perf(shapes): direct-mapped cache in front of the shape-descriptor table - #8917
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shape_descriptor_by_id is on the hot property path — it and shape_descriptor_ensure_with_generation are ~13% of main-thread samples between them on a dynamic property loop — and every call paid a TLS fetch, a RefCell borrow and a hash probe to reach a record whose address never moves. Box<ShapeDescriptor> is stable across rehash, so a 256-way direct-mapped cache holds the record's address and a hit is mask, compare, deref. 4 KiB per thread, fixed. Caches the ADDRESS, not a copy: records are mutated in place (old_carrier, cache_carrier, keys after evacuation), so a cached copy would go quietly stale. Epoch invalidation is selective. Removal frees the box, and one insert path can replace a live id with a fresh box; both bump. A fresh-id insert deliberately does not — it cannot invalidate an existing way, and bumping there would flush the cache on every shape creation. Measured (idle host, min of 7): overwrite-only 1088ms -> 955ms, -12.2%; delete-heavy 1222ms -> 1187ms. Short of the 13% of samples because only by_id is served; ensure_with_generation still probes. Perry remains ~50x node on this loop — the rest is js_array_get_f64 (324) and try_read_tracked_gc_header (307), untouched here. Invalidation test sabotage-checked: a stale way is a dangling pointer to a dropped box, not a wrong answer. Suite 2759 passed.
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ChangesShape lookup cache
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The cache improves hot property lookup performance, but its 32-bit invalidation epoch could theoretically wrap after 2^32 removals or replacements, allowing a stale descriptor address to be reused and causing a memory-safety failure. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up to make epoch wraparound fail-safe. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant ShapeTable
participant lookup_ways
participant descriptors
Caller->>ShapeTable: shape_descriptor_by_id(shape_id)
ShapeTable->>lookup_ways: Probe cache way
alt Cache entry matches current epoch
lookup_ways-->>ShapeTable: Return descriptor address
else Cache miss
ShapeTable->>descriptors: Find descriptor
descriptors-->>ShapeTable: Return boxed descriptor
ShapeTable->>lookup_ways: Cache descriptor address
end
ShapeTable-->>Caller: Return descriptor
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/shapes.rs`:
- Around line 606-610: Update invalidate_shape_lookup_cache so it detects
lookup_epoch reaching u32::MAX before wrapping, clears every cached lookup way,
and restarts the epoch at a nonzero value; preserve the normal increment
behavior below the threshold.
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| fn invalidate_shape_lookup_cache() { | ||
| let table = &crate::state::state().shapes; | ||
| table | ||
| .lookup_epoch | ||
| .set(table.lookup_epoch.get().wrapping_add(1)); |
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Clear cache ways before lookup_epoch wraps.
wrapping_add can restore a stale way's epoch after 2^32 invalidations. If the way still contains a removed descriptor address, shape_descriptor_by_id can dereference the freed Box<ShapeDescriptor>. Clear all ways and restart at a nonzero epoch when the counter reaches u32::MAX.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/shapes.rs` around lines 606 - 610, Update
invalidate_shape_lookup_cache so it detects lookup_epoch reaching u32::MAX
before wrapping, clears every cached lookup way, and restarts the epoch at a
nonzero value; preserve the normal increment behavior below the threshold.
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Audited. Two things fixed, one blocker I'm not comfortable resolving on your behalf. Sound, and verifiedI re-ran the sabotage check rather than trusting it: deleting the bump in I also enumerated every path that can drop or replace a
Fixed while auditing
Also renamed Blocker 1 — file size
Blocker 2 —
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…plit the file - `lookup` collided with `buffer/view.rs::lookup` in the root-holder gate's loose IDENT graph, which is module-blind past depth 0, so view.rs's body text (containing VIEW_REGISTRY) counted as reachable and the holder flipped to COVERED. Renamed to `lookup_ways`. - `test_clear_shape_table` dropped every descriptor box while invalidating nothing, leaving dangling ways for any clear-then-lookup in tests. - Extracted the cfg(test) helpers to a sibling file (2057 -> 1933 lines). - Re-applied PerryTS#8918's census-pinned carrier literal, which this branch's merge had reverted.
# Conflicts: # crates/perry-runtime/src/object/shapes.rs
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Resolved — I found the mechanism, and it's an artifact. Merging. The
So: this PR adds a field named Confirmed by experiment: renaming the field Fixed while landing
ValidationRuntime 2762/0 ( Earlier I verified the sabotage claim rather than trusting it (removing the bump in The 12.2% is not re-measured here. |
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Added a direct-mapped cache in front of the shape-descriptor table.
shape_descriptor_by_idis on the hot property path. Profiling a dynamicstring-keyed property loop put it and
shape_descriptor_ensure_with_generationat roughly 13% of main-thread samples between them, and every call paid a
TLS fetch, a
RefCellborrow and a hash probe — to reach a record whose addressnever moves.
Box<ShapeDescriptor>is stable across rehash, so a 256-waydirect-mapped cache can hold the record's address and a hit becomes mask,
compare, deref. 4 KiB per thread, fixed.
Two decisions that matter for correctness:
It caches the record's ADDRESS, not a copy of the descriptor. Records are
mutated in place —
old_carrier,cache_carrier, andkeysafter evacuation —so a cached copy would go quietly stale. Holding the address means a hit always
reads current data.
Epoch invalidation is selective. Removal frees the box, and one insert path
can replace a live id with a fresh box; both bump the epoch. A fresh-id insert
deliberately does not, because it cannot invalidate an existing way, and bumping
there would flush the cache on every shape creation — exactly the workloads that
build shapes.
Measured with
benchmarks/bench_dynamic_property_keys.tson an idle host,minimum of 7 runs:
Baseline dynamic property throughput improves 12.2%. That is well short of
the 13% of samples the two shape functions hold, because only
shape_descriptor_by_idis served from the cache;shape_descriptor_ensure_with_generationis a separate path and still probes.This does not close the gap to node — perry is still ~50x on this loop. The
remaining weight sits in
js_array_get_f64(324 samples) andvalue::addr_class::try_read_tracked_gc_header(307), which are the nexttargets and are not touched here.
The invalidation test is sabotage-checked: deleting the bump in
remove_descriptor_and_reverse_indicesfails it. That check matters more thanusual here — a stale way is not a wrong answer, it is a dangling pointer to a
dropped
Box<ShapeDescriptor>reached from the hot property path.First step against the largest measured gap to node: ~60x on plain dynamic property overwrite (
benchmarks/bench_dynamic_property_keys.ts, added in #8901). This takes 12.2% of it.Review focus
The correctness question is the epoch, and it is worth checking rather than trusting:
*const ShapeDescriptorinto aBoxthe table owns;I found two:
remove_descriptor_and_reverse_indices(the single removal funnel) and theintern-side insert that can replace a live id. If there is a third, a stale way hands out a dangling pointer from the hot property path — so that is the thing to look for.The fresh-id insert path deliberately does not bump. That is a performance decision with a correctness argument behind it (a new id cannot alias an existing way), and it is the difference between a cache that works and one that is flushed on every object literal.
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