feat(codegen): admit class-typed parameters into the guarded specialization path - #8165
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughClass-typed parameters now generate class-aware guard descriptors with inherited fields. Valid instances use specialized lowering, while structural objects, unsafe layouts, recursive classes, and aliased mutations use generic behavior. Tests cover descriptor construction, LLVM IR bodies, runtime metadata, and TypeScript scenarios. ChangesClass-Typed Parameter Guards
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR enables class-typed parameters to use validated specialization while preserving generic fallback behavior. Mergeability is otherwise strong, but the release note should identify the full paths of the affected implementation files before or shortly after merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant TypeScriptCaller
participant GuardDescriptor
participant RuntimeGuard
participant SpecializedClone
participant GenericClone
TypeScriptCaller->>GuardDescriptor: pass class-typed parameter
GuardDescriptor->>RuntimeGuard: class ID and field descriptors
RuntimeGuard->>SpecializedClone: matching instance
RuntimeGuard->>GenericClone: structural or invalid instance
SpecializedClone-->>TypeScriptCaller: specialized result
GenericClone-->>TypeScriptCaller: generic result
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…zation path Refs #8099. `param_guard.rs::build_named` refused every class type, so a class-annotated parameter never entered a proof-bearing clone and `param_type_guard.rs`'s `class_chain_reaches` branch had no caller at all — codegen emitted a literal `class_id: 0` for every object node. A class descriptor now carries the class id plus every declared field on the inheritance chain, validated by name. The refusal's stated reason — that compact class instances expose no `keys_array` — is not true: `object_alloc_class_inline_keys_impl` installs a per-class array built once at module init. The stale note on `ObjectHeader::keys_array` that said otherwise is corrected in the same commit, since that comment is where the wrong premise came from. Identity WITHOUT the field types was implemented first, measured and reverted. With an empty field list the clone comes out structurally identical to the `$generic` sibling it routes around — same line count, same call multiset — because a class-annotated receiver already reaches the class-field guard path without any parameter evidence. It bought nothing and cost one guard call per invocation: `tree` 1.089s -> 1.646s, `tree_wide` 1.775s -> 2.304s, best-of-5 on the quiet mini. That is also the answer to the `tree` row #8099 was filed about: its hot recursive walker is refused by #8094's aliasing rule, not by the class refusal, and the only descriptor cheap enough to admit there is the one that buys nothing. Cost stays bounded by the existing rule: a field-bearing descriptor claims heap contents, so a reference-typed parameter carrying one is already refused in any body containing a call. A recursive class therefore cannot be guarded inside the recursive walker that would make validation O(nodes x depth). Refused conservatively: generic classes, a native/dynamic/unresolvable base, a computed-key or private field, and an accessor sharing a declared field's name. Chain walks are cycle-guarded like the others in this crate. Validated - 19-program specialization corpus emits IDENTICAL LLVM IR before and after. - `test_gap_specabi_ordinary_param_guards` byte-exact vs node v26.5.1, with new rows for the good/lying/structural/subclass/accessor/recursive/aliased cases. - Same fixture byte-exact under `PERRY_GC_ZEAL=1 PERRY_GC_PROTECT_FROMSPACE=1` with 40 copying minors and 40 from-space protections, so the instrument ran. - `cargo test -p perry-codegen`: 1401 pass, no new failure against a clean-`main` baseline run (six failures pre-date this branch).
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| `param_type_guard.rs`'s `class_chain_reaches` branch its first caller, which | ||
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| at module init — so the same by-name field validation that serves interfaces | ||
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The entry names param_guard.rs and ObjectHeader::keys_array, but it does not identify the repository paths. Add crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/param_guard.rs and crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs so the release note identifies both implementation sites.
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In `@changelog.d/8165-class-typed-parameter-guards.md` around lines 3 - 17, Update
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crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/param_guard.rs and
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs, while preserving its existing
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It dies in setup, before the checker runs: The Filed as #8170 with the two-step fix. Nothing in this PR touches that workflow, |
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Same symbols that issue names. The only runtime file this PR touches is a doc So both red checks on this PR are pre-existing and separately tracked: #8170 |
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Closes #8099.
param_guard.rs::build_namedrefused every class type, so a class-annotatedparameter never entered a proof-bearing clone — and
param_type_guard.rs'sclass_chain_reachesbranch had no caller at all, because codegen emitted aliteral
class_id: 0for every object node. Per the repo's kill policy, thatbranch either needed a caller or needed deleting.
What changed
A class descriptor now carries the class id and every declared field on the
inheritance chain, validated by name. A class-annotated parameter recovers the
same lowering an interface-annotated one already got, while a structurally
identical object literal fails the identity check and takes the generic
fallback.
The refusal's stated reason was not true
It said compact class instances expose no ordinary
keys_arrayto validateagainst. They do:
object_alloc_class_inline_keys_implinstalls a per-classarray that codegen builds once at module init (
js_build_class_keys_array), soown_data_fieldresolves a class instance's fields exactly as it resolves aliteral's. The claim traces to a stale doc comment on
ObjectHeader::keys_array, which this PR corrects — leaving it in place is howthe next reader repeats the mistake.
Identity alone was implemented, measured, and reverted
The obvious cheap form —
class_idwith an empty field list — is in the historyof this branch, not in the diff, because it was measured:
treetree_widebest-of-5, quiet M1 mini, all outputs byte-exact. Every other corpus row was
flat.
