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The computed-read lowering called js_get_string_pointer_unified before the by-name entry, because that entry wants a *const StringHeader. For an SSO key that means materialising inline bytes onto the heap — an intern hash and table probe on every read — purely to satisfy a pointer signature. intern_dispatch_bytes was 5.5% of the combined overwrite loop, essentially all of it that.

The new by-value entry takes the key NaN-boxed, in escalating cost order:

  1. heap-tagged key — unmask and pass through, nothing to do;
  2. SSO key — probe the megamorphic read stub on its content bits; a hit never builds a StringHeader;
  3. stub miss — a read-only intern probe (an intern hit cannot allocate or move anything, and the write path interns every key it stores, so a key being read has almost always been written first) and call through with the canonical pointer — still no rooting;
  4. cold (key read before its first write) — materialise with the receiver rooted across the allocation, via the scoped with_const_ptr reload.

The old codegen worked around the materialisation hazard by re-deriving its receiver handle below the unbox; that workaround is deleted because the fast path no longer allocates, and the hazard now lives in the one place that does.

Measurement

Interleaved A/B, min-of-21, quiet load (~1.1), base and branch from exact SHAs in one run. Node on the same host in brackets:

loop base this PR
combined overwrite 38 ms (node 26) 30 ms −21%
computed-key read 21 ms (node 24) 13 ms −38% — ~2× faster than node
realistic-name read 14 ms 14 ms unchanged (long keys are not SSO)
populated delete 2032 ms 2014 ms unchanged

A measurement war story the reviewer deserves to know

An earlier draft of this branch appeared to regress populated delete by 38%, and I chased two wrong theories (root-push write barriers, then a shared-flag flip) before the GC diagnostic showed the branch retaining 760 MB vs 9.4 MB. The real cause: my squash (git reset --soft over a stale working tree) had silently reverted #9013's in-place delete — and some unrelated files — so the branch was cloning a 4 KB keys array per delete again. The commit is now exactly the intended six files (git diff origin/main --name-only verified), and the "regression" vanished. The by-value change itself never touched delete.

Verification

  • perry-runtime 2790 passed / 0 failed, perry-codegen suites green, no warnings (--all-targets).
  • All lint gates pass, including the string-payload ratchet (the intern probe uses the shared string_data helper) and the raw-handle ceiling (scoped with_const_ptr).
  • Three differentials byte-identical to node: the adversarial property suite, the computed-key suite, and a targeted stale-slot test — 192 reads across every rotation state of a delete/re-add cycle with a stable keys-array address, written specifically to catch a content-keyed stub returning a stale slot.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ay8VyLkKbm8Hkc1xmvTEsP

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Performance
    • Improved computed-property reads by reducing unnecessary key processing and allocations.
    • Benchmarks show faster computed-key reads and overwrite/read loops.
  • Compatibility
    • Preserved feedback recording, prototype resolution, exotic receiver behavior, and existing read semantics.
  • Quality
    • Verified against the test suite and additional differential and edge-case checks with results matching Node.js.

… pointer

The computed-read lowering called js_get_string_pointer_unified before the
by-name entry, because that entry's signature wants a *const StringHeader. For
an SSO key that means materialising inline bytes onto the heap — an intern
hash and table probe, and an allocation on a miss — on EVERY read, purely to
satisfy a pointer signature. intern_dispatch_bytes is 5.5% of the combined
overwrite loop, essentially all of it that.

A new by-value entry takes the key NaN-boxed and probes the megamorphic read
stub on its CONTENT bits first, so a hit never builds a StringHeader at all.
Anything else falls through to exactly the previous path, so feedback
recording, exotic receivers and prototype resolution are unchanged.

The fallback materialisation can allocate and therefore move the receiver —
the hazard the caller's own lowering comment describes and worked around by
re-deriving the handle below the unbox. That hazard now lives in the runtime
entry, which roots the receiver across the materialisation and re-reads it;
the fast path no longer allocates, so codegen's workaround goes away.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ay8VyLkKbm8Hkc1xmvTEsP
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Computed property reads now pass keys in NaN-boxed form. Heap strings use the existing getter, while SSO keys use read-stub and intern-table probes before materialization. Codegen declares and calls the new runtime entry.

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Computed reads by value

Layer / File(s) Summary
Read-stub and intern probes
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/read_stub.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/string/intern.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/string/mod.rs
The runtime adds direct SSO content-bit lookup and a read-only intern-table probe.
By-value computed read runtime
crates/perry-runtime/src/typed_feedback.rs
The new exported getter handles heap strings, probes SSO keys without allocation, and roots the receiver during fallback materialization.
By-value read codegen integration
crates/perry-codegen/src/runtime_decls/strings.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/index_get.rs, changelog.d/9016-computed-read-by-value.md, changelog.d/9021-computed-read-by-value.md
The dynamic index-get fallback passes the NaN-boxed key to the new runtime entry. The ABI declaration and changelog entries describe the path and verification results.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 8d25f

