- the call graph is by name, and a local or a parameter named as a function (a float bd, part, bx)
linked to that function: a name the function binds itself is never an edge now.
- drain_actions, generated, calls every reducer; a reducer is reached from its action's dispatch,
so the drain's calls are not edges.
- a fresh value flowing into a local that also holds kept memory is still the frame's (storing it
anywhere kept would have made it ESC): HEAP now keeps only a push's growth off the arena.
- the arena starts at its first use rather than at the first frame mark, so boot's temporaries are
scratch too - dead once the Start handlers return - and a scratch site is never a birth.
Plus ludic.hints' rail and three of ludic.update's one-off lines declared. The arena goldens pass
poisoned. Maroon Lake (d79d189f): 39/11/66 -> 30/9/0.
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Two more holes of the arena's family, found from ECS's births:
- a function called through a function value (UiClass.make's cmp_x_new, a step list, a System's tick)
has its result flow nowhere the analysis can see, so what it returned looked LOCAL - and a caller
keeping it (ludic.ui's instance table) would keep scratch. Every function taken as a value (fn f)
now has its result kept.
- an entry block has no name, and the analysis only walked named declarations: what an entry stored
was never seen. It is walked now.
examples/lang/arena_fnval.ludic (a factory in a field, its records kept by a pool across frames)
crashed poisoned before and prints '5 1053' as the heap does now; in ludic-dev test. Maroon Lake:
component constructors are kept, not births (birth_leaks 115 -> 103); what fn values return is kept
(frame_allocs 194 -> 210, frame_keeps 151 -> 162); 5293 sites local, 6586 kept.
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With the arena on, a site the escape analysis proves LOCAL is the frame's scratch - made and gone
with the frame - so frame_allocs now counts only what frame code still takes from the heap. And a
scratch site is the arena's whenever the game's frames run (a frame, a click handler, a reducer), so
it is a leak at birth only when boot's code (a Start handler) reaches it, before the first frame.
Maroon Lake: frame_allocs 337 -> 194 with the game's own fixes, birth_leaks 189 -> 115.
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The analysis made every component function a frame root, event handlers (cmp_x_on_delete) too, and
every reducer, whether its action is dispatched every frame or once a trip: a component's 'on'
handlers are no longer roots, and a dispatch is an edge to its action's reducers, so a reducer
counts only when frame code dispatches it. A push into a field declared @max(n) is bounded by the
fence's own check and no longer counted. Maroon Lake: frame_allocs 395 -> 337, frame_keeps 188 -> 169.
ludic.photo: the roll's order and a page of it are kept lists refilled in place (the pack's page
asked for both every frame), its kept lists say @max(256), and a shot's tags, a photograph's fact
and a new roll are declared (once per shot, sale or trip). 18 allocs and 9 keeps -> 0 and 0.
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memory_final's gate crashed in all 13 scenarios at the first frame of play, R3D_ARENA_CHECK=1 reading
0xDD in ludic.ui's nd_take: a node the pool keeps had come from the frame's scratch. Two holes:
- a call to a generic (ui_kept(list, n)) names the generic, and the analysis knows only its instances
(ui_kept$UiNode), so the callee looked unknown - and an unknown callee was taken to keep nothing.
A generic's call now reaches every instance, and an unknown callee keeps everything it is handed,
but for a short list of intrinsics known to keep nothing; view() shares its list's storage.
- a push's growth into a parameter's list was LOCAL whenever the list was not seen kept, though a
parameter may be a state's list. A site is LOCAL now only when its class is neither ESC nor HEAP.
examples/lang/arena_pool.ludic is the shape (a pool keeping records across frames through a generic
push): built with --arena it prints '7 3498' poisoned on every reset and with the arena off, in
ludic-dev test. On the valley every ludic.ui pool site is kept; 5480 sites local, 6431 kept.
Also, from ECS: a record's field defaults are stored into it when it is made, a global's initializer
is kept, and a component's own functions are frame roots (they run while its page is open).
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A field marked @owns(PhysShape) holds a handle its record owns. A function that releases one owned
field of a record (body_free(w, s.body)) and neither releases nor hands on another owned field of
the same record type (s.shape) gives the first back and loses the second - the phys_remove bug, at
compile time. ludic deps --resources (or --owned) lists them; owned_leaks is a number --check
ratchets. A test: the function that frees a solid's body alone is the one found; the one that frees
both is not.
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A function marked @creates(PhysShape) makes a handle one marked @releases(PhysShape) gives back.
ludic deps --resources lists every creating call whose handle is thrown away, or bound to a local
that is never released, passed on, stored or returned, and resource_drops is a number --check
ratchets. A test: a thrown-away create and one bound and never handed on are the two found; one
stored in a state and one released are not. A record's owned fields and a borrow form (a shape
used by several scaled ones) are the second half, with a resource type.
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Mem.scan() and R3D_ALLOC_SCAN=<frame> (at that frame's mark, when no function is running) walk
every heap block reachable from the program's globals - the states among them - conservatively: each
word that is a heap block's start (malloc_size says so) is followed, blocks made before tracking too.
