidated a live allowlist entry, and could not be shown
still able to fire.
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…tput

#10938 prints it from gc/schedule.rs beside the [gc-schedule] lines, so it
appears under every fixture declaring parity-env PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_SEED -- 13
of them. The normaliser stripped only the [gc-schedule] prefix, so those
fixtures diffed on instrument noise.

test_gap_dynamic_import_alias_binding surfaced it, and misleadingly: the
harness's truncated view showed identical first lines for Node and Perry
because the difference was four lines down (#796). Reproduced outside the
harness, the program output is byte-identical and the whole delta is the
instrument rows.
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Gap-shard triage, run 35671819448 — Cluster B is this PR's and it is a one-line fix. Cluster A is not, and it is #10859.

Neither cluster is a rooting bug, and neither is in my delete_rest.rs patch — that run is at 34183f409, which does not contain it.

First, the run has 26 failures, not 15. Six are already red in the harness's own baseline (no pass -> … transition): 2159_defineproperty_class_prototype, 2514_settracesigint, json_lazy_defineproperty_index, perfhooks_3088_…, prop_plan_cache_invalidation, v8_2_3680plus. The 20 regressions split 12 / 8.

Cluster B — 8 tests, and it is [object-dictionary]

Not a rooting cluster. The failing set is exactly the eight gap fixtures that carry a // parity-env: … PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_SEED=… header, and all eight of them failed — no misses, no false positives:

gc_string_repeat_reentrant_count   gc_rest_argument_rooting
gc_string_suffix_cursor            gc_inlined_ctor_body_locals_rooting
gc_string_copy_source_rooting      dynamic_import_alias_binding
gc_same_module_call_argument_rooting   8434_string_builder_roundtrips

That header turns on the GC exit summary, so those fixtures — and only those — reach gc::schedule::report_exit_summary. This PR appends one line to it (schedule.rs:686):

eprintln!("{}", crate::object::dictionary::dictionary_counters_line());

The harness merges stderr into the compared stream and strips the instrument noise — but the rule is a literal, sed -E '/^\[gc-schedule\]/d', and the new line starts [object-dictionary]. So every one of those eight gains one unstripped trailing line.

Reproduced locally, 8434_string_builder_roundtrips under its own parity-env, after the harness's own sed:

…
replace-callback-allocations 192
[object-dictionary] armed=false layout_ids_exhausted=false candidates=0 latches=0 …   <-- perry only

Node ends at replace-callback-allocations 192. That is the whole diff.

Fix — 0005-harness-strip-object-dictionary.patch, one line, in the rule that already exists for exactly this:

-        sed -E '/^\[gc-schedule\]/d' | \
+        sed -E '/^\[(gc-schedule|object-dictionary)\]/d' | \

It keeps your "always printed, zeros included" design, which is the right call — the three states really are distinguishable only if the row is always there. Verified with the real harness (PERRY_SKIP_BUILD=1 ./run_parity_tests.sh --filter …): the fixture fails before the patch and passes after, and all eight pass with it — 8/8, 0 parity fail, 0 compile fail.

I also put the hazard in the comment, because the next instrument will do this again: a line added to report_exit_summary reddens every GC-fuzzed fixture at once, and since those fixtures are mostly gc_*_rooting, the failure presents as a rooting cluster and invites a hunt for a bug that does not exist. It cost this triage a couple of hours; the comment now says so.

Cluster A — 12 tests, all at the 300 s wall, and it is #10859

Not 8 — twelve, and the extra four (6558_webassembly_graceful_fail, 9552_cross_thread_promise_survives_gc, fetch_request_from_node_incoming_message, 10428_10429_node_module_value_dispatch) are the same class. Elapsed from the previous test's completion to each failure:

width test
300.10 s 6558_webassembly_graceful_fail
301.69 s 9552_cross_thread_promise_survives_gc
300.16 s http_overloads_3226plus
300.10 s http2_settings
300.16 s fetch_request_from_node_incoming_message
300.13 s gc_http2_pending_event_callback_rooting
300.15 s handle_band_object_ops
300.16 s http_req_async_iterator
300.16 s 10428_10429_node_module_value_dispatch
300.15 s http_res_socket_writable_onfinished
300.11 s net_crypto_2549_2963
300.14 s regex_replace_dyn_regex_with_http

PERRY_COMPILE_TIMEOUT defaults to 300 (run_parity_tests.sh:70), and a non-zero compile exit is reported as FAIL … (compile error) with no way to tell a timeout from a real compile error — which is lane 17's point on #10859.

The harness's own comment at :64 says 300 s is "generous enough to absorb a legitimate cold-cache auto-optimize runtime/stdlib rebuild … a from-scratch full-tier run can on its first test". The assumption is that one test pays it. It is one test per feature set, and http / net / crypto / wasm each route to a different perry-ext-* wrapper. First-hand: compiling a trivial fixture with this branch's binary prints auto-optimize: rebuilding runtime+stdlib (panic=abort, features=async-runtime) — the rebuild is triggered by the feature set, not by the fixture.

Stated as inference, not measurement: I did not run these twelve against main. The evidence is the width, the harness's own comment, and lane 17's prior root-cause. The one reading that would make it ours is "this PR slowed compilation", and 300.1 s is a runtime+stdlib rebuild, not codegen.

But the sharper point for the #10859 decision: any PR that changes runtime source invalidates the auto-optimize cache, so the first fixture of every feature set pays the rebuild inside a budget that does not account for it. This is not a dictionary-mode problem — it will redden twelve shards on every runtime-touching PR until #10859 lands. That is a second PR blocked by it, on the critical path for step 2.5.

Landing series

/root/lane16b/landing/ — now five patches, combined.patch applies all of them. 0005 is the only one needed to clear Cluster B; 00010004 are the #10942 fix, its two witnesses and two comment corrections, unchanged.

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Pushed 0005 to this branch — e75c52e310. CI run 35717330925.

One file, run_parity_tests.sh, +11/−2, a clean fast-forward on 34183f409. Nothing else in my series is in it.

-        sed -E '/^\[gc-schedule\]/d' | \
+        sed -E '/^\[(gc-schedule|object-dictionary)\]/d' | \

This clears the eight parity regressions. Verified before pushing, with the real harness rather than by argument: each of the eight fails without it and passes with it, 8/8, 0 parity fail, 0 compile fail.

I deliberately did not make the counters conditional. A diagnostic that vanishes when its counters are zero cannot be told apart from one that never ran, and armed=false / armed=true candidates=0 / armed=true candidates>0 latches=0 are three different states — your "always printed, zeros included" comment is right and it stays. The harness is the correct place for this, because the harness already has a rule that exists for exactly this class of line.

Cluster A remains, and it is not this PR's

Expect the shards to be less red, not green. The other twelve regressions in run 35671819448 are untouched by 0005 and will still fail:

6558_webassembly_graceful_fail, 9552_cross_thread_promise_survives_gc, http_overloads_3226plus, http2_settings, fetch_request_from_node_incoming_message, gc_http2_pending_event_callback_rooting, handle_band_object_ops, http_req_async_iterator, 10428_10429_node_module_value_dispatch, http_res_socket_writable_onfinished, net_crypto_2549_2963, regex_replace_dyn_regex_with_http.

Every one is PERRY_COMPILE_TIMEOUT expiring, not a compile error — measured widths 300.10–301.69 s against a 300 s budget (run_parity_tests.sh:70). A non-zero compile exit is reported as FAIL … (compile error) with no way to tell the two apart, which is why it reads as twelve compiler bugs.

Why it isn't ours, stated as inference rather than measurement — I did not run these twelve against main:

  • the harness's own comment at :64 justifies 300 s as absorbing a cold-cache auto-optimize runtime/stdlib rebuild on its first test. It is one test per feature set, and http / net / crypto / wasm each route to a different perry-ext-* wrapper;
  • any PR that changes runtime source invalidates that cache, so the first fixture of each feature set pays a full rebuild inside a budget that does not account for it. This is a property of touching the runtime, not of dictionary mode;
  • first-hand: compiling a trivial fixture with this branch's binary prints auto-optimize: rebuilding runtime+stdlib (panic=abort, features=async-runtime) — triggered by the feature set, not by the fixture;
  • lane 17's own before/after table on fix(codegen,runtime): a worker thread instantiates its own module graph (#10399) #10859 shows test_gap_http2_settings — one of these twelve — at 300.1 s before their fix and passing after it.

The one reading that would make it ours is "this PR slowed compilation", and 300.1 s is a runtime+stdlib rebuild, not codegen.

That fix is #10859, which is on hold; its hold is being raised separately. Until it lands this reddens twelve shards on every runtime-touching PR, so it is not a reason to hold this one.

I will post the shard results from the run above when it finishes.

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Run 35717330925: the gap shards did not run at all. This branch no longer compiles against current main, and that is a separate blocker.

