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perf(hir): widen the property-array hoist to const aliases, captures and nested loops (20.5 → 0.47 ns) - #9153

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Follows #9149, which deliberately left three receiver shapes alone. One rule covers all three.

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Quiet Mac mini, node v26.5.1, ns/op, medians of 3. Both perry columns are the same binary, switched with PERRY_LOOP_PROPERTY_HOIST:

receiver perry off perry on node
captured in an arrow 20.35 0.50 0.54
const alias of the receiver 20.49 0.47 0.58
outer loop containing a nested loop 20.58 0.47 0.55
loop with an early return 21.59 3.59 0.57

With #9149 this takes the original benchmark to four of five rows beating node. The remaining one is a parameter receiver, which needs a genuine runtime guard rather than a static proof and is not attempted here.

The rule

A const alias inherits the data-field proof. const h = holder where holder is itself a const closed-shape literal binding: neither name can ever be rebound, so both always denote the object the literal created, and everything #9149 argued about holder holds verbatim for h.

That one rule also reaches receivers read inside a closure, at no extra cost and with no new machinery. A capture keeps the same LocalId, so the existing rewrite already matches the body — confirmed by dumping HIR rather than assumed:

Let { id: 7, name: "h", mutable: false, init: Some(LocalGet(1)) }
Closure { captures: [7], … body: … PropertyGet { object: LocalGet(7), property: "arr" } … }

An alias of a let is not admitted, because only const bindings ever enter the registry. There is a test for it: following a mutable source is exactly how this rule would turn unsound.

Nested loops and early exits

Refusing any loop whose body contained a nested loop was pure conservatism — and it excluded m.rows[i] with an inner loop over the row, which is the shape the pass exists for. A nested loop is safe on precisely the same terms as any other statement: it may not rebind the receiver and may not call. return and throw are likewise fine, since the hoisted Let is evaluated before the loop either way and leaving early only skips reads.

Every arm the scan admits is also handled by the rewriter. That pairing is load-bearing rather than tidiness: an admitted-but-unrewritten statement would silently keep its per-iteration lookup, so the two match arms are meant to be read side by side.

The early-return row, honestly

3.59 is a 6x improvement but still 6.3x node, and the residual is not this pass. Isolating it on a bare local array, with no property lookup and no hoisting involved at all:

inner-loop body perry node
straight line 0.78 0.55
if (l < 0) { l = 0; } 0.46 0.56
if (l < 0) break; 4.74 0.54
if (l < 0) continue; 4.75 0.55
if (l < 0) return -1; 4.76 0.56

A plain conditional is free; any abrupt statement costs 6x, including continue, which never leaves the loop. Filed as #9151 with the predicate located (stmt_is_packed_f64_loop_safe, loops.rs:5011, one rejection arm covering all of them).

Binary size

size(1) .text: 10,974,932 → 10,973,396, i.e. −1536 bytes (−0.014%), against −320 bytes for #9149 alone. The wider the pass reaches, the more per-iteration lookups it deletes, so it keeps removing code rather than adding it.

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-D warnings clean; perry-hir 591/0; perry-codegen 1839/0; perry-runtime lib 2837/0 (--test-threads=1); census, address-classification, file-size and raw-handle-debt lints all pass with none raised. Integration: the hoist suite 11/11 (4 new), plus issue_8655_array_subclass_indexing 2/2, issue_8690_loop_versioned_arraylike 3/3 and issue_8897_field_push_writeback 3/3. The battery ran before a rebase onto #9137, which is unrelated (object-delete ICs) and does not touch HIR lowering.

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  • Performance

    • Improved performance for eligible loops that repeatedly read unchanged property arrays by reusing the array reference.
    • Optimization supports nested loops, constant aliases, closure captures, and loops where the array grows during execution.
  • Reliability

    • Added safeguards to preserve existing behavior when properties may be reassigned, written to, accessed through getters, or affected by function calls.
    • Added coverage confirming optimized and unoptimized execution produce identical results.

