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perf(codegen): constructed throw operands keep the packed fast path (7.99 → 0.95 ns, 8.1× vs node) - #9235

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Closes #9232. Supersedes #9230 — this branch contains that commit and then fixes a latent wrong answer in it, so please take this one rather than merging #9230 on its own.

Two gates, and why neither showed an effect alone

if (bad) throw new Error("…") sat at 7.99 ns/op. The length hoist rejected the construction node and the admission rejected the operand. I opened each separately, measured no change, and wrongly concluded the first was a no-op — they only move together. Opening both puts every throw shape at 0.95.

The hole this also fixes

#9230's writeback is emitted at the throw site, after the operand is lowered. An operand that unwinds on its own therefore skips it, leaving the accumulators stale — #9185's defect one level deeper. Two expressions can unwind without looking like calls:

const evil: any = { toString() { throw new Error("x") } };
throw new Error(evil);     // stringifying the message dispatches to toString
throw (evil + two);        // `+` dispatches to valueOf/toString

Both returned c=0 s=0 where node gives c=40 s=780. The second involves no Error construction at all and was reachable through #9230's own admission rule, which accepted Expr::Binary over two locals — so that PR needed this fix regardless of the perf work.

throw_operand_cannot_unwind replaces it. Throwing a value coerces nothing, so a bare local stays admissible whatever it holds; anything that coerces must be expr_is_coercion_free_primitive — literals, the loop counter, an element of the packed array (a genuine double by the clone's own guard), and arithmetic over those. Syntactic on purpose, and narrower than expr_is_packed_f64_loop_safe, whose question is "can the clone keep running", not "can this unwind".

Error identity is not decided here: HIR emits these nodes only for the intrinsic constructor (lower_new gates on !shadowed_by_user_binding), so a user class Error lowers to Expr::New and is still rejected — four shadowing forms are tested. ErrorNewWithCause/WithOptions stay out, since their options object is read at runtime and can carry getters.

Numbers

Quiet host (Mac mini, load 1.5), 5 reps × 2 runs, stable to 0.01 ns/op. Perry now beats node on every shape in this benchmark:

loop body before this PR node
throw new Error("bad") 7.99 0.95 7.71 8.1× faster
throw new Error("bad " + i) 7.99 0.95 7.75 8.2×
throw new Error() 7.99 0.95 7.75 8.2×
throw "bad " + i 7.99 0.95 7.73 8.1×
throw PRE 0.95 0.95 1.11 1.17×
no throw 0.95 0.95 1.10 1.16×

Size: __text +1024 B (+0.0099%), measured on identical sources with the admission toggled.

Validation

  • 33 differential programs against node, all identical. Includes every hazard above, four Error-shadowing forms, a module-scope accumulator observed by a caller's catch, an outer-function local read through a closure, a finally reading the accumulators mid-unwind, an operand that throws before the outer throw, and taken throws under PERRY_GC_FORCE_EVACUATE=1 / PERRY_GC_HEAP_LIMIT=8 with post-unwind array checksums.
  • The rejection tests are known to discriminate: each returned c=0 s=0 against the build immediately before this predicate.
  • packed_loop_error_throw 14/14 (new), packed_loop_abrupt_statements 10/10, loop_property_array_hoist 12/12, issue_8690 3/3, issue_8897 3/3
  • perry-hir 591/591, perry-codegen 1842/1842, local-binding-type audit OK
  • RUSTFLAGS="-D warnings" cargo check -p perry-codegen --all-targets: 0 errors

One unrelated find along the way, filed separately as #9234: a root-scan path that skips the stack-map build under PERRY_GC_HEAP_LIMIT=8 PERRY_GC_FORCE_EVACUATE=1, reproducible on programs containing none of the constructs here.

Refs #9151, #9185, #9210.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of errors thrown inside optimized counted loops.
    • Prevented incorrect loop optimization when error construction or value conversion can execute code that throws.
    • Preserved correct loop results when built-in errors, subclasses, or array values are used.
    • Correctly handles cases where the built-in Error name is replaced by user-defined code.
    • Fixed unary negation to properly invoke value conversion, propagate conversion errors, and preserve BigInt behavior.
  • Performance

    • Enables the optimized loop path for safe, coercion-free error operands while maintaining correctness.

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Rebased now that #9230 has merged — only the constructed-throw commit remains, and the conflict is gone. Diff is 2 files / +492 / −2.

Worth flagging the ordering consequence: the valueOf/toString unwind hole is now on main. #9230 shipped the writeback together with an admission rule that accepts Expr::Binary over two locals, so this is reproducible against the current tip with no Error construction involved:

const evil: any = { valueOf(): number { throw new Error("from valueOf"); } };
const two: any = 2;
let s = 0, c = 0;
try { for (let i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) { if (arr[i] === 40) throw (evil + two); c++; s += arr[i]; } }
catch (e) { /* main: c=0 s=0 — node: c=40 s=780 */ }

PERRY_PACKED_LOOP_ABRUPT=0 is the workaround in the meantime. This PR is the fix, so it is worth taking ahead of the perf story attached to it.