Reporting this before the good news, because "confirm the shards go green" is what I was asked to do and I cannotgap-suite-build failed, so all six shards were skipped. So did cargo-test, check, warnings and gc-stress-build.

It is not 0005, and it is not anything of mine

e75c52e310 differs from 34183f409 by one shell script, +11/−2. A Rust compile error cannot come from that. Proven rather than argued — git merge-tree of the previous head with current main, with no commit of mine in it, produces the same break.

The cause: #10924 landed on main and this branch predates it

pull_request CI builds the branch merged with main, and main moved from 0fa391529 (train 253) to a022cf2e4 since the last run. In between, #10924 / 317d70623b"the unresolved-namespace stub is an ordinary object, not a header-less static" — replaced the NULL_OBJECT_BYTES / NullObjectBytes header-less static with null_stub_value() and migrated every call site.

The merge is clean textually and broken semantically. In the merged tree there is exactly one surviving use of the removed symbol across the whole runtime, and it is the guard this PR adds:

// native_call_method.rs, merged tree @ 2191
let Some(descriptor) = crate::object::shapes::object_shape_descriptor(obj) else {
    return crate::object::null_stub_value();          // main's migrated idiom
};
// #10868 step 2.5 stage 1: see the shadowing scan above.
if crate::object::dictionary::is_dictionary(obj) {
    let null_obj_ptr = &NULL_OBJECT_BYTES as *const NullObjectBytes as *mut u8;   // this PR's new site, old idiom
    return f64::from_bits(JSValue::pointer(null_obj_ptr).bits());
}

main migrated every existing site; this PR added a new one in the old idiom — the #10942 site-3 hand guard, the one the kind does not reach — so the merge keeps both and the old one no longer resolves.

The mechanical fix is one line, into main's own API:

if crate::object::dictionary::is_dictionary(obj) {
    return crate::object::null_stub_value();
}

I have not pushed that, for two reasons, and I would rather you decide:

  1. native_call_method.rs is a file you have uncommitted edits to in /root/wt-dict2. A commit from me there collides with your rebase, and the real fix is the rebase, not a patch on top of a stale base.
  2. The compiler stops at the first errors. One surviving symbol is all I can see now; after it resolves there may be more of fix(runtime): the unresolved-namespace stub is an ordinary object, not a header-less static (#10821 row 4, fixes #10917) #10924's migration to absorb. I would not claim this is the only one.

Say the word and I will push it, but the rebase onto a022cf2e4 is the thing that actually unblocks this.

0005 itself is fine, and still verified

It is in the branch at e75c52e310 and unaffected by any of the above. CI has not exercised it because the shards never started, so the evidence for it remains what it was — the real harness, locally, on the pinned build: each of the eight fixtures fails without it and passes with it, 8/8, 0 parity fail, 0 compile fail. That is a measurement, not a CI result, and I am labelling it as such until a run gets far enough to confirm it.

Cluster A unchanged

The twelve PERRY_COMPILE_TIMEOUT failures are untouched and will reappear once the build is fixed. Evidence and the second-PR argument are in my previous comment and on #10859.

Ralph Küpper and others added 3 commits September 22, 2026 10:52
…keys (#10868 step 2.5 stage 1)

Default off. The predicate is stubbed and can only answer `true` when
explicitly armed; lane 8 wires the triggers when the content key lands.

Step 2.5 interns shape records, and an interned record is SHARED — it cannot be
retired by ownership the way the 97.8% that die with their object are today. A
workload with unboundedly many distinct key lists would accumulate shapes for
the life of the process, and under one canonical keys array per layout its
appends would cost O(k²). Dictionary mode bounds both.

A dictionary receiver's ShapeId describes NO keys; its ordered key list is a
private GC_TYPE_ARRAY in a new `ObjectMeta::dictionary_keys`. Values do not
move — the key at position i still reads inline slot i below the live bound and
spill at or above it — which is what lets the existing read, write, delete and
enumeration code run on one unmodified. `object_keys_array` is the sole
derivation of a receiver's key list, so one branch there carries every
enumeration walk, `in`/`hasOwn`, `delete` and `JSON.stringify`.

Two latch triggers: unbounded key growth (policy) and layout-id exhaustion
(correctness — an object the interning allocator cannot give an id to has
nowhere else to go). The budget is a published, injectable number precisely so
the exhaustion arm is reachable by a test.

Identity: one ShapeId per dictionary receiver, drawn once, from a third
generation namespace disjoint by construction from the SHAPE_SEMANTIC_NEXT
counter (bit 63 clear) and from deterministic_semantic_generation (bit 63 set)
— dictionary draws set bit 62. Two dictionary receivers must never share an id
because a compiled IC compares ShapeIds and nothing else.

GC: `dictionary_keys` is a traced, rewritten child edge like `spill` (#6812) —
one `visit` in the single enumerator that mark, evacuation, whole-heap rewrite
and the dirty-slot rescan all drive. Sabotage-verified: remove it and
`test_object_meta_dictionary_keys_survive_copied_minor_move` reddens on the
"must itself move" assertion, because the list is never evacuated.

Six fast paths read `keys.is_null()` as "no own properties"; two of them
(ic_miss's inherited-read primer, native_call_method's own-field shadowing
scan) would have produced WRONG VALUES rather than slow ones. They now decline.

Measured (perf stat -e instructions:u, min of 3, fitted 500k->5M, no `| 0`):
a spilled read is 163/read with the latch off and 3,292/read with it on, both
byte-identical to node. That REFUTES the <=145 prediction and is reported as
such: per L8.3.8 the latch tightens rather than the mode getting cheaper, and
the cost is dominated by declining fast paths plus a per-site `is_dictionary`
probe that a `ShapeObjectKind::Dictionary` discriminator would collapse.

`ObjectMeta` moved to `object/meta_record.rs` with its offset pins: the
sixteenth word took object/mod.rs past the 2,000-line gate. mod.rs lands at
1,813 — 148 below where it started — and the record and the transition cache,
the two regions owned by different lanes, are now in different files.

Verified locally (CI here is unreliable): 7/7 unit tests including the GC
survival pin; test_parity_dictionary_mode_order.ts byte-identical to node with
the latch off; check_file_size, raw_handle_debt, gc_store_site_inventory,
addr_class_inventory, shape_descriptor_census and gc_runtime_root_holders all
rc=0; no new warnings under the crate's default deny set.
…the compared stream

Clears eight of this PR's gap-shard regressions. They are not a rooting bug.

The failing set is EXACTLY the eight gap fixtures carrying a
`// parity-env: ... PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_SEED=...` header - all eight, no misses
and no false positives. That header is the only thing that makes a fixture
reach `gc::schedule::report_exit_summary`, and this PR appends one line to it
(`schedule.rs:686`). The harness merges stderr into the compared stream and
strips the instrument noise, but the rule is a LITERAL,
`sed -E "/^\[gc-schedule\]/d"`, which does not match `[object-dictionary]`.
One unstripped trailing line, eight parity failures.

Six of those fixtures are named `gc_*_rooting`, so it presents as a rooting
cluster in whatever those fixtures happen to test. The shared property is the
HEADER, not the subject. The comment now says so, because the next instrument
added to `report_exit_summary` will do this again.

Fixed in the rule that already exists for exactly this, rather than by making
the counters conditional: a diagnostic that disappears when its counters are
zero cannot be told apart from one that never ran, which is the false-zero
trap this repo has hit repeatedly. "Always printed, zeros included" stays.

Verified with the real harness (`PERRY_SKIP_BUILD=1 ./run_parity_tests.sh
--filter ...`): the fixture fails before this change and passes after, and all
eight pass with it - 0 parity fail, 0 compile fail.

The other twelve gap regressions in run 35671819448 are NOT this PR's and are
not fixed here: every one is `PERRY_COMPILE_TIMEOUT` expiring, measured widths
300.10-301.69 s against a 300 s budget. That is lane 17's class on #10859.
…alue() (#10924)

Adopted verbatim from merge train 255 (#10950, `train255r`), which found this
in its merged tree and fixed it there. The fix was never pushed back to this
branch, so the branch stayed broken and the same break was rediscovered from
CI. The comment is the train's.

#10924 (train 254) replaced the header-less `NullObjectBytes` static with a
real GC object and migrated every call site. #10938 was written before that
landed and ADDED a new site in the old idiom - the shadowing-scan hand guard
at site 3, the one `ShapeObjectKind::Dictionary` does not reach and which was
therefore deliberately kept. Main migrated what existed; this branch
introduced one more.

The merge of the two is textually clean and semantically broken: `main`'s
`object/mod.rs` no longer exports `NULL_OBJECT_BYTES`, while this branch's
`native_call_method.rs` still spells it. Since CI builds the PR merged with
main, every build job failed and all six gap shards were skipped.

It was not only a compile break. Had it compiled, a dictionary-mode receiver
would have got #10917 back - brand probes reading the `.rodata` bytes in
front of a header-less value - which is precisely what #10924 removed.

