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Summary

  • Let hot dependency producers explicitly expose their existing concrete lists to the dependency analyzer.
  • Enumerate those lists with their struct enumerators, avoiding boxed IEnumerable<T> enumeration without runtime type tests in the analyzer.
  • Preserve the existing IEnumerable<T> contract and fallback for all other nodes.

Motivation

Dependency analysis exposes dependencies as IEnumerable<T>, but hot NativeAOT nodes commonly build DependencyList or List<CombinedDependencyListEntry>. Enumerating those values through the interface boxes collection enumerators.

The original profiling experiment observed 28.536 million static concrete-list visits covering 96.861 million entries and 6.715 million conditional-list visits covering 73.188 million entries. A general prototype established the optimization ceiling: graph and mark time each improved by about 7.3 seconds, managed allocation fell by 1.35-1.39 GiB, and output was byte-identical.

Implementation

DependencyNodeCore now has internal opt-in methods for nodes that naturally own a concrete static or conditional dependency list. ObjectNode, VirtualMethodUseNode, ScannedMethodNode, MethodCodeNode, and EETypeNode implement those paths. DependencyAnalyzer asks each producer for its concrete representation and otherwise uses the unchanged enumerable fallback.

This keeps representation knowledge with the producer: the analyzer contains no collection casts or runtime type checks. The public IEnumerable<T> APIs remain unchanged for existing consumers and source-included implementations.

The concrete paths use normal List<T>.Enumerator values, retaining ordering and version checks if an OnMarked callback mutates a list during enumeration. Null, already-marked, and deferred conditional dependencies retain their previous behavior.

Validation

  • .\dotnet.cmd test src\coreclr\tools\aot\ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests\ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests.csproj -c Release -p:Platform=x64 -p:UseSharedCompilation=false
    • 69 passed, 0 failed
    • Covers concrete-list and enumerable fallback selection, ordering, empty/single/multiple entries, custom enumerable behavior, null concrete lists, immediate/deferred/null conditions, and mutation detection
  • Built ILCompiler Release x64: 0 warnings, 0 errors
  • Built ILCompiler.ReadyToRun Release x64: 0 warnings, 0 errors
  • .\src\tests\build.cmd nativeaot Release tree nativeaot /p:UseSharedCompilation=false
  • .\src\tests\run.cmd runnativeaottests Release
    • 28 passed, 0 failed

Current-main benchmark

The retained RDM response is pinned to net10.0, WindowsDesktop 10.0.11, and the matching .NET 10 framework closure, while current main builds a net11.0 compiler and framework. Mixing those contracts would not be a valid comparison.

Instead, an ignored local runner generated a current-main net11.0 workload with 10,000 worker/marker type pairs and ran five interleaved baseline/changed pairs after warmup. Both compilers contained identical temporary measurement probes; no probes or experiment gates are in this change.

MetricBaseline medianChanged medianChange
Wall time5.257 s5.383 s+2.41%
CPU time13.484 s13.156 s-2.43%
Graph time3.110 s3.113 s+0.07%
Mark time1.396 s1.429 s+2.40%
Graph allocation846.06 MiB831.21 MiB-14.84 MiB (-1.75%)
Peak private memory714.26 MiB713.40 MiB-0.86 MiB

Short-run wall and phase measurements are within machine noise; the repeatable local signal is lower graph allocation. Every baseline/changed run produced the same 39,922,359-byte object with SHA-256 CE5C81C91A3774A8324455A306F9AE6AE06C30331E7A14D762F94AEEA27CC919.

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Enumerate known concrete dependency lists and arrays directly while preserving custom enumerable and mutation semantics.
Add focused coverage for collection shapes, ordering, conditional dependencies, and mutation.
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Pull request overview

This PR updates the NativeAOT dependency analysis “mark” walk to avoid allocator churn when static/conditional dependencies are provided as common concrete collections but exposed via IEnumerable<T>.