A tracked block nothing reaches is a leak whatever a frame's totals say; they are summed by site and
printed ('alloc-scan: frame 39 - 32 bytes in 2 blocks ... reachable from no global or state', then
the sites). R3D_ALLOC_EXIT=1 runs the same scan as the program quits. A test: two records dropped in
frame 20 are the two found, the one pushed into a state is not.
The escape analysis now takes free(x) as giving x back (ES_FREED, flowing to what reached x) and a
print's argument as used up, so ludic deps --births lists only what is never given back.
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ludic deps --births lists every site the escape analysis finds kept by nothing and not the frame
arena's - boot and load code, a function spanning frames, frame code with the arena off - which is
made and dropped and never given back; birth_leaks is a number --check ratchets. A text used up by +
or == where it is made is freed at once and not counted; nor is what @alloc_ok covers.
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keep(x) copies a string, a slice (header and elements) or a record (shallow) onto the heap; intern(s)
hands back one heap string per distinct text from a fixed table in the runtime (FNV-1a, 65536 slots,
copied the first time; past 49152 only copied). Both are how frame code keeps what it made on purpose:
the escape analysis takes the copy as the heap's and leaves the argument LOCAL.
The analysis now records why a class escapes (the store, the event, the global it reached) and
ludic deps lists every allocation frame code makes and keeps - fkeep lines, 'ludic deps --keeps',
the frame_keeps number --check ratchets - leaving out what is under @alloc_ok and a push's growth
(25.5's capacities). --arena-strict (or 'arena strict') makes each an error naming the store, before
anything is emitted. A test: a template stored into a state is the one error; keep and intern of the
next two, an @alloc_ok push and a scratch temporary are not; 195 frames of arena resets under
R3D_ARENA_CHECK=1 later the kept and interned texts read as made, and intern gives the same string.
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Behind ludicc --arena (or 'arena on' in the program's package.ludic): the escape analysis runs and a
LOCAL site's allocation raises @lp_want for that one call, so it comes from the frame's arena. Two
halves in one mmap reservation (R3D_ARENA_MB each, 256 by default), bump-allocated with a 16-byte
size header, flipped at each frame mark: a frame's scratch is good through the next frame, then its
half is started again (R3D_ARENA_CHECK=1 fills it with 0xDD first). The heap takes over when no frame
is running, off the main thread, or past the half's end; lp_free ignores an arena block and
lp_realloc copies one out. R3D_ARENA=0 turns it off at run time; the census reports each half's
high-water mark. A program that builds text, a list and a record per frame: 29998 heap blocks made
and 18002 freed without it, 8 and 8 with it and 544 bytes of scratch a frame, the same output.
A dispatch's 'new' fills the queue's kept record (E_NEW.b), so 25.2 no longer counts it and 25.3
treats its fields as kept. '@frame' is keyed by property and field: a 'run' field is a root only in
a property that marks it, and 'tick' stays a System's.
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emit_escape.ludic: every value is in a class, joined by flow edges (a let, an assignment, an argument
into its parameter, a result into the call) and store edges (a field, an element, a push). HEAP (a
parameter, a state, a global, what an unknown call hands back) flows forward; ESC (stored into
something HEAP, into a global, into an event's fields or named values, handed to an unknown callee)
flows backward, and from an ESC or HEAP target along a store. A load is its base's class. A site that
is neither ESC nor in a function reaching Mem.frame is LOCAL (Node.uns = ES_SCRATCH). ludicc
--escape-report prints each site and the totals; nothing is emitted differently yet - the arena that
allocates the LOCAL sites is next.
@alloc_ok on a generic now covers its instances (kept_push$NetFact is under kept_push's), and a
statement's @alloc_ok is carried on the node (Node.uns), so a generic's clone keeps it.
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A field declared '@frame run: fn(...)' makes every function stored in it a frame root, as a System's
tick is. @alloc_ok("why") before a statement takes that statement out of frame_allocs and makes what
it allocates declared at run time; a function holding one keeps the fence's scope depth and puts it
back at its return, so a return inside the statement cannot leave the scope open. @alloc_ok above
'export function' was lost - export parses the declaration one call down - and is now carried to it.
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deps_reach's graph gains the handlers and each @On body (an emit reaches its event's listeners).
Roots: a handler in a frame phase, every reducer, an @On body, and a function stored as a System's
tick. Every allocating construct in what they reach - new, a list literal, push (grow), text built
by + or a template, words/floats/buffer/bytes - is a falloc line with the shortest chain from a
root (root>..>last six), and the program's count is frame_allocs. @alloc_ok("why") on a function or
a handler takes it and what only it reaches out; the reason is required. ludic deps --allocs lists
them, and frame_allocs is a number --check ratchets. Maroon Lake starts at 2661.
Not yet: @frame on a step list's field (only 'tick' is a root field so far), statement-level
@alloc_ok, the three lints.
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