perf(regex): allocate the RegExp header in the nursery, not the malloc arm

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REBASED onto 35c36f425 (2026-09-06), new head e076f7793. The stack
this branch carried (#9796, #9801's reconcile, #9819) is now ON MAIN, so the
PR is a one-commit, 8-file diff — the diff it always asked to be reviewed
as. The rebase had no conflicts; details, and the invariants re-derived on
the new base, are in "Rebased onto 35c36f425" at the bottom.

Also at the bottom: the CPU numbers in this body predate #9857 and are
withdrawn pending a re-run. #9857 removes the bimodal slow mode this PR's
"−27 % on means, bimodal → unimodal" was measured against. What this PR is
accountable for until then is the allocation-arm and memory result
(MallocCount firings 105 → 0, malloc-backed RegExp allocations 1.48 M → 0,
peak RSS −70…−90 MB).

Depends on #9860 — landing order #9838 → #9860 → this PR. Do not merge
it ahead of #9860.

The 400-char settled-footprint regression this PR used to carry (748 MB after
a 120 s idle window against ~520 for the base arm) is resolved and
measured — see "Memory at 400 — resolved by #9860" below. The cause was
never the header move: it is a GC policy edge this change lands the heap on
(the idle compactor's 25 % residue gate declining at 23.7 %, and a freshness
re-arm that needs a collection it has just declined to make). #9860 supplies
that re-arm. With it the same workload settles 453 MB against 751 on a
single isolated turn, and 557–574 MB against a parked 737–752 across a
four-turn session — in both cases below the base arm's own settled figure.
The session rows also retire the young-generation follow-up as likely not
needed: when the reclaimer revisits, the young blocks age out and release on
their own.
Stacked. No longer stacked — see the rebase note above. This branch
used to carry #9796 (3 commits) and #9819 (2 commits) so GitHub showed 6
commits and 21 files; both are on main as of 35c36f425, and the branch is
now the single commit e076f7793 over 35c36f425 (8 files). Its pre-rebase
isolating A/B pair was f4bcb1e4d -> 85bedc396; the replayed patch is
byte-identical to 85bedc396.

The point of this change is the collection schedule, not only the allocation

All claude-code numbers below are measured with the wrap-ansi / string-width
loop as it is today; that subtree is 60-85 % of cc's active CPU, so a change
there will move these absolute figures. The arm-to-arm differences are
same-host, same-binary-per-arm pairs.

js_regexp_new allocated every RegExpHeader with gc_malloc. This moves it
to the nursery and adds the young-death finalization that was the only thing
keeping it on the malloc arm. A JS regex literal evaluates to a fresh
RegExp every time it is reached, so on the claude-code TUI that arm is not a
marginal site — it is the entire arm:

capture (sandbox rx)	regexp allocs	total malloc-tracked	share	malloc registry peak → after
3300 ×2	742,867 / 742,832	742,924 / 742,889	100.0 %	101,893 → 1,597
400 ×2	73,025 / 71,878	73,082 / 71,935	99.9 %	69,618 / 68,454 (no swing)

80.0 bytes each. The 3300 counter's run-to-run spread is 0.005 %.

What removing that arm does, and why the promotion number moves

Per trigger kind, BEFORE arm, one 3300-char turn:

trigger	n	copied	promoted	eden_live
arena_bytes	57	225,829 / 20.1 MB	836,583 / 76.7 MB	77.1 MB
malloc_count	48	0 / 0.0 MB	1,969,158 / 139.6 MB	139.6 MB
old_gen_bytes (fulls)	6	0	0	—

A MallocCount minor copies nothing and promotes everything —
promoted_bytes equals eden_live_bytes exactly, ~2.9 MB per firing. Those 48
cycles carry 70 % of all promoted objects in the turn (1.97 M of 2.81 M).
This change removes their input, so on a quiet host (perrymaster, load 0.5–0.7)
total promotion falls 6.5 M objects / 403 MB → 4.4 M / 316 MB. That drop is
not a separate effect to be explained: it is those cycles disappearing. Same
mechanism, one number.

Clean-host result at 3300 (perrymaster, one binary per arm, platform node)

• turn CPU: A′ 12.83–19.34 s bimodal → R 10.45–11.58 s, mean 11.08,
  unimodal; a win in every pair, −27 % on means against main + fix(gc): price the tiny-parse pressure guard by the productivity backoff (#9831) #9838.
• schedule: minors 122 → 25; MallocCount 105 → 0; ArenaBytes 17 → 25;
  [gc-step] lines freeing ≤ 1 %: 11 → 0; arena-finisher sweep 107 MB →
  1,540 MB. Fulls 6 → 6, unchanged.
• positive control: malloc_kinds[regexp].allocated_count 1,484,765 → 0;
  total malloc-backed GC allocations 1,484,818 → 53.
• peak RSS down 70–90 MB (VmHWM ~1,123 → ~1,032 MB).