Changes:

  • Adds fast paths in DependencyAnalyzer.GetStaticDependenciesImpl for exact DependencyList, exact List<T>, and arrays to avoid boxing/allocation of enumerators.
  • Extracts conditional dependency handling into a shared helper (ProcessConditionalDependency) while keeping existing conditional/deferred semantics.
  • Adds targeted unit tests covering ordering, fallback enumeration behavior (including List<T> subclasses that reimplement IEnumerable<T>), and mutation detection.
File summaries
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src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.DependencyAnalysisFramework/DependencyAnalyzer.csAdds exact-type fast paths for list/array dependency enumeration and factors conditional dependency handling into a helper.
src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests.csprojIncludes the new DependencyAnalyzerTests.cs in the explicit compile item list.
src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests/DependencyAnalyzerTests.csAdds coverage for ordering, fallback enumeration semantics, null/unconditional condition handling, and mutation detection.
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Move concrete-list selection to dependency producers so the analyzer no longer relies on runtime type checks. Preserve the enumerable fallback and cover empty concrete-list results.
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I believe this approach is both cleaner architecturally and has a much bigger impact: #132955

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Summary

  • Let hot dependency producers explicitly expose their existing concrete lists to the dependency analyzer.
  • Enumerate those lists with their struct enumerators, avoiding boxed IEnumerable<T> enumeration without runtime type tests in the analyzer.
  • Preserve the existing IEnumerable<T> contract and fallback for all other nodes.

Motivation

Dependency analysis exposes dependencies as IEnumerable<T>, but hot NativeAOT nodes commonly build DependencyList or List<CombinedDependencyListEntry>. Enumerating those values through the interface boxes collection enumerators.

The original profiling experiment observed 28.536 million static concrete-list visits covering 96.861 million entries and 6.715 million conditional-list visits covering 73.188 million entries. A general prototype established the optimization ceiling: graph and mark time each improved by about 7.3 seconds, managed allocation fell by 1.35-1.39 GiB, and output was byte-identical.

Implementation

DependencyNodeCore now has internal opt-in methods for nodes that naturally own a concrete static or conditional dependency list. ObjectNode, VirtualMethodUseNode, ScannedMethodNode, MethodCodeNode, and EETypeNode implement those paths. DependencyAnalyzer asks each producer for its concrete representation and otherwise uses the unchanged enumerable fallback.

This keeps representation knowledge with the producer: the analyzer contains no collection casts or runtime type checks. The public IEnumerable<T> APIs remain unchanged for existing consumers and source-included implementations.

The concrete paths use normal List<T>.Enumerator values, retaining ordering and version checks if an OnMarked callback mutates a list during enumeration. Null, already-marked, and deferred conditional dependencies retain their previous behavior.

Validation

  • .\dotnet.cmd test src\coreclr\tools\aot\ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests\ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests.csproj -c Release -p:Platform=x64 -p:UseSharedCompilation=false
    • 69 passed, 0 failed
    • Covers concrete-list and enumerable fallback selection, ordering, empty/single/multiple entries, custom enumerable behavior, null concrete lists, immediate/deferred/null conditions, and mutation detection
  • Built ILCompiler Release x64: 0 warnings, 0 errors
  • Built ILCompiler.ReadyToRun Release x64: 0 warnings, 0 errors
  • .\src\tests\build.cmd nativeaot Release tree nativeaot /p:UseSharedCompilation=false
  • .\src\tests\run.cmd runnativeaottests Release
    • 28 passed, 0 failed

Current-main benchmark

The retained RDM response is pinned to net10.0, WindowsDesktop 10.0.11, and the matching .NET 10 framework closure, while current main builds a net11.0 compiler and framework. Mixing those contracts would not be a valid comparison.

Instead, an ignored local runner generated a current-main net11.0 workload with 10,000 worker/marker type pairs and ran five interleaved baseline/changed pairs after warmup. Both compilers contained identical temporary measurement probes; no probes or experiment gates are in this change.

MetricBaseline medianChanged medianChange
Wall time5.257 s5.383 s+2.41%
CPU time13.484 s13.156 s-2.43%
Graph time3.110 s3.113 s+0.07%
Mark time1.396 s1.429 s+2.40%
Graph allocation846.06 MiB831.21 MiB-14.84 MiB (-1.75%)
Peak private memory714.26 MiB713.40 MiB-0.86 MiB

Short-run wall and phase measurements are within machine noise; the repeatable local signal is lower graph allocation. Every baseline/changed run produced the same 39,922,359-byte object with SHA-256 CE5C81C91A3774A8324455A306F9AE6AE06C30331E7A14D762F94AEEA27CC919.

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This PR description was drafted with GitHub Copilot.

