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Reworks #11179. Captured-and-mutated bindings no longer get one movable GC cell each. They live in scope context objects, V8 Context / SpiderMonkey environment objects: one GC_TYPE_SCOPE arena object per activation of a group, holding one NaN-boxed slot per binding. The defining frame keeps one root per object and a capturing closure one capture slot per object. #11179's direction is kept: the state is in the GC heap, and the box registries, CLOSURE_BOX_CELLS and BOX_CAPTURE_COUNTS stay deleted.

Rebased onto main d83d15ef8 and squashed into one commit. On this head every required job is green except lint, whose only failing step is Public benchmark evidence freshness. That step fails identically on main (it is the grandfathered public-baseline regeneration).

Design

  • Groups are HIR preallocation statements. perry_codegen::scope_env::group_scope_boxes runs in the driver after the async/generator transforms. It writes each group as one PreallocateBoxes/PreallocateTdzBoxes statement placed before the group's earliest home. Codegen allocates one object per statement (js_scope_alloc). ScopeMap::build re-validates in codegen, so HIR that never went through the pass is still correct. Every existing preallocation rule still applies: a later Let stores, TDZ seeding works, and a statement lowered twice allocates twice.
  • Eligibility. A binding is eligible when its first declaration (its home) dominates every reference and every other declaration of it. The check is an interval test over pre-order statement numbers: the home statement or its later siblings. The binding must also appear in at most one preallocation statement in the module. Parameters, catch parameters, for heads and anything that fails the check keep their own GC_TYPE_BOX cell.
  • Grouping rule (over-retention). Two bindings share an object only when all three hold: their homes are in the same statement list, they have the same TDZ seeding, and the same set of closures captures them. Closures are counted at any nesting depth, with every closure that names the binding. Arrows, function expressions and callbacks are each their own class, so a surviving callback never retains a binding that only a dead sibling captured. Two refinements keep the root count low where splitting buys nothing. First, a body's hoisted function declarations count as ONE class: they are created together at scope entry and are the scope's long-lived API. Second, a list that would still split into more than 16 objects gets one object per TDZ kind: that is a bundler's module-scale wrapper, whose closures live as long as the module. On the claude-code bundle, 73,116 candidate bindings in 6,431 bodies form 11,078 objects, where there were 72,532 cells.
  • Nesting. There are no parent chains. A closure captures each scope object it needs directly. Each access is then one dereference, and a closure never retains an outer scope it does not name.
  • Per-iteration bindings. A loop body's group is allocated inside the body, so each iteration gets a fresh object. for…of, while, do and nested loops are covered by gap tests. A var stays one function-scoped binding.
  • Access. A read is an inline load: no call, and so no safepoint. By contrast, js_box_get_bits is a safepoint because its TDZ arm allocates. Only a TDZ-seeded group adds a compare and a cold throwing call. A write is a store plus the ordinary write barrier, with the object as parent. Closure bodies cache one rooted base per captured object and derive slot addresses with add, which is now a transparent derivation for the root-reload pass.
  • Async. An activation's locals and its __gen_state/__gen_done control words share objects per capture class. The control words carry a non-pointer tag in the slot's high half, and their typed loads and stores touch only the low bytes. ReleaseBoxes becomes one js_box_release call. The generation-token semantics are unchanged.
  • Escape/mutation analysis. Two things are implemented. (1) A top-level binding whose every write precedes every capturing closure is captured by value: no cell at all. (2) Groups are keyed by closure class, as above. Two things are deferred. One is keeping a binding in a local when its capturing closures provably do not outlive the call, such as a callback passed to forEach: that needs a closure-to-parent-frame pointer the GC does not model. The other is the async per-iteration binding whose live range crosses an await in the loop body. The transform still hoists it to the activation (async: per-iteration let/const binding collapses for closures created in a loop body (every closure sees the last value) #6345's rule), so it is not fresh per iteration. Fixing it needs the transform to keep a per-iteration object in an activation slot.
  • Mapped arguments. Parameters are not grouped, so a mapped parameter keeps its per-binding cell and the perf(gc): scope context objects for captured-and-mutated bindings #11179 arguments aliasing unchanged. It is covered by test_gap_gc_scope_arguments.
  • Fixed on the way. Array-head write-backs for push/spread growth and numeric bulk-fill loops wrote the relocated head into a boxed binding's frame slot instead of its cell. The validated box reads hid it: they answered undefined. With scope slots it surfaced as a segfault in test_gap_class_forward_capture_6523. Main has since fixed the runtime-key a[i] = v path independently.