Memory at 3300: peak down, settled at-or-better — measured

(400-char settled footprint is a separate and currently NEGATIVE result — see the section below it.)

perrymaster, 3300 chars, two runs per arm, rotated, load < 0.3, RSS in MB:

arm	post-turn RSS	RSS after 120 s idle	peak VmHWM	CPU burned in the idle window
A	930 / 929	554 / 571	1108 / 1109	22.1 / 19.1 s
A'	911 / 907	615 / 669	1117 / 1120	13.2 / 19.5 s
R	1039 / 1032	590 / 512	1039 / 1036	14.1 / 14.4 s

The +110 MB R carries at turn end is young-generation headroom, and the idle
collector gives it back. Settled R is 512-590 MB, at or below settled A
(554-571) and below A' (615-669); peak VmHWM is 70-80 MB lower than either.
On the directive's two memory metrics this change improves peak and is
neutral-to-better on settled. Only the instantaneous post-turn reading is
higher, and that is the existing adaptive nursery-cap ladder choosing a larger
Eden in response to churn that moved from malloc into the nursery — reclaimed at
the next collection, as the idle column shows. This PR changes no threshold
and no pacing knob.

The mechanism, from the per-kind copy census: R promotes less than A
(6.5 M objects / 403 MB -> 4.4 M / 316 MB), so the higher post-turn figure is
not retention and not old-gen growth. Each R minor clears a ~65 MB Eden
(1,299 MB freed + 316 MB promoted over 25 minors) against ~13 MB for A's
MallocCount minors; R's high-water is its end-of-turn reading, while A peaks
earlier and comes down.

Two caveats travel with the table. n = 2 per arm. And the app burns
13-22 s of CPU inside the 120 s idle window on every arm — a cc idle-loop
matter, not the collector, and R burns the least of the three — so "settled"
here means "after whatever that loop leaves the idle reclaimer time to do",
not a quiesced heap.

Settled footprint at 400 characters: a REGRESSION on this branch alone — RESOLVED by #9860 (measured; see "Memory at 400 — resolved by #9860" below)

perrymaster, single isolated 400-char turn, 120 s idle, two rounds per arm,
load < 0.1, RSS in MB:

arm	turn CPU	post-turn	after 120 s idle	fulls	idle-reclaim attempts	idle-compactions
A	2.18 / 2.21	757 / 759	512 / 527	7	3	2
R	2.06 / 2.04	738 / 742	748 / 748	3	1	0
C	2.04 / 2.04	747 / 746	746 / 747	3	1	0

R does not settle within 120 s after a single isolated 400-char turn: 748 MB
against A's ~520, +220 MB. The reclaimer's own diagnostics name the mechanism,
and it is a policy edge rather than the header move:

• R's one idle reclaim ran and was productive (reclaimed_old=2.1 MB, reusable=21.9 MB), but the compactor's residue gate
  (idle_compact.rs::compaction_owed: >= 8 MB and >= 25 % of old-gen
  occupancy) declined at 23.7 % (21.9 / 92.4) where A passed at 26.0 % and
  released 240 MB.
• Once declined, the idle reclaimer's freshness gate needs a new collection
  to re-arm. In A the compaction is that collection; in R
  external_collections stays at 9 and the state is parked 1.3 points under
  the gate with no path back until the next turn allocates.
• The larger half is young, and there is no idle path for it: after R's reclaim
  [gc-general-reclaim] examined=66 released=0 has_live=39 - 39 of 66 young
  blocks hold a live object and no idle minor exists to evacuate them, so the
  cap-ladder Eden (~65 MB) stays resident with scattered live objects.

At 3300 the residue is well over 25 %, which is why R settles there. The move
is what puts the heap at this operating point; the gate constants and the
freshness re-arm are what strand it. Both are GC policy, not this change.

Dependency: #9860 (fix/idle-reclaim-rearm) fixes the re-arm, and its body
carries the mechanism decomposition — including that the largest single piece
of the ~221 MB is arena capacity right-sizing that never gets a second
observation, rather than the young half, and evidence that simply moving the
gate from 25 % to 23 % does not work. #9860 does not address the young half
(has_live=39 of 66 blocks, with no idle minor to evacuate them); the
session-then-settle row below now measures that half, and the answer is that a
separate idle young evacuation is likely NOT needed — when the reclaimer
gets a second attempt the young blocks age out and release on their own
([gc-general-reclaim] released=32, has_live 50 -> 21). Read the two PRs together: #9860 is based on 644b9d362
(main + #9838) and likewise shows three commits while asking review of one.

