perf(runtime): store shape descriptors in an id-indexed slab and retire owned growth history - #9724
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 8 included reviews per hour; 4 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe shape descriptor table now uses a chunked slab of packed records, compact facts and family indices, slab-aware garbage collection, and owned-history retirement. Census output, tests, and invariant checks were updated for stable record addresses and rekeyed families. ChangesShape descriptor slab migration
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This change migrates shape storage and retirement behavior to slab-backed records. A sibling-retirement path may not be protected by the intended census safeguard, creating bounded risk of retaining or removing shape history incorrectly; resolve or explicitly accept this before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ObjectShapePublication
participant ShapeSlab
participant ShapeIndices
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ObjectShapePublication->>ShapeSlab: Insert stamped ShapeRecord
ShapeSlab->>ShapeIndices: Publish facts and family IDs
GarbageCollector->>ShapeIndices: Rekey moved keys-array family
GarbageCollector->>ShapeSlab: Remove dead shape records
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474-475: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winThe sibling-retirement prohibition now has a second entry point that it does not match.
This gate is a substring test for
remove_descriptor_and_reverse_indices. The same change addsremove_descriptor_indexed_underincrates/perry-runtime/src/object/shapes.rs, which removes the slab record, theby_factsentry and thefamiliesentry as well. Ashape_keys_grownorshape_dropbody that calls the new helper deletes a sibling descriptor and still passes.Match both retirement funnels.
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for name in ("shape_keys_grown", "shape_drop"): - if "remove_descriptor_and_reverse_indices" in function_body(shapes, name): + if re.search( + r"remove_descriptor_(?:and_reverse_indices|indexed_under)", + function_body(shapes, name), + ): raise CensusError(f"{name} eagerly deletes a sibling descriptor")🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@scripts/shape_descriptor_census.py`:
- Around line 474-475: Update the sibling-retirement check in the
shape_keys_grown and shape_drop scan to also detect calls to
remove_descriptor_indexed_under, alongside
remove_descriptor_and_reverse_indices, so both descriptor-retirement entry
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…re owned growth history Closes PerryTS#9706. The agent-local shape table kept a PtrHashMap<u32, Box<ShapeDescriptor>> beside two Vec<u32>-valued reverse maps (exact facts, keys address). On the compiled claude-code TUI at idle that was ~330 bytes per live descriptor: a 56-byte record in a 64-byte bin, a map entry at 25% load, a 57-byte facts bucket plus a Vec buffer, a keys bucket, and a per-scan probe memo. * ShapeSlab (object/shapes_store.rs): a ShapeId indexes a chunked, paged slab directly — packed 32-byte #[repr(C)] records (keys first, so the record address is the collector's rewritable keys slot, PerryTS#8112), stable addresses, 32-record chunks under a two-level page directory, all-dead chunks and pages released at major GC. The lookup-way cache and its epoch are gone. * IdList: a 16-byte id list that is the value of both remaining reverse indices — by_facts (64-bit fold of the six facts, every hit re-validates the record) and families (keys address). ShapeFacts, ids_by_facts, ids_by_keys, indexed_keys, sync_descriptor_reverse_indices, PROBE_MEMO and shapes_reverse_indices.rs are deleted; the metadata scan probes each keys address once per family. * publish_object_shape_from retires an OWNED keys array's same-address growth history behind the version its single owner carries, after the successor is stamped and armed (PerryTS#9200's order), keeping cache-carried versions. Array-subclass receivers keep the old behaviour: their tail-transition cache learns the predecessor after the publish and reinstalls it on pop. * PERRY_GC_CENSUS: shapes.by_facts / shapes.families replace the old rows; new shapes.ids_minted, shapes.descriptors.carried/.uncarried and shapes.families.multi/.largest rows. * scripts/shape_descriptor_census.py pins the slab and the retirement contract, with sabotage self-tests. Measured on the claude-code TUI (same objects relinked against both runtimes, third census after shrink): descriptors 68,661 -> 43,724, shape tables 22.22 MB -> 8.11 MB, RSS at census 441 -> 419 MB. A 150,000-key dictionary built by appends 11.7 s -> 0.23 s (retain_key_count_versions was O(N) per append); the three existing shape benchmarks are flat to slightly faster. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016TiA2Y98uX79JSsY3eV1DS
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Closes #9706.
