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Stacked on #9794 (which carries the [gc-primitive-dispatch] counter this is
measured with).

What

String.prototype.codePointAt had a String.prototype thunk but no arm in
the native string-method dispatch
, so every call fell through to
call_primitive_builtin_prototype_method:

  1. resolve globalThis.String and then String.prototype.codePointAt,
  2. clone that closure to rebind this,
  3. and — the thunk not being registered strict — run ToObject on the
    receiver, minting a String wrapper whose own index properties are one per
    UTF-16 code unit.

The counter added in #9794 says what that costs on the compiled claude-code
TUI: codePointAt is the only method name that reaches the fallback at
all, and it reaches it 99,008 times per 400-character streamed reply, with
99,008 String wrappers minted — because grapheme-aware text measurement calls
it once per character.

[gc-primitive-dispatch] exit: names=1 calls=99008 receiver_chars=99008
[gc-primitive-dispatch]   calls=99008 receiver_chars=99008 String.prototype.codePointAt
[gc-primitive-dispatch] exit: string_wrappers=99008 index_properties=99008

The new arm is the sibling of charCodeAt one line above it and reads the
receiver the same way.

The test asserts the wrapper count, not the answer

The fallback computes the same code point, expensively — so a test that only
checked the return value would pass with the arm deleted. The test asserts that
BOXED_PRIMITIVE_PAYLOADS does not grow across the call (one entry per
wrapper), and a positive control pins that the counter can move.

cargo test -p perry-runtime --release -- --test-threads=1: 3150 passed,
0 failed.

Measured — offline mock-API claude-code TUI rig, node arm in the same session

Candidate cc_gc3 = this PR stack (#9794 + #9795) on main 12efed1, built
by cc_relink. All runs serialized through the campaign's measurement lock;
the 400-character footprint column is three repeats (footprint is bimodal
depending on whether a full collection lands in the window).

arm 400 cpu s 400 idle12 cpu s 3300 cpu s 3300 idle12 cpu s typing cpu r2 echo p90 ms turn r2 cpu s FP settled 400 MB peak RSS 400 MB FP settled 3300 MB peak RSS 3300 MB startup s
cc_base (main) 11.69 7.96 80.77 9.86 1.36 100 1.38 692 1952 1360 2227 2.19
this stack 8.22–8.82 4.62 40.36 11.46 0.92 27 0.95 356/383/386 1876 628 1938 2.03
node (same session) 0.23–0.31 0.02 0.51 0.01 0.14 5 0.08 169–328 376 211 390 1.98

CPU: 400-char reply −26 %, 3300-char −50 %, post-turn idle −42 %, typing −32 %,
keystroke echo p90 −73 %, short-turn −31 %. Memory: settled footprint after a
400-char turn 692 → 356–386 MB (−45 %), after a 3300-char turn 1360 → 628 MB
(−54 %), peak RSS −4 % / −13 %. Neither metric regresses; node remains the bar
and this does not reach it.

Mechanism (the counters that had to move)

PERRY_ALLOC_SITE_SAMPLE=65536, share of attributed GC-arena bytes in a
400-character reply, before → after this stack:

allocation category before after #9794 after #9794+#9795
String wrapper (boxed receiver) 30.7 % 36.3 % absent
globalThis builtin name key 12.7 % absent absent
prototype/constructor lookup 7.0 % absent absent
to_string / native method call 8.1 % 1.5 % 2.5 %
ordinary property set (keys+slot arrays) 13.8 % 23.4 % 43.5 %
sampled arena total, streamed turn 305 MB 206 MB 157 MB
sampled arena total, 14 s after the turn 358 MB 296 MB 197 MB
GC_TYPE_STRING bytes, streamed turn 138 MB 53 MB 44 MB
GC_TYPE_OBJECT_META bytes, streamed turn 19 MB 16 MB 3 MB

[gc-primitive-dispatch] before: names=1 calls=99008 receiver_chars=99008,
string_wrappers=99008 index_properties=99008. After: the line is never
emitted — nothing reaches the primitive-method fallback and no String wrapper
is minted during a reply.

The category that is now largest (ordinary property set, 43.5 %) is
Intl.Segmenter's per-segment record, which is PR #9769's subject.