Measurements (perrymaster, contended at load 40–60; treat wall as direction only)

Arms: main 4407997de, #11179 f6d0ddadc, and this rework. All three were built with CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_CODEGEN_UNITS=16 and compiled with PERRY_NO_AUTO_OPTIMIZE=1. All outputs match Node 26.5.1. Wall is 7 paired rounds with the order rotating each round, reported as median (min–max). Instructions and cycles are perf stat -r 5. The subject is live in the artifact. In the rework IR for box_wide_frame there are 2 js_scope_alloc, 0 js_box_alloc*, 0 js_box_get_bits, and 22 root allocas. The #11179 IR has 80 cell allocations, 130 js_box_get_bits calls and 100 root allocas.

kernel arm wall s max RSS instructions cycles
box_counters main 7.95 (7.46–8.59) 169.1 MB 18.58G 32.79G
#11179 2.28 (2.15–3.05) 67.2 MB 17.74G 10.22G
rework 1.48 (1.31–1.61) 67.2 MB 7.40G 5.99G
box_wide_frame (40 boxed locals) main 3.10 83.4 MB 20.56G 13.99G
#11179 2.43 49.2 MB 28.21G 10.96G
rework 0.46 55.8 MB 5.05G 2.16G
promise_all_chains main 0.25 70.7 MB 1.681G 1.080G
#11179 0.26 60.6 MB 1.619G 1.047G
rework 0.19 60.3 MB 1.160G 0.778G
async_locals (new; 100 concurrent activations × 8 awaits, closures inside) main 0.93 83.3 MB 3.967G 3.101G
#11179 0.46 55.7 MB 3.673G 1.790G
rework 0.34 60.8 MB 2.063G 1.325G

Paired wall ratios, rework over main / rework over #11179: box_counters 0.18 / 0.62; box_wide_frame 0.15 / 0.19; promise_all_chains 0.79 / 0.84 (noisy, 0.29–2.3); async_locals 0.40 / 0.79.

RSS vs #11179. The rework is well below main everywhere. It sits a few MB above #11179 on the two short kernels, and the single-run RSS varies ±10 MB on this host. On 10× longer runs the steady state is: box_wide_frame 46.1–46.3 MB vs 43.8–44.8 MB, and async_locals 62.0–62.1 MB vs 54.2–54.3 MB. The rework runs fewer, larger nursery cycles. On async_long it ran 40 copying minors and copied 2.2 MB, against #11179's 78 minors and 10.1 MB, so the peak nursery high-water mark is higher. Instructions fall 30–82% and cycles 26–80%. This RSS-vs-compute point is flagged for the owner, see "Owner decision".

claude-code bundle compile (--no-link, PERRY_NO_CACHE=1 PERRY_MODULE_JOBS=2 PERRY_CODEGEN_UNIT_JOBS=1)

The factory closure that #11179 doubled is perry_closure_…__27679 here (it was __27681 there):

main (re-measured here) #11179 (its PR body) rework
largest factory closure …__27679, IR after statepoints 504,471 1,002k 466,603 (−7.5% vs main)
same, after IR optimization 490,852 988,657 (over budget) 452,828
its unit's post-RS4GC total 1,070,436 — 993,352
units demoted to O0 by the fast-emit budget 0 1 (950 fns) 0 (all 104 units)
object .text 225.85 MB 240.3 MB 220.85 MB (−2.2%)
.perry_gcmap 23.25 MB 29.1 MB 22.19 MB (−4.5%)
compile user CPU 4,650 s 6,080 s 3,404 s (−27%)
compile wall 1:24:34 34:05 59:08
compile peak RSS 25.9 GB 24.6 GB 24.8 GB (−4%)

Each arm was compiled once, sequentially, through perry-heavy.sh on a shared host at load 40–60, so treat the wall and CPU columns as direction only. The #11179 column is quoted from its own PR body, which was measured at a different host load. Both compiles on this host wrote their object and then exited 1 at link: the ext-http, ext-net and ext-typescript archives are not built here. That is the same situation #11179 reported. Two earlier rework attempts were OOM-killed at unit 73/104 while other lanes were compiling on the host. The third ran to completion with the box to itself.

claude-code runtime

Blocked: claude-code crashes at startup on main (#11301, being fixed separately).