This PR changes computed property reads and typed-array/Buffer stores, but the current version can write incorrect byte values for short-string inputs, suppress strict-assignment errors in some ordinary-object cases, and may mishandle key lifetime or policy-sensitive reads. These correctness and runtime-safety risks should be fixed before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant IndexGet
  participant TypedFeedback
  participant ReadStub
  participant InternTable
  participant ByNameGetter
  IndexGet->>TypedFeedback: pass NaN-boxed key to js_typed_feedback_object_get_field_by_value_f64
  TypedFeedback->>ReadStub: probe SSO content bits
  ReadStub-->>TypedFeedback: return cached field value or miss
  TypedFeedback->>InternTable: perform read-only intern_lookup_bytes
  InternTable-->>TypedFeedback: return canonical StringHeader or none
  TypedFeedback->>ByNameGetter: materialize cold-miss key and delegate read
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/typedarray/access.rs`:
- Around line 273-275: Preserve assignment strictness in the ordinary-receiver
fallback by threading assignment_strict through the js_typed_array_set path and
ElementReadReceiver::Ordinary handling, or by using a strict-aware
js_dyn_index_set variant. Ensure strict assignments still throw the required
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- Around line 1102-1103: Update jsvalue_to_uint8 to recognize and convert
SHORT_STRING_TAG values before applying to_uint32_bits, or route them through
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Comment on lines +273 to +275
ElementReadReceiver::Ordinary(receiver) => {
crate::value::js_dyn_index_set(receiver, f64::from(index), value);
return;

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Preserve strictness in the ordinary receiver fallback.

The codegen fallback calls js_typed_array_set without assignment_strict. Its ElementReadReceiver::Ordinary arm then calls js_dyn_index_set, which forces strict to 0. A strict assignment with a reassigned ordinary receiver may therefore suppress the required TypeError for a non-writable property or getter-only accessor. Pass strictness through this fallback or add a strict-aware setter variant.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/typedarray/access.rs` around lines 273 - 275,
Preserve assignment strictness in the ordinary-receiver fallback by threading
assignment_strict through the js_typed_array_set path and
ElementReadReceiver::Ordinary handling, or by using a strict-aware
js_dyn_index_set variant. Ensure strict assignments still throw the required
TypeError for non-writable properties and getter-only accessors.

Comment on lines +1102 to +1103
pub(crate) fn jsvalue_to_uint8(value: f64) -> u8 {
to_uint32_bits(jsvalue_to_f64(value)) as u8

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Handle short-string values before narrowing.

jsvalue_to_uint8 passes inline SHORT_STRING_TAG values to to_uint32_bits as NaN. The Buffer store therefore writes 0 for "1" instead of 1. Decode short strings or use the shared ToNumber path, and add a regression test.

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jsvalue_to_uint8 to recognize and convert SHORT_STRING_TAG values before
applying to_uint32_bits, or route them through the shared ToNumber conversion so
numeric short strings such as "1" produce 1 rather than 0. Add a regression test
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PerryTS#9016 is the source-small preinline PR, already merged. A wrong number is
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(PerryTS#8978); PerryTS#9010's gate warns on it.
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Merged, with main merged in first — after that the branch is exactly 7 files, +205/−7, and #9016/#9017/#9018/#9020 all survive intact. I checked that specifically because of your war story: the raw git diff origin/main against the pre-merge branch looks like it deletes #9016's preinline arm, #9017's fused next and #9018's clause, but that is the ordinary artifact of a branch based on older main, not a revert. The 3-way merge keeps main's side, and I verified each symbol is present afterwards rather than trusting that.

The stale-slot hazard is handled correctly: the stub is keyed on (receiver_shape_token, key_bits), so a delete/re-add rotation changes the token and misses rather than returning a stale slot, with a live_slot_count bound after. Probed it anyway — 4 rounds of prime/delete/re-add over a 6-key object, SSO boundary keys, non-ASCII and numeric-looking keys, the same content through different string identities, and one shape shared across 20 receivers. All byte-identical to node.

Renumbered the fragment from 9016- to 9021-; #9016 is the source-small preinline PR merged earlier today.

Validation: perry-runtime --lib 2799/0, perry-codegen 1343/0, fmt --check, run_lint_gates.sh all 60 gates passed; 2 CI-only skipped.

One real bug found, filed rather than blamed here

My probe caught a divergence from node:

const c: any = {};
const b = c["k"];   // read before the key exists
c["k"] = 7;
console.log(c["k"]);   // node: 7      perry: undefined

I A/B'd before attributing it, and main @ 40f63c96b3 produces the same wrong value — your branch and main are byte-identical across the whole probe. Filed as #9024.

It is worth flagging on this PR anyway, because it lives exactly where you are working. The discriminator is interesting: the literal-key form fails (both c["k"] and c.k), a variable key is fine, and it needs the read before the write — which points at a compile-time absence proof reused after the write adds the property, rather than a runtime cache. It also survives PERRY_NO_AUTO_OPTIMIZE=1. Silent wrong value on if (!cache[k]) { cache[k] = ... }, so arguably nastier than #9019's crash.

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