fix(runtime): stop the concat memo probing when it isn't paying (fixes #9391) - #9396
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…yTS#9391) PerryTS#9373's memo regressed `bench_gc_pressure` from ~11 ms to ~19, which @ECS1 bisected to `d923b8dcf0` and I confirmed by in-binary A/B. It is my change and this is the fix. The fixture builds `{ x: i, y: i * 2, name: "item_" + i }` half a million times with EVERY result distinct — the exact shape the memo targets and the exact shape it cannot help. Instrumented: 501,000 probes for 6 hits. Two separate costs, and the obvious one was the smaller: 1. **Rooting.** Every miss inserted, so the memo held up to 512 strings alive as strong GC roots on the one benchmark whose whole subject is collecting — keeping garbage alive to be promoted, and adding a root scan per collection. Fixed with an admission doorkeeper: a one-byte hash tag per slot means a result must be seen TWICE before it earns an entry, so a never-repeated key costs a byte instead of a rooted string. The tags are plain bytes, never addresses, so the collector never sees them. The first tag derivation was itself wrong — sliced straight out of FNV-1a's high bits, which avalanche poorly, it admitted 256,516 of 501,000 where ~1/128 was intended. A splitmix64 finalizer before slicing brought that to 3,992. 2. **The probe itself, which was the bigger half.** Even with admissions down to 0.8%, the row still ran 21 ms against 12. Assembling the result into a buffer and hashing it, on every concat, for six hits, was the cost. So the memo now measures its own hit rate over a 4096-candidate window and stops probing when under a quarter of candidates hit, with exponential backoff to one probing window in 2^8. A backoff always expires into a probation window, so a program that starts cold and turns hot is still picked up. The governor word is a relaxed global rather than a `thread_local!` — it is advisory, correctness never depends on it, and three TLS reads per candidate were themselves worth ~2 ms here. Measured, min-of-15, in-binary A/B against the memo compiled out: | | memo on | memo off | before this fix | |---|---|---|---| | `bench_gc_pressure` | 13 ms | 12 ms | 21 ms | | `bench_object_property` | 15 ms | 21 ms | 15 ms | So the hostile row is within 1 ms of not having the memo at all, and the row the memo exists for keeps its full 6 ms win. `bench_string_heavy` unchanged (43/44). Output identical throughout. Tests assert the governor's DECISIONS, not wall-clock: it disables after a window with no hits, stays enabled when every candidate hits, and always recovers from backoff. A timing test here would be noise-sensitive and would not say why it failed. WHY MY PRE-MERGE ADVERSARIAL TEST MISSED THIS: PerryTS#9373 did test an all-distinct-results fixture and measured 7 ms vs Node's 8. But that fixture had no other allocation pressure, so it exercised the probe cost in isolation and never the interaction that actually hurt — rooting garbage while a collector is under load. An adversarial case has to be adversarial in the dimension the change touches, and mine covered one of two. Gates: perry-runtime 2918 passed (single-threaded), perry-codegen 1379 passed, fmt clean, `-D warnings` clean, shape-descriptor census clean, all five static gc_root_dominance_check audits pass, GC store-site inventory passes, all three touched files under the 2000-line cap. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Pcq6j6y57TdKSR2Zx2D187
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe string-concat memo now uses an adaptive governor and a tagged second-sighting doorkeeper. Both concat paths apply these controls, and tests cover memo identity and governor recovery. ChangesString concat memo controls
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This PR reduces concat memo overhead while preserving output behavior, but shared adaptive state may temporarily reduce optimization for unrelated callers under concurrency, and two memo-behavior tests need stronger isolation and assertions. The change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up on these bounded performance and test-validity risks. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ConcatPath
participant MemoGovernor
participant CONCAT_MEMO_TAGS
participant ConcatMemo
ConcatPath->>MemoGovernor: concat_memo_should_probe()
MemoGovernor-->>ConcatPath: probing allowed or skipped
ConcatPath->>ConcatMemo: lookup derived slot
ConcatMemo-->>ConcatPath: memo hit or miss
ConcatPath->>MemoGovernor: concat_memo_note_hit() on hit
ConcatPath->>CONCAT_MEMO_TAGS: concat_memo_admit(slot, tag)
CONCAT_MEMO_TAGS-->>ConcatPath: admitted or first sighting
ConcatPath->>ConcatMemo: insert result when admitted
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1007-1030: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReset the shared governor before each memo-behavior test.
concat_memo_governor_disables_itself_when_nothing_hitsleavesMEMO_GOVdisabled. These tests can then pass through allocation-only paths without testing memo behavior.
crates/perry-runtime/src/string/tests.rs#L1007-L1030: calltest_reset_memo_governor()after memo cleanup.crates/perry-runtime/src/string/tests.rs#L1036-L1053: calltest_reset_memo_governor()after memo cleanup.As per coding guidelines,
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/string/concat.rs`:
- Line 288: Replace the derived-value store in concat_memo_should_probe with a
compare-exchange retry loop that recomputes from the latest MEMO_GOV value,
preserving concurrent updates from concat_memo_note_hit. Ensure only the
successful window-closing CAS resets counters and updates backoff state,
preventing lost hits and incorrect probing decisions.