Tests

  • Gap tests, new and registered in gc_repsel_corpus.txt: test_gap_gc_scope_{closures,loops,async,arguments,retention}. They cover sibling closures, disjoint capture sets, nested scopes, module-factory hoisting, a 16-binding wide frame, long-lived escaping closures, self-recursion, string append, per-iteration for/for…of/while/do/nested/break-continue with 2,000-iteration churn, var in loops, async locals across awaits, per-iteration async-loop bindings, concurrent activations, generators, mapped arguments, rest params, capture by value, and over-retention. All are byte-exact against Node 26.5.1 under each of these configurations:
    • default settings;
    • PERRY_GC_FORCE_EVACUATE=1 PERRY_GC_VERIFY_EVACUATION=1, with native and with shadow roots (3–20 copying minors per test, every one evacuation_ok);
    • PERRY_GC_INSTRUMENTS=1 + PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_SEED=7 PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_RATE=1 PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_ALLOC_KB=0 PERRY_GC_PROTECT_FROMSPACE=1 (54–80,012 copying minors per test).
  • Codegen unit tests (scope_env::tests). They check the grouping rule, per-iteration placement, the dominance exclusion, the map, and capture by value. a_scope_group_costs_one_root_not_one_per_binding asserts that 12 and 2 grouped bindings cost the same number of roots, under either lowering, and that the per-binding control arm grows by ≥10. a_closure_captures_a_group_through_one_slot asserts one capture store for 8 bindings.
  • Sabotage, each run red then restored green:
sabotage result
grouping keyed without the capturing-closure set (one object per list) test_gap_gc_scope_retention prints unrelated binding released: false
scope descriptor traces only slot 0 closures, loops and async under forced evacuation: wrong output, SIGSEGV, rc=1
no grouping pass (per-binding cells) the root-count unit test's control arm is what it compares against
  • CI on the rebased head 47901717e: check, warnings, cargo-test, e2e-scoped, gap-suite 1–6, gc-stress and the gc-stress matrix all pass. lint fails only on the public-baseline freshness step, the same as on main.
  • Suites (perrymaster, on the rebased tree):
    • cargo test --release -p perry-codegen (lib + every tests/ suite): 2276 passed, 0 failed.
    • RUST_TEST_THREADS=1 cargo test --release -p perry-runtime --lib: 4609 passed, 0 failed.
    • gc_root_dominance_corpus.sh, shadow and native: clean. 182/184 sources; the 2 skips need ext archives that are not built here. --self-test OK.
    • Lint: cargo fmt --check, check_file_size.sh, raw_handle_debt.py 897/897, addr_class_inventory.py, gc_runtime_root_holders.py, gc_rekeyed_key_tables.py, gc_store_site_inventory.py, check_test_registration.py.
  • Gap suite, all 979 files, run by hand against Node 26.5.1 (PERRY_NO_AUTO_OPTIMIZE=1). Rework: 903 pass. perf(gc): scope context objects for captured-and-mutated bindings #11179: 898 pass. main: 896 pass. The only rework-vs-perf(gc): scope context objects for captured-and-mutated bindings #11179 difference is the 5 new tests. Against main, three timer/flush tests differ between runs; rerun 3× per arm they are flaky on every arm, including main.

Owner decision: RSS delta accepted

The owner accepted the RSS delta vs #11179. No nursery-pacing change is made in this PR. The rework stays far below main on every kernel: 67 vs 169 MB, 56 vs 83 MB, 60 vs 71 MB and 61 vs 83 MB.

The extra few MB over #11179 is garbage the nursery has not collected yet. It is not retention: test_gap_gc_scope_retention proves unrelated bindings are released. The rework allocates one scope object where #11179 allocated N cells. The nursery therefore fills more slowly, collections run less often, and each one reclaims a larger batch. On the 10× async kernel (async_long), the rework ran 40 copying minors and copied 2.2 MB, against #11179's 78 minors and 10.1 MB. Average survival was 2.4‰ against 7.4‰. The peak nursery high-water mark is higher as a result: steady-state RSS is 62.0 vs 54.2 MB on async_long and 46.1 vs 43.8 MB on wide_long. Instructions fall 30–82% and cycles 26–80%.

Follow-up

https://claude.ai/code/session_01FzjR2BmVA2VjcpSXhkw1gN

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Captured and updated variables can share scope storage while preserving their values across closures, loop iterations, and asynchronous work.
    • Scope-backed captures are preserved when closures are transferred between threads.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved garbage-collection handling for boxed values and closure captures, including values referenced through mapped arguments.
    • Added coverage for collection during coercion and for closures that outlive their original scope.

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The change moves box cells into the GC arena and adds scope-context objects for eligible captured bindings. Compiler analysis, code generation, root handling, closure captures, mapped arguments, and thread transfer are updated for movable cells. Tests and GC audits cover allocation, access, relocation, and reachability. Scope grouping runs after generator transformation.

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Movable cells and async activation lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
GC-backed box and scope runtime
crates/perry-runtime/src/box*, crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/page_meta/mod.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/box/activation.rs
Box cells now use GC-arena allocations with type-aware pointer validation. Scope objects hold traced slots. The ordinary frame-release and closure box-capture tracking modules are removed; async activation tokens remain.
Scope grouping and compiler map
crates/perry-codegen/src/boxed_vars.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/scope_env/*, crates/perry/src/commands/compile/collect_modules/finish.rs, changelog.d/11179-scope-context-objects.md
The compiler identifies eligible captured-and-mutated bindings, groups them by scope and capture properties, rewrites preallocations, and builds a ScopeMap. The compile pipeline invokes grouping after generator transformation.
Compiler roots, allocation, and scoped access
crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/*, crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/pointer_locals.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/*, crates/perry-codegen/src/stmt/*, crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_call/*, crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_array_method.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_string_concat.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/root_reload.rs
Code generation compacts root slots for scope groups, roots boxed locals and incoming parameters, and allocates cells after incoming values are rooted. Scoped reads, writes, updates, and array write-backs use scope slots when available. Return rewriting no longer emits ordinary frame box releases.
GC tracing, mapped arguments, and validation
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/*, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/arguments.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/thread.rs, crates/perry-codegen/tests/*, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/*, test-files/test_gap_gc_*, test-parity/gc_repsel_corpus.txt, scripts/gc_*
GC metadata and rewrite visitors include box and scope objects. Mapped arguments store traced pointers to movable cells, and thread transfer serializes scope captures. Added tests cover cell movement, mapping updates, and scope behavior; GC root audits no longer exempt boxes from mobility checks.