What the bytes were
The issue asked two questions before optimising: why 2.1× more descriptors than V8 maps, and what a ~394-byte descriptor is made of. The second has a precise answer from the census rows on
main(shapes.*, claude-code TUI at idle, post-#9612): the descriptor record is 56 bytes; the other ~280 are storage around it —mainBox<ShapeDescriptor>(56 B in a 64 B allocator bin)PtrHashMap<u32, Box<_>>entry, ~25 % load aftershrink_to(2·len)ids_by_facts: FastKeyHashMap<ShapeFacts, Vec<u32>>bucket (32 B key + 24 B Vec) at ~42 % load + a 16 BVecbufferids_by_keys: PtrHashMap<u64, Vec<u32>>bucket +Vecbuffer, per keys arrayPROBE_MEMO(thread-local map sized to every distinct keys address, never in the census)Three hash tables and four allocations saying the same thing.
What this PR does
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crates/perry-runtime/src/object/shapes_store.rs:ShapeSlabreplacesPtrHashMap<u32, Box<ShapeDescriptor>>. A ShapeId isSHAPE_ID_BASE + nfrom a process-global monotonic counter, sonindexes a chunked slab directly: no hash, no per-record allocation, and a record address that never moves for the record's lifetime — the property the collector relies on when it enumerates the record'skeysword as a rewritable slot (feat(gc/shape): root and rewrite the keys edge from the ShapeId descriptor, not ObjectHeader.keys_array #8112) and retains that address across budgeted resumptions. Chunks (32 records, individually boxed, reached through a two-level page directory so the directory follows the live id range rather than the minted one) are allocated lazily so a worker's interleaved ids cost at most one chunk; all-dead chunks and pages are released byshrink_shape_tables(once per major GC, after the prune — the same point the boxes used to be freed). The direct-mapped lookup-way cache in front of the old map is gone: a slab probe is "shift, index, deref" and needs no invalidation epoch.ShapeRecord: the packed 32-byte#[repr(C)]table record (keysfirst, so the record address is the keys slot; six flag bits for present / facts-indexed / old-carrier / old-carrier-seen / cache-carrier / class-kind).ShapeDescriptorstays the by-value copy the rest of the runtime consumes, lifted from the record;indexed_keysandrecord-as-storage are gone from the table.IdList: a 16-byte id list (three inline, spilledVecbeyond) that is the value of both remaining reverse indices:by_facts: PtrHashMap<u64, IdList>keyed by a 64-bit FNV fold of the six identity facts (every hit re-validates the record, so a collision costs a second record read, never a wrong answer), andfamilies: PtrHashMap<u64, IdList>keyed by keys address.ShapeFacts,ids_by_facts,ids_by_keys,indexed_keys,sync_descriptor_reverse_indices,PROBE_MEMOandshapes_reverse_indices.rsare deleted.scan_shape_table_rekey_mutnow probes each keys address once per family (the family index is the memo), with the marking visit when any member is an old/cache carrier — exactly the feat(gc/shape): root and rewrite the keys edge from the ShapeId descriptor, not ObjectHeader.keys_array #8112 rooting duty, and the same two-armed literal the census gate pins.And one behavioural change, which is the answer to the issue's first question:
publish_object_shape_fromkept every same-address predecessor of an OWNED keys array alive until the array died (retain_key_count_versions, feat(object): make ShapeId authoritative for runtime guards #8086): a dictionary built by N appends kept N prefix descriptors. It now retires that history behind the version its single owner carries (retire_owned_shape_siblings), after the successor is stamped and armed (Tombstone deletes lose a live object's keys array under evacuating GC — Object.keys() returns empty, fields read NaN (main, gc-stress red) #9200's order), keeping any version an optimization cache permanently owns (cache_carrier). Sound becauseGC_FLAG_SHAPE_SHAREDis sticky — an unflagged array has had exactly one owner for its whole life — and a stale IC token already misses on the stamp compare. The one owner whose history is reinstalled — an Array-subclass receiver, whose tail-transition cache learns the (predecessor, successor) pair right after the publish and stamps the predecessor back onpop— keeps the old behaviour, gated on the receiver class the learner itself is scoped to (is_array_subclass_class_id).PERRY_GC_CENSUS:shapes.ids_by_facts/shapes.ids_by_keysbecomeshapes.by_facts/shapes.families;shapes.descriptorsreports the slab's real bytes; new rowsshapes.ids_minted(process),shapes.descriptors.carried(live objects)/.uncarried(split bycache_carrier/old_carrier) andshapes.families.multi/.largestsay how the population relates to the live heap.scripts/shape_descriptor_census.pynow pins the slab (chunks individually boxed and never reallocated,keysfirst in the record) and the retirement contract (scoped to the family, keeps cache carriers, ordered after the stamp), each with a sabotage self-test.Measurements
Compiled claude-code TUI (
cli_2.1.112.js, perrymaster,--no-auto-optimize --enable-wasm-runtime), the SAME compiled objects relinked against the two runtimes, driven to idle and censused three times withSIGUSR2(PERRY_GC_CENSUS); the third census is after two full collections, i.e. aftershrink_shape_tables. Bytes use the current estimator (f2ecf4e31), not the ~2× one the issue was filed with (the issue's 32 MB is this baseline's first-census 29.9 MB).main@ 75b886ashapes.descriptorsBox+ map)shapes.ids_by_facts→shapes.by_factsshapes.ids_by_keys→shapes.familiesshapes.indices(untouched)The new liveness rows say where the remaining 43.7 k are: 8,664 descriptors are carried by a live object, 35,060 are not (none cache-carried, none old-carried) — per-object semantic generations on shapes whose shared keys array is still alive, and prefix versions of shared arrays.
