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18 changes: 18 additions & 0 deletions changelog.d/10186-fast-emit-budget-x86-64.md
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Raise the optimized machine-pipeline budget on x86-64 targets from 100,000 to
600,000 post-optimization instructions. The budget's fallback demotes the whole
codegen unit to LLVM's O0 machine pipeline, not just the over-budget function
(LLVM selects the pipeline per module, and `optnone` on one function frees its
siblings without bounding regalloc time or memory), so on the OpenCode build
61 over-budget functions dragged 140 MiB of ordinary sibling code into O0
emission with them: 42 % of the binary's text. With the corpus's whole giant
population admitted, the three specimen modules lose 25 % / 42 % / 69 % of
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the corpus coverage claim.

The 600,000-instruction ceiling admits 60 of the 61 functions above the former 100,000-instruction ceiling. The documented 982,912-instruction function remains above the new ceiling. Replace “whole giant population admitted” with “most of the giant population admitted.”

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In `@changelog.d/10186-fast-emit-budget-x86-64.md` around lines 7 - 8, Update the
changelog wording from “whole giant population admitted” to “most of the giant
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their `.text`, runtime instructions and RSS are unchanged, and compile cost
stays bounded (+13–28 % wall, ~2.5 GB peak on the worst specimen).

aarch64/arm64 and every other unmeasured target keep the old 100,000 ceiling:
the two observations that set it (a 100k-instruction function past ~10 GiB
RSS; a 277k-instruction function >16 min in register allocation) are arm64
and have not been re-measured. `PERRY_LL_FAST_EMIT_MAX_INSTRS` still overrides
on every target; on x86-64 `=100000` reproduces the previous output byte for
byte. The fallback diagnostic now names every over-budget function, widest
first, and says how many functions in its unit are demoted alongside it.
179 changes: 137 additions & 42 deletions crates/perry-codegen/src/inprocess.rs
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Expand Up @@ -352,9 +352,12 @@ pub struct UnitCodegenStats {
/// Functions stamped `"disable-tail-calls"` because their alloca-walk
/// estimate exceeded [`DEFAULT_TRE_MAX_ALLOCA_WALK`] (#8883).
pub tail_call_elim_skipped: Vec<TreWalkOverBudget>,
/// The widest function which made this unit use LLVM's bounded O0 machine
/// pipeline after completing the requested IR optimization pipeline.
pub fast_emit_fallback: Option<FastEmitFallback>,
/// Every function over the target's ceiling (see
/// [`default_fast_emit_max_instrs`]), widest first —
/// the ones which made this unit use LLVM's bounded O0 machine pipeline
/// after completing the requested IR optimization pipeline. Empty when
/// the unit kept the optimized machine pipeline.
pub fast_emit_fallbacks: Vec<FastEmitFallback>,
}

