- The heap census also counts instances a class value constructs: the
construct thunk that `newValue` calls counts them after its allocation,
as `new` does at its own.
- A build with SCRIPTC_HEAP_CENSUS set is its own executable cache entry
(`heapCensus` in the early cache's key and route key), and one with
SCRIPTC_REPR_REPORT set does not read the early cache, since a hit
emits no module and so writes no report. The CLI's startup route defers
both to the full compiler.
- Test: a warm cache still builds the census executable, counting
`new` and class-value constructions, and still writes the report.
A large program's hot code spans hundreds of 4 KiB pages, more than the
instruction TLB holds. tsc-ts has 12 MB of code, and 90% of its
main-thread samples at --checkers 1 fall in 274 distinct code pages.
`scriptc build --large-pages` links the new runtime unit
scr_text_pages.c, whose constructor moves the executable's code onto
2 MiB transparent huge pages before main. It copies the executable
segment, from its first to its last 2 MiB boundary, into anonymous memory
advised MADV_HUGEPAGE, makes the copy read-only and executable, and moves
it over the original range with one mremap, so addresses and instructions
stay the same. The move runs only on Linux, only when THP is "always" or
"madvise", and only in executables. If a step fails, the code stays
file-mapped. Like Node's --use-largepages, it is off by default: without
the flag the unit is not linked, and executables are unchanged.
The move costs about 3 ms per 10 MiB of code at startup, and all of the
moved code stays resident as private memory. The flag is part of the
executable cache key and the runtime-pack selection, and is refused for
non-executable output, like --detached-exit.
Each @scriptc/cli-<platform> package bundled its platform's LLVM helper
and runtime pack, which are also published as @scriptc/llvm-<platform> and
@scriptc/runtime-<platform>. The CLI packages now depend on those packages
at the same version (workspace:*, which pnpm pack writes as the exact
version) and leave them out: cli-linux-x64-gnu goes from 115 MB to 60 MB
packed.
- build-native-cli.mts --platform-packages, which each CLI package's
build:native passes, writes a manifest without llvm_package, runtime_pack
and runtime_packs.
- loadNativeToolchain resolves a missing helper or host runtime pack as
Node resolves the package from the compiler's directory: nested in the
platform package, beside it (hoisted, or pnpm's virtual store) or higher
up. It requires the compiler's version, and an absent or mismatched
package fails with an error that names it.
- installNativeCli records where the package manager put both packages in
the installed manifest, with the same checks.
- verify-native-cli.mjs requires the exact dependencies of a platform
package and checks the resolved packages' versions.
- package-native-cli.mjs bundles the helper and runtime pack into the
standalone archives, which stay self-contained.
- smoke-native-install.mjs installs the helper and runtime pack tarballs
with the platform package; the bootstrap's exported package drops its
bundled copies first.
- release.yml publishes the CLI packages only once every helper and
runtime pack package resolves on npm, and scriptc only once the CLI
packages resolve, each wait at most 25 minutes. A rerun skips the
uploads npm already accepted and waits again.
Each call of a typed or untyped write, writev, transform, flush, final,
construct or destroy option callback allocated a closure and a box holding
the stream for its `callback` argument. The emitted thunks now take it
from scr_stream_done_closure, which keeps the last one on the stream state and
hands it out again while the stream holds its only reference and it has
no own properties. A callback the user kept (stored, or passed to
setImmediate or a promise) is not reused: the next call gets a new
closure, and the kept one keeps its own stream reference.
The cached closure holds the stream, so the stream drops it when it
emits 'close' and traces it, which lets the cycle collector reclaim a
stream dropped before it closes.
RUNTIME_ABI_VERSION goes from 46 to 47 for scr_stream_done_closure.
`scriptc build --profile-use` prints one line on stderr with the number of
functions the profile annotated, the number whose control flow changed since
it was collected (mismatched), and the number it has no record of. When more
than 10% of the functions the profile describes are mismatched, it also prints
a warning to collect the profile again. The build still succeeds.
Both the compiler library's build and the native compiler's build report the
match. Cached builds report the match of the build that produced them: the
native codegen and object caches store it beside the cached objects, and the
executable cache stores it in its entry.
The native toolchain manifest's lib_diagnostics path is relative to the
platform package's dist/bin. installNativeCli copies the manifest into the
scriptc package's bin and relocates each asset path, but lib_diagnostics
was not in the list, so it pointed at a missing file under the scriptc
package and npm installs did not use the prebuilt lib diagnostics. It is
now relocated with the other assets.
