Stage S3 of the two-tier design: dynamic-tier functions compute with
jsval, a new IR type holding a 64-bit NaN-boxed word whose numbers,
booleans, undefined and null are immediates, so a number between two
dynamic operators is no longer a heap node.
- IR: the jsval type and js.* builtins (operators and the boundary
conversions fromDyn/toDyn/fromF64/fromBool/fromStr/fromBigInt/toF64).
The jsval pass rewrites dynamic-tier functions after tier assignment:
operator chains, comparisons, number checks and truthiness of operator
results run on jsvals; dyn locals become jsval locals when that saves
boxing; dynamic functions called only from dynamic functions return a
jsval. IR version 17 serializes each function's tier.
- Runtime: scr_js.h and scr_js_value.c behind the dynTier feature
(invariant I3); static runtime units never include scr_js.h.
- Backend: number cases inline (immediate doubles and NUM cells), always
inlined jsval retain/release; 32-bit targets keep boxed cells.
- Interprocedural analyses see jsval conversions as the dyn forms they
replace, so no fact about a static function changes.
Static functions are untouched: typed programs and the self-hosted
compiler's static functions compile to byte-identical LLVM.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SCRIPTC_YOUNG_NURSERY=1 at compile time makes an executable allocate
traced, program-owned class instances and records young and link the
collector unit built with SCR_YIN (a runtime pack variant of
scr_cycle.c; libraries never get it). The emitted constructor lists the
object in a per-thread nursery and marks its header: generation
SCR_CYC_YOUNG and its nursery index under the buffered bit, so every
existing release path treats it as a buffered candidate (no call while it
stays alive; scr_cyc_on_dead takes it out of the nursery at its death).
A nursery collection (whenever 4096 young objects are live, at collection
points, before full sweeps and limited passes) counts each young object's
references from other young objects, marks from the objects whose count is
below their reference count (referenced from outside the nursery: stacks,
globals, older objects, runtime structures, FFI, fibers, coroutine
frames), frees what stays unmarked, and gives up the dead set's outgoing
edges after the teardowns. The counts are recomputed at every collection
instead of maintained by a store barrier, so soundness rests only on the
invariants trial deletion already needs. Survivors join trial deletion's
nursery and outside roots become candidates; trial deletion walks young
objects it reaches as nursery-level objects. Per-type admission statistics
send types that do not die in young cycles back to trial deletion for a
while. Publication takes young objects out of the nursery. The RC audit
build checks nursery membership and counts at every collection.
With the flag off, the compiler emits and links exactly what it did
before (249 programs and the self-hosted compiler compared
byte-identical). Measured with the flag on: cg-rings -38%, cg-pairs -27%,
the runtime suite geomean -0.3% (published-graphs +3.4%), the self-hosted
compiler neutral; shapes whose cycles go through arrays or closures
(phase 2) pay without gaining.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`scriptc build|run --detached-exit` opts an executable into handing the address-space teardown after process.exit to a helper process on Linux. The helper shares the address space (CLONE_VM), blocks signals, closes every descriptor but the read end of a pipe and waits for EOF on it. The kernel releases an exiting process's memory (exit_mm) before its files (exit_files), so EOF means the helper holds the last reference; it then exits and the kernel frees the pages there instead of before the parent sees the exit (30-40 ms per GB of 4 KiB pages; tsc-ts 20-110 ms). The same latency mold hides with --fork.
It is a build-time choice, not a run-time knob, because the helper keeps the executable mapped (overwriting the binary right after it exits can fail with ETXTBSY) and the memory charged to the cgroup for up to ~100 ms, and the teardown CPU time leaves the parent's rusage. The program object defines `scr_detached_exit = 1`, overriding the runtime's weak default of 0, so no runtime flavor or linker flag is added. The option is part of the early executable cache and route keys; executables only, no effect on other platforms.
Speed is a third native optimization posture next to release (default,
-O2) and dev (-O0). It is optimized exactly like release at the C/LLVM
level and is the switch for optimizations that trade executable size and
build time for run-time speed, so the default release build stays inside
the binary-size budget.
- backend/optimization.ts: the NativeOptimization type, its -O class, and
cache-key helpers. Release keeps its historical key shapes (absent).
- CLI: build/run/cache warm accept speed; usage text names the trade.
Bootstrap's routed executable cache mirrors the posture.
- Early executable cache keys and native-feature validation include speed,
so release, dev, and speed entries never satisfy one another.
- Runtime packs: an optional executable `speed` flavor (-O2, only beside
release). Speed links it when present and the release objects otherwise;
library modes link their release flavor. The sanitizer lane follows the
same flavor key.
- Library profiles accept "speed".
- WASI release-only linker flags apply to speed too.
- bench-runtime: --baseline-optimization/--candidate-optimization and a
per-contender cold_build_ms.
Release executables are byte-identical to the stack tip for all 14
benchmark workloads (macOS arm64, sha256 of executables built from both
trees).
- Add native worker execution with isolated module state, structured messages, and lifecycle controls.
- Support shared buffers and integer atomics with coordinated runtime ownership and cancellation.
- Extend compiler, runtime-pack, differential, and compatibility coverage for native concurrency.
- Enforce oxlint and oxfmt for owned JavaScript and TypeScript with independent CI checks.
- Preserve compiler import boundaries and protected fixtures while cleaning up lint findings.
- Standardize source formatting and validate import, fixture, and embedded-source protections.
- Remove C emission, debugging options, and automatic backend fallback.
- Complete LLVM lowering and native bootstrap coverage across supported targets.
- Link executables and libraries with precompiled C runtime packs, including iOS and Android.
- Emit source locations for native TypeScript and JavaScript debugging across C and LLVM backends.
- Preserve macOS debug symbols through linking and cache reuse, with regression coverage and Xcode guidance.
Fixes#461
Co-authored-by: timokosonen <325538238+timokosonen@users.noreply.github.com>
- Link smaller executables across native targets with an explicit --strip flag.
- Keep stripped and default builds separate in the cache and cover their behavior.
* fix(windows): support GUI executables
- Add Windows subsystem selection across executable link paths and cache keys.
- Verify PE subsystem output and add Windows CI coverage.
Fixes#259
Co-authored-by: Mateus Mamede Lage <23098414+mmamedel@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(ci): restore cross-platform test parity
- Make the Windows subsystem test use a portable loader URL.
- Sync TS7 order-parity baselines with current corpus fixtures.
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