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Fixes #9391. bench_gc_pressure regressed 11 → 17 ms against node's 13 when #9373's short-concat memo landed (bisected to d923b8dcf0; its parent 3fc54c4414 measures 11).

This does not revert or weaken #9373 — that memo is worth 36 → 25 ms on bench_object_property on its own, and that row was the board's largest loser. Its win is fully preserved here (13 ms, unchanged).

The mechanism, after one wrong guess

The entries are strong GC roots, so the obvious story is that 512 pinned strings inflate every collection's live set — which is exactly the defect #6759 phase 3 fixed for the transition cache one table over, at 32× the scale, with a comment that reads like it was written about this bug.

I implemented that fix — weak edge (visit_metadata_usize_slot, rewrite-on-move without marking) plus a death prune registered in DEAD_KEY_PRUNES — and measured it:

gc_pressure max RSS
#9373 as merged 17 ms 18.51 MB
with weak entries + prune 17 ms 18.45 MB

Flat on time and memory. Retention was never the cost, and that change is not in this PR — an unmeasured weakening of a GC root is the last trade worth making.

The cost is per-concat, not per-collection. bench_gc_pressure builds 500,000 distinct short strings ("item_" + i, 11 bytes, inside the 12-byte window), so every concat paid a byte hash, a lookup miss, and a rooted insert store for a hit rate of ~0. No collection was involved, which is why a change to collection behaviour couldn't move it.

The fix

The memo retires itself: after 4096 attempts, a hit rate below one-in-eight disables it for the process. The two workloads separate on hit rate alone, with nothing needing to be known in advance:

  • bench_object_property reuses ~20 keys constantly → stays on, keeps its win.
  • bench_gc_pressure never repeats → retires after 4096 of its 500k iterations.

Disabling a pure cache cannot change a result, so this is a throughput decision only — a much weaker claim than anything touching root semantics.

Also: PERRY_CONCAT_MEMO=0 for A/B bisection, and the adaptive counters reset in test_clear_concat_memo (they're thread-local, so a test that misses 4096 times would otherwise retire the memo for every later test on the same thread — the cross-test contamination class that bit the symbol probe's Bloom filter).

Measured (quiet host, min-of-6)

row before after node
bench_gc_pressure 17 12 13
bench_object_property 13 13 13
bench_string_heavy 41 41 42
bench_json_roundtrip 224 224 ~240

Tests

concat_memo_retires_on_an_all_distinct_workload asserts the memo's own retirement decision rather than a timing — a throughput assertion would be flaky, and the decision is what this change makes. Both directions: an all-distinct workload retires it, a hitting workload does not. Sabotage-checked — removing the retirement turns it red. String suite 87/87.

cc @ the author of #9373 — the design call on hit-rate thresholds is yours if you'd prefer different numbers; I picked 4096/⅛ to retire quickly on a hostile workload while being far out of reach for a reusing one.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Performance

    • Improved optimization of numeric loops, byte-array reductions, and typed-array access.
    • Added faster reads for eligible Uint8Array and Buffer values while preserving safe fallbacks.
    • Improved handling of declared typed-array parameters and module-level typed-array values.
    • Reduced unnecessary garbage-collection checks in proven allocation-free loops.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved correctness for loop-reseeded accumulators, out-of-bounds reads, reassigned values, and garbage-collection stress scenarios.
    • Adaptive string-concatenation caching now disables itself when it provides little benefit.

Ralph Küpper added 7 commits September 1, 2026 13:34
…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
… 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.

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

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

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

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NbKbYm54HW6cHwEx5FZAtP
…ch_gc_pressure 17 -> 12 ms, node 13)

PerryTS#9373's short-concat memo regressed `bench_gc_pressure` from 11 to 17 ms
against node's 13, bisected to `d923b8dcf0` (its parent `3fc54c4414` measures
11). Filed as PerryTS#9391.

THE MECHANISM, after one wrong guess. The memo's entries are strong GC roots,
so the obvious story is that 512 pinned strings inflate every collection's live
set — the exact defect PerryTS#6759 phase 3 fixed for the transition cache one table
over, at 32x the scale. I implemented that fix (weak edge + a death prune
registered in `DEAD_KEY_PRUNES`) and measured it: **17 ms, unchanged**, and max
RSS 18.45 vs 18.51 MB. Flat on time and on memory, so it is NOT in this commit.
Retention was never the cost.

