jolt/jolt-core/jolt/passes.clj
Dmitri Sotnikov 048de0200d
Scalar-replace short-lived record allocations (jolt-15jq) (#132)
scalar-replace already folds non-escaping const-key map literals
((:k {:k a ..}) -> a, and drops a let-bound map that doesn't escape).
Extend the same fold to record constructors: a (->Rec a b c) is a
positional struct whose declared field order lives in the record-shapes
registry, so a field read on a non-escaping ctor folds to the matching
positional arg and the allocation disappears.

Direct form (:field (->Rec ..)) and the let-bound form both handled,
threaded through run-passes via a per-unit shape registry (new
jolt.host/record-shapes accessor). Soundness: ctor args must be pure
(duplicated/discarded like map vals), arg count must equal the field
count, and only declared-field reads fold — a record answers the virtual
:jolt/deftype key with its type tag and any other key with nil, neither
of which is a positional arg, so those keep the allocation. pure? now
treats a record ctor of pure args as pure, so nested records (a Ray
holding a Vec3) fold bottom-up.

Allocation-bound microbench (non-escaping record built + field-read in a
hot loop): 69.6s -> 2.4s, landing on the no-record arithmetic baseline.
The ray tracer is unchanged — its vec3 results escape (returned/stored
each op), so they genuinely allocate; that's a separate problem.

Co-authored-by: Yogthos <yogthos@gmail.com>
2026-06-16 01:21:36 +00:00

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(ns jolt.passes
"IR optimization passes (nanopass-lite, jolt-2om) + the inference/checking
driver. Façade over three weakly-coupled namespaces, loaded with the compiler:
jolt.passes.fold — const-fold (always-on) + the shared const-shape predicate.
jolt.passes.inline — inline + flatten-lets + scalar-replace (direct-link only).
jolt.passes.types — collection-type inference + success-type checking
(RFC 0006) + the inter-procedural driver API (jolt-767).
run-passes (below) is the single entry the back end applies to every analyzed
form. The driver/checker fns the back end looks up by name (check-form,
infer-body, reinfer-def, set-rtenv!, take-diags!, …) are re-exported here via
:refer, so jolt.passes stays the only namespace the back end imports.
Portable Clojure: kernel-tier fns + seed primitives only."
(:require [jolt.host :refer [inline-enabled? record-shapes]]
[jolt.passes.fold :refer [const-fold]]
[jolt.passes.inline :refer [inline-node flatten-lets scalar-replace dirty set-rec-shapes!]]
[jolt.passes.types :refer [run-inference
check-form infer-body reinfer-def
set-rtenv! set-vtypes! join-types
set-record-shapes! set-map-shapes! set-protocol-methods!
reset-escapes! collected-escapes
set-check-mode! take-diags!]]))
(defn run-passes
"All passes, in order. The back end applies this to every analyzed form. When
inlining is enabled for the unit (user code under direct-linking, jolt-87f),
run inline + flatten + scalar-replace + const-fold to a capped fixpoint —
inlining exposes map literals to lookups, scalar-replace collapses them, which
may expose more — then a collection-type inference pass (jolt-99x, optionally
also emitting success diagnostics) that auto-drops the lookup guard where the
type is proven. Otherwise (core + bootstrap) just const-fold, as before."
[node ctx]
(if (inline-enabled? ctx)
(let [_ (set-rec-shapes! (record-shapes ctx)) ;; record ctor fold (jolt-15jq)
opt (loop [i 0 n (const-fold node)]
(reset! dirty false)
(let [n2 (const-fold (scalar-replace (flatten-lets (inline-node n ctx))))]
(if (and @dirty (< i 8))
(recur (inc i) n2)
n2)))]
;; a final const-fold after inference propagates any predicate folded to a
;; constant (jolt-wcw), collapsing the `if` it gates to the taken branch.
(const-fold (run-inference opt)))
(const-fold node)))