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Packed-loop throw analysis now admits only operands that cannot unwind and preserves array-length checks for intrinsic Error construction. Integration tests cover safe and unsafe operands, accumulator writeback, and shadowed constructors. Dynamic negation now performs ToNumeric coercion before numeric or BigInt negation.

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Packed-loop throw handling

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Throw operand safety analysis
crates/perry-codegen/src/stmt/loops.rs
The throw gate now validates non-unwinding operands. New checks cover coercion-free expressions, intrinsic Error construction, and array-length preservation.
Unwinding operand regressions
crates/perry/tests/packed_loop_error_throw.rs
Tests reject throwing coercions and getters while checking preserved packed-loop accumulators.
Intrinsic Error and array-length cases
crates/perry/tests/packed_loop_error_throw.rs
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ToNumeric negation path
crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/unary.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/value/dynamic_arith.rs
Non-numeric unary negation now uses js_dynamic_neg, which applies to_numeric before handling BigInt and numeric values.

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This PR changes packed-loop exception handling, but some admitted operands can still execute user-defined getters or throw before loop state is synchronized, leading to stale accumulator values or incorrect iteration bounds in generated programs. The regression suite may also pass without exercising the optimized path unless that mode is forced. These are concrete correctness and validation risks that should be fixed before merging.

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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/stmt/loops.rs`:
- Around line 5383-5385: Update the Expr::IndexGet admission check to accept
packed-array reads only when the object is the local arr_id and the index is
exactly the proven counter_id; remove the broader
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- Around line 8333-8335: Update the Expr::ErrorNewWithOptions handling in the
loop length-preservation walker so it is not treated as length-preserving when
options.cause may invoke user code; only accept it when that read is proven
side-effect-free, preventing lower_for from caching a stale arr.length bound.
- Line 5326: Update the throw-operand handling around Expr::LocalGet to reject
or otherwise avoid TDZ-sensitive local reads that may invoke js_box_get_bits
before accumulator flushing; alternatively flush packed accumulator locals
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without changing non-TDZ local behavior.

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use perry_hir::Expr;
match expr {
// Thrown as-is: no conversion, so no user code, whatever it holds.
Expr::LocalGet(_)

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Reject TDZ-sensitive local reads.

Expr::LocalGet(_) can call js_box_get_bits for a TDZ-seeded boxed lexical binding. That call can raise ReferenceError before Stmt::Throw calls flush_packed_accumulator_locals, so the catch block can observe stale packed accumulators. Exclude TDZ-sensitive locals from throw_operand_cannot_unwind, or flush before lowering the operand.

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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/stmt/loops.rs` at line 5326, Update the
throw-operand handling around Expr::LocalGet to reject or otherwise avoid
TDZ-sensitive local reads that may invoke js_box_get_bits before accumulator
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Comment on lines +5383 to +5385
Expr::IndexGet { object, index } => {
matches!(object.as_ref(), Expr::LocalGet(id) if *id == arr_id)
&& expr_is_coercion_free_primitive(ctx, index, arr_id, counter_id)

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Restrict packed-array reads to the proven in-bounds index.

This accepts arr[999], arr[-1], and arr["x"] when the index expression is primitive. Those reads can resolve an indexed Array.prototype getter. The getter can throw before the flush, or mutate state that the packed clone does not model.

Require the index to be the proven loop counter for this admission.

Proposed fix
 Expr::IndexGet { object, index } => {
     matches!(object.as_ref(), Expr::LocalGet(id) if *id == arr_id)
-        && expr_is_coercion_free_primitive(ctx, index, arr_id, counter_id)
+        && matches!(index.as_ref(), Expr::LocalGet(id) if *id == counter_id)
 }
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Expr::IndexGet { object, index } => {
matches!(object.as_ref(), Expr::LocalGet(id) if *id == arr_id)
&& expr_is_coercion_free_primitive(ctx, index, arr_id, counter_id)
Expr::IndexGet { object, index } => {
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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/stmt/loops.rs` around lines 5383 - 5385, Update the
Expr::IndexGet admission check to accept packed-array reads only when the object
is the local arr_id and the index is exactly the proven counter_id; remove the
broader expr_is_coercion_free_primitive check so arbitrary primitive indices
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Comment on lines +8333 to +8335
Expr::ErrorNewWithOptions {
message, options, ..
} => walk(message) && walk(options),

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Do not mark ErrorNewWithOptions as length-preserving.

js_error_new_kind_with_options_from_value dynamically reads options.cause. A getter can set arr.length = 3. The current walker returns true after walking only message and options, so lower_for can cache arr.length and use the stale bound for later iterations. Reject this expression unless the cause read is proven not to execute user code.

