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perf(runtime): hoist the private-member guard to its call sites (pure read −15%) - #8980

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Follow-up to #8970, which fixed half of this. That PR made the private-member name test cheap but left the call on every property operation.

Profiling a pure property-read loop — o[k] with pre-built keys, so no concat, no interning of fresh keys, no allocation churn — put private_member_get_by_name at 11.4% and private_member_storage_name at 5.4%: 16.8% of the loop and the largest single item, essentially all of it call overhead for keys that are rejected on a length compare before doing any work.

The guard is now invoked at the three call sites — the generic read entry, the class-field read miss, and the generic write — so an ordinary property operation makes no call into the private-member path at all. Keys that pass the guard take exactly the original path.

Measurement

Interleaved A/B, min-of-21, built from the exact parent commit and this commit in one run. The box had heavy co-tenant load during this window (~14.9), so the absolutes are inflated; interleaving cancels that and the ratios are the signal:

loop base this PR
pure property read 26 ms 22 ms −15%
computed-key read 51 ms 45 ms −12%
combined overwrite 50 ms 46 ms −8%
write only 23 ms 23 ms unchanged

Means move the same way (read 41 → 38, computed read 57 → 51, combined 51 → 49).

Correctness

This change decides whether the private-member path is entered at all, so a bug here would silently disable private class members rather than merely slow them down. Checked directly:

  • Private-member exercise — instance fields, static #instances, private methods, private getters, #x in obj, subclassing, and an ordinary property literally named #<perry:private-member:1:x>byte-identical output before and after.
  • Computed-key differential vs node: byte-identical.
  • perry-runtime: 2779 passed / 0 failed.

Context for the remaining read gap

With this, the same isolated read loop ranks shape_descriptor_by_id at 10.1% (the read path has the redundant double-lookup that #8975 fixes on the write side), js_typed_feedback_object_get_field_by_name_f64 at 10.0%, and intern_dispatch_bytes at 6.9%. Worth noting separately: perry's SSO key construction is now faster than node's (~10ns vs ~32ns per "k" + i); the residual read gap is the lookup itself.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ay8VyLkKbm8Hkc1xmvTEsP

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  • Bug Fixes

    • perry run <directory> now correctly resolves the project entry from that directory, including perry.toml, src/main.ts, or main.ts.
    • Fixed directory-based runs on Windows.
    • Improved property access and updates by avoiding unnecessary private-member handling for ordinary names.
  • Performance

    • Improved performance for common property reads and computed-key access while preserving private-member behavior.

Ralph Küpper and others added 2 commits August 28, 2026 23:24
PerryTS#8970 made the private-member name test cheap but left the CALL: a pure
property-read loop still spent 16.8% in private_member_get_by_name and
private_member_storage_name, essentially all of it call overhead for keys that
are rejected on their length.

Export the guard and invoke it at the three call sites — the read entry, the
class-field read miss, and the generic write — so an ordinary property
operation makes no call into the private-member path at all. Keys that pass
the guard still take exactly the original path.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ay8VyLkKbm8Hkc1xmvTEsP
* fix(run): resolve directory inputs to project entry

* chore(changelog): add the missing fragment for the run-directory fix

The changeset gate requires changelog.d/<PR>-<slug>.md for any crates/ change
unless the PR carries skip-changelog; this PR had neither.

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Co-authored-by: Ralph Küpper <ralph@skelpo.com>
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The runtime now checks private-member key eligibility before private-member reads and writes. The perry run command now resolves directory inputs through project-local configuration or standard entry-file fallbacks.

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Private-member guard relocation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Expose the private-member name guard
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/field_get_set/...
The private-member name guard is crate-visible, re-exported, and documented for caller-side checks.
Guard property reads and writes
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/field_get_set/..., crates/perry-runtime/src/object/field_set_by_name.rs, changelog.d/8980-private-guard-call-site.md
Property reads and writes skip private-member helpers for ordinary keys. The changelog records the behavior and measurements.

Directory entry resolution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve directory project entries
crates/perry/src/commands/run/entry.rs, changelog.d/8979-run-directory-entry.md
Directory inputs resolve perry.toml, src/main.ts, or main.ts relative to the project directory. File inputs remain direct entries.
Validate directory inputs
crates/perry/src/commands/run/entry.rs
Tests cover default and perry.toml-configured entries for directory inputs.

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The private-member guard moved to its call sites, taking a call off every
ordinary property read and write.

#8970 made the private-member name test cheap but left the CALL. In a pure

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Merged. Hoisting a guard to its call sites is only safe if every caller applies it, so that is what I checked rather than the diff alone: private_member_get_by_name has four caller files on main (field_get_set.rs, get_field_by_name.rs, ic_miss.rs, private_member_access.rs) and this PR touches all four, plus field_set_by_name.rs for the private_member_storage_name path. No caller is left calling through unguarded.

Together with #8970 this is the complete version of that fix — that one made the test cheap, this one removes the call, and the two only pay off together on a pure read loop where the call overhead was the residue.

One fix pushed: the fragment was named 8978-private-guard-call-site.md. #8978 is not a PR at all — it is the issue I filed earlier today about exactly this class of mistake, so the fragment would have attributed a runtime change to a CI-hygiene issue. Renamed to 8980-.

That is the fifth fragment-naming fix today, which I think strengthens the case in #8978: the gate checks the filename shape (^changelog\.d/[0-9]+-[^/]+\.md$) and any number satisfies it, so nothing catches a plausible-but-wrong one.

Validation — runtime 2779/0, codegen 1341/0 (RUST_TEST_THREADS=1); under PERRY_GC_FORCE_EVACUATE=1 PERRY_GC_VERIFY_EVACUATION=1 the failing count is 16, the pre-existing set; scripts/run_lint_gates.sh 57 of 58 with the compile tier green — the exception is the pre-existing Actions-expression artifact (#8929).

The 16.8% figure is not re-measured here.

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