The cost is per-CONCAT, not per-collection. `bench_gc_pressure` builds 500,000
DISTINCT short strings (`"item_" + i`, 11 bytes, inside the 12-byte memo
window), so every concat paid a byte hash, a lookup miss and a ROOTED insert
store for a hit rate of ~0. Nothing about a collection was involved, which is
why a change to collection behaviour could not move it.

THE FIX. The memo retires itself: after `CONCAT_MEMO_TRIAL` (4096) attempts, a
hit rate below one in eight disables it for the process. The two workloads
separate on hit rate alone, with nothing needing to be known in advance —
`bench_object_property` reuses ~20 keys constantly (stays on, keeps its
36 -> 25 ms win), `bench_gc_pressure` never repeats (retires after 4096 of its
500k iterations). Disabling a pure cache cannot change a result, so this is a
throughput decision only — a far weaker claim than anything touching root
semantics, which is the other reason the weak-edge version does not ship.

Also adds `PERRY_CONCAT_MEMO=0` for A/B bisection, which the memo should have
had from the start, and resets the counters in `test_clear_concat_memo` — they
are thread-local, so a test that misses 4096 times would otherwise retire the
memo for every later test on the same thread (the cross-test contamination
class that bit the symbol probe's Bloom filter).

MEASURED (quiet host, min-of-6):
  * `bench_gc_pressure` 17 -> 12 (node 13) — recovered; it was 11 before PerryTS#9373.
  * `bench_object_property` 13 -> 13 (node 13) — the memo's win is intact.
  * `bench_string_heavy` 41, `bench_json_roundtrip` 224 — unchanged.

Tests: `concat_memo_retires_on_an_all_distinct_workload` asserts the memo's own
retirement DECISION rather than a timing (a throughput assertion would be
flaky, and the decision is what this change makes), in both directions — an
all-distinct workload retires it, a hitting workload does not. Sabotage-checked:
removing the retirement turns it red. String suite 87/87.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NbKbYm54HW6cHwEx5FZAtP
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Numeric code generation and runtime paths

Layer / File(s) Summary
Numeric fact and accumulator analysis
crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/*
Fact collection now tracks numeric module globals, bounded reassociable f64 accumulators, and loop-reseeded locals.
Checked typed-array and reduction lowering
crates/perry-codegen/src/block.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/*, crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/*
Declared type hints enable guarded typed-array loads. Bounded byte reductions emit fadd reassoc. Untracked Uint8Array reads use a guarded inline path with a runtime fallback.
Inline Uint8Array runtime support
crates/perry-runtime/src/buffer/*, crates/perry-runtime/src/typedarray/access.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/*
The runtime adds and maintains PERRY_U8_INLINE_CACHE, primes it from the fallback, and handles registry-miss reads through buffer or classifier dispatch.
Module-init roots and packed-loop polls
crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/entry.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/stmt/loops.rs
Module-init shadow slots for proven numeric locals are pruned. Packed-f64 clones no longer emit back-edge safepoint polls.
Numeric and fast-path regression coverage
crates/perry/tests/issue_9342_u8_inline_read.rs, crates/perry/tests/issue_9363_*, crates/perry/tests/issue_9379_packed_f64_clone_poll.rs
Tests inspect LLVM IR and compare compiled output with Node.js under normal and GC-stress execution.
Type-hint allowlist updates
scripts/local_binding_type_allowlist.json
The new runtime-validated type-hint consumers are recorded in the allowlist.

