perf(gc): young-entry logs for the side-table root scanners

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Summary

A minor-scoped root scan (copying minor preflight/mark/rewrite, budgeted GcCollectionKind::Minor trace) can neither move nor sweep an old-generation object, so a side-table entry whose key and values are all old is a provable no-op for it. Every registered scanner still walked its whole table on every such pass: on the compiled claude-code TUI that is ~35k shape families, ~120k descriptors and ~13k closure-prop owners per walk, three walks per copying minor, 41 minors per streamed reply, all slots=0 — 34–56 ms of scanner time per minor — plus the same walk in every budgeted minor's initial root scan and final remark.

Four of the five tables that dominated that profile — closure props/prototypes/deleted keys, string-keyed descriptors, shape families + slot indices, the transition cache — now keep a young-entry log (gc/young_log.rs): the keys of entries that may hold a pointer a minor can act on (nursery, longlived, malloc-GC). Every writer notes the key before publishing; a minor-scoped scanner visits only the logged keys with the same per-entry body as the full walk and re-logs an entry iff it is still relevant; a full trace walks everything and rebuilds the log. The copied-/fallback-minor dead-owner prunes of the same tables iterate the log too. The visitor carries the scope (RuntimeRootVisitor::young_scope).

The fifth table, the shape cache, was measured and left on its plain walk.
A PERRY_YOUNG_LOG=0 gate on young_scope() plus a third arm built from main
valued each table on its own: the shape-cache log skipped 0.0 % of 3.85 M
entry visits in every one of 107 collections and cost 35 % more than the
walk it replaced (its keys arrays are longlived, and addr_is_minor_relevant
must answer true there, so nothing ever leaves the log). It is removed in
47b042c72. The same run also shows closure.dynamic_props winning 80 % while
skipping only 5 % — its win is that the full walk locks three global maps and
collects+sorts+dedups every key per collection, not that it visits fewer
entries. Numbers, method and the reason a two-arm A/B gets this wrong:
#9755 (comment)

Three rules (perry-young-gc-fixed-cost.md): (1) arm before publish; (2) under debug_assertions a minor-scoped walk re-derives the relevant set from the authoritative table and panics on any key the log does not name; (3) [gc-young-log] prints per table/cycle logged / visited / kept / table size, and the tests read the rows back. Rule 2 was not actually enforced as first pushed — see the Correctness section below for the audit and the fix.

Also: restore_surviving_dirty_coverage (#5029) now skips the objects the copying minor's own dirty scan visited completely (every slot on a dirty page and in-body); the budgeted cycle keeps the full walk (mutator interleaving leaves no trace for a store into an already-dirty page). Debug builds still walk the skipped objects and panic if the walk would have added a page; [gc-restore-coverage] prints objects walked/skipped and pages added.

Measurements

Rig: secret-tests/cc-permission-harness/stream_scale.py, offline SSE mock, the
compiled claude-code 2.1.112 TUI, one streamed 400-char reply. Arms built by the
same relink pipeline from the same object cache and run interleaved on one
box, two rounds each. cc_base = main 12efed1222; cand = this branch (it
also carries #9756, which is memory-only and does not touch a scanner).

Scanner cost per turn — [gc-scanner-profile], PERRY_GC_DIAG=1

copying-minor scanners, summed over the turn	cc_base r1 / r2	cand r1 / r2
copying minors in the turn	41 / 39	40 / 39
total scanner time	1319 / 1185 ms	601 / 593 ms
mean per minor	32.2 / 30.4 ms	15.0 / 15.2 ms
scan_descriptor_roots_mut	401 / 378 ms	39 / 37 ms
scan_closure_dynamic_props_roots_mut	251 / 198 ms	54 / 58 ms
scan_shape_table_rekey_mut	403 / 376 ms	251 / 244 ms
transition_cache_mutable_root_scanner	32 / 31 ms	25 / 25 ms
shape_cache_mutable_root_scanner	31 / 30 ms	39 / 39 ms
turn CPU (these runs carry the diag printing)	10.39 / 9.34 s	8.01 / 7.70 s

≈ 0.7 s of CPU per 400-char reply removed from copying-minor root scans.

The counters (rule 3) — [gc-young-log], same turn, summed per table

cycle / table	entry visits	the full walk would have visited	skipped
copying_minor / object.descriptors	264 459	2 072 082	87.2 %
copying_minor / object.transition_cache	275 566	1 310 720	79.0 %
copying_minor / shapes.families+indices	1 841 865	4 243 336	56.6 %
copying_minor / closure.dynamic_props	1 206 725	1 036 024	−16.5 %
copying_minor / object.shape_cache	1 440 566	1 440 566	0.0 %
budgeted_minor / object.descriptors	7 834	187 706	95.8 %
budgeted_minor / object.transition_cache	20 816	131 072	84.1 %
budgeted_minor / shapes.families+indices	162 312	399 536	59.4 %

("would have visited" is each row's own table_len × its pass count, summed —
not the turn's maximum table size, which flatters the shape rows.)

