perf(codegen): materialize large constant array literals from a static descriptor + one bulk call (#8583 follow-up) - #8647
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…c descriptor + one bulk call (PerryTS#8583 follow-up) A minified bundle data table is a giant nested constant array literal. The default lowering builds it procedurally — one `js_array_from_values` per sub-array plus the inline element stores — so the Claude Code bundle's `__33499` (a constant numeric array-of-arrays) lowered to 11,104 allocations and a 245k- instruction body that made `rewrite-statepoints-for-gc` fan out. This adds a codegen path that recognizes a LARGE, fully-constant array literal (number/int/bool/null/undefined, recursively nested arrays) and instead: * serializes the constant tree into a compact tagged blob emitted as module- private rodata, and * emits ONE call to a new runtime helper `js_value_from_const_descriptor` that materializes the whole nested structure in a single pass. The runtime builds a FRESH, mutable array each call (JS array literals are mutable, so the descriptor is a template, never a shared constant), under `GcSuppressScope` so the partially-built parents held across nested child allocations cannot be collected or moved — the same discipline `js_json_parse` and the lazy-array materializer use. All-number rows keep the raw-f64 layout; any pointer element downgrades the row via `store_array_slot`. Gated on a 256-node minimum, so small literals keep the fast inline bump-alloc path (no regression). `PERRY_CONST_ARRAY_DESCRIPTOR=0` reverts to the procedural path (A/B bisection + escape hatch). On a 3,000-row nested-array synthetic: the 3,000+ `js_array_from_values` calls collapse to one `js_value_from_const_descriptor` + a rodata blob; the compile drops from not-finishing-in-2min to 1.46s; output is byte-identical to the procedural build across the moving-GC matrix, with mutation-after-materialize and bool/null rows verified. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TwxRkALrR9HKSF1zKLSTAF
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughLarge fully constant array literals can use serialized static descriptors. Codegen emits one runtime call for qualifying literals. The runtime reconstructs fresh mutable arrays under GC suppression. Integration tests compare the optimized and procedural paths across moving-GC configurations. ChangesConstant Array Descriptor Optimization
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR changes large constant nested arrays from procedural construction to descriptor-backed bulk materialization, reducing generated code and allocations. The current head still has bounded but concrete merge risks: malformed descriptors may trigger excessive allocation and looping, and an array result may be unsafe across a collecting call; regression coverage may also be unreliable under inherited GC settings. Merge should wait for fixes or explicit owner acceptance. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Compiler
participant LLVMIR
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Compiler->>Compiler: Validate and serialize large constant array
Compiler->>LLVMIR: Emit rodata descriptor and runtime call
LLVMIR->>Runtime: Pass descriptor pointer and length
Runtime->>GC: Suppress collection during construction
Runtime->>Runtime: Parse descriptor and allocate nested arrays
Runtime-->>LLVMIR: Return fresh mutable array value
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/array/alloc.rs`:
- Around line 510-521: In the DESC_ARRAY handling that reads count and calls
js_array_alloc_literal, reject counts greater than
bytes.len().saturating_sub(*pos) before allocation or iteration, returning
undefined through the existing invalid-descriptor path.
In `@crates/perry/tests/const_array_descriptor_8583.rs`:
- Around line 65-77: Update the GC_ENV_OVERRIDES list in
const_array_descriptor_8583.rs to include PERRY_GEN_GC_EVACUATE, ensuring
inherited values are removed before each relocation-sensitive test run.
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| let count = u32::from_le_bytes(c); | ||
| let arr = js_array_alloc_literal(count); | ||
| // All-number rows keep the raw-f64 layout fast path; any pointer | ||
| // element (a nested array) is downgraded per-slot by | ||
| // `store_array_slot`, so gate the numeric mark on a pure-number row. | ||
| let mut all_number = count > 0; | ||
| for i in 0..count as usize { | ||
| if bytes.get(*pos).copied() != Some(DESC_NUMBER) { | ||
| all_number = false; | ||
| } | ||
| let elem = build_const_value(bytes, pos); | ||
| unsafe { crate::array::store_array_slot(arr, i, elem) }; |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Reject an impossible array count before allocation.
Line 510 reads count, but the code does not verify that the descriptor has at least one tag byte for each element. A five-byte descriptor with DESC_ARRAY and u32::MAX passes the current check. It can allocate or loop for billions of elements instead of returning undefined.
Reject count > bytes.len().saturating_sub(*pos) before js_array_alloc_literal(count).
