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Summary

Fix UTF-16 slicing through astral characters and remove repeated suffix copies
from eligible native parsing loops. The issue's unchanged reduction now emits
5:228,4:20013,3:55357,2:56832,1:214,, matching Node.

Changes

  • Share a bounded WTF-8 boundary walker across slice, substring, and substr,
    preserving individual surrogate halves and consistent payload/length flags.
  • Prove when a mutable suffix local only has scalar consumers, then keep its
    rooted source plus stack offsets. Constant-start self-slicing advances the
    cursor; length and constant-index charCodeAt read relative to it.
  • Keep ordinary flat storage for aliases, captures, escaping values and
    unsupported consumers. Runtime tag guards preserve non-string receiver
    behavior. The string ABI is unchanged; materialized slices own their bytes.
  • Add Unicode, aliasing, source-lifetime and moving-GC regressions, plus the
    unchanged issue benchmarks and same-host before/after evidence in
    benchmarks/string_slice.

Related issue

Closes #10061.

Test plan

  • Release compiler and both static archives built together on Windows x64,
    LLVM 22.1.8; pinned Node v26.5.1 used as oracle.
  • All ten ASCII/Unicode benchmark-size pairs (100 through 1,000,000) have stable
    checksums matching Node. ASCII slope changes from 2.013 to 1.000;
    fixed Unicode slope is 1.002. Baseline Unicode is incorrect,
    so its timing is not classified. Raw timings, hashes and limits are committed.
  • Final native reduction, boundary/aliasing fixture and forced-GC fixture match
    Node. Stress run records 1,061 copying minors and 168 moved objects.
  • Runtime suite: 3,439 pass / 1 fail / 4 ignored. Compiler unit suite (candidate build): 1,460 pass /
    3 fail / 1 ignored. Every added unit test passes. The four failures are in
    unchanged Windows-sensitive assertions and also reproduce in isolation;
    exact names are recorded in the report. No pristine-base unit-suite rerun
    is claimed.
  • Broader string parity: 47 pass, one default-locale mismatch, 19 compile
    refusals for Windows RS4GC/WinEH (Windows: native-root stack walker so PERRY_RS4GC=1 works there (#7173) #7354), one skip. Final focused cases pass.
  • Registration, GC audits, file-size policy and formatting of both affected
    crates pass. Quick pre-tag checks retain the inherited published-benchmark
    freshness failure; its fingerprinted inputs are identical to base. Windows
    command-length/Python-alias issues were checked with equivalent direct runs.

Checklist

  • No workspace version bump; no edits to CLAUDE.md or CHANGELOG.md.
  • Regression tests and changelog fragment included.
  • Conventional fix: / docs: commit messages.

The cursor optimization is deliberately conservative: escaping/unsupported
suffix loops still materialize strings. A cursor retains its original source
through the ordinary local root; a retained materialized slice retains no
backing source. Linux/macOS and full workspace checks were not run locally.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed slice, substring, and substr behavior at UTF-16 boundaries within astral characters and for lone surrogates.
    • Preserved correct string lengths, character reads, aliases, and retained slices across these edge cases.
    • Improved reliability when strings are moved by garbage collection.
  • Performance

    • Reduced repeated copying when processing eligible string suffixes in native parsing loops.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for Unicode boundaries, malformed surrogates, garbage collection, aliasing, and suffix processing.

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Walkthrough

This change corrects UTF-16 slicing at astral boundaries and adds allocation-free suffix cursors for eligible native parse loops. It adds HIR analysis, compiler lowering, runtime helpers, moving-GC tests, regression fixtures, and benchmark measurements.

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String slicing and suffix parsing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime UTF-16 slicing and suffix cursors
crates/perry-runtime/src/string/*
slice, substring, and substr use shared UTF-16 boundary handling. New suffix cursor APIs support length, advancement, and character reads.
Suffix eligibility analysis
crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/*
HIR analysis selects mutable locals with supported suffix updates and rejects aliases, captures, escapes, and unsupported operations.
Suffix cursor code generation
crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/*, crates/perry-codegen/src/stmt/mod.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/*, crates/perry-codegen/src/runtime_decls/strings.rs
Compiler contexts carry suffix facts and cursor storage. Eligible expressions call runtime suffix helpers after a string-tag check.
Integration tests and benchmark evidence
test-files/*, test-parity/gc_repsel_corpus.txt, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/*, crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/suffix_strings/tests.rs, benchmarks/string_slice/*, changelog.d/10075-string-slice.md
Tests cover UTF-16 boundaries, aliases, malformed data, moving GC, and retained slices. Benchmark scripts and result artifacts record baseline, fixed, and validation measurements.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Program
  participant Codegen
  participant Runtime
  participant GC
  Program->>Codegen: lower eligible suffix local
  Codegen->>Runtime: initialize cursor and call suffix helper
  Runtime-->>Codegen: return length, character code, or updated cursor
  GC->>Runtime: move rooted source string
  Runtime-->>Program: preserve cursor reads and materialized slice
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 61838

Final suite results are needed to rule out relevant codegen regressions, and optimized parsing of short non-ASCII strings can produce incorrect length and character behavior. Resolve both before merge.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes both primary changes: correcting UTF-16 string slicing and removing quadratic suffix parsing copies.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the required Summary, Changes, Related issue, Test plan, and Checklist sections. It provides detailed validation results and limitations. The optional Screenshots / output sec…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #10061 coding requirements are implemented. slice, substring, and substr use the shared WTF-8 boundary walker. Tests cover astral boundaries, surrogate halves, lone surrogates, empty and n…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within issue #10061. Runtime boundary and cursor helpers, compiler eligibility and lowering, focused regression tests, benchmark tooling, validation data, documentation, and the chang…
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In `@benchmarks/string_slice/validation.json`:
- Around line 33-47: Rerun the affected codegen suites on the final build and
update the validation records with their final-build results, including
base-revision results for the listed failures. Ensure validation.json and its
associated documentation accurately distinguish candidate-build results from
final-build verification.

