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  • New Features

    • Expanded property-key support for symbols, numbers, BigInts, strings, and objects.
    • Added automatic Content-Length handling for fetch requests with bodies, including PATCH and QUERY.
    • Improved support for large arrays, JSON data, and native function identity in object properties.
  • Performance

    • Optimized array joining, locale formatting, property creation, primitive conversion, and shape management.
    • Reduced temporary allocations during JSON parsing and object property handling.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved coercion, proxy traps, primitive accessors, embedded NUL strings, and long-result handling.
    • Improved optimized execution transitions and cross-platform time conversion failures.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for fetch request methods, coercion, allocation, and object-property behavior.

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The runtime refactors property-key conversion and primitive coercion, replaces shape indexing, adds capacity and temporary-root helpers, optimizes JSON and array operations, initializes synthesized OSR closures, and expands coercion and property-access tests. Fetch supports request bodies for additional methods.

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Runtime coercion and throughput

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime contracts, capacity, rooting, and execution
include/*.h, include/gc/roots.h, src/ant.c, src/gc/roots.c, src/silver/swarm.c
Adds shared primitive predicates, cache fields, capacity validation, temporary-root truncation, array reservation, centralized invocation, import-meta lookup, and synthesized OSR closure initialization.
Coercion and property-key operations
src/ant.c
Refactors primitive conversion and property APIs around cached valueOf slots and property-key views. Updates own-property, descriptor, definition, enumerable, proxy, and fromEntries paths.
Shape indexing and JSON property storage
include/shapes.h, src/shapes.c, src/modules/json.c
Replaces uthash shape indexing with open addressing, tombstones, resizing, explicit memory accounting, and reserved-capacity cloning. JSON parsing uses reserved capacity and fast property appends.
Array formatting and validation
src/ant.c, tests/test_string_coercion_allocation_paths.cjs, docs/exec-plans/active/silver-throughput-bench-v8-game-of-life.md, examples/test262/bench.js, examples/spec/objects.js
Updates join rooting and cleanup, adds packed-string locale formatting, records validation results, warms benchmark execution, and validates native function identity and property behavior.

Platform time and build support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Platform time conversion and build setup
.github/workflows/build-platform.yml, src/modules/cron.c
Adds tzdata to Linux build environments and validates platform-specific reentrant time conversion functions.

Fetch request-body methods

Layer / File(s) Summary
Fetch body construction and transport integration
src/modules/fetch.c, vendor/packagefiles/patches/tlsuv-request-body-methods.patch, vendor/tlsuv.wrap
Adds automatic content lengths for fixed request bodies and extends tlsuv body transmission to additional methods.
Request-method integration tests and execution plan
tests/test_fetch_request_methods.cjs, docs/exec-plans/completed/README.md, docs/exec-plans/completed/tlsuv-http-request-body-methods.md
Tests PUT, PATCH, and QUERY bodies, including streamed QUERY requests, and records the completed transport implementation and validation.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~100 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 1fe08

The current changes still contain unresolved allocation-capacity and arithmetic overflow paths that can cause invalid memory writes, along with time-conversion failures that may create incorrect schedules. These are high-impact correctness and safety risks, so the PR should not be merged until they are fixed or explicitly accepted by the appropriate owners.

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  participant Fetch
  participant tlsuv
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  Fetch->>Fetch: Build headers and add content-length for fixed bodies
  Fetch->>tlsuv: Send request body for the selected method
  tlsuv->>EchoServer: Transmit body and transfer headers
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tests/test_string_coercion_allocation_paths.cjs (1)

36-61: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for the overflow property-storage growth path.

These cases cover the coercion, key-view, join, and locale changes well. The changed js_obj_ensure_prop_capacity shift encoding has no test in this cohort. A test that adds more properties than ANT_INOBJ_MAX_SLOTS and then reads every value back would exercise the new exponent representation and the reallocation boundary.

Do you want me to write that test?

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In `@tests/test_string_coercion_allocation_paths.cjs` around lines 36 - 61, Add a
test in the existing allocation-paths test suite that creates more properties
than ANT_INOBJ_MAX_SLOTS, crosses the reallocation boundary, and reads back
every stored value to verify overflow property storage and the exponent-based
capacity growth.
src/ant.c (3)

3469-3474: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Rename mkprop_interned_exact or drop MKPROP_USE_DEFAULT_ATTRS.

The name states exact attributes, but the mode includes MKPROP_USE_DEFAULT_ATTRS, so attrs == 0 becomes ANT_PROP_ATTR_DEFAULT. mkprop_bytes_exact_attrs on line 3392 omits that flag and therefore behaves differently for the same argument. The mismatch invites future callers to pick the wrong helper.

Keep the current behavior for existing callers, and make the name state it.

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In `@src/ant.c` around lines 3469 - 3474, Rename mkprop_interned_exact to reflect
that it applies default attributes when attrs is zero via
MKPROP_USE_DEFAULT_ATTRS, updating all existing declarations, definitions, and
call sites while preserving the current behavior.

9910-9910: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial

Resolve the TODO: cleanup marker.

The marker gives no scope, so a later reader cannot tell what to change. object_from_entries_iter_ctx_t now holds a single field, so the struct may be reducible to a plain ant_value_t *.

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In `@src/ant.c` at line 9910, Resolve the TODO near object_from_entries_iter_ctx_t
by simplifying the context representation to a plain ant_value_t * if its sole
field is no longer needed as a struct. Update all related declarations and uses
consistently, and remove the obsolete cleanup marker.