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Change: Refactor

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  participant CompilerPass
  participant Codegen
  participant RuntimeScope
  participant GarbageCollector
  CompilerPass->>Codegen: provide grouped bindings and ScopeMap
  Codegen->>RuntimeScope: allocate scope object
  RuntimeScope->>GarbageCollector: register movable scope allocation
  GarbageCollector-->>Codegen: preserve and rewrite rooted scope slots
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  • PerryTS/perry#8303: It added closure-capture lifetime tracking for async boxed cells. This change removes that tracking and uses movable GC box and scope objects instead.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2c709

A generic splice on a grouped captured binding can corrupt the scope shared by its bindings, while nested closures may incur excessive compilation work. Resolve these risks before merging unless the owner explicitly accepts them.

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Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2c709

In large functions, a closure that uses one captured value can keep unrelated values alive. This may increase memory-exhaustion risk for workloads that compile untrusted code. The review did not establish a direct data-disclosure path or a change to external permissions.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Above the per-list grouping threshold, independently captured bindings share a traced scope object. Keeping a closure for a small binding alive can also retain unrelated large values, increasing memory-pressure risk if compiled code is attacker-controlled.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The potential exposure is memory retained within an execution of compiled code, including objects reachable from unrelated captured bindings. Whether untrusted users can exploit that exposure depends on workload admission and memory limits not established here.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A function with more than 16 distinct capture groups can keep a small closure live after other closures become unreachable; the merged scope can still keep their captured object graphs live. No path for that closure to read the unrelated values was established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Dominance and single-preallocation checks constrain which bindings enter a scope; the 4096-slot limit bounds each scope object’s slot count. Neither control preserves separate lifetimes once distinct capture sets are deliberately merged.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — For mapped arguments, inspected mutation paths re-resolve cell pointers across potential allocation, and targeted GC tests cover relocation, write barriers, aliasing, and eventual reclamation. This counterevidence does not address cross-capture retention in scope objects.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Preserve separate capture lifetimes when a large statement list is not known to be module-lived, or establish memory limits for environments that compile untrusted code; validate the choice with a case that retains only one of many independent closures.
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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/pointer_locals.rs`:
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Comment on lines +1148 to +1152
// A mutable binding's source value may be numeric, but its storage is
// now a movable GC box. Keep a root for every compiler-boxed local.
for id in crate::boxed_vars::collect_boxed_vars(stmts) {
assign_slot(&mut out, &mut next_slot, id);
}

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Reuse the boxed-variable analysis for root-slot collection.

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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/pointer_locals.rs` around lines 1148 -
1152, collect_pointer_typed_locals reruns collect_boxed_vars for each frame,
recursively reanalyzing nested closure bodies; reuse the frame compiler’s
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Comment on lines +74 to +87
/// Live arguments objects trace their mapped cells as ordinary child edges.
/// Boxed slots stay at stable addresses if the index map grows between GC slices.
pub(crate) fn visit_arguments_cell_slots(owner: usize, mut visit: impl FnMut(*mut u64)) {
if arguments_registry_never_used() {
return;
}
ARGUMENTS_OBJECTS.with(|all| {
if let Some(meta) = all.borrow_mut().get_mut(&owner) {
for cell in meta.mapped.values_mut() {
visit((&mut **cell) as *mut usize as *mut u64);
}
}
});
}

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Keep mapped cell storage alive until the dirty-slot scan completes.

RememberedSetRootMarkState retains a DirtyHeaderSlotScan across budgeted steps. That scan stores each mapped cell address in DirtySlotWork::Single and later dereferences it.

arguments_object_before_delete, arguments_object_after_define, and prune_dead_arguments_object_entries can drop the corresponding Box<usize> before the scan resumes. The scan can then read or rewrite freed memory.

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mapped cell allocations alive after arguments_object_before_delete,
arguments_object_after_define, and prune_dead_arguments_object_entries remove
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"js_closure_get_capture_bits", # closure/alloc.rs:463 raw slot read
"js_closure_set_capture_ptr", "js_closure_get_capture_ptr",
"js_box_set_bits", "js_box_set_bits_trusted_no_barrier",
"js_box_capture_cell_ptr", "js_box_set_bits", "js_box_set_bits_trusted_no_barrier",

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Classify js_box_capture_cell_ptr as a heap-value source in both checker modes.

js_box_capture_cell_ptr can return a movable GC-box address, but it is absent from both HEAP_SOURCE_CALLS and ROOT_READ_CALLS.

As a result, the unrooted-alloca check can miss a cached pointer that crosses js_gc_loop_safepoint. The stale-registers check can also ignore the call result because heap_source_kind only recognizes ALLOC_RE calls and ROOT_READ_CALLS.

Suggested fix
 ROOT_READ_CALLS = {
     "js_closure_get_capture_bits",
     "js_closure_get_capture_ptr",
     "js_gc_temp_root_get",
+    "js_box_capture_cell_ptr",
     "js_box_get_bits",
 }

 HEAP_SOURCE_CALLS = frozenset({
     "js_gc_temp_root_get", "js_shadow_slot_get", "js_closure_get_capture_bits",
-    "js_box_get_bits", "js_implicit_this_get", "js_new_target_get",
+    "js_box_get_bits", "js_box_capture_cell_ptr",
+    "js_implicit_this_get", "js_new_target_get",
 })

Add a self-test that stores the result to an alloca, crosses js_gc_loop_safepoint, reloads it, and expects one violation in both applicable modes.

