perf(regex): record a string template's replacement pieces natively (#10411) - #10412
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…erryTS#10411) `str.replace(/re/g, "template")` held roughly a kilobyte of traced heap per output piece until the whole replacement finished. On a 550 KB subject with 100,000 matches that peaked at 545 MB RSS against Node's 122 MB, and it scaled with the number of pieces the template produces rather than with the size of the data: 1,870 MB RSS and 45 s for a 2.2 MB subject. `Pieces` recorded every piece as three `f64` pushed into a JS array — a handle scope and a string addref per push, against an array the collector had to trace and grow. For a string template none of that is needed: every piece is a span of the subject or of the template, both already rooted by the caller and outliving the replacement, and no user code runs between the first match and the last. A callback's pieces still need the list, because the replacement is a string user code produced. `Pieces` gains a native backing used only when a template is present. Records are 12 bytes each, allocated once, charged to the operation's external-byte budget exactly as the span list is, and traced by nobody. `walk` reads them without the per-piece pointer comparisons the list needed to identify each source. The measure-then-copy path, the spec ordering, the span collection and the template parse are unchanged. Measured on perrymaster, subject `"ab12 cd345;".repeat(n)`, 12 passes, release builds from the same base, outputs identical on every row: n=50,000 "[$&]" 545 MB / 5,915 ms -> 74 MB / 846 ms n=50,000 "x" 287 MB / 1,791 ms -> 65 MB / 645 ms n=200,000 "[$&]" 1,870 MB / 45,230 ms -> 108 MB / 3,295 ms callback (control) 161 MB / 1,884 ms -> 164 MB / 1,904 ms Node 26.5.1 on the same rows: 122 MB at n=50,000 and 265 MB / 429 ms at n=200,000 — so the template path now uses less than half of Node's memory, where it used seven times as much.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe direct ChangesNative replacement storage
Lent search flow
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Replace as Direct replace
participant Pieces as Pieces storage
participant Subject as Subject spans
participant Template as Template spans
Replace->>Pieces: Create native storage for string templates
Replace->>Subject: Append original spans
Replace->>Template: Append template spans
Pieces-->>Replace: Walk assembled output
Replace->>Pieces: Keep callback output in list-backed storage
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#[cfg(test)] Cell<usize> that records which backing a replacement used; it holds a count, never a pointer, and is absent from shipped binaries.
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🟠 Major · Bound native replacement-record storage. · perex_replace_storage.rs:184-214
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winBound native replacement-record storage. A builtin
/a/gRegExp with no named groups and a string template such as$&reachesPieces::new_nativeand adds one 12-byte record per match.api::WORKisusize::MAX, andappend_taggedonly limits cumulative output toMAX_STRING_LENGTH, so these records are not bounded by the work or output limits.NativePiecesreports capacity to GC but does not charge the 64 MiBMemoryBudget; 5.6 million one-character matches can therefore require more than 64 MiB for records alone and may cause excessive RSS or allocation failure.Keep the external GC accounting, but charge a bounded metadata allowance through
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`walk` emits every native record before any list entry, so a `Pieces` holding
both loses the interleaving: on a callback path forced native, each gap lands
before each replacement and the output comes out reordered — a doubled space
where two pieces met and a missing one between records. Silently wrong bytes,
no panic and no error.
The shipped code never mixes them (native is chosen only when a template is
present, and that path never calls `whole`), but the invariant lived in prose,
and the prose was wrong: `new_native`'s comment claimed a mixed caller "still
produces correct output, just without the saving". It does not.
`append` and `whole` now refuse a native backing — a debug assertion naming
the cause, and `EngineError::InvalidSpan` in release — so a mixed caller fails
where the mistake is rather than at `finish`. `walk` asserts the same
invariant. The comment says what is actually true.
Found by perry-b0 running the sabotage direction I had reasoned about rather
than executed: forcing `Pieces::new_native` unconditionally fails on the
callback path's OUTPUT, not on the counter I predicted. Both directions are
now run rather than reasoned:
force Pieces::new -> "a string template must record its pieces
natively", left 0 right 1
force Pieces::new_native -> panics at perex_replace_storage.rs's guard,
"a native Pieces cannot take an arbitrary
source; walk would reorder the output"
Added a guard after a sabotage run found a latent hazardperry-b0 ran the sabotage direction I had reasoned about rather than executed, and it failed somewhere I did not predict — which turned out to matter. Forcing The shipped code never mixes them: native is chosen only when a template is present, and that path never calls
Both sabotage directions are now run rather than reasoned:
Revalidated on the new head: 3969 passed, 0 failed, fmt clean, both Worth recording why this nearly shipped: the claim "sabotage-proved in both directions" would have been true while resting on a false model of which assertion fires and why — with a wrong comment in the code to mislead whoever read it next. Same shape as the acceptance gap in #10225 that caused this PR: checked on the axis that held, not on the axis that could break. |
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- Around line 339-342: Restore the pre-search poll by invoking poll()?
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Restore the pre-search poll() before starting the lent search.
If search.advance(quantum) returns Matched or NoMatch on its first call, this path never invokes the injected poll. A Full search can therefore complete without the safepoint and cancellation check, leaving the budgeted cycle unstepped while the mark barrier is armed. Restore poll()?; immediately before let mut search.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/regex/perex_runtime.rs` around lines 339 - 342,
Restore the pre-search poll by invoking poll()? immediately before the let mut
search initialization in the relevant regex search flow, ensuring the first
search.advance(quantum) path performs the safepoint and cancellation check.