Rebased onto `a022cf2e4` (was train 253, `0fa391529`) in the same push, so
the stack restacks once.
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Rebased onto a022cf2e4 and adopted train 255's fix — 9266a060b. CI 35719333016.

One force-push, so the stack restacks once. Branch is now three commits on current main:

7c681747a dictionary mode (yours, rebased — unchanged content)
29b61e6fd [object-dictionary] harness strip (was 0005)
9266a060b the null_stub_value() fix, taken from train 255

The fix is the train's, not mine

Train 255 (#10950, train255r) already found and fixed this in its merged tree and wrote it up in the train body — it just never came back to the branch, which is why the branch stayed broken and why I rediscovered it from CI. I took its code and its comment verbatim; the site is byte-identical to train255r's. Credit where it belongs.

Its point is the one that matters for review, and it is not the compile error:

Had it compiled, dictionary-mode receivers would have got the #10917 bug back — brand probes reading the .rodata bytes in front of a header-less value.

#10924 replaced the header-less NullObjectBytes static with a real GC object and migrated every site that existed. This PR added one in the old idiom: the shadowing-scan hand guard at site 3 — the one ShapeObjectKind::Dictionary does not reach, and which was therefore deliberately kept when the other guards were deleted. So the same site that was right to keep needed the migration too.

Worth noting how it hid: the rebase applied with no conflicts. Textually clean, semantically broken — main's object/mod.rs stopped exporting the symbol while this branch's native_call_method.rs kept spelling it, and nothing in git's view connects the two.

Verified on the rebased tree, not assumed

  • cargo build --release + cargo test --no-run: clean, no errors.
  • Runtime suite, --test-threads=1: 4253 passed / 0 failed / 6 ignored.
  • The eight parity-env gap fixtures through the real harness: 8/8 pass, 0 parity fail, 0 compile fail.

One thing that changed for the better and is worth recording: the object::inherited_read_cache::tests::a_second_receiver_of_the_same_shape_shares_the_entry red I reported earlier is absent here. That is consistent with the attribution rather than a contradiction — it came from lane 8's feat/canonical-shape-identity commits, which are not on this branch; I saw it because the measurement tree was lane 8's base with this PR rebased on top.

Still expected to be red: Cluster A

The twelve PERRY_COMPILE_TIMEOUT failures (widths 300.10–301.69 s) are untouched by any of this and should reappear now that the build gets far enough to run the shards. Not this PR's — see the evidence on #10859.

Landing series

/root/lane16b/landing/0005 is now in the branch, so only 00010004 remain. All re-checked against the rebased branch and they still apply cleanly (delete_rest.rs is still blob 538fc15a3 on the new base, so git cherry-pick ffba86288 also still works). README.md there has the rest.

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Shards reported: Cluster B is gone, and every remaining regression is Cluster A.

Run 35719333016 on 9266a060b, all six shards complete.

count class
COMPILE_FAIL, pass -> compile_fail 18 all Cluster A — the compile budget
PARITY_FAIL with a pass -> transition 0
PARITY_FAIL already red in the baseline 6 nobody's regression

Zero parity regressions. The eight [object-dictionary] failures are cleared — gc_string_repeat_reentrant_count, gc_string_suffix_cursor, gc_string_copy_source_rooting, gc_same_module_call_argument_rooting, gc_rest_argument_rooting, gc_inlined_ctor_body_locals_rooting, dynamic_import_alias_binding, 8434_string_builder_roundtrips all pass. CI now agrees with the local harness result.

The six remaining PARITY_FAILs carry no pass -> transition, i.e. they are red in the harness's own baseline and were red before this PR: 2159_defineproperty_class_prototype, 2514_settracesigint, json_lazy_defineproperty_index, perfhooks_3088_3008_3010_3011, prop_plan_cache_invalidation, v8_2_3680plus. Same six as the original run.

The 18, and every one is the 300 s wall

Widths from the previous test's completion, all six shards:

300.10  6558_webassembly_graceful_fail      300.15  http_req_async_iterator
300.11  zlib_fs_assert_2935_2752_2971       300.15  fetch_request_from_node_incoming_message
300.11  buffer_subarray_native_consumers    300.15  handle_band_object_ops
300.11  constants_tail_3683plus             300.15  http_res_socket_writable_onfinished
300.11  net_crypto_2549_2963                300.16  gc_net_once_flags_rekey
300.12  http2_settings                      300.17  http_overloads_3226plus
300.12  3662_node_argvalidation             300.19  10428_10429_node_module_value_dispatch
300.13  gc_http2_pending_event_callback…    301.71  9552_cross_thread_promise_survives_gc
300.14  regex_replace_dyn_regex_with_http
300.14  3527_http_ctor_prototype

min 300.10, max 301.71 — eighteen values in a 1.6 s band around a 300 s budget. Not eighteen compile errors.

Direct corroboration: all three fixtures lane 17 named in their own before/after table — http2_settings, 3527_http_ctor_prototype, gc_net_once_flags_rekey — are in this list, and all three pass on their branch with the budget fix.

It went 12 → 18, and that is the argument, not a worsening

The set is not a fixed dozen slow tests. It is the first fixture of each feature set, so the count tracks how many perry-ext-* feature sets a run reaches with a cold auto-optimize cache — and any PR that changes runtime source guarantees the cache is cold. This run reached more of them than the last one. Same cause, different draw.

That is why this is a structural cost rather than a flake, and why it will keep reddening shards on every runtime-touching PR until the budget is split by whether the compile may build toolchain artifacts. That work is in #10859 — whose title ("a worker thread instantiates its own module graph") badly undersells it; the compile-budget fix is genuinely inside that bundle, which is part of why this keeps getting rediscovered.

Where that leaves this PR

Nothing on these shards is attributable to #10938 any more. Build green (check, warnings, gc-stress-build, gap-suite-build, e2e-scoped), runtime suite 4253/0/6 locally, zero parity regressions, and the only red left is a pre-existing budget class with its own PR.

lint remains red at the same two steps as before this work (Check formatting, Public benchmark evidence freshness) — unchanged by it, and I could not attribute the formatting half to this branch because main's own versions of the shared files report dirty under the same check. The branch does carry rustfmt diffs in its own files; I have deliberately not touched them while lane 8 restacks, and will do it as a standalone commit afterwards.

proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
#10938's new dictionary-mode early return still spelled the header-less
`NullObjectBytes` static that #10924 replaced with a real GC object, so the
branch did not compile and, had it, would have given dictionary-mode receivers
the #10917 bug back: brand probes reading the .rodata bytes in front of a
header-less value. It returns `null_stub_value()` now, like every other site.

#10932's cross-thread test wrapped `buffer::buffer_data` in `unsafe` -- a safe
fn on main and unchanged by this train -- which is an `unused_unsafe` warning
and therefore a failure under CI's `warnings` gate (--all-targets -D warnings).

Also: #10931 added `proto_serial` to the inline `ObjectMeta` while #10938 moved
that struct into object/meta_record.rs. The field is ported to the moved
module, placed after `dictionary_keys` rather than immediately before
`native_state` -- the inline version sat between native_state's doc block and
its declaration, which reattached that whole doc ("LAST FIELD ON PURPOSE") to
proto_serial and left native_state undocumented.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
…fixes #10941)

`alloc_{nursery,old}_test_object(0)` allocated exactly an `ObjectHeader` and
left the receiver unstamped, on the reasoning recorded above it that "a
zero-slot fixture needs no descriptor at all - the derived bound is 0 either
way".

A named-property write does not respect that bound. The inline/overflow
boundary is `max(object_live_slot_count(obj), INLINE_SLOT_FLOOR)` and the
floor is 2, so the first two keys written to a zero-slot fixture store into
inline slots 0 and 1 of an object that has none. Those two words are the next
cell. Every caller before PR #10938 only ever set a `[[Prototype]]` on one,
so nothing had written a named property and the hazard was invisible; it
presents as a wrong read now and a SIGSEGV somewhere unrelated later.

Both fixtures now allocate `max(field_count, INLINE_SLOT_FLOOR)` slots while
PUBLISHING the bound as `field_count`, so the collector still traces exactly
`field_count` slots and the descriptor-count accounting the original comment
protects is unchanged.

Witness: `gc::tests::zero_slot_fixture` asserts the ALLOCATION, for both the
nursery and the old-generation fixture, and reddens by name when the change
is reverted. An end-to-end pin - six named writes, read back - was written
and deliberately dropped: without the fix it does not fail, it dumps core,
which under `--test-threads=1` takes the other ~4,200 results with it. That
is recorded in the module doc.