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In `@scripts/gc_root_dominance_check.py` at line 510, Update HEAP_SOURCE_CALLS and
ROOT_READ_CALLS in the checker to include js_box_capture_cell_ptr so both
checker modes recognize its result as a heap-value source. Add a self-test that
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Merge queue: this PR is blocked by failures of its own. Please fix and push, or reply here if you disagree:

  1. Raw-handle debt ratchet: raw-handle debt sites: 899 (baseline 897). The PR adds 2 raw-handle sites. Convert them (with_const_ptr / with_mut_ptr for argument-position reads) or justify a ceiling raise.
  2. Test registration (dark tests): the new GC test file(s) exist on disk but aren't registered in test-parity/gc_repsel_corpus.txt, so scripts/gc_repsel_matrix.sh (gc-stress, gc-moving-witnesses, gc-ptr-shape-off-witness) never runs them.
  3. e2e-scoped also failed; please check its log.

Not yours: the "Rekeyed side-table custody audit" failure at set/index.rs::scan_identity_roots_mut came from main (#11169, fixed by #11178). It will clear on your next push.

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- shadow_slot_hygiene: require the boxed local's cell root to be bound before
  the next collecting call (reverses the #8132 assertion).
- js_arguments_object_map_index: external-slot write barrier for the
  out-of-body mapped slot, issued after the ARGUMENTS_OBJECTS borrow ends;
  regression test with a born-tenured arguments object and a young cell.
- Root mapped-arguments params with the boxed locals and sort boxed-local slot
  assignment so slot numbering is deterministic.
- Register test_gap_gc_box_cells in the GC stress corpus (forced evacuation).
- Remove the empty microtask boundary branch and stale registry names.
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- shadow_slot_hygiene: require the boxed local's cell root to be bound before
  the next collecting call (reverses the #8132 assertion).
- js_arguments_object_map_index: external-slot write barrier for the
  out-of-body mapped slot, issued after the ARGUMENTS_OBJECTS borrow ends;
  regression test with a born-tenured arguments object and a young cell.
- Root mapped-arguments params with the boxed locals and sort boxed-local slot
  assignment so slot numbering is deterministic.
- Register test_gap_gc_box_cells in the GC stress corpus (forced evacuation).
- Remove the empty microtask boundary branch and stale registry names.
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Marked draft by the merge queue at the owner's request until the cost question is resolved: on the cc bundle, .text +6.8%, gcmap +25%, the largest factory closure grows 18x and crosses the fast-emit budget, demoting ~950 functions to O0. That's against the minimize-RSS-without-trading-compute rule, so it needs the owner's ruling or a rework before it's marked ready again.

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Group captured-and-mutated bindings into one movable GC_TYPE_SCOPE object per
scope activation (V8 Context / SpiderMonkey environment objects) instead of one
cell per binding: one frame root and one closure capture slot per group.

Grouping (scope_env::group_scope_boxes, run after the async/generator
transforms): same home statement list, same TDZ seeding, same set of capturing
closures; a body's hoisted function declarations count as one closure class,
and a list that would split into more than 16 objects collapses to one per TDZ
kind. Loop-body groups are allocated inside the body (fresh per iteration).
Codegen re-validates dominance (ScopeMap::build); ineligible bindings keep
per-binding cells.

Slot reads are inline loads (TDZ groups add a cold throwing arm), writes are a
store plus the ordinary barrier with the object as parent. Closure bodies cache
one rooted base per captured object; `add` is a transparent derivation for the
root-reload pass. Async i32/i1 control words share the activation object.
Bindings whose every write precedes every capturing closure are captured by
value. Array-head write-backs now go through a boxed binding's cell.
@proggeramlug proggeramlug changed the title Move mutable capture cells into the GC arena perf(gc): scope context objects for captured-and-mutated bindings Sep 27, 2026
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Move captured-and-mutated state into the GC arena (the #11179 cells: no
box registries, CLOSURE_BOX_CELLS or BOX_CAPTURE_COUNTS) and group it into
scope context objects (V8 Context / SpiderMonkey environment objects): one
movable GC_TYPE_SCOPE object per scope activation, one NaN-boxed slot per
binding, one frame root and one closure capture slot per object.

Grouping (scope_env::group_scope_boxes, run after the async/generator
transforms): same home statement list, same TDZ seeding, same set of
capturing closures; a body's hoisted function declarations count as one
closure class, and a list that would split into more than 16 objects
collapses to one per TDZ kind. Loop-body groups are allocated inside the body
(fresh per iteration). Codegen re-validates dominance (ScopeMap::build);
ineligible bindings keep per-binding GC_TYPE_BOX cells.