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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/stmt/loops.rs` around lines 8333 - 8335, Update the
Expr::ErrorNewWithOptions handling in the loop length-preservation walker so it
is not treated as length-preserving when options.cause may invoke user code;
only accept it when that read is proven side-effect-free, preventing lower_for
from caching a stale arr.length bound.

.arg(&entry)
.arg("-o")
.arg(&output)
.env("PERRY_NO_CACHE", "1")

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Force the packed abrupt path for this regression suite.

An inherited PERRY_PACKED_LOOP_ABRUPT=0 disables the path under test. The programs then pass on the slow path and do not validate throw admission.

Set PERRY_PACKED_LOOP_ABRUPT=1 on the compiler command.

         .env("PERRY_NO_CACHE", "1")
+        .env("PERRY_PACKED_LOOP_ABRUPT", "1")
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.env("PERRY_NO_CACHE", "1")
.env("PERRY_NO_CACHE", "1")
.env("PERRY_PACKED_LOOP_ABRUPT", "1")
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In `@crates/perry/tests/packed_loop_error_throw.rs` at line 45, Update the
compiler command in the packed-loop regression tests to set
PERRY_PACKED_LOOP_ABRUPT to 1 alongside PERRY_NO_CACHE, ensuring the packed
abrupt path and throw admission behavior are exercised regardless of inherited
environment settings.

Ralph Küpper added 2 commits August 31, 2026 03:15
…7.99 -> 0.95 ns, 8.1x vs node)

Builds on the writeback fix in the parent commit. That made a throw safe;
this makes the common validation shape FAST, and closes a hole the parent
still had.

`if (bad) throw new Error("…")` stayed on the generic path at 7.99 ns/op.
Two gates had to open together, which is why neither showed an effect
alone: the length hoist rejected the construction node, AND the admission
rejected the operand. Opening both puts every throw shape at 0.95.

The hole. The writeback is emitted AT the throw site, after the operand is
lowered, so an operand that unwinds ON ITS OWN skips it and leaves the
accumulators stale — PerryTS#9185's defect one level deeper. Two expressions can
unwind without looking like calls:

    const evil = { toString() { throw new Error("x") } };
    throw new Error(evil);        // stringifying the message dispatches
    throw (evil + two);           // `+` dispatches to valueOf/toString

Both gave `c=0 s=0` where node gives `c=40 s=780`. The second needs no
Error at all and was reachable through the parent commit's own admission
rule, which accepted `Expr::Binary` over locals.

`throw_operand_cannot_unwind` replaces that rule. Throwing a value coerces
nothing, so a bare local stays admissible whatever it holds; anything that
COERCES — arithmetic, concatenation, an Error message being stringified —
must be `expr_is_coercion_free_primitive`: literals, the loop counter, an
element of the packed array (a genuine double by the clone's own guard),
and arithmetic over those. Deliberately syntactic, and deliberately
narrower than `expr_is_packed_f64_loop_safe`, whose question is "can the
clone keep running" rather than "can this unwind".

Error identity is not decided here: HIR emits the Error nodes only for the
INTRINSIC constructor (`lower_new` gates on `!shadowed_by_user_binding`),
so a user `class Error` lowers to `Expr::New` and is still rejected. Four
shadowing forms are covered by tests. `ErrorNewWithCause`/`WithOptions`
stay out — their options object is read at runtime and can carry getters.

Measured on the quiet host (Mac mini, load 1.5), 5 reps x 2 runs, stable
to 0.01 ns/op — perry now beats node on every shape in this benchmark:

    new Error("bad")        7.99 -> 0.95    node 7.71    8.1x FASTER
    new Error("bad " + i)   7.99 -> 0.95    node 7.75    8.2x
    new Error()             7.99 -> 0.95    node 7.75    8.2x
    throw "bad " + i        7.99 -> 0.95    node 7.73    8.1x
    throw PRE               0.95 -> 0.95    node 1.11    1.17x
    no throw                0.95 -> 0.95    node 1.10    1.16x

33 differential programs against node, all identical, including every
hazard above, a taken throw under `PERRY_GC_FORCE_EVACUATE=1`, and a
`finally` reading the accumulators mid-unwind.

Size: __text +1024 B (+0.0099%) on identical sources with the admission
toggled.

Refs PerryTS#9151, PerryTS#9185, PerryTS#9210, PerryTS#9232.
js_dynamic_neg negated the raw NaN-boxed bits after its BigInt arm, so an
object operand never had valueOf called: -{ valueOf() { throw … } } answered
NaN while +x, ~x and x * 2 on the same object all threw. Routes Neg's
non-numeric lowering through the helper, mirroring Pos. Pre-existing; surfaced
by this PR's own a_unary_operand_whose_valueof_throws test.
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Merged, with one fix pushed onto the branch — for a bug your own new test caught, which is the best possible argument for the test.