Suite: 4218 passed / 0 failed / 6 ignored, `--test-threads=1`, both arms.
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gc_pin_sites (#7645 custody) -- REAL. shared_sab.rs originated a pin with a raw
`gc_flags = GC_FLAG_PINNED | GC_FLAG_TENURED` write. The block is a
process-global alloc_zeroed with no GC_FLAG_ARENA, so it is malloc space and
the young-pin latch must stay disarmed for it: that is exactly
`gc::pin_object_non_young`, which the write now routes through. Its doc
requires a case in `pin_object_non_young_call_sites_are_never_young` for every
caller, so one is added, allocating a real SAB and asserting the block is never
young. The header-survival assertion moves to masking reads (the gate's rule A)
and GC_FLAG_PINNED leaves the import list, since a bare mention of the token
reads as a pin creation.

shape_descriptor_census -- a legitimate NEW callsite. #10936's region_guard.rs
asks `target_layout::object_header_size_bytes(ctx.target_triple)`, the same
canonical helper as the other 42 sites, rather than baking a literal. Baseline
refreshed: exactly one entry added, summary 42 -> 43, nothing removed.

global_sink_isolation x2 -- both FALSE, same scanner defect. It resolves
identifiers by name across the crate with no scope or comment awareness:
#10941's comment ended "those two words are THE NEXT CELL" and `CELL` resolved
to a real `static CELL` in pointer_event.rs; #10938's test-local
`const DETERMINISTIC` resolved to `stub_diag.rs`'s `static DETERMINISTIC`.
Neither file touches a process-global. Reworded the comment and renamed the
const to DETERMINISTIC_BIT; the scanner defect is filed rather than patched
here, because a first attempt at fixing it dropped five identifiers the audit
had always counted, invalidated a live allowlist entry, and could not be shown
still able to fire.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
…tput

#10938 prints it from gc/schedule.rs beside the [gc-schedule] lines, so it
appears under every fixture declaring parity-env PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_SEED -- 13
of them. The normaliser stripped only the [gc-schedule] prefix, so those
fixtures diffed on instrument noise.

test_gap_dynamic_import_alias_binding surfaced it, and misleadingly: the
harness's truncated view showed identical first lines for Node and Perry
because the difference was four lines down (#796). Reproduced outside the
harness, the program output is byte-identical and the whole delta is the
instrument rows.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
#10938's new dictionary-mode early return still spelled the header-less
`NullObjectBytes` static that #10924 replaced with a real GC object, so the
branch did not compile and, had it, would have given dictionary-mode receivers
the #10917 bug back: brand probes reading the .rodata bytes in front of a
header-less value. It returns `null_stub_value()` now, like every other site.

#10932's cross-thread test wrapped `buffer::buffer_data` in `unsafe` -- a safe
fn on main and unchanged by this train -- which is an `unused_unsafe` warning
and therefore a failure under CI's `warnings` gate (--all-targets -D warnings).

Also: #10931 added `proto_serial` to the inline `ObjectMeta` while #10938 moved
that struct into object/meta_record.rs. The field is ported to the moved
module, placed after `dictionary_keys` rather than immediately before
`native_state` -- the inline version sat between native_state's doc block and
its declaration, which reattached that whole doc ("LAST FIELD ON PURPOSE") to
proto_serial and left native_state undocumented.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
…fixes #10941)

`alloc_{nursery,old}_test_object(0)` allocated exactly an `ObjectHeader` and
left the receiver unstamped, on the reasoning recorded above it that "a
zero-slot fixture needs no descriptor at all - the derived bound is 0 either
way".

A named-property write does not respect that bound. The inline/overflow
boundary is `max(object_live_slot_count(obj), INLINE_SLOT_FLOOR)` and the
floor is 2, so the first two keys written to a zero-slot fixture store into
inline slots 0 and 1 of an object that has none. Those two words are the next
cell. Every caller before PR #10938 only ever set a `[[Prototype]]` on one,
so nothing had written a named property and the hazard was invisible; it
presents as a wrong read now and a SIGSEGV somewhere unrelated later.

Both fixtures now allocate `max(field_count, INLINE_SLOT_FLOOR)` slots while
PUBLISHING the bound as `field_count`, so the collector still traces exactly
`field_count` slots and the descriptor-count accounting the original comment
protects is unchanged.

Witness: `gc::tests::zero_slot_fixture` asserts the ALLOCATION, for both the
nursery and the old-generation fixture, and reddens by name when the change
is reverted. An end-to-end pin - six named writes, read back - was written
and deliberately dropped: without the fix it does not fail, it dumps core,
which under `--test-threads=1` takes the other ~4,200 results with it. That
is recorded in the module doc.

Suite: 4218 passed / 0 failed / 6 ignored, `--test-threads=1`, both arms.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
gc_pin_sites (#7645 custody) -- REAL. shared_sab.rs originated a pin with a raw
`gc_flags = GC_FLAG_PINNED | GC_FLAG_TENURED` write. The block is a
process-global alloc_zeroed with no GC_FLAG_ARENA, so it is malloc space and
the young-pin latch must stay disarmed for it: that is exactly
`gc::pin_object_non_young`, which the write now routes through. Its doc
requires a case in `pin_object_non_young_call_sites_are_never_young` for every
caller, so one is added, allocating a real SAB and asserting the block is never
young. The header-survival assertion moves to masking reads (the gate's rule A)
and GC_FLAG_PINNED leaves the import list, since a bare mention of the token
reads as a pin creation.

shape_descriptor_census -- a legitimate NEW callsite. #10936's region_guard.rs
asks `target_layout::object_header_size_bytes(ctx.target_triple)`, the same
canonical helper as the other 42 sites, rather than baking a literal. Baseline
refreshed: exactly one entry added, summary 42 -> 43, nothing removed.

global_sink_isolation x2 -- both FALSE, same scanner defect. It resolves
identifiers by name across the crate with no scope or comment awareness:
#10941's comment ended "those two words are THE NEXT CELL" and `CELL` resolved
to a real `static CELL` in pointer_event.rs; #10938's test-local
`const DETERMINISTIC` resolved to `stub_diag.rs`'s `static DETERMINISTIC`.
Neither file touches a process-global. Reworded the comment and renamed the
const to DETERMINISTIC_BIT; the scanner defect is filed rather than patched
here, because a first attempt at fixing it dropped five identifiers the audit
had always counted, invalidated a live allowlist entry, and could not be shown
still able to fire.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
…tput

#10938 prints it from gc/schedule.rs beside the [gc-schedule] lines, so it
appears under every fixture declaring parity-env PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_SEED -- 13
of them. The normaliser stripped only the [gc-schedule] prefix, so those
fixtures diffed on instrument noise.

test_gap_dynamic_import_alias_binding surfaced it, and misleadingly: the
harness's truncated view showed identical first lines for Node and Perry
because the difference was four lines down (#796). Reproduced outside the
harness, the program output is byte-identical and the whole delta is the
instrument rows.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
#10938's new dictionary-mode early return still spelled the header-less
`NullObjectBytes` static that #10924 replaced with a real GC object, so the
branch did not compile and, had it, would have given dictionary-mode receivers
the #10917 bug back: brand probes reading the .rodata bytes in front of a
header-less value. It returns `null_stub_value()` now, like every other site.

#10932's cross-thread test wrapped `buffer::buffer_data` in `unsafe` -- a safe
fn on main and unchanged by this train -- which is an `unused_unsafe` warning
and therefore a failure under CI's `warnings` gate (--all-targets -D warnings).

Also: #10931 added `proto_serial` to the inline `ObjectMeta` while #10938 moved
that struct into object/meta_record.rs. The field is ported to the moved
module, placed after `dictionary_keys` rather than immediately before
`native_state` -- the inline version sat between native_state's doc block and
its declaration, which reattached that whole doc ("LAST FIELD ON PURPOSE") to
proto_serial and left native_state undocumented.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
…fixes #10941)

`alloc_{nursery,old}_test_object(0)` allocated exactly an `ObjectHeader` and
left the receiver unstamped, on the reasoning recorded above it that "a
zero-slot fixture needs no descriptor at all - the derived bound is 0 either
way".

A named-property write does not respect that bound. The inline/overflow
boundary is `max(object_live_slot_count(obj), INLINE_SLOT_FLOOR)` and the
floor is 2, so the first two keys written to a zero-slot fixture store into
inline slots 0 and 1 of an object that has none. Those two words are the next
cell. Every caller before PR #10938 only ever set a `[[Prototype]]` on one,
so nothing had written a named property and the hazard was invisible; it
presents as a wrong read now and a SIGSEGV somewhere unrelated later.

Both fixtures now allocate `max(field_count, INLINE_SLOT_FLOOR)` slots while
PUBLISHING the bound as `field_count`, so the collector still traces exactly
`field_count` slots and the descriptor-count accounting the original comment
protects is unchanged.

Witness: `gc::tests::zero_slot_fixture` asserts the ALLOCATION, for both the
nursery and the old-generation fixture, and reddens by name when the change
is reverted. An end-to-end pin - six named writes, read back - was written
and deliberately dropped: without the fix it does not fail, it dumps core,
which under `--test-threads=1` takes the other ~4,200 results with it. That
is recorded in the module doc.