12822-12857: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Check the prototype guard before scanning the elements.

array_try_builtin_string_locale walks every element and accumulates total first, and only then calls array_locale_uses_default_string_methods on line 12857. When a program overrides Object.prototype.toLocaleString or String.prototype.toString, the scan is wasted work on every call.

The order also changes an observable result. The overflow branch on lines 12844-12847 writes js_mkerr(js, "oom") and returns true before the guard runs, so an unsupported prototype configuration can surface an allocation error instead of taking the generic formatter.

Move the guard above the element loop.

♻️ Proposed reordering
   ant_object_t *array = array_obj_ptr(arr);
   
   if (
     !array || !array->flags.fast_array || !array->u.array.data ||
     (ant_offset_t)array->u.array.len != len
   ) return false;
 
+  if (!array_locale_uses_default_string_methods(js)) return false;
+
   size_t total = len > 1 ? (size_t)len - 1 : 0;
   uint8_t ascii_state = STR_ASCII_YES;
@@
     ascii_state = merge_ascii_state(ascii_state, elem_ascii);
   }
 
-  if (!array_locale_uses_default_string_methods(js)) return false;
   ant_value_t result = js_mkstr(js, NULL, total);
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array_locale_uses_default_string_methods guard in
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validation and before total initialization or element scanning. Preserve the
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Inline comments:
In `@docs/exec-plans/active/silver-throughput-bench-v8-game-of-life.md`:
- Around line 551-562: The implementation-review follow-up entry must include
complete provenance for both benchmark binaries: commit, dirty paths, build
type, full binary MD5, PGO profile identity, and exact build/run commands.
Update the entry near the reported medians while preserving the existing
benchmark results and qualification that they are diagnostic controls.

In `@src/ant.c`:
- Around line 328-340: In src/ant.c lines 328-340, update
js_obj_ensure_prop_capacity so shift is clamped to the representable bit width
of overflow_cap and the allocation-size calculation is checked against SIZE_MAX
before multiplying on 32-bit size_t systems. In include/object.h lines 263-266,
verify that only js_obj_ensure_prop_capacity reads overflow_cap directly as an
exponent, route other readers through the accessor, and document that
overflow_cap stores an exponent with 0 meaning unset.
- Around line 8826-8830: Update builtin_object_hasOwn so the no-argument case
routes through object_has_own with an undefined first argument instead of
immediately returning false, preserving the existing TypeError behavior for null
and undefined.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/ant.c`:
- Around line 3469-3474: Rename mkprop_interned_exact to reflect that it applies
default attributes when attrs is zero via MKPROP_USE_DEFAULT_ATTRS, updating all
existing declarations, definitions, and call sites while preserving the current
behavior.
- Line 9910: Resolve the TODO near object_from_entries_iter_ctx_t by simplifying
the context representation to a plain ant_value_t * if its sole field is no
longer needed as a struct. Update all related declarations and uses
consistently, and remove the obsolete cleanup marker.
- Around line 12822-12857: Move the array_locale_uses_default_string_methods
guard in array_try_builtin_string_locale to immediately after the initial array
validation and before total initialization or element scanning. Preserve the
existing fallback behavior by returning false for overridden prototype methods,
preventing the overflow branch from running first.

In `@tests/test_string_coercion_allocation_paths.cjs`:
- Around line 36-61: Add a test in the existing allocation-paths test suite that
creates more properties than ANT_INOBJ_MAX_SLOTS, crosses the reallocation
boundary, and reads back every stored value to verify overflow property storage
and the exponent-based capacity growth.
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src/ant.c (1)

10640-10646: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Return dense-growth failures from JSON array parsing.

dense_grow can select new_cap == 2^32 for n == UINT32_MAX and truncate cap to zero. If allocation fails, js_arr_reserve hides the failure, and later js_arr_push can silently drop elements while JSON parsing returns a truncated array. Reject capacity overflow before doubling and propagate reservation and push failures as json_parse_oom.

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In `@src/ant.c` around lines 10640 - 10646, Update js_arr_reserve to reject
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dense_grow instead of silently ignoring it. In the JSON array parsing path,
check both reservation and js_arr_push results and propagate any failure as
json_parse_oom, preventing truncated arrays when allocation fails.

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In `@src/modules/json.c`:
- Line 67: In the JSON container sizing logic around yyjson_arr_size() and
yyjson_obj_size(), reject counts greater than UINT32_MAX before casting to
uint32_t, returning the appropriate parse error. Apply this validation to both
array reservation and object capacity paths, and check and propagate failures
from js_arr_reserve() and the corresponding object-capacity allocation instead
of ignoring their return values.

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- Around line 10640-10646: Update js_arr_reserve to reject capacity calculations
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In `@src/ant.c`:
- Around line 9954-9958: Update the string-key branch in the surrounding
property-addition logic to intern key_view.bytes and key_view.length, then use
mkprop_interned_exact instead of mkprop_bytes so native C-function identity is
preserved for aliases. Add a regression test covering Object.fromEntries with a
string alias and a native C-function value, asserting the resulting property
references the original function.

In `@src/shapes.c`:
- Around line 204-215: Update the growth path using shape_reserve_exact to
reject count-plus-extra overflow before computing the required capacity, and
make shape_reserve_exact validate the resulting allocation byte count before
calling realloc. Preserve existing behavior for valid sizes, but return failure
without changing the shape when either arithmetic check overflows.
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- Around line 568-574: Update the time conversion branch around gmtime_s,
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@theMackabu theMackabu changed the title make string check operations even faster and safter make string check operations even faster and safer Aug 23, 2026
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