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fix(runtime,codegen): module-global Uint8Array receivers — recover elements on registry miss, inline the read, and restore the numeric proof (#9342, #9363) - #9360

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Closes #9363.

Closes the wrong-answer half of #9342 and the in-function read cliff that motivated it.

The defect

A perry Uint8Array is a BufferHeader in the buffer registries. lookup_typed_array_kind's registry can never contain one. Both checked-load lanes nonetheless admit the class name "Uint8Array" (kind 1), so a module-global u8 receiver routed every read to a slow helper whose registry-miss arm answered no element:

  • js_typed_array_read_f64undefined for every in-range element;
  • js_typed_array_read_int320, which is worse: plausible in |0 context, so it corrupts arithmetic with nothing downstream throwing.

Both now recover the element the way every older consumer of that registry does — registered-buffer receivers read the byte, everything else falls through to js_typed_array_get, whose #8109 classify_element_read_receiver runs before any header deref (which also retires the stale "would deref before classifying" hazard note on the i32 helper).

The read lane

s += buf[i] over a module-global buffer compiled to a per-element runtime call feeding a dynamic add — the tracked-view fast path only serves let bindings the same function constructed. New buffer-lane inline read (expr/u8_buffer_read.rs): pointer tag + full-address hit in PERRY_U8_INLINE_CACHE → bounds vs the header length → inline byte load at header + 8uitofp. Guard misses defer to js_u8_buffer_read_f64, which primes the cache and delegates to js_uint8array_index_get_value (bug-exact, including #8111 stale-hint recovery).

Reads only. An inline write twin would bypass buffer/view.rs write propagation and desynchronize slice / new Uint8Array(ab) aliases (#1205) — which is precisely why view copies are admissible on the read side.

Cache contract: entries name live, mark_as_uint8array-marked, inline-storage headers. Foreign-backed wrappers are refused at prime time (their bytes are not inline; header + 8 is past the allocation). Invalidated inside the single buffer-death chokepoint (finalize_collected_dead_buffer) and at address re-issue (register_buffer), so ABA rides the same #6080 discipline as every other buffer identity table. Kill switch PERRY_U8_INLINE_READ=0.

Lane ordering: the u8 lane runs before the typed-array checked lane, whose guard can never admit a BufferHeader and would otherwise pin every u8 read to its slow helper. Post-fix that reorder produces no wrong answer, only slowness — so it is pinned by an IR test rather than left to reasoning.

Measured (SIZE=1e6 × 50)

shape before after node
top-level (tracked view) 46 49 44
in-function, module-global 560 216 38
in-function, typed param 548 576 38

The residual is not the guard. Forcing the guard to always hit measures 218 ms — free. The cost is the accumulator's rooting diamond: lower_guarded_numeric_add roots every leaf expr_produces_canonical_raw_f64 won't vouch for, and it cannot vouch for a Uint8ArrayGet leaf because the value is byte-or-undefined (#6884, correct OOB semantics, not the bug fixed here). The fast top-level control has no diamond at all — bare fadd, register accumulator. That is #6904/#9303 territory, filed separately with the unchanged typed-parameter receiver.

Tests

  • gc/tests/u8_inline_cache.rs — prime contract (an admitted entry's length@0 / bytes@+8 are exactly what the emitted reader assumes), foreign-backed rejection, death pruning under full GC, re-issue pruning. Sabotage-verified: deleting either invalidation call fails exactly its own test.
  • perry/tests/issue_9342_u8_inline_read.rs — lane admission, node-exact values including an OOB arm, correctness under PERRY_GC_HEAP_LIMIT=8 PERRY_GC_FORCE_EVACUATE=1, kill switch, and the ordering pin (verified red under a deliberate lane reorder). Assertions count CALL sites, not the declare line every module emits — matching the bare symbol name made the absence assertion unpassable and the presence assertion vacuous. Both mistakes were live in the first draft and were caught by running it.
  • Node-differential battery (module-global / local / alias discriminator, OOB / negative / fractional / polymorphic sites, slice-view read-after-backing-write, new Uint8Array(ab) + DataView propagation, 5000-buffer ABA churn): all byte-identical to node, and identical again under GC stress.

Follow-up: #9347 audits the remaining 197 lookup_typed_array_kind miss-consumers for the same split-brain class.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01NbKbYm54HW6cHwEx5FZAtP

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Performance

    • Improved indexed Uint8Array reads for module-level and parameter-held arrays, including buffer-backed values.
    • Optimized bounded byte-array reductions for better vectorization.
    • Improved numeric handling for proven module-level and declared typed-array views.
    • Enabled efficient numeric accumulation when loop values are safely re-seeded.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Preserved correct fallback, out-of-bounds, reassignment, and garbage-collection behavior.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for optimized reads, fallbacks, cache lifecycle, numeric proofs, reductions, declared types, and disabled-feature configurations.

…ss; inline the untracked u8 read (PerryTS#9342)

A perry `Uint8Array` is a `BufferHeader` in the buffer registries and can
never appear in `lookup_typed_array_kind`'s registry. Two consequences,
both fixed here.

**Wrong answers.** `js_typed_array_read_f64` and `js_typed_array_read_int32`
treated a kind-registry miss as "no element" and returned `undefined` / `0`.
Both checked-load lanes admit the class name `"Uint8Array"` (kind 1), so a
module-global u8 receiver read `undefined` (or, in `|0` context, a plausible
`0`) for EVERY in-range element. The miss arms now recover the element the
way every older consumer does: registered-buffer receivers read the byte via
`js_buffer_index_get_value`, everything else falls through to
`js_typed_array_get`, whose PerryTS#8109 classifier runs before any header deref —
which also retires the stale "deref before classify" hazard note on the i32
helper.

**12x in-function read cliff.** `s += buf[i]` over a module-global u8 buffer
compiled to a per-element runtime call: the tracked-view fast path only
serves `let` bindings the same function constructed. New buffer-lane inline
read (`expr/u8_buffer_read.rs`): NaN-box pointer tag + full-address hit in
`PERRY_U8_INLINE_CACHE`, bounds against the header length, inline byte load
at `header + 8`. Reads only — an inline write twin would bypass
`buffer/view.rs` write propagation and desynchronize slice / ArrayBuffer
aliases (PerryTS#1205), which is also why view copies are admissible here.

The admission cache holds only live, u8-marked, inline-storage headers:
primed by the slow arm (`js_u8_buffer_read_f64`), invalidated inside the
single buffer-death chokepoint (`finalize_collected_dead_buffer`) and at
address re-issue (`register_buffer`), so ABA rides the same PerryTS#6080 discipline
as every other buffer identity table. Foreign-backed wrappers are refused at
prime time. Kill switch: `PERRY_U8_INLINE_READ=0`.

Lane ordering matters: the u8 lane runs BEFORE the typed-array checked lane,
whose `PERRY_TA_KIND_CACHE` guard can never admit a `BufferHeader` and would
otherwise pin every u8 read to its slow helper. That is a pure performance
trap — post-fix it produces no wrong answer — so it is pinned structurally by
an IR test rather than left to reasoning.

Measured (SIZE=1e6 x 50): in-function module-global 560 -> 216 ms; top-level
unchanged at parity (49 vs node 44). The residual 216 vs node's 38 is NOT the
emitted guard — forcing the guard to always hit measures 218 ms, i.e. free.
It is the accumulator's rooting diamond: `lower_guarded_numeric_add` roots
every leaf `expr_produces_canonical_raw_f64` won't vouch for, and it cannot
vouch for a `Uint8ArrayGet` leaf because the node's value is byte-or-
`undefined` (PerryTS#6884). That is PerryTS#6904/PerryTS#9303 territory and is filed separately,
along with the unchanged typed-parameter receiver.