Adaptive concat memo

Layer / File(s) Summary
Memo retirement and validation
crates/perry-runtime/src/string/concat.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/string/tests.rs
Concat memo lookups track attempts and hits, honor PERRY_CONCAT_MEMO, retire after low-hit trials, and include retirement tests.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Suggested reviewers: thehypnoo

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PerryCompiler
  participant CompiledProgram
  participant Uint8ArrayRuntime
  participant InlineCache
  PerryCompiler->>CompiledProgram: emit guarded inline Uint8Array read
  CompiledProgram->>InlineCache: check admitted buffer address
  InlineCache-->>CompiledProgram: return hit or miss
  CompiledProgram->>Uint8ArrayRuntime: call js_u8_buffer_read_f64 on miss
  Uint8ArrayRuntime->>InlineCache: prime eligible inline buffer
  Uint8ArrayRuntime-->>CompiledProgram: return checked element value
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🧹 Nitpick comments (3)
crates/perry/tests/issue_9379_packed_f64_clone_poll.rs (2)

95-99: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Fail loudly when the exit label is missing instead of returning the rest of the module.

unwrap_or(lines.len()) makes the region cover every remaining line of the IR. Other loops keep their polls legitimately, so the poll count then becomes non-zero and the test fails with a misleading message. Panic on a missing exit label instead.

♻️ Proposed change
     let end = lines[start..]
         .iter()
         .position(|l| l.starts_with("for.packed_f64_fast.exit"))
         .map(|off| start + off)
-        .unwrap_or(lines.len());
+        .unwrap_or_else(|| {
+            panic!("packed-f64 clone has no `for.packed_f64_fast.exit` label; the region would otherwise swallow other tiers' loops")
+        });
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In `@crates/perry/tests/issue_9379_packed_f64_clone_poll.rs` around lines 95 - 99,
Update the exit-label lookup in the packed f64 poll-region parsing to fail
immediately when “for.packed_f64_fast.exit” is absent, replacing the fallback to
lines.len() with an explicit failure while preserving the existing offset
calculation when the label is found.

194-198: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Scope the poll assertion to the target loop; the module-wide check can pass for the wrong reason.

The fixture's fill loop arr.push(i) allocates and emits its own poll. ir.contains("PERRY_GC_POLL_ARMED") is therefore satisfied even if the packed-f64 clone wrongly claimed the second loop and dropped its poll. The sibling test packed_f64_clone_emits_no_poll_and_stays_correct already scopes its count to the clone region. Apply the same scoping here, for example by asserting that no for.packed_f64_fast clone is emitted for this fixture and that a poll remains outside the fill loop.

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In `@crates/perry/tests/issue_9379_packed_f64_clone_poll.rs` around lines 194 -
198, Update the assertion in the packed-f64 clone poll test to scope validation
to the target clone loop rather than the entire module. Confirm that no
for.packed_f64_fast clone is emitted for this fixture, and verify that the GC
poll remains outside the allocating fill loop, following the region-scoped
approach used by packed_f64_clone_emits_no_poll_and_stays_correct.
crates/perry/tests/issue_9363_byte_reduction_vectorizes.rs (1)

122-132: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Scan the enclosing basic block instead of a fixed 8-line window.

The window starts at the fadd reassoc double line and covers only 7 following lines. A poll load that the codegen emits before the fadd, or more than 7 lines after it, is not seen. The comment states the intent as "no volatile poll load between it and its block's terminator", so bound the scan by the block instead.

♻️ Proposed change to bound the scan by the block
-    let reassoc_line = ir
-        .lines()
-        .position(|l| l.contains("fadd reassoc double"))
-        .expect("reassoc add present");
-    let tail: Vec<&str> = ir.lines().skip(reassoc_line).take(8).collect();
+    let lines: Vec<&str> = ir.lines().collect();
+    let reassoc_line = lines
+        .iter()
+        .position(|l| l.contains("fadd reassoc double"))
+        .expect("reassoc add present");
+    // Block start: the nearest preceding label line; block end: the first
+    // terminator at or after the add.
+    let start = lines[..reassoc_line]
+        .iter()
+        .rposition(|l| l.trim_end().ends_with(':'))
+        .map_or(0, |i| i + 1);
+    let end = lines[reassoc_line..]
+        .iter()
+        .position(|l| {
+            let t = l.trim_start();
+            t.starts_with("br ") || t.starts_with("ret ") || t.starts_with("switch ")
+        })
+        .map_or(lines.len(), |off| reassoc_line + off + 1);
+    let tail: Vec<&str> = lines[start..end].to_vec();
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In `@crates/perry/tests/issue_9363_byte_reduction_vectorizes.rs` around lines 122
- 132, Update the IR inspection around the reassociated add in
issue_9363_byte_reduction_vectorizes so it scans the entire enclosing basic
block through its terminator, rather than using the fixed eight-line tail after
fadd reassoc double. Ensure the assertion detects PERRY_GC_POLL_ARMED anywhere
in that block, including lines before the fadd.
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Inline comments:
In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/int_valued_ta_locals.rs`:
- Line 1032: Update the re-seed handling around the top-level write insertion
into out so it requires a control-flow proof that the re-seed dominates every
admitted additive write before the loop back edge. In the loop analysis that
admits i32 additive writes, reject any loop where an additive write can reach
the back edge without passing through the re-seed, preventing carried values
from bypass paths such as continue.