Per 400-character reply this removes 99,008 globalThis property lookups,
99,008 closure clones and 99,008 String wrapper objects. cargo test -p perry-runtime --release -- --test-threads=1: 3150 passed, 0 failed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added allocation-site sampling with PERRY_ALLOC_SITE_SAMPLE, reporting allocation totals, object types, and top call sites.
    • Expanded PERRY_GC_DIAG=1 output with collection triggers, full-collection causes, budgeted-cycle metrics, charge attribution, and survival reports.
  • Bug Fixes

    • String.prototype.codePointAt now uses the native string method path.
    • Improved radix formatting for large numbers and fractional rounding.
    • Corrected String wrapper index property behavior.
  • Performance

    • Reduced repeated allocations for common ASCII characters and built-in property names.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The runtime adds byte-proportional arena allocation sampling and expanded GC diagnostics. It also adds canonical string caches, synthesized String-wrapper descriptors, native codePointAt dispatch, and corrected radix formatting for large integers and fractional ties.

Changes

Runtime allocation and GC observability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Allocation-site sampling and arena integration
crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/*, crates/perry-runtime/src/error*, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/*, docs/src/internals/garbage-collector.md, changelog.d/9794-gc-churn-attribution-diag.md
PERRY_ALLOC_SITE_SAMPLE controls byte-based sampling across runtime and inline arena allocation paths. Reports include resolved call chains, object types, and top allocation sites.
GC diagnostic accounting and reclaim reporting
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/diag_sites.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/policy.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/reset.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/telemetry.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/*
GC diagnostics record trigger decisions, full-collection sites, budgeted-cycle metrics, charge probes, primitive dispatch, wrapper materialization, and reclaim rejection reasons.
Copying-minor survival attribution
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/copying.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/survival_diag.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/survival_diag.rs
The copying collector attributes copied and promoted bytes to root, remembered-set, walk, and worklist origins, then reports per-minor totals.

String and object runtime behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Canonical strings and property keys
crates/perry-runtime/src/string/*, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/*, crates/perry-runtime/src/value/to_string.rs
ASCII character results use a per-thread cache. Runtime-owned property names use canonical interned keys.
String-wrapper descriptor synthesis
crates/perry-runtime/src/builtins/*, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/descriptor_state.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs
String-wrapper index attributes are synthesized from canonical indices and UTF-16 length instead of stored per character.
Native codePointAt dispatch
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/native_call_method*, changelog.d/9795-string-code-point-at-dispatch.md
String.prototype.codePointAt uses the native string-method dispatch path, with tests for BMP, astral, and out-of-range results.

Radix formatting correctness

Layer / File(s) Summary
Radix conversion and regression coverage
crates/perry-runtime/src/value/to_string.rs
Radix formatting uses half-even fractional rounding and corrected large-integer digit handling, with regression tests for large values and fractional cases.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 18450

This change improves native string dispatch and runtime diagnostics, but unresolved GC-safety and diagnostics-correctness concerns remain. These could cause runtime failures or misleading operational data, so they should be addressed before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ArenaAllocator
  participant CopyingNurseryCollector
  participant DiagnosticSites
  participant SurvivalDiag
  ArenaAllocator->>DiagnosticSites: record allocation and trigger data
  CopyingNurseryCollector->>DiagnosticSites: record collection and charge metrics
  CopyingNurseryCollector->>SurvivalDiag: record copied and promoted objects
  DiagnosticSites-->>CopyingNurseryCollector: report GC diagnostics
  SurvivalDiag-->>CopyingNurseryCollector: report minor survival attribution
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In `@changelog.d/gc-churn-attribution-diag.md`:
- Line 1: Rename the changelog fragment so it follows the required PR-keyed
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/alloc_sample.rs`:
- Line 123: Update the countdown handling around u.set(interval) to preserve any
overrun when an inline burst crosses a sampling boundary: compute the residual
modulo the sampling interval and record every boundary crossed, rather than
resetting to a full interval. Keep allocation-site estimates accurate for mixed
runtime and inline allocation paths.