Enumerate known concrete dependency lists and arrays directly while preserving custom enumerable and mutation semantics.
Add focused coverage for collection shapes, ordering, conditional dependencies, and mutation.
CopilotAI lite review requested due to automatic review settings August 29, 2026 17:15
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Pull request overview

This PR updates the NativeAOT dependency analysis “mark” walk to avoid allocator churn when static/conditional dependencies are provided as common concrete collections but exposed via IEnumerable<T>.

Changes:

  • Adds fast paths in DependencyAnalyzer.GetStaticDependenciesImpl for exact DependencyList, exact List<T>, and arrays to avoid boxing/allocation of enumerators.
  • Extracts conditional dependency handling into a shared helper (ProcessConditionalDependency) while keeping existing conditional/deferred semantics.
  • Adds targeted unit tests covering ordering, fallback enumeration behavior (including List<T> subclasses that reimplement IEnumerable<T>), and mutation detection.
File summaries
FileDescription
src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.DependencyAnalysisFramework/DependencyAnalyzer.csAdds exact-type fast paths for list/array dependency enumeration and factors conditional dependency handling into a helper.
src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests.csprojIncludes the new DependencyAnalyzerTests.cs in the explicit compile item list.
src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests/DependencyAnalyzerTests.csAdds coverage for ordering, fallback enumeration semantics, null/unconditional condition handling, and mutation detection.
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I believe this approach is both cleaner architecturally and has a much bigger impact: #132955

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Summary

  • Let hot dependency producers explicitly expose their existing concrete lists to the dependency analyzer.
  • Enumerate those lists with their struct enumerators, avoiding boxed IEnumerable<T> enumeration without runtime type tests in the analyzer.
  • Preserve the existing IEnumerable<T> contract and fallback for all other nodes.

Motivation

Dependency analysis exposes dependencies as IEnumerable<T>, but hot NativeAOT nodes commonly build DependencyList or List<CombinedDependencyListEntry>. Enumerating those values through the interface boxes collection enumerators.

The original profiling experiment observed 28.536 million static concrete-list visits covering 96.861 million entries and 6.715 million conditional-list visits covering 73.188 million entries. A general prototype established the optimization ceiling: graph and mark time each improved by about 7.3 seconds, managed allocation fell by 1.35-1.39 GiB, and output was byte-identical.

Implementation

DependencyNodeCore now has internal opt-in methods for nodes that naturally own a concrete static or conditional dependency list. ObjectNode, VirtualMethodUseNode, ScannedMethodNode, MethodCodeNode, and EETypeNode implement those paths. DependencyAnalyzer asks each producer for its concrete representation and otherwise uses the unchanged enumerable fallback.

This keeps representation knowledge with the producer: the analyzer contains no collection casts or runtime type checks. The public IEnumerable<T> APIs remain unchanged for existing consumers and source-included implementations.

The concrete paths use normal List<T>.Enumerator values, retaining ordering and version checks if an OnMarked callback mutates a list during enumeration. Null, already-marked, and deferred conditional dependencies retain their previous behavior.

Validation

  • .\dotnet.cmd test src\coreclr\tools\aot\ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests\ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests.csproj -c Release -p:Platform=x64 -p:UseSharedCompilation=false
    • 69 passed, 0 failed
    • Covers concrete-list and enumerable fallback selection, ordering, empty/single/multiple entries, custom enumerable behavior, null concrete lists, immediate/deferred/null conditions, and mutation detection
  • Built ILCompiler Release x64: 0 warnings, 0 errors
  • Built ILCompiler.ReadyToRun Release x64: 0 warnings, 0 errors
  • .\src\tests\build.cmd nativeaot Release tree nativeaot /p:UseSharedCompilation=false
  • .\src\tests\run.cmd runnativeaottests Release
    • 28 passed, 0 failed

Current-main benchmark

The retained RDM response is pinned to net10.0, WindowsDesktop 10.0.11, and the matching .NET 10 framework closure, while current main builds a net11.0 compiler and framework. Mixing those contracts would not be a valid comparison.

Instead, an ignored local runner generated a current-main net11.0 workload with 10,000 worker/marker type pairs and ran five interleaved baseline/changed pairs after warmup. Both compilers contained identical temporary measurement probes; no probes or experiment gates are in this change.