With --cpu-dispatch, an x86-64 executable carries two copies of each
program function: the baseline code and a copy compiled for x86-64-v3.
main reads CPUID and XGETBV once. Calls between the program's functions
go to the caller's copy. A function that is also named outside the
copies (a function value, a call from main, a runtime callback or a
coroutine body) keeps a dispatcher under its own name, which tests the
level and tail-calls one copy. Functions without such a use get no
dispatcher, so their copies have the callers the original had and LLVM
inlines them the same way.
The executable still runs on any x86-64 CPU. SCRIPTC_CPU_LEVEL caps the
level at run time. The option is off by default, applies to executables
without a --target-cpu level, and is part of the executable cache key.
bench:runtime takes --baseline-cpu-dispatch and --candidate-cpu-dispatch,
and the LLVM differential suite runs each program at levels 0 and 3 with
SCRIPTC_CPU_DISPATCH=1.
A pipeline stage that arrives as an untyped value now follows Node's
stage ladder for more shapes. As the first stage, a function is a source
function: the pipeline calls it with { signal } while it is set up and
pumps its result, which must be iterable (ERR_INVALID_RETURN_VALUE
otherwise), and a { readable, writable } pair pumps its readable side.
After the first stage, the pipeline call is lowered once per combination
of its first three untyped stages being functions or not, and a typeof
test picks the branch at run time. A function stage is called with the
previous stage and { signal }; before the last stage its result must be
async iterable, and as the last stage a promise resolves the pipeline's
value and an async iterable feeds the PassThrough pipeline() returns
(SCR_PIPE_DEST_DYN). Any other value that is not a stream becomes
Duplex.from of it, which the next stage reads from without the previous
stage being piped into it, and Duplex.from's ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE for
the values it rejects.
An untyped stage followed by an untyped function stage hands its value to
that stage through a cell created per pipeline call, so the function
receives the previous stage's own iterator, as Node's makeAsyncIterable
answers it, instead of an async generator over it.
Untyped web streams, pairs after the first stage, and function stages
that return a stream throw the not-supported error.
RUNTIME_ABI_VERSION goes from 45 to 46 for the new stream exports.
The sanitized lane's -fsanitize=address link needs the attribute to
instrument the emitted functions. Without a sanitizer pass it is not
inert: LLVM does not shrink-wrap functions that carry it, so every call
saved and restored all of a function's callee-saved registers on entry,
including on paths that return before any call, and it blocks
speculative loads. The LLVM helper already dropped it for builds that
import runtime bitcode (speed); release builds kept it.
- The new sanitizeAttributes option (default true for direct emission)
is set from --sanitize wherever objectAudit is.
- Without it and without a target CPU level, attribute group #0 holds a
string attribute LLVM ignores, since a group cannot be empty.
A TCP socket's write() answered nothing in typed code and true through
untyped values, and a 'drain' listener never fired. Node 24 answers
false when the bytes the write leaves unsent reach the socket's
65536-byte high-water mark (writeOrBuffer computes it after the socket
writes), sets needDrain, and emits 'drain' when the write buffer
empties; writes to an ended or destroyed socket answer false.
The runtime's write entry points now return that answer, record
needDrain, and fire the socket's 'drain' listeners from the flush that
empties the buffer, unless the write half is ending or the socket is
gone. writableLength reads the unsent bytes and writableNeedDrain the
flag. on('drain') and once('drain') register on the typed path and
through untyped values, and socket.write() may be used as a value.
The fallback node:net declarations type write() as boolean, add the
'drain' event and both properties.
RUNTIME_ABI_VERSION goes from 43 to 44: the socket write entry points
return a boolean.
A pipeline whose first stage is a checked-dynamic value now checks it at
run time, as Node's stage ladder does: a stream is piped as before, and a
string or a value with a Symbol.asyncIterator or Symbol.iterator method is
pumped into the next stage through an async generator over its iterator.
A typed Set, Map, generator or async generator object as the first stage
takes the same path. This covers the callback and stream/promises forms,
with or without function stages and pipeline options.
A write whose callback fails synchronously no longer sets needDrain, so no
'drain' follows the error and a pumped source stops at the failed write,
as in Node.
RUNTIME_ABI_VERSION goes from 37 to 42 for scr_stream_dyn_iterable_source.
Object.freeze, Object.seal and Object.preventExtensions of a class
instance held in an untyped value threw SC2020 at run time. Node changes
the instance itself: writes through its typed references then throw the
read-only TypeError in strict mode code, adding properties through any
reference fails, and Object.isFrozen, isSealed and isExtensible report
the state through either reference.
- In a program that freezes, seals or prevents extensions of an untyped
value that is not a fresh literal, every class hierarchy that can be held
there gets the integrity word that static Object.freeze already uses, and
with it the existing write checks.
- The runtime applies the operation to the instance's checked view and
commits the view. The commit of such a hierarchy stores the view's
integrity state in the word (scr_dyn_class_view_integrity) and makes the
instance's property bag not extensible with it. A hierarchy without the
word still throws SC2020.