Suite: 4218 passed / 0 failed / 6 ignored, `--test-threads=1`, both arms.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
gc_pin_sites (#7645 custody) -- REAL. shared_sab.rs originated a pin with a raw
`gc_flags = GC_FLAG_PINNED | GC_FLAG_TENURED` write. The block is a
process-global alloc_zeroed with no GC_FLAG_ARENA, so it is malloc space and
the young-pin latch must stay disarmed for it: that is exactly
`gc::pin_object_non_young`, which the write now routes through. Its doc
requires a case in `pin_object_non_young_call_sites_are_never_young` for every
caller, so one is added, allocating a real SAB and asserting the block is never
young. The header-survival assertion moves to masking reads (the gate's rule A)
and GC_FLAG_PINNED leaves the import list, since a bare mention of the token
reads as a pin creation.

shape_descriptor_census -- a legitimate NEW callsite. #10936's region_guard.rs
asks `target_layout::object_header_size_bytes(ctx.target_triple)`, the same
canonical helper as the other 42 sites, rather than baking a literal. Baseline
refreshed: exactly one entry added, summary 42 -> 43, nothing removed.

global_sink_isolation x2 -- both FALSE, same scanner defect. It resolves
identifiers by name across the crate with no scope or comment awareness:
#10941's comment ended "those two words are THE NEXT CELL" and `CELL` resolved
to a real `static CELL` in pointer_event.rs; #10938's test-local
`const DETERMINISTIC` resolved to `stub_diag.rs`'s `static DETERMINISTIC`.
Neither file touches a process-global. Reworded the comment and renamed the
const to DETERMINISTIC_BIT; the scanner defect is filed rather than patched
here, because a first attempt at fixing it dropped five identifiers the audit
had always counted, invalidated a live allowlist entry, and could not be shown
still able to fire.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
…tput

#10938 prints it from gc/schedule.rs beside the [gc-schedule] lines, so it
appears under every fixture declaring parity-env PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_SEED -- 13
of them. The normaliser stripped only the [gc-schedule] prefix, so those
fixtures diffed on instrument noise.

test_gap_dynamic_import_alias_binding surfaced it, and misleadingly: the
harness's truncated view showed identical first lines for Node and Perry
because the difference was four lines down (#796). Reproduced outside the
harness, the program output is byte-identical and the whole delta is the
instrument rows.
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Landed on main in merge train 255 (#10950, v0.5.1636), main c7cbc3c73b.

The train carried this PR at head 9266a060bf. The landed tree is byte-identical to the validated train tree (d43bd23008), and CI on the train head passed every job except the known public-baseline lint step. Trains rebase-merge, which gives new commit SHAs, so GitHub can't mark this PR merged. It's closed as landed.

proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
…t, so the ADDRESS is the content identity (#10868 step 2.5 stage 1b)

`facts_key` folds six identity facts and one of them is the keys array's
ADDRESS, so two objects with byte-identical ordered key lists in separately
allocated arrays mint two ShapeIds for one layout. On a real
`ts.transpileModule` that was 32,246 of 42,097 mints (`key_count` 19,923 plus
`fresh_keys_known_list` 12,323) against a process that ABORTS on id
exhaustion.

`facts_key` is not changed at all. The address is made to tell the truth
instead: every keys array now comes from `object/canonical_keys.rs`, exactly
one exists per distinct ordered list, and folding the pointer IS folding the
content. The probe path is byte-for-byte what it was.

THE STRUCTURE IS A TRIE, so the O(N) L8.3.15 warned about never happens.
Canonical arrays form a tree -- each is (canonical parent, one appended slot)
-- so the table is an EDGE map, not a content map. `extend` is one hash probe
plus an exact check of the single appended slot, and no list content is ever
walked on the grow path. `canonicalize`, for a producer handing over a whole
list, is a fold of `extend`: the same one path N times, not a second path.
Edges are keyed by NODE ID, which the collector cannot move, so a minor visits
one contiguous `Vec` instead of rekeying an address-keyed map.

WHAT THIS DELETES, rather than guards. The growth sites used to clone the
shared array with `+ 4` slack, PUBLISH the clone, push, and publish again --
two ShapeIds per grow where the layout changed once. The clone, the
`keys_shared` ownership test, the slack and the intermediate publish are all
gone, and with them `shape_keys_grown`'s owned-array index migration: no keys
array is owned any more, so the arm does not exist rather than being
guarded (L8.3.15c). `retire_owned_shape_siblings` and `fast_paths.rs`'s
in-place append decline BY CONSTRUCTION for the same reason -- both already
gate on the absence of `GC_FLAG_SHAPE_SHARED`, and every canonical array is
shared from birth. Polarity verified from source rather than assumed, as in
stage 1a.

WEAK, EXACTLY LIKE THE TRANSITION CACHE, and that is what bounds it. #6759
phase 3 made `next_keys` weak after strong rooting pinned 16,384 keys arrays
and 786k descriptors against under 400 live objects; this table is weak
through the same two mechanisms. That answers L8.3.15c's retention worry,
which assumed the intern table would hold its arrays: it holds none, so
retention is proportional to LIVE layouts and this stage introduces NO latch
trigger. `ShapeObjectKind::Dictionary` is in this branch anyway (stage 1a,
b858fe900), so L8.3.15f is satisfied for #10938 when it rebases on top.

Dropping a node whose array died orphans its children: a later walk from the
root rebuilds the chain and mints one duplicate layout. That is a mint, never
a wrong answer, and `fresh_keys_known_list` in the mint census is its witness
-- which is why the census, not a perf gate, is this stage's instrument. The
census also prints a named verdict, `FUNNEL OK` / `FUNNEL BROKEN: N keys
ADDRESSES for M distinct key-NAME lists`, because the inequality can only be
violated by a producer allocating around the funnel and nothing else in the
process would notice.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
…is ordinary, and the latch is armed (#10868 step 2.5)

Stage 1a added ShapeObjectKind::Dictionary precisely so a latched receiver
would decline by construction. Stage 1b then added three canonicalization
calls that never asked: tail.rs 625/818/995 all sat ABOVE every is_dictionary
guard (659/838/880/1042/1083), so a latched receivers PRIVATE key list was
interned and republished as a shared layout. Measured: one object with 8,192
computed keys returned keys=7785 sum=NaN with the latch armed, where #10938
alone returns 8192/33550336 correctly. Mine, not lane 16s.

The fix is a type, not an ordering. Hoisting those three guards would fix
three sites and leave the fourth to whoever adds it next; nobody holds the
membership of this class in their head, including the author of the rule.
SharedLayout is the receiver side of CanonicalKeys: canonicalize and extend
REQUIRE one, and of_receiver is the kind check that mints it. A new call site
cannot compile without asking. The single non-kind constructor,
shape_cache_entry, is named so it is auditable: a shape-cache entry is keyed
by a STATIC shape id and handed to every receiver of that shape, so no
receiver kind can make it private.

TWO MODES, NOT TWO PATHS. An ordinary receivers key list is a shared layout
and interns; a latched receiver owns its list and appends in place -- chosen
by a fact on the shape, which is what dictionary mode IS. What this campaign
rejects is a fast path beside a slow one inside ONE mode, where the fast one
is the lie. The in-place arm is copied from 34183f4 rather than
reconstructed, because a dictionary array carries no GC_FLAG_SHAPE_SHARED and
the parents owned arm is already exactly right.

AND THE LATCH IS NOW ARMED BY DEFAULT at 1,024 keys, because a bound that is
off by default is not a bound. L8.3.2 wrote this down before either stage
existed: canonical arrays cannot ship ahead of dictionary mode without a
cliff. Measured, not projected -- 8,192 keys: 499 MB unlatched, 49.9 MB
latched, both answers correct. The 65,536-key membership test allocated past
a 24 GB cap unlatched and passes in 0.03 s latched.

Touches dictionary.rs, which the boundary assigns to lane 16: the change is
the DEFAULT of its trigger-1 threshold, which step 2.5 owns per the seam
(lane 16 owns the latch, this lane wires the trigger). Env var still
overrides in both directions.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
…t, so the ADDRESS is the content identity (#10868 step 2.5 stage 1b)

`facts_key` folds six identity facts and one of them is the keys array's
ADDRESS, so two objects with byte-identical ordered key lists in separately
allocated arrays mint two ShapeIds for one layout. On a real
`ts.transpileModule` that was 32,246 of 42,097 mints (`key_count` 19,923 plus
`fresh_keys_known_list` 12,323) against a process that ABORTS on id
exhaustion.

`facts_key` is not changed at all. The address is made to tell the truth
instead: every keys array now comes from `object/canonical_keys.rs`, exactly
one exists per distinct ordered list, and folding the pointer IS folding the
content. The probe path is byte-for-byte what it was.