Tests: `gc/tests/u8_inline_cache.rs` proves the cache lifecycle (prime
contract, foreign rejection, death pruning, re-issue pruning) and each
invalidation site was sabotage-verified — deleting either call fails exactly
its own test. `perry/tests/issue_9342_u8_inline_read.rs` pins lane admission,
node-exact values incl. an OOB arm, correctness under
`PERRY_GC_HEAP_LIMIT=8 PERRY_GC_FORCE_EVACUATE=1`, the kill switch, and the
lane ordering (verified red under a deliberate reorder). Assertions count
CALL sites, not the `declare` line every module emits — matching the bare
symbol name made the absence assertion unpassable and the presence assertion
vacuous, both of which were live in the first draft and caught by running it.

Follow-up audit of the remaining 197 `lookup_typed_array_kind` miss-consumers
filed as PerryTS#9347.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NbKbYm54HW6cHwEx5FZAtP
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Why the ordering pin exists even though the helper now recovers the element — worth stating explicitly, because it's the obvious reviewer question.

The two halves of this PR protect against different failure classes, and the runtime fix changes what the ordering bug costs:

  • Before this PR, letting the typed-array lane capture a u8 receiver was a silent-corruption bug: the helper it falls into answered undefined (or 0 in |0 context) for every in-range element.
  • After the runtime fix, that same capture produces correct values, just slowly — every read becomes a permanent slow-helper call, because the TA lane's PERRY_TA_KIND_CACHE guard can never admit a BufferHeader and so misses forever.

That second failure mode is invisible to every other test in the tree: nothing goes red, no output differs, no assertion fires. I verified this rather than assuming it — with the lanes deliberately reversed, the fixture still prints node-exact values and only ta_lane_must_not_capture_u8_receivers fails.

So the pin is not redundant with the helper fix; it is the only thing that can observe the regression the helper fix leaves behind. Belt and suspenders is the right shape when the two cover different classes.

(Related instrument note, in case it saves someone the same hour: the pin's first draft asserted on bare symbol names. Every module emits a declare line for every runtime symbol it knows about, so the absence assertion could never pass and the presence assertion passed vacuously — a test that cannot fail and a test that cannot pass in the same file. The assertions now count CALL sites, and the explanation lives on the call_count helper where the next person writing an IR assertion will reach.)

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This change adds guarded inline Uint8Array reads, runtime cache lifecycle handling, module-global numeric-view proofs, bounded byte-reduction reassociation, and regression tests for correctness, GC behavior, and emitted LLVM IR.

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Uint8Array reads and numeric reduction codegen

Layer / File(s) Summary
Module-global numeric proofs
crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/*, crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/*
Native fact collection propagates construction-proven module-global numeric views through functions, closures, methods, and module initialization. Reassigned bindings remain excluded.
Codegen inline-read lane
crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/*, crates/perry-codegen/src/runtime_decls/*, scripts/local_binding_type_allowlist.json
Eligible Uint8Array and declared typed-array reads use guarded inline loads before existing fallback paths. Cache misses call js_u8_buffer_read_f64.
Inline-cache admission and lifecycle
crates/perry-runtime/src/buffer/*, crates/perry-runtime/src/typedarray/access.rs
The runtime primes a 64-slot cache for eligible inline buffers and invalidates entries during registration and collection. Fallback helpers handle buffer reads and receiver classification.
Bounded byte-reduction lowering
crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/*, crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/binary.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/block.rs
The compiler identifies bounded byte-read accumulators and emits fadd reassoc for eligible reductions.
Lifecycle and regression coverage
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/*, crates/perry/tests/*
Tests cover cache admission, foreign backing, GC and address reuse, lane ordering, bounds, feature disabling, numeric proofs, reassociation, shadow-slot pruning, and pointer preservation.

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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to b4693

The change improves Uint8Array correctness and performance, but the current implementation can still miscompile certain loop accumulations and may dereference stale typed-array addresses after garbage collection; concurrent access to the shared read cache also has an unresolved memory-safety risk. These issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Uint8ArrayLowering
  participant PERRY_U8_INLINE_CACHE
  participant BufferHeader
  participant js_u8_buffer_read_f64
  Uint8ArrayLowering->>PERRY_U8_INLINE_CACHE: Check pointer and full-address admission
  PERRY_U8_INLINE_CACHE-->>Uint8ArrayLowering: Return cache entry
  Uint8ArrayLowering->>BufferHeader: Check length and load inline byte
  Uint8ArrayLowering->>js_u8_buffer_read_f64: Call on cache miss
  js_u8_buffer_read_f64->>PERRY_U8_INLINE_CACHE: Prime eligible buffer address
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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/index_get.rs`:
- Around line 1199-1203: Move or add the try_lower_u8_buffer_read call to the
is_uint8array_receiver branch immediately after lower_buffer_load fails, rather
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Uint8Array reads use this fast-lowering lane before falling back to the slow
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- Line 124: Update the buffer-read lowering around lower_expr_as_i32 to root the
receiver before lowering the index, using rooting::with_operands_rooted_across
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if let Some(value) =
super::u8_buffer_read::try_lower_u8_buffer_read(ctx, object, index)?
{
return Ok(value);
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Route generic Uint8Array reads through the reachable branch.

This call is unreachable for the intended receiver. is_width_tracked_typed_array_receiver excludes "Uint8Array" unless buffer_view_slots contains the local, but u8_buffer_receiver_eligible rejects that case. Therefore try_lower_u8_buffer_read always returns None here.

Add this lane in the is_uint8array_receiver branch after lower_buffer_load fails. Generic Expr::IndexGet Uint8Array reads otherwise remain on the slow helper.

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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/index_get.rs` around lines 1199 - 1203, Move or
add the try_lower_u8_buffer_read call to the is_uint8array_receiver branch
immediately after lower_buffer_load fails, rather than the current width-tracked
receiver path. Ensure generic Expr::IndexGet Uint8Array reads use this
fast-lowering lane before falling back to the slow helper.

index: &Expr,
) -> Result<String> {
let obj_box = lower_expr(ctx, object)?;
let idx_i32 = lower_expr_as_i32(ctx, index)?;

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Root the receiver before lowering the index. For an index such as f() & 255, lower_expr_as_i32 can execute a collecting call after obj_box is created. Re-read the receiver from a root store before the cache and buffer loads. Use rooting::with_operands_rooted_across or an equivalent root store.

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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/u8_buffer_read.rs` at line 124, Update the
buffer-read lowering around lower_expr_as_i32 to root the receiver before
lowering the index, using rooting::with_operands_rooted_across or the existing
equivalent root-store mechanism. Re-read the receiver from that root after index
lowering and before cache and buffer loads, preserving the current indexing
behavior.

Source: Coding guidelines

… proof (444 -> 94 ms)

`collectors/ptr_shape_numeric.rs` proved `view[i]` is Number-or-`undefined`
from two sources: `numeric_ta_views` (spec-proven `TaPtr` parameters) and
`const_local_inits` (a compiler-visible `const` init in the SCANNED body). A
module-global `const buf = new Uint8Array(N)` read inside a function has
neither, so `acc += buf[i]` lost the accumulator's Number-by-construction
proof and every add lowered through the rooted `guarded_add` diamond: a GC
shadow-frame load + store + `js_write_barrier_root_nanbox` per element, plus
the dynamic-add cold arm.

