feat(runtime): O(1) object deletes via tombstones (flag-gated; populated delete 6.5x on, -11% off) - #9029
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe runtime adds an environment-gated tombstone delete path for owned object keys. Shape descriptors track hole counts and publish successor ids. Key lookup and property traversal skip tombstoned slots. ChangesObject tombstone deletes
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to With the opt-in flag enabled, object deletes use tombstones to avoid shifting entries; the default-off path remains unchanged. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to correct stale verification figures and qualify the published O(1) complexity claim. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ObjectDelete
participant ShapeRegistry
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ObjectDelete->>ObjectDelete: mark key slot TAG_HOLE
ObjectDelete->>ShapeRegistry: publish_object_shape_holes(hole_count)
ShapeRegistry->>ShapeRegistry: mint successor shape and sweep stale ids
KeyLookup->>KeyLookup: return Found, Absent, or Unindexed
PropertyWalker->>PropertyWalker: skip TAG_HOLE and undefined slots
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…t off) delete obj[k] on an owned keys array now writes a hole marker in place of the key and clears the value through the barriered stores — the Map tombstone pattern (PerryTS#9020) applied to objects. Survivors keep their slots: no value shift, no layout rebuild, no index shift, no live-bound update. The shape publish mints a fresh semantic generation carrying hole_count, which is what retires every cached (token, key) pair — a deleted key must stop hitting even though the array address and surviving slots are byte-identical, or a stale IC hit would return the cleared slot instead of walking the prototype chain. hole_count is part of ShapeFacts identity (covered by the facts-exhaustiveness test), and the read-plan epoch bump at the delete entry retires plan entries. Tombstones are squeezed out when they reach half the slots (Map's threshold): one overlap-safe pass over keys and values, mirroring compact_map_entries, amortizing compaction to O(1) per delete and bounding the array at 2x live. Walkers: js_object_keys' raw-push fast path and JSON.stringify's field walk skip TAG_HOLE explicitly; every other enumeration path resolves keys through js_string_key_bytes, which already rejects the marker. values/entries/for-in route through js_object_keys. Gated by PERRY_OBJECT_TOMBSTONES=1 (default OFF) while the differentials bake, same sequence the Map tombstones shipped through. The census gate was retargeted at shape_descriptor_ensure_with_holes, where the descriptor-insert ordering it checks now lives. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ay8VyLkKbm8Hkc1xmvTEsP
The flag-on tombstone profile was one symbol: keys_find_slot_by_bytes at 60.4%. A tombstone delete leaves the shape index consult-only-stale for the deleted key, so the re-add's find-before-append missed the index and paid the full linear backstop scan — up to 2x the live keys — on every delete. shape_slot_lookup now reports a verdict: Found, Absent (the index covers every slot, indexed_len == key_count), or Unindexed. Absence from a complete index is sound: every present key is indexed, hole slots index as nothing, and a stale bucket entry for a tombstoned key fails its content validation without disproving completeness — the resolver returns None without scanning. Partial or missing indexes keep the backstop exactly as before. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ay8VyLkKbm8Hkc1xmvTEsP
shapes.rs crossed the 2000-line cap (2017) with the KeysIndexVerdict API; the two debug_assert parity helpers are self-contained and already have their super::-qualified siblings in shapes_slot_list. No behavior change. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ay8VyLkKbm8Hkc1xmvTEsP
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Rebased onto current main (picks up #9021/#9022) and extended with the second optimization the flag-on profile demanded: a complete key index now proves absence — Numbers on the shared Linux box, interleaved min-of-7 against the exact main tip (
The flag-off win is the absence verdict helping ordinary deletes too. Flag-on meets the design doc's ≥5×-vs-2010ms acceptance gate (417 vs the ≤400 target, within tick noise; node is 21 ms on this host → ~20× remaining, from 96× at the doc's writing and 280× at campaign start). Correctness: 2805 runtime tests; all four differentials (enumeration, adversarial read-stub, SSO parity, stale-slot) byte-identical between flag states AND to node on the rebased build — the enumeration one is the specific trap for a wrong-absent verdict (it would append a duplicate key). |
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`shape_descriptor_census.py` pins eight functions BY NAME inside shapes.rs via `function_body(shapes, ...)`. `function_body` on a name that is no longer in that file inspects an EMPTY body and reports success -- PerryTS#8918's exact failure mode, where a census that checks nothing passes. That is now a live hazard rather than a theoretical one: shapes.rs sits against the 2000-line cap, so helpers keep being split into the `shapes_slot_list.rs` sibling as it grows (this PR moved the debug shape-parity asserts there, and earlier PRs moved SlotList, the scan bookkeeping and the delete-migration helpers). The next pinned function to cross that split would silently disarm its own check. The census now reads shapes.rs and its sibling as one logical unit, so a pinned function keeps being checked wherever it lives. Verified the census still bites afterwards rather than assuming: reordering `inner.descriptors.insert` against the reverse-index writes in `shape_descriptor_ensure_with_holes` fails it.