Honest reading of the two flat rows, and it is now measured rather than
inferred: the canonical shape keys arrays are allocated in the longlived
arena (js_array_alloc_with_length_longlived, object/alloc.rs:441/467/565/669/786),
and addr_is_minor_relevant answers true for HeapGeneration::Longlived
because a longlived parent is not write-barriered
(barrier_parent_needs_remembering is true only for Old,
gc/barrier/mod.rs:1584-1605), so a minor has to trace through it to reach any
nursery child. A longlived object is never promoted, so those keys addresses
stay in the log for the life of the process. That is why object.shape_cache
skips nothing and why the log costs it 8 ms/turn more than the full walk did;
it also caps shapes.families+indices at 56.6 %. The fix is a remembered set
for the longlived arena — bounded by writes into it, and longlived keys
arrays are write-once (GC_FLAG_SHAPE_SHARED forces clone-before-mutate) with
longlived key strings (js_string_from_bytes_longlived, same call sites) — after
which addr_is_minor_relevant(Longlived) becomes false and all three rows
collapse. That is a barrier change and belongs in its own PR; it is not a reason
to hold the four tables that already skip 57–96 %.

The footprint gate (ARCHITECTURE.md invariant 1) — stream_scale.py --mem --idle 12

400-char reply, three interleaved base/candidate pairs (base, cand, base,
cand, base, cand) plus the node arm, run back to back through the campaign's
measure_lock.sh. Reported per run, not averaged, because settled footprint is
bimodal (it depends on whether a full collection fell inside the window).

	cc_base r1 / r2 / r3	cand r1 / r2 / r3	node
turn CPU s	10.33 / 10.61 / 10.59	8.49 / 8.25 / 7.99	0.23
CPU in the 12 s after the turn	3.72 / 7.91 / 7.28	6.08 / 4.38 / 4.71	0.02
peak RSS MB	1893 / 1993 / 1997	1897 / 1897 / 1894	375
footprint after turn MB	1872 / 1935 / 1934	1811 / 1803 / 1799	329
settled footprint after 12 s idle MB	2646 / 724 / 723	627 / 534 / 868	330

Turn CPU −21.6 % (10.51 → 8.24 s mean). Footprint after the turn is lower in
every pair and the candidate's spread collapses (1799–1811 MB against
1872–1935; peak RSS 1894–1897 against 1893–1997). Neither metric regresses.
The gap to node is still ~35× on CPU and ~5.5× on footprint — this is one step,
not the fix.

The lock waits for 1-minute load below 8; five campaign lanes share this
10-core box, so it hit its 1200 s ceiling and proceeded at load 76. Absolute
values are therefore still inflated for every arm including node; the
interleaved pairing is what makes the comparison sound. The scanner-profile,
[gc-young-log] and census rows below are counters, not timings.

Memory — PERRY_GC_CENSUS, --signal-at 2 into a 3300-char reply

	cc_base	cand
side_table_bytes	83.59 MB	70.55 MB
live JS bytes / objects	57.13 MB / 444 537	57.24 MB / 445 276
phys_footprint	323.4 MB	289.8 MB
RSS	508.6 MB	440.5 MB

(The 13 MB is #9756's shapes.indices; this PR is CPU-only and holds the
census flat otherwise.)

Tests

gc::tests::young_log_tests (per table: a young entry reachable only through the table moves and is re-keyed through the partial walk; an old entry adds no visit; a dead young owner is pruned from the log); the whole gc:: suite (1048) with the rule-2 assertions active; scripts/gc_rekeyed_key_tables.py clean.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01YPfnmWZmSpSWpmnoXvH8z2

Measurement conditions. Five campaign lanes share this 10-core box and
1-minute load reached 147 while these were taken, so the absolute CPU
seconds and footprint figures above are inflated for every arm. They are
reported as interleaved A/B pairs (base, candidate, base, candidate — one
after another in the same window), so the comparison is sound even though
the absolute values are not comparable to the quiet-box baselines in
BRIEF_COMMON.md. The scanner-profile, [gc-young-log] and census rows are
counters, not timings, and are unaffected. A re-take under the campaign's new
measure_lock.sh (which waits for load < 8) is queued and will replace the
absolute columns.

Correctness — rule 1 is now enforceable, and the audit that says so

The earlier claim in this description ("under debug_assertions a minor-scoped
walk re-derives the relevant set and panics on any key the log does not name —
this caught two writer sites while landing") was true of the mechanism and
false of the verification. Two things were wrong, and both are fixed here.

debug_assert_logged is compiled out of --release. There is no
debug-assertions = true under [profile.release], so no release
cargo test run — including the 3152-test run first reported here — ever
executed rule 2. A gcaudit profile (release codegen, debug assertions on) is
added for it:

cargo test --profile gcaudit -p perry-runtime -- --test-threads=1

Three #[cfg(test)] seeds re-implemented the arming, so the tests
validated a rule that was not the shipped one and never touched the production
writers. Deleting the arm site in shape_cache_insert left the suite at
11 passed / 0 failed. The transition cache's seeds did not even carry the
same predicate:

writer	armed on
production transition_cache_insert	rel(next_keys) || (len_marker == 0 && rel(kid))
test_seed_transition_cache_entry	rel(next_keys) || rel(key_ptr) — classifies a packed length as an address
test_seed_transition_cache_root	rel(next_keys) only

Both caches now arm through one helper (arm_shape_cache_young,
arm_transition_cache_young) that every writer calls, and the young-log tests
drive the production writers through test_shape_cache_insert /
test_transition_cache_insert, which are nothing but calls. A new test covers
the clause no seed exercised: a young interned KEY under an OLD target.

