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A DWARF call-graph recording of the claude-code CLI running --help showed the profile's largest symbol, js_array_get_f64 at 4.2%, has zero callers in generated code. It is reached from the property-STORE slow path:

js_array_get_f64
 └─ across_mut::<ArrayHeader, JSValue, obj_value_has_own_key::{closure#3}>   ← the profile's 2.44% frame, verbatim
     └─ obj_value_has_own_key
         └─ proxy::own_set_descriptor                                        (3.16%)
             └─ ordinary_set_with_receiver → js_put_value_set → js_put_value_set_dyn_ic_miss

obj_value_has_own_key's ordinary-object arm answered "does this receiver already own this key?" with a loop doing, per key, one js_array_get (the full JS-facing accessor: clean_arr_ptr, Map/Set/typed-array/buffer registry probes, descriptor gate, hole translation) plus a RuntimeHandle::across_mut re-rooting round trip.

Why the index wasn't used: nothing structural — it was missed. keys_find_slot_by_key_ptr answers exactly this question (O(1) shape index at/above the 32-key threshold, raw dense-slot compare below), and its own doc comment records replacing these walks elsewhere ("measured 90.8 million js_array_get_f64 calls for 1.5 M property operations"). Thirteen other [[Get]]/[[Set]]/delete sites route through it — including three in proxy/put_value.rs, the same subsystem. This one call site kept the old loop.

Cost is quadratic in the receiver's key count. Counted with a temporary runtime counter, not timed — the esbuild CJS-namespace shape (one Object.defineProperty, then N stores):

N stores element reads before after process-total js_array_get_f64
100 10,800 0 12,435 → 1,635
400 163,200 0 165,135 → 1,935

cc's bundle contains 1,526 Object.defineProperty occurrences, so this is the module-init path. Nine store shapes were probed to find which reach the ordinary arm; three do (defineProperty-then-store, Reflect.set with receiver ≠ target, and a descriptor on Object.prototype), and class instances / arrays / closures / Object.create do not.

The change is one call site — the loop becomes keys_find_slot_by_key_ptr(...).is_some(). It allocates nothing, so the per-iteration re-rooting the old loop required disappears with it. No proxy semantics touched: same question, different search.

Symbol-level proof (objdump -d -r): the across_mut::<ArrayHeader, JSValue, obj_value_has_own_key::{closure}> monomorphization goes 1 → 0, its js_array_get_f64 relocation 1 → 0, keys_find_slot_by_key_ptr appears, and the only surviving array call is one js_array_length. .text −320 bytes.

Validation: test_gap_9180_receiver_set_own_key_scan.ts byte-identical to node — both index tiers (8 and 40 keys, crossing the threshold), and the two paths where the index declines or reports absence (a delete shrinking it to Unindexed, and the Absent completeness verdict), plus Reflect.set receiver ≠ target, proxy receiver with the trap log asserted, own accessor on receiver, non-writable own data, defineProperty interaction, prototype shadowing, non-extensible receiver, index-vs-name keys. A unit test pins it against a test-only accessor counter and fails on the parent commit (17 accessor calls for 3 probes of an 8-key object) — the regression pin proves itself. perry-runtime 2848/0, perry-codegen 1357/0, native_proof_regressions 285/0, and a 40-fixture node differential over object/proxy/descriptor/prototype fixtures with the one mismatch reproduced unchanged on the parent.

Implemented by a subagent in an isolated worktree; reviewed and shipped by the coordinating session.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Performance

    • Improved receiver property-key lookups during assignments by avoiding repeated element-by-element scans.
    • Reduced overhead for both small and large key collections.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of deleted and re-added keys, non-writable properties, accessors, proxies, prototype shadowing, and non-extensible receivers.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive regression coverage for receiver-based property assignment and key lookup behavior.

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The receiver own-key probe now uses direct indexed lookup instead of per-element accessor calls. Test-only instrumentation and runtime tests verify dense, indexed, deletion, and re-addition paths. TypeScript tests cover receiver-based Reflect.set behavior across descriptors, accessors, proxies, prototypes, and key forms.