`module_global_proven_types` is the same STRENGTH of proof as
`const_local_inits` — derived from the initializer expression on a single-
`Let`, never-reassigned binding, not from an annotation (Perry does not
enforce those, PerryTS#7773) — so module-scope views whose construction proves a
number-valued typed-array kind now feed the same fixpoint slot. The BigInt
kinds are deliberately excluded: their elements are BigInts, not Numbers.

Measured (SIZE=1e6 x ITER=100, quiet host, min-of-3): the identical loop over
a module-global receiver 444 -> 94 ms, exactly matching the body-local
receiver it should always have matched, against node's 79. The receiver's
binding form is no longer observable in the emitted loop.

ATTRIBUTION, corrected by measurement. The missing proof also leaves a
per-iteration `load volatile @PERRY_GC_POLL_ARMED` in the loop, because
`loop_may_allocate` stays conservative while the `+` is not inert, and the
obvious story is that this volatile load blocks vectorization. It does not
pay: admitting the read as inert under the same construction proof (so the
poll leaves the loop) measured 94 ms either way, and did not vectorize
either — the residual blocker is PerryTS#9360's per-element admission-cache probe.
That change is therefore NOT included: `expr_is_inert_primitive` also governs
rooting decisions, and an unmeasured widening of it does not ship. The
residual is documented in the test and in PerryTS#9363.

Tests: `issue_9363_module_global_view_numeric_proof.rs` pins the emitted
shape against a body-local control (which is asserted clean first, so the
comparison cannot pass vacuously) and pins that a REASSIGNED module global is
still not admitted — the construction proof's exclusion is load-bearing.

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@proggeramlug proggeramlug changed the title fix(runtime,codegen): recover Uint8Array elements on kind-registry miss; inline the untracked u8 read (#9342) fix(runtime,codegen): module-global Uint8Array receivers — recover elements on registry miss, inline the read, and restore the numeric proof (#9342, #9363) Sep 1, 2026
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Second commit added: the same root cause one layer up — 4688aef.

#9342's defect was "a module-global u8 receiver isn't proven, so the read lane can't serve it." The identical gap exists in the numeric-proof lane: collectors/ptr_shape_numeric.rs proves view[i] is Number-or-undefined only from numeric_ta_views (spec-proven TaPtr params) or const_local_inits (a const init in the SCANNED body). A module-global view has neither, so acc += buf[i] lost the accumulator's Number-by-construction proof and every add went through the rooted guarded_add diamond — GC shadow-frame load + store + write barrier per element.

module_global_proven_types is the same strength of proof as const_local_inits (initializer-derived, single-Let, never reassigned — not an annotation, #7773), so it now feeds the same fixpoint slot. BigInt kinds excluded: their elements are BigInts, not Numbers.

Measured, quiet host, min-of-3, SIZE=1e6 × ITER=100:

receiver before after node
module global 444 94 79
body-local const (control) 94 94 81

The binding form is no longer observable in the emitted loop, which is the correct semantics — it was never a real difference in what the code does.

Cumulative on the buf_ctx in-function fixture: 560 → 216 (read lane) → 50 ms.

An attribution in the linked issue that I got wrong, and corrected

I wrote up (in #9363) that the missing proof also leaves a per-iteration load volatile @PERRY_GC_POLL_ARMED which blocks vectorization and pins the accumulator in memory. I implemented that removal too — and it measured 94 ms either way, and did not vectorize either (with --fast-math the body-local receiver goes 94 → 32 while the module-global one stays at 94 regardless of the poll; the real blocker is this PR's own per-element admission-cache probe).

So that change is not in this PR. expr_is_inert_primitive also governs rooting decisions, and an unmeasured widening of a rooting-sensitive predicate isn't worth carrying. It's documented in the test file so it doesn't get rebuilt, and #9363 carries the corrected story. This is the third plausible-mechanism-that-moved-nothing on this branch; the other two were the read guard (216 → 218 when forced to always hit) and global --fast-math before the proof landed.

Tests: issue_9363_module_global_view_numeric_proof.rs pins the emitted shape against a body-local control — asserted clean first, so the comparison can't pass vacuously — and pins that a reassigned module global is still refused, since the construction proof's exclusion is what makes this sound rather than an annotation.

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const first = sum();
gbuf = "not a buffer";
console.log(first + "," + typeof gbuf);

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Exercise the rejected receiver after reassignment.

sum() runs only before gbuf changes type. The final expression checks typeof gbuf, so an incorrect numeric-proof admission can still produce the expected output without reading gbuf[i] after reassignment.

Call sum() after the assignment and check its result type.

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In `@crates/perry/tests/issue_9363_module_global_view_numeric_proof.rs` at line
197, Update the test around sum() and the reassignment of gbuf so sum() is
called after gbuf changes type, then assert or print the result type to exercise
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Held back — this introduces a silent wrong answer in typed-array buffer aliasing. Caught by the gap suite, and attributed to this PR by elimination.

The failure. test_gap_typedarray_buffer_aliasing_7219 (#7219's own regression fixture) goes from passing to:

Node.js:  write after aliasing: 10
Perry:    write after aliasing: 4

Both exit 0. It is a wrong value, not a crash — the shape that survives review.

Attribution. Four measurements, all on the same build pair:

build fixture
origin/main passes
main + #9359 + #9360 fails
main + #9359 alone passes
main + #9359 + #9360, compiled with PERRY_U8_INLINE_READ=0 still fails

#9359's only runtime change sits behind gc_verify_mark_enabled(), off by default, and it passes the fixture on its own. So the cause is in this PR, and it is not the codegen inline-read path — the kill switch does not clear it.

Two hypotheses I tested and ruled out, so you don't repeat them:

  1. Stale PERRY_U8_INLINE_CACHE admission. register_view_meta bumps the view guard but never evicts the u8 cache, so a rebound receiver could keep an admission asserting "element 0 follows the header". I added u8_inline_cache_invalidate(ta) there — no change to the fixture. (It may still be worth doing on its own merits; I dropped it since I could not show it necessary.)
  2. The registry-miss recovery reading the header's inline bytes. Both new arms do is_registered_buffer(addr) → js_buffer_index_get_value(addr, index), which reads the receiver's own storage. For a receiver that aliased a materialized backing via .buffer, element 0 no longer follows the header — exactly what the fixture's comment describes. I guarded both arms with view_meta_of(addr).is_none() — also no change.

So the miscompare survives both the inline-read path and the two recovery arms being neutralised, which points somewhere I did not reach — the remaining candidates being the codegen changes in index_get.rs / arrays_finds.rs, or an interaction with the proven-view tiers the fixture's header comment describes.

Everything else in the queue is merged, including #9359 from the same batch. This is the one I could not fix myself, and the reproducer is fast: compile that fixture and diff against node — it fails in seconds, no cc bundle needed.

One aside worth having: this is the second time this week the gap suite earned a full run. It is blind to the #9341 class (I measured that separately on #9341), but it caught this one immediately.

…adwrite 94 -> 34 ms, node 81)

Two changes that are each worth NOTHING alone and 2.8x together, which is why
they land as one commit.

**1. `fadd reassoc` on a proven reduction.** `acc = acc + <byte read>` in a
trip-count-bounded loop keeps every partial sum below 2^53, where f64 addition
is exact and therefore associative, so any grouping is bit-identical. An
out-of-range read yields `undefined` -> NaN, which propagates through every
grouping alike, so the OOB case needs no separate argument. This is an
exactness proof about the value range, not a tolerance argument, which is why
it does not need `--fast-math` (whose global reassociation is unsound for
arbitrary f64 chains and is correctly off by default). `contract` is
deliberately not added: FMA fusion changes multiply/add rounding, which this
proof says nothing about.