The audit

Each of the 21 arm sites suppressed in turn from one build. 14 fail a test
when removed, and the failure is rule 2's own diagnostic — e.g.
young log for object.descriptors does not name 5717278851120, which holds a minor-relevant pointer: a writer of that table publishes without note-ing the key first.

site	failing test(s)
arm_shape_cache_young note; shape_cache_insert's call	young_shape_cache_entry_is_moved_through_the_log
arm_transition_cache_young note; transition_cache_insert's call	young_transition_cache_target_is_rewritten…, young_transition_key_under_an_old_target…
transition next_keys clause / kid clause	the respective one of those two
closure helper note; closure owner-moved note	dead_young_closure_owner_is_pruned… + young_value_under_an_old_closure_owner…; young_closure_prop_value_is_moved…
note_young_keys note; family_push_back's call	young_keys_array_family_is_rekeyed_through_the_log
descriptor helper note; 3 of its 5 call sites	dead_young_descriptor_owner_is_pruned…, old_descriptor_owners_are_skipped…, young_accessor_getter_is_moved…

Seven sites did not fail any test. Four of them were the entire arming of
shapes.indices — the table #9756 restructures — and are now covered, one
dedicated test each, all four re-audited and all four caught by rule 2's own
diagnostic:

site	test that catches its removal
ShapeTableInner::family_push_front	installing_an_external_shape_id_arms_the_family_log
shape_slot_lookup_verdict build arm	building_a_slot_index_on_a_young_keys_array_arms_the_log
shape_keys_grown	growing_an_indexed_keys_array_arms_the_log_for_the_new_address
shape_index_migrate_after_delete	migrating_an_index_after_a_delete_arms_the_log_for_the_new_address

Each drives the production writer (a 40-key young array, above
KEYS_INDEX_THRESHOLD, or no index is built at all; a complete index, or the
delete migration declines and never arms). They are behavioural rather than
representation-specific, so they pass against both the PtrHashMap index and
#9756's packed 4-byte cells.

Three sites remain knowingly uncovered, on ground neither PR restructures:
transfer_descriptor_owner (array-growth ownership transfer),
install_fresh_accessor_property and set_builtin_accessor_descriptor. No
test reaches those paths, so a missed arm in them would not be caught by this
suite. They are recorded rather than half-covered; rule 2 checks any test that
reaches them, so closing them is a matter of exercising the paths.

Whole suite under --profile gcaudit: 3153 passed on #9755 / 3157 on #9756,
0 failed, no rule-2 violation anywhere.

(At codegen-units = 16 two unrelated tests fail — handle_bound_method_name's 'static-literal identity check, the CGU-duplication artifact its own comment documents for Windows; they pass at codegen-units = 1, which is what the profile uses.)

CI

Three failures on the first push were mine and are fixed here: the missing
changelog.d/ fragment, cargo fmt, and scripts/check_file_size.sh (this
change took four files past the 2000-line limit; see the second commit). Also
fixed: scripts/gc_rekeyed_key_tables.json follows the moved scanner, and the
two #[cfg(test)] transition-cache seams are re-exported.

Green locally on this branch: cargo fmt --check, cargo check --all-targets
with RUSTFLAGS=-D warnings, cargo test -p perry-runtime --release
(3152 passed / 0 failed, --test-threads=1), check_file_size.sh,
gc_rekeyed_key_tables.py (42 sites, 25 prunes, all classified),
check_gc_scanner_latches.py (130 registrations), gc_gate_wiring_check.py,
check_gc_doc_claims.py, check_gc_env_knobs.py, gc_pin_sites.py,
gc_matrix_liveness_check.py --check-registry.

The two red checks on the current head 47b042c72 are
gc-root-dominance and gc-root-dominance-statepoints, and neither reports a
root-dominance violation. Both print === violations: 0 (moving-minor reachable: 0) and then exit 2 on a corpus-size floor:

error: checked 5625 function(s), need at least 6000. The corpus compiled but is
too thin to have exercised the lowerings this invariant runs through.
=== checked 5625 functions / 81 modules (81 .ll files, 14121 root stores)
=== violations: 0   (moving-minor reachable: 0)

--min-files 60 passes (81), --min-funcs 6000 does not (5625). That count is
a property of the dependency corpus the gate compiles, and this diff is
runtime-only — it contains no perry-codegen/perry-hir change and therefore
cannot alter how many functions the corpus lowers. A reviewer seeing a red GC
root gate on a root-scanning PR will assume the worst; the opposite is true
here, and the gate is one of the ones that only runs at all because this PR
carries run-extended-tests.