fn function_instruction_count(function: inkwell::values::FunctionValue<'_>) -> usize {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -400,40 +403,106 @@ fn module_instruction_census(
/// live-interval and register-allocation pipeline for a unit containing an
/// extreme generated function.
///
/// The threshold is bracketed by real arm64/LLVM 22 measurements. Machine-IR
/// expansion depends on CFG shape, so raw IR size is deliberately only a
/// conservative guard: one 161k-instruction function emitted normally in
/// ~19s, while a different 100,152-instruction Claude Code 2.1.259 function
/// grew past ~10 GiB RSS in the optimized machine pipeline. The same function
/// emitted through an O0 target machine in 6s. Another 277k-instruction async
/// state-machine function remained in LiveIntervals / register allocation for
/// more than 16 minutes at ~10 GiB RSS; its already-Os-optimized IR emitted
/// through an O0 target machine in 3.5s at ~550 MiB RSS. 100k is immediately
/// below the smallest observed pathological case.
/// **The demotion is a whole-unit act, so the budget must not be set where
/// ordinary functions pay for it.** A `TargetMachine`'s optimization level is
/// a per-module property: LLVM has no per-function escape from the optimized
/// machine pipeline (`optnone` reaches instruction selection and the optional
/// machine passes, but *not* LiveIntervals or the greedy register allocator —
/// measured below), so every ordinary function sharing the unit with one
/// extreme function is emitted through the O0 machine pipeline too.
///
/// `PERRY_LL_FAST_EMIT_MAX_INSTRS=<n>` raises or lowers the ceiling; `0` /
/// `off` disables the fallback.
const DEFAULT_FAST_EMIT_MAX_INSTRS: usize = 100_000;
/// Measured on `@babel/parser`'s unit 0, LLVM 22 / x86-64 / `-Os` IR pipeline:
/// one 227,108-instruction closure (163,100 of those are `gc.relocate`) and
/// 282 ordinary siblings, each arm emitting the same post-`default<Os>` IR:
///
/// | machine pipeline | unit `.text` | the closure | its 282 siblings | `llc` | peak RSS |
/// |---|---|---|---|---|---|
/// | optimized (`-O2`) | 1,689,851 B | 241,218 B | 1.382 MiB | 10.0 s | 464 MiB |
/// | O0 (this fallback) | 5,862,077 B | 2,253,658 B | 3.441 MiB | 3.9 s | 499 MiB |
/// | `optnone` on the closure only | 2,070,326 B | 621,693 B | 1.382 MiB | 9.5 s | 518 MiB |
/// | the same unit *without* the closure | 1,448,633 B | — | 1.382 MiB | 6.4 s | 208 MiB |
///
/// So the siblings are pure loss: the fallback costs them 2.06 MiB of machine
/// code (168 of 282 functions change) to save ~6 s, and their emitted code is
/// byte-for-byte what a unit without the extreme function produces as soon as
/// the unit keeps the optimized pipeline. The `optnone` row is why this is a
/// budget and not a per-function demotion: it frees the siblings but bounds
/// neither time (9.5 s of 10.0 s) nor memory (518 MiB — *above* the -O2 arm),
/// because the greedy allocator still runs on the demoted function.
///
/// On x86-64 the ceiling is therefore set above the whole measured
/// population of extreme generated functions rather than immediately below
/// the smallest pathological one. On the OpenCode corpus 60 of the 61
/// functions past the old 100k ceiling are under 600k (median 153,455;
/// largest 982,912), and the
/// largest one measured end-to-end — the 522,756-instruction `mime`
/// `types/other.ts` constructor — emits through the optimized machine pipeline
/// in 704 s at 2.26 GB peak RSS, against 393 s at 2.34 GB demoted, for a
/// module `.text` of 13.72 MB against 36.97 MB.
///
/// **Every measurement above is x86-64, so only x86-64 gets the raised
/// ceiling.** Machine-IR expansion depends on CFG shape *and* on the target's
/// instruction selection and register allocation, and the two observations
/// that set the 100k ceiling in the first place are both arm64/LLVM 22: a
/// 100,152-instruction Claude Code 2.1.259 function grew past ~10 GiB RSS in
/// the optimized machine pipeline (6 s through an O0 target machine), and a
/// 277k-instruction async state-machine function sat in LiveIntervals /
/// register allocation for more than 16 minutes at ~10 GiB (3.5 s at ~550 MiB
/// demoted). Both postdate #8679's shadow-frame retry, so they are current
/// observations, not stale ones — and both sit *inside* the 600k band. Every
/// CI runner and developer build here is macOS arm64, so raising the ceiling
/// there on x86-64 evidence would trade a measured size win for an unmeasured
/// 10 GiB compile. aarch64/arm64 — and every other target nobody has measured
/// — therefore keep 100k until someone measures them the way `x86_64` was
/// measured above, at which point `default_fast_emit_max_instrs` grows a
/// match arm and this comment grows a row.
///
/// `PERRY_LL_FAST_EMIT_MAX_INSTRS=<n>` raises or lowers the ceiling on every
/// target; `0` / `off` disables the fallback. On x86-64,
/// `PERRY_LL_FAST_EMIT_MAX_INSTRS=100000` reproduces the old behaviour
/// byte-for-byte.
const DEFAULT_FAST_EMIT_MAX_INSTRS_X86_64: usize = 600_000;

/// The ceiling for every target whose optimized machine pipeline has not been
/// measured against a corpus of extreme generated functions — including
/// aarch64/arm64, where the two pathological observations quoted in
/// [`DEFAULT_FAST_EMIT_MAX_INSTRS_X86_64`] were made.
const DEFAULT_FAST_EMIT_MAX_INSTRS_UNMEASURED: usize = 100_000;

/// The ceiling for the target this unit is being emitted *for* — not the host.
/// A cross-compile from an x86-64 box to arm64 runs arm64's instruction
/// selection and register allocator, so it is arm64's ceiling that applies.
fn default_fast_emit_max_instrs(effective_target: &str) -> usize {
let arch = effective_target
.split('-')
.next()
.unwrap_or(effective_target);
match arch {
"x86_64" | "x86_64h" | "amd64" => DEFAULT_FAST_EMIT_MAX_INSTRS_X86_64,
_ => DEFAULT_FAST_EMIT_MAX_INSTRS_UNMEASURED,
}
}

#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
enum FastEmitBudget {
Off,
Cap(usize),
}

fn parse_fast_emit_budget(value: Option<&str>) -> FastEmitBudget {
fn parse_fast_emit_budget(value: Option<&str>, effective_target: &str) -> FastEmitBudget {
let default = || FastEmitBudget::Cap(default_fast_emit_max_instrs(effective_target));
match value.map(str::trim) {
None | Some("") => FastEmitBudget::Cap(DEFAULT_FAST_EMIT_MAX_INSTRS),
None | Some("") => default(),
Some("0") | Some("off") | Some("false") => FastEmitBudget::Off,
Some(v) => match v.parse::<usize>() {
Ok(0) => FastEmitBudget::Off,
Ok(n) => FastEmitBudget::Cap(n),
Err(_) => FastEmitBudget::Cap(DEFAULT_FAST_EMIT_MAX_INSTRS),
Err(_) => default(),
},
}
}

fn fast_emit_budget() -> FastEmitBudget {
fn fast_emit_budget(effective_target: &str) -> FastEmitBudget {
#[cfg(test)]
if let Some(budget) = TEST_FAST_EMIT_BUDGET.with(std::cell::Cell::get) {
return budget;
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std::env::var("PERRY_LL_FAST_EMIT_MAX_INSTRS")
.ok()
.as_deref(),
effective_target,
)
}

