--opt-report (#6952) can tell you, for one build, which values got an unboxed
representation and which did not. What it cannot do is tell you that the answer
changed — or that it has been zero all along.
#7034 established the state of things by hand-instrumenting the compiler:
Ptr<Shape> promotes nothing at all on benchmarks/app-patterns/kernels/batch.ts,
the object/property-heavy program that representation exists for.
PERRY_PTR_SHAPE_LOCALS=0 versus the default produced a byte-identical
binary (4,294,904 bytes, __text 3,804,424).
- Across
benchmarks/suite, only 3 files promote a shape local, and each
promotes exactly one.
Nobody knew any of that until somebody went looking. That is the failure to
make impossible to repeat.
Ask
A per-workload, per-representation census recorded as a ratcheted baseline,
so a drop turns a build red.
Per representation, not aggregated: the interesting signal is Ptr<Shape> = 0
while canonical Str ≠ 0. One total hides exactly that.
The hard part
CLAUDE.md, "★ Four ways a gate can be unable to fail", case 4 — the gate runs
but its subject never did. A census that faithfully reports Ptr<Shape>: 0
and exits green is worth nothing: that is the state the project is in
today. So the census needs, beyond floors:
- floors that can actually be violated (the honest floor for
Ptr<Shape> on
real code is zero, and a zero floor can never fail);
- a liveness assertion on the instrument itself — a fixture that definitely
promotes, which fails the census if its count reads zero, so that "zero
because nothing promoted" is distinguishable from "zero because nobody
increments the counter";
- verification by sabotage in both directions.
Related
--opt-report(#6952) can tell you, for one build, which values got an unboxedrepresentation and which did not. What it cannot do is tell you that the answer
changed — or that it has been zero all along.
#7034 established the state of things by hand-instrumenting the compiler:
Ptr<Shape>promotes nothing at all onbenchmarks/app-patterns/kernels/batch.ts,the object/property-heavy program that representation exists for.
PERRY_PTR_SHAPE_LOCALS=0versus the default produced a byte-identicalbinary (4,294,904 bytes,
__text3,804,424).benchmarks/suite, only 3 files promote a shape local, and eachpromotes exactly one.
Nobody knew any of that until somebody went looking. That is the failure to
make impossible to repeat.
Ask
A per-workload, per-representation census recorded as a ratcheted baseline,
so a drop turns a build red.
Per representation, not aggregated: the interesting signal is
Ptr<Shape>= 0while canonical
Str≠ 0. One total hides exactly that.The hard part
CLAUDE.md, "★ Four ways a gate can be unable to fail", case 4 — the gate runs
but its subject never did. A census that faithfully reports
Ptr<Shape>: 0and exits green is worth nothing: that is the state the project is in
today. So the census needs, beyond floors:
Ptr<Shape>onreal code is zero, and a zero floor can never fail);
promotes, which fails the census if its count reads zero, so that "zero
because nothing promoted" is distinguishable from "zero because nobody
increments the counter";
Related
--opt-report, the data source.--opt-report. Separate, additive.