perf(codegen): hoist the versioned loop's length bound; admit float arithmetic in masked-window stores

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Two follow-ups to #9041/#9063, stacked on #9063 (2e6c0c387c) — merge after it.

1. Versioned-loop length-bound hoist

The versioned packed loop's fast clone re-evaluated i < arr.length per iteration — ~20 inline instructions of handle decode + GC-header checks + the length load, which LLVM cannot hoist past the body's raw element stores. The entry guard just proved a live, non-forwarded plain array whose length the matched body cannot change (in-bounds stores only, no calls), so hoist the length ONCE in the fast preheader and hand it to lower_for_after_init_with_i32_bound, exactly like the range-versioned fast copy (#6011). A mid-loop GC move changes the array's address, never its length, so the hoisted VALUE stays correct.

i < a.length store loops: 1.3 → 0.70 ns/store (node 0.59); constant-bound and hoisted-local-bound variants also gain (3.3 → 2.2, 3.6 → 2.8).

2. Float arithmetic in masked-window store values

#9063 admitted only literal / counter / in-window-load RHS values. Extend both predicates with float arithmetic (+ − * /, unary negation) over admitted operands: both sides being genuine doubles pins the numeric lowering to a bare float instruction — the boxed-+-helper hazard needs a non-numeric operand — and a float op over canonical operands cannot fabricate a NaN-box pattern (the default quiet NaN 0x7FF8 is a genuine double). % and ** stay excluded (runtime-helper lowerings).

a[i & K] = b[i & K] + 1.5: 15.9 → 0.50 ns/store — ahead of node's 1.33. IR census of the fast clone: one raw load, one fadd, one raw store, the loop poll — no calls.

Correctness

• Seven-probe arithmetic differential vs node, byte-identical: NaN propagation, x/0 → ±Infinity, 0/0 → NaN, −0 quotients and products, overflow to Infinity, denormals, read-modify-write of the same slot, and a mixed-type source array whose guard failure routes through the slow clone where JS + string concatenation applies.
• New pin: the arith fast clone is call-free with fadd double + store double and never routes through js_add; all masked/packed pins green (9/9 in the two families).
• Full host gate on 4ca7bee8cb: all real lint steps pass, ratchets clean, suites green (one known parallel-only stack_maps flake, passes in isolation).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Performance Improvements

  • Improved dense numeric loop performance by reusing validated array length bounds.
  • Optimized masked indexed stores for number arrays, including values produced by floating-point arithmetic.
  • Reduced overhead for eligible array updates by using direct numeric loads and stores.

• Bug Fixes

  • Preserved safe handling for unsupported or non-numeric store patterns.

• Tests

  • Added regression coverage for masked stores using floating-point arithmetic.

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The packed-f64 range loop now supports proven masked stores with float-arithmetic RHS expressions. It emits raw f64 stores, skips incompatible typed-array tiers, hoists the loop length bound, and adds regression coverage.

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Masked-window dense stores

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Range matching and store facts crates/perry-codegen/src/stmt/loops.rs	Dense loops recognize admissible masked stores, record static windows, enable stores only for the dense f64 tier, and hoist the array length bound.
Masked store lowering crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/masked_window.rs	The lowering proves genuine f64 RHS expressions, emits an in-window store double, and records a MaskedWindowStore artifact.
Regression coverage and release notes crates/perry-codegen/tests/native_proof_regressions.rs, changelog.d/9070-versioned-len-hoist-masked-arith.md	Tests verify raw load, arithmetic, and store lowering. Module builders initialize classic_for_lexical_bindings. The changelog documents both changes.

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The optimized packed loop may retain a garbage-collection safepoint in its hot path, reducing the expected performance improvement. The impact is bounded and the PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up to suppress the unnecessary poll.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant JavaScriptSource
  participant PackedF64RangeMatcher
  participant DenseF64Lowering
  participant ArrayStorage
  JavaScriptSource->>PackedF64RangeMatcher: provide masked store loop
  PackedF64RangeMatcher->>DenseF64Lowering: record admissible store window
  DenseF64Lowering->>ArrayStorage: load masked element
  DenseF64Lowering->>ArrayStorage: store computed double