Proposed fix
*pos += 4;
let count = u32::from_le_bytes(c);
+ if (count as usize) > bytes.len().saturating_sub(*pos) {
+ return undefined();
+ }
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| let count = u32::from_le_bytes(c); | |
| let arr = js_array_alloc_literal(count); | |
| // All-number rows keep the raw-f64 layout fast path; any pointer | |
| // element (a nested array) is downgraded per-slot by | |
| // `store_array_slot`, so gate the numeric mark on a pure-number row. | |
| let mut all_number = count > 0; | |
| for i in 0..count as usize { | |
| if bytes.get(*pos).copied() != Some(DESC_NUMBER) { | |
| all_number = false; | |
| } | |
| let elem = build_const_value(bytes, pos); | |
| unsafe { crate::array::store_array_slot(arr, i, elem) }; | |
| let count = u32::from_le_bytes(c); | |
| if (count as usize) > bytes.len().saturating_sub(*pos) { | |
| return undefined(); | |
| } | |
| let arr = js_array_alloc_literal(count); | |
| // All-number rows keep the raw-f64 layout fast path; any pointer | |
| // element (a nested array) is downgraded per-slot by | |
| // `store_array_slot`, so gate the numeric mark on a pure-number row. | |
| let mut all_number = count > 0; | |
| for i in 0..count as usize { | |
| if bytes.get(*pos).copied() != Some(DESC_NUMBER) { | |
| all_number = false; | |
| } | |
| let elem = build_const_value(bytes, pos); | |
| unsafe { crate::array::store_array_slot(arr, i, elem) }; |
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/array/alloc.rs` around lines 510 - 521, In the
DESC_ARRAY handling that reads count and calls js_array_alloc_literal, reject
counts greater than bytes.len().saturating_sub(*pos) before allocation or
iteration, returning undefined through the existing invalid-descriptor path.
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| const GC_ENV_OVERRIDES: &[&str] = &[ | ||
| "PERRY_GEN_GC", | ||
| "PERRY_GC_SCAVENGE", | ||
| "PERRY_GC_SCAVENGE_NURSERY_MB", | ||
| "PERRY_GC_MOVING_SAFEPOINT", | ||
| "PERRY_GC_MOVING_LOOP_POLLS", | ||
| "PERRY_GC_FORCE_EVACUATE", | ||
| "PERRY_CONSERVATIVE_STACK_SCAN", | ||
| "PERRY_WRITE_BARRIERS", | ||
| "PERRY_GC_INCREMENTAL", | ||
| "PERRY_GC_HEAP_LIMIT", | ||
| "PERRY_CONST_ARRAY_DESCRIPTOR", | ||
| ]; |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Remove PERRY_GEN_GC_EVACUATE from inherited environments.
A parent PERRY_GEN_GC_EVACUATE=0 remains active for every moving-GC arm. The test can then pass without evacuation and miss relocation errors.
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const GC_ENV_OVERRIDES: &[&str] = &[
"PERRY_GEN_GC",
+ "PERRY_GEN_GC_EVACUATE",
"PERRY_GC_SCAVENGE",Based on learnings, relocation-sensitive tests must remove inherited PERRY_GEN_GC_EVACUATE settings.
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| const GC_ENV_OVERRIDES: &[&str] = &[ | |
| "PERRY_GEN_GC", | |
| "PERRY_GC_SCAVENGE", | |
| "PERRY_GC_SCAVENGE_NURSERY_MB", | |
| "PERRY_GC_MOVING_SAFEPOINT", | |
| "PERRY_GC_MOVING_LOOP_POLLS", | |
| "PERRY_GC_FORCE_EVACUATE", | |
| "PERRY_CONSERVATIVE_STACK_SCAN", | |
| "PERRY_WRITE_BARRIERS", | |
| "PERRY_GC_INCREMENTAL", | |
| "PERRY_GC_HEAP_LIMIT", | |
| "PERRY_CONST_ARRAY_DESCRIPTOR", | |
| ]; | |
| const GC_ENV_OVERRIDES: &[&str] = &[ | |
| "PERRY_GEN_GC", | |
| "PERRY_GEN_GC_EVACUATE", | |
| "PERRY_GC_SCAVENGE", | |
| "PERRY_GC_SCAVENGE_NURSERY_MB", | |
| "PERRY_GC_MOVING_SAFEPOINT", | |
| "PERRY_GC_MOVING_LOOP_POLLS", | |
| "PERRY_GC_FORCE_EVACUATE", | |
| "PERRY_CONSERVATIVE_STACK_SCAN", | |
| "PERRY_WRITE_BARRIERS", | |
| "PERRY_GC_INCREMENTAL", | |
| "PERRY_GC_HEAP_LIMIT", | |
| "PERRY_CONST_ARRAY_DESCRIPTOR", | |
| ]; |
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In `@crates/perry/tests/const_array_descriptor_8583.rs` around lines 65 - 77,
Update the GC_ENV_OVERRIDES list in const_array_descriptor_8583.rs to include
PERRY_GEN_GC_EVACUATE, ensuring inherited values are removed before each
relocation-sensitive test run.