In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/string/suffix_cursor.rs`:
- Around line 21-25: Update the short-string branch in the length calculation to
count UTF-16 units from the stored string content rather than returning
short_string_len() directly, matching the heap-string UTF-16 length semantics
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  • changelog.d/10075-string-slice.md
  • crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/closure.rs
  • crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/entry.rs
  • crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/function.rs
  • crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/method.rs
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  • crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/suffix_strings/tests.rs
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  • crates/perry-runtime/src/string/slice_range.rs
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  • test-files/test_gap_gc_string_suffix_cursor.ts
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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printf '%s\n' '--- working-tree summary ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- validation commit summary ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- benchmark README ---'
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Run the affected suites on the final build and record their results.

validation.json records three codegen failures from a candidate build. The README states that only the three focused fixtures were rerun on the final build. It does not provide final-build results for the affected suites or base-revision results for the failures.

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affected codegen suites on the final build and update the validation records
with their final-build results, including base-revision results for the listed
failures. Ensure validation.json and its associated documentation accurately
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if value.is_short_string() {
value.short_string_len() as u32
} else {
unsafe { (*value.as_string_ptr()).utf16_len }
}

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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rg -nP -C 4 'SHORT_STRING_MAX_LEN' --type=rust crates/perry-runtime/src

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  crates/perry-runtime/src crates/perry-codegen/src \
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sed -n '1,125p' crates/perry-runtime/src/string/suffix_cursor.rs
rg -n -C 5 'suffix|short|string.*utf|utf16' crates/perry-runtime/src/string/*tests*.rs crates/perry-runtime/src/string -g '*.rs' | head -n 220

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Compute the UTF-16 length for short strings.

short_string_len() returns the stored byte length, and try_short_string() accepts non-ASCII bytes. length() can therefore return a byte count while advance and char_code_at use UTF-16 units. For example, an SSO string containing é reports length 2 instead of 1 and can admit an invalid index that returns NaN. Use the same UTF-16 counting logic for short strings as for heap strings.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/string/suffix_cursor.rs` around lines 21 - 25,
Update the short-string branch in the length calculation to count UTF-16 units
from the stored string content rather than returning short_string_len()
directly, matching the heap-string UTF-16 length semantics used by advance and
char_code_at. Preserve the existing heap-string path and return the correct unit
count for non-ASCII short strings.

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proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 12, 2026
#10077 gives a dense array a queue front offset: `capacity` counts the slots
remaining AFTER the front, so logical element zero is no longer the end of
`ArrayHeader`. That PR converted every open-coded
`header + size_of::<ArrayHeader>()` element base in its own tree — but two
places on current `main` postdate its branch point and were never converted:

- `json_tape/cached_read.rs` (from #10064, landed in train161) open-codes the
  base on the hot materialized-array read. A materialized JSON array is an
  ordinary `GC_TYPE_ARRAY` that user code can `shift()`, so after this train
  that read would return the wrong element. Routed through
  `crate::array::array_elements_ptr`.
- `array/sort.rs` gained four more open-coded bases with the
  `publish_sorted_values` / `apply_sorted_indices` refactor. Converted with the
  conflict resolution in the pick itself; only the rustfmt reflow lands here.

Also converts the six raw-handle debt sites #10075's two new test modules
introduced. `--no-raise-vs <merge-base>` refuses both a ceiling on a module that
was absent at the base (`string/slice_tests.rs`) and a per-module raise
(`gc/tests/runtime_roots/string_slice.rs`, 1 -> 3), so the sites are converted
rather than recorded:

- `gc/tests/runtime_roots/string_slice.rs`: the two post-collection re-reads now
  run the collection inside `across_mut` / `across_const`, and the kept-slice
  assertions inside `with_const_ptr`. That also retires the module's one
  pre-existing site, so its ceiling line is DELETED — the deletion is the
  receipt — and the recorded total falls 945 -> 944.
- `string/slice_tests.rs`: the three argument-position reads become
  `with_const_ptr`, which is the documented shape for a self-rooting entry
  point such as `js_string_slice`.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 12, 2026
Train163 (#10075, #10077) lands on main at 0.5.1536; neither PR bumped the
version, which is the maintainer's job at merge time. Cargo.lock regenerated so
every workspace member's inherited version moves with it.
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Landed on main via merge train #10113 (rebase-merged, per-commit authorship preserved).

Your commits are on main starting at 9a9b10b2d; the train tree was verified identical to main after the merge (git diff origin/main HEAD --stat empty).

Conflict: string/mod.rs's module list, resolved as a sorted union with #10054's trim_cache. One maintainer follow-up in 936b8bcec: the raw-handle ratchet refused the six new sites in your two test modules — --no-raise-vs <merge-base> will not accept a ceiling on a file absent at the base (string/slice_tests.rs) nor a per-module raise (gc/tests/runtime_roots/string_slice.rs, 1 -> 3). The post-collection re-reads now run the collection inside across_mut/across_const and the argument-position reads use with_const_ptr. That also retired the module's one pre-existing site, so its ceiling line is deleted and the recorded total drops 945 -> 944.

Closing this PR as landed — GitHub cannot auto-close it because the train merges as its own branch.

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