In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/index_get.rs`:
- Around line 1214-1218: Update the typed-array routing around
is_width_tracked_typed_array_receiver so try_lower_u8_buffer_read can handle
Uint8Array receivers, including tracked views, before the current width-tracked
branch or by extending its predicate. Preserve the existing fallback behavior
when the helper returns None.

In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/u8_buffer_read.rs`:
- Around line 134-135: Root the receiver across index lowering in the three
checked-load helpers: crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/u8_buffer_read.rs lines
134-135, crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/ta_param_f64_read.rs line 121, and
crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/i32_fast_path.rs line 633. Use
with_operands_rooted_across while lowering the index, then reload the receiver
before deriving its raw address; no direct changes beyond these three sites are
required.

In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/typedarray/access.rs`:
- Around line 150-157: Restrict both registered-buffer fallback guards in the
typed-array access logic to byte-indexable receivers by replacing
is_registered_buffer with is_byte_indexed_buffer. Apply this at
crates/perry-runtime/src/typedarray/access.rs lines 150-157 and 215-220; both
sites must use the narrower predicate so ArrayBuffer, SharedArrayBuffer, and
DataView reach js_typed_array_get for correct undefined handling.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/perry/tests/issue_9363_byte_reduction_vectorizes.rs`:
- Around line 122-132: Update the IR inspection around the reassociated add in
issue_9363_byte_reduction_vectorizes so it scans the entire enclosing basic
block through its terminator, rather than using the fixed eight-line tail after
fadd reassoc double. Ensure the assertion detects PERRY_GC_POLL_ARMED anywhere
in that block, including lines before the fadd.

In `@crates/perry/tests/issue_9379_packed_f64_clone_poll.rs`:
- Around line 95-99: Update the exit-label lookup in the packed f64 poll-region
parsing to fail immediately when “for.packed_f64_fast.exit” is absent, replacing
the fallback to lines.len() with an explicit failure while preserving the
existing offset calculation when the label is found.
- Around line 194-198: Update the assertion in the packed-f64 clone poll test to
scope validation to the target clone loop rather than the entire module. Confirm
that no for.packed_f64_fast clone is emitted for this fixture, and verify that
the GC poll remains outside the allocating fill loop, following the
region-scoped approach used by packed_f64_clone_emits_no_poll_and_stays_correct.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Require a control-flow proof for the re-seed.

Line 1032 marks a top-level write as a re-seed without checking paths that bypass it. For example, x = x + 2147483647; if (skip) continue; x = view[0]; carries x across iterations when skip is true. Line 740 then admits the additive writes for an i32 slot, although the f64 value can grow past the modeled one-body bound and diverge from i32 wrapping.

Only admit a re-seed that dominates every admitted additive write, or reject loops where an additive write can reach the back edge without the re-seed.

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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/int_valued_ta_locals.rs` at line 1032,
Update the re-seed handling around the top-level write insertion into out so it
requires a control-flow proof that the re-seed dominates every admitted additive
write before the loop back edge. In the loop analysis that admits i32 additive
writes, reject any loop where an additive write can reach the back edge without
passing through the re-seed, preventing carried values from bypass paths such as
continue.

Comment on lines +1214 to +1218
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

Make the Uint8Array lane reachable.

try_lower_u8_buffer_read requires an untracked Uint8Array. The enclosing is_width_tracked_typed_array_receiver predicate excludes Uint8Array from its named-class allowlist. Tracked views enter this branch but the helper rejects them. As a result, this new path always returns None.

Move this attempt before the width-tracked branch, or extend the routing predicate without changing the fallback semantics.

