perf: reduce startup overhead and specialize proven tiny programs - #10066
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis change adds empty event-loop checkpoint handling, lazy class-parent allocation, an opt-in startup memory profile, a prebuilt core runtime archive, and automatic compilation for strictly proven tiny programs. ChangesEvent-loop checkpoint handling
Startup runtime memory behavior
Prebuilt core runtime
Tiny-program compilation
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Change: Feature Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR should be fixed before merge because one supported configuration can package the restricted runtime as the full runtime, and the documentation check currently fails. Tiny builds also miss caching, while detached stdin reduces the intended startup optimization. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/os_process_streams.rs`:
- Around line 1244-1246: The process_stdin_needs_pump() detection must ignore
explicitly detached stdin by checking STDIN_DETACHED directly, without using
stdin_is_detached() because unref() must remain distinct. Update the predicate
so detached stdin does not trigger callback-phase work, while preserving
event-loop liveness behavior, and add a focused regression covering
STDIN_DETACHED during a blocked read.
In `@crates/perry/src/commands/compile/run_pipeline.rs`:
- Around line 936-938: Update the tiny_program::try_compile early-return path to
call the existing write_manifest_after_success() with the tiny output and
propagate the resulting cache stats before returning. Add a repeated tiny-build
test that verifies the second unchanged invocation reports manifest-match.
In `@docs/src/runtime/tiny-programs.md`:
- Line 6: Update the TypeScript code fence in tiny-programs.md to use the
non-test annotation typescript,no-test instead of plain typescript, preserving
the documented code unchanged.
In `@scripts/build_core_runtime.sh`:
- Line 13: Validate core_target_dir after it is derived and reject the
configuration when it matches the ordinary target directory, including values
supplied through PERRY_CORE_TARGET_DIR and the effective CARGO_TARGET_DIR. Exit
with a clear error before any build or packaging steps, while preserving the
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| || (STDIN_EOF_SEEN.load(Ordering::Acquire) && !STDIN_END_FIRED.load(Ordering::Acquire)) | ||
| || STDIN_BUFFER.lock().map(|b| !b.is_empty()).unwrap_or(true) |
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Ignore explicitly detached stdin in callback-phase work detection.
When STDIN_DETACHED is set, process_stdin_needs_pump() can remain true because STDIN_READER_STARTED remains set during a blocked read. This forces can_skip_callback_phases() through the full path and causes unnecessary callback-phase work while another handle keeps the loop active. Event-loop liveness is separate, so this does not block beforeExit or process exit. Check STDIN_DETACHED directly. Do not use stdin_is_detached(), because it also includes unref(). Add a focused regression for this state.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/os_process_streams.rs` around lines 1244 - 1246, The
process_stdin_needs_pump() detection must ignore explicitly detached stdin by
checking STDIN_DETACHED directly, without using stdin_is_detached() because
unref() must remain distinct. Update the predicate so detached stdin does not
trigger callback-phase work, while preserving event-loop liveness behavior, and
add a focused regression covering STDIN_DETACHED during a blocked read.
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| if let Some(result) = tiny_program::try_compile(&args, &ctx, format, verbose)? { | ||
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Write the build-cache manifest for tiny builds.
BuildCacheProbe::probe() runs before tiny_program::try_compile(). After a cold tiny build, the early return skips write_manifest_after_success(). The next unchanged eligible build reports manifest-missing and repeats the tiny compile and link. Before returning, use the existing manifest writer with the tiny output and propagate the cache stats. Add a repeated-compile test that expects manifest-match on the second invocation.
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In `@crates/perry/src/commands/compile/run_pipeline.rs` around lines 936 - 938,
Update the tiny_program::try_compile early-return path to call the existing
write_manifest_after_success() with the tiny output and propagate the resulting
cache stats before returning. Add a repeated tiny-build test that verifies the
second unchanged invocation reports manifest-match.
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| Perry automatically specializes a narrow class of standalone programs on native | ||
| 64-bit Linux and macOS. No enabling flag is needed: | ||
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Mark the TypeScript fence as non-test code.
The enforced perry-doc-tests -- --lint docs/src check rejects raw typescript fences unless they use ,no-test or a pure include. Change the fence to typescript,no-test.
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In `@docs/src/runtime/tiny-programs.md` at line 6, Update the TypeScript code
fence in tiny-programs.md to use the non-test annotation typescript,no-test
instead of plain typescript, preserving the documented code unchanged.
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| *) echo "unsupported core runtime target: $target" >&2; exit 2 ;; | ||
| esac | ||
| ordinary_target_dir="${CARGO_TARGET_DIR:-target}" | ||
| core_target_dir="${PERRY_CORE_TARGET_DIR:-${ordinary_target_dir}-core}" |
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Reject a core target directory that matches the ordinary target directory.
If PERRY_CORE_TARGET_DIR equals CARGO_TARGET_DIR, line 14 rebuilds libperry_runtime.a with the core feature set in the ordinary output directory. Packaging then ships this restricted archive as both the full and core runtime. This breaks fallback compilation for programs that need features excluded from the core profile.