THE STRUCTURE IS A TRIE, so the O(N) L8.3.15 warned about never happens.
Canonical arrays form a tree -- each is (canonical parent, one appended slot)
-- so the table is an EDGE map, not a content map. `extend` is one hash probe
plus an exact check of the single appended slot, and no list content is ever
walked on the grow path. `canonicalize`, for a producer handing over a whole
list, is a fold of `extend`: the same one path N times, not a second path.
Edges are keyed by NODE ID, which the collector cannot move, so a minor visits
one contiguous `Vec` instead of rekeying an address-keyed map.

WHAT THIS DELETES, rather than guards. The growth sites used to clone the
shared array with `+ 4` slack, PUBLISH the clone, push, and publish again --
two ShapeIds per grow where the layout changed once. The clone, the
`keys_shared` ownership test, the slack and the intermediate publish are all
gone, and with them `shape_keys_grown`'s owned-array index migration: no keys
array is owned any more, so the arm does not exist rather than being
guarded (L8.3.15c). `retire_owned_shape_siblings` and `fast_paths.rs`'s
in-place append decline BY CONSTRUCTION for the same reason -- both already
gate on the absence of `GC_FLAG_SHAPE_SHARED`, and every canonical array is
shared from birth. Polarity verified from source rather than assumed, as in
stage 1a.

WEAK, EXACTLY LIKE THE TRANSITION CACHE, and that is what bounds it. #6759
phase 3 made `next_keys` weak after strong rooting pinned 16,384 keys arrays
and 786k descriptors against under 400 live objects; this table is weak
through the same two mechanisms. That answers L8.3.15c's retention worry,
which assumed the intern table would hold its arrays: it holds none, so
retention is proportional to LIVE layouts and this stage introduces NO latch
trigger. `ShapeObjectKind::Dictionary` is in this branch anyway (stage 1a,
b858fe900), so L8.3.15f is satisfied for #10938 when it rebases on top.

Dropping a node whose array died orphans its children: a later walk from the
root rebuilds the chain and mints one duplicate layout. That is a mint, never
a wrong answer, and `fresh_keys_known_list` in the mint census is its witness
-- which is why the census, not a perf gate, is this stage's instrument. The
census also prints a named verdict, `FUNNEL OK` / `FUNNEL BROKEN: N keys
ADDRESSES for M distinct key-NAME lists`, because the inequality can only be
violated by a producer allocating around the funnel and nothing else in the
process would notice.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
…is ordinary, and the latch is armed (#10868 step 2.5)

Stage 1a added ShapeObjectKind::Dictionary precisely so a latched receiver
would decline by construction. Stage 1b then added three canonicalization
calls that never asked: tail.rs 625/818/995 all sat ABOVE every is_dictionary
guard (659/838/880/1042/1083), so a latched receivers PRIVATE key list was
interned and republished as a shared layout. Measured: one object with 8,192
computed keys returned keys=7785 sum=NaN with the latch armed, where #10938
alone returns 8192/33550336 correctly. Mine, not lane 16s.

The fix is a type, not an ordering. Hoisting those three guards would fix
three sites and leave the fourth to whoever adds it next; nobody holds the
membership of this class in their head, including the author of the rule.
SharedLayout is the receiver side of CanonicalKeys: canonicalize and extend
REQUIRE one, and of_receiver is the kind check that mints it. A new call site
cannot compile without asking. The single non-kind constructor,
shape_cache_entry, is named so it is auditable: a shape-cache entry is keyed
by a STATIC shape id and handed to every receiver of that shape, so no
receiver kind can make it private.

TWO MODES, NOT TWO PATHS. An ordinary receivers key list is a shared layout
and interns; a latched receiver owns its list and appends in place -- chosen
by a fact on the shape, which is what dictionary mode IS. What this campaign
rejects is a fast path beside a slow one inside ONE mode, where the fast one
is the lie. The in-place arm is copied from 34183f4 rather than
reconstructed, because a dictionary array carries no GC_FLAG_SHAPE_SHARED and
the parents owned arm is already exactly right.

AND THE LATCH IS NOW ARMED BY DEFAULT at 1,024 keys, because a bound that is
off by default is not a bound. L8.3.2 wrote this down before either stage
existed: canonical arrays cannot ship ahead of dictionary mode without a
cliff. Measured, not projected -- 8,192 keys: 499 MB unlatched, 49.9 MB
latched, both answers correct. The 65,536-key membership test allocated past
a 24 GB cap unlatched and passes in 0.03 s latched.

Touches dictionary.rs, which the boundary assigns to lane 16: the change is
the DEFAULT of its trigger-1 threshold, which step 2.5 owns per the seam
(lane 16 owns the latch, this lane wires the trigger). Env var still
overrides in both directions.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 23, 2026
…t, so the ADDRESS is the content identity (#10868 step 2.5 stage 1b)

`facts_key` folds six identity facts and one of them is the keys array's
ADDRESS, so two objects with byte-identical ordered key lists in separately
allocated arrays mint two ShapeIds for one layout. On a real
`ts.transpileModule` that was 32,246 of 42,097 mints (`key_count` 19,923 plus
`fresh_keys_known_list` 12,323) against a process that ABORTS on id
exhaustion.

`facts_key` is not changed at all. The address is made to tell the truth
instead: every keys array now comes from `object/canonical_keys.rs`, exactly
one exists per distinct ordered list, and folding the pointer IS folding the
content. The probe path is byte-for-byte what it was.

THE STRUCTURE IS A TRIE, so the O(N) L8.3.15 warned about never happens.
Canonical arrays form a tree -- each is (canonical parent, one appended slot)
-- so the table is an EDGE map, not a content map. `extend` is one hash probe
plus an exact check of the single appended slot, and no list content is ever
walked on the grow path. `canonicalize`, for a producer handing over a whole
list, is a fold of `extend`: the same one path N times, not a second path.
Edges are keyed by NODE ID, which the collector cannot move, so a minor visits
one contiguous `Vec` instead of rekeying an address-keyed map.

WHAT THIS DELETES, rather than guards. The growth sites used to clone the
shared array with `+ 4` slack, PUBLISH the clone, push, and publish again --
two ShapeIds per grow where the layout changed once. The clone, the
`keys_shared` ownership test, the slack and the intermediate publish are all
gone, and with them `shape_keys_grown`'s owned-array index migration: no keys
array is owned any more, so the arm does not exist rather than being
guarded (L8.3.15c). `retire_owned_shape_siblings` and `fast_paths.rs`'s
in-place append decline BY CONSTRUCTION for the same reason -- both already
gate on the absence of `GC_FLAG_SHAPE_SHARED`, and every canonical array is
shared from birth. Polarity verified from source rather than assumed, as in
stage 1a.

WEAK, EXACTLY LIKE THE TRANSITION CACHE, and that is what bounds it. #6759
phase 3 made `next_keys` weak after strong rooting pinned 16,384 keys arrays
and 786k descriptors against under 400 live objects; this table is weak
through the same two mechanisms. That answers L8.3.15c's retention worry,
which assumed the intern table would hold its arrays: it holds none, so
retention is proportional to LIVE layouts and this stage introduces NO latch
trigger. `ShapeObjectKind::Dictionary` is in this branch anyway (stage 1a,
b858fe900), so L8.3.15f is satisfied for #10938 when it rebases on top.

Dropping a node whose array died orphans its children: a later walk from the
root rebuilds the chain and mints one duplicate layout. That is a mint, never
a wrong answer, and `fresh_keys_known_list` in the mint census is its witness
-- which is why the census, not a perf gate, is this stage's instrument. The
census also prints a named verdict, `FUNNEL OK` / `FUNNEL BROKEN: N keys
ADDRESSES for M distinct key-NAME lists`, because the inequality can only be
violated by a producer allocating around the funnel and nothing else in the
process would notice.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 23, 2026
…is ordinary, and the latch is armed (#10868 step 2.5)

Stage 1a added ShapeObjectKind::Dictionary precisely so a latched receiver
would decline by construction. Stage 1b then added three canonicalization
calls that never asked: tail.rs 625/818/995 all sat ABOVE every is_dictionary
guard (659/838/880/1042/1083), so a latched receivers PRIVATE key list was
interned and republished as a shared layout. Measured: one object with 8,192
computed keys returned keys=7785 sum=NaN with the latch armed, where #10938
alone returns 8192/33550336 correctly. Mine, not lane 16s.

The fix is a type, not an ordering. Hoisting those three guards would fix
three sites and leave the fourth to whoever adds it next; nobody holds the
membership of this class in their head, including the author of the rule.
SharedLayout is the receiver side of CanonicalKeys: canonicalize and extend
REQUIRE one, and of_receiver is the kind check that mints it. A new call site
cannot compile without asking. The single non-kind constructor,
shape_cache_entry, is named so it is auditable: a shape-cache entry is keyed
by a STATIC shape id and handed to every receiver of that shape, so no
receiver kind can make it private.

