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Summary

  • add an internal tagged-ABI $pshape_args clone for eligible local methods whose object parameters are used only for declared-field reads
  • nominate exact argument classes from TypeScript annotations or a unique unannotated JavaScript field signature, but require an exact runtime class + shape guard at every route
  • preserve the ordinary method entry as an explicit fallback and retain shadow-rooted tagged parameter slots so moving GC rewrites are reloaded before each direct field access
  • carry the guarded argument capability through contained Ptr<Shape> method calls and name every selected argument clone in --explain-lowering

Semantic safety

The fast route rejects wrong classes, subclasses, proxies, forwarded/descriptor-bearing objects, and changed shapes. Clone admission stands down for aliases, reassignment, capture, default/rest/arguments, async/generator bodies, imported argument classes, and shape-barrier modules. Own-method replacement and receiver method-identity checks remain ahead of argument specialization.

Coverage includes multiple caller layouts, subclassing, added/deleted/re-added fields, descriptor accessors, proxies, aliases, reassignment, exceptions, imports/re-exports, and method replacement, with Node parity under normal and forced-moving GC.

Validation

  • cargo check -p perry-codegen
  • cargo test -p perry-codegen argument_shape --lib (5 passed)
  • cargo test --profile perry-dev -p perry --test issue_8774_argument_shape_clones -- --test-threads=1 (2 passed)
  • python scripts/local_binding_type_audit.py
  • scripts/check_file_size.sh
  • exact unannotated reproduction: Node and Perry print 20000500000; forced copying GC relocates live objects and prints the same checksum

Performance validation

The generated Registry.add/hash/clear$pshape_args bodies contain fixed-offset loads and no field-get IC or shape_descriptor_by_id calls on the fast arm. The requested quiet-M1 perform-ecs@0.7.8 Destroy protocol was not runnable on this Windows host, so M1 timing/profile/RSS data still needs to be collected on the specified hardware.

No version bump.

Closes #8774

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Performance

    • Improved direct method-call performance when object arguments have a verified class and shape.
    • Added optimized handling for eligible field reads, including certain unannotated JavaScript parameters.
  • Reliability

    • Preserved correct behavior for subclasses, proxies, mutated objects, accessors, ambiguous types, and reassigned or aliased arguments.
    • Added safe fallback handling whenever runtime checks do not match.
  • Testing

    • Expanded coverage across native execution, moving garbage collection, and representative edge cases.

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Walkthrough

Guarded direct calls now propagate exact class and shape facts into eligible ordinary method arguments. The compiler emits tagged-ABI $pshape_args clones with direct field access, exact runtime guards, shadow rooting, and generic fallbacks. Tests cover inference, rejection cases, emitted IR, opt reports, moving GC, and runtime semantics.

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Exact-shape argument clone pipeline

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shape analysis and dispatch routes
crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/*, crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/mod.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/opts.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/argument_shape_clone_tests.rs
The compiler identifies safe declared or uniquely inferred argument classes, rejects ambiguous and unsafe parameters, records argument routes, and preserves containment facts for approved calls.
Ordinary method artifact generation
crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/ordinary_method_artifacts.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/artifacts.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/method.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/*
Ordinary method compilation is centralized. Base methods and guarded clone families now include exact-shape argument clones. FnCtx carries clone plans and parameter-local shape proofs.
Guarded argument dispatch
crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_call/method_override.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_call/property_get/dynamic_dispatch.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/mod.rs
Direct calls validate tagged pointers, classes, and shapes before calling $pshape_args clones. Guard failures continue to receiver-safe or generic methods.
Compiler and runtime validation
crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/argument_shape_clone_tests.rs, crates/perry/tests/issue_8774_argument_shape_clones.rs, test-files/fixtures/issue_8774_argument_shapes/*, test-files/test_issue_8774_argument_shape_clones.ts
Tests verify IR, opt reports, fallback routes, Node parity, moving-GC behavior, guard failures, and a repeated hot-call workload. Supporting symbol-reachability checks and the changelog are updated.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a59e3

The optimized argument path can read fields using stale shape information when an aliased object is mutated during the method, which could produce incorrect results. Merge should wait for the aliasing case to be rejected or safely handled; the other noted items are localized cleanup and test-hardening changes.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant DirectDispatch
  participant ShapeClone
  participant GenericMethod
  Caller->>DirectDispatch: invoke ordinary method with object argument
  DirectDispatch->>DirectDispatch: validate exact class and shape
  DirectDispatch->>ShapeClone: call guarded argument clone
  DirectDispatch->>GenericMethod: call fallback when validation fails
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Possibly related PRs

  • PerryTS/perry#6925: Provides the proven-this clone and dispatch infrastructure extended by this change.