- These commits replace and remove the bag's field entries whatever their
attributes, so a sealed or frozen view does not leave stale field values
in the bag.
- The analysis behind records and arrays now starts from these calls only,
rather than from every untyped freeze the lowering emits, such as the
frozen strings array of a tagged template.
- Programs without such calls compile as before. The runtime ABI moves to
v38.
Corpus 7407 covers freeze, seal and preventExtensions through unknown of
classes and subclasses, writes through typed and untyped references and
through methods, properties added before and after the operation, and the
integrity queries, and matches Node.
Refs #1374
Co-authored-by: blurname <50226652+blurname@users.noreply.github.com>
Release builds compile for the x86-64 baseline, so LLVM vectorizes with
SSE2 only. `--target-cpu=<baseline|x86-64-v2|x86-64-v3|x86-64-v4|native>`
compiles the program's code for a higher level: every emitted function
carries the level as its `target-cpu`, so LLVM can use AVX2, BMI2, FMA or
AVX-512. The executable then runs only on CPUs of that level.
- `native` resolves to the highest level the build machine supports, read
from /proc/cpuinfo on Linux and `sysctl machdep.cpu` on macOS.
- The level is part of the executable cache key; `baseline` and builds
without the option produce the same output and keys as before.
- The runtime pack keeps its baseline code.
- Targets other than x86-64 refuse a level (SC3002). The CLI's cached
bootstrap route leaves builds with the option to the full compiler.
- `bench:runtime` takes `--baseline-target-cpu` and `--candidate-target-cpu`.
A checked-dynamic method call looked its name up in the method table on
every call: a strlen, a hash and a byte comparison of the name.
The compiler now gives each method-name constant an i32 slot that starts
at -1 and passes it with the call (scr_dyn_invoke_prepared_id, and the
Buffer method entries, which forward it). The first call stores the
name's id in the slot, and later calls read it. Ids stay the runtime's
own, so the slot holds whatever this runtime's table says. Names are
still matched by content on the first call, and the slot is written with
a relaxed atomic store, since every thread writes the same id.
The runtime ABI is now 28.
A 'message' listener with a typed parameter received each message as a
checked-dynamic value: the port decoded the message into dyn objects, the
listener's thunk matched the value against each union arm, read every
field again to build the record, and the dyn objects were then released.
For bench/channel-messages that was about a third of the delivery time.
- A closure registered with on, once, addListener, prependListener or
prependOnceListener for 'message' gets a typed message entry when its
parameter is a number, boolean, string, a record of those without union
fields, or a boxed union of those arms with null or undefined. The
entry builds the parameter from the message's nodes and calls the
closure.
- The entry handles a message only when it has the parameter's exact
layout: the union arm the checked conversion picks, and a record's
declared keys in declaration order with no others. Any other message
runs through the thunk on the decoded value, as before, so undeclared
keys, other orders and mismatches behave as they did.
- Ports, workers and parentPort deliver a message through the entries
when no value in it is reached twice and it holds no ports or native
handles. Listeners without an entry share one decoded value, made when
the first of them runs.
- The message readers are runtime entry points, so the runtime ABI is now
27.
Corpus 7130 and 7131 check typed listeners on MessageChannel ports, a
worker and parentPort against Node: exact layouts, extra keys, shared
values, nested records, untyped listeners beside typed ones, once
listeners and a transferred port.
The private copy of the LLVM text had no extension. Builds that compile it
with the C driver (sanitize builds, targets without the LLVM helper) passed
it to clang directly when the native cache was off, and clang read it as a
linker input, so the build failed. The copy is now named with `.ll`.
Those builds also record the output directory in their native cache proof.
Renaming the private copies to the shared names after the native build
changed that directory, so every unchanged repeat missed the proof and
relinked the executable. The shared names are now installed before the
native build, which compiles and caches copies in a private directory
outside the output directory.
Readable, Writable, Duplex, Transform and PassThrough take the
objectMode option, and a Duplex, Transform or PassThrough the
readableObjectMode and writableObjectMode options, as true or false
literals in an options object literal or in an options value. An
object-mode side holds any value that converts to a checked-dynamic
value: push, unshift, write, end, pipe, pipeline, for await, 'data'
listeners, Readable.from and the transform callback carry values in
TypeScript and JavaScript, and constructor-function streams and options
held in variables do the same. The object-mode high-water mark counts
values and defaults to 16. A readable buffer that mixes strings, Buffers
and other values holds them all, and push(undefined) and other values on
a byte-mode stream report ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE through 'error', as in
Node.
