An array's element ops are a registry id in `spare` instead of a pointer
field: descriptors get their id on their first array (emitted descriptors
are writable for it), and a program with more element types than the id
holds keeps the rest in the array's out-of-line storage.
The out-of-line storage (sparse indices, noncanonical numeric properties,
match metadata) is no longer a header field. An array that has it keeps
its pointer in the 8 bytes before its dense allocation and sets
SCR_ARR_HAS_EXT; such an array always has a dense allocation of its own
(inline slots move out, an empty array gets the prefix alone), and every
allocation, reallocation and free of the dense storage accounts for the
prefix.
Loops over elements look the ops up once, and the state lookup below the
dense capacity reads no out-of-line storage.
A Map or Set header held six adapter pointers, the union key table and
size_t counts: 168 bytes, 176 in its size class. The adapters and union
key kinds now live in an immutable per-type ScrMapOps descriptor that the
compiler emits once per collection type, a traced byte replaces the two
trace-pointer tests, and the counts and capacities are 32-bit. The header
is 88 bytes.
The entries array starts with one slot and grows to four, then doubles,
and maps of up to 8 entries scan their cached hashes instead of keeping a
bucket table. Number-key maps still move to the direct index from four
entries.
One million maps held at once (RSS per map): empty 188 -> 100 bytes,
1 entry 286 -> 125, 4 entries 286 -> 198, 8 entries 450 -> 295.
Every ScrArr carried sixteen words, seven of them (sparse slots, their
length and capacity, noncanonical numeric properties with length and
capacity, and match-result metadata) used only by sparse arrays, arrays
with numeric non-index properties and regex match results. They now live in
a ScrArrExt the array points at, allocated on first use: a dense array
shrinks from 128 to 80 bytes, and a cycle-capable one (with its 16-byte
collector header) from 144 to 96.
Runtime readers go through a shared empty ext; writers allocate it. The
backend mirror loses the seven fields, tagged-template arrays are emitted
with a NULL ext, live stream commits swap the ext pointer (which swapped all
seven fields before), and the cached typed-view refresh swaps sparse slots
and properties through scr_arr_swap_indexed_ext, keeping each array's
metadata as before. The program-object ABI marker moves to
scr_runtime_abi_v11.
A corpus program (4610-array-ext-dyn-refresh.ts, with its order baseline) pins numeric non-index properties of a dynamically typed array through its refreshed typed view, sparse slots written directly and through a live reference, truncation, and regex match metadata read directly, through `any` and after a copy.
* Remove the large-array cliff past 2^20 elements
Arrays longer than 2^20 kept every element beyond the cutoff in a sorted
side store, and each indexed write to an existing entry deleted and
reinserted it, so fill + indexed read/write loops went quadratic
(n=1.2M: 10.4s on macOS arm64, 12.6s on Linux x64).
- Rewrite existing sparse entries in place.
- Let dense storage grow past the cutoff for contiguous extension of a
populated prefix, bulk range writes, and sparse tails that reach 3/16
density, migrating side-store entries so index < cap stays dense.
- Make the side store a deque with front slack so descending first-touch
writes and prefix migration are amortized O(1).
- Bound range-derived slice/splice capacity hints for hole runs.
scr_arr_new now reserves the live count, so a 2^20+3 element Set
converts into dense storage instead of a sparse tail; the white-box
test_lib check that pinned the old policy now asserts dense storage.
* Share immortal boolean union boxes
Maybe-undefined reads of boolean[] elements (`if (composite[i])` in a
sieve) box the element in a boolean|undefined union and free it at once:
one calloc/free pair per read, about a quarter of numeric-kernels samples
at large scales. Unions are immutable and boolean arms own no payload, so
low tags now return headerless immortal instances, the same convention as
the compiler's static unit-arm constants.
* Record preflight/order baselines for corpus 3138
- Read binary and text files into owned storage across filesystem entry points.
- Extend integer inference through module initialization and filtered processing loops.
- Preserve shared bindings, byte views, and filesystem error behavior.
- Support boolean, bigint, and mixed value keys in native Maps and Sets.
- Reuse key hashes and copy collections directly into compact storage.
- Preserve collection identity, ordering, iteration, and ownership behavior.
* feat(fs): expose Stats disk metadata
- Lower blocks, nlink, and atimeMs through the C and LLVM backends.
- Populate path, promise, file-handle, and dynamic bridge stats across supported platforms.
- Add differential, declaration, and npm bridge coverage.
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* fix(fs): keep Windows stats snapshots coherent
* fix(fs): preserve Windows lstat metadata
* fix(fs): validate Windows mount point payloads
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* Support Date instance lowering
- Lower read-only Date values and constructors through the C and LLVM backends.
- Add portable calendar helpers, differential coverage, and documented surface contracts.
- Fence unsupported mutation, identity, locale, and component-constructor forms.
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* Fix Date exception and timezone semantics
* fix: harden Date lowering edge cases
* fix Date lowering edge cases
* Fix Date union fences and offset clipping
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Chris Tate