Source: Learnings
A flat constant scalar array (e.g. `[0; 2050]`) is already a single `js_array_alloc_literal` + inline stores — not the per-subarray fan-out the descriptor targets — and its inline path carries the precise per-slot write barriers a later push/store depends on (large_object_barriers). Gate the descriptor path on the literal containing at least one nested array element, so only genuine nested data tables (the __33499 shape) take it; flat arrays keep their existing path. Verified: the nested 3,000-row synthetic still collapses to one js_value_from_const_descriptor call, and large_object_barriers passes. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TwxRkALrR9HKSF1zKLSTAF
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418-423: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winRoot the descriptor result before
js_string_rawIn the
String.rawlowering path,subs_arris returned without a root and then passed tojs_string_raw, which can collect. Rootsubs_arrimmediately afterlower_array_literaland re-read it after the collecting call. Apply the same rule to any caller that uses this result across a collecting call.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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* perf(codegen): materialize large constant array literals from a static descriptor + one bulk call (#8583 follow-up) A minified bundle data table is a giant nested constant array literal. The default lowering builds it procedurally — one `js_array_from_values` per sub-array plus the inline element stores — so the Claude Code bundle's `__33499` (a constant numeric array-of-arrays) lowered to 11,104 allocations and a 245k- instruction body that made `rewrite-statepoints-for-gc` fan out. This adds a codegen path that recognizes a LARGE, fully-constant array literal (number/int/bool/null/undefined, recursively nested arrays) and instead: * serializes the constant tree into a compact tagged blob emitted as module- private rodata, and * emits ONE call to a new runtime helper `js_value_from_const_descriptor` that materializes the whole nested structure in a single pass. The runtime builds a FRESH, mutable array each call (JS array literals are mutable, so the descriptor is a template, never a shared constant), under `GcSuppressScope` so the partially-built parents held across nested child allocations cannot be collected or moved — the same discipline `js_json_parse` and the lazy-array materializer use. All-number rows keep the raw-f64 layout; any pointer element downgrades the row via `store_array_slot`. Gated on a 256-node minimum, so small literals keep the fast inline bump-alloc path (no regression). `PERRY_CONST_ARRAY_DESCRIPTOR=0` reverts to the procedural path (A/B bisection + escape hatch). On a 3,000-row nested-array synthetic: the 3,000+ `js_array_from_values` calls collapse to one `js_value_from_const_descriptor` + a rodata blob; the compile drops from not-finishing-in-2min to 1.46s; output is byte-identical to the procedural build across the moving-GC matrix, with mutation-after-materialize and bool/null rows verified. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TwxRkALrR9HKSF1zKLSTAF * docs(changelog): fragment for #8647 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TwxRkALrR9HKSF1zKLSTAF * fix(runtime): complete computed property name reflection * perf(codegen): restrict the const-array descriptor to NESTED literals A flat constant scalar array (e.g. `[0; 2050]`) is already a single `js_array_alloc_literal` + inline stores — not the per-subarray fan-out the descriptor targets — and its inline path carries the precise per-slot write barriers a later push/store depends on (large_object_barriers). Gate the descriptor path on the literal containing at least one nested array element, so only genuine nested data tables (the __33499 shape) take it; flat arrays keep their existing path. Verified: the nested 3,000-row synthetic still collapses to one js_value_from_const_descriptor call, and large_object_barriers passes. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TwxRkALrR9HKSF1zKLSTAF * fix(runtime): keep old array growth targets out of nursery * docs(changelog): note array growth generation fix * fix(codegen): guard block-creating lowerings against diverged (terminated) blocks (#8583) When a sub-expression provably diverges — a throwing operand (e.g. a captured TDZ access or const-reassignment) emits `js_throw_error_with_code` + `unreachable` — the current block is terminated. `LlBlock` silently drops any instruction emitted after a terminator (block.rs), so the setup instructions for the surrounding operation are discarded; but block-creating lowerings still emit fresh blocks that reference those dropped `%rN` registers, which the dialect builder rejects with "register %rN used but never defined" (dialect/mod.rs). The whole surrounding operation is unreachable on that path, so the fix is to emit nothing once the block is terminated. Two sites hit this in the Claude Code 2.1.112 bundle (both dead code after a proven-throwing operand): `lower_index_set_fast` (`a[i] = v`, closure `__44845`) and `emit_persistent_shadow_root_barrier` (a pointer root store, closure `__44449`). Each now returns early when `ctx.block().is_terminated()`. Also adds a `PERRY_DIALECT_DUMP=<dir>` diagnostic: on a dialect construction failure, `render_units_from_frozen` names the offending function and writes its full IR (typed insts rendered via `render_into`) — the failing unit never parses, so the normal `PERRY_SAVE_LL` post-parse dump cannot capture it. This is how the two sites above were located. Validated end-to-end: with these guards, the cli.js bundle codegens ALL 84 units with zero "used but never defined" errors (it previously failed at unit 25); the remaining blocker to a final binary is unrelated (host disk). Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TwxRkALrR9HKSF1zKLSTAF * docs(changelog): fragment for #8652 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TwxRkALrR9HKSF1zKLSTAF * fix: complete test262 built-ins misc tail semantics * chore: fmt the stack and add the two missing changelog fragments #8646 and #8650 landed without a changelog.d fragment; #8650 also lowers the raw-handle ratchet 925 -> 923, which is recorded in its fragment. --------- Co-authored-by: Ralph Küpper <ralph@skelpo.com>
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Problem
A minified bundle data table is a giant nested constant array literal. The default lowering builds it procedurally — one
js_array_from_valuesper sub-array plus inline element stores — so the Claude Code 2.1.112 bundle's__33499(a constant numeric array-of-arrays) lowered to 11,104 allocations and a 245k-instruction body that maderewrite-statepoints-for-gcfan out (the unit-4 blocker; #8633 spills it so it compiles, but the runtime still does 11k allocations and the giant body is still emitted).This is the real fix for that pattern: a constant data table should be static data + one bulk build, not thousands of procedural allocations.
Change
A codegen path (
expr/array_literal.rs) recognizes a large, fully-constant array literal —number/int/bool/null/undefined, recursively nested arrays — and:js_value_from_const_descriptor(array/alloc.rs) that materializes the whole nested structure in a single pass.Gated on a 256-node minimum, so small literals keep the fast inline bump-alloc path (no regression). Strings/objects decline for now (v2) → the whole literal falls back to the procedural path, never half-materialized.
Before / after (3,000-row nested-array synthetic)
PERRY_CONST_ARRAY_DESCRIPTOR=0)js_array_from_valuescallsrows:3000 v:44rows:3000 v:44(identical)GC-safety
The recursive builder holds partially-built parent arrays and already-built children (JS heap pointers) across nested allocations. It runs the entire materialization inside a
GcSuppressScope— the same disciplinejs_json_parseand the lazy-array materializer use — so no collection or relocation can fire mid-build. Element stores go throughstore_array_slot(downgrades a raw-f64 row when a pointer lands in it); all-number rows keep the fast numeric layout. Every descriptor read is bounds-checked (the blob is compiler-generated and trusted, but a malformed one declines toundefinedrather than reading OOB).Mutability
Each call returns a fresh, mutable array (JS array literals are mutable — the descriptor is a template, never a shared frozen constant). Verified: mutating one materialization (
a[0].push(99)) does not touch a second (b[0]stays length 2,a !== b).Verification
js_value_from_const_descriptorcall + rodata blob, zerojs_array_from_valuesfor the table.PERRY_GC_SCAVENGE_NURSERY_MB=1/2/4,PERRY_GEN_GC=0, default).a:true b:null c:false d:7) verified.crates/perry/tests/const_array_descriptor_8583.rs(IR-fired check + ON/OFF differential across GC arms + mutability/mixed-types).cargo check -p perry-codegen -p perry-runtimeclean (-D warnings).cargo test -p perry-codegenpending CI (this machine is disk-constrained by concurrent builds).Kill switch
PERRY_CONST_ARRAY_DESCRIPTOR=0reverts every large constant literal to the procedural path (A/B bisection + escape hatch).Separate from #8633 (the spill backstop, which makes any giant function compilable); this eliminates the cost at the source for the common data-table shape.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01TwxRkALrR9HKSF1zKLSTAF
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