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Runtime handle access repeatedly resolved TLS and borrowed a RefCell<Vec>, even when no collection was active. Cache thread-bound stack metadata in scopes/handles, keep checked index handles across cold buffer growth, and skip root-barrier dispatch while marking is globally idle. Encode raw pointer tags in the slot discriminant, reducing slots from 24 to 16 bytes.

The live-prefix scan, moving rewrites, caught-throw savepoint restore, FFI index ABI, kind/bounds checks, and scope lifetime remain intact. The separate TLS owner clears the cache and live metadata before freeing storage. Scanners visit copies and commit relocations by index, so no reference into growable storage crosses a visitor callback. Scopes/handles become two words rather than one.

Measured instruction counts

Clean baseline 9fda98df68d9fac3c08b2385fae007aa9f5278df, Linux perrymaster, identical three-package release builds, three perf stat -e instructions:u runs each. Non-regex profiling preceded edits. Every output matches pinned Node 26.5.1.

Workload Baseline Changed Reduction
Promise/await 1,100,168,994 1,050,989,735 4.47%
JSON round-trip 3,190,619,152 3,132,631,719 1.82%
Original regex hoist 13,773,038,016 13,003,278,589 5.59%
Original regex exec1 31,188,918,430 29,854,497,805 4.28%

These are whole-program user instructions, including startup/input construction; no wall-clock speedup is claimed. Before-change handle-related leaf shares were 4.10% in promises and 3.98% in JSON. Residual slot work does not vanish in every workload. Sources, reproduction commands, stat output, folded instruction stacks, archive hashes, and GC measurements are committed under benchmarks/runtime_handle_scopes/.

Local replay

  • cargo fmt --all -- --check: pass.
  • cargo check -p perry-runtime --no-default-features --features full: pass.
  • cargo test -p perry-runtime --lib -- --test-threads=1: 3,802 passed, 0 failed, 4 ignored on macOS arm64; clean baseline was 3,795/0/4.
  • Runtime all-target clippy diff against clean baseline: no added or removed diagnostics (both have 12 pre-existing approx_constant test errors and 1,101 warnings).
  • GC custody and raw-handle debt ratchets: pass without inventory changes.
  • GC instrument smoke: pass, including all 14 real probes, 1,236 protected retirements, and forced verification/evacuation.
  • GC ratchet: all 14 probes match Node; all 126 heap and GC-work medians are identical between clean baseline and changed builds. The pinned artifact check fails the same 30 cells on both. Raw measurements and the exact shared failure list are committed; RSS/wall time are excluded under the shared-host profile.
  • GC matrix: 595/602 byte-exact outputs, 428 PASS / 167 UNVER / 7 FAIL; every required arm is live. All seven failures are the HTTP/2 pending-event fixture: it binds occupied port 443 and emits no callbacks. A separately rebuilt clean Linux baseline produces the identical empty output and port-443 bind error; the comparison is committed. In a private network namespace, both baseline and changed binaries also time out after 20 seconds without callbacks; this fixture remains unverified, and neither result is counted as a pass..
  • Full scripts/run_lint_gates.sh: 80/83 pass, with two additional CI-only skips. All three failures reproduce on the clean baseline: public benchmark freshness; the same two dead-code errors in global_this_webassembly.rs; and generated bun-pty API-doc drift. The preserved baseline compiler generates byte-identical docs to the changed compiler. Drift was saved as evidence and reverted from the branch.

Tests that fail under faults

Each mutation was applied independently, produced the named behavioral failure, and was removed before the restored full suite:

Mutation Failure
Scan only [0, top - 1) Moving-root test reports final root 256 was not relocated.
Skip runtime_handle_stack_restore truncation Real caught throw leaves live depth above its savepoint.
Force the idle barrier branch during marking Publishing a handle leaves its pre-existing target white.
Skip cache unpublication Late TLS destructor finds a non-null cache pointer and aborts.

fault-results.json names the exact tests; committed excerpts record the assertions. Additional coverage exercises repeated buffer growth with relocated roots live, budgeted scans after truncation/growth, all five barrier slot kinds, FFI indices, kind/bounds failures, and reentrant Copy visitors.

Integration

Coordinated #10215 with #10223; this branch does not edit array layout/tracing files. #10223 has since landed. Pending #10244 changes Android's HOT backend from native TLS to pooled storage in the same file: preserve this branch's cache unpublication and check the pooled teardown ordering when assembling that train (a pooled cache that has already been destroyed must be treated as already unpublished). That Android combination is outside the macOS/Linux replay reported here.

Ready PR for the merge train. Workspace version is unchanged; the train owns its version bump. GitHub runners are unavailable, so the local replay above is the validation evidence.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Performance

    • Reduced runtime instruction counts by approximately 1.8–5.6% across promise, JSON, and regular-expression workloads.
  • Reliability

    • Improved garbage-collection handle behavior during scope growth, object relocation, exception unwinding, incremental marking, and foreign-function interface operations.
    • Strengthened cleanup during thread-local storage teardown.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive coverage for moving roots, handle restoration, marking barriers, growth, truncation, and teardown scenarios.
  • Documentation

    • Added benchmark instructions, performance profiles, checksums, comparison results, and fault-injection evidence.