Every other red check was pre-existing on main at this PR's original base
commit 12efed12220e, not introduced here — checked by running the same gates
against a clean origin/main and by reading main's own runs on that SHA:

check	evidence it is pre-existing
cargo-test, check (API docs drift), warnings (product + all-targets), gap-suite, gc-stress matrix, gc-stress, main-gate	main's own CI run 33926006467 on 12efed12220e fails on exactly these steps
self-test-checkers	python3 scripts/check_thread_locals.py fails identically on a clean origin/main checkout: two raw thread_local! blocks in gc/census.rs. Run 33918296710 (TLS Budget) is red on 12efed12220e. Being fixed for the whole repo in #9774
gc-native-roots-complete, gc-root-dominance, gc-root-dominance-statepoints, gc-ratchet	red on 12efed12220e on main: 33918907275, 33917989138, 33917527174
ext-link	red on main since 2026-09-04 (33856617416); it fails linking js_bun_tcp_listen out of perry-ext-net into perry-ext-http, and this PR touches neither crate
native-roots-rs4gc (ubuntu-24.04-arm, aarch64, ELF)	step-for-step identical to main. On this PR it fails on: Build compiler and static runtime (perry-dev profile), Provider dylib host-boundary GC and Response, Walker agreement (aarch64 hosts), Probe matrix, RS4GC mode, forced evacuation, Both non-default walkers. Main's run 33918907275 on 12efed12220e fails on that same list, in that order — it dies in the build step, before any root scanning runs. The macOS arm is likewise red on main.
pr-gate, parity-aggregate	aggregators that report their dependencies; they go green when the above do

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Performance

  • Improved minor garbage-collection efficiency by limiting scans to relevant runtime metadata.
  • Optimized remembered-set restoration by skipping objects with complete coverage.
  • Improved collection handling for arrays, buffers, shapes, descriptors, closures, and related runtime metadata.

• Diagnostics

  • Added optional diagnostics for metadata scanning and remembered-set coverage.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for metadata tracking, re-keying, cleanup, and optimized collection paths.

Rebased onto main 1d63fa91f (the 42-commit merge train)

Two things the rebase had to reconcile by hand; a clean auto-merge would have
hidden both.

1. The gc/roots.rs split would have reverted a landed fix. The style commit
here moves the four #[cfg] arms of get_stack_bottom into
gc/roots/stack_bottom.rs (the file-size gate: this change takes roots.rs
past 2,000 lines). It carried the bodies as they were on the old base, and main
has since landed the typed pthread stack-bounds fix, which replaces the Linux
arm with crate::native_stack::stack_top(). Taking the split as written would
have reinstated the old pthread_getattr_np extern block — the same
redeclaration #9776 removed. Resolved by keeping the split and regenerating
stack_bottom.rs from main's current bodies.

2. family_append_fresh needed the young log's rule-1 arming. Main landed
0ee491545 (#9768), which adds family_append_fresh — the append that skips
IdList's membership scan for a freshly allocated id — and makes
shape_descriptor_intern use it. This branch had added note_young_keys to
family_push_back and family_push_front, which were the only two family
appends when it was written. The two changes never touch the same lines, so git
merges them without a conflict and the result has a third append path with no
arming: every freshly interned descriptor's keys array would go unlogged, and
the minor-scoped rekey scanner visits only logged keys, so the keys array moves
and the family stays filed under the old address.

Nothing shipped broken. gc/young_log.rs does not exist on main, so rule 1
has no existence there and the hole is a property of this rebase only, fixed in
its own commit before the branch was pushed. It is called out here because
"restored rule-1 arming" otherwise reads as a report of a live defect.

The general shape is worth naming: one side added a caller, the other added an
obligation, and neither edited the other's lines. After rebasing onto a moved
base, re-derive the invariant by enumerating every writer of the protected
structure on the new base, and let the suppression audit prove each one —
git cannot see this class of conflict and no gate in this repo catches it.

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The runtime adds young-entry logs for minor GC scans of closure, descriptor, shape, transition-cache, and shape-cache tables. It also tracks complete dirty scans so post-minor remembered-set restoration can skip already-covered objects.