The admission reuses PerryTS#7123's trip-count machinery unchanged, as a second mode
with a weaker conclusion: a byte read counts with magnitude 255 and the limit
is 2^53 rather than `i32::MAX`. The byte-read magnitude is admitted ONLY in
this mode — an i32 slot cannot represent the NaN an out-of-range read
produces, which is why the storage admission must keep refusing it.

**2. Module-init shadow-slot pruning.** `codegen/function.rs` drops root slots
for locals the whole-write proof shows can only hold a Number; module init
never got that twin. `local_is_inert_primitive` refuses any local that HAS a
slot, so a top-level accumulator that was ALREADY proven
Number-by-construction was still not inert, `loop_may_allocate` stayed true,
and the loop kept a per-iteration `load volatile @PERRY_GC_POLL_ARMED` — which
blocks vectorization outright and pins the accumulator in memory. This was the
entire reason the identical loop was fast inside a function and slow at top
level. Found by instrumenting the purity decision, which printed
`acc id=11 shadow=true nbc=true`.

Module-scope construction proofs now also reach module-init, closure and
method bodies, not just the spec-params path (PerryTS#9363's first commit threaded
only the latter).

MEASURED, per change rather than stacked (quiet host, min-of-3):
  * `bench_buffer_readwrite` 94 -> 34 ms against node's 81.
  * reassoc alone, top level: 94 -> 94. Zero, because the poll blocks it.
  * the in-function loop, already poll-free, isolates reassoc: 94 -> 32.

A third change was built and DELETED: admitting these accumulators to
`local_is_inert_primitive` directly measured 36 vs 34 (noise) once the pruning
made `number_by_construction` sufficient on its own, so it does not ship.

Tests: `issue_9363_byte_reduction_vectorizes.rs` pins that the reduction
carries `reassoc` AND that no poll follows it in that block (each half fails
without the other), that an unbounded f64 accumulator does NOT reassociate,
and that a pointer-valued module-scope local keeps its root slot — the last
under `PERRY_GC_FORCE_EVACUATE`, which is the arm that would catch a slot
pruned when it was genuinely needed. Node-differential battery (module-global
/ local / alias receivers, OOB, GC churn, slice-view aliasing) byte-identical,
and identical again under heap-limit + forced evacuation.

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Third commit: bench_buffer_readwrite flips from loser to win — 94 → 34 ms against node's 81 (7161823).

Two changes, each worth nothing on its own:

  1. Sound per-instruction fadd reassoc on a proven byte-read reduction. acc = acc + <byte read> in a trip-count-bounded loop keeps every partial sum below 2^53, where f64 addition is exact and therefore associative — so any grouping is bit-identical. An out-of-range read yields undefined → NaN, which propagates through every grouping alike, so the OOB case needs no separate argument. This is an exactness proof about the value range, not a tolerance argument, which is why it doesn't require --fast-math (whose global reassociation is genuinely unsound and correctly off by default). contract is deliberately not added — FMA fusion changes multiply/add rounding, which this proof says nothing about. The admission reuses repsel: bound a loop accumulator by trip count x step magnitude, so a bare accumulator can take canonical i32 #7123's trip-count machinery unchanged, as a second mode with a weaker conclusion and a 2^53 limit; the byte-read magnitude is admitted only in that mode, because an i32 slot cannot represent the NaN an OOB read produces.

  2. Module-init shadow-slot pruning. codegen/function.rs drops root slots for locals the whole-write proof shows can only hold a Number. Module init never got that twin. Since local_is_inert_primitive refuses any local that has a slot, a top-level accumulator that was already proven Number-by-construction still wasn't inert → loop_may_allocate stayed true → the loop kept a per-iteration load volatile @PERRY_GC_POLL_ARMED, which blocks vectorization outright and pins the accumulator in memory. That was the entire reason the identical loop was fast inside a function and slow at top level.

I found it by instrumenting the purity decision rather than reasoning further; it printed acc id=11 shadow=true nbc=true and the answer was immediate.

Measured per change, not stacked

ms
baseline 94
reassoc alone (top level) 94 — zero, the poll blocks it
both 34 (node 81)
reassoc isolated, in-function loop (already poll-free) 94 → 32

A third change was built and deleted: admitting these accumulators to local_is_inert_primitive directly measured 36 vs 34 — noise, once the pruning made number_by_construction sufficient on its own. Three of the six things built on this branch measured flat and were dropped rather than shipped.

Tests

issue_9363_byte_reduction_vectorizes.rs pins that the reduction carries reassoc and that no poll follows it in that block (each half fails without the other), that an unbounded f64 accumulator does not reassociate, and that a pointer-valued module-scope local keeps its root slot — the last under PERRY_GC_FORCE_EVACUATE, which is the arm that catches a slot pruned when it was genuinely needed. Node-differential battery byte-identical, and identical again under heap-limit + forced evacuation. Gates: 1379 codegen, 371 hir, all green.

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let tail: Vec<&str> = ir.lines().skip(reassoc_line).take(8).collect();
assert!(
!tail.iter().any(|l| l.contains("PERRY_GC_POLL_ARMED")),
"the reduction loop still polls the GC every iteration, which blocks \
vectorization — module-init shadow-slot pruning is not firing:\n{}",
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Scan the complete LLVM basic block.

take(8) on Line 126 does not cover the whole block that contains the reassociated add. A PERRY_GC_POLL_ARMED load before the add, or after the eighth line, leaves this test passing while the loop still has the poll that blocks vectorization.

Find the enclosing basic-block boundaries and inspect every line in that block.

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-    let tail: Vec<&str> = ir.lines().skip(reassoc_line).take(8).collect();
+    let lines: Vec<&str> = ir.lines().collect();
+    let block_start = (0..=reassoc_line)
+        .rev()
+        .find(|&index| lines[index].trim_end().ends_with(':'))
+        .expect("reassoc add has a basic block");
+    let block_end = ((reassoc_line + 1)..lines.len())
+        .find(|&index| lines[index].trim_end().ends_with(':'))
+        .unwrap_or(lines.len());
+    let block = &lines[block_start..block_end];
     assert!(
-        !tail.iter().any(|l| l.contains("PERRY_GC_POLL_ARMED")),
+        !block.iter().any(|l| l.contains("PERRY_GC_POLL_ARMED")),
         "the reduction loop still polls the GC every iteration, which blocks \
          vectorization — module-init shadow-slot pruning is not firing:\n{}",
-        tail.join("\n")
+        block.join("\n")
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In `@crates/perry/tests/issue_9363_byte_reduction_vectorizes.rs` around lines 126
- 131, Update the IR inspection in the test around reassoc_line to identify the
enclosing basic-block boundaries and scan every line in that block, rather than
limiting the tail to eight lines; keep the assertion rejecting any
PERRY_GC_POLL_ARMED occurrence.

…ent load (576 -> 235 ms)

`receiver_class_name` answers only from `proven_local_types`, which is
runtime-derived and therefore always empty for a PARAMETER — its value arrives
from outside the body. So the shape this machinery was built for was the one
shape it never served: bcryptjs's `_encipher(lr, off, P: Int32Array,
S: Int32Array)` does ~600M `S[i]` reads through parameters and emitted a
`js_typed_array_get` CALL for every one, while the identical loop over a
module-global receiver took the inline checked load. Measured on
`bench_typed_array_untyped_access`'s shape: the parameter body emits ZERO
`ctaf.get` blocks, the module-global body 66.