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In the Perry TypeScript compiler (PerryTS/perry), the function emit_gc_loop_safepoint is a routine within the codegen pipeline responsible for inserting garbage collection (GC) poll points at the back-edges of loops [1]. Perry compiles TypeScript to native machine code using LLVM [2][3]. Because Perry utilizes a precise generational garbage collector, it requires the generated code to reach "safepoints"—program locations where the GC can safely traverse the execution state (such as the shadow stack of live heap pointers) to identify roots [4][5]. Loops that contain potential allocation sites or other operations that might trigger a collection must include a back-edge safepoint to ensure the GC can run [1][5]. The specific function emit_gc_loop_safepoint typically emits a call to the runtime function @js_gc_loop_safepoint [1]. This allows the collector to suspend execution at the end of loop iterations if a collection is necessary [1]. Perry's codegen architecture includes optimization passes (such as "inertness proofs") that can analyze loop bodies; if a loop is proven to be "numeric" or otherwise guaranteed not to allocate, the compiler may optimize away these back-edge polls to improve performance [1]. The reference to lower_for_after_init_with_i32_bound suggests context related to loop optimization, specifically where Perry lowers loop-bound array indices as i32 values to optimize performance in hot loops (e.g., matrix multiplication) [6]. When lowering such loops, the compiler must continue to maintain GC safety by properly managing safepoint insertion, ensuring that optimizations like index lowering do not bypass necessary GC polling [6][1].

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Exclude packed-f64 scopes from loop safepoints. Generic IndexSet is classified as potentially allocating, so lower_for_after_init_with_i32_bound emits js_gc_loop_safepoint on the back-edge. The packed-f64 and masked-window fact scopes are not excluded, so for.packed_f64_range_fast can lose its call-free fast path. Add these scopes to the poll suppression and clone-entry validation.

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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/stmt/loops.rs` around lines 1995 - 2004, Update
lower_for_after_init_with_i32_bound to exclude packed-f64 and masked-window fact
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Merged. I rebased this off the merged #9063 — it was stacked, so its diff still carried that PR's commit and fragment. Cherry-picking the one new commit onto main applied cleanly, and git diff origin/main --diff-filter=D is empty, so nothing was carried back as an unintended revert (three PRs this week did exactly that, hence the check). I also renamed changelog.d/9064-… → changelog.d/9070-… to match the PR-keyed convention.

The length hoist. I went looking for the ways a hoisted bound goes stale, and the reassuring answer is that this isn't a new analysis — classify_for_length_hoist and lower_for_after_init_with_i32_bound already exist and are already used; the versioned fast clone was simply still calling lower_for_after_init and re-deriving i < arr.length per iteration. The emitted load is also byte-for-byte the idiom already at loops.rs:3378 (bitcast → POINTER_MASK_I64 → inttoptr → load I32), under the same "guard-ok entry, array proven live/dense" rationale, and ArrayHeader is #[repr(C)] { length: u32, capacity: u32 }, so offset 0 is the length by layout rather than by luck.

The claim that actually needs to hold is "the matched body cannot change its length", so I tested the four ways it could:

	shape	node	perry
7	a.push(99) mid-loop — grows	0,1,2,3,4,5 | 6	identical
8	a.length = 4 mid-loop — shrinks	0,1,2,3 | 4	identical
9	rebinding the array local mid-loop	20 elements	identical
10	a[i + 3] = i — store past the end grows	0,0.5,1,0,1,2,3 | 7	identical

All four fall out of the match (they are the "calls, alias writes, growth" the matcher excludes) and keep the unhoisted lowering. A GC move changing the address but not the length is right, and is why the hoisted value survives.

Float arithmetic in masked-window stores. The two predicates are the risk here — dense_masked_store_rhs_is_admissible (match time) and masked_store_rhs_is_genuine_f64 (lowering time) must not diverge, or a NaN-box reaches an fadd and propagates its payload as a number. The new arms are structurally identical in both, and every base case is numeric by construction: Number/Integer literals, LocalGet restricted to the counter or an i32 counter slot (so sitofp i32 -> double), and IndexGet with a static window over a guard-validated packed array (a raw f64 load). So + over admitted operands cannot be concatenation — there is no shape here that can produce a string.

The NaN argument in the doc comment is also correct as stated: an op on canonical operands that produces NaN yields the default quiet NaN 0x7FF8…, below the 0x7FFA–0x7FFF tag range, and payload propagation from an input NaN is safe because the raw-f64 invariant already bars a boxed-range payload NaN from the slot. Excluding % and ** is the right line — both lower through runtime helpers.

I exercised the IEEE edges through the admitted ops rather than trusting that: 0, -0, ±Infinity, NaN, 5e-324, 1.797…e308, 0.1 cycled through + - * / and unary negation in the masked window, with Object.is used to distinguish -0 from 0 (30 values). Byte-identical to node v26.5.1, all 12 probe cases.

One thing that is not yours. perry --bins failed once during my run on archive_cache::…preparation_safety_survives_fallback_and_cache_hit. Alternating main/PR twice gave 2 failures out of 4 on each side, and it passes isolated — a branch-independent flake, filed as #9083. Mentioning it so the next person to see it red here doesn't spend the afternoon I nearly did.

Validation: codegen 1347 passed, native_proof_regressions 284 passed, runtime 2814 passed (RUST_TEST_THREADS=1), fmt clean, run_lint_gates.sh all 60 gates passed; 2 CI-only skipped.