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Walkthrough

The runtime replaces RefCell<Vec<RuntimeHandleSlot>> storage with a manually managed stack. It updates handle access, GC scanning, barriers, FFI roots, teardown, and tests. New benchmarks and evidence measure instruction counts and validate runtime-handle behavior.

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Runtime handle stack redesign

Layer / File(s) Summary
Handle stack storage and ownership
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/roots.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/roots/runtime_handles.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/roots/runtime_handles/stack.rs
The runtime uses a non-dropping, manually managed stack with growth, bounds checks, truncation, release, and separate raw slot variants.
Handle APIs and GC integration
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/roots/runtime_handles.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/tls_hot.rs
Scopes, handles, barriers, relocation scanning, savepoints, FFI roots, and TLS unpublication use the new stack accessor and indexed storage.
Runtime handle correctness tests
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/roots/runtime_handles/tests.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/runtime_roots.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/runtime_roots/handle_stack.rs, benchmarks/runtime_handle_scopes/fault-results.json, benchmarks/runtime_handle_scopes/evidence/fault-*.txt
Tests cover growth, relocation, throws, marking, budgeted scans, FFI indices, and TLS teardown. Fault-injection results record failures for removed safeguards.
Benchmark probes and evidence
benchmarks/runtime_handle_scopes/*, benchmarks/runtime_handle_scopes/evidence/*, changelog.d/10252-runtime-handle-scopes.md
Promise, JSON, and regex probes, measurement tooling, instruction results, checksums, GC comparisons, validation logs, and changelog documentation were added.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RuntimeHandleScope
  participant RuntimeHandleStack
  participant RuntimeRootVisitor
  participant RuntimeHandleFFI
  RuntimeHandleScope->>RuntimeHandleStack: push and truncate indexed roots
  RuntimeRootVisitor->>RuntimeHandleStack: scan live slots
  RuntimeHandleStack-->>RuntimeRootVisitor: return slot values
  RuntimeRootVisitor->>RuntimeHandleStack: write relocated slots
  RuntimeHandleFFI->>RuntimeHandleStack: push, get, and restore FFI roots
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ac477

A future TLS teardown regression can terminate the test process instead of producing a normal test failure. Move result checks outside the thread-local destructor before merging.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: reducing runtime handle scope overhead through cached TLS metadata.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is detailed and covers the change summary, implementation details, related issues, test plan, benchmark output, failures, integration notes, and versioning constraints. It does not use…
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In `@benchmarks/runtime_handle_scopes/fault-results.json`:
- Line 25: Update the evidence reference in fault-results.json from the stale
fault-skip-cache-unpublish-direct.log filename to the tracked
fault-skip-cache-unpublish-direct.txt filename; do not add any additional
artifact.

In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/roots/runtime_handles/tests.rs`:
- Around line 67-79: Update the thread teardown test around the thread-local
BEFORE_BUFFER/LateScope drop so its destructor records any teardown failure
instead of allowing a panic to escape. Return the recorded result through the
spawned thread and assert it after JoinHandle::join(), while preserving the
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Point the fault evidence entry to the tracked artifact.

fault-skip-cache-unpublish-direct.txt is tracked, but fault-results.json:25 uses the stale .log suffix. Update the reference to .txt; no additional artifact is needed.

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-    "evidence": "fault-skip-cache-unpublish-direct.log (same mutated test binary, --nocapture)",
+    "evidence": "fault-skip-cache-unpublish-direct.txt (same mutated test binary, --nocapture)",
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In `@benchmarks/runtime_handle_scopes/fault-results.json` at line 25, Update the
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Comment on lines +67 to +79
assert_eq!(runtime_handle_stack().len(), 0);
assert_eq!(runtime_handle_stack().capacity(), 0);
assert!(crate::tls_hot::hot().runtime_handle_stack.get().is_null());
drop(self.0.get_mut().take());
assert_eq!(runtime_handle_stack().len(), 0);
assert!(
std::panic::catch_unwind(|| {
let scope = RuntimeHandleScope::new();
let _ = scope.root_nanbox_f64(1.0);
})
.is_err(),
"released TLS storage must not be resurrected"
);

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Record TLS teardown failures outside LateScope::drop.

BEFORE_BUFFER is a thread-local LateScope. Its destructor runs when the spawned thread exits. On Unix, an escaping panic from LateScope::drop aborts the test process before JoinHandle::join() can report it. Windows can report the panic through join(), so the behavior is platform-dependent. Record teardown results without panicking, then assert them after join() while preserving the cache-release checks.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/roots/runtime_handles/tests.rs` around lines 67 -
79, Update the thread teardown test around the thread-local
BEFORE_BUFFER/LateScope drop so its destructor records any teardown failure
instead of allowing a panic to escape. Return the recorded result through the
spawned thread and assert it after JoinHandle::join(), while preserving the
existing runtime-handle cache-release checks and the RuntimeHandleScope
resurrection assertion.

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Landed in merge train #10261: #10261. The merged main tree matches the validated train, and the fresh-head patch audit confirms the changes arrived.

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