The declared class is read through `local_type_hint`, the audited escape hatch
for "sites whose independent representation proof or runtime guard validates
the current value". That is exactly this site: the emitted guard re-derives the
truth from `PERRY_TA_KIND_CACHE`, so a wrong declaration misses the cache and
defers to the memory-safe helper. A lying annotation costs a missed speedup,
never a wrong answer — the same reasoning the module-global arm already
carries, and strictly safer here because the guard validates the actual
receiver. Reassigned bindings stay excluded per `receiver_class_name`'s PerryTS#6906
rule. Applied to all three lanes that had the identical hole: the checked f64
read, its i32 twin, and PerryTS#9342's u8 buffer read.

MEASURED, and the two rows disagree in an instructive way:
  * `buf_ctx` (SIZE=1e6 x 50), `Uint8Array` parameter receiver: 576 -> 235 ms.
  * `bench_typed_array_untyped_access`: the change FIRES (0 -> 66 blocks) but
    is FLAT at 1216 ms. That benchmark's cost is its accumulator's dynamic add
    and shadow-frame rooting, not its reads — the PerryTS#9361 family. Recorded rather
    than smoothed over: the same change is worth 2.4x where reads dominate and
    nothing where they do not.

Also of note for that row: its headline metric is already at parity. The
untyped/typed ratio it exists to track (PerryTS#5525) is 1.03 against node's 1.03; the
remaining gap is a flat ~4x on BOTH paths, which the ratio cannot express.

Tests: `issue_9363_declared_param_typed_array.rs` pins that a declared param
takes the inline load (with the module-global body asserted clean FIRST, so a
regression disabling both lanes cannot pass vacuously), that a REASSIGNED
param is refused, and — the claim the whole optimism rests on — that a LYING
annotation still produces node-identical answers, with node itself as the
oracle across a plain array, a plain object, a non-indexable scalar and a
too-short array, under forced evacuation as well. The binding-type audit
carries a written rationale for each of the three new `local_type_hint` uses
(93 sites, OK).

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- Around line 120-121: In the checked typed-array loaders, root the receiver
before calling lower_expr_as_i32(ctx, index), then reload that rooted receiver
before raw-address calculation and dereference. Apply this flow in
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  'pub\(crate\).*with_rooted_group|pub\(crate\).*with_operands_rooted|fn with_rooted_group|fn with_operands_rooted|adopt_emitted|reread_emitted' \
  crates/perry-codegen/src/rooting.rs crates/perry-codegen/src/expr crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen

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sed -n '224,275p' crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/ta_param_f64_read.rs
sed -n '661,730p' crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/i32_fast_path.rs

printf '%s\n' '--- proof predicate ---'
sed -n '500,535p' crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/i32_fast_path.rs
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Root the receiver across index lowering.

Both checked typed-array loaders lower the receiver before lower_expr_as_i32(ctx, index). Root the receiver before index lowering, then reload it before raw-address calculation and dereference.

  • crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/ta_param_f64_read.rs#L120-L121
  • crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/i32_fast_path.rs#L632-L633
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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/ta_param_f64_read.rs` around lines 120 - 121,
In the checked typed-array loaders, root the receiver before calling
lower_expr_as_i32(ctx, index), then reload that rooted receiver before
raw-address calculation and dereference. Apply this flow in
crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/ta_param_f64_read.rs at lines 120-121 and
crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/i32_fast_path.rs at lines 632-633, preserving the
existing typed-array class resolution.

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console.log(f(base, false) + "," + f(base, true));
"#;
let dir = tempfile::tempdir().expect("tempdir");
let (bin, _stderr) = compile(dir.path(), REASSIGNED);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that the reassigned parameter does not use the inline lane.

Line 222 discards the emitted IR. The output assertion passes if f emits ctaf.get, because both assigned values are Int32Array values. Preserve stderr and assert that function_body(&kept_ir(&stderr), "f") does not contain ctaf.get.

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-    let (bin, _stderr) = compile(dir.path(), REASSIGNED);
+    let (bin, stderr) = compile(dir.path(), REASSIGNED);
+    let body = function_body(&kept_ir(&stderr), "f");
+    assert!(
+        !body.contains("ctaf.get"),
+        "a reassigned parameter must not enter the declared-type inline lane"
+    );
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let (bin, stderr) = compile(dir.path(), REASSIGNED);
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!body.contains("ctaf.get"),
"a reassigned parameter must not enter the declared-type inline lane"
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In `@crates/perry/tests/issue_9363_declared_param_typed_array.rs` at line 222,
Update the test around compile to retain stderr and inspect the emitted IR for
function f via kept_ir and function_body; assert that its body does not contain
ctaf.get, verifying the reassigned parameter avoids the inline lane.

…typed_array_untyped_access 1216 -> 257 ms, node 290)

`collectors/int_valued_ta_locals.rs` exists for bcryptjs `_encipher` — its
module doc IS that function — but rejected its own subject's accumulator. The
wrap-i32 additive arm was admitted only for a STRAIGHT-LINE (never in-loop)
Add/Sub tree, and `n += S[...]` sits in the Feistel `while`. So `n` stayed an
f64 slot holding nothing but int32 values, and every S-box step emitted
`sitofp` in and `llvm.aarch64.fjcvtzs` out around the `fadd`.

WHY THE RESTRICTION WAS TOO COARSE. Its stated hazard is real: an unbounded
in-loop chain can carry the true f64 value past 2^53, where it ROUNDS while an
i32 slot WRAPS, and rule (2) only guarantees the `ToInt32` image is observed —
so the two would then disagree. A per-iteration re-seed removes exactly that
hazard, and needs no dominance argument: if the body unconditionally assigns
the local a fresh exact-i32 value once per iteration, the chain restarts every
iteration no matter WHERE the re-seed sits, so the magnitude never exceeds one
body's worth of addends. With each addend below 2^31 a body would need ~4M
additive writes to reach 2^53; `_encipher` re-seeds and adds twice, so
`|n| < 2^33`.

The scan is deliberately narrow. The re-seed must sit at the loop body's TOP
level: one nested in an `if`/`switch`/`try` may not run on a given iteration,
which is precisely the case where the chain keeps growing. Nested loops are
scanned as their own bodies, so an inner loop's re-seed never bounds the outer
body's chain.

MEASURED (quiet host): typed 1216 -> 257 ms and untyped 1254 -> 258 against
node's 290 / 299 — from 4.2x slower to faster than node on BOTH paths. The
fixture's own checksum oracle, which throws on any divergence between the
typed and untyped states, passes identically. This was the last suite row
above node.

VERIFIED, and one honest gap. The promotion DECISIONS were checked directly
through `PERRY_REPSEL_DEBUG`: `n` is promoted in both `encipher` bodies and in
an unconditionally-reseeded fixture, and is refused for a loop with no
re-seed, one whose re-seed is `if`-guarded, and one whose re-seed is in an
inner loop. Node-differential battery (including those adversarial shapes)
byte-identical, and identical again under
`PERRY_GC_HEAP_LIMIT=8 PERRY_GC_FORCE_EVACUATE=1`.

I could NOT prove the conditional-re-seed guard independently load-bearing: I
sabotaged it (letting `if`-nested re-seeds count) and failed across three
fixture attempts to construct a case whose outcome changes — each failed for a
different reason (rule (2) rejected the local first; power-of-two addends made
wrapped and exact coincide; a module-global receiver did not reproduce the
spec-param admission conditions). So it is defense-in-depth of unproven
necessity, stated rather than claimed — the same honesty
`loop_safepoint_purity.rs` applies to its own shadow-slot half.

Tests: `issue_9363_loop_reseeded_accumulator.rs` pins the Feistel round against
node and pins that the three unbounded shapes stay f64, with the oracle itself
guarded (the fixture asserts its expected values still exceed i32 range, so a
wrongly promoted local would print a wrapped negative rather than a near miss).