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ordinary_target_dir="${CARGO_TARGET_DIR:-target}"
core_target_dir="${PERRY_CORE_TARGET_DIR:-${ordinary_target_dir}-core}"
+if [[ "$core_target_dir" == "$ordinary_target_dir" ]]; then
+ echo "PERRY_CORE_TARGET_DIR must differ from CARGO_TARGET_DIR" >&2
+ exit 2
+fi
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is derived and reject the configuration when it matches the ordinary target
directory, including values supplied through PERRY_CORE_TARGET_DIR and the
effective CARGO_TARGET_DIR. Exit with a clear error before any build or
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Audited for a merge train and held back — this PR reddens The regressionTwo Attribution
So it is reproducible, it is this PR, and What it is notBoth tests pass in isolation, so this is order-dependence through a process-global side table (the #1444 class CLAUDE.md describes), not a straightforward logic break. Three things I ruled out rather than assumed:
The first failing assertion sits just after Everything else passed
Two merge conflicts against current Happy to re-run the moment there is a new head. |
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Re-audited against current
Same two tests, same assertions, on a base two weeks of trains newer. Both still pass in isolation, so it remains order-dependence through a process-global side table, and Everything else about the PR is in good shape and rebases cleanly onto current
The release-pipeline wiring for Happy to land this the moment the two |
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Minimal reproduction found: three tests, deterministic. I bisected which earlier test poisons the two
That turns "two tests fail somewhere in a 3,683-test run" into a sub-second loop you can iterate on. The one factual lead, which I am deliberately not extending into a theory: the poisoner calls How the bisect was done, in case you want to extend it — it has two traps I hit:
Also: gc alone is sufficient but not necessary — skipping The rebase onto current |
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Summary
Perry currently initializes the managed runtime for programs as small as a constant
console.log. This change automatically selects a strictly proven tiny-program path and reduces unused initialization for programs that retain the normal runtime.Changes
console.log/console.errorcalls with one proven string. Unknown syntax, imports, allocation, loops, callbacks, lifecycle work, and unsupported build modes retain the normal pipeline. No enabling flag is added.beforeExitafter newly scheduled work. Lazily allocate class-parent storage.PERRY_MEMORY_PROFILE=smallallocator policy, respecting operator overrides before the first allocation. This is separate from automatic tiny selection.Related issue
Follow-up to the startup/RSS investigation after jlucaso1/js-compiled#7.
Test plan
Baseline source:
603b074ace01464bc66fc07cc8d532f26ccf5a0f. Native runtime/stdlib archives are built in separate release invocations and copied immutably; baseline and candidate use separate Cargo output directories. Compiler builds useperry-dev, LLVM 22, and the pinned Rust toolchain. Node oracle: 26.5.1.2c08ccfce: matching full/core archives rebuilt on both hosts; installed JSON envelope and 22 Node oracles pass. All three tiny binaries and all 22 ordinary/automatic workload binaries match the measured27c598181implementation after normalizing build metadata. Review headef9e56e4eonly updates changelog fragments; all files outsidechangelog.dare identical to the compiled source.The script-only lint mirror passes 75 of 76 gates. Its public-benchmark freshness failure also occurs on untouched baseline
603b074ace; baseline and candidate have the identical input fingerprint9507434be47f7bb383c30810bdc5d66d9be65290da529f38b7473860ea98f75e. The compile tier is not counted by that lint result.CI is owned by another worker and has not been polled or awaited. Full workspace/gap-suite CI is not represented by the focused local checks above.
Measurements and findings
Five warmups, A/A calibration, two alternating 100-pair A/B batches, five peak-RSS samples, and scriptc/process-spawn controls. These results are for the measured
27c598181native implementation; raw receipts and the final verification record are in the startup evidence report.All three startup inputs show repeatable wins on both hosts. The tiny Linux binaries are about 14 KB; Mac binaries are 17–34 KB. Scriptc hello is approximately 0.98 ms on the AMD host and 2.25 ms on the Mac in the same comparison. These are same-host results, not comparisons with earlier CI timings.
The optional Linux memory profile reduces ordinary-runtime RSS by 39–44% here, but slows binary trees by 8.2%, JSON by 10.7%, and async by 6.3%. It remains explicit and does not apply to tiny binaries, which already omit the allocator.
Two verification findings shaped the implementation: sharing a Cargo target directory across source worktrees can retain stale native build-script output, so source markers alone are insufficient provenance; and a blocking stdout-only helper can deadlock a reader waiting for stderr, so the final helper drains the two streams independently. The Linux fault injector also needed to avoid glibc's redirected
polldeclaration.Checklist
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PERRY_MEMORY_PROFILE=smallsetting to reduce memory usage for small Linux processes.beforeExithandling so asynchronous work scheduled there can resume the event loop correctly.