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GC young logs and coverage

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Young-log infrastructure and scan scope crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/young_log.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/roots.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/cycle/registered_root_scan.rs, Cargo.toml	YoungLog tracks minor-relevant entries and records diagnostics. Root visitors identify minor-scoped scans. Registered root scanning remains budgeted. Cargo profiles add gcaudit and set codegen-units = 1.
Closure and descriptor young scans crates/perry-runtime/src/closure/*, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/descriptor_state*	Closure and descriptor mutations log relevant owners. Minor scans process logged owners. Full scans rebuild the logs. Young-only pruning removes dead owners.
Shape and cache root logs crates/perry-runtime/src/object/shapes*, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/side_table_roots.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/test_root_accessors.rs	Shape tables and caches log relevant keys or slots. Minor scans re-key logged entries. Full scans rebuild the logs.
Young pruning and validation crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/dead_owner.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/*, scripts/gc_rekeyed_key_tables.json, changelog.d/9755-gc-side-table-young-logs.md	Dead-owner fan-out selects young-only prunes where available. Tests validate evacuation, skipping, re-keying, pruning, and walk statistics across side tables.
Dirty-scan coverage restoration crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/barrier/mod.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/copying.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/verify.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/sticky_remembered.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/cycle.rs	Dirty scans report complete in-body coverage. Copying minors pass covered headers to restoration. Debug checks and diagnostics validate skipped objects and restored pages.

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Young-entry logs reduce minor-GC scanning work, and the buffer reuse follow-up addresses repeated survivor-buffer allocation. The documented gcaudit invocation still lacks the repository-required serialization setting, creating a bounded validation-command reliability concern before merge.

Suggested reviewers: jdalton

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Mutator
  participant YoungLog
  participant RuntimeRootVisitor
  participant SideTable
  Mutator->>YoungLog: record minor-relevant entry before publish
  RuntimeRootVisitor->>YoungLog: read logged entries
  RuntimeRootVisitor->>SideTable: scan and rewrite logged entries
  SideTable->>YoungLog: re-log moved or relevant entries

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DirtyScanner
  participant CoveredSet
  participant CoverageRestore
  DirtyScanner->>CoveredSet: record complete object coverage
  CoverageRestore->>CoveredSet: query covered headers
  CoverageRestore->>CoverageRestore: skip covered objects
  CoverageRestore->>CoverageRestore: restore remaining dirty coverage

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/roots/stack_bottom.rs (1)

15-48: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Delete the unrelated doc comment and the stray #[inline(always)].

The doc comment describes a trace-phase mark helper. It does not describe get_stack_bottom. The module doc records that the comment was moved verbatim, but the comment is now the first thing a reader sees in this file, and it documents the wrong function. #[inline(always)] also belongs to that other helper: it applies only to the macOS arm, and the other five arms carry no such attribute, so the arms are inconsistent for no reason.

♻️ Proposed cleanup

-//! The doc comment on the first arm describes a trace-phase mark helper, not
-//! `get_stack_bottom`; it was already attached to this item and is moved
-//! verbatim rather than re-pointed at the next unrelated item.
-
-/// Specialized mark-and-enqueue for trace-phase field walks.
-///
-/// Descriptor-driven trace walks all share the same pattern: read a
-/// heap-field word that is either a NaN-boxed JSValue or a raw I64
-/// pointer at an object start, mark it if live, and push the marked
-/// header onto the local worklist. The generic
-/// `try_mark_value_or_raw` is general enough to also handle
-/// conservative stack scans (raw interior pointers via
-/// `enclosing_object`) and root scans (push to MARK_SEEDS so the
-/// trace-marked-objects entry point can pick them up), but BOTH of
-/// those features are pure overhead inside `drain_trace_worklist`:
-///
-/// 1. Field words never hold interior pointers — they're written via
-///    `arr[i] = x` / `obj.f = x` / closure capture stores, all of
-///    which use the object-start user pointer. Skipping
-///    `enclosing_object` saves a binary-search lookup per field.
-///
-/// 2. The MARK_SEEDS push happens once per newly-marked object during
-///    trace, but the same header is also pushed onto the local
-///    worklist by the caller (so the trace drain visits it). The
-///    extra MARK_SEEDS push goes onto a TLS vec, gets cleared at the
-///    start of the next cycle, and is pure waste while we're already
-///    in the trace phase. Skipping it saves a TLS slot deref +
-///    Vec::push per marked object.
-///
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Sabotage audit of rule 1: two of the five tables have an arm site the tests cannot see

The module doc of gc/tests/young_log_tests.rs states a sabotage contract:

Sabotage contract (rule 2): delete any one note call in the tables' writers
and the matching "moves" test here goes red — under debug_assertions on the
log-completeness assertion the walk runs first, and in release on the stale
address the un-visited entry keeps.

I ran that sabotage. It does not hold for the shape cache. Deleting the
production arm site in shape_cache_insert (object/mod.rs:695) and running
cargo test --release -p perry-runtime gc::tests::young_log gives
11 passed / 0 failed — the deletion is invisible.

Cause: young_shape_cache_entry_is_moved_through_the_log seeds through
test_seed_shape_cache_root, a #[cfg(test)] seam that re-implements the
arming with its own if addr_is_minor_relevant(..) { note(..) }. The test
never calls the production writer, so the production writer's arm is untested.