Slot reads are inline loads (TDZ groups add a cold throwing arm), writes are a
store plus the ordinary barrier with the object as parent. Closure bodies cache
one rooted base per captured object; `add` is a transparent derivation for the
root-reload pass. Async i32/i1 control words share the activation object.
Bindings whose every write precedes every capturing closure are captured by
value.
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🟠 Major · Make the splice writeback box-aware like the unshift and… · lower_array_method.rs:914-923

crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_array_method.rs:914-923
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make the splice writeback box-aware like the unshift and push writebacks.

The unshift arm now routes boxed receivers through emit_grow_mutator_writeback, and the push arms use write_back_boxed_local. The generic splice arm still stores modified_box directly into ctx.locals[array_id] for every LocalGet receiver. It also does this on every call, not only when the array was reallocated.

Consider a scoped binding. ctx.locals[id] is the group's shared root, and that root holds the scope-object base (emit_scope_object stores it). This store replaces the base with an array pointer. After that, every member of the group reads and writes slots at offsets from the array header. The failure is no longer limited to one binding: all members of the group get wrong values, and writes corrupt the array. Before this PR, the same store already overwrote a per-binding box pointer. Scope grouping spreads the damage to sibling bindings.

This arm runs when HIR does not fold the call to Expr::ArraySplice, for example an any-typed local that holds an array literal.

🐛 Proposed fix
                 if let Expr::LocalGet(array_id) = object {
                     let modified_handle = ctx.block().load(I64, &out_slot);
                     let modified_box = nanbox_pointer_inline(ctx.block(), &modified_handle);
-                    if let Some(slot) = ctx.locals.get(array_id).cloned() {
-                        ctx.block().store(DOUBLE, &modified_box, &slot);
-                    } else if let Some(global_name) = ctx.module_globals.get(array_id).cloned() {
-                        let g_ref = format!("@{}", global_name);
-                        emit_root_nanbox_store_on_block(ctx.block(), &modified_box, &g_ref);
-                    }
+                    emit_grow_mutator_writeback(ctx, *array_id, &modified_box)?;
                 }

Also check that the Expr::ArraySplice lowering has the same box-aware writeback.

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Update the generic splice writeback in the `Expr::LocalGet` branch to use
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global root, so scoped and boxed receivers are handled safely. Also check the
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Add js_box_capture_cell_ptr to the heap-source sets.

js_box_capture_cell_ptr returns a movable GC cell address. ROOT_READ_CALLS and HEAP_SOURCE_CALLS still omit it. The stale-register, statepoint, and unrooted-alloca checks therefore cannot report a cached cell pointer that is held across a collection point.

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Add js_box_capture_cell_ptr to both ROOT_READ_CALLS and HEAP_SOURCE_CALLS in the
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- Around line 3456-3459: In the LocalSet assignment path, lower the RHS before
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load_boxed_local_pointer immediately before the raw store so it cannot be stale
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Review comments at @crates/perry-runtime/src/object/arguments.rs:
- Line 744: Update arguments_object_after_define to obtain the mapped box
pointer from ARGUMENTS_OBJECTS, release the registry borrow, and only then call
js_box_set. If the mapping must be removed, reacquire the mutable borrow
afterward; preserve the existing early return when no mapping exists.

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Review comments at @crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_array_method.rs:
- Around line 914-923: Update the generic splice writeback in the
`Expr::LocalGet` branch to use `emit_grow_mutator_writeback` instead of storing
directly into the local or global root, so scoped and boxed receivers are
handled safely. Also check the `Expr::ArraySplice` lowering and apply the same
box-aware writeback where needed.

---

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Review comments at @scripts/gc_root_dominance_check.py:
- Around line 510-511: Add js_box_capture_cell_ptr to both ROOT_READ_CALLS and
HEAP_SOURCE_CALLS in the GC dominance checks so cached movable cell pointers are
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// A scoped binding's cell is its slot inside the scope object.
if let Some((slot, base)) = crate::scope_env::access::load_base(ctx, id)? {
return Ok(Some(crate::scope_env::access::cell_addr(ctx, slot, &base)));
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Reload the scoped cell after lowering the assignment value.

LocalSet derives an interior scope-cell address before lowering the right-hand side. If RHS lowering invokes a collecting operation, the address can become stale before the raw store. Lower the value first, then call load_boxed_local_pointer. The LocalGet and comparison callers perform immediate raw loads and do not have this gap.

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-            let Some(ptr) = load_boxed_local_pointer(ctx, *id)? else {
-                return Ok(None);
-            };
             let value_i32 = lower_i32_control_store_value(ctx, value)?;
+            let Some(ptr) = load_boxed_local_pointer(ctx, *id)? else {
+                return Ok(None);
+            };
             store_async_i32_control_cell(ctx, &ptr, &value_i32);
...
-            let Some(ptr) = load_boxed_local_pointer(ctx, *id)? else {
-                return Ok(None);
-            };
             let value_i1 = lower_i1_control_store_value(ctx, value)?;
+            let Some(ptr) = load_boxed_local_pointer(ctx, *id)? else {
+                return Ok(None);
+            };
             store_async_i1_control_cell(ctx, &ptr, &value_i1);
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let Some(box_ptr) = meta.mapped.get(&index).copied() else {
let Some(box_ptr) = meta.mapped.get(&index).map(|cell| **cell) else {

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Release the ARGUMENTS_OBJECTS borrow before js_box_set.

arguments_object_after_define calls js_box_set while it holds ARGUMENTS_OBJECTS.borrow_mut(). The setter invokes runtime_write_barrier_slot, and tracing the arguments owner can call visit_arguments_cell_slots, which borrows ARGUMENTS_OBJECTS again. This can cause BorrowMutError.