Landing consequence, stated plainly: this PR claims no memory win at 400 on
its own, and on the directive's rule that neither metric may regress it depends
on #9860. That dependency is now measured, not asserted: with #9860 the same
single turn settles at 453 MB against 751, below the base arm's own
512–527 — see "Memory at 400 — resolved by #9860" below, which is also the
row that supersedes the session-then-settle reading in the next subsection. The
3300 settled row above stands unchanged.

Do not read A -> A' from this table. Both A rows happened to land in the
18 s mode of the bimodality and both A' rows in the 13 s mode; that column is
the bimodality, not a difference between those two arms.

Session-then-settle at 400: R settles to A's level when the reclaimer re-arms, and parks when it does not — MEASURED

perrymaster, four 400-char turns in one process, 5 s gaps, then 120 s idle,
arms rotated A/R/R/A, diagnostics on. RSS in MB, CPU in seconds:

run	per-turn CPU	4-turn	RSS per turn	after 120 s	idle reclaim starts / compactions / fulls / CPU
A r1	2.71 1.95 2.27 2.50	8.43	835 776 690 857	620	1 / 1 / 2 / 1.06 s
A r2	2.71 2.01 2.23 2.50	8.45	807 774 685 855	633	1 / 1 / 2 / 0.64 s
R r1	2.56 1.80 1.66 1.99	8.01	777 779 716 836	616	2 / 1 / 3 / 0.92 s
R r2	2.58 1.74 1.96 2.04	8.32	780 767 720 903	775	0 / 0 / 0 / 0.02 s

The single-turn regression does not survive a session, but it does not
disappear cleanly either — it becomes bimodal on one binary. After a four-turn
session R settles to A's level (616 vs 620 / 633 MB) when the idle reclaimer
gets a second attempt inside the window, and parks at 775 MB when it does
not: R r2 recorded zero reclaim starts, zero compactions, zero fulls and
0.02 s of CPU across the whole 120 s — the loop was completely quiet and
nothing re-armed it. That is the freshness re-arm hole, and #9860 is the
deciding change. Its arm has since been measured and it does exactly that —
and it also corrects this table: on a rerun both R draws parked (737 / 752
MB), so the 616 MB row here was the lucky draw rather than the typical one. See
"Memory at 400 — resolved by #9860".

Two mechanism details that fall out of the same runs:

• The young half looks self-solving. When the reclaimer does revisit, the
  young blocks age out and release on their own — R r1's general reclaim
  reports released=32 with has_live falling 50 -> 21. So the separate
  idle young evacuation the single-turn section raised as a possible second
  change is likely not needed; the missing piece is the revisit, not a new
  evacuation path.
• Compaction is not what settles it. In both arms the compaction that ran
  was unproductive (kept_promise=false). The settle came from the reclaimer's
  sweep plus general-block aging. This corrects the natural reading of the
  single-turn table above, where A's release sits in the same row as its
  compaction: the compaction is the collection that re-arms the reclaimer, not
  the thing that returns the memory.

CPU over the same session: R 8.01 / 8.32 against A 8.43 / 8.45 over four
turns (-1.5 to -5 %), with turns 2-4 lower in every pair and turn 1 -0.13 /
-0.15 in this batch. That is the clean-host counterpart of the dev-box
four-turn row below; the two hosts' numbers are never merged into one table,
and the direction is the same on both.

Raw: /root/rig9831/multi_idle.jsonl, multi_idle_{A,R}_r{1,2}.diag.

Memory at 400 — resolved by #9860

perrymaster, same base 644b9d362, arms rotated, load < 0.3, PERRY_GC_DIAG=1.
R is this change (86fa23d97); RA is this change + #9860 (c9b98b8f0).

Single isolated 400-char turn + 120 s idle. R parks at 751 / 750 MB on
one reclaim attempt and no compaction; RA settles at 453 / 453 MB on 8
attempts (4 of them reason=idle_elapsed) — below the base arm's own
512–527. arena_capacity follows, 170.9 / 168.8 → 54.5 / 57.7 MB, and the
general-block census has_live 37–39 of 66 → 2 and 1. Turn CPU (2.06/2.08
vs 2.05/2.09) and post-turn RSS (742/749 vs 742/748) are unchanged, so the
settle is the only thing that moves.