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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/index_get.rs` around lines 1214 - 1218, Update
the typed-array routing around is_width_tracked_typed_array_receiver so
try_lower_u8_buffer_read can handle Uint8Array receivers, including tracked
views, before the current width-tracked branch or by extending its predicate.
Preserve the existing fallback behavior when the helper returns None.

Comment on lines +134 to +135
let obj_box = lower_expr(ctx, object)?;
let idx_i32 = lower_expr_as_i32(ctx, index)?;

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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  crates/perry-codegen/src/expr \
  crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors

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    Path("crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/i32_fast_path.rs"),
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Root and reload the receiver across index lowering.

The three checked-load helpers lower object before lower_expr_as_i32(index). The shared proof admits clamp3 index expressions, whose arguments can include calls. Call lowering is a safepoint. A moving GC can therefore relocate the receiver before the raw address is derived from obj_box. Use with_operands_rooted_across and reload the receiver after index lowering in all three helpers.

📍 Affects 3 files
  • crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/u8_buffer_read.rs#L134-L135 (this comment)
  • crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/ta_param_f64_read.rs#L121-L121
  • crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/i32_fast_path.rs#L633-L633
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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/u8_buffer_read.rs` around lines 134 - 135, Root
the receiver across index lowering in the three checked-load helpers:
crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/u8_buffer_read.rs lines 134-135,
crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/ta_param_f64_read.rs line 121, and
crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/i32_fast_path.rs line 633. Use
with_operands_rooted_across while lowering the index, then reload the receiver
before deriving its raw address; no direct changes beyond these three sites are
required.

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Comment on lines +150 to +157
if crate::buffer::is_registered_buffer(addr) {
let v = crate::buffer::js_buffer_index_get_value(
addr as *const crate::buffer::BufferHeader,
index,
);
// In-range: an exact 0..=255 byte. OOB: TAG_UNDEFINED, and
// `ToInt32(undefined) == 0`.
return if v.is_finite() { v as i32 } else { 0 };

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Restrict both registered-buffer fallbacks to byte-indexable receivers.

is_registered_buffer(addr) includes ArrayBuffer, SharedArrayBuffer, and DataView. Both branches call js_buffer_index_get_value before js_typed_array_get can classify the receiver, so value[0] returns a backing byte instead of undefined. Use is_byte_indexed_buffer(addr) in both guards.

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  • crates/perry-runtime/src/typedarray/access.rs#L150-L157 (this comment)
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/typedarray/access.rs#L215-L220
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/typedarray/access.rs` around lines 150 - 157,
Restrict both registered-buffer fallback guards in the typed-array access logic
to byte-indexable receivers by replacing is_registered_buffer with
is_byte_indexed_buffer. Apply this at
crates/perry-runtime/src/typedarray/access.rs lines 150-157 and 215-220; both
sites must use the narrower predicate so ArrayBuffer, SharedArrayBuffer, and
DataView reach js_typed_array_get for correct undefined handling.

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The concat-memo commit here is superseded by #9397 (from #9396's standalone version), which is on main now.

The rest of this branch is stacked on #9360, which still regresses test_gap_typedarray_buffer_aliasing_7219write after aliasing: 4 against node's 10 — on its latest revision. Details and the attribution table are on #9360. Once that is resolved the remaining perf commits here should rebase cleanly; nothing else in the queue is blocking them.

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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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Three of your commits are on main now via #9433 — the module-global numeric proof, the loop-reseeded accumulator i32 slot, and the packed-f64 clone poll removal. Your commits, preserved.

Two are deliberately left here because they genuinely depend on #9360's base rather than merely sitting on top of it:

  • 70df878c02 modifies expr/u8_buffer_read.rs, which only exists once 3715f58d5f creates it (cherry-pick reports DU).
  • 5ece939298 introduces a tuple whose second element 70df878c02 consumes; landing it alone compiles with two unused variable warnings, i.e. half a feature. I noticed that from the build rather than silencing it with a _ prefix.

The concat-memo commit is already in via #9397.

So this PR is down to those two plus the #9360 base. A codex agent is working #9360's aliasing regression now with the full bisect and the failed-hypothesis list; once that lands these should rebase cleanly.

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regression: bench_gc_pressure ~10 -> ~17 ms on main (node 13) — was a win, now a 1.3x loss

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