MetricBaseline medianChanged medianChange
Wall time5.257 s5.383 s+2.41%
CPU time13.484 s13.156 s-2.43%
Graph time3.110 s3.113 s+0.07%
Mark time1.396 s1.429 s+2.40%
Graph allocation846.06 MiB831.21 MiB-14.84 MiB (-1.75%)
Peak private memory714.26 MiB713.40 MiB-0.86 MiB

Short-run wall and phase measurements are within machine noise; the repeatable local signal is lower graph allocation. Every baseline/changed run produced the same 39,922,359-byte object with SHA-256 CE5C81C91A3774A8324455A306F9AE6AE06C30331E7A14D762F94AEEA27CC919.

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This PR description was drafted with GitHub Copilot.

Enumerate known concrete dependency lists and arrays directly while preserving custom enumerable and mutation semantics.
Add focused coverage for collection shapes, ordering, conditional dependencies, and mutation.
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Pull request overview

This PR updates the NativeAOT dependency analysis “mark” walk to avoid allocator churn when static/conditional dependencies are provided as common concrete collections but exposed via IEnumerable<T>.

Changes:

  • Adds fast paths in DependencyAnalyzer.GetStaticDependenciesImpl for exact DependencyList, exact List<T>, and arrays to avoid boxing/allocation of enumerators.
  • Extracts conditional dependency handling into a shared helper (ProcessConditionalDependency) while keeping existing conditional/deferred semantics.
  • Adds targeted unit tests covering ordering, fallback enumeration behavior (including List<T> subclasses that reimplement IEnumerable<T>), and mutation detection.
File summaries
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src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.DependencyAnalysisFramework/DependencyAnalyzer.csAdds exact-type fast paths for list/array dependency enumeration and factors conditional dependency handling into a helper.
src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests.csprojIncludes the new DependencyAnalyzerTests.cs in the explicit compile item list.
src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests/DependencyAnalyzerTests.csAdds coverage for ordering, fallback enumeration semantics, null/unconditional condition handling, and mutation detection.
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Summary

  • Let hot dependency producers explicitly expose their existing concrete lists to the dependency analyzer.
  • Enumerate those lists with their struct enumerators, avoiding boxed IEnumerable<T> enumeration without runtime type tests in the analyzer.
  • Preserve the existing IEnumerable<T> contract and fallback for all other nodes.

Motivation

Dependency analysis exposes dependencies as IEnumerable<T>, but hot NativeAOT nodes commonly build DependencyList or List<CombinedDependencyListEntry>. Enumerating those values through the interface boxes collection enumerators.

The original profiling experiment observed 28.536 million static concrete-list visits covering 96.861 million entries and 6.715 million conditional-list visits covering 73.188 million entries. A general prototype established the optimization ceiling: graph and mark time each improved by about 7.3 seconds, managed allocation fell by 1.35-1.39 GiB, and output was byte-identical.

Implementation

DependencyNodeCore now has internal opt-in methods for nodes that naturally own a concrete static or conditional dependency list. ObjectNode, VirtualMethodUseNode, ScannedMethodNode, MethodCodeNode, and EETypeNode implement those paths. DependencyAnalyzer asks each producer for its concrete representation and otherwise uses the unchanged enumerable fallback.

This keeps representation knowledge with the producer: the analyzer contains no collection casts or runtime type checks. The public IEnumerable<T> APIs remain unchanged for existing consumers and source-included implementations.

The concrete paths use normal List<T>.Enumerator values, retaining ordering and version checks if an OnMarked callback mutates a list during enumeration. Null, already-marked, and deferred conditional dependencies retain their previous behavior.

Validation

  • .\dotnet.cmd test src\coreclr\tools\aot\ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests\ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests.csproj -c Release -p:Platform=x64 -p:UseSharedCompilation=false
    • 69 passed, 0 failed
    • Covers concrete-list and enumerable fallback selection, ordering, empty/single/multiple entries, custom enumerable behavior, null concrete lists, immediate/deferred/null conditions, and mutation detection
  • Built ILCompiler Release x64: 0 warnings, 0 errors
  • Built ILCompiler.ReadyToRun Release x64: 0 warnings, 0 errors
  • .\src\tests\build.cmd nativeaot Release tree nativeaot /p:UseSharedCompilation=false
  • .\src\tests\run.cmd runnativeaottests Release
    • 28 passed, 0 failed

Current-main benchmark

The retained RDM response is pinned to net10.0, WindowsDesktop 10.0.11, and the matching .NET 10 framework closure, while current main builds a net11.0 compiler and framework. Mixing those contracts would not be a valid comparison.