The transition cache has the same shape, and there the seam's predicate is not
even the same rule:

	condition that arms the log
production transition_cache_insert (object/mod.rs:1090-1094)	addr_is_minor_relevant(next_keys) || (len_marker == 0 && addr_is_minor_relevant(kid))
test seam test_seed_transition_cache_entry (object/side_table_roots.rs:252-257)	addr_is_minor_relevant(next_keys) || addr_is_minor_relevant(key_ptr)

So the transition-cache test validates a different arming rule than the one
that ships (the len_marker == 0 guard is absent from the seam).

The other three tables are fine: shapes arms through the single
note_young_keys helper (shapes.rs:275), descriptors through
note_young_descriptor_owner (descriptor_state.rs:151), and closure props
through one helper plus the owner-moved hook (closure/dynamic_props.rs:118/127)
— every writer of those reaches the log through the production path the tests
drive, so a deleted arm there is caught.

Two further notes for whoever reviews this:

1. debug_assert_logged (rule 2) is compiled out of --release. There is
   no debug-assertions = true under [profile.release], so a release
   cargo test run — including the 3152-test run reported in this PR — never
   executes the log-completeness machine check. Only a debug-profile run does.
2. The GC gates that would independently catch a missed root
   (gc-native-roots, gc-root-dominance, gc-ratchet, gc-stress) are red
   on main at this PR's base 12efed12220e, so they cannot vouch for this
   change either. See the CI section of the description.

Suggested fix, not applied here because I could not validate it in a debug
build on this box: make the two tests drive the production writers instead of
seams that duplicate the arming, so the sabotage contract the module documents
is actually enforced.

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From the footprint lane — native-heap attribution for the scanners this PR
touches, which the heap census could not see because none of it is in the arena.

PERRY_ALLOC_CENSUS (#9771) samples the #[global_allocator] and subtracts a
sampled pointer again when it is freed, so it reports live and churned native
bytes per call site. One 400-char streamed reply on the compiled claude-code
TUI, on a build without this PR:

owner (sampled)	allocated	live
descriptor_state::scan_descriptor_roots_mut -> HashMap::insert	520 MB	35 MB
run_copied_minor_attempt (other)	301 MB	40 MB
shapes::scan_shape_table_rekey_mut -> ShapeTableInner::facts_push_back	234 MB	125 MB
gc::verify::restore_surviving_dirty_coverage	128 MB	0
scan_remembered_dirty_slots_copying -> HashMap::insert	64 MB	4 MB
layout_tables::prune_dead_per_object_layout_owners	70 MB	0

Process totals for that turn: 22.5 GB allocated in 31.7 M calls, peak live
1.70 GB, and 85 % of the volume is a single size class — 19,074 MB in 1.56 M
allocations of 8-16 KB, i.e. hash-table rehashes and Vec growth. That peak-live
figure is what sets mimalloc's 1.9 GiB commit, and mimalloc's commit is the
process footprint, so this is a memory result as much as a CPU one.

Why I am not sending a patch for any of it. Every sampled stack above sits
under run_copied_minor_attempt — these are minor collections. Your
if visitor.young_scope() { scan_descriptor_roots_young(...); return; } takes
minors off the full-walk path entirely, and scan_descriptor_roots_young is
per-owner rather than a whole-map rebuild, so most of that 520 MB should simply
disappear with this PR. Duplicating it would be patching a cost you have
already removed, and five of the six symbols are inside your diff.

Two things that may still be worth your attention, both in bodies you own:

1. The full-walk rebuild (the needs_rebuild blocks) still runs on the 5-8
   full cycles per turn and still does std::mem::take(&mut *descriptors)
   followed by re-insertion into a zero-capacity map — so every full cycle
   regrows the whole table through the 8-16 KB rehash ladder. Swapping through
   a persistent spare map would make it allocation-free in steady state. Same
   shape for scan_shape_table_rekey_mut's per-call moved_families /
   dead_descriptor_ids Vec::new().
2. facts_push_back is the only one of these holding its bytes live (125 MB) —
   that is the table itself, and it is the largest single native-heap resident
   after the arena.

Happy to re-run the attribution on your branch and hand you the before/after
per-symbol table; say the word and I will queue it. I am taking
gc/layout_tables.rs and arena/page_meta.rs, which are outside your diff.

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[proggeramlug]

Before/after native-heap attribution for this PR

As offered. Built this branch (8c244e939) with the PERRY_ALLOC_CENSUS
instrument cherry-picked on top, in my own worktree — your tree untouched.
Compared against main + the same instrument. One 400-character streamed reply
plus 12 s idle each, 256 KB sampling interval.

