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Summary

  • restore alias and enum memoization only in the project-scale candidate scans in impls_for_type_cached and resolve_within_depth
  • keep the memo-free AliasOnlyFacts constructor at Facts::project, infer/obligations.rs, method_resolution.rs, and interface_requires_inner
  • make provable_subtype an InferenceContext method so the body facts and canonical cache are structurally paired at every call
  • correct the one-shot context documentation and document the Salsa re-entrancy-window caveat for scan-local memos

This is the focused correction for the #4461 post-merge audit. It restores repeated alias-head lookup reuse without widening memoization to the four one-shot sites.

Fresh back-to-back A/B

Both refs were measured consecutively in the same shell and target cache with profiling disabled. Both workloads used exactly five one-compile samples:

cargo bench -p baml_tests --bench compiler_benchmark -- compile_ --sample-count 5 --sample-size 1

Environment: Rust 1.93.0, CARGO_BUILD_JOBS=8, BAML_PROFILE=0.

benchmark canary 07c118b, 5 samples candidate 0eb5f09, 5 samples median delta
compile_baml_tests_project 2.180 s (2.144-2.351 s) 2.133 s (2.122-2.295 s) -47 ms (-2.2%)
compile_empty_project 497.5 ms (485.8-499.9 ms) 485.6 ms (478.2-488.5 ms) -11.9 ms (-2.4%)

No earlier baseline values are reused. Canary 07c118b was the exact #4461 tip when this branch and A/B began; #4462 landed afterward and changes only nextest scheduling configuration.

Validation

  • cargo check -p baml_compiler2_hir_ty
  • focused nextest: 384/384 passed for baml_type, baml_compiler2_hir, and baml_compiler2_hir_ty with all features
  • strict all-target/all-feature Clippy passed for those packages; workspace commit-hook Clippy also passed
  • cargo fmt --all -- --check and git diff --check
  • exact pinned full gate: 3,748/3,748 passed, 24 skipped, 50 slow in 1,375.321 s
  • doctests clean; no unreferenced snapshots and no snapshots to review

Full gate command: CARGO_BUILD_JOBS=8 rustup run 1.93.0 cargo insta test --test-runner nextest -p baml_tests -p baml_cli -p baml_lsp2_actions -p baml_lsp2_actions_tests -p baml_surface --all-features --unreferenced=reject

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  • Improvements
    • Improved type inference consistency across assignments, pattern matching, flow narrowing, and catch-arm analysis.
    • Enhanced handling of aliases and enum variants during type resolution.
    • Repeated type checks are now more efficient, helping reduce unnecessary compiler work.
    • Existing subtype, union, coverage, and narrowing behavior remains consistent while benefiting from more centralized analysis.

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The HIR type system now memoizes alias and enum-variant scans during implementation resolution. Inference, flow narrowing, and pattern analysis now use InferenceContext::provable_subtype for centralized subtype checks.

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HIR type resolution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Memoized implementation scans
baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/impls.rs, baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/facts.rs
AliasOnlyFacts optionally stores scan-local facts. Cached implementation scans use memoized alias and enum-variant lookups. Documentation describes direct and cached resolution paths.
Context-based subtype checks
baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer.rs, baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer/flow.rs, baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer/pat.rs
InferenceContext::provable_subtype now handles conservative subtype checks. Flow narrowing, catch-arm matching, and pattern coverage use the context method.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 01cbf

The current change retains a subtype-evaluation behavior that can incorrectly accept identical unresolved or error types, affecting assignment narrowing, catch matching, and pattern coverage. Merge should wait until this bounded correctness risk is corrected or explicitly accepted by the owner.

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A rabbit caches facts in a row,
Alias scans now reuse what they know.
Subtypes meet in one context bright,
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Hops through the HIR, tidy and light.

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In `@baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer.rs`:
- Around line 3384-3402: Update provable_subtype so the has_infer and has_error
checks run before the sub == sup fast path, ensuring identical unresolved or
error-containing types are not considered provable. Add Rust unit tests covering
both identical unresolved types and identical error-containing types, then run
the library tests.

Apply the same fix in `@baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/impls.rs`
at line 827.
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Comment on lines +3384 to +3402
/// A PROVABLE subtype verdict: ground on both sides and confirmed by this
/// inference body's paired facts and canonical cache. Rigid or unresolved
/// pairs are not provable, the conservative direction for coverage and
/// claiming.
fn provable_subtype(&self, sub: &Ty, sup: &Ty) -> bool {
if sub == sup {
return true;
}
if sub.has_infer() || sup.has_infer() || sub.has_error() || sup.has_error() {
return false;
}
// Rigid variables go to the oracle too: its typevar arms are already
// conservative (`T <: T`, `T <: unknown`, `never <: T` prove; a rigid
// against an unrelated concrete does not - which is exactly the B-633
// rule). The corpus pins the case this matters for: a synthetic effect
// var IS covered by `throws unknown`.
self.canonical_cache.is_subtype(sub, sup, &self.facts)
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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rg -n -C 5 'provable_subtype' "$file"
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant type predicates and equality implementations ---'
rg -n -C 3 'fn has_infer|fn has_error|impl.*PartialEq|enum Ty|struct Ty' baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_types baml_language/crates -g '*.rs' | head -240
printf '%s\n' '--- nearby tests ---'
rg -n -C 5 'provable|has_infer|has_error|catch|assignment|coverage|canonical_cache' baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src baml_language/crates/baml_tests -g '*.rs' | head -300

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infer = Path("baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer.rs").read_text()
interned = Path("baml_language/crates/baml_type/src/interned.rs").read_text()
pat = Path("baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer/pat.rs").read_text()
flow = Path("baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer/flow.rs").read_text()

helper = re.search(
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)
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print(f"equality_before_rejection={eq_pos < guard_pos}")

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assert "TyKind::Error" in interned[interned.index("pub fn error"):interned.index("pub fn error") + 180]
print("identical_infer_vars_are_constructible=True")
print("identical_error_types_are_constructible=True")
print("recursive_flags=", "HAS_INFER" in interned and "HAS_ERROR" in interned)

for label, text in [
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    ("pattern_coverage", pat),
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]:
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Move the equality fast path below the unresolved and error checks.

Ty preserves HAS_INFER and HAS_ERROR flags. Identical unresolved or error-containing types can therefore pass sub == sup despite the ground-type-only contract. This affects assignment narrowing, pattern coverage, catch-arm fact matching, and flow narrowing.

Add Rust unit tests for both cases and run cargo test --lib.

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In `@baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer.rs` around lines 3384 -
3402, Update provable_subtype so the has_infer and has_error checks run before
the sub == sup fast path, ensuring identical unresolved or error-containing
types are not considered provable. Add Rust unit tests covering both identical
unresolved types and identical error-containing types, then run the library
tests.

Apply the same fix in `@baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/impls.rs`
at line 827.

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Adversarial review — memo-scan fix

Verdict: SHIP-WITH-FIXES — one doc sentence pre-merge; all load-bearing content clean.

Verified clean: memo scope is structurally per-scan (body-local in a salsa-tracked query — rebuilt on every cycle-fixpoint re-execution, so provisional-state rows can't leak; private visibility enforces non-escape); the per-call/per-scan site split independently re-derived and correct (the four memo-free sites bound by the requires-DAG, not the 136-impl scan); the facts/cache pairing is now unconstructible-to-mismatch (all 16 routes are InferenceContext methods; free fn deleted); semantics byte-identical vs pre-#4461 with dependency registration proven not lost on memo hits; no RefCell re-entrancy; diff contains exactly the mandated items. The F1 mechanism (non-tracked type_alias_value full re-lowering per candidate) is confirmed real and this fix removes it.

Pre-merge fix (N1): impls.rs:269-271 — the new comment says cached rows "widen the re-entrancy window", which is backwards (memoization reduces re-entrant lookups; salsa can't mutate mid-query). The real constraint: a memo must not outlive one query execution — it would serve rows from a stale revision and suppress the dependency reads a later execution needs. A future reader following the wrong rationale could delete the constraint and reintroduce F1.

Non-blocking notes: the A/B is directionally sound (−2.2%/−2.4%, arithmetic checks out, divan flags real) but 2-arm/fixed-order/n=5 with overlapping ranges — recovery is established by mechanism, not by measurement power; a third arm at the pre-#4461 base would have closed it. N3-N6 (delegation nit, redundant db field, no cheap perf guard exists for this class, whole-self borrow trade) recorded for the backlog.

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