Whether a to_a result is mutated is read off the call and variable-site indexes

[amatsuda]

The shared-String analysis (promote_shared_stored_strings and the store walks under it) dominated type inference on large programs. On an 86k-line program (an actionpack app flattened into one file), fixpoint round 0 took 1155 s on master; with these three commits it takes 200 s. On a 33k-line activesupport app, the whole analysis goes from 396 s to about 240 s with the same generated C. This cost predates #7992 (a build from just before it never finished round 0 on the 86k program within 30 minutes).

Three commits:

1. The walk back to a parameter's callers asks only the calls that can reach it. strbuf_demand_param_container_stores found a parameter's callers by asking an_call_targets_scope of every call in the program, for each parameter reached from each container walked, and that was almost all of round 0. Now only calls under the method's own name, an alias name, or new for an initialize are asked, taken from the existing by-name call lists. The list of calls reaching a method is kept for one promote_shared_stored_strings pass. That's valid because the pass only marks Strings shared and never changes what a call resolves to.
2. A store walk walks each expression, method return, ivar and local once. strbuf_container_source_walk and the walks it recurses into re-walked the same method or container along every path that reached it. A memo now lasts one outermost walk, keyed by what is walked, the mode and the depth. A repeat visit at the same or greater depth returns the earlier answer; a visit while its own walk is still running returns 0. It's correct because the marks are idempotent and the answers are ORs that only grow. The memo is cleared when the outermost walk returns, so later walks see this one's marks.
3. Whether a to_a result is mutated is read from the call and variable-site indexes. Once the walks were cheap, an_to_a_result_mutated was about 45% of each round: it scanned every call, then every call again per local the result was written to. It now uses comp_recv_parent and the local's VS_RECV chain, with the same receiver and name checks.

On the 33k program the generated C is identical except for the worktree path, which appears in #line lines and in one Method#inspect string.

hash_value_array_element_bang, hash_element_push_each_bang, and all 1041 corpus tests matching strbuf/shared/string/mutat/bang/strip/each/hash_ pass. anon_block_forward_shared_proc wrote no result in an 8-way parallel run but passes alone. make share-strings-test and make reject-test pass.

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• Performance
  • Reduced repeated analysis work when tracing shared strings and identifying relevant method callers.
  • Improved checks for array mutations and call results assigned to local variables.

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The analysis code adds memoization to shared-string traversals, caches candidate callers during shared-string promotion, and replaces call-table scans in mutation checks with indexed lookups.

Changes

Analysis traversal optimization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Memoize shared-string source traversals src/analyze.c	Local-container, ivar-source, method-return, and container-expression traversals use memoized results with depth-aware keys.
Resolve candidate callers during promotion src/analyze.c	The promotion pass collects and caches callers for each method scope. Parameter-container traversal processes the candidate list and frees it afterward.
Use indexed lookups for mutation checks src/analyze_infer.c	Mutation checks use receiver-parent and receiver variable-site lookups instead of scanning all calls.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Refactor

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 34e88

Shared-string analysis may do avoidable work in programs with many aliases and parameter scopes. The improvement is worthwhile, but its unmeasured cost does not establish a merge blocker.

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Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 34e88

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Changed systems: src

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• observed — src (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in src/analyze.c: Added a generation-stamped memo keyed by walk kind, node or scope identifiers, and mode. Repeated visits at the same or greater depth reuse the accumulated result; an in-progress revisit contributes no result, and the memo generation resets at the outermost walk. Allocation failure exits with an out-of-memory error.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/analyze.c: Added call-candidate collection for a method’s own name, new for initialize, and applicable aliases, followed by exact an_call_targets_scope filtering. Candidates are sorted by node ID; resolved caller lists are cached by scope for the current pass and copied for each caller. Allocation failures terminate with an out-of-memory error.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/analyze.c: Replaced the scan of all CallNodes and per-call target checks with iteration over the resolved candidate list for this method; each candidate is still checked as a call before its argument layout is processed.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/analyze.c: Frees the candidate-call list after the parameter-container traversal.

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[FrancescoK]

I might have been too focused on "correctness first, performance second". Thanks @amatsuda. I'll double-check whether the caching impacts anything

Edit: It looks all good. Great!

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src/analyze.c (1)

15756-15759: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Reuse alias targets across caller discovery.

When the parameter walk reaches multiple scopes, each uncached strbuf_scope_callers call enumerates every class alias, scans each alias call list, and then discards calls that cannot reach m. The per-scope cache does not remove this work across different scopes.

Build a pass-local reverse index from alias names to possible target scopes, then collect only names that can reach m. Build this from alias and class target data instead of repeating a full call-to-target expansion.

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Review comment at @src/analyze.c around lines 15756 - 15759:
Update the caller-discovery flow around the alias loop and strbuf_scope_callers
to build a pass-local reverse index from alias names to possible target scopes
using alias and class target data, then use it to collect only aliases that can
reach m. Avoid re-expanding every alias’s call list for each scope.

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- Around line 15756-15759: Update the caller-discovery flow around the alias
loop and strbuf_scope_callers to build a pass-local reverse index from alias
names to possible target scopes using alias and class target data, then use it
to collect only aliases that can reach m. Avoid re-expanding every alias’s call
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