TWO MODES, NOT TWO PATHS. An ordinary receivers key list is a shared layout
and interns; a latched receiver owns its list and appends in place -- chosen
by a fact on the shape, which is what dictionary mode IS. What this campaign
rejects is a fast path beside a slow one inside ONE mode, where the fast one
is the lie. The in-place arm is copied from 34183f4 rather than
reconstructed, because a dictionary array carries no GC_FLAG_SHAPE_SHARED and
the parents owned arm is already exactly right.

AND THE LATCH IS NOW ARMED BY DEFAULT at 1,024 keys, because a bound that is
off by default is not a bound. L8.3.2 wrote this down before either stage
existed: canonical arrays cannot ship ahead of dictionary mode without a
cliff. Measured, not projected -- 8,192 keys: 499 MB unlatched, 49.9 MB
latched, both answers correct. The 65,536-key membership test allocated past
a 24 GB cap unlatched and passes in 0.03 s latched.

Touches dictionary.rs, which the boundary assigns to lane 16: the change is
the DEFAULT of its trigger-1 threshold, which step 2.5 owns per the seam
(lane 16 owns the latch, this lane wires the trigger). Env var still
overrides in both directions.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 23, 2026
…t, so the ADDRESS is the content identity (#10868 step 2.5 stage 1b)

`facts_key` folds six identity facts and one of them is the keys array's
ADDRESS, so two objects with byte-identical ordered key lists in separately
allocated arrays mint two ShapeIds for one layout. On a real
`ts.transpileModule` that was 32,246 of 42,097 mints (`key_count` 19,923 plus
`fresh_keys_known_list` 12,323) against a process that ABORTS on id
exhaustion.

`facts_key` is not changed at all. The address is made to tell the truth
instead: every keys array now comes from `object/canonical_keys.rs`, exactly
one exists per distinct ordered list, and folding the pointer IS folding the
content. The probe path is byte-for-byte what it was.

THE STRUCTURE IS A TRIE, so the O(N) L8.3.15 warned about never happens.
Canonical arrays form a tree -- each is (canonical parent, one appended slot)
-- so the table is an EDGE map, not a content map. `extend` is one hash probe
plus an exact check of the single appended slot, and no list content is ever
walked on the grow path. `canonicalize`, for a producer handing over a whole
list, is a fold of `extend`: the same one path N times, not a second path.
Edges are keyed by NODE ID, which the collector cannot move, so a minor visits
one contiguous `Vec` instead of rekeying an address-keyed map.

WHAT THIS DELETES, rather than guards. The growth sites used to clone the
shared array with `+ 4` slack, PUBLISH the clone, push, and publish again --
two ShapeIds per grow where the layout changed once. The clone, the
`keys_shared` ownership test, the slack and the intermediate publish are all
gone, and with them `shape_keys_grown`'s owned-array index migration: no keys
array is owned any more, so the arm does not exist rather than being
guarded (L8.3.15c). `retire_owned_shape_siblings` and `fast_paths.rs`'s
in-place append decline BY CONSTRUCTION for the same reason -- both already
gate on the absence of `GC_FLAG_SHAPE_SHARED`, and every canonical array is
shared from birth. Polarity verified from source rather than assumed, as in
stage 1a.

WEAK, EXACTLY LIKE THE TRANSITION CACHE, and that is what bounds it. #6759
phase 3 made `next_keys` weak after strong rooting pinned 16,384 keys arrays
and 786k descriptors against under 400 live objects; this table is weak
through the same two mechanisms. That answers L8.3.15c's retention worry,
which assumed the intern table would hold its arrays: it holds none, so
retention is proportional to LIVE layouts and this stage introduces NO latch
trigger. `ShapeObjectKind::Dictionary` is in this branch anyway (stage 1a,
b858fe900), so L8.3.15f is satisfied for #10938 when it rebases on top.

Dropping a node whose array died orphans its children: a later walk from the
root rebuilds the chain and mints one duplicate layout. That is a mint, never
a wrong answer, and `fresh_keys_known_list` in the mint census is its witness
-- which is why the census, not a perf gate, is this stage's instrument. The
census also prints a named verdict, `FUNNEL OK` / `FUNNEL BROKEN: N keys
ADDRESSES for M distinct key-NAME lists`, because the inequality can only be
violated by a producer allocating around the funnel and nothing else in the
process would notice.

(cherry picked from commit 4958a11)
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 23, 2026
…is ordinary, and the latch is armed (#10868 step 2.5)

Stage 1a added ShapeObjectKind::Dictionary precisely so a latched receiver
would decline by construction. Stage 1b then added three canonicalization
calls that never asked: tail.rs 625/818/995 all sat ABOVE every is_dictionary
guard (659/838/880/1042/1083), so a latched receivers PRIVATE key list was
interned and republished as a shared layout. Measured: one object with 8,192
computed keys returned keys=7785 sum=NaN with the latch armed, where #10938
alone returns 8192/33550336 correctly. Mine, not lane 16s.

The fix is a type, not an ordering. Hoisting those three guards would fix
three sites and leave the fourth to whoever adds it next; nobody holds the
membership of this class in their head, including the author of the rule.
SharedLayout is the receiver side of CanonicalKeys: canonicalize and extend
REQUIRE one, and of_receiver is the kind check that mints it. A new call site
cannot compile without asking. The single non-kind constructor,
shape_cache_entry, is named so it is auditable: a shape-cache entry is keyed
by a STATIC shape id and handed to every receiver of that shape, so no
receiver kind can make it private.

TWO MODES, NOT TWO PATHS. An ordinary receivers key list is a shared layout
and interns; a latched receiver owns its list and appends in place -- chosen
by a fact on the shape, which is what dictionary mode IS. What this campaign
rejects is a fast path beside a slow one inside ONE mode, where the fast one
is the lie. The in-place arm is copied from 34183f4 rather than
reconstructed, because a dictionary array carries no GC_FLAG_SHAPE_SHARED and
the parents owned arm is already exactly right.

AND THE LATCH IS NOW ARMED BY DEFAULT at 1,024 keys, because a bound that is
off by default is not a bound. L8.3.2 wrote this down before either stage
existed: canonical arrays cannot ship ahead of dictionary mode without a
cliff. Measured, not projected -- 8,192 keys: 499 MB unlatched, 49.9 MB
latched, both answers correct. The 65,536-key membership test allocated past
a 24 GB cap unlatched and passes in 0.03 s latched.

Touches dictionary.rs, which the boundary assigns to lane 16: the change is
the DEFAULT of its trigger-1 threshold, which step 2.5 owns per the seam
(lane 16 owns the latch, this lane wires the trigger). Env var still
overrides in both directions.

(cherry picked from commit 6edee8b)
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 23, 2026
…t, so the ADDRESS is the content identity (#10868 step 2.5 stage 1b)

`facts_key` folds six identity facts and one of them is the keys array's
ADDRESS, so two objects with byte-identical ordered key lists in separately
allocated arrays mint two ShapeIds for one layout. On a real
`ts.transpileModule` that was 32,246 of 42,097 mints (`key_count` 19,923 plus
`fresh_keys_known_list` 12,323) against a process that ABORTS on id
exhaustion.

`facts_key` is not changed at all. The address is made to tell the truth
instead: every keys array now comes from `object/canonical_keys.rs`, exactly
one exists per distinct ordered list, and folding the pointer IS folding the
content. The probe path is byte-for-byte what it was.

THE STRUCTURE IS A TRIE, so the O(N) L8.3.15 warned about never happens.
Canonical arrays form a tree -- each is (canonical parent, one appended slot)
-- so the table is an EDGE map, not a content map. `extend` is one hash probe
plus an exact check of the single appended slot, and no list content is ever
walked on the grow path. `canonicalize`, for a producer handing over a whole
list, is a fold of `extend`: the same one path N times, not a second path.
Edges are keyed by NODE ID, which the collector cannot move, so a minor visits
one contiguous `Vec` instead of rekeying an address-keyed map.

WHAT THIS DELETES, rather than guards. The growth sites used to clone the
shared array with `+ 4` slack, PUBLISH the clone, push, and publish again --
two ShapeIds per grow where the layout changed once. The clone, the
`keys_shared` ownership test, the slack and the intermediate publish are all
gone, and with them `shape_keys_grown`'s owned-array index migration: no keys
array is owned any more, so the arm does not exist rather than being
guarded (L8.3.15c). `retire_owned_shape_siblings` and `fast_paths.rs`'s
in-place append decline BY CONSTRUCTION for the same reason -- both already
gate on the absence of `GC_FLAG_SHAPE_SHARED`, and every canonical array is
shared from birth. Polarity verified from source rather than assumed, as in
stage 1a.