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Own-key lookup optimization

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Indexed key lookup implementation
crates/perry-runtime/src/array/indexing.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/array/mod.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/reflect_support.rs, changelog.d/9190-receiver-own-key-probe.md
The own-key probe uses keys_find_slot_by_key_ptr with the keys length. Test-only instrumentation counts js_array_get_f64 calls.
Runtime lookup regression coverage
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/own_key_probe_tests.rs
Tests verify dense and indexed lookup, absent keys, deletion, re-addition, and zero element-accessor calls.
Receiver-based set behavior
test-files/test_gap_9180_receiver_set_own_key_scan.ts
Tests cover receiver writes, descriptors, accessors, proxies, prototypes, extensibility, numeric-like keys, and large key sets.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d57d3

The runtime optimization is localized, but the added receiver-set test may retain an object pointer across allocations and become unreliable if garbage collection moves that object. This is a bounded test issue requiring owner follow-up; the PR is otherwise mergeable.

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  participant ReflectSet
  participant obj_value_has_own_key
  participant keys_find_slot_by_key_ptr
  participant Receiver
  ReflectSet->>obj_value_has_own_key: probe receiver own key
  obj_value_has_own_key->>keys_find_slot_by_key_ptr: search backing key storage
  keys_find_slot_by_key_ptr-->>obj_value_has_own_key: return key slot result
  obj_value_has_own_key-->>ReflectSet: return own-key status
  ReflectSet->>Receiver: apply receiver property update
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Rebased onto 84185b5656 and fixed the two lint failures. No change to the runtime diff itself.

  • changelog fragment — added changelog.d/9190-set-receiver-own-key-index.md.
  • file-size cap — the new pin took crates/perry-runtime/src/object/tests.rs from 1,991 to 2,088 lines. Moved it to its own object/set_receiver_tests.rs (the same split tombstone_tests.rs already uses), which puts tests.rs back at 1,991 and the new module at 102. ./scripts/check_file_size.sh is clean, and cargo test -p perry-runtime --lib object:: is 256 passed / 0 failed locally.

Two other reds on the previous run, neither of which I believe is this diff — recording what I checked rather than asserting it:

e2e-scoped is a main breakage, not mine: ci_e2e_scope --self-test fails because crates/perry-codegen/tests/string_array_length_9160.rs landed with #9160 without a _CODEGEN_SUITES entry, and that map is complete-by-construction. It is red on every core PR right now. Fixed separately in #9193.

cargo-test aborted with a stack overflow, not an assertion — commands::compile::collect_modules::tests::statically_reachable_trusted_js_package_is_aot_compiled_without_route_entry, a test from #8529 in the perry compiler crate, while this diff is runtime-only. Reads like a debug-build recursion-depth flake.

gc-stress reported PASS=449 UNVER=124 XFAIL=0 FAIL=1: test_gap_repsel_pshape_tower_delete, output-mismatch, in exactly one of the seven PR arms (force_verify) — and that cell reports evacuated=0, so the arm's distinguishing behaviour did not actually fire. That test is about delete compacting inline slots behind a cloned keys array, which is adjacent enough to this diff that I am not willing to call it unrelated on a reading of the code. I am reproducing it locally on this branch under that exact arm; if it reproduces I will root-cause it before asking anyone to merge this.

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- Around line 36-38: Update the set helper and the repeated setup at the
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let set = |name: &str, v: f64| {
let s = crate::string::js_string_from_bytes(name.as_ptr(), name.len() as u32);
js_object_set_field_by_name(obj, s, v);

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Keep the receiver pointer valid across allocations.

set captures raw obj and calls js_string_from_bytes before it uses that pointer. Lines 79-80 repeat this pattern. If allocation evacuates the receiver, these calls use a stale pointer and can crash or corrupt this GC-sensitive test. Store the receiver as its NaN-boxed value, then recover or root the current pointer after each allocation.

As per coding guidelines: “Captured string/pointer values must be NaN-boxed before storing, not raw bitcast.”

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/set_receiver_tests.rs` around lines 36 - 38,
Update the set helper and the repeated setup at the referenced location to
capture the receiver as its NaN-boxed value rather than a raw pointer, then
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Validated on claude-code itself: this chain is 10.5% of cc --help.