Suggested reviewers: jdalton

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The implementation satisfies the core issue requirements for exact-shape argument clones, guarded fallback routing, shadow rooting, direct field access, safety exclusions, diagnostics, and semantic/co… Run the specified perform-ecs@0.7.8 Destroy benchmark on the quiet M1 protocol. Report median improvement, 9/11 win rate, profile samples, RSS, executable size, and component-ID/view-count parity before merging, or document an approved exce…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 49.25% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 67 functions across 24 files. (2 skipped:… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely summarizes the main change: propagating shape facts into argument clones.
Description check ✅ Passed The description provides a detailed summary, implementation changes, related issue, validation results, semantic safety coverage, and the known performance-validation limitation. It does not use every…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The code, compiler tests, integration tests, fixtures, diagnostics, and changelog entry all support the linked issue's argument-shape clone feature. No unrelated code changes are evident.
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The description provides a detailed summary, implementation changes, related issue, validation results, semantic safety coverage, and the known performance-validation limitation. It does not use every template heading or checklist item, but it contains the required substantive information.

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Explanation

The implementation satisfies the core issue requirements for exact-shape argument clones, guarded fallback routing, shadow rooting, direct field access, safety exclusions, diagnostics, and semantic/compiler coverage. The required M1 benchmark validation remains incomplete because the workload was not runnable on the available Windows host.

Resolution

Run the specified perform-ecs@0.7.8 Destroy benchmark on the quiet M1 protocol. Report median improvement, 9/11 win rate, profile samples, RSS, executable size, and component-ID/view-count parity before merging, or document an approved exception to those acceptance criteria.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

🧹 Nitpick comments (4)
crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/mod.rs (1)

195-200: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Move the inline-hot-small comment back onto the declaration it documents.

The comment on Lines 196-197 explains why a module is pub(crate) for crate::linker. It now sits between mod ordinary_method_artifacts; and #[cfg(test)] mod argument_shape_clone_tests;, so it reads as documentation for either the new module or the test module. Neither is pub(crate).

Relocate the comment above the mod declaration that carries the inline_hot_small_enabled policy.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
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minimal, and validate.

In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/mod.rs` around lines 195 - 200, Move the
inline-hot-small policy comment so it directly precedes the pub(crate) module
declaration exposing inline_hot_small_enabled and
inline_hot_small_hint_threshold, rather than sitting between
ordinary_method_artifacts and the test module declarations; preserve the
existing comment text and module visibility.
crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/method.rs (1)

108-113: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider asserting the trampoline inputs for a pshape_arg_clone.

The $pshape_args body must not emit the public symbol. Today it does not, but only because the sole caller passes typed_public_trampoline: None and force_generic_body: false. The trailing emission block excludes is_pshape_clone, is_index_clone, and guarded_undefined_clone structurally, and it does not exclude pshape_arg_clone. If a future caller passes a trampoline kind or force_generic_body, the clone invocation defines the public symbol a second time and the module fails to build.

Add the two asserts next to the existing mutual-exclusion asserts so the contract is checked in debug builds.

🛡️ Proposed hardening
     debug_assert!(!pshape_arg_clone || pshape_arg_plan.is_some());
     debug_assert!(!pshape_arg_clone || !is_index_clone);
     debug_assert!(!pshape_arg_clone || !ptr_array_cache_clone);
+    debug_assert!(!pshape_arg_clone || typed_public_trampoline.is_none());
+    debug_assert!(!pshape_arg_clone || !force_generic_body);
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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/method.rs` around lines 108 - 113, Add debug
assertions alongside the existing clone mutual-exclusion checks in the
surrounding method-generation logic to require that pshape_arg_clone is not
combined with a typed public trampoline or force_generic_body. Preserve the
current emission behavior while enforcing these trampoline-input invariants for
pshape_arg_clone.
crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/mod.rs (1)

2101-2104: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Extract the shared LocalGet proof lookup.

Both accessors now repeat the same two-step lookup. If the precedence rule changes later, one site can drift from the other. Extract a small private helper and call it from both arms.

♻️ Proposed refactor
+    fn ptr_shape_local_fact(&self, id: u32) -> Option<&crate::collectors::PtrShapeLocal> {
+        self.proven_shape_params
+            .get(&id)
+            .or_else(|| self.native_facts.shape_proven_ptr_local(id))
+    }

Then use perry_hir::Expr::LocalGet(id) => self.ptr_shape_local_fact(*id), in both match arms.