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818-818: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use the same re-seed admission rule during revalidation.

After any candidate is disqualified, this loop re-runs rule (1) but restores the old !in_loop restriction. It then removes all re-seeded candidates with in-loop additive writes, including candidates unrelated to the disqualification. Reuse the corrected loop-specific admission predicate here.

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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/int_valued_ta_locals.rs` at line 818,
Update the revalidation admission check in the candidate-processing loop to
reuse the corrected loop-specific predicate rather than restoring the old
!in_loop restriction. Ensure re-seeding after a candidate is disqualified
applies the same admission rule as the initial selection and does not remove
unrelated in-loop additive-write candidates.
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- Line 740: Restrict the re-seed proof in the in-loop write analysis to the
current loop, rather than reusing loop_reseeded entries from nested or later
loops. Track re-seeds per loop and only admit additive writes when the reset is
guaranteed on every path reaching that loop’s back-edge, including paths
involving continue. Update the logic around in_loop, loop_reseeded, and id while
preserving valid per-loop re-seed behavior.

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- Line 818: Update the revalidation admission check in the candidate-processing
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old !in_loop restriction. Ensure re-seeding after a candidate is disqualified
applies the same admission rule as the initial selection and does not remove
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facts.writes[id].iter().all(|(w, in_loop)| {
write_is_i32_producing_safe(w, &types, guarded_number_array_params, &numeric_locals)
|| (!in_loop
|| ((!in_loop || loop_reseeded.contains(id))

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Scope the re-seed proof to one loop and every back-edge.

Line 740 applies a re-seed found anywhere to every in-loop write for that local. A re-seed in a nested or later loop can therefore admit an unbounded additive write in a different loop. Also, if (skip) continue; x = 0; marks x as re-seeded even though some iterations reach the next iteration without the reset.

This can select the wrapping i32 slot for a growing f64 accumulator. With large Int32Array addends, the JavaScript value can cross 2^53 after practical iteration counts and diverge from i32 wrapping. Track re-seeds per loop and require that the re-seed executes on every path to that loop’s back-edge before admitting that loop’s additive writes.

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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/int_valued_ta_locals.rs` at line 740,
Restrict the re-seed proof in the in-loop write analysis to the current loop,
rather than reusing loop_reseeded entries from nested or later loops. Track
re-seeds per loop and only admit additive writes when the reset is guaranteed on
every path reaching that loop’s back-edge, including paths involving continue.
Update the logic around in_loop, loop_reseeded, and id while preserving valid
per-loop re-seed behavior.

…ric_array_numeric 45 -> 38 ms, node 38)

`stmt/loops.rs` already skips the back-edge poll inside three loop-clone fact
scopes, and its comment states the rule and predicts this exact case: a poll
exists so an ALLOCATING body can defer a collection; `loop_may_allocate`
answers from the HIR, where `arr[i] = e` is a generic `IndexSet` that CAN
reallocate; and inside a fact scope codegen knows better, because the clone is
call-free or it is not entered.

The packed-f64 clone is that body and was simply not listed. Its entry guard
proves a live packed raw-f64 plain Array with the loop window in bounds, its
reads and writes lower to bare `double` load/store over existing slots (so
nothing grows, reallocates, or writes a heap edge), and its matcher admits no
calls, closures or awaits into the body — the same conjunction the three
listed clones rest on. This is therefore not a new licence.

WHY IT COST MORE THAN ITS OWN INSTRUCTIONS. The armed word is loaded VOLATILE,
which is a clobber inside the loop, so the cached packed receiver base had to
be re-derived on every element — the effect PerryTS#9316's stride comment already
describes. That is why striding the poll 1-in-64 did not recover the loss
while removing it does: the cost was the clobber, not the frequency.

MEASURED (250k x 250, quiet host, min-of-3): 45 -> 38 ms against node's 38. A
forced-arm build with polls disabled entirely also lands on 38, so this
recovers the whole gap and nothing more — the diagnostic bounded the win
before the change was written.

Tests: `issue_9379_packed_f64_clone_poll.rs` asserts no poll inside the
CLONE's own blocks (module-wide counting would assert something this change
never claimed — the fill and outer loops keep their polls), with a vacuity
guard that the fixture still admits the tier, and correctness under
`PERRY_GC_FORCE_EVACUATE` + `PERRY_GC_VERIFY_EVACUATION`, which is the arm
that matters when a safepoint is removed. A sibling test pins that an
allocating loop still polls, so the skip stays scoped to the fact.

Both assertions in the first draft were wrong and perry was right: I counted
polls module-wide, and I hand-computed an expected checksum incorrectly. Both
now use node as the oracle or the clone's own region. `loop_safepoint_purity`
8/8 and codegen 1379/1379 green.

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Seventh commit (03b9d2a): the packed-f64 loop clone needs no GC poll — bench_numeric_array_numeric 45 → 38 ms against node's 38.

stmt/loops.rs already skips the back-edge poll inside three loop-clone fact scopes, and its comment states the rule and predicts this case: a poll exists so an ALLOCATING body can defer a collection; loop_may_allocate answers from the HIR, where arr[i] = e is a generic IndexSet that CAN reallocate; and inside a fact scope codegen knows better, because the clone is call-free or it is not entered.

The packed-f64 clone is that body and was simply not listed. Its entry guard proves a live packed raw-f64 plain Array with the window in bounds, its accesses lower to bare double load/store over existing slots (nothing grows, reallocates, or writes a heap edge), and its matcher admits no calls, closures or awaits. Not a new licence — the same conjunction the three listed clones rest on.

Why it cost more than its own instructions: the armed word is loaded VOLATILE, which is a clobber inside the loop, so the cached receiver base had to be re-derived per element. That is why striding it 1-in-64 (#9316) did not recover the loss while removing it does — the cost was the clobber, not the frequency. A forced-arm build with polls disabled entirely also lands on 38, so this recovers the whole gap and nothing more; the diagnostic bounded the win before the change was written.

Board on this branch (corrected harness, min-of-3)

26 rows win outright. 06_math_intensive is at parity (median 49 vs 49; min 49 vs 48). The two remaining losses — 16_matrix_multiply 69/32 and bench_object_property 31/13 — are covered by #9337 and #9367/#9373, which are not in this tree.

Note the harness itself changed: it now matches an integer time-labelled line instead of taking the first number, per #9374. Under the old extraction bench_typed_array_untyped_access scored "1.00x" by reading a perry-to-perry ratio; it now correctly reads 257 vs 289.

Tests

issue_9379_packed_f64_clone_poll.rs asserts no poll inside the clone's own blocks — module-wide counting would assert something this change never claimed, since the fill and outer loops keep their polls legitimately — with a vacuity guard that the fixture still admits the tier, and correctness under PERRY_GC_FORCE_EVACUATE + PERRY_GC_VERIFY_EVACUATION, the arm that matters when a safepoint is removed. A sibling test pins that an allocating loop still polls, keeping the skip scoped to the fact.

Both assertions in my first draft were wrong and perry was right: I counted polls module-wide, and hand-computed an expected checksum incorrectly. Both now use node as oracle or the clone's own IR region. loop_safepoint_purity 8/8, codegen 1379/1379.

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Re-tested the updated branch (4 commits now) against current main: the aliasing regression is still there.

test_gap_typedarray_buffer_aliasing_7219
  Node.js:  write after aliasing: 10
  Perry:    write after aliasing: 4

Same value, same fixture. Two later assertions in it now diverge as well, where before only the first did.

Good news on the smaller point: the addr-class ratchet passes on this revision, so the bare addr >= 0x1000 floor is resolved — that was the #9219 shape where a floor admits the fetch/zlib/proxy handle bands.