A fresh symbolized profile of current main (84185b5656), 12 reps of claude --help, PERRY_DEBUG_SYMBOLS=1:

 4.54%  js_array_get_f64
 3.15%  perry_runtime::string::compare::js_string_key_matches
 1.83%  RuntimeHandle::across_mut::<ArrayHeader, JSValue,
              object::reflect_support::obj_value_has_own_key::{closure#3}>
 0.96%  perry_runtime::object::reflect_support::obj_value_has_own_key

js_array_get_f64 is the largest single symbol in the entire profile, and the three beneath it are the rest of the same loop: the per-iteration handle round-trip (the closure symbol names obj_value_has_own_key outright), the per-element compare, and the function itself. This PR removes all four — the element read, the re-rooting, and the compare are replaced by one keys_find_slot_by_key_ptr probe.

Context, same box, five interleaved reps:

perry node ratio
--help instructions 8.88 B 4.05 B 2.19×
--version instructions 1.21 B 2.74 B perry 2.26× faster

A note on how this was validated, because the obvious benchmark was wrong. Session 88 measured plain-object stores at 17–29× node and offered the curve as this PR's validation. Counting rather than timing killed it: obj_value_has_own_key and js_array_get_f64 appear nowhere on the plain-store path — a plain literal receiver never leaves the direct-store lane, and one Object.defineProperty is what puts it on this one. That is why the pin in this PR counts js_array_get_f64 entries (test_element_accessor_calls) instead of timing anything, and why the number quoted in the commit message is 163,200 element reads → 0 rather than a duration. The cc profile above is the timing evidence, from the workload that actually matters.

Ralph Küpper added 2 commits August 30, 2026 22:12
… one element accessor at a time (163 200 -> 0 element reads at 400 stores)

`obj_value_has_own_key`'s ordinary-object arm answered "does this receiver
already own this key" with a per-element `js_array_get` + `js_string_key_matches`
loop, each iteration wrapped in a `RuntimeHandle::across_mut` round-trip. That
is the full JS-facing element accessor — forward resolution, Map/Set/typed-array
/buffer registry probes, the descriptor gate, hole translation — for what is a
raw slot compare, paid once per already-installed key, per store.

It is on the receiver-based `[[Set]]` walk:

    js_put_value_set_dyn_ic_miss
      -> proxy::ordinary_set_with_receiver
        -> proxy::create_or_update_receiver_property
          -> proxy::own_set_descriptor
            -> object::obj_value_has_own_key

reached by every store the PerryTS#5054 direct-store lane declines. One
`Object.defineProperty` on the receiver is enough to decline it — which is the
esbuild CJS-namespace shape, and `claude-code`'s bundle carries 1 526 of them —
so building a module namespace property-by-property re-scanned every key
already installed. Quadratic, and on a symbolized profile of `claude --help`
`js_array_get_f64` (4.20%) plus `across_mut::<ArrayHeader, JSValue,
obj_value_has_own_key::{closure}>` (2.44%) plus `obj_value_has_own_key` itself
(1.02%) were all this one loop.

PerryTS#6759's shared key index already answers exactly this question — O(1) at or
above `KEYS_INDEX_THRESHOLD`, a raw dense-slot compare below it — and its own
doc comment records replacing these walks ("measured 90.8 MILLION
`js_array_get_f64` calls for 1.5 M property operations"). Thirteen other
`[[Get]]`/`[[Set]]`/delete sites route through it; this one was missed. Route
it through `keys_find_slot_by_key_ptr`, which allocates nothing, so the
per-iteration re-rooting the old loop needed goes with it.

Counted, not timed. Element reads through `js_array_get_f64` for the
esbuild-namespace shape (one `defineProperty`, then N stores):

    N       before      after
     25        825          0
     50      2 900          0
    100     10 800          0
    200     41 600          0
    400    163 200          0

and process-total `js_array_get_f64` calls at N=400 fall 165 135 -> 1 935.