The mechanism, from
--trace llvm:count$spec_bcame out structurallyidentical to the
$genericsibling it routes around — 325 lines, same 11-callmultiset — because a class-annotated receiver already reaches the class-field
guard path without any parameter evidence. So the clone bought nothing and cost
one
js_param_type_guardcall on each of ~21 M invocations. The field VALUEfacts are the whole payload, which is why they are not optional in the shipped
form.
This answers the
treerow #8099 was filed abouttree's hot function iscount(t: Tree), and it is refused by #8094'saliasing rule, not by the class refusal:
Named("Tree")is reference-like andthe body contains a call. Admitting class descriptors does not change that, and
the only descriptor cheap enough to admit there is the identity-only one
measured above. A field-validating descriptor for a recursive class would walk
the reachable object graph on every call — O(nodes x depth) for the 262 143-node
tree — so the aliasing rule is also what keeps the cost bounded here, with no
new policy needed.
Refused conservatively
Generic classes (fields still
T), a native / dynamic / unresolvable base(HIR cannot see its fields), a computed-key field (its
nameis a syntheticplaceholder), a private field, and an accessor sharing a declared field's name
(the licensed read would run user code). Chain walks are cycle-guarded like the
others in this crate.
Validation
Zero corpus impact, proven at the IR level rather than by timing: all 19
programs in the specialization corpus emit identical LLVM IR before and
after, and all 19 stay byte-exact against their recorded expected output.
Per-call guard cost, the risk this change actually carries: a wide class
is validated field-by-field on every call, so a hot function taking one could
pay more than it saves. Measured with a 12-field class scored 3 M times
through a non-hoistable receiver (
pool[x & 3], since a loop-invariantreceiver hoists the call and measures nothing): 0.4142 s -> 0.4121 s,
best-of-5 on the quiet mini, output byte-exact.
--trace llvmconfirms thesubject was live —
score$spec_band one guard site in the new arm, no cloneat all in the base arm. Flat, so no field-count cap is proposed; inventing one
without a measurement showing it is needed is how unexercised policy gets in.
Byte-exact vs node
v26.5.1:test_gap_specabi_ordinary_param_guardsgains rows for good / lying-fields / structural-literal / subclass /
accessor / recursive-class / aliased-through-a-global.
--trace llvmconfirms the positives are live (
describeSized$spec_bemitted, 9 guardsites) and the negatives really are negative (
chainTotal,describeThroughGlobal,mutatePayload,treeTotalget no clone).Moving GC: the same fixture is byte-exact under
PERRY_GC_ZEAL=1 PERRY_GC_PROTECT_FROMSPACE=1, withcopying_minors=40and40
[gc-fromspace-protect]lines — the instrument ran, so the green is notthe "zero copying minors" kind.
Gap suite (
run_gap_tests.sh, all 561test_gap_*): 545 pass, 97.1%.The harness flagged two regressions; both are artifacts, and each was A/B'd
against a compiler built from this branch's exact base rather than argued
away:
test_gap_7238_i64_specialization_exactness(pass -> crash) — exits 0five times out of five standalone with the branch compiler. The run was on
a box at load 30-50 from other builds; the harness classified a timeout as
a crash.
test_gap_webcrypto_async_threadpool(pass -> parity_fail) — Perry'soutput is byte-identical between the base and branch compilers, and
both match node once the
MODULE_TYPELESS_PACKAGE_JSONwarning (a cwdartifact) is stripped. Pre-existing/environmental, not this branch.
The ten
node_fail -> parity_failstatus changes are tests whose snapshotentry records the oracle failing; node runs them here. A compiler change
cannot move that classification either way.
Caveat worth stating: this was one run on a contended host, so rather than
claim a clean sweep I A/B'd exactly the tests the harness named — the
targeted equivalent of a second full run, at a fraction of the wall clock.
cargo test -p perry-codegen: 1401 pass, and the failing set isidentical, name for name, to a clean-
mainbaseline run of the samecommand — 9 failures before, the same 9 after:
loop_safepoint_purity::proven_numeric_counted_loop_emits_no_back_edge_poll,six in
native_proof_buffer_views,shadow_slot_hygiene::canonical_str_local_keeps_shadow_binding_and_tag_dispatched_ops,and
typed_feedback::typed_feedback_guards_direct_class_field_specialization.All 9 are in
crates/perry-codegen/tests/*.rs, which CLAUDE.md notes do notrun per-PR — the "landed green, sat red" shape. Not this branch's to fix, but
worth someone's attention.
Three tests DID break on this branch and were investigated rather than
silenced; two of them (
guarded_pshape_call_site_is_preceded_by_a_shape_id_guard,sloppy_class_field_pointer_store_takes_the_inline_boxed_store) turned out tobe anchoring artifacts of the identity-only prototype and pass untouched in
the shipped form. The third is the one updated below.
cargo fmt --all --check,check_file_size.sh,addr_class_inventory.py,local_binding_type_audit.pyall clean.One test updated, and why
annotated_class_method_value_uses_generic_lookupasserted that a class-typedparameter selects no direct class-method bind ABI anywhere in the module. It
now asserts the #8094 split instead: the
$genericbody keepsjs_object_get_field_ic_missand must not contain the direct bind, whilethe guarded clone must. The #8033 invariant it exists for — an erased
annotation is never a proof — is unchanged and is now checked on the body that
can actually be reached without a validated argument, plus a vacuity guard so
the assertions cannot pass by the clone quietly disappearing.
No version bump, no
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