shapes.ids_minted(process)= 1,053,380: the TUI mints a million ShapeIds during startup and keeps 44 k, which is why the slab chunks are small (256-record chunks measured 7.15 MB for the same 44 k records; 32-record chunks 3.8 MB).Benchmarks (perrymaster, min of 5, same
target-gaptoolchain per arm):mainbench_dynamic_property_keysdelete / overwritebench_populated_deletebench_shared_shape_delete{a,b,c}literals + 20 hot read passesThe last row is the owned-history retirement: on
main,retain_key_count_versionsrebuilt the whole same-address id list on every append — O(N) per append, O(N²) per object.Validation
RUST_TEST_THREADS=1 cargo test -p perry-runtime: 3113 passed / 0 failed on the rebased head (3089 on the pre-rebase head, dev and--release). New tests:shapes_storeslab/id-list units,facts_key_folds_every_field,owned_key_count_versions_are_retired_behind_the_current_one,in_place_owned_append_leaves_one_descriptor_per_keys_address, and a GC test that a copying minor re-keys both reverse indices (the_reverse_indices_follow_a_moved_keys_array— it failed until the metadata scanner was registered, so it does discriminate). Adapted (not deleted): the two lookup-cache tests now pin the underlying property (a retired id resolves nowhere; a fresh mint moves no record), andkey_count_versions_remain_resolvable_until_the_keys_diebecame the retirement test above because that contract is what this PR reverses.scripts/run_lint_gates.sh: all 64 gates passed (macOS), includingshape_descriptor_census.pywith its updated sabotage self-tests,gc_runtime_root_holders.py, and the file-size cap.PERRY_NO_AUTO_OPTIMIZE=1, same prebuilt compiler per arm): identical verdicts on both arms — 224 PASS, 2 PARITY_FAIL that fail onmaintoo (test_gap_2159_defineproperty_class_prototype,test_gap_prop_plan_cache_invalidation), 7 ext-routed tests skipped.transition_cache_carrier_bits_follow_live_occupancy_across_full_trace_recomputecaught the Array-subclass case (the tail cache learns the predecessor after the publish), which is where theis_array_subclass_class_idgate comes from.Not done here
Object.create(proto)/definePropertyon a keyless or shared-shape object) are still never pruned —is_dead_owner(0)is false and the shared array stays alive. That was true before this PR (at ~330 B each; now 32 B + an id slot) and needs a carried-in-last-full-trace note to fix safely. Reported by the newshapes.descriptors.uncarriedrow; filed as Shape descriptors no live object carries are never pruned (35k of 43.7k on claude-code): retire from a full-trace carrier note #9726.CI note
self-test-checkers(thread-local policy ratchet) is red on this PR's first run; it is red on pristineorigin/mainate3618fcb5btoo, for five files this PR does not touch (fs/deferred.rs,gc/census.rs's pre-existing blocks,gc/idle_compact.rs,gc/idle_reclaim.rs,gc/oldgen_defrag.rs). Not addressed here.e3618fcb5b.https://claude.ai/code/session_016TiA2Y98uX79JSsY3eV1DS
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