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Stacked on #9149 — its two commits show here until it merges; the widening itself is the top commit.

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The change records closed-shape bindings and adds a gated HIR pass that hoists eligible property-array reads from counted loops. Integration tests compare enabled and disabled compilation across safe and rejected cases.

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Property-array hoisting

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Closed-shape binding metadata
crates/perry-hir/src/destructuring/var_decl.rs
Const bindings initialized from anonymous closed-shape records now retain class-name metadata. Const aliases inherit this metadata.
Hoist matching and safety analysis
crates/perry-hir/src/lower/property_array_hoist.rs
The pass matches counted loops, checks closed-shape data fields, rejects unsafe operations, and detects target property reads.
Loop rewrite and lowering integration
crates/perry-hir/src/lower/property_array_hoist.rs
Eligible loops define a hoisted immutable local and replace target property reads with that local. The pass supports nested statements and expressions.
Hoisting behavior validation
crates/perry/tests/loop_property_array_hoist.rs
Integration tests compare hoisted and non-hoisted binaries across safe loops, aliases, nesting, closures, mutation, calls, getters, array growth, and early returns.

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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to d9573

The optimization now hoists property reads for additional loop shapes, but the current implementation can select an incorrect field type and can hoist a value before a loop initializer mutates the property, producing incorrect program behavior. The PR is not merge-ready until both correctness issues are fixed or explicitly accepted.

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  hoist_loop_invariant_property_array-->>for_loop_lowering: return hoisted initializer and rewritten loop
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In `@crates/perry-hir/src/lower_decl/body_stmt.rs`:
- Around line 883-890: Update the property-array hoist safety flow around
hoist_loop_invariant_property_array to accept init via init.as_deref() alongside
condition, update, and body, and reject initializers that write or call code
capable of mutating the receiver property before the hoisted value is used. Add
a regression case covering an initializer such as assigning a new array to the
receiver property in loop_property_array_hoist.rs.

In `@crates/perry-hir/src/lower/property_array_hoist.rs`:
- Around line 163-166: Update the class resolution in anon_shape_field_type to
look up the class by matching c.name == class_name in pending_classes before
reading its field type; do not use the classes_index-derived idx to index
pending_classes, and preserve the existing unresolved-class behavior.
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Comment on lines +883 to 890
let hoisted = condition.as_ref().and_then(|cond| {
crate::lower::property_array_hoist::hoist_loop_invariant_property_array(
ctx,
cond,
update.as_ref(),
&body,
)
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Include init in the hoist safety check.

The analysis receives condition, update, and body, but not init. The hoist is emitted before Stmt::For, although the initializer executes first. For example, for (o.arr = [7, 9]; i < o.arr.length; i++) can read the old array from the hoisted local and change the output.

Pass init.as_deref() into the analysis and reject initializers that can write or call code that can mutate the receiver property. Add this case to crates/perry/tests/loop_property_array_hoist.rs.

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In `@crates/perry-hir/src/lower_decl/body_stmt.rs` around lines 883 - 890, Update
the property-array hoist safety flow around hoist_loop_invariant_property_array
to accept init via init.as_deref() alongside condition, update, and body, and
reject initializers that write or call code capable of mutating the receiver
property before the hoisted value is used. Add a regression case covering an
initializer such as assigning a new array to the receiver property in
loop_property_array_hoist.rs.