Instead, an ignored local runner generated a current-main net11.0 workload with 10,000 worker/marker type pairs and ran five interleaved baseline/changed pairs after warmup. Both compilers contained identical temporary measurement probes; no probes or experiment gates are in this change.

MetricBaseline medianChanged medianChange
Wall time5.257 s5.383 s+2.41%
CPU time13.484 s13.156 s-2.43%
Graph time3.110 s3.113 s+0.07%
Mark time1.396 s1.429 s+2.40%
Graph allocation846.06 MiB831.21 MiB-14.84 MiB (-1.75%)
Peak private memory714.26 MiB713.40 MiB-0.86 MiB

Short-run wall and phase measurements are within machine noise; the repeatable local signal is lower graph allocation. Every baseline/changed run produced the same 39,922,359-byte object with SHA-256 CE5C81C91A3774A8324455A306F9AE6AE06C30331E7A14D762F94AEEA27CC919.

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Enumerate known concrete dependency lists and arrays directly while preserving custom enumerable and mutation semantics.
Add focused coverage for collection shapes, ordering, conditional dependencies, and mutation.
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Pull request overview

This PR updates the NativeAOT dependency analysis “mark” walk to avoid allocator churn when static/conditional dependencies are provided as common concrete collections but exposed via IEnumerable<T>.

Changes:

  • Adds fast paths in DependencyAnalyzer.GetStaticDependenciesImpl for exact DependencyList, exact List<T>, and arrays to avoid boxing/allocation of enumerators.
  • Extracts conditional dependency handling into a shared helper (ProcessConditionalDependency) while keeping existing conditional/deferred semantics.
  • Adds targeted unit tests covering ordering, fallback enumeration behavior (including List<T> subclasses that reimplement IEnumerable<T>), and mutation detection.
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src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.DependencyAnalysisFramework/DependencyAnalyzer.csAdds exact-type fast paths for list/array dependency enumeration and factors conditional dependency handling into a helper.
src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests.csprojIncludes the new DependencyAnalyzerTests.cs in the explicit compile item list.
src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests/DependencyAnalyzerTests.csAdds coverage for ordering, fallback enumeration semantics, null/unconditional condition handling, and mutation detection.
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I believe this approach is both cleaner architecturally and has a much bigger impact: #132955

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Summary

  • Let hot dependency producers explicitly expose their existing concrete lists to the dependency analyzer.
  • Enumerate those lists with their struct enumerators, avoiding boxed IEnumerable<T> enumeration without runtime type tests in the analyzer.
  • Preserve the existing IEnumerable<T> contract and fallback for all other nodes.

Motivation

Dependency analysis exposes dependencies as IEnumerable<T>, but hot NativeAOT nodes commonly build DependencyList or List<CombinedDependencyListEntry>. Enumerating those values through the interface boxes collection enumerators.

The original profiling experiment observed 28.536 million static concrete-list visits covering 96.861 million entries and 6.715 million conditional-list visits covering 73.188 million entries. A general prototype established the optimization ceiling: graph and mark time each improved by about 7.3 seconds, managed allocation fell by 1.35-1.39 GiB, and output was byte-identical.

Implementation

DependencyNodeCore now has internal opt-in methods for nodes that naturally own a concrete static or conditional dependency list. ObjectNode, VirtualMethodUseNode, ScannedMethodNode, MethodCodeNode, and EETypeNode implement those paths. DependencyAnalyzer asks each producer for its concrete representation and otherwise uses the unchanged enumerable fallback.

This keeps representation knowledge with the producer: the analyzer contains no collection casts or runtime type checks. The public IEnumerable<T> APIs remain unchanged for existing consumers and source-included implementations.

The concrete paths use normal List<T>.Enumerator values, retaining ordering and version checks if an OnMarked callback mutates a list during enumeration. Null, already-marked, and deferred conditional dependencies retain their previous behavior.