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-        };
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-        }
-        if has_accessor || writable_false {
-            meta.mapped.remove(&index);
-        }
-    });
+    let box_ptr = ARGUMENTS_OBJECTS.with(|m| {
+        m.borrow()
+            .get(&(obj as usize))
+            .and_then(|meta| meta.mapped.get(&index).map(|cell| **cell))
+    });
+    let Some(box_ptr) = box_ptr else {
+        return;
+    };
+    if let Some(value) = value {
+        crate::r#box::js_box_set(box_ptr as *mut crate::r#box::Box, value);
+    }
+    if has_accessor || writable_false {
+        ARGUMENTS_OBJECTS.with(|m| {
+            if let Some(meta) = m.borrow_mut().get_mut(&(obj as usize)) {
+                meta.mapped.remove(&index);
+            }
+        });
+    }
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Update arguments_object_after_define to obtain the mapped box pointer from
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Move captured-and-mutated state into the GC arena (the #11179 cells: no
box registries, CLOSURE_BOX_CELLS or BOX_CAPTURE_COUNTS) and group it into
scope context objects (V8 Context / SpiderMonkey environment objects): one
movable GC_TYPE_SCOPE object per scope activation, one NaN-boxed slot per
binding, one frame root and one closure capture slot per object.

Grouping (scope_env::group_scope_boxes, run after the async/generator
transforms): same home statement list, same TDZ seeding, same set of
capturing closures; a body's hoisted function declarations count as one
closure class, and a list that would split into more than 16 objects
collapses to one per TDZ kind. Loop-body groups are allocated inside the body
(fresh per iteration). Codegen re-validates dominance (ScopeMap::build);
ineligible bindings keep per-binding GC_TYPE_BOX cells.

Slot reads are inline loads (TDZ groups add a cold throwing arm), writes are a
store plus the ordinary barrier with the object as parent. Closure bodies cache
one rooted base per captured object; `add` is a transparent derivation for the
root-reload pass. Async i32/i1 control words share the activation object.
Bindings whose every write precedes every capturing closure are captured by
value.
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Move captured-and-mutated state into the GC arena (the #11179 cells: no
box registries, CLOSURE_BOX_CELLS or BOX_CAPTURE_COUNTS) and group it into
scope context objects (V8 Context / SpiderMonkey environment objects): one
movable GC_TYPE_SCOPE object per scope activation, one NaN-boxed slot per
binding, one frame root and one closure capture slot per object.

Grouping (scope_env::group_scope_boxes, run after the async/generator
transforms): same home statement list, same TDZ seeding, same set of
capturing closures; a body's hoisted function declarations count as one
closure class, and a list that would split into more than 16 objects
collapses to one per TDZ kind. Loop-body groups are allocated inside the body
(fresh per iteration). Codegen re-validates dominance (ScopeMap::build);
ineligible bindings keep per-binding GC_TYPE_BOX cells.

Slot reads are inline loads (TDZ groups add a cold throwing arm), writes are a
store plus the ordinary barrier with the object as parent. Closure bodies cache
one rooted base per captured object; `add` is a transparent derivation for the
root-reload pass. Async i32/i1 control words share the activation object.
Bindings whose every write precedes every capturing closure are captured by
value.
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…1179)

Move captured-and-mutated state into the GC arena (the #11179 cells: no
box registries, CLOSURE_BOX_CELLS or BOX_CAPTURE_COUNTS) and group it into
scope context objects (V8 Context / SpiderMonkey environment objects): one
movable GC_TYPE_SCOPE object per scope activation, one NaN-boxed slot per
binding, one frame root and one closure capture slot per object.

Grouping (scope_env::group_scope_boxes, run after the async/generator
transforms): same home statement list, same TDZ seeding, same set of
capturing closures; a body's hoisted function declarations count as one
closure class, and a list that would split into more than 16 objects
collapses to one per TDZ kind. Loop-body groups are allocated inside the body
(fresh per iteration). Codegen re-validates dominance (ScopeMap::build);
ineligible bindings keep per-binding GC_TYPE_BOX cells.

Slot reads are inline loads (TDZ groups add a cold throwing arm), writes are a
store plus the ordinary barrier with the object as parent. Closure bodies cache
one rooted base per captured object; `add` is a transparent derivation for the
root-reload pass. Async i32/i1 control words share the activation object.
Bindings whose every write precedes every capturing closure are captured by
value.
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…1179)

Move captured-and-mutated state into the GC arena (the #11179 cells: no
box registries, CLOSURE_BOX_CELLS or BOX_CAPTURE_COUNTS) and group it into
scope context objects (V8 Context / SpiderMonkey environment objects): one
movable GC_TYPE_SCOPE object per scope activation, one NaN-boxed slot per
binding, one frame root and one closure capture slot per object.