Four 400-char turns in one process (5 s gaps, then 120 s idle, order
R/RA/RA/R, diagnostics on). RSS in MB, CPU in seconds:

run	per-turn CPU	RSS after each turn	after 120 s	reclaim attempts (idle_elapsed) / compactions / fulls / idle CPU
R #1	2.56 1.73 2.04 1.96	785 766 721 789	737	0 (0) / 0 / 0 / 0.02 s — parked
R #4	2.59 1.68 1.95 2.00	775 767 721 901	752	0 (0) / 0 / 0 / 0.02 s — parked
RA #2	2.51 1.69 2.26 1.94	779 764 706 778	557	8 (6) / 2 / 10 / 2.43 s
RA #3	2.54 1.66 2.54 1.89	777 768 701 778	574	8 (6) / 2 / 10 / 2.18 s

Reading, and it corrects the section above. After a session this change
alone parks at ~740–750 MB whenever cc's idle loop happens to be quiet — both
R draws did so this time. The 616 MB settle reported in the
session-then-settle section above was the lucky draw, in which the idle loop
produced a collection that re-armed the reclaimer by accident; it is not the
typical case, and this row supersedes it. With #9860 the same session settles at
557–574 MB, below the base arm's own 620 / 633. Six of the eight attempts
start on reason=idle_elapsed. The reducer converges rather than spinning: its
later done lines read reclaimed_old=0 with reusable ~62 MB against
old_in_use ~92 MB (67 %), after which the elapsed arm stops. The price is
~2.3 s of CPU inside the 120 s window against 0.02 s parked, level with what
the base arm's own attempts cost.

The compactor is not what returns the memory. Every compaction in the RA
runs was unproductive (released=0, kept_promise=false). What a compaction
supplied in the base arm was the external collection that re-armed the
reducer; #9860 supplies that re-arm directly, which is why the release no longer
depends on a compaction being productive.

Landing consequence: this PR lands after #9860 — order
#9838 → #9860 → #9845. Merged ahead of it, the parked case comes back, and
the directive's rule that neither metric may regress forbids that.

Raw: perrymaster /root/rig9831/idleRA.jsonl,
idleRA_{R,RA}_{3300,400}_r{1,2}.diag, multi_idle_ra.jsonl,
multi_idle_ra_{R,RA}_{1..4}.diag.

At 400 characters: cheaper in steady state, and the single-turn reading is fragile

Four consecutive 400-char turns in one process, arms rotated, 3 runs each,
load < 0.3, per-turn CPU in seconds:

arm	t1	t2	t3	t4	4-turn total
A (x3)	2.58-2.65	1.52-1.79	1.93-2.16	2.30-2.57	8.67-8.93, mean 8.77
R (x3)	2.67-2.68	1.31-1.36	1.57-2.11	1.96-2.05	7.66-8.08, mean 7.90

R is cheaper by 0.87 s over four turns, -10 %. From turn 2 on it is
0.2-0.5 s cheaper every turn. The steady states differ structurally: A runs
8-11 MallocCount minors per turn plus a rising, run-dependent full count
(8/6/2 across the three runs); R runs 2 ArenaBytes minors per turn with a
full schedule that is identical in all three runs (1, 0, 2, 4). Deterministic
where A is run-dependent. RSS per turn is flat and comparable in both arms, with
no growth trend in either.

Disclosure, because it is the number a reviewer measuring one turn will see.
A single 400-char turn from a fresh process does not have a stable sign on
this change, and that is the honest statement of it. Across batches of the
same binaries on the same quiet host: one batch measured R +0.3 s (about
+15 %) in 3 of 5 pairs, a traced batch measured +0.35 s in 3 of 4 runs, and
a later batch measured R 0.10-0.16 s FASTER than A in all 5 pairs
(A 2.18, R 2.04). The multi-turn runs put turn 1 at +0.07 s, a wash. Quote no
sign for the single-turn 400 number - the batch-to-batch variation exceeds
the effect, so a single batch of it is one sample, not a measurement. The
four-turn steady-state result (-10 %, with a schedule that is identical across
all three runs where A's varies) is the robust number and the one this PR rests
on. Structurally, turn 1 is also the one turn that flatters A: it has not yet
accumulated the per-turn MallocCount minors this change removes.

An earlier reading attributed the single-turn cost to extra escalated old-gen
fulls. That was wrong and is retracted: with trace and diag captured together,
pacing state is identical across all four R runs (first full at base 48-50 MB,
escalation boundary 96-99 MB, backoff shift 0, live peak 85-86 MB) and R never
escalated. The escalation appeared in a single diag-only run and was noise.

A real inefficiency this exposes, tracked separately

Splitting each single 400-char turn into summed in-turn GC pause and remainder:

arm	turn CPU	in-turn GC pause (cycles)	mutator remainder
A (x4)	2.08-2.15	1.52-1.58 s (12)	0.56-0.59 s
R (x4)	2.13-2.48	1.18-1.31 s (9-10)	0.95-1.24 s

R's collector spends 0.25-0.35 s less per turn and its mutator spends
0.4-0.65 s more - roughly 2.5 us per RegExp constructed or used. The
mechanism is not yet named and is being counted separately (registry inserts,
move-hook rekeys, the from-space walk's examined, and site-cache
probes/repairs, A vs R). Two candidates are already eliminated by reading:
the from-space walk is inside the measured pause (cycle.rs:625 ->
copying.rs:1560 -> copying.rs:1701), so it cannot be mutator time; and both
young-log arming and the write barrier are cheaper in R, because a malloc'd
header's addr_is_minor_relevant fell through to a gc_malloc_header_is_tracked
hash probe and its two header slots were genuine old->young edges. In steady
state this cost is outweighed several times over by the ~10 minors per turn A
keeps paying, which is why the multi-turn total is negative; it is a follow-up,
not a blocker.

The leading hypothesis is allocation locality, and it is worth stating
because it is a tradeoff this codebase has not written down. The malloc arm
recycled a small set of cache-hot 80-byte mimalloc cells; the nursery
bump-allocates ~16 MB of headers per turn through a ~65 MB Eden, so each header
is touched cold and the churn evicts the mutator's working set. That predicts a
cost proportional to uses rather than to collections - which is what ~2.5 us
per RegExp against 194,511 test() calls per turn looks like - and it is
invisible to every GC counter by construction. Its diagnostic is a nursery-cap
sweep: shrink Eden and the mutator remainder should fall while the collection
saving holds. If that confirms, the general statement is that the adaptive cap
ladder trades collection count against mutator cache locality and currently
prices only the first, which would be the first case in this campaign of a GC
policy improving its own metric at the mutator's expense. Neither this PR nor
that follow-up proposes moving a threshold.

Counters, same sandbox, one 400-char turn, A vs R (counts, so host load is
irrelevant). These eliminate three of the four candidates outright:

counter	A	R
malloc_kinds[regexp].allocated_count	71,878	0
total malloc-tracked GC allocations	71,935	57
malloc registry peak	68,454	55
collections / arena_bytes / fulls	49 / 45 / 4	43 / 39 / 4
untraced=true cycles	0	0
copied bytes per minor	0.47 MB	0.66 MB
site-cache site_hit / new	100,867 / 101,936	101,658 / 102,723
pattern_bytes	1.236 GB	1.247 GB
from-space walk	(n/a)	34 walks, 4,367 examined each, 67.3 % productive

• Site cache is not the cost. site_hit, new, pattern_bytes and test
  all move together by +0.8 %, which is the turn being marginally larger; the
  hit RATIO is 98.95 % against 98.96 %. No extra misses and no repairs, so the
  1.24 GB of pattern memcmp is a cost both arms pay, not a delta.
• The from-space walk is not the cost. It examines 4,367 entries per minor,
  not tens of thousands - the walk prunes the registry every minor, so it never
  accumulates - and 67.3 % of what it examines is genuinely dead. It is also
  inside the measured pause, so it cannot be mutator time in any case.
• Fulls are unchanged, 4 and 4, independently confirming that the escalated-
  fulls reading retracted above was noise.
• compiles std/fancy/repeat 211/88/33 -> 210/88/33: one fewer standard
  compile, against +0.8 % more constructions. The invariant holds.

So the mutator cost survives every counter that exists, which is itself the
evidence for the locality hypothesis: it is the one candidate that is invisible
to all of them by construction.

Why the malloc arm was never required

GC_TYPE_REGEXP has been ArenaOrMalloc and movable = true all along;
GcMoveHookKind::RegExpSideTables already rekeys REGEX_POINTERS,
REGEX_SOURCE_TABLE and the expando owner, GcLayoutSlotKind::RegExpFields
already traces pattern_ptr/flags_ptr/meta, and
test_movable_regexp_evacuation_migrates_all_address_owned_state has exercised
the arena arm through a #[cfg(test)] allocator. The production comment records
gc_malloc as an upgrade from a raw alloc() that leaked every header — not as
a rejection of the arena. What actually blocked the switch was finalization of
young death: the copying minor's from-space flip runs no per-object finalize
hooks, so a nursery header dying young would leak its three Arc programs and
its registry entries. Handled now exactly as Map, Set and Error handle
theirs — finalize_dead_copied_minor_from_space_regexps after a copied minor
(copying.rs:1560, after the rewrite pass so the move hook has rekeyed to
to-space, before clear_marks so MARKED/FORWARDED still read true, before
the from-space reset so a dead header is still mapped),
collect_dead_registered_regexps_post_trace at sweep entry for the non-copying
cycle kinds, and the existing old-generation sweep for a promoted header.

Deadness reuses the audited owner_is_dead_copied_minor_from_space predicate,
which requires GC_FLAG_ARENA set and MARKED|FORWARDED clear, so an evacuated
header and a still-malloc'd one are both skipped.

A moving header is safe because every program cache keys on CONTENT:
REGEX_CACHE, FANCY_CACHE, REPEAT_MATCHER_CACHE and VALIDATED_PATTERNS on
(Arc<str>, Arc<str>), the site cache on a fingerprint plus a full compare.
Descriptor (owner, key) keys are rekeyed generically by
scan_descriptor_roots_mut, and #9754's young-log arming is address-based so a
nursery RegExp owner arms itself. js_regexp_exec already roots re and
re-reads it (#8428/#8446/#8449, because lastIndex coercion can run user JS) —
that rooting, not the malloc arm, is what made the hot path safe, and those
three tests now run against a header that really can move.

One behaviour change reviewers should look at directly

untraced in-place promotion requires skip_remembering, which requires
malloc_registry_empty_at_start. With ~100 k malloc-registered headers the
registry was never empty, so that path was unreachable on claude-code and
becomes reachable here for the first time. It is already guarded —
retag_young_for_in_place_promotion runs before the from-space finalize walks,
after which no address classifies as nursery, so every death-pruning pass (Map,
Set, Error and now RegExp, which share one predicate) provably finds nothing,
which is what copying.rs:1219-1226 already argues. Measured: untraced=true
is 0 in every arm at 3300. The 400 census is what tests it there.

Testing

cargo test --profile gcaudit -p perry-runtime -- --test-threads=1 — the only
profile with debug-assertions = true, and therefore the only one that
exercises the GC rules this change adds — 3,170 passed, 0 failed, 4 ignored,
0 filtered out. The four ignored are documented benchmarks and the deliberate
abort-child pin_latch_sabotage_child. Passing by name:
nursery_regexp_that_dies_young_is_finalized_by_the_copied_minor,
test_movable_regexp_evacuation_migrates_all_address_owned_state,
regexp_finalize_releases_all_header_owned_programs,
malloc_finalize_clears_regexp_address_owned_tables,
regexp_has_dedicated_gc_kind_and_is_not_a_shaped_object, and the three
moving-minor-inside-lastIndex tests. 101 regex tests green.

compiles std/fancy/repeat (PERRY_REGEX_DIAG) must be unchanged; on this
sandbox its value is 211/88/33.

Arms, so no number here is misattributed

Both arms are based on main d36a1af0c and carry #9796 (2 commits), #9801's
reconcile and #9819 (2 commits). Neither carries #9838. The isolating pair
for this change alone is f4bcb1e4d → 85bedc396, one commit apart with
identical codegen, so both share the relink object cache. perry-b4's clean-host
arms are rebased onto 644b9d362 (main + #9838) and its R is 86fa23d97;
counters reproduce across both, absolute per-reply volumes do not — they are a
property of the sandbox project, so arms are only ever compared within a host.

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Rebased onto 35c36f425 (2026-09-06)

origin/main moved to 35c36f425 and the merge train landed this branch's
entire stack — #9796 (17cd15449), #9801's reconcile (a800902f7), #9819
(56e473c6d) — together with the split of
crates/perry-runtime/src/regex.rs under the file-size cap (a800902f7,
0b175c555, 07e3774dc).

The rebase is git rebase --onto 35c36f425 f4bcb1e4d: the five already-landed
commits are dropped and only 85bedc396 is replayed. New head
e076f7793. The PR is now the one-commit, 8-file diff it always asked to be
reviewed as, instead of six commits and 21 files.

Conflicts: none — and why the campaign log said otherwise

The conflict that was recorded against this PR was in the whole-stack merge:
main carries #9796/#9801/#9819 as different commits, so replaying this
branch's own copies of them conflicts with their landed forms. Replaying
85bedc396 alone produced zero conflicts, for a concrete reason worth
stating because it was the open question: the split did not move a single site
this change touches. js_regexp_new, the REGEX_POINTERS /
REGEX_SOURCE_TABLE thread-locals, regex_header_finalize_for_gc and the
gc_malloc call itself are all still in regex.rs on main — the split moved
program_key, replace_expand_fancy, global_scan, class_range_validate and
the fancy-replacement expander out. Nothing was re-applied by hand, nothing was
dropped, and the diff is byte-identical in intent to 85bedc396.

Re-derived on the new base rather than trusted to the clean merge

Per BRIEF_COMMON's "a clean merge is evidence about lines, never about meaning",
the invariants this change establishes were re-checked against 35c36f425:

• Finalize coverage is Map's coverage. finalize_dead_copied_minor_from_space_maps
  / collect_dead_registered_maps_post_trace / finalize_collected_dead_map
  have exactly three call sites on main and no others; the RegExp trio now sits
  on the adjacent line at each of them (copying.rs:1911, oldgen.rs:1220,
  oldgen.rs:1253). A RegExp header therefore cannot die on a cycle kind where a
  Map could not.
• The ordering the change depends on still holds.
  retag_young_for_in_place_promotion is at copying.rs:1240;
  finalize_dead_copied_minor_from_space_side_allocations is at
  copying.rs:1634 — after the rewrite pass, after run_fromspace_scan and
  run_native_stack_scan, and before clear_marks and the from-space reset.
  That is the window the PR argues for, unchanged by the train's +97 lines in
  copying.rs.
• One production allocation site. gc_malloc(header_size, GC_TYPE_REGEXP)
  occurs exactly once on main and it is the line this replaces; the only other
  arena_alloc_gc for GC_TYPE_REGEXP is the pre-existing #[cfg(test)]
test_alloc_nursery_regexp_for_move.
• The other side added no writer of a contract this change moves.
  git diff f4bcb1e4d origin/main -- crates/perry-runtime/src/{object,builtins,string}/
  contains no RegExp reference at all, and the train's only gc/malloc.rs change
  is the perry_thread_local! conversion of MALLOC_STATE.

Gates re-run on the rebased tree: raw_handle_debt.py (955 sites against a 963
baseline, 112 modules within ceilings), check_thread_locals.py (400 hot / 272
cold, capacity 768), check_file_size.sh (no file over 2,000 lines — regex.rs
stays under it after the split plus this change), check_test_registration.py.

The CPU claim in this body PREDATES #9857 and is to be re-priced

Every CPU figure above was measured on binaries that do not carry #9857
(native-instance tag keyed by LocalId instead of by name). On perrymaster,
#9857 alone takes a 3300-character turn from 13.6–18.2 s to 6.9 s, unimodal
7/7, by removing the 27 % __memmove_avx512_unaligned_erms under
prune_dead_owner_side_tables_post_trace — which is the bimodal slow mode this
PR's "A′ 12.83–19.34 s bimodal → R 10.45–11.58 s unimodal, −27 % on means" row
was measured against.

So the slow-mode component of this change's CPU win is gone with #9857, and
the −27 % is not a claim this PR may carry forward until the pair is re-run on a
#9857 base. What this PR is accountable for now is the memory and
allocation-arm result, which is the part that is a count rather than a time:

quantity	before	after
malloc_kinds[regexp].allocated_count (3300)	1,484,765	0
total malloc-backed GC allocations (3300)	1,484,818	53
MallocCount trigger firings (3300)	105	0
malloc registry peak (3300)	101,893	1,597
peak RSS / VmHWM (3300)	~1,123 MB	~1,032 MB (−70 to −90 MB)

The first four are counts and are base- and load-independent by construction.
The peak-RSS row is a measurement and was taken pre-#9857, so it should be
re-confirmed on a #9857 base before it is quoted as a landed number — #9857
itself moves peak RSS by −460 MB at 3300, so the two are not additive without
being measured together.

The #9860 dependency for the 400-character settled footprint is unchanged, as
is the landing order #9838 → #9860 → this PR (now also after #9857).

Testing after the rebase

Rebased tree, cargo test -j4 -p perry-runtime --release --lib -- --test-threads=1
(under the campaign build lock, nice -n19, dev box, load 28–80):

test result: ok. 3198 passed; 0 failed; 4 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out

The four ignored are the documented benchmarks and the deliberate abort-child
pin_latch_sabotage_child, unchanged. Filtering to regex:
101 passed, 0 failed — the same 101 the pre-rebase body reports.

Passing by name on the new base:

• gc::tests::copying::survival_and_malloc::nursery_regexp_that_dies_young_is_finalized_by_the_copied_minor (this PR's new test)
• gc::tests::copying::survival_and_malloc::test_movable_regexp_evacuation_migrates_all_address_owned_state
• regex::tests::regexp_finalize_releases_all_header_owned_programs
• regex::tests::malloc_finalize_clears_regexp_address_owned_tables
• regex::tests::regexp_has_dedicated_gc_kind_and_is_not_a_shaped_object
• the three moving-minor lastIndex tests —
  gc::tests::runtime_roots::regexp_last_index::{regexp_exec_survives_a_moving_minor_inside_the_lastindex_coercion, regexp_exec_materializes_an_owned_snapshot_after_an_alloc_point_minor, string_match_fancy_materializes_an_owned_snapshot_after_an_alloc_point_minor}

Not re-run on the rebased tree: the gcaudit profile suite (the
debug-assertions arm, 3,170/0 pre-rebase) and cargo clippy. Both need a
separate full build of perry-runtime and the box was carrying five other
lanes; the release --lib suite above is the arm this rebase was checked with.

https://claude.ai/code/session_014knX724SYDogwzsXybCGxp

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Performance

  • Improved memory management for regular expressions, reducing allocation overhead for short-lived patterns.
  • Optimized regular-expression caching to reduce repeated string processing and unnecessary cache-key allocations.
  • Added an early check that can skip expensive repeat matching when a match is impossible.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved cleanup of unreachable regular expressions during garbage collection, including release of associated compiled data.

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RegExp headers now allocate in the movable nursery. Regex caches use shared Arc<str> keys, repeat matching adds a linear-engine guard, and garbage-collection paths finalize dead RegExp headers after copied minors and incremental sweeps.

Changes

Regex runtime changes

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Repeat matcher routing and backtracking guard crates/perry-runtime/src/regex.rs	Subject-aware repeat-matcher lookups use a linear-engine precheck before repeat backtracking.
Shared cache keys and regex module wiring crates/perry-runtime/src/regex.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/regex/lazy.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/regex/program_key.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/regex/replace_expand_fancy.rs	Regex caches use shared Arc<str> keys. Canonical flags can be shared. Fancy string operations move to a re-exported module.
Nursery allocation and RegExp finalization crates/perry-runtime/src/regex.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/*, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/copying/survival_and_malloc.rs, changelog.d/9840-regexp-header-nursery.md	RegExp headers allocate in the movable GC arena. Copied-minor cleanup and incremental sweep finalize dead headers and release registry references. Regression coverage validates dead nursery-header cleanup.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e076f

This change moves RegExp lifecycle handling into the nursery and adds guarded repeat matching. A potentially incorrect no-match result in repeat matching remains unresolved, and untraced collections can reduce later GC presizing efficiency; resolve these before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GC
  participant RegExpRegistry
  participant RegExpHeader
  GC->>RegExpRegistry: finalize_dead_copied_minor_from_space_regexps()
  RegExpRegistry->>RegExpHeader: finalize dead from-space headers
  GC->>RegExpRegistry: collect_dead_registered_regexps_post_trace()
  RegExpRegistry->>RegExpHeader: finalize_collected_dead_regexp(addr)

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Do not use the clamped linear program as an authoritative no-match result.

js_regex_to_rust_with_flags rewrites exact quantifiers above 65,535 to {65535}. collapse_redos_guard_quantifiers does not widen exact quantifiers. regress::Regex::with_flags still receives the original pattern. Therefore, ^(a){65536}$ can match 65,536 a characters in regress, while linear_rules_out_match checks ^(a){65535}$, rules out the match, and skips regress. Return false from the pre-check when an exact quantifier was clamped, and add this case to the regression tests.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/regex.rs` around lines 1651 - 1656, Update
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clamped an exact quantifier, rather than treating the rewritten linear program
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Side finding from this work, filed separately as #9851 and surfaced by this PR, not caused by it: the adaptive tenuring loop selects survival age 1 for 12-16 of ~40 minors per 400-char turn and pays 2-5 full collections that reclaim 0.2-0.3 % for it.

The unmodified-allocator arm shows it identically — A adaptive {7,5} fulls against R adaptive {5,7}, with near-identical age distributions — so this branch does not alter tenuring behaviour. A pre-registered prediction that R would show more fulls was falsified by that matrix, which is also the cleanest evidence that #9845 is not the producer.

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Preserve the dirty-set estimate when no dirty scan runs.

When untraced is true, the scan at Lines [1431]-[1450] does not add entries. This call stores 0 as the estimate for the next cycle. The next traced minor then loses the previous capacity estimate and can repeat hash-table growth. Update the estimate only after a real dirty scan, or preserve the previous estimate for untraced cycles.

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Landed on main via merge train #9883. Validated as a tree: 64/64 lint gates, and perry-runtime/codegen/hir/stdlib all green (5,910 tests, 0 failures). Thanks!