Validation

  • .\dotnet.cmd test src\coreclr\tools\aot\ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests\ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests.csproj -c Release -p:Platform=x64 -p:UseSharedCompilation=false
    • 69 passed, 0 failed
    • Covers concrete-list and enumerable fallback selection, ordering, empty/single/multiple entries, custom enumerable behavior, null concrete lists, immediate/deferred/null conditions, and mutation detection
  • Built ILCompiler Release x64: 0 warnings, 0 errors
  • Built ILCompiler.ReadyToRun Release x64: 0 warnings, 0 errors
  • .\src\tests\build.cmd nativeaot Release tree nativeaot /p:UseSharedCompilation=false
  • .\src\tests\run.cmd runnativeaottests Release
    • 28 passed, 0 failed

Current-main benchmark

The retained RDM response is pinned to net10.0, WindowsDesktop 10.0.11, and the matching .NET 10 framework closure, while current main builds a net11.0 compiler and framework. Mixing those contracts would not be a valid comparison.

Instead, an ignored local runner generated a current-main net11.0 workload with 10,000 worker/marker type pairs and ran five interleaved baseline/changed pairs after warmup. Both compilers contained identical temporary measurement probes; no probes or experiment gates are in this change.

MetricBaseline medianChanged medianChange
Wall time5.257 s5.383 s+2.41%
CPU time13.484 s13.156 s-2.43%
Graph time3.110 s3.113 s+0.07%
Mark time1.396 s1.429 s+2.40%
Graph allocation846.06 MiB831.21 MiB-14.84 MiB (-1.75%)
Peak private memory714.26 MiB713.40 MiB-0.86 MiB

Short-run wall and phase measurements are within machine noise; the repeatable local signal is lower graph allocation. Every baseline/changed run produced the same 39,922,359-byte object with SHA-256 CE5C81C91A3774A8324455A306F9AE6AE06C30331E7A14D762F94AEEA27CC919.

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This PR description was drafted with GitHub Copilot.

Enumerate known concrete dependency lists and arrays directly while preserving custom enumerable and mutation semantics.
Add focused coverage for collection shapes, ordering, conditional dependencies, and mutation.
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Pull request overview

This PR updates the NativeAOT dependency analysis “mark” walk to avoid allocator churn when static/conditional dependencies are provided as common concrete collections but exposed via IEnumerable<T>.

Changes:

  • Adds fast paths in DependencyAnalyzer.GetStaticDependenciesImpl for exact DependencyList, exact List<T>, and arrays to avoid boxing/allocation of enumerators.
  • Extracts conditional dependency handling into a shared helper (ProcessConditionalDependency) while keeping existing conditional/deferred semantics.
  • Adds targeted unit tests covering ordering, fallback enumeration behavior (including List<T> subclasses that reimplement IEnumerable<T>), and mutation detection.
File summaries
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src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.DependencyAnalysisFramework/DependencyAnalyzer.csAdds exact-type fast paths for list/array dependency enumeration and factors conditional dependency handling into a helper.
src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests.csprojIncludes the new DependencyAnalyzerTests.cs in the explicit compile item list.
src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests/DependencyAnalyzerTests.csAdds coverage for ordering, fallback enumeration semantics, null/unconditional condition handling, and mutation detection.
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I believe this approach is both cleaner architecturally and has a much bigger impact: #132955

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Summary

  • Let hot dependency producers explicitly expose their existing concrete lists to the dependency analyzer.
  • Enumerate those lists with their struct enumerators, avoiding boxed IEnumerable<T> enumeration without runtime type tests in the analyzer.
  • Preserve the existing IEnumerable<T> contract and fallback for all other nodes.

Motivation

Dependency analysis exposes dependencies as IEnumerable<T>, but hot NativeAOT nodes commonly build DependencyList or List<CombinedDependencyListEntry>. Enumerating those values through the interface boxes collection enumerators.

The original profiling experiment observed 28.536 million static concrete-list visits covering 96.861 million entries and 6.715 million conditional-list visits covering 73.188 million entries. A general prototype established the optimization ceiling: graph and mark time each improved by about 7.3 seconds, managed allocation fell by 1.35-1.39 GiB, and output was byte-identical.

Implementation

DependencyNodeCore now has internal opt-in methods for nodes that naturally own a concrete static or conditional dependency list. ObjectNode, VirtualMethodUseNode, ScannedMethodNode, MethodCodeNode, and EETypeNode implement those paths. DependencyAnalyzer asks each producer for its concrete representation and otherwise uses the unchanged enumerable fallback.