Comment on lines +163 to +166
let idx = *ctx.classes_index.get(class_name)?;
ctx.pending_classes
.get(idx)
.or_else(|| ctx.pending_classes.iter().find(|c| c.name == class_name))

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rg -nP -C4 '\bclasses_index\b' crates/perry-hir/src

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Resolve the class by name before reading its field type.

classes_index stores indexes into classes, but anon_shape_field_type applies the index to pending_classes. Since get(idx) succeeds for any in-range index, the fallback cannot correct an unrelated match. The hoisted Let can therefore receive the wrong field type. Use a name-based lookup in pending_classes.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@crates/perry-hir/src/lower/property_array_hoist.rs` around lines 163 - 166,
Update the class resolution in anon_shape_field_type to look up the class by
matching c.name == class_name in pending_classes before reading its field type;
do not use the classes_index-derived idx to index pending_classes, and preserve
the existing unresolved-class behavior.

Ralph Küpper added 2 commits August 30, 2026 12:43
…sted loops

Three shapes the first cut refused, each for a reason that dissolves on
inspection. Mac mini, ns/op, the same binary switched with
PERRY_LOOP_PROPERTY_HOIST, node v26.5.1 for reference:

  receiver captured in an arrow   20.35 -> 0.50   (node 0.54)
  const alias of the receiver     20.49 -> 0.47   (node 0.58)
  outer loop with a nested loop   20.58 -> 0.47   (node 0.55)
  loop with an early return       21.59 -> 3.59   (node 0.57)

All four beat or match node except the last, which improves 6x and is left
short by something else: an inner loop containing `return` does not appear to
reach the packed-array admission, so it keeps generic indexing even once the
property lookup is gone. That is a codegen-side limit, not a hoist one, and
it is the next thing to look at.

A `const` alias inherits the data-field proof, because neither name can ever
be rebound and both therefore denote the object the literal created. That one
rule also reaches receivers read inside a closure at no extra cost: the
capture keeps the same LocalId, so the existing rewrite already matches. An
alias of a `let` is not admitted — only const bindings ever enter the registry
— and there is a test for it, since following a mutable source is exactly how
this rule would turn unsound.

Nested loops are the shape the pass exists for (`m.rows[i]` outside, the row
inside), and refusing them was pure conservatism: a nested loop is safe on the
same terms as any other statement, so the scan recurses instead. `return` and
`throw` are likewise fine — the hoisted Let is evaluated before the loop
either way, and leaving early only skips reads. Every arm the scan admits is
also handled by the rewriter, or the read it vouched for would silently keep
its per-iteration lookup.

size(1) .text: 10974932 -> 10973396, i.e. -1536 bytes (-0.014%); the wider the
pass reaches the more per-iteration lookups it deletes, so it keeps removing
code.

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Merged, on top of #9149 which I merged just before this. Its branch carried #9149's commits, so I applied only its own (widen the property-array hoist to aliases, captures and nested loops) onto main — 1 commit, --diff-filter=D empty.

Widening a hoist widens its exposure, so I re-ran the same 18-shape safety probe I used on #9149 rather than assuming the base validation carried over. The cases that matter for this PR are the three it newly admits:

shape node result
6 const alias (const p = o; … p.a[i]) 6
7, 9 closure capture of the receiver; per-iteration capture in a loop 6, [1,2,3]
8 nested loops over o.a[i][j] 10

And the escape hatches still hold under the wider admission — which is the thing I'd actually worry about, since an alias or capture makes it easier to lose track of who can mutate the receiver:

| 10, 11 | getter receiver, called 3× | [6,3] — hoist declines ✓ |
| 12 | Proxy receiver, trap fires 3× | [6,3] — declines ✓ |
| 3, 4, 14 | receiver reassigned / pushed / own-shadowed mid-loop | ✓ |

1 of 18 differs from node, and it is 1 of 18 on main toodelete o.a mid-loop then o.a[i] (node throws TypeError, perry returns "6"). I confirmed on #9149 that this is unaffected by the kill switch, so it predates the hoist entirely.

Validation: hir 365 passed, codegen 1356, runtime 2840 (exit 0, 0 abort markers), fmt clean, run_lint_gates.sh all 60 gates passed; 2 CI-only skipped. The PERRY_LOOP_PROPERTY_HOIST build-cache registration landed with #9149.

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