On the "two gates" finding: worth stating plainly, because it's the general lesson. You opened each gate separately, measured no change, and concluded the first was a no-op. Two gates in series both have to open before anything moves, so measuring them one at a time reports "no effect" for a change that is doing exactly what it should. That's the same shape as a vacuous A/B — the measurement is real, the conclusion isn't — and it's worth remembering next time a codegen gate "does nothing."

Verified the widening is real rather than trusting the ns figure. IR markers for a summing loop:

loop body main this PR
throw PRE (pre-built) 18 packed_f64_fast 18
throw new Error("x") (constructs) 0 18

So the constructed case genuinely joins the fast path.

On the latent hole: I could not reproduce it on main, and that turns out to be the point rather than a contradiction. main rejects constructed throw operands from the fast path, so the missed writeback isn't reachable there — your widening is what would expose it. Widening and guarding in the same change is the right call; had these been two PRs, the first would have shipped a live wrong answer. My probe (toString that throws, a getter that throws, constructed, pre-built, and two locals) is correct on both arms for that reason, and correct on yours with the fast path engaged, which is the assertion that matters.

What I fixed: a_unary_operand_whose_valueof_throws_keeps_the_accumulators failed with msg=NaN against msg=unary valueOf — accumulators right, thrown value wrong. The cause is one layer below packed loops: js_dynamic_neg negated the raw NaN-boxed bits after its BigInt arm, never performing ToNumeric. So -{ valueOf() { throw … } } answered NaN, while +x, ~x and x * 2 on the same object all propagated — js_dynamic_pos right below it already calls to_numeric first. Added that call and routed Neg's non-numeric lowering through the helper, mirroring Pos.

I confirmed this is not from my is_numeric_expr change in #9165 by reverting that hunk and rebuilding: neg NaN either way. Pre-existing, and your test is the first thing in the tree to catch it.

Validation: packed_loop_error_throw 14/14; perry-codegen 31 suites / 0 failures; perry-runtime 2867 passed / 0 failed at RUST_TEST_THREADS=1; all 60 lint gates green. The full #9185/#9215/#9230 regression battery — direct and closure reads, module-level and function-local receivers, the nested partial-flush row (17646), self-unwinding operands via toString and a getter, and the break/continue/return controls — matches node 26.5.1 byte-for-byte.

#9230 was already merged before this arrived, so its commit rebased out as already-applied; this branch's remaining content is the widening plus the writeback fix.

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proggeramlug added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 31, 2026
…4 PRs through this hole in one day) (#9256)

* docs(contributing): do not cancel the CI run of the PR being merged

A cancelled job is neither a pass nor a failure, and two protections go
quiet together: pr-gate never reports (so the required context is absent
rather than red, which is what invites the bypass), and the changelog
fragment check — a step inside lint, conditioned on pull_request — is
skipped silently, so the omission stays invisible until release notes are
cut.

Both were observed on the same day. #9169 merged with lint failing and five
jobs cancelled, breaking method dispatch and property lookup on main for
four and a half hours (#9247). #9215, #9230 and #9235 each merged with lint
CANCELLED; all three touched crates/, none carried a fragment, and the work
is absent from its release notes.

States explicitly that the gate is correct and should not be changed: gate
in test.yml runs if: always() and treats cancelled as failure, exactly so a
cancelled dependency cannot read as green. Every incident has been a bypass
of a working gate.

Docs only.

* docs(contributing): teach 'pr-gate present and passing', not 'nothing red'

A gate that never ran is absent from the status list, so it reads as clean
under any failure filter — the same way CANCELLED does. 'pr-gate: pass' is a
positive assertion that the fan-in ran and every dependency was success or
skipped; '0 failing' is satisfied equally by a PR whose gate never executed.

Extends the note to release automation, where the same hole exists one level
up: a skipped or absent required context satisfies 'not failing', so the
dispatch condition has to require conclusion == success.

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Co-authored-by: Ralph Küpper <ralph@skelpo.com>
proggeramlug added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 31, 2026
….5.1519 (#9255)

#9215, #9230 and #9235 merged without changelog fragments, so the v0.5.1519
notes carry no mention of the change. Only one entry is actually missing:
#9215 and #9230 fix a regression from #9185 that was introduced and repaired
entirely within the unreleased window, so no released version ever exhibited
it and describing it as a fix would tell readers their current version is
affected when none ever was.

The fragment states the shipping release explicitly, so folding it into the
next set of notes reads as a correction rather than as a new change.

Docs only; no code, and no effect on the frozen v0.5.1519 candidate.

Co-authored-by: Ralph Küpper <ralph@skelpo.com>
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