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/string/tests.rs`:
- Around line 981-982: Update the test around js_string_concat_value to retain
the first result instead of discarding it, assert that the first pointer differs
from second, and preserve the assertion that second equals third to verify only
subsequent calls are memoized.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/string/tests.rs`:
- Around line 1007-1030: Reset the shared memo governor after test memo cleanup
in both affected sites: crates/perry-runtime/src/string/tests.rs lines 1007-1030
and 1036-1053. Add the existing test_reset_memo_governor call so each
memo-behavior test starts enabled; no other changes are needed.
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| let v = MEMO_GOV.load(Relaxed); | ||
| let count = (v & GOV_COUNT_MASK) + 1; | ||
| if count < MEMO_WINDOW as u64 { | ||
| MEMO_GOV.store((v & !GOV_COUNT_MASK) | count, Relaxed); |
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Make the MEMO_GOV transition atomic.
MEMO_GOV is process-global. concat_memo_should_probe stores a value derived from an earlier load, while concat_memo_note_hit atomically increments the same word. If runtime workers interleave these paths, the store can overwrite a candidate or hit update. The governor can then undercount hits and disable probing for a hot memo. Use a compare-exchange retry loop, and let only the successful window-closing operation reset counters and update backoff state.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/string/concat.rs` at line 288, Replace the
derived-value store in concat_memo_should_probe with a compare-exchange retry
loop that recomputes from the latest MEMO_GOV value, preserving concurrent
updates from concat_memo_note_hit. Ensure only the successful window-closing CAS
resets counters and updates backoff state, preventing lost hits and incorrect
probing decisions.
| let _first = crate::string::js_string_concat_value(prefix, 7.0); | ||
| let second = crate::string::js_string_concat_value(prefix, 7.0); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Assert that the first result is not memoized.
The test discards the first result. The assertion on second and third also passes if the first evaluation incorrectly inserts into the memo.
Keep the first pointer value and assert that it differs from second. Then assert that second equals third.
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- let _first = crate::string::js_string_concat_value(prefix, 7.0);
+ let first_ptr = crate::string::js_string_concat_value(prefix, 7.0) as usize;
let second = crate::string::js_string_concat_value(prefix, 7.0);
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| let _first = crate::string::js_string_concat_value(prefix, 7.0); | |
| let second = crate::string::js_string_concat_value(prefix, 7.0); | |
| let first_ptr = crate::string::js_string_concat_value(prefix, 7.0) as usize; | |
| let second = crate::string::js_string_concat_value(prefix, 7.0); | |
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/string/tests.rs` around lines 981 - 982, Update the
test around js_string_concat_value to retain the first result instead of
discarding it, assert that the first pointer differs from second, and preserve
the assertion that second equals third to verify only subsequent calls are
memoized.
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Landed via #9397 with your commit preserved — your branch conflicts against current I picked this over #9395's version of the same fix: that one is stacked on #9360, which still has the typed-array aliasing regression open, and the doorkeeper is the better design anyway — admitting only on a second sighting attacks the rooting cost directly rather than switching the memo off wholesale. The note about the first tag derivation is the part worth keeping visible: FNV-1a's high bits admitting 256,516 of 501,000 where ~1/128 was intended is exactly the kind of error that still produces a plausible benchmark number. |
…9396) (#9397) * fix(runtime): stop the concat memo probing when it isn't paying (#9391) bisected to `d923b8dcf0` and I confirmed by in-binary A/B. It is my change and this is the fix. The fixture builds `{ x: i, y: i * 2, name: "item_" + i }` half a million times with EVERY result distinct — the exact shape the memo targets and the exact shape it cannot help. Instrumented: 501,000 probes for 6 hits. Two separate costs, and the obvious one was the smaller: 1. **Rooting.** Every miss inserted, so the memo held up to 512 strings alive as strong GC roots on the one benchmark whose whole subject is collecting — keeping garbage alive to be promoted, and adding a root scan per collection. Fixed with an admission doorkeeper: a one-byte hash tag per slot means a result must be seen TWICE before it earns an entry, so a never-repeated key costs a byte instead of a rooted string. The tags are plain bytes, never addresses, so the collector never sees them. The first tag derivation was itself wrong — sliced straight out of FNV-1a's high bits, which avalanche poorly, it admitted 256,516 of 501,000 where ~1/128 was intended. A splitmix64 finalizer before slicing brought that to 3,992. 2. **The probe itself, which was the bigger half.** Even with admissions down to 0.8%, the row still ran 21 ms against 12. Assembling the result into a buffer and hashing it, on every concat, for six hits, was the cost. So the memo now measures its own hit rate over a 4096-candidate window and stops probing when under a quarter of candidates hit, with exponential backoff to one probing window in 2^8. A backoff always expires into a probation window, so a program that starts cold and turns hot is still picked up. The governor word is a relaxed global rather than a `thread_local!