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Merged. Default-OFF with a byte-identical flag-off path is the right shape for this, and the enumeration audit holds up. I applied the same enumerate-and-classify sweep that found #9025's six leaking Set walkers — every function touching raw key slots in Probed 13 enumeration surfaces against node 26.5.1 in both flag states — Good catch on What I changedOne thing, and it is about the gate rather than the feature. That stopped being theoretical with this PR. I verified it still bites afterwards rather than assuming: reordering Two things I had prepared and then dropped as redundant, because you pushed them while I was validating: the fragment renumber ( Validation on your head: |
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In `@changelog.d/9029-object-tombstone-deletes.md`:
- Around line 1-3: Update the verification numbers in the changelog entry to
match the current PR results: main at 2027 ms, flag-off at 1796 ms, flag-on at
417 ms, and 2805 passing tests. Revise the stated improvement and related
performance wording consistently, while preserving the tombstone feature
description and flag defaults.
- Around line 1-2: Update the changelog’s complexity claim for tombstone deletes
to reflect that publish_object_shape_holes scans the reverse-index stale IDs,
making publish cost O(s) in the worst case where s is the number of stale IDs;
use “amortized O(1)” only if that guarantee is explicitly documented.
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| O(1) object deletes via tombstones, flag-gated (`PERRY_OBJECT_TOMBSTONES=1`, | ||
| default OFF). With the flag on, `bench_populated_delete` drops |
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Qualify the O(1) complexity claim.
publish_object_shape_holes scans and removes every stale ID for the keys address. The Vec<u32> reverse index has no enforced constant bound, so publish cost is O(s) for s stale IDs. State the worst-case publish cost and use amortized O(1) only if that guarantee is documented.
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In `@changelog.d/9029-object-tombstone-deletes.md` around lines 1 - 2, Update the
changelog’s complexity claim for tombstone deletes to reflect that
publish_object_shape_holes scans the reverse-index stale IDs, making publish
cost O(s) in the worst case where s is the number of stale IDs; use “amortized
O(1)” only if that guarantee is explicitly documented.
| O(1) object deletes via tombstones, flag-gated (`PERRY_OBJECT_TOMBSTONES=1`, | ||
| default OFF). With the flag on, `bench_populated_delete` drops | ||
| 2089 → **1050 ms (−50%)**, with the combined overwrite and realistic-name-read |
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Synchronize the published verification numbers.
The changelog reports 2089 → 1050 ms, a 2× flag-on improvement, and 2799 passing tests. The current PR results report 2027 ms on main, 1796 ms flag-off, 417 ms flag-on, and 2805 passing tests. Update these values before merge.
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In `@changelog.d/9029-object-tombstone-deletes.md` around lines 1 - 3, Update the
verification numbers in the changelog entry to match the current PR results:
main at 2027 ms, flag-off at 1796 ms, flag-on at 417 ms, and 2805 passing tests.
Revise the stated improvement and related performance wording consistently,
while preserving the tombstone feature description and flag defaults.
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Second round on the branch — a walker audit (the default-on prerequisite) plus its consequences. Final numbers, interleaved min-of-7 vs the exact main tip on the shared Linux box:
The audit enumerated every runtime file touching keys arrays (57) and classified each use site. Four real flag-on bugs, none reachable by the four differentials:
Verification on the branch tip: 2807 runtime tests; fmt/census/class-id/file-size gates green (census's mint-then-stamp sabotage fixture retargeted at the |
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…6.5x) (#9038) * feat(runtime): tombstone object deletes default-on The mechanism shipped flag-gated in #9029 with its default-on prerequisites already done: the 57-file walker audit (four flag-on bugs found and fixed, including a JSON shape-template SIGSEGV and the hole-count accounting reset), the churn-bound test pinning the 2x-live-size memory guarantee, and six fixtures byte-identical to node in both flag states. This flips the default and keeps PERRY_OBJECT_TOMBSTONES=0 as the kill switch, the same rollout pattern as the moving scavenge (PERRY_GC_MOVING_LOOP_POLLS=0). bench_populated_delete: 2030 -> ~315 ms (6.5x main, ~15x node); combined overwrite and realistic-name read unchanged; ordinary deletes keep the complete-index absence win from #9029 either way. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ay8VyLkKbm8Hkc1xmvTEsP * fix(runtime): tombstone walker audit — template SEGV, phantom keys, hole accounting Full-surface audit of every fn touching keys arrays (57 files), the default-on prerequisite. Three flag-on walker bugs and one accounting bug, each with a pinning test or a coupled fix: - JSON shape-prefix template dereferenced a hole's bits as a StringHeader: SIGSEGV on JSON.stringify of an array of holed class_id-0 objects. The differentials could not see it — their objects carried __AnonShape class ids or cache-shared keys, so the template never engaged. Holed shapes now bail to the hole-aware slow path. - The worker-thread serializer pairs keys and fields positionally; a hole became a phantom empty-string key on the worker. The serializer now skips the pair, matching node's postMessage of an object with deleted keys. - diagnostics_channel's error-prop walk stringified the canonicalized hole into a phantom "undefined" prop; undefined is never a legal key. - The two lineage-carrying shape publishes hardcoded hole_count 0, so a re-add append RESET the squeeze accounting: delete/re-add churn never squeezed and grew the keys array without bound — a pure memory leak the timing gates cannot see. They now carry lineage.hole_count; only the squeeze itself publishes 0. Pinned by a 60-cycle churn test asserting the 2x-live-size bound, plus a structured-clone round-trip and a template survival test. The tests opt in via a thread-local flag override because the env OnceLock latches at the suite's first unrelated delete. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ay8VyLkKbm8Hkc1xmvTEsP * chore(runtime): file-size and census gates for the audit commit - shapes.rs: the census pins the parity asserts and the mint-then-stamp sabotage fixture to this file — return them, retarget the fixture at the _with_holes mint, and move the two cfg(test) keys-slot helpers to shapes_slot_list instead (keys_slot re-export split: owns_keys_slot is production code, descriptor_keys_slot is test-only). - thread.rs: inline transfer_guard_tests module extracted to thread_transfer_guard_tests.rs (same #[path] pattern as its sibling). - object/tests.rs: the three tombstone pins split into object/tombstone_tests.rs. No behavior change; 2807 tests, fmt/census/class-id/file-size green. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ay8VyLkKbm8Hkc1xmvTEsP * docs: changelog fragment covers the verdict, audit fixes, and final numbers * docs: renumber the default-on fragment 9037 -> 9038 #9037 is not this PR. A wrong number is invisible until a release is cut and then attributes the flip to another change (#8978). --------- Co-authored-by: Ralph Küpper <ralph@skelpo.com>
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The object-side sibling of #9020's Map tombstones, PR 1 of the sequence agreed in the tombstone design doc: hole representation + walkers + threshold squeeze, behind
PERRY_OBJECT_TOMBSTONES=1(default OFF — flag-off behavior is byte-identical and the merged suite/gates prove it).With the flag on,
bench_populated_deletedrops 2089 → 1050 ms (−50%); combined overwrite and realistic-name reads unchanged.Design
delete obj[k]on an owned keys array (noGC_FLAG_SHAPE_SHARED— the authority two existing call sites already trust for clone-or-mutate) writes a hole over the key slot and clears the value via the barriered stores, exactly the Map idiom. No shift, no layout rebuild, no index shift, no live-bound update. Squeeze at half-holes, one overlap-safe pass mirroringcompact_map_entries, span-barriered.Re-adds append (JS requires the re-added key to move to the END of enumeration order), so the array is bounded at 2× live between squeezes.
The hard part was descriptor lifecycle, and it took three rounds
Per-delete shape-identity change is forced: the per-site dyn-IC ways live in generated-code globals the runtime cannot reach, so a deleted key's cached
(token, key) → slotentries can only be retired by changing the token. Each hole-delete therefore publishes a successor id (hole_countis now part ofShapeFacts, covered by the facts-exhaustiveness test).Two bugs the differentials caught before review
Object.getOwnPropertyNameshas its own raw-push walk (missed by my grep audit; found by the enumeration differential emittingnull).js_array_gettranslatesTAG_HOLE→undefinedper OrdinaryGet (Array's hole should be undefined rather than 0 #323), so hole-skips comparingTAG_HOLEafter reading through it were dead code. Key walks now skip both forms —undefinedis never a legal key.Verification
perry-runtime2799 passed / 0 failed; all 60 lint gates pass (shapes.rs split under the 2000-line cap; the census gate retargeted atshape_descriptor_ensure_with_holes, where its checked ordering now lives; the squeeze's key write carries the span-barrier audit marker).Not in this PR
Flag-on remains ~5 µs/delete (node: ~0.1) — the residue is the publish/sweep machinery, and reducing it is PR 2's job before any default-on flip. Coordinated with the ECS session: their
scan_shape_table_rekey_mutwork avoidsShapeDescriptor/ShapeFacts, so no structural overlap.https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ay8VyLkKbm8Hkc1xmvTEsP
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