Also applies to: 2118-2121

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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/mod.rs` around lines 2101 - 2104, Extract the
repeated LocalGet proof lookup into a private helper, such as
ptr_shape_local_fact, preserving the existing precedence of proven_shape_params
before native_facts.shape_proven_ptr_local. Replace both LocalGet match-arm
lookup expressions with calls to this helper.
crates/perry/tests/issue_8774_argument_shape_clones.rs (1)

119-125: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove the redundant PERRY_GC_MOVING_LOOP_POLLS set.

Line 120 sets PERRY_GC_MOVING_LOOP_POLLS. Line 124 calls remove_gc_env_overrides, which removes that exact key. Line 125 sets it again. The first set has no effect and makes the intended ordering hard to read.

♻️ Proposed refactor
         .env("PERRY_RS4GC", "0")
-        // Compile-time half of the precise-root moving-loop-poll route.
-        .env("PERRY_GC_MOVING_LOOP_POLLS", "1");
+        ;
     if explain {
         command.arg("--opt-report=json").arg("--explain-lowering");
     }
     remove_gc_env_overrides(&mut command);
+    // Compile-time half of the precise-root moving-loop-poll route. Set after
+    // the override scrub so it survives.
     command.env("PERRY_GC_MOVING_LOOP_POLLS", "1");
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In `@crates/perry/tests/issue_8774_argument_shape_clones.rs` around lines 119 -
125, Remove the redundant PERRY_GC_MOVING_LOOP_POLLS environment assignment from
the command builder before remove_gc_env_overrides; retain the final assignment
after remove_gc_env_overrides so the test still enables the setting for
execution.
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Inline comments:
In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/argument_shape_clone_tests.rs`:
- Around line 197-204: Update the ordering assertion in the clone test to
compare the `@js_shadow_slot_bind`( index against the earliest raw-pointer
derivation by taking the minimum of the getelementptr double and inttoptr i64
indices, rather than using or_else. Preserve the existing failure message and
ensure either derivation appearing before the bind causes the test to fail.

In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/proven_args.rs`:
- Around line 80-82: Update ReadOnlyParamUse and its containment/dispatch checks
so a candidate is rejected when this or another selected parameter may alias an
argument and mutate or escape it before a guard-free field read. Ensure generic
calls propagate the relevant shape-barrier fact instead of relying only on
direct parameter uses, and prevent containment from skipping the aliased
argument. Add a cross-module regression covering a mutating imported callee.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/method.rs`:
- Around line 108-113: Add debug assertions alongside the existing clone
mutual-exclusion checks in the surrounding method-generation logic to require
that pshape_arg_clone is not combined with a typed public trampoline or
force_generic_body. Preserve the current emission behavior while enforcing these
trampoline-input invariants for pshape_arg_clone.

In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/mod.rs`:
- Around line 195-200: Move the inline-hot-small policy comment so it directly
precedes the pub(crate) module declaration exposing inline_hot_small_enabled and
inline_hot_small_hint_threshold, rather than sitting between
ordinary_method_artifacts and the test module declarations; preserve the
existing comment text and module visibility.

In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/mod.rs`:
- Around line 2101-2104: Extract the repeated LocalGet proof lookup into a
private helper, such as ptr_shape_local_fact, preserving the existing precedence
of proven_shape_params before native_facts.shape_proven_ptr_local. Replace both
LocalGet match-arm lookup expressions with calls to this helper.

In `@crates/perry/tests/issue_8774_argument_shape_clones.rs`:
- Around line 119-125: Remove the redundant PERRY_GC_MOVING_LOOP_POLLS
environment assignment from the command builder before remove_gc_env_overrides;
retain the final assignment after remove_gc_env_overrides so the test still
enables the setting for execution.
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proggeramlug added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
…facts (#8796)

Lands #8793, #8792 and #8787.

#8793 lowers static method literals directly; #8792 indexes captured
closure reuse; #8787 propagates shape facts into argument positions.

All three were showing pr-gate red before #8791 landed, because main
itself was failing `cargo-test` on a Web Streams test. Re-gated against
the fixed baseline, all three are clean.

No version bump.

Co-authored-by: Ralph Küpper <ralph@skelpo.com>
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Landed on main via #8796 (squash 726f6e96e), with the rest of this batch.

Worth knowing why it looked red: your pr-gate was failing because main itself was brokencargo-test was red on a Web Streams test (byob_readers_and_byte_length_strategy) until #8791 landed. Nothing in your PR caused it. Re-gated against the fixed baseline, it's clean.

Validated on the merged result: all 30 lint checkers, runtime 2677/0 at RUST_TEST_THREADS=1, codegen 1236/0, hir 335/0, all codegen integration suites clean.

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Review feedback is addressed in follow-up #8799. The original implementation landed through #8796 while this PR was being reviewed, so the correctness fix and all four cleanup nits are submitted separately against current main. No version bump.

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