bench: populated-object delete churn — the ~200× gap, and why a memo cannot fix it - #8946
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…annot fix it delete obj[k]; obj[k] = v with k rotating over 500 resident keys: node 37 ms, perry ~8000 ms (~200x) — eight times worse than the 0<->1 oscillation, because churn cost scales with resident key count: two 500-element keys clones, two layout rebuilds, two descriptor mints and a 500-slot value shift PER OPERATION. A V8-style delete-transition memo (back-transitions keyed on keys-array address, with the inverse edge recorded at the add-transition funnel) was built, GC-integrated, and passed the full 2762-test suite — then measured as a WASH in drift-cancelling interleaved pairs, twice, and deleted. Rotating keys change the shape every cycle, so address-keyed memoisation never converges; only a same-key churn loop would hit. The structural fix is content-stable shape identity: facts independent of the keys array's address, so equal key-sets reuse one canonical shape regardless of which clone produced them. That is shape interning, not a cache, and it also subsumes the unbounded shape-table growth measured in PerryTS#8899. This benchmark is the acceptance test for that work.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis change adds a standalone benchmark for delete and re-add churn on a populated object. It seeds 500 keys, runs 200,000 rotating-key iterations, and prints elapsed time with a checksum. ChangesDelete benchmark
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| // Measured 2026-08-29 (16-core Linux host, node v26.8.1, N = 200_000, | ||
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| // perry ~8_000 ms (~200x) |
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Correct the measurement date before merging.
The header says Measured 2026-08-29, but the current date is August 28, 2026. This is a future-dated result. Replace it with the actual run date, or remove the measurements until the benchmark runs.
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In `@benchmarks/bench_populated_delete.ts` around lines 4 - 8, Correct the
measurement date in the benchmark header to the actual run date, or remove the
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Merged. I re-ran the benchmark rather than taking the table on trust, since the measurement is the whole point of the PR:
That is ~217×, consistent with the reported ~200×, and the matching checksum confirms both engines compute the same thing. Caveat on my number: the perry binary I used predates today's merges, so treat it as the gap's order of magnitude rather than a current- A committed reproducer for a 200× gap, plus the argument for why a memo cannot close it, is worth more than a speculative fix. |
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benchmarks/bench_populated_delete.ts:delete obj[k]; obj[k] = vwithkrotating over 500 resident keys — the cache/dictionary pattern.Eight times worse than the 0↔1-key delete oscillation (~25× after #8936), because the churn cost scales with the resident key count: per operation, two 500-element keys-array clones (delete + re-add-to-shared), two layout rebuilds, two shape-descriptor mints with
ShapeFactshashing and reverse-index maintenance, and a 500-slot value shift.The negative result this PR preserves
A V8-style delete-transition memo (back-transitions keyed on the keys array's address, with the inverse edge recorded at the add-transition funnel so cycles converge) was built for this, GC-integrated on the weak+reap model from #8900, and passed the full 2762-test suite.
It was then measured as a wash — twice — in drift-cancelling interleaved A/B pairs, and deleted rather than shipped. The reason is structural, and worth having on record so it is not rebuilt: with rotating keys, every delete+re-add changes the shape, so the next delete is a fresh
(shape, key)pair. Address-keyed memoisation only converges for same-key churn, which is not what real workloads do.What the fix actually is
Content-stable shape identity:
ShapeFactscurrently includes the keys array's address, so equal key-sets produced by different clones get different shapes. Interning shapes by content would let every clone of the same key-set land on one canonical shape — no mint, no reap, no reverse-index churn — and it subsumes the unbounded shape-table growth measured in #8899 (786 k descriptors for <400 live objects). This benchmark is the acceptance test for that work.First measured on the ~25× overwrite path's residue; the 200× here makes populated delete the worst known gap to node in the object model.
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