perf(regex): content-keyed construction cache, header-authoritative program lookups, find-only global test - #9764
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…rogram lookups, find-only global test RegExp construction hashed and copied the pattern text on every evaluation of a literal (three copies + one SipHash in js_regexp_new, three more probes in the first lazy build), and lookup_fancy_regex / lookup_repeat_matcher fell through to a full clone + hash of the pattern on EVERY exec of an ordinary pattern. On the claude-code TUI, whose layout pass evaluates emoji-regex / ansi-regex literals per text segment, SipHash over pattern text was 31 % of the main thread in the 20 s after a 400-char reply (regex 38 % inclusive). * regex/site_cache.rs: thread-local, content-fingerprinted (len + three 8-byte windows + flags) and byte-verified construction cache. A hit skips validation, shares the owned pattern/flags as Arc<str>, and installs the programs the first executed header compiled, so the header is born built. Kill switch PERRY_REGEX_SITE_CACHE=0. * lookup_fancy_regex / lookup_repeat_matcher: a built header is authoritative (null program pointer = no fallback); no per-exec cache probe. * js_regexp_test on a global/sticky receiver uses regexp_find_advancing, the find-only twin of exec's engine phase (same engine order, lastIndex advance/reset, sticky anchoring) instead of materializing an exec array. * REGEX_SOURCE_TABLE holds (Arc<str>, Arc<str>); the address-keyed regex tables use the pointer hasher. * hot_diag.rs: PERRY_REGEX_DIAG=<path> and PERRY_IC_DIAG=<path> counters (periodic snapshots; diagnostic only). Tests: site_cache_reconstruction_is_born_built, global_test_advances_and_resets_last_index. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YPfnmWZmSpSWpmnoXvH8z2
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe runtime adds a thread-local regex construction cache, reuses compiled programs, adds a find-only global/sticky ChangesRegex runtime optimization and diagnostics
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to When optional regex diagnostics run against dynamic patterns, their output can become inaccurate and retain increasing memory. Use bounded, owned pattern identities before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant RegExpConstructor
participant SiteCache
participant RegExpHeader
participant RegexEngine
RegExpConstructor->>SiteCache: lookup pattern and flags
SiteCache-->>RegExpConstructor: cached text and programs
RegExpConstructor->>RegExpHeader: install programs
RegExpHeader->>RegexEngine: execute global or sticky test
RegexEngine-->>RegExpHeader: match range
RegExpHeader-->>RegExpConstructor: result and updated lastIndex
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In `@changelog.d/keystroke-regex-site-cache.md`:
- Line 3: Update the changelog statement to limit the no-hash/no-copy claim to
RegExp site-cache hits, rather than all RegExp construction and exec operations.
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/hot_diag.rs`:
- Line 128: Update RegexDiag and its js_regexp_new, note_build, and diag_note_op
call paths to key per-pattern statistics by owned pattern and flags content
rather than StringHeader addresses; ensure all lookups use the same normalized
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Limit the no-hash/no-copy claim to cache hits.
js_regexp_compile_value still creates and hashes (pattern_str.to_string(), flags_str.to_string()) keys at crates/perry-runtime/src/regex/compile.rs, Lines 153-171. The first-use builder also creates those keys at crates/perry-runtime/src/regex/lazy.rs, Lines 233-257. This statement is too broad for all RegExp construction. State that the site-cache hit path avoids this work.
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In `@changelog.d/keystroke-regex-site-cache.md` at line 3, Update the changelog
statement to limit the no-hash/no-copy claim to RegExp site-cache hits, rather
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Key RegexDiag::per_pattern by owned content and bound its size.
js_regexp_new records pattern as usize before later allocations can move the StringHeader. note_build and diag_note_op use the relocated RegExpHeader::pattern_ptr, so one pattern can create multiple retained rows. If a later StringHeader reuses an old address, RegexDiag::pat keeps the old prefix and flags and attributes counters to the wrong pattern. The thread-local map also never clears, so dynamic patterns can cause unbounded diagnostic-memory growth.
Use an owned (pattern, flags) key and enforce a fixed row limit with eviction or periodic clearing.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/hot_diag.rs` at line 128, Update RegexDiag and its
js_regexp_new, note_build, and diag_note_op call paths to key per-pattern
statistics by owned pattern and flags content rather than StringHeader
addresses; ensure all lookups use the same normalized key. Bound the
thread-local map with a fixed maximum row count, evicting entries or
periodically clearing it when the limit is reached.
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Coherence defect confirmed, and fixed here as well —
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…es, engine prototype switch Rebased onto main after PerryTS#9764 landed as ddbe0b1; the site cache, header-authoritative lookups and find-only global `test` are main's now and are gone from here. The program-cache coherence fix moved to PerryTS#9801. Three changes remain. * The capture-group cliff. `repeat_matcher::capture_layout` takes a pattern off the linear engine when ECMA-262's RepeatMatcher capture semantics are observable — a capture directly under a quantifier, or a capture inside a negative lookaround. That routing is a correctness requirement, but the engine it routes to is a classical backtracker with no step budget, so adding parentheses fell from linear time to exponential (`/^(a+)+$/.test("a"*28 + "!")`: 16,522 ms; node 4,798 ms). 6.3 % of 4,463 real literals take that route. Both engines accept the same LANGUAGE and differ only in capture ASSIGNMENT, so `linear_rules_out_match` asks the linear program first and a subject it rules out — which is what every ReDoS input is — never reaches the backtracker. This removes the reachable exponential case; it does not bound the worst case (that needs the step budget open upstream as ridiculousfish/regress#177). * Allocation-free cache probes. The three compiled-program caches were `HashMap<(String, String), _>`, so every probe allocated two Strings and copied the pattern text, once per RegExp OBJECT. `ProgramKey = (Arc<str>, Arc<str>)` makes a probe two refcount increments; the remaining materialisations are cold (`RegExp.prototype.compile`, the syntax-error fallback). * `PERRY_REGEX_ENGINE=regress`, off by default: routes every pattern through the ECMAScript backtracker and installs a shared never-match placeholder as the standard program, so the tier-0 engine architecture can be measured in a real binary. Not a supported configuration — the backtracker has no budget. Tests: quantified_capture_pattern_does_not_backtrack_on_a_non_matching_subject, plus the `capture_layout` predicate assertions rewritten around the `(layout, needed)` pair. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YPfnmWZmSpSWpmnoXvH8z2
…es, engine prototype switch Rebased onto main after PerryTS#9764 landed as ddbe0b1; the site cache, header-authoritative lookups and find-only global `test` are main's now and are gone from here. The program-cache coherence fix moved to PerryTS#9801. Three changes remain. * The capture-group cliff. `repeat_matcher::capture_layout` takes a pattern off the linear engine when ECMA-262's RepeatMatcher capture semantics are observable — a capture directly under a quantifier, or a capture inside a negative lookaround. That routing is a correctness requirement, but the engine it routes to is a classical backtracker with no step budget, so adding parentheses fell from linear time to exponential (`/^(a+)+$/.test("a"*28 + "!")`: 16,522 ms; node 4,798 ms). 6.3 % of 4,463 real literals take that route. Both engines accept the same LANGUAGE and differ only in capture ASSIGNMENT, so `linear_rules_out_match` asks the linear program first and a subject it rules out — which is what every ReDoS input is — never reaches the backtracker. This removes the reachable exponential case; it does not bound the worst case (that needs the step budget open upstream as ridiculousfish/regress#177). * Allocation-free cache probes. The three compiled-program caches were `HashMap<(String, String), _>`, so every probe allocated two Strings and copied the pattern text, once per RegExp OBJECT. `ProgramKey = (Arc<str>, Arc<str>)` makes a probe two refcount increments; the remaining materialisations are cold (`RegExp.prototype.compile`, the syntax-error fallback). * `PERRY_REGEX_ENGINE=regress`, off by default: routes every pattern through the ECMAScript backtracker and installs a shared never-match placeholder as the standard program, so the tier-0 engine architecture can be measured in a real binary. Not a supported configuration — the backtracker has no budget. Tests: quantified_capture_pattern_does_not_backtrack_on_a_non_matching_subject, plus the `capture_layout` predicate assertions rewritten around the `(layout, needed)` pair. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YPfnmWZmSpSWpmnoXvH8z2
…es, engine prototype switch Rebased onto main after PerryTS#9764 landed as ddbe0b1; the site cache, header-authoritative lookups and find-only global `test` are main's now and are gone from here. The program-cache coherence fix moved to PerryTS#9801. Three changes remain. * The capture-group cliff. `repeat_matcher::capture_layout` takes a pattern off the linear engine when ECMA-262's RepeatMatcher capture semantics are observable — a capture directly under a quantifier, or a capture inside a negative lookaround. That routing is a correctness requirement, but the engine it routes to is a classical backtracker with no step budget, so adding parentheses fell from linear time to exponential (`/^(a+)+$/.test("a"*28 + "!")`: 16,522 ms; node 4,798 ms). 6.3 % of 4,463 real literals take that route. Both engines accept the same LANGUAGE and differ only in capture ASSIGNMENT, so `linear_rules_out_match` asks the linear program first and a subject it rules out — which is what every ReDoS input is — never reaches the backtracker. This removes the reachable exponential case; it does not bound the worst case (that needs the step budget open upstream as ridiculousfish/regress#177). * Allocation-free cache probes. The three compiled-program caches were `HashMap<(String, String), _>`, so every probe allocated two Strings and copied the pattern text, once per RegExp OBJECT. `ProgramKey = (Arc<str>, Arc<str>)` makes a probe two refcount increments; the remaining materialisations are cold (`RegExp.prototype.compile`, the syntax-error fallback). * `PERRY_REGEX_ENGINE=regress`, off by default: routes every pattern through the ECMAScript backtracker and installs a shared never-match placeholder as the standard program, so the tier-0 engine architecture can be measured in a real binary. Not a supported configuration — the backtracker has no budget. Tests: quantified_capture_pattern_does_not_backtrack_on_a_non_matching_subject, plus the `capture_layout` predicate assertions rewritten around the `(layout, needed)` pair. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YPfnmWZmSpSWpmnoXvH8z2
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What
js_regexp_newruns once per evaluation of a regex literal (ECMA-262: aliteral is a new object every time), and TUI code evaluates literals inside hot
functions. In the compiled claude-code bundle,
string-width'semojiRegex()returns a fresh ~12.8 KB
/…/gper text segment per layout pass, andansi-regexrebuildsnew RegExp(parts.join("|"), "g")the same way.Measured on a 400-character streamed reply (offline mock API, see the rig
below): 195,199
js_regexp_newcalls, 190,090 of them the same 12,807-byteemoji pattern, and 2.4 GB of pattern text hashed. Each construction copied the
pattern three times and SipHashed all of it once (the
VALIDATED_PATTERNSprobe,
owned_pattern, theREGEX_SOURCE_TABLEentry); the first operation oneach header did the same three more times (
build_and_install_programsprobesthree
(String, String)-keyed program caches); and for an ordinary patternlookup_fancy_regex/lookup_repeat_matcherre-probed two of those caches onevery exec.
SipHash::writewas 32.2 % of main-thread leaf samplesduring the turn and 32.5 % in the 20 s after it.
The change
regex/site_cache.rs— a thread-local, direct-mapped construction cachekeyed by a cheap content fingerprint (length + three 8-byte windows +
canonical flags) and verified by a full byte compare. Identity never depends
on an address, so nothing is rekeyed on a GC move and a dynamic
new RegExp(sameText)hits too. A hit skips validation (validity is a purefunction of
(pattern, flags)and entries are only written on the validatedpath), shares the owned pattern/flags as
Arc<str>instead of copying them,and installs the programs the first executed header compiled — so the header
is born built and never touches the
(pattern, flags)caches at all.Kill switch
PERRY_REGEX_SITE_CACHE=0.lookup_fancy_regex/lookup_repeat_matcher— afterensure_regex_compiled, a built header is authoritative: a null programpointer means "this pattern has no fallback", not "not looked up yet". Every
install path (lazy,
RegExp.prototype.compile, the site cache) publishes allthree pointers together. This removes a full pattern clone + hash from every
exec of every ordinary regex.
js_regexp_teston a global/sticky receiver usesregexp_find_advancing,the find-only twin of
exec's engine phase (same engine order, samelastIndexadvance/reset, same sticky anchoring) instead of materializing anexec array and one string per capture.
REGEX_SOURCE_TABLEholds(Arc<str>, Arc<str>); the address-keyed regextables use the pointer hasher instead of SipHash.
hot_diag.rs—PERRY_REGEX_DIAG=<path>/PERRY_IC_DIAG=<path>counters (periodic snapshots; every probe is one relaxed atomic load when the
variable is unset). This is the instrument the numbers below come from.
The site cache does not make garbage cheaper — it stops creating it: the shared
Arc<str>replaces one privateStringcopy of the pattern per live header(190k live 12.8 KB copies is where the 2 GB peak RSS came from), and a
born-built header never allocates the three cache probe keys at all.
Mechanism (counters, same binary,
PERRY_REGEX_DIAG)400-character reply, one turn:
js_regexp_newcallsbuild_and_install_programsrunsSipHash::write, main-thread leafThe compile counts are unchanged (the same programs are built), the lookups
are gone: 190,781 → 131 program builds, i.e. one per distinct live literal
instead of one per evaluation.
Numbers (rig: offline mock API,
secret-tests/cc-permission-harness)Same binary, kill switch — isolates this change (400-char reply,
--idle 20):PERRY_REGEX_SITE_CACHE=0Whole branch (this PR + the two sibling keystroke PRs) vs
mainand node2.1.112 running the same bundle, same session, 400-char reply
(
stream_scale.py … --mem --idle 12):12efed1222Neither metric regresses: settled footprint is flat (490 → 495 MB, noise), peak
RSS is 3.0× lower and end-of-turn footprint 3.6× lower.
Full scoreboard for the same tree, node arm in the same session
(
cc-perf-campaign/scoreboard.py): 400-char turn 11.48 → 6.59 s (node 0.25),3300-char turn 63.18 → 51.8 s (node 0.51), typing CPU 0.95 → 0.83 s (node
0.16), echo p90 30 → 18 ms (node 3), post-turn idle-10 3.94 → 0.58 s (node
0.01), peak RSS 2.1 GB → 1.0 GB.
Correctness
(pattern, canonical flags)and an entry is only written after the validatedpath accepted that exact pair; a fingerprint collision costs a byte compare
and a re-insert, never a wrong answer.
Arc::into_rawreferencesbuild_and_install_programsinstalls, published in the same order, and arereleased by the existing
regex_header_finalize_for_gc(Compiled regex programs are permanently leaked: 37 KB per pattern, ~84 MB at cc idle, +112 MB per paste, unbounded per session — the finalize hook never releases the Arcs #9678 / fix(runtime): release compiled regex programs during GC #9684) —regexp_finalize_releases_all_header_owned_programsstill passes.regexp_find_advancingmirrorsjs_regexp_exec's engine order andlastIndexbookkeeping line for line;stateful_test_reports_the_same_answer_as_execand
global_test_advances_and_resets_last_indexpin thattestandexecagree on where the next search starts.
New tests:
site_cache_reconstruction_is_born_built,global_test_advances_and_resets_last_index.cargo test --release -p perry-runtime -- --test-threads=1: 3141 passed, 0failed (98 in
regex::).Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YPfnmWZmSpSWpmnoXvH8z2
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lastIndexadvancement and reset behavior for global and sticky regular expression tests.