` — it is advisory, correctness never depends on it, and three TLS reads per candidate were themselves worth ~2 ms here. Measured, min-of-15, in-binary A/B against the memo compiled out: | | memo on | memo off | before this fix | |---|---|---|---| | `bench_gc_pressure` | 13 ms | 12 ms | 21 ms | | `bench_object_property` | 15 ms | 21 ms | 15 ms | So the hostile row is within 1 ms of not having the memo at all, and the row the memo exists for keeps its full 6 ms win. `bench_string_heavy` unchanged (43/44). Output identical throughout. Tests assert the governor's DECISIONS, not wall-clock: it disables after a window with no hits, stays enabled when every candidate hits, and always recovers from backoff. A timing test here would be noise-sensitive and would not say why it failed. WHY MY PRE-MERGE ADVERSARIAL TEST MISSED THIS: #9373 did test an all-distinct-results fixture and measured 7 ms vs Node's 8. But that fixture had no other allocation pressure, so it exercised the probe cost in isolation and never the interaction that actually hurt — rooting garbage while a collector is under load. An adversarial case has to be adversarial in the dimension the change touches, and mine covered one of two. Gates: perry-runtime 2918 passed (single-threaded), perry-codegen 1379 passed, fmt clean, `-D warnings` clean, shape-descriptor census clean, all five static gc_root_dominance_check audits pass, GC store-site inventory passes, all three touched files under the 2000-line cap. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Pcq6j6y57TdKSR2Zx2D187 * fix(runtime): keep the concat memo's thread-locals on perry_thread_local! #9396 predates #9390's conversion, so its rebase reintroduced a raw thread_local! for the doorkeeper table; classify the tag array too. --------- Co-authored-by: Ralph Küpper <ralph@skelpo.com>
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Fixes #9391. #9373's concat memo regressed
bench_gc_pressurefrom ~11 ms to ~19. @ECS1 bisected it tod923b8dcf0; I confirmed the same commit independently by in-binary A/B. It's my change, and this is the fix.What the fixture does to the memo
bench_gc_pressure's inner line is{ x: i, y: i * 2, name: "item_" + i }, half a million times, with every result distinct — the exact shape the memo targets and the exact shape it cannot help. Instrumented: 501,000 probes, 6 hits.There were two costs, and the obvious one turned out to be the smaller.
1. Rooting — the one I expected
Every miss inserted, so the memo held up to 512 strings alive as strong GC roots on the one benchmark whose entire subject is collecting: keeping garbage alive long enough to be promoted, and adding a root scan per collection.
Fixed with an admission doorkeeper — a one-byte hash tag per slot, so a result must be observed twice before it earns an entry. A never-repeated key costs a byte instead of a rooted string; a reused key is admitted on its second sighting. Tags are plain bytes, never addresses, so the collector never sees them.
The first tag derivation was itself wrong: sliced straight out of FNV-1a's high bits, which avalanche poorly, it admitted 256,516 of 501,000 where ~1/128 was intended. A splitmix64 finalizer before slicing brought that to 3,992.
2. The probe itself — the bigger half
Even with admissions down to 0.8%, the row still ran 21 ms against 12. Assembling each result into a buffer and hashing it, on every concat, for six hits, was the real cost.
So the memo now measures its own hit rate over a 4096-candidate window and stops probing when fewer than a quarter of candidates hit, with exponential backoff to one probing window in 2⁸. A backoff always expires into a probation window, so a program that starts cold and turns hot is still picked up — there is no state that can get stuck off.
The governor word is a relaxed global rather than a
thread_local!: it is advisory, correctness never depends on its value, and three TLS reads per candidate were themselves worth ~2 ms here.Numbers
Min-of-15, in-binary A/B against the memo compiled out (same binary, so no build-to-build variance):
bench_gc_pressurebench_object_propertyThe hostile row is within 1 ms of not having the memo at all; the row the memo exists for keeps its full 6 ms win.
bench_string_heavyunchanged (43 vs 44). Output identical throughout.Tests
Three new tests assert the governor's decisions, not wall-clock: it disables after a window with no hits, stays enabled when every candidate hits, and always recovers from backoff. A timing test here would be noise-sensitive and would not say why it failed.
concat_memo_returns_one_object_for_equal_resultsis updated because the doorkeeper genuinely changes the contract — a repeated result is now shared from its third evaluation, not its second. That ordering is the point.Why the pre-merge adversarial test missed it
#9373 did test an all-distinct-results fixture — 100% miss, pure overhead — and measured 7 ms against Node's 8. But that fixture had no other allocation pressure, so it exercised the probe cost in isolation and never the interaction that actually hurt: rooting garbage while a collector is under load. An adversarial case has to be adversarial in the dimension the change touches, and mine covered one of the two.
Gates
perry-runtime 2918 passed (
--test-threads=1), perry-codegen 1379 passed,cargo fmt --checkclean,-D warningsclean, shape-descriptor census clean, all five staticgc_root_dominance_check.pyaudits pass, GC store-site inventory passes, and all three touched files are under the 2000-line cap — the three gates whose absence needed #9389 after my last batch.https://claude.ai/code/session_01Pcq6j6y57TdKSR2Zx2D187
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