This keeps representation knowledge with the producer: the analyzer contains no collection casts or runtime type checks. The public IEnumerable<T> APIs remain unchanged for existing consumers and source-included implementations.

The concrete paths use normal List<T>.Enumerator values, retaining ordering and version checks if an OnMarked callback mutates a list during enumeration. Null, already-marked, and deferred conditional dependencies retain their previous behavior.

Validation

  • .\dotnet.cmd test src\coreclr\tools\aot\ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests\ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests.csproj -c Release -p:Platform=x64 -p:UseSharedCompilation=false
    • 69 passed, 0 failed
    • Covers concrete-list and enumerable fallback selection, ordering, empty/single/multiple entries, custom enumerable behavior, null concrete lists, immediate/deferred/null conditions, and mutation detection
  • Built ILCompiler Release x64: 0 warnings, 0 errors
  • Built ILCompiler.ReadyToRun Release x64: 0 warnings, 0 errors
  • .\src\tests\build.cmd nativeaot Release tree nativeaot /p:UseSharedCompilation=false
  • .\src\tests\run.cmd runnativeaottests Release
    • 28 passed, 0 failed

Current-main benchmark

The retained RDM response is pinned to net10.0, WindowsDesktop 10.0.11, and the matching .NET 10 framework closure, while current main builds a net11.0 compiler and framework. Mixing those contracts would not be a valid comparison.

Instead, an ignored local runner generated a current-main net11.0 workload with 10,000 worker/marker type pairs and ran five interleaved baseline/changed pairs after warmup. Both compilers contained identical temporary measurement probes; no probes or experiment gates are in this change.

MetricBaseline medianChanged medianChange
Wall time5.257 s5.383 s+2.41%
CPU time13.484 s13.156 s-2.43%
Graph time3.110 s3.113 s+0.07%
Mark time1.396 s1.429 s+2.40%
Graph allocation846.06 MiB831.21 MiB-14.84 MiB (-1.75%)
Peak private memory714.26 MiB713.40 MiB-0.86 MiB

Short-run wall and phase measurements are within machine noise; the repeatable local signal is lower graph allocation. Every baseline/changed run produced the same 39,922,359-byte object with SHA-256 CE5C81C91A3774A8324455A306F9AE6AE06C30331E7A14D762F94AEEA27CC919.

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This PR description was drafted with GitHub Copilot.

Enumerate known concrete dependency lists and arrays directly while preserving custom enumerable and mutation semantics.
Add focused coverage for collection shapes, ordering, conditional dependencies, and mutation.
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Pull request overview

This PR updates the NativeAOT dependency analysis “mark” walk to avoid allocator churn when static/conditional dependencies are provided as common concrete collections but exposed via IEnumerable<T>.

Changes:

  • Adds fast paths in DependencyAnalyzer.GetStaticDependenciesImpl for exact DependencyList, exact List<T>, and arrays to avoid boxing/allocation of enumerators.
  • Extracts conditional dependency handling into a shared helper (ProcessConditionalDependency) while keeping existing conditional/deferred semantics.
  • Adds targeted unit tests covering ordering, fallback enumeration behavior (including List<T> subclasses that reimplement IEnumerable<T>), and mutation detection.
File summaries
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src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.DependencyAnalysisFramework/DependencyAnalyzer.csAdds exact-type fast paths for list/array dependency enumeration and factors conditional dependency handling into a helper.
src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests.csprojIncludes the new DependencyAnalyzerTests.cs in the explicit compile item list.
src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests/DependencyAnalyzerTests.csAdds coverage for ordering, fallback enumeration semantics, null/unconditional condition handling, and mutation detection.
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Summary

  • Let hot dependency producers explicitly expose their existing concrete lists to the dependency analyzer.
  • Enumerate those lists with their struct enumerators, avoiding boxed IEnumerable<T> enumeration without runtime type tests in the analyzer.
  • Preserve the existing IEnumerable<T> contract and fallback for all other nodes.

Motivation

Dependency analysis exposes dependencies as IEnumerable<T>, but hot NativeAOT nodes commonly build DependencyList or List<CombinedDependencyListEntry>. Enumerating those values through the interface boxes collection enumerators.

