perf(string): bypass empty accumulator copies - #8487
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughString append lowering now uses a known-heap runtime helper for validated heap strings. Runtime append handles empty-string identity, ownership, and surrogate-pair canonicalization. Tests and changelog entries document the updated behavior. ChangesString append handling
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The optimization is well validated, but the current implementation can use an unrooted newly allocated string pointer during surrogate canonicalization, allowing garbage collection to invalidate it and potentially causing corruption; merge should wait for the rooting fix. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant StringConcatLowering
participant js_string_append_known_heap
participant js_string_append
StringConcatLowering->>js_string_append_known_heap: pass validated heap-string handles
js_string_append_known_heap->>js_string_append: delegate mutating or allocating cases
js_string_append-->>StringConcatLowering: return resulting string handle
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crates/perry-runtime/src/string/append.rs (1)
172-173: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRoot
new_ptrbefore surrogate canonicalization.Line 173 can allocate a smaller canonical string.
new_ptrhas no root inscopebefore that call. A collection can invalidate this raw pointer.Root
new_ptrimmediately after allocation. Reload it from the handle before callingcanonicalize_surrogate_pairs.Proposed fix
let new_ptr = js_string_from_bytes_with_capacity(ptr::null(), 0, new_cap); +let new_handle = scope.root_string_ptr(new_ptr); let dest = dest_handle.get_raw_mut_ptr::<StringHeader>(); let src = src_handle.get_raw_const_ptr::<StringHeader>(); ... if boundary_pair { - super::concat::canonicalize_surrogate_pairs(new_ptr) + super::concat::canonicalize_surrogate_pairs( + new_handle.get_raw_mut_ptr::<StringHeader>(), + ) } else { new_ptr }As per coding guidelines, “A GC-managed value's root store must dominate every subsequent site that can collect.”
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In `@changelog.d/8487-empty-accumulator-identity.md`:
- Line 10: Update the changelog line beginning with “#8394” so the issue
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/string/append.rs`:
- Around line 172-173: In the boundary_pair path of the append operation, root
the newly allocated string immediately after allocation by storing it in scope,
then reload the current pointer from that handle before calling
canonicalize_surrogate_pairs. Ensure the root store dominates the
canonicalization call and avoid using the potentially stale raw new_ptr.
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| On `iso_miss`, median instructions retired fall from 14.790 G to 12.471 G | ||
| (-15.7%), recovering about 70% of #8417's measured regression while keeping | ||
| #8394's accumulator-chain fix. The #8394 fixture stays flat at 27.0 M |
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Escape the issue reference at the line start.
Line 10 starts with #8394. Markdownlint parses it as an ATX heading and reports MD018. Wrap the issue reference in code spans.
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-#8394's accumulator-chain fix. The `#8394` fixture stays flat at 27.0 M
+`#8394`'s accumulator-chain fix. The `#8394` fixture stays flat at 27.0 M📝 Committable suggestion
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| `#8394`'s accumulator-chain fix. The #8394 fixture stays flat at 27.0 M |
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In `@changelog.d/8487-empty-accumulator-identity.md` at line 10, Update the
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Markdown code spans, preventing it from being parsed as a heading while
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Independently reproduced and audited. Merging. Headline confirmed (median of 3, instructions retired, same host,
19/19 corpus programs byte-exact, peak RSS flat at 31 MiB. Which hunk carries the win. I built a third arm — the runtime identity-hoist with the three codegen callsites left on
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Fixes #8486.
What happened
I instrumented
js_string_appendbefore changing it. The leading refcount hypothesis was not the hot shape: theiso_missappend samples were overwhelmingly the first append to the shared empty string (dest_blen=0,capacity=0,refcount=0). Frames with a second name then reachedrefcount=1,capacity=32and took the intended in-place path.The regression was the common one-name frame doing redundant work after #8417:
js_string_concat_chainbuilt the complete[name]suffix, thenjs_string_appendrooted both strings, allocated another buffer, and copied that suffix only to compute"" + suffix.This change keeps #8417's accumulator-retaining lowering and adds a conservative identity path:
js_string_appendimplementation.Performance
Built both measured binaries with:
Three
/usr/bin/time -lsamples per cell on the contended development host; instructions retired are the primary signal.iso_missRelative to the established 11.54 G parent / 14.68 G #8417 attribution, the final 12.47 G result recovers about 70% of the instruction regression while preserving the more important asymptotic fix. The remaining ~8% versus the parent is the extra tag-dispatch/append stage retained by #8417; removing that fully would require a fused append-chain lowering rather than safely eliminating redundant allocation/copy/rooting.
The explicit #8394 scaling probe,
s = s + "[" + "abc" + "]", remained flat with correct output lengths:It does not return to the pre-#8417 quadratic 17/56/342/1450 ms curve.
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sweep-artifacts-0820/sourcesexit 0 and are byte-exact against their pinned stdoutcargo test --release -p perry-runtime --lib: 2,606 passed, 4 ignoredcargo test --release -p perry --bin perry: 1,008 passedcargo test --release -p perry-codegen --lib: 1,113 passedbash scripts/run_lint_gates.sh: all 52 gates passedSummary by CodeRabbit