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/// other LLVM tests in this binary.
#[cfg(test)]
fn with_test_fast_emit_budget<T>(cap: usize, run: impl FnOnce() -> T) -> T {
with_test_fast_emit_budget_value(FastEmitBudget::Cap(cap), run)
}

/// [`with_test_fast_emit_budget`] for a budget that is not a cap — the arm
/// that proves what an undemoted unit emits.
#[cfg(test)]
fn with_test_fast_emit_budget_value<T>(budget: FastEmitBudget, run: impl FnOnce() -> T) -> T {
struct Restore(Option<FastEmitBudget>);
impl Drop for Restore {
fn drop(&mut self) {
TEST_FAST_EMIT_BUDGET.with(|budget| budget.set(self.0));
}
}
let old = TEST_FAST_EMIT_BUDGET.replace(Some(FastEmitBudget::Cap(cap)));
let old = TEST_FAST_EMIT_BUDGET.replace(Some(budget));
let _restore = Restore(old);
run()
}

/// The extreme function which selected bounded machine-code emission.
/// One extreme function which selected bounded machine-code emission, and how
/// many defined functions in its unit are demoted along with it.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct FastEmitFallback {
pub name: String,
pub instructions: usize,
pub cap: usize,
/// Defined functions in the unit — the size of the collateral, since the
/// machine pipeline is selected per module and not per function.
pub unit_functions: usize,
}

impl std::fmt::Display for FastEmitFallback {
fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
write!(
f,
"`{}` has {} instructions after IR optimization, above the optimized machine-pipeline \
budget {}; keeping the requested IR optimization, then emitting this unit through \
LLVM's O0 machine pipeline to bound instruction selection, live intervals and \
register allocation. Override with PERRY_LL_FAST_EMIT_MAX_INSTRS=<n> (raise) or \
=0 (disable).",
self.name, self.instructions, self.cap
budget {}; keeping the requested IR optimization, then emitting this unit — all {} \
of its defined functions, not only this one — through LLVM's O0 machine pipeline to \
bound instruction selection, live intervals and register allocation. LLVM selects \
that pipeline per module, so the siblings are demoted too and grow: shrinking this \
function is what lifts the whole unit back. Override with \
PERRY_LL_FAST_EMIT_MAX_INSTRS=<n> (raise) or =0 (disable).",
self.name, self.instructions, self.cap, self.unit_functions
)
}
}

fn fast_emit_fallback(
/// Every defined function over `budget`, widest first.
///
/// The decision is per function; the consequence cannot be (see
/// [`DEFAULT_FAST_EMIT_MAX_INSTRS_X86_64`]), which is why every offender is
/// returned
/// rather than only the widest: the compile log then names each function that
/// has to shrink before the unit can keep the optimized machine pipeline,
/// instead of naming one and re-reporting a new widest on the next build.
fn fast_emit_fallbacks(
module: &inkwell::module::Module<'_>,
budget: FastEmitBudget,
) -> Option<FastEmitFallback> {
) -> Vec<FastEmitFallback> {
let cap = match budget {
FastEmitBudget::Off => return None,
FastEmitBudget::Off => return Vec::new(),
FastEmitBudget::Cap(cap) => cap,
};
let mut widest: Option<FastEmitFallback> = None;
let mut defined = 0usize;
let mut over: Vec<(String, usize)> = Vec::new();
let mut function = module.get_first_function();
while let Some(f) = function {
if f.count_basic_blocks() > 0 {
defined += 1;
let instructions = function_instruction_count(f);
if instructions > cap
&& widest
.as_ref()
.is_none_or(|current| instructions > current.instructions)
{
widest = Some(FastEmitFallback {
name: f.get_name().to_string_lossy().into_owned(),
instructions,
cap,
});
if instructions > cap {
over.push((f.get_name().to_string_lossy().into_owned(), instructions));
}
}
function = f.get_next_function();
}
widest
// Widest first, ties by name: one deterministic order for the log and the
// per-unit report, whatever order LLVM holds the functions in.
over.sort_by(|a, b| b.1.cmp(&a.1).then_with(|| a.0.cmp(&b.0)));
over.into_iter()
.map(|(name, instructions)| FastEmitFallback {
name,
instructions,
cap,
unit_functions: defined,
})
.collect()
}

/// Instruction budget for ONE function after `rewrite-statepoints-for-gc`.
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