In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/builtins/formatting/boxed_primitives.rs`:
- Line 246: Update the boxed-string index creation flow around
js_number_to_string so the wrapper, source string, and character value are
rooted and reloaded across the potentially allocating call, then use the
reloaded pointers for subsequent operations. In js_boxed_string_new, reload the
wrapper handle after install_string_wrapper_indices before any later use.

In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/error_stack_frames.rs`:
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/policy.rs`:
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gc_mutator_assist_step_work_units_inner_with_progress to immediately after
cycle.state.step and before the gc_finish_budgeted_cycle completion path invokes
budgeted_completed, so the completing assist is included in the current cycle’s
charge report.

In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/native_call_method/string_methods.rs`:
- Line 151: In the string method arm calling js_string_code_point_at, reacquire
the receiver via receiver_string() after arg_i32(0) coercion, then pass the
refreshed rooted string to the helper instead of the pre-coercion s_ptr; match
the existing slice arm’s receiver-refresh pattern.

In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/prototype_helpers.rs`:
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pointers before passing them to js_object_get_field_by_name_f64 in
prototype_helpers.rs:8-8. In to_string.rs:873-873, construct and root the key
before reloading value_handle and deriving closure_ptr, then pass the reloaded
pointers to function_method_value; apply the same allocation-safe ordering at
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Rename the changeset fragment to the required PR-keyed format.

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u.set(left - bytes);
false
} else {
u.set(interval);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve countdown overrun after an inline burst.

A runtime allocation can reduce UNTIL after inline_limit publishes an older, larger inline bound. The next inline burst can then cross a sample boundary by more than the remaining byte count. Line 123 resets to a full interval and discards that overrun.

For example, with a 64 KiB interval, a 63 KiB runtime allocation followed by a permitted 64 KiB inline burst leaves 1 KiB until the next boundary. This code resets it to 64 KiB. The next 63 KiB is not sampled, so the reported allocation-site estimates undercount mixed runtime and inline allocation paths.

Track the residual modulo the interval and record every crossed boundary.

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countdown handling around u.set(interval) to preserve any overrun when an inline
burst crosses a sampling boundary: compute the residual modulo the sampling
interval and record every boundary crossed, rather than resetting to a full
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// canonical one-character string for ASCII: both come out of the
// string caches, so a boxed ASCII string of up to 256 characters
// installs its indices without allocating a single string.
let key = crate::string::js_number_to_string(i as f64);

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Root wrapper pointers before creating a non-cached index key.

For indices above 255, js_number_to_string can allocate. ch and obj are bare GC pointers across that call. A copying collection can make Line 247 encode a retired character pointer and make Line 248 write through a retired wrapper pointer.

Root and reload the wrapper, source string, and character value around the key creation. Also reload the wrapper handle in js_boxed_string_new after install_string_wrapper_indices before later uses.

Based on learnings: Rust stack locals are neither GC roots nor reliable pins across an allocating operation.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/builtins/formatting/boxed_primitives.rs` at line
246, Update the boxed-string index creation flow around js_number_to_string so
the wrapper, source string, and character value are rooted and reloaded across
the potentially allocating call, then use the reloaded pointers for subsequent
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if n.len() > 72 {
n.truncate(72);
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Truncate symbol names at a UTF-8 boundary.

String::truncate(72) uses a byte offset and can panic when byte 72 is inside a multi-byte UTF-8 character. A native symbol name returned by to_string_lossy() can trigger this path. Truncate at the largest character boundary at or below byte 72.

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             let mut n = name.into_owned();
             if n.len() > 72 {
-                n.truncate(72);
+                let end = n
+                    .char_indices()
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/// `describe_ip` for a chain, innermost first, skipping frames inside `skip`
/// (a set of symbol-name substrings the caller considers plumbing). Returns
/// up to `max` descriptions joined by ` < `.

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Correct the describe_chain documentation.

The comment refers to a skip set, but describe_chain has no skip parameter and does not filter frames. Remove that claim or implement the missing filter before callers rely on it.

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survival: crate::gc::gc_diag_enabled()
.then(|| Box::new(super::survival_diag::SurvivalDiag::new())),

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Veto untraced promotion when gc_diag_enabled() is active. SurvivalDiag is created when diagnostics are enabled, but untraced_promotion_instrument_veto() does not check this state. The untraced branch skips root and remembered-set tracing, so no SurvivalDiag::record call occurs and SurvivalDiag::report returns with no rows. Add gc_diag_enabled() to the veto.