In typed code a write or transform callback, or a _write or _transform
method, may declare its chunk with any such type, which converts when
the callback runs. Writes pass the encoding argument to _write and
_transform as Node does: undefined when absent, null when a callback
took its place, otherwise the value unchanged. A parameter declared
string | null | undefined receives that value and one declared string
receives "" for undefined and null. write(chunk, encoding) on a
byte-mode stream encodes a string chunk with any known encoding and
throws ERR_UNKNOWN_ENCODING for an unknown one. Readable.from takes
typed Maps and Sets of any such value, and arrays that mix strings and
Buffers.
for await over a readable-only stream that will emit 'close' now ends
after 'close', as Node's eos does. Buffered writes that complete inside
clearBuffer run their callbacks in order, and 'finish' waits for a
deferred afterWrite that carries a callback, as Node's pendingcb does,
unless a _final callback schedules it.
The 'data' listener adapters take three slots and write and transform
callbacks read their chunk and encoding through runtime accessors, so
RUNTIME_ABI_VERSION is now 26.
Cipheriv and Decipheriv values are Transforms, as in Node: they can be
written and ended, piped into, used as pipeline() and stream/promises
pipeline stages, composed, read, iterated with for await, read by
stream/consumers, passed to finished(), and listened to, and their stream
properties read as in Node. Each chunk goes through the cipher's
update(), and the end pushes final() or reports its error through
'error'; writing after final() throws out of write(). The stream unit
builds a cipher's Transform on its first stream use from operations the
cipher's handle provides (ScrDynHandleOps.transform), so programs that
use ciphers without streams link as before. The cipher is a
collector-headered object behind a traced handle: its Transform's steps
hold it, and the pair is reclaimed as a cycle. Through untyped values, in
a program that uses streams, a cipher's stream properties and its on,
once, off, pipe, unpipe, read, pause, resume, setEncoding, write, end,
destroy, cork and uncork members run on its Transform; other stream
members throw a coded SC2020 error.
A Transform holds a write's callback while its readable side is at the
high-water mark and runs it at the next read, and runs it on a tick once
the readable side has ended, as Transform._write does. write() on a
PassThrough, a Transform, a Hash or a cipher used to return true however
much the readable side buffered. zlib streams applied the rule already
and keep their timing.
pipeline() accepts function stages anywhere among its streams, so runs of
async generator stages can sit on both sides of a stream. A stage can be
named by a function declaration, or a const bound to a function
expression, that nothing reassigns; its body lowers again at the
pipeline with its source typed by the pipeline. The source can also be
an array, a string, a synchronous generator object, or a synchronous
generator function without parameters: an async generator steps the
source's iterator and yields each element, and the next stage receives
each element on the same tick as with Node's for await over the source.
The runtime's function-stage entry points take a bitmask of the function
positions and one (next, read, return) helper triple for each generator
pumped into a stream, so RUNTIME_ABI_VERSION is now 25. In JavaScript,
the chunks a stage receives from the previous stage's generator read as
the strings or Buffers it yields, so their string and Buffer methods
compile.
Corpus 7055-7059 cover cipher streams in TypeScript and JavaScript, their
errors, close order and backpressure, the pipeline stages and sources
with their tick order, and Transform backpressure.
A build now names the functions of the program's own files that compile
to the dynamic tier and likely run often, so a slow program with a little
untyped code says where the time goes:
warning SC6101: 3 functions that likely run often use untyped values, which runs slower than typed code:
advance (nbody.js:22): untyped JavaScript file, in a loop
...
- The functions come from the tier assignment lowering already makes
(Lowerer.dynamicFunctions). Without a profile, a function counts as
likely hot when a dynamic operation runs inside one of its loops, when
a loop calls it, or when it calls itself (lowering/dynamic-tier.ts).
- A function is named only when its source says why its values are
untyped: an `any` (for a for...of variable, the value it iterates), an
untyped JSON.parse result, or an untyped JavaScript file. Generated
%dyn.* helpers, module top levels and functions that are dynamic for an
operation without a static lowering are left out.
- At most five functions are named, most likely hot first, with the
total; dynamic-tier code in npm packages is counted per package on one
line. All of the warning's text is in diagnostics/dynamic-tier.ts.
- SC6101 opens the SC61xx band, performance notes, with a new
"performance" category in the diagnostics envelope; SC60xx stay the
divergences.
- scriptc build prints it after the divergence warnings, and the
executable cache stores it with the entry, so a cached build (including
the CLI's routed fast path) repeats it. scriptc coverage reports it, and
a comment-only edit no longer replays a verdict that carries it, since
its text holds line numbers.
- --no-dynamic-tier-warning leaves it out of build and coverage;
coverage --fail-on=dynamic fails on it.
- Docs: coverage.mdx (Dynamic tier, Gating builds and CI, the envelope
categories) and cli.mdx.
Malte Ubl