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Correction: state the guard's release behaviour, not the debug panicThe sabotage evidence in my previous comment quoted the debug panic. That is the wrong half to quote, because Re-run by perry-b0 with
So the arm that actually protects a shipping build is Before the guard, that same release sabotage produced silently wrong bytes. After it, a loud failure. That is the behaviour change worth claiming, and it is a release-build claim. Worth noting for anyone writing invariants in this repo: |
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Building a replacement's output walks its pieces twice, measuring and then encoding, and each pass polled the GC safepoint once per piece. `try_fold` stops at QUANTUM units *or* at the end of a piece, and a replacement's pieces are usually a handful of units -- an original span, a template span, a capture -- so a subject with 200,000 matches ran the safepoint hundreds of thousands of times per pass for a few units of reading each. That check is not cheap. `gc_runtime_safepoint_poll` evaluates the whole budgeted trigger ladder -- old-gen reclaimable pressure, external side bytes, arena total against the adaptive base, the nursery cap, malloc count -- at about 650 instructions a call. On a string-template replace over 1.1M characters it was 30% of the whole workload, with almost no collection work behind it, and removing the poll entirely (a measurement, not a proposal) takes 39.7% off. Polling on units read keeps exactly what a safepoint owes: at most QUANTUM units of reading between polls. A piece shorter than that no longer buys its own poll; a long one still polls every QUANTUM units as before. Instructions per workload, same commit, release build: replace with a string template 28,429,105,714 -> 20,655,993,504 -27.3% replace with callback, ASCII 51,623,806,147 -> 48,214,194,773 -6.6% replace with callback, Unicode 61,665,559,631 -> 58,383,269,626 -5.3% Peak RSS is the axis this could have hurt, since fewer polls mean fewer chances to collect, and PerryTS#10412 was an RSS fix on this same path. It does not move: 83 -> 84 MB, 154 -> 154 MB, 155 -> 155 MB on those three, and 134 -> 135 MB on a 1.6M-character subject. Answers are identical to Node 26.5.1 on every probe.
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Fixes #10411.
The bug
str.replace(/re/g, "template")held roughly a kilobyte of traced heap per output piece until the whole replacement finished. It scaled with the number of pieces the template produces, not with the size of the data:Piecesrecorded every piece as threef64pushed into a JS array — a handle scope and a string addref per push, against an array the collector had to trace and grow, all retained untilfinishwalked it.The fix
For a string template none of that is needed. Every piece is a span of the subject or of the template; both are already rooted by the caller and outlive the replacement, and no user code runs between the first match and the last, so nothing can observe an incremental build. A callback's pieces still need the list, because the replacement is a string user code produced.
Piecesgains a native backing, used only when a template is present. Records are 12 bytes, allocated once, charged to the operation's external-byte budget exactly as the span list already is, and traced by nobody.walkreads them without the per-piece pointer comparisons the list needed to identify each source. The measure-then-copy path, the spec ordering, the span collection and the template parse are all unchanged.Measurements
perrymaster, subject
"ab12 cd345;".repeat(n), 12 passes, both arms from the same base (e6dcb6274d),max RSSfrom/usr/bin/time -v. Output identical on every row."[$&]""x""[$&]"Against Node on the same rows: at n=200,000 Node uses 265 MB and 429 ms, so the template path now uses less than half of Node's memory where it used seven times as much, and is 7.7× Node's wall where it was 105×.
The callback control is unchanged by design — it still uses the list, and it was already at RSS parity with Node (161 vs 144 MB).
Tests
a_template_replacement_keeps_its_pieces_nativeasserts a string template records its pieces natively and a callback does not, through a#[cfg(test)]counter rather than a timing.Sabotage-proved: building
Pieces::newunconditionally fails the first assertion (0 native constructions against 1); buildingPieces::new_nativeunconditionally fails the second (1 against 0).The existing direct-replace suite — templates against the ordinary loop across
$&,$`,$',$$, numbered and out-of-range groups, empty matches, sticky and unicode flags — passes unchanged, and I cross-checked all three paths (direct template, generic via a named group, callback) at n=50,000 and n=200,000: identical output on both arms.Validation
Local replay on perrymaster:
cargo build --lockedcargo fmt --all --checkcargo check -p perry-runtime --no-default-features --features full,-D warningscargo check -p perry --bins,-D warningscargo test -p perry-runtime --lib -- --test-threads=1scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.py(+--self-test)scripts/check_file_size.shscripts/run_lint_gates.shThe single failure is
Public benchmark evidence freshness, the long-standing CI-only red.gap-suiteshards 3/4/5 fail on every PR right now — three fixtures that regressed before train 177 and are unowned; unrelated to this change.Scope
This does not move the
regex-replace-callbackrows of #10164/#10165 — those use a callback, which keeps the list and is already near Node's memory. The fast path this repairs is the one I added in #10225, whose acceptance evidence covered throughput on short subjects and never measured retention at scale.Summary by CodeRabbit
Performance
String.prototype.replacewith string replacements, especially on large inputs.Bug Fixes
Tests