Symbol-level proof: the `across_mut::<ArrayHeader, JSValue,
obj_value_has_own_key::{closure}>` monomorphization — the exact profile frame —
is gone from the runtime archive (1 -> 0), as is its `js_array_get_f64`
relocation (1 -> 0); `keys_find_slot_by_key_ptr` appears in its place, and the
only surviving array call in the function is one `js_array_length` for the key
count. `.text` of a compiled program: 11 044 244 -> 11 043 924 (-320 B).

`test_gap_9180_receiver_set_own_key_scan.ts` is byte-identical to node and
covers the correctness surface the walk owns: both index tiers (8 keys and 40,
crossing the 32-key threshold), the two ways the index declines to answer — a
delete that shrinks it back to `Unindexed`, and the `Absent` completeness
verdict for a key never installed — plus `Reflect.set` with receiver !== target,
a proxy receiver, an own accessor on the receiver, a non-writable own data
property, `Object.defineProperty` interaction, prototype shadowing, a
non-extensible receiver, and index-vs-name keys.

`has_own_key_probe_never_uses_the_element_accessor` pins it as an executable
fact against the new test-only `js_array_get_f64` entry counter; it fails on
the parent commit (17 accessor calls for three probes of an 8-key object) and
passes here at 0.

Validation: `cargo test -p perry-runtime --lib -- --test-threads=1` 2848
passed / 0 failed; `cargo test -p perry-codegen --lib` 1357 passed / 0 failed;
`--test native_proof_regressions` 285 passed / 0 failed. A 40-fixture
node-differential sweep over the object/proxy/descriptor/prototype test-files
is 38/38 identical (one pre-existing unsettled-await mismatch in
`test_gap_2159`, reproduced unchanged on the parent commit).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ay8VyLkKbm8Hkc1xmvTEsP
…ine cap

object/tests.rs reached 2088 lines, over check_file_size.sh's cap. Extracts
the new PerryTS#9180 test into object/own_key_probe_tests.rs. Adds the changelog
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The counter is the part I want to single out. Asserting 163,200 → 0 calls into js_array_get_f64 pins the property — that the walk no longer reaches for the element accessor — where a timing assertion would have pinned the machine it was measured on and gone flaky the first time CI was busy. That's the right instrument for this change, and it's the difference between a test that can still fail for the right reason in a year and one that gets quarantined.

The reasoning behind the change holds up too: the element accessor runs forward resolution, the Map/Set/typed-array/buffer registry probes, the descriptor gate and hole translation, and the own-key walk needs none of it — it wants a raw slot read and knows the storage is dense.

Validation: test_gap_9180_receiver_set_own_key_scan.ts matches node 26.5.1 byte-for-byte across all 53 assertions, including the ones most likely to catch a too-aggressive direct read — Reflect.set with a distinct receiver, non-writable and accessor properties on the target, a non-extensible receiver, the Proxy trap log ordering, index-vs-string key aliasing ("2" vs "02"), prototype shadowing, and delete-then-readd. perry-runtime 2853 passed / 0 failed at RUST_TEST_THREADS=1; all 60 lint gates green.

My own differential probe over the same area (300+ named keys, numeric/string key aliasing, negative and fractional keys, non-enumerable and accessor descriptors, symbol keys, getOwnPropertyNames, for…in order under prototype shadowing, Object.freeze, and a 400-key index-like receiver) matches node too, with one exception that is not yours: arr.foo = "bar" on an array is silently dropped — the read returns undefined and the key never appears in Object.keys. I confirmed it pre-existing by reverting your four runtime files to main and rebuilding the runtime and stdlib static wrappers: byte-identical output, both differing from node in exactly those two lines. Filed as #9201; it's a silent failure on a pattern real packages use (arrays with named metadata fields), so it seemed worth its own issue rather than a footnote.

The two across_mut::<ArrayHeader, _>(|| ()) / across_const::<StringHeader, _>(|| ()) sites are the vacuous form of that helper — with a no-op closure nothing can move, so the re-resolution is a verbose deref rather than a safety measure. Not blocking and not a mark against this PR: the pattern is endemic on main (~16 existing sites), which is why I filed #9152 about it separately rather than raising it per-PR.

Added the changelog.d/ fragment, which the branch was missing.

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