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let probe = super::diag_sites::ChargeProbe::begin();
let _ =
gc_mutator_assist_step_work_units_inner_with_progress(units, GcProgressKind::MutatorAssist);
probe.end(units, super::diag_sites::ChargeKind::Assist);

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Record the completing assist before the budgeted-cycle report.

When the assist completes a cycle, gc_mutator_assist_step_work_units_inner_with_progress calls gc_finish_budgeted_cycle before it returns. That path calls budgeted_completed, which drains CHARGES for [gc-charge] budgeted-done. Line 2579 adds the completing assist only after that drain. The per-cycle report therefore omits its final assist and can attribute it to a later report. End the probe after cycle.state.step but before the completion path reports charges.

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// per-character wrapper. It is the sibling of `charCodeAt`
// one line up and reads the same receiver the same way.
"codePointAt" => {
return Some(crate::string::js_string_code_point_at(s_ptr, arg_i32(0)));

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Refresh the receiver after coercing the index.

arg_i32(0) can invoke user code through valueOf, and that code can move the receiver under GC. This arm then passes the pre-coercion raw s_ptr to js_string_code_point_at. Use the rooted receiver_string() after coercion, as the slice arm does below.

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 "codePointAt" => {
-    return Some(crate::string::js_string_code_point_at(s_ptr, arg_i32(0)));
+    let index = arg_i32(0);
+    return Some(crate::string::js_string_code_point_at(receiver_string(), index));
 }
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}
let key =
crate::string::js_string_from_bytes(b"constructor".as_ptr(), b"constructor".len() as u32);
crate::string::canonical_key(b"constructor");

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Root or reload raw GC pointers after canonical_key can allocate.

A first per-thread canonical-key lookup can collect. Each site derives a raw GC pointer before that lookup and uses it afterward. A copying collection can make that pointer reference retired from-space.

  • crates/perry-runtime/src/object/prototype_helpers.rs#L8-L8: root obj before constructing the key, then pass reloaded object and key pointers to js_object_get_field_by_name_f64.
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/value/to_string.rs#L873-L873: construct and root the key first, then reload value_handle and derive closure_ptr before function_method_value.

Based on learnings: raw Rust pointers are not GC roots or reliable pins across allocating operations.

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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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Rebased onto current main (42 commits landed since the tables above were taken, eleven of them touching codegen/HIR, plus two campaign changes). The measured table in the description is therefore against cc_base built from 12efed1, a baseline that no longer exists — I am re-measuring against the fresh reference and will replace the table. The mechanism counters ([gc-primitive-dispatch] 99,008 → 0, arena bytes 305 → 157 MB per 400-character reply, GC_TYPE_OBJECT_META 19 → 3 MB) are properties of these changes, not of the baseline, and do not move with it.

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Re-measured on current main. Candidate cc_gc4 = rebased stack #9794 + #9795 + #9800 (full compile, object cache missed because main's HIR moved); reference cc_base_new; node arm same session; every run under measure_lock.sh.

| arm | 400 cpu s | 400 idle12 cpu s | 3300 cpu s | 3300 idle12 cpu s | typing cpu r2 | echo p90 ms | turn r2 cpu s | FP settled 400 MB | FP end-turn 400 MB | peak RSS 400 MB | FP settled 3300 MB | peak RSS 3300 MB | startup s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gc4 | 6.74/5.65/5.77 | 2.34 | 19.13 | 6.93 | 0.8 | 48 | 1.26 | 342/375/358 | 396 | 527.53125 | 454 | 583.3125 | 3.47 |
| node | 0.32/0.3/0.24 | 0.01 | 0.55 | 0.01 | 0.11 | 2 | 0.07 | 169/331/175 | 169 | 364.875 | 220 | 412.546875 | 1.92 |
| basenew | 7.67/7.0/6.75 | 6.51 | 79.3 | 11.7 | 1.18 | 24 | 0.87 | 612/570/554 | 501 | 637.140625 | 844 | 1297.625 | 1.78 |

Primitive-method fallback counter on the candidate:

(no [gc-primitive-dispatch] line emitted: nothing reached the primitive-method fallback)

Allocation-site categories, streamed turn:


=== d_gc4/turn.diag  sampled total 195 MB (top-30 sites cover 93 MB = 48%)
  by-type MB: {'array': 71, 'string': 64, 'object': 36, 'closure': 8, 'object_meta': 3, 'set': 0, 'promise': 0, 'error': 0, 'map': 0}
      31.9 MB  34.4% of covered  proxy/ordinary property set (keys+slots arrays)
      22.3 MB  24.1% of covered  other
      14.4 MB  15.5% of covered  iterator result objects
       8.8 MB   9.5% of covered  string concat
       4.4 MB   4.7% of covered  regex construction
       3.7 MB   4.0% of covered  for-in key arrays
       3.7 MB   4.0% of covered  property set: keys array clone/grow
       3.4 MB   3.7% of covered  to_string / native method call

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Corrected table: measured against cc_base_new, not the retired cc_base

The table in the PR body compares against cc_base (main 12efed1222). That
baseline is void — two campaign changes landed on main since (ddbe0b126 regex
site cache, 88e74f90e ASCII property keys), so a delta against it
double-counts them. Re-measured against cc_base_new (main 1d63fa91f,
full compile, the commit this stack was based on), node arm in the same session,
all runs interleaved under one measure_lock hold, every run load-stamped
(11–22 for every row).

The candidate is /tmp/cc_gc5, a runtime-only relink of this stack, run with
PERRY_BUILTIN_NO_TOOBJECT=0 so the #9800 term stacked above it is switched off
and the arm is exactly #9794 + this PR. Both binaries link the same emitted-JS
object (identical perry-codegen + perry-hir tree hash, 22c732a67c78a2ac),
so this is a runtime-only A/B.

400-character streamed reply, three repeats per arm

arm turn CPU (s) CPU in next 12 s peak RSS (MB) settled footprint (MB)
cc_base_new 7.20 / 6.50 / 6.73 4.81 / 4.92 / 4.46 633 / 651 / 571 556 / 473 / 390
this stack 5.36 / 5.64 / 5.28 1.91 / 3.69 / 3.62 540 / 536 / 541 358 / 376 / 377
node 0.29 / 0.28 0.01 370 / 373 328 / 330

3300-character streamed reply, two repeats per arm

arm turn CPU (s) CPU in next 12 s peak RSS (MB) settled footprint (MB)
cc_base_new 54.06 / 39.10 11.59 / 11.75 1000 / 1294 847 / 833
this stack 17.38 / 17.60 11.78 / 11.94 575 / 564 430 / 421
node 0.43 0.01 402 214

Typing + short turn (timed_turn, n=1 per arm)

arm startup (s) typing CPU r2 turn CPU r2 echo p90 r2 (ms) r3 turn CPU idle 10 s CPU RSS end (MB)
cc_base_new 2.21 1.53 0.94 33 56.49 5.91 1054
this stack 2.17 0.80 1.00 23 20.24 1.02 671
node 1.30 0.09 0.05 2 0.18 0.01 344

Against the current reference, for the #9794 + #9795 stack together (this
PR is the second of the two and its own contribution — the codePointAt
dispatch arm — is what removed the 99,008 wrappers per reply named below): 400-character reply CPU −20 %, post-turn CPU
−45 %, 3300-character reply CPU −65 % (median 54.1 → 17.4 s), typing CPU
−48 %, echo p90 −30 %, the 3.3 KB turn in timed_turn −64 %, idle CPU −83 %.
Memory moves the same way, which is the directive's condition: settled footprint
after a 400-character turn 473 → 376 MB (median, −21 %) and after a 3300-character
turn 833 → 430 MB (−48 %), peak RSS 633 → 540 MB (−15 %) and 1000 → 575 MB
(−43 %), end-of-session RSS 1054 → 671 MB. Neither metric regresses. Node
remains the bar and this does not reach it.

Mechanism, same session

PERRY_GC_DIAG=1 on a 400-character reply with this stack: the
[gc-primitive-dispatch] string_wrappers line and the primitive-method
fallback histogram are never emitted — no String wrapper is materialised
and nothing reaches the fallback during a reply, against names=1 calls=99008 receiver_chars=99008 before the stack. Copying minors per reply 81 → 78.

Rebased onto current main

This branch went CONFLICTING against main at c7361c87c (22 commits past
1d63fa91f) and is now rebased onto it, on top of the rebased #9794 and with
#9800 above it.
Two things went with the rebase:

  • the one conflict was in gc/mod.rs, where main's alloc_census_init() and
    this branch's alloc_sample::init_from_env() both landed in gc_init
    resolved by keeping both;
  • the self-test-checkers red was the thread-local policy ratchet: the three
    files this branch adds (arena/alloc_sample.rs, gc/diag_sites.rs,
    gc/survival_diag.rs) declared raw thread_local! blocks. They now use
    crate::perry_thread_local!, the same conversion main made for hot_diag and
    alloc_census in 5112112ca. scripts/check_thread_locals.py passes.

Re-deriving this change's own invariants on the new base, rather than trusting
a clean merge: main touched arena/, gc/, object/shapes*, box.rs,
intl/segmenter.rs and array/indexing.rs, and none of string/,
object/descriptor_state.rs, object/field_get_set/ or
builtins/formatting/
— so the two properties this PR establishes (every
reader of a boxed string's index attributes goes through the §10.4.3
synthesiser, and one-ASCII-character strings have a single mint point) have no
new writer or reader to account for.

The numbers above were taken with both binaries built from 1d63fa91f, which is
the honest comparison for this diff. A re-measure against a reference rebuilt
from current main is owed once one is published, since eleven of those 22
commits touch codegen.

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1228-1229: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Count only blocks that are released.

If local_idx == original_current, the later branch retains the block but these counters already report it as released. The [gc-old-block-reclaim] line can therefore report a released block and released_bytes although no block was pooled or deallocated. Move these increments after the current-block branch.

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-            diag.released += 1;
-            diag.released_bytes += block.size;
-
             let base = block.data as usize;
             let size = block.size;
             let used = block.offset;
@@
             if local_idx == original_current {
                 stats.reusable_bytes = stats.reusable_bytes.saturating_add(used);
                 return;
             }
 
+            diag.released += 1;
+            diag.released_bytes += size;
             unregister_block_generation(base, size);
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- Around line 1228-1229: Move the diag.released and diag.released_bytes
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Changelog fragment renamed to carry this PR's number, after checking the gate's
source rather than the symptom. scripts/check_changeset_fragment.sh is
stricter and looser than "the name must be <PR>-<slug>" in two ways worth
recording, because they change what a red lint column means:

  • The hard failure is no added fragment matching ^changelog\.d/[0-9]+-[^/]+\.md$
    at all. A fragment without a numeric prefix — which is what these branches had
    — does not match, so the job reports "adds no changelog.d fragment" even
    though a fragment is right there in the diff. That is the failure mode to look
    for, and it reads nothing like a naming problem.
  • A fragment with the wrong number is only a ::warning:: and passes, by
    design: the script's own comment explains that a strict rule would block
    backfills and stacked PRs, which is exactly the shape this stack has.
  • 0000- is a separate hard failure, and an edited (rather than added)
    fragment does not satisfy the gate at all.

Verified the rename against the gate directly (changeset_verdict on this PR's
file list returns 0 with no warning) and ran --self-test, which passes.

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Ralph Küpper added 3 commits September 5, 2026 18:29
…l origins, allocation-site sampling

Three instruments for the cc-perf campaign, all inert unless asked for.

`PERRY_GC_DIAG=1` gains the lines that say WHY the collector ran:
`[gc-trigger]` (every predicate input at each decision site), `[gc-full]`
(the arm behind each synchronous full mark-sweep, counted per site),
`[gc-budgeted] start/done` (steps, per-phase step time, root-scan share),
`[gc-charge]` (mutator-assist / synchronous-full time per calling site,
resolved to JS display names) and `[gc-survival]` (per copying minor, the
root that first reached each surviving byte — shadow stack, native stack
map, named scanner, remembered set by old-parent type — with transitive
reach charged to the originating root through a parallel worklist origin
vector).

`PERRY_ALLOC_SITE_SAMPLE=<bytes>` samples the arena allocation sites byte-
proportionally across the runtime allocators AND the codegen inline bump
path (the mirrored inline block limit is capped at one interval while
sampling, so the fast path returns to the runtime once per interval).

The survival test is sabotage-checked: disabling the drain propagation
charges the 40 elements to `worklist_drain` and the test fails on that row.
The knob's OFF state and magnitude parse are pinned next to the other GC
knobs. `gc_diag_enabled()` gets the per-thread test override the census
already has, so the diag paths are testable without touching the process
environment.

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…iptors on the primitive-string path

Three allocations a JS program can never observe, found with the
allocation-site sampler (`PERRY_ALLOC_SITE_SAMPLE`) on the compiled
claude-code TUI, where they are the largest attributed source of garbage in
both the streaming turn and the render pass that follows it.

1. A one-ASCII-character string is now the canonical per-thread header.
   `js_string_char_at` minted a fresh 32-byte heap string per character read,
   and everything that walks a string a character at a time goes through it:
   `s[i]`, `charAt`, string spread, the String-wrapper index installer. There
   are 128 possible contents. The table has the same residency contract as the
   small-integer string table next to it (longlived arena, `refcount = 0` so it
   is never mutated in place, pinned out of the young generation) and rides
   that table's existing root scanner rather than registering a 96th one.

2. Runtime-internal constant property names resolve through the intern table.
   The `globalThis` builtin lookup, `x.constructor`, `toString` resolution and
   primitive-method dispatch each built a fresh heap string for a literal name
   on every call; `js_get_global_this_builtin_value` alone accounted for 133 MB
   of the 990 MB one 3300-character reply allocates. `string::canonical_key`
   routes them through the content-keyed per-thread table that
   `js_string_materialize_to_heap` already uses, which is also what the
   property read/write fast paths require of a key.

3. A `String` wrapper no longer stores a property descriptor per character.
   ECMA-262 §10.4.3 gives every in-range index of a String exotic object
   `{ writable: false, enumerable: true, configurable: false }` — a fact of the
   class and the boxed length, not per-object state — so `get_property_attrs`
   answers it from the wrapper's payload. Storing it cost, per boxed character,
   a Rust `String`, a `PROPERTY_DESCRIPTORS` entry only a full collection's
   dead-owner prune could reclaim, an owner-index entry, and one program-wide
   `prop_plan_epoch_bump()`. A sloppy method call on a string primitive boxes
   its receiver, so the TUI paid all of it per rendered line. A real stored
   descriptor still wins, so `Object.freeze`/`defineProperty` on a wrapper are
   unchanged.

`PERRY_GC_DIAG=1` also gains `[gc-primitive-dispatch]`: which
`<Builtin>.prototype.<method>` names reach the primitive-method fallback, how
often, and how many wrapper index properties they cost — the counter that says
whether a boxing fix ran.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YPfnmWZmSpSWpmnoXvH8z2
`codePointAt` had a `String.prototype` thunk but no arm in the native
string-method dispatch, so every call fell through to
`call_primitive_builtin_prototype_method`: resolve
`globalThis.String.prototype.codePointAt`, clone that closure to rebind `this`,
and — the thunk not being registered strict — run `ToObject` on the receiver,
minting a `String` wrapper whose own index properties are one per UTF-16 code
unit.

The new `[gc-primitive-dispatch]` counter says how much that cost: on the
compiled claude-code TUI, `codePointAt` is the ONLY method name that reaches
the fallback at all, and it reaches it 99,008 times per 400-character streamed
reply — 99,008 `globalThis` lookups, 99,008 closure clones and 99,008 String
wrappers, because grapheme-aware text measurement calls it once per character.

The arm is the sibling of `charCodeAt` one line above it and reads the receiver
the same way. The test asserts the WRAPPER COUNT rather than the return value:
the fallback computes the same number, so an answer-only test would pass with
the arm deleted. A positive control pins that the counter can move.
@proggeramlug
proggeramlug force-pushed the perf/string-code-point-at-dispatch branch from 1845067 to c718943 Compare September 5, 2026 18:04
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