Grouping (scope_env::group_scope_boxes, run after the async/generator
transforms): same home statement list, same TDZ seeding, same set of
capturing closures; a body's hoisted function declarations count as one
closure class, and a list that would split into more than 16 objects
collapses to one per TDZ kind. Loop-body groups are allocated inside the body
(fresh per iteration). Codegen re-validates dominance (ScopeMap::build);
ineligible bindings keep per-binding GC_TYPE_BOX cells.

Slot reads are inline loads (TDZ groups add a cold throwing arm), writes are a
store plus the ordinary barrier with the object as parent. Closure bodies cache
one rooted base per captured object; `add` is a transparent derivation for the
root-reload pass. Async i32/i1 control words share the activation object.
Bindings whose every write precedes every capturing closure are captured by
value.
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Move captured-and-mutated state into the GC arena (the #11179 cells: no
box registries, CLOSURE_BOX_CELLS or BOX_CAPTURE_COUNTS) and group it into
scope context objects (V8 Context / SpiderMonkey environment objects): one
movable GC_TYPE_SCOPE object per scope activation, one NaN-boxed slot per
binding, one frame root and one closure capture slot per object.

Grouping (scope_env::group_scope_boxes, run after the async/generator
transforms): same home statement list, same TDZ seeding, same set of
capturing closures; a body's hoisted function declarations count as one
closure class, and a list that would split into more than 16 objects
collapses to one per TDZ kind. Loop-body groups are allocated inside the body
(fresh per iteration). Codegen re-validates dominance (ScopeMap::build);
ineligible bindings keep per-binding GC_TYPE_BOX cells.

Slot reads are inline loads (TDZ groups add a cold throwing arm), writes are a
store plus the ordinary barrier with the object as parent. Closure bodies cache
one rooted base per captured object; `add` is a transparent derivation for the
root-reload pass. Async i32/i1 control words share the activation object.
Bindings whose every write precedes every capturing closure are captured by
value.
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…1179)

Move captured-and-mutated state into the GC arena (the #11179 cells: no
box registries, CLOSURE_BOX_CELLS or BOX_CAPTURE_COUNTS) and group it into
scope context objects (V8 Context / SpiderMonkey environment objects): one
movable GC_TYPE_SCOPE object per scope activation, one NaN-boxed slot per
binding, one frame root and one closure capture slot per object.

Grouping (scope_env::group_scope_boxes, run after the async/generator
transforms): same home statement list, same TDZ seeding, same set of
capturing closures; a body's hoisted function declarations count as one
closure class, and a list that would split into more than 16 objects
collapses to one per TDZ kind. Loop-body groups are allocated inside the body
(fresh per iteration). Codegen re-validates dominance (ScopeMap::build);
ineligible bindings keep per-binding GC_TYPE_BOX cells.

Slot reads are inline loads (TDZ groups add a cold throwing arm), writes are a
store plus the ordinary barrier with the object as parent. Closure bodies cache
one rooted base per captured object; `add` is a transparent derivation for the
root-reload pass. Async i32/i1 control words share the activation object.
Bindings whose every write precedes every capturing closure are captured by
value.
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Move captured-and-mutated state into the GC arena (the #11179 cells: no
box registries, CLOSURE_BOX_CELLS or BOX_CAPTURE_COUNTS) and group it into
scope context objects (V8 Context / SpiderMonkey environment objects): one
movable GC_TYPE_SCOPE object per scope activation, one NaN-boxed slot per
binding, one frame root and one closure capture slot per object.

Grouping (scope_env::group_scope_boxes, run after the async/generator
transforms): same home statement list, same TDZ seeding, same set of
capturing closures; a body's hoisted function declarations count as one
closure class, and a list that would split into more than 16 objects
collapses to one per TDZ kind. Loop-body groups are allocated inside the body
(fresh per iteration). Codegen re-validates dominance (ScopeMap::build);
ineligible bindings keep per-binding GC_TYPE_BOX cells.

Slot reads are inline loads (TDZ groups add a cold throwing arm), writes are a
store plus the ordinary barrier with the object as parent. Closure bodies cache
one rooted base per captured object; `add` is a transparent derivation for the
root-reload pass. Async i32/i1 control words share the activation object.
Bindings whose every write precedes every capturing closure are captured by
value.
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proggeramlug force-pushed the perf/arena-capture-boxes branch from 85f41fe to 80eab7c Compare September 28, 2026 10:39
proggeramlug and others added 2 commits September 28, 2026 15:43
#11179 routes box/scope-cell allocation through arena_alloc ->
arena_cell_alloc, which can reach gc_try_emergency_reclaim, so the
generated gc_effects tables now correctly classify js_box_alloc_bits
as AllocOnly rather than Leaf. The box/scope read+write helpers
(js_box_set_bits, js_i32_box_get, js_box_release,
js_box_scope_release) remain provably Leaf on every target and stay
pinned.
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The scope-context implementation already landed on main in e6b897e . Source audit and three-way comparison confirm that preserving current main's newer rooting, JsFunctionInfo ABI, tests and inventory leaves only this historical changelog fragment. Closing this stale branch as already landed.

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