The original profiling experiment observed 28.536 million static concrete-list visits covering 96.861 million entries and 6.715 million conditional-list visits covering 73.188 million entries. A general prototype established the optimization ceiling: graph and mark time each improved by about 7.3 seconds, managed allocation fell by 1.35-1.39 GiB, and output was byte-identical.

Implementation

DependencyNodeCore now has internal opt-in methods for nodes that naturally own a concrete static or conditional dependency list. ObjectNode, VirtualMethodUseNode, ScannedMethodNode, MethodCodeNode, and EETypeNode implement those paths. DependencyAnalyzer asks each producer for its concrete representation and otherwise uses the unchanged enumerable fallback.

This keeps representation knowledge with the producer: the analyzer contains no collection casts or runtime type checks. The public IEnumerable<T> APIs remain unchanged for existing consumers and source-included implementations.

The concrete paths use normal List<T>.Enumerator values, retaining ordering and version checks if an OnMarked callback mutates a list during enumeration. Null, already-marked, and deferred conditional dependencies retain their previous behavior.

Validation

  • .\dotnet.cmd test src\coreclr\tools\aot\ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests\ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests.csproj -c Release -p:Platform=x64 -p:UseSharedCompilation=false
    • 69 passed, 0 failed
    • Covers concrete-list and enumerable fallback selection, ordering, empty/single/multiple entries, custom enumerable behavior, null concrete lists, immediate/deferred/null conditions, and mutation detection
  • Built ILCompiler Release x64: 0 warnings, 0 errors
  • Built ILCompiler.ReadyToRun Release x64: 0 warnings, 0 errors
  • .\src\tests\build.cmd nativeaot Release tree nativeaot /p:UseSharedCompilation=false
  • .\src\tests\run.cmd runnativeaottests Release
    • 28 passed, 0 failed

Current-main benchmark

The retained RDM response is pinned to net10.0, WindowsDesktop 10.0.11, and the matching .NET 10 framework closure, while current main builds a net11.0 compiler and framework. Mixing those contracts would not be a valid comparison.

Instead, an ignored local runner generated a current-main net11.0 workload with 10,000 worker/marker type pairs and ran five interleaved baseline/changed pairs after warmup. Both compilers contained identical temporary measurement probes; no probes or experiment gates are in this change.

MetricBaseline medianChanged medianChange
Wall time5.257 s5.383 s+2.41%
CPU time13.484 s13.156 s-2.43%
Graph time3.110 s3.113 s+0.07%
Mark time1.396 s1.429 s+2.40%
Graph allocation846.06 MiB831.21 MiB-14.84 MiB (-1.75%)
Peak private memory714.26 MiB713.40 MiB-0.86 MiB

Short-run wall and phase measurements are within machine noise; the repeatable local signal is lower graph allocation. Every baseline/changed run produced the same 39,922,359-byte object with SHA-256 CE5C81C91A3774A8324455A306F9AE6AE06C30331E7A14D762F94AEEA27CC919.

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Enumerate known concrete dependency lists and arrays directly while preserving custom enumerable and mutation semantics.
Add focused coverage for collection shapes, ordering, conditional dependencies, and mutation.
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Pull request overview

This PR updates the NativeAOT dependency analysis “mark” walk to avoid allocator churn when static/conditional dependencies are provided as common concrete collections but exposed via IEnumerable<T>.

Changes:

  • Adds fast paths in DependencyAnalyzer.GetStaticDependenciesImpl for exact DependencyList, exact List<T>, and arrays to avoid boxing/allocation of enumerators.
  • Extracts conditional dependency handling into a shared helper (ProcessConditionalDependency) while keeping existing conditional/deferred semantics.
  • Adds targeted unit tests covering ordering, fallback enumeration behavior (including List<T> subclasses that reimplement IEnumerable<T>), and mutation detection.
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src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.DependencyAnalysisFramework/DependencyAnalyzer.csAdds exact-type fast paths for list/array dependency enumeration and factors conditional dependency handling into a helper.
src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests.csprojIncludes the new DependencyAnalyzerTests.cs in the explicit compile item list.
src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests/DependencyAnalyzerTests.csAdds coverage for ordering, fallback enumeration semantics, null/unconditional condition handling, and mutation detection.
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Move concrete-list selection to dependency producers so the analyzer no longer relies on runtime type checks. Preