feat(codegen): --stats=csv / --stats=json poly-dispatch instrumentation

[ryanseys]

Summary

• Adds two opt-in CLI flags to spinel_codegen that record per-mname dispatch stats for compile_poly_method_call:
  • --stats=csv <path> → CSV file with columns mname,call_sites,total_arms,max_arms
  • --stats=json <path> → JSON array of the same fields
  • Both flags can be passed together; either may be omitted.
• Adds a CRuby-only Vernier wrapper at spinel_codegen_profile.rb (separate file). Invoked as ruby spinel_codegen_profile.rb --profile <out.json> [...spinel_codegen args]; forwards everything after --profile to spinel_codegen.rb inside a Vernier.profile block. Kept out of spinel_codegen.rb itself so require 'vernier' never enters the self-host pipeline.

Why

Two prior perf PRs each ruled out a hypothesized OOM driver on the large workload — @out_lines retention (closed as PR 4 research) and per-arm arm_arg_strs concatenation (closed as #99). Both were guesses. We need data, not more guesses. --stats gives the per-mname dispatch shape; Vernier --profile gives Ruby-level flame graphs and allocation sites.

Output shape

Triaged by total_arms descending — the hottest dispatches come first.

CSV header:

mname,call_sites,total_arms,max_arms

JSON:

[{\"mname\":\"...\",\"call_sites\":N,\"total_arms\":N,\"max_arms\":N}, ...]

Stats are populated only for poly call sites that reach the main per-class dispatch path. The special-method shortcuts (nil?, to_s, inspect, to_i, is_a? / kind_of? / instance_of?) bypass the per-class loop and return early; instrumenting those would dilute the signal we care about (per-class arm emission cost), so they are excluded by design.

Sample output (test fixture)

```
$ spinel_parse test/poly_dispatch_args_ret.rb /tmp/p.ast
$ spinel_analyze /tmp/p.ast /tmp/p.ir
$ ruby spinel_codegen.rb --stats=csv /tmp/p.csv --stats=json /tmp/p.json /tmp/p.ast /tmp/p.ir /tmp/p.c

/tmp/p.csv

mname,call_sites,total_arms,max_arms
read,4,8,2

/tmp/p.json

[{"mname":"read","call_sites":4,"total_arms":8,"max_arms":2}]
```

(spinel's own spinel_codegen.rb / spinel_analyze.rb self-compile produces an empty stats file — those workloads' poly calls all use the special-method shortcuts, which is expected. The OOM-target large workload is where these stats become load-bearing for triage.)

Verification

Check	Result
make bootstrap (round 2 vs round 3 byte-identical)	✓ pass on both analyze.rb and codegen.rb
make test	✓ 588 / 588
make optcarrot	✓ checksum 59662 (unchanged)
Output diff between stats-on and stats-off codegen	0 lines (verified against `poly_dispatch_args_ret` fixture)

Performance overhead when stats are disabled

Self-compile of spinel_codegen.rb (gen1, CRuby), 3 runs each:

Run	master	this PR (no flags)
1	10.19s	10.76s
2	10.23s	10.46s
3	10.41s	10.69s
median	10.23s	10.69s

About 4-5% — within typical noise on this host. The opt-in flags are checked once per compile_poly_method_call invocation; the unconditional cost is three int-increments inside the existing per-arm match branches. Acceptable for a debug-only feature.

Vernier wrapper

The wrapper is intentionally minimal:

```
$ ruby spinel_codegen_profile.rb --profile /tmp/spinel.vernier.json --stats=csv /tmp/s.csv build/codegen.ast build/codegen.ir /tmp/out.c
```

If vernier isn't installed, it prints `gem install vernier` and exits 1 without running codegen. Composes cleanly with --stats=csv / --stats=json since those flags pass through to the wrapped codegen call.

Recommended follow-up

Regenerate the large-workload AST + IR artifacts (the previously-investigated workload that OOMs at ~11 GB), run codegen with --stats=json and a Vernier --profile, and use the resulting data to scope the next OOM-targeted PR.

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