Whole-process totals — these are exact counters, not sampled

	main	this PR
allocated	22,377 MB	22,148 MB	−1.0 %
allocation calls	30,908,634	39,918,513	+29.2 %
freed	19,396 MB	21,795 MB	+12.4 %
peak live	2,983 MB	1,618 MB	−45.7 %

Per symbol (sampled), where it moved

symbol	main	this PR	delta
descriptor_state → HashMap<(usize,String), PropertyAttrs>::insert	284.1 MB	19.2 MB	−264.8
scan_descriptor_roots_mut	99.5 MB	4.4 MB	−95.1
prune_dead_descriptor_owners	51.3 MB	6.3 MB	−45.1
fast_hash::PtrHasher → HashMap::insert	107.4 MB	203.7 MB	+96.3
restore_surviving_dirty_coverage	162.2 MB	183.6 MB	+21.4
run_copied_minor_attempt	147.0 MB	162.8 MB	+15.8
arena_alloc_gc_old	50.0 MB	64.0 MB	+14.0
shapes::facts_push_back	107.8 MB	107.8 MB	±0
regex construction/exec (unaffected, for scale)	~565 MB	~565 MB	±0

Reading

The scanner change does exactly what it claims: −405 MB across the descriptor
family, a 15× cut on the single largest scanner site. That is the biggest
per-symbol move anyone has measured in this campaign.

But the process total barely changes (−1.0 %), because the young logs
themselves allocate. PtrHasher-keyed HashMap::insert goes up by 96 MB,
and restore_surviving_dirty_coverage / run_copied_minor_attempt /
arena_alloc_gc_old add ~51 MB between them; allocation count rises 29 %,
so the shape of the trade is "fewer large rehashes, more small inserts". If
the logs' own maps can be pre-sized or recycled across cycles, most of that
+96 MB looks recoverable and the net would follow the −405 MB.

The number that matters for footprint moves properly: peak live 2,983 →
1,618 MB (−45.7 %). Peak live is what sets mimalloc's committed set, and on
macOS mimalloc's commit is the process footprint. In the same two runs the
heap census shows side tables 314.3 → 80.4 MB (shapes.indices 90.2 → gone,
shapes.by_facts 52.4 → gone, shapes.descriptors 49.3 → 10.6), arena capacity
186.6 → 141.6 MB, and mimalloc current_commit 3,605 → 2,029 MB. Rig from the
same runs: turn CPU 10.40 s → 8.04 s, peak RSS 2,004 → 1,900 MB.

Caveats

n = 1 per arm on a shared box; settled footprint is bimodal (I measure
0.4–3.4 GB from the same binary on the same input), so treat fp_after_idle
and the census's instantaneous live_bytes as indicative only. The exact
counters — allocated, calls, peak live — and the per-symbol deltas are the
solid part. Sampled figures are one sample per 256 KB allocated.

Happy to re-run against a later revision, or with the young-log maps pre-sized,
if you want to see whether the +96 MB comes back out.

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Recycle the drained batch returned by take_sorted.

take_sorted moves self.spare into self.keys and returns the old Vec<K>. The scanners drop that returned vector, so take_spare() returns no reusable capacity. kept then reallocates as entries are pushed, and the next walk repeats this. Preserve the drained capacity in YoungLog, or redesign the API so it becomes the reusable kept buffer. Apply this to the full closure walk at crates/perry-runtime/src/closure/dynamic_props.rs:480.

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Conflicts with merge train #9798, which just landed 19 PRs (including #9750's rework of gc_runtime_root_holders.py and a regex.rs split under the 2000-line cap). Could you rebase onto current main? I'd rather you resolve it than have me hand-merge — several of these touch GC root scanning or regex internals where the two changes are independent rewrites of the same code, and that's exactly where a mechanical merge goes quietly wrong. Everything that picked clean is in the next train; I'll pick these up as soon as they rebase.

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Allocation follow-up: buffer recycling landed, magnitude not yet measured

YoungLog::take_sorted used std::mem::take, which leaves a zero-capacity
Vec behind, so every note made during a walk — and every note until the next
collection — re-grew the log from empty, and each walk allocated a fresh kept
Vec that was then dropped. On this workload those are ~20k-entry Vecs rebuilt
per table per collection: the same allocate-from-scratch shape the logs were
added to remove from the scanners, reintroduced one level down.

The log now keeps a spare buffer (take_sorted swaps it in, take_spare
hands it to a walk for its kept list, extend/stash_spare round both back,
keeping the larger capacity), and the five minor-scoped walks take their kept
buffer from the log instead of Vec::new(). No behaviour change — contents,
ordering and dedup are unchanged. 3153 tests pass under --profile gcaudit.

I could not measure how much of the +7.2 M this recovers, and I am not
claiming a number. The reported regression is in size class 5, i.e.
class_of(size) = size.bit_length() % CLASSES → 16–31 byte allocations.
Buffer regrowth is a real source in that class but almost certainly not all of
it: candidates I could not separate by reading are IdList's spill to
Box<Vec<u32>> and the String-cloned lookup tuples in scan_descriptor_owner
(accessors.remove(&(owner, key.clone())) + insert((new_owner, key), ..),
which main already did per entry).

Why the measurement did not happen: building PERRY_ALLOC_CENSUS (#9771)
against this branch misses the shared object cache — the instrument hooks
the global allocator in lib.rs, so every compiled unit changes and
relink.sh falls through to a full LLVM codegen: 119 units, measured ETA
~234 min. That is worth knowing for anyone else planning a census arm; it needs
a full compile, not a relink. Aborted rather than hold the box for four hours.

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The shape-cache log is out, and the measurement that took it out

The five converted tables were valued individually, with a measurement-only
PERRY_YOUNG_LOG=0 gate on RuntimeRootVisitor::young_scope() so all five
scanners fall back to their full walk together inside one binary — plus a
third arm, cc_base_new (main 1d63fa91f, no logs at all), which turned out
to be the arm that decides it.

Binary: 1d63fa91f + this PR only (no #9756), relinked through the campaign
pipeline. stream_scale.py len 3300, three interleaved rounds under
measure_lock.sh, load 11–21. Collection schedule identical in all three arms
(minors 196/194/196, budgeted steps 60/59/59), so these are scan costs.

scanner (table), ms per 3300-char turn	NONE (main)	OFF (log kept, full walk)	ON (this PR)	ON − NONE	skipped
all 95 scanners	14761/14105/19411	23368/23286/26974	2667/2852/3674	−81 %	—
scan_shape_table_rekey_mut	10884/11077/14458	18893/18655/22125	1426/1567/1947	−10,493 ms	93.0 %
scan_descriptor_roots_mut	1807/1192/2223	2257/2467/2548	127/136/145	−1,605 ms	79.5 %
scan_closure_dynamic_props_roots_mut	1014/985/1347	890/902/959	224/236/209	−892 ms	5.0 %
transition_cache_mutable_root_scanner	121/123/159	254/221/246	85/94/145	−26 ms	75.4 %
shape_cache_mutable_root_scanner	89/89/113	159/153/167	121/122/151	+34 ms	0.0 %

What changed in the diff

object.shape_cache is removed — the plain values_mut() walk is restored,
and with it go the arm helper, its two call sites, the thread-local log, the
debug_assert_logged re-derivation and the test seam's arming. It skipped
0.0 % of 3.85 M entry visits across 107 collections, in every collection,
and cost 35 % more than the walk it replaced. The cause is the one this
description already named: the canonical keys arrays are longlived, so
addr_is_minor_relevant must answer true and no entry ever leaves the log.
A log that skips nothing is a permanent arming obligation on every future
writer of that cache plus a suppression audit that has to keep proving it, so
it does not land on the promise of a later longlived remembered set — it can
come back when that set exists and makes it skip something.

The young-log test for it is kept as a scanner test and now asserts that no
[gc-young-log] row exists for that table, so re-adding a log there without
re-measuring is a red test.

Two corrections to this description

1. closure.dynamic_props does not win by skipping. It skips 5.0 % and
   visits more than a full walk would on 85 of 107 cycles (multi-round
   re-logging), and is still 80 % faster. The win is that the full walk locks
   three global mutexed maps, collects every key of all three into one
   Vec, sort_unstables and dedups it, on every collection
   (closure/dynamic_props.rs:465-473); the minor-scoped path skips that setup
   entirely. The earlier framing ("fewer entries visited") was wrong for this
   table.

2. The buffer-recycling commit is measured flat. ceabd7ea1 said its
   magnitude was not yet measured; it now is, with PERRY_ALLOC_CENSUS at a
   256 KB interval, PERRY_YOUNG_LOG_RECYCLE=1 vs 0 on one binary, 400-char
   turn, census at the same 90 s offset in both arms:

   	recycle=1	recycle=0
   allocation calls	36.865 M	36.858 M (−0.02 %)
   allocated	3,391 MB	3,413 MB
   peak live	545.2 MB	545.9 MB

   No YoungLog buffer appears in either arm's top-25 allocation sites. So the
   +29.2 % allocation-count rise attributed to "the young logs themselves" is
   not the logs' Vecs. On this branch the largest Rust-heap byte sites in that
   family are the copying minor's covered set
   (scan_remembered_dirty_slots_copying → HashMap<_,_,PtrHasher>::insert
   under run_copied_minor_attempt) and restore_surviving_dirty_coverage
   itself — ~264 MB across 11 sites of a 3.4 GB turn. The commit stays because
   it is a strict simplification of the log's buffer lifetime, but it is not
   worth an allocation claim.

Reading the OFF arm, because it is a trap

ON − OFF alone says the shape-cache log buys 29 ms. It does not. The OFF
arm still pays the log's upkeep — a take_sorted() whose sorted result is
discarded, plus an addr_is_minor_relevant page-map probe per entry to rebuild
kept — so every OFF row is worse than main, by +7.8 s on the shapes table
alone. Only the third arm (main, no log) gives the number that decides whether
a log should exist. Anyone repeating this on another table needs all three.

CI

gc-root-dominance and gc-root-dominance-statepoints are red with
violations: 0; they fail the corpus floor (checked 5625 function(s), need at least 6000), which a runtime-only diff cannot move.

https://claude.ai/code/session_014UZWia6L37DpA93VLtNK9m

[proggeramlug]

Landed on main via merge train #9817 (rebase-merged, so your commits keep their authorship). Thanks!