WEAK, EXACTLY LIKE THE TRANSITION CACHE, and that is what bounds it. #6759
phase 3 made `next_keys` weak after strong rooting pinned 16,384 keys arrays
and 786k descriptors against under 400 live objects; this table is weak
through the same two mechanisms. That answers L8.3.15c's retention worry,
which assumed the intern table would hold its arrays: it holds none, so
retention is proportional to LIVE layouts and this stage introduces NO latch
trigger. `ShapeObjectKind::Dictionary` is in this branch anyway (stage 1a,
b858fe900), so L8.3.15f is satisfied for #10938 when it rebases on top.

Dropping a node whose array died orphans its children: a later walk from the
root rebuilds the chain and mints one duplicate layout. That is a mint, never
a wrong answer, and `fresh_keys_known_list` in the mint census is its witness
-- which is why the census, not a perf gate, is this stage's instrument. The
census also prints a named verdict, `FUNNEL OK` / `FUNNEL BROKEN: N keys
ADDRESSES for M distinct key-NAME lists`, because the inequality can only be
violated by a producer allocating around the funnel and nothing else in the
process would notice.

(cherry picked from commit 4958a11)
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 23, 2026
…is ordinary, and the latch is armed (#10868 step 2.5)

Stage 1a added ShapeObjectKind::Dictionary precisely so a latched receiver
would decline by construction. Stage 1b then added three canonicalization
calls that never asked: tail.rs 625/818/995 all sat ABOVE every is_dictionary
guard (659/838/880/1042/1083), so a latched receivers PRIVATE key list was
interned and republished as a shared layout. Measured: one object with 8,192
computed keys returned keys=7785 sum=NaN with the latch armed, where #10938
alone returns 8192/33550336 correctly. Mine, not lane 16s.

The fix is a type, not an ordering. Hoisting those three guards would fix
three sites and leave the fourth to whoever adds it next; nobody holds the
membership of this class in their head, including the author of the rule.
SharedLayout is the receiver side of CanonicalKeys: canonicalize and extend
REQUIRE one, and of_receiver is the kind check that mints it. A new call site
cannot compile without asking. The single non-kind constructor,
shape_cache_entry, is named so it is auditable: a shape-cache entry is keyed
by a STATIC shape id and handed to every receiver of that shape, so no
receiver kind can make it private.

TWO MODES, NOT TWO PATHS. An ordinary receivers key list is a shared layout
and interns; a latched receiver owns its list and appends in place -- chosen
by a fact on the shape, which is what dictionary mode IS. What this campaign
rejects is a fast path beside a slow one inside ONE mode, where the fast one
is the lie. The in-place arm is copied from 34183f4 rather than
reconstructed, because a dictionary array carries no GC_FLAG_SHAPE_SHARED and
the parents owned arm is already exactly right.

AND THE LATCH IS NOW ARMED BY DEFAULT at 1,024 keys, because a bound that is
off by default is not a bound. L8.3.2 wrote this down before either stage
existed: canonical arrays cannot ship ahead of dictionary mode without a
cliff. Measured, not projected -- 8,192 keys: 499 MB unlatched, 49.9 MB
latched, both answers correct. The 65,536-key membership test allocated past
a 24 GB cap unlatched and passes in 0.03 s latched.

Touches dictionary.rs, which the boundary assigns to lane 16: the change is
the DEFAULT of its trigger-1 threshold, which step 2.5 owns per the seam
(lane 16 owns the latch, this lane wires the trigger). Env var still
overrides in both directions.

(cherry picked from commit 6edee8b)
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 23, 2026
…t, so the ADDRESS is the content identity (#10868 step 2.5 stage 1b)

`facts_key` folds six identity facts and one of them is the keys array's
ADDRESS, so two objects with byte-identical ordered key lists in separately
allocated arrays mint two ShapeIds for one layout. On a real
`ts.transpileModule` that was 32,246 of 42,097 mints (`key_count` 19,923 plus
`fresh_keys_known_list` 12,323) against a process that ABORTS on id
exhaustion.

`facts_key` is not changed at all. The address is made to tell the truth
instead: every keys array now comes from `object/canonical_keys.rs`, exactly
one exists per distinct ordered list, and folding the pointer IS folding the
content. The probe path is byte-for-byte what it was.

THE STRUCTURE IS A TRIE, so the O(N) L8.3.15 warned about never happens.
Canonical arrays form a tree -- each is (canonical parent, one appended slot)
-- so the table is an EDGE map, not a content map. `extend` is one hash probe
plus an exact check of the single appended slot, and no list content is ever
walked on the grow path. `canonicalize`, for a producer handing over a whole
list, is a fold of `extend`: the same one path N times, not a second path.
Edges are keyed by NODE ID, which the collector cannot move, so a minor visits
one contiguous `Vec` instead of rekeying an address-keyed map.

WHAT THIS DELETES, rather than guards. The growth sites used to clone the
shared array with `+ 4` slack, PUBLISH the clone, push, and publish again --
two ShapeIds per grow where the layout changed once. The clone, the
`keys_shared` ownership test, the slack and the intermediate publish are all
gone, and with them `shape_keys_grown`'s owned-array index migration: no keys
array is owned any more, so the arm does not exist rather than being
guarded (L8.3.15c). `retire_owned_shape_siblings` and `fast_paths.rs`'s
in-place append decline BY CONSTRUCTION for the same reason -- both already
gate on the absence of `GC_FLAG_SHAPE_SHARED`, and every canonical array is
shared from birth. Polarity verified from source rather than assumed, as in
stage 1a.

WEAK, EXACTLY LIKE THE TRANSITION CACHE, and that is what bounds it. #6759
phase 3 made `next_keys` weak after strong rooting pinned 16,384 keys arrays
and 786k descriptors against under 400 live objects; this table is weak
through the same two mechanisms. That answers L8.3.15c's retention worry,
which assumed the intern table would hold its arrays: it holds none, so
retention is proportional to LIVE layouts and this stage introduces NO latch
trigger. `ShapeObjectKind::Dictionary` is in this branch anyway (stage 1a,
b858fe900), so L8.3.15f is satisfied for #10938 when it rebases on top.

Dropping a node whose array died orphans its children: a later walk from the
root rebuilds the chain and mints one duplicate layout. That is a mint, never
a wrong answer, and `fresh_keys_known_list` in the mint census is its witness
-- which is why the census, not a perf gate, is this stage's instrument. The
census also prints a named verdict, `FUNNEL OK` / `FUNNEL BROKEN: N keys
ADDRESSES for M distinct key-NAME lists`, because the inequality can only be
violated by a producer allocating around the funnel and nothing else in the
process would notice.

(cherry picked from commit 4958a11)
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 23, 2026
…is ordinary, and the latch is armed (#10868 step 2.5)

Stage 1a added ShapeObjectKind::Dictionary precisely so a latched receiver
would decline by construction. Stage 1b then added three canonicalization
calls that never asked: tail.rs 625/818/995 all sat ABOVE every is_dictionary
guard (659/838/880/1042/1083), so a latched receivers PRIVATE key list was
interned and republished as a shared layout. Measured: one object with 8,192
computed keys returned keys=7785 sum=NaN with the latch armed, where #10938
alone returns 8192/33550336 correctly. Mine, not lane 16s.

The fix is a type, not an ordering. Hoisting those three guards would fix
three sites and leave the fourth to whoever adds it next; nobody holds the
membership of this class in their head, including the author of the rule.
SharedLayout is the receiver side of CanonicalKeys: canonicalize and extend
REQUIRE one, and of_receiver is the kind check that mints it. A new call site
cannot compile without asking. The single non-kind constructor,
shape_cache_entry, is named so it is auditable: a shape-cache entry is keyed
by a STATIC shape id and handed to every receiver of that shape, so no
receiver kind can make it private.

TWO MODES, NOT TWO PATHS. An ordinary receivers key list is a shared layout
and interns; a latched receiver owns its list and appends in place -- chosen
by a fact on the shape, which is what dictionary mode IS. What this campaign
rejects is a fast path beside a slow one inside ONE mode, where the fast one
is the lie. The in-place arm is copied from 34183f4 rather than
reconstructed, because a dictionary array carries no GC_FLAG_SHAPE_SHARED and
the parents owned arm is already exactly right.

AND THE LATCH IS NOW ARMED BY DEFAULT at 1,024 keys, because a bound that is
off by default is not a bound. L8.3.2 wrote this down before either stage
existed: canonical arrays cannot ship ahead of dictionary mode without a
cliff. Measured, not projected -- 8,192 keys: 499 MB unlatched, 49.9 MB
latched, both answers correct. The 65,536-key membership test allocated past
a 24 GB cap unlatched and passes in 0.03 s latched.

Touches dictionary.rs, which the boundary assigns to lane 16: the change is
the DEFAULT of its trigger-1 threshold, which step 2.5 owns per the seam
(lane 16 owns the latch, this lane wires the trigger). Env var still
overrides in both directions.

(cherry picked from commit 6edee8b)
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