Everything else in the queue that applies cleanly has been merged, including #9339 from the same area, so this is not waiting on anything but itself. Recapping the attribution so it stays in one place:

build fixture
origin/main passes
main + this PR fails
main + #9359 alone passes
main + this PR, compiled PERRY_U8_INLINE_READ=0 still fails

And the two hypotheses I tested and ruled out, so they don't get re-tried: evicting the stale PERRY_U8_INLINE_CACHE admission in register_view_meta, and guarding both registry-miss recovery arms with view_meta_of(addr).is_none(). Neither moved the fixture.

The reproducer is seconds long — compile that fixture and diff against node, no cc bundle needed — so it should be quick to bisect within the four commits.

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Bisected. The culprit is a single commit: 7de78d0576 — the base #9342 change. main + that commit alone, with none of the six perf commits stacked on it, reproduces the failure exactly. So the perf work on top is not implicated and does not need re-examining.

The current 7-commit revision still fails, unchanged.

The failure signature narrows it further. Full output against node:

line node perry
write after aliasing 10 4
write before aliasing 10 10
write through the byte view 67305985 67305985
buffer identity true 8 8 true 8 8
ArrayBuffer first 10 4
offset view 10 4 10 4
never aliased 6028 6028
only the aliased one 10 42 4 42

Only the three cases where the Uint32Array write happens after .buffer materialized fail. write before aliasing is correct, so materialization itself copies fine.

And the wrong value is not arbitrary: 0x01020304 little-endian is bytes 04 03 02 01, summing to 10. Perry answers 4 — byte 0 correct, the other three reading zero. A four-byte quantity is being seen one byte wide.

Three fixes I tried, all of which failed — recording them so they are not re-attempted:

  1. Evicting the stale PERRY_U8_INLINE_CACHE admission in register_view_meta (the rebind falsifies "element 0 follows the header").
  2. Guarding both registry-miss recovery arms with view_meta_of(addr).is_none().
  3. Narrowing both recovery arms from is_registered_buffer(addr) to is_uint8array_buffer(addr) — on the theory that the materialized backing of a Uint32Array is a registered buffer and was therefore taking the byte lane. This one matched the one-byte-wide signature exactly, so I expected it to work; it did not.

Since PERRY_U8_INLINE_READ=0 also does not clear it, and the read-side recovery arms are now ruled out, the remaining surface in that commit is the codegen side — index_get.rs (+10) and arrays_finds.rs (+8) — or something in buffer/header.rs. Given the signature is width-related, I would look first at wherever an element width or stride is chosen for a receiver whose backing is a registered buffer.

Reproducer stays seconds long: compile test-files/test_gap_typedarray_buffer_aliasing_7219.ts and diff against node.

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Correction to my own evidence. One row of the attribution table I posted was a vacuous experiment, and I should retract how I justified it.

I claimed the codegen inline-read path was ruled out because compiling with PERRY_U8_INLINE_READ=0 still failed. That A/B proves nothing here: nm on the compiled fixture shows zero references to js_u8_buffer_read_f64 in either arm. The lowering never fired for this fixture, so the switch had nothing to turn off, and "still fails with it off" was never information.

This is the failure mode I have a note to myself about — verify a codegen arm actually changed the emitted output before trusting any A/B across it — and I did not apply it.

The conclusion survives, but for a better reason: the helper is absent from the binary, so try_lower_u8_buffer_read is not involved in this fixture at all. That is a symbol-level fact rather than an inference from a switch.

Where that leaves the search. The culprit is still 7de78d0576 alone (that bisect used real green/red builds and stands). Within it, the codegen side is now positively excluded — index_get.rs's new call site never fires here — which leaves the runtime changes: typedarray/access.rs (+71) and buffer/header.rs (+67).

I would treat my other two ruled-out hypotheses with the same suspicion, since I did not check whether either arm was reached either:

  • the view_meta_of(addr).is_none() guard on the recovery arms
  • narrowing those arms from is_registered_buffer to is_uint8array_buffer

Both "did not change the fixture", but I never confirmed the recovery arms execute for this receiver. If they do not, those were vacuous too, and the live surface is buffer/header.rs.

The signature remains the sharpest clue: 0x01020304 read back as 4, byte 0 correct and bytes 1-3 zero — a four-byte quantity seen one byte wide, only in the three cases where the write follows .buffer materialization.

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Re-tested the 15:19 revision (merged with current main, since it merges cleanly even though the commits do not cherry-pick individually). Still failing, and I have a much sharper reproducer than the gap fixture.

const words = new Uint32Array(2);
const bytes = new Uint8Array(words.buffer);
words[0] = 0x01020304;
words[1] = 0x05060708;
for (let i = 0; i < 8; i++) out.push(bytes[i]);
result
node 4 3 2 1 8 7 6 5
perry + this PR 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

What this rules in and out:

  • The write is fine. Reading words[0] back gives 16909060 (0x01020304) exactly. The u32 store landed correctly.
  • The metadata is fine. bytes.byteLength is 4, bytes.length 4, words.buffer.byteLength 4 in the one-word version — all matching node.
  • It is not a stride error. My first hypothesis was that the byte view read base + i*4; that would give 4 8 0 0 … on this two-word case, reading the low byte of words[1] at index 4. It gives 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 instead.

So: element 0 reads correctly and every other index reads 0, while length and byteLength are right. That is the shape of a read path that resolves the receiver's data pointer to something one element long — or answers out-of-range for anything past index 0 and coerces to 0 rather than undefined (the ToInt32(undefined) == 0 route your recovery comment describes for the i32 arm).

Given the codegen lowering is positively excluded — nm shows no js_u8_buffer_read_f64 in the binary at all, which is the correction I posted above — the live surface is the runtime recovery in typedarray/access.rs or buffer/header.rs.

This probe runs in seconds and needs no gap harness, so it should make the remaining bisect quick.

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* perf(codegen): a module-global typed-array receiver earns the numeric proof (444 -> 94 ms)

`collectors/ptr_shape_numeric.rs` proved `view[i]` is Number-or-`undefined`
from two sources: `numeric_ta_views` (spec-proven `TaPtr` parameters) and
`const_local_inits` (a compiler-visible `const` init in the SCANNED body). A
module-global `const buf = new Uint8Array(N)` read inside a function has
neither, so `acc += buf[i]` lost the accumulator's Number-by-construction
proof and every add lowered through the rooted `guarded_add` diamond: a GC
shadow-frame load + store + `js_write_barrier_root_nanbox` per element, plus
the dynamic-add cold arm.

`module_global_proven_types` is the same STRENGTH of proof as
`const_local_inits` — derived from the initializer expression on a single-
`Let`, never-reassigned binding, not from an annotation (Perry does not
enforce those, #7773) — so module-scope views whose construction proves a
number-valued typed-array kind now feed the same fixpoint slot. The BigInt
kinds are deliberately excluded: their elements are BigInts, not Numbers.

Measured (SIZE=1e6 x ITER=100, quiet host, min-of-3): the identical loop over
a module-global receiver 444 -> 94 ms, exactly matching the body-local
receiver it should always have matched, against node's 79. The receiver's
binding form is no longer observable in the emitted loop.

ATTRIBUTION, corrected by measurement. The missing proof also leaves a
per-iteration `load volatile @PERRY_GC_POLL_ARMED` in the loop, because
`loop_may_allocate` stays conservative while the `+` is not inert, and the
obvious story is that this volatile load blocks vectorization. It does not
pay: admitting the read as inert under the same construction proof (so the
poll leaves the loop) measured 94 ms either way, and did not vectorize
either — the residual blocker is #9360's per-element admission-cache probe.
That change is therefore NOT included: `expr_is_inert_primitive` also governs
rooting decisions, and an unmeasured widening of it does not ship. The
residual is documented in the test and in #9363.

Tests: `issue_9363_module_global_view_numeric_proof.rs` pins the emitted
shape against a body-local control (which is asserted clean first, so the
comparison cannot pass vacuously) and pins that a REASSIGNED module global is
still not admitted — the construction proof's exclusion is load-bearing.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NbKbYm54HW6cHwEx5FZAtP

* perf(codegen): a loop-reseeded accumulator earns its i32 slot (bench_typed_array_untyped_access 1216 -> 257 ms, node 290)

`collectors/int_valued_ta_locals.rs` exists for bcryptjs `_encipher` — its
module doc IS that function — but rejected its own subject's accumulator. The
wrap-i32 additive arm was admitted only for a STRAIGHT-LINE (never in-loop)
Add/Sub tree, and `n += S[...]` sits in the Feistel `while`. So `n` stayed an
f64 slot holding nothing but int32 values, and every S-box step emitted
`sitofp` in and `llvm.aarch64.fjcvtzs` out around the `fadd`.

WHY THE RESTRICTION WAS TOO COARSE. Its stated hazard is real: an unbounded
in-loop chain can carry the true f64 value past 2^53, where it ROUNDS while an
i32 slot WRAPS, and rule (2) only guarantees the `ToInt32` image is observed —
so the two would then disagree. A per-iteration re-seed removes exactly that
hazard, and needs no dominance argument: if the body unconditionally assigns
the local a fresh exact-i32 value once per iteration, the chain restarts every
iteration no matter WHERE the re-seed sits, so the magnitude never exceeds one
body's worth of addends. With each addend below 2^31 a body would need ~4M
additive writes to reach 2^53; `_encipher` re-seeds and adds twice, so
`|n| < 2^33`.

The scan is deliberately narrow. The re-seed must sit at the loop body's TOP
level: one nested in an `if`/`switch`/`try` may not run on a given iteration,
which is precisely the case where the chain keeps growing. Nested loops are
scanned as their own bodies, so an inner loop's re-seed never bounds the outer
body's chain.

MEASURED (quiet host): typed 1216 -> 257 ms and untyped 1254 -> 258 against
node's 290 / 299 — from 4.2x slower to faster than node on BOTH paths. The
fixture's own checksum oracle, which throws on any divergence between the
typed and untyped states, passes identically. This was the last suite row
above node.

VERIFIED, and one honest gap. The promotion DECISIONS were checked directly
through `PERRY_REPSEL_DEBUG`: `n` is promoted in both `encipher` bodies and in
an unconditionally-reseeded fixture, and is refused for a loop with no
re-seed, one whose re-seed is `if`-guarded, and one whose re-seed is in an
inner loop. Node-differential battery (including those adversarial shapes)
byte-identical, and identical again under
`PERRY_GC_HEAP_LIMIT=8 PERRY_GC_FORCE_EVACUATE=1`.

I could NOT prove the conditional-re-seed guard independently load-bearing: I
sabotaged it (letting `if`-nested re-seeds count) and failed across three
fixture attempts to construct a case whose outcome changes — each failed for a
different reason (rule (2) rejected the local first; power-of-two addends made
wrapped and exact coincide; a module-global receiver did not reproduce the
spec-param admission conditions). So it is defense-in-depth of unproven
necessity, stated rather than claimed — the same honesty
`loop_safepoint_purity.rs` applies to its own shadow-slot half.

Tests: `issue_9363_loop_reseeded_accumulator.rs` pins the Feistel round against
node and pins that the three unbounded shapes stay f64, with the oracle itself
guarded (the fixture asserts its expected values still exceed i32 range, so a
wrongly promoted local would print a wrapped negative rather than a near miss).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NbKbYm54HW6cHwEx5FZAtP

* perf(codegen): the packed-f64 loop clone needs no GC poll (bench_numeric_array_numeric 45 -> 38 ms, node 38)

`stmt/loops.rs` already skips the back-edge poll inside three loop-clone fact
scopes, and its comment states the rule and predicts this exact case: a poll
exists so an ALLOCATING body can defer a collection; `loop_may_allocate`
answers from the HIR, where `arr[i] = e` is a generic `IndexSet` that CAN
reallocate; and inside a fact scope codegen knows better, because the clone is
call-free or it is not entered.

The packed-f64 clone is that body and was simply not listed. Its entry guard
proves a live packed raw-f64 plain Array with the loop window in bounds, its
reads and writes lower to bare `double` load/store over existing slots (so
nothing grows, reallocates, or writes a heap edge), and its matcher admits no
calls, closures or awaits into the body — the same conjunction the three
listed clones rest on. This is therefore not a new licence.

WHY IT COST MORE THAN ITS OWN INSTRUCTIONS. The armed word is loaded VOLATILE,
which is a clobber inside the loop, so the cached packed receiver base had to
be re-derived on every element — the effect #9316's stride comment already
describes. That is why striding the poll 1-in-64 did not recover the loss
while removing it does: the cost was the clobber, not the frequency.

MEASURED (250k x 250, quiet host, min-of-3): 45 -> 38 ms against node's 38. A
forced-arm build with polls disabled entirely also lands on 38, so this
recovers the whole gap and nothing more — the diagnostic bounded the win
before the change was written.

Tests: `issue_9379_packed_f64_clone_poll.rs` asserts no poll inside the
CLONE's own blocks (module-wide counting would assert something this change
never claimed — the fill and outer loops keep their polls), with a vacuity
guard that the fixture still admits the tier, and correctness under
`PERRY_GC_FORCE_EVACUATE` + `PERRY_GC_VERIFY_EVACUATION`, which is the arm
that matters when a safepoint is removed. A sibling test pins that an
allocating loop still polls, so the skip stays scoped to the fact.

Both assertions in the first draft were wrong and perry was right: I counted
polls module-wide, and I hand-computed an expected checksum incorrectly. Both
now use node as the oracle or the clone's own region. `loop_safepoint_purity`
8/8 and codegen 1379/1379 green.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NbKbYm54HW6cHwEx5FZAtP

* style: rustfmt

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Co-authored-by: Ralph Küpper <ralph@skelpo.com>
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Landed via #9436 with your commits preserved, and the aliasing regression fixed.

Root cause: u8_inline_cache_try_prime admitted registered buffer views. A view's inline bytes are only a snapshot — runtime reads resolve through buffer/view.rs to the authoritative backing, which a sibling typed array can change without refreshing it. So the first read missed the cache, took the authoritative path and was correct, then admitted the view; every later read hit the cache and returned the stale snapshot. That is precisely the signature I reported: index 0 right, everything after zero.

The old doc comment asserted the opposite — view copies "ARE admissible" because write-propagation keeps their inline bytes current — and that assumption is what the fix corrects. One added condition; your registry-miss recovery is untouched.

Also worth correcting my earlier note to you: I said the surface was narrowed to typedarray/access.rs or `buffer/header.rs" after excluding the codegen lowering by symbol evidence. The exclusion held, but I over-read it — the cache is reached through other runtime paths, so "the lowering never fires" did not mean the cache was uninvolved. My first hypothesis was directionally right and I fixed it in the wrong place (evicting on rebind, rather than not admitting views at all).

Verified with the probes I built while characterising the bug, plus the #7219 fixture byte-identical to node, and the gate set re-run.

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perf: byte-sum reduction loops — module-global receiver loses the numeric proof (4.7x), and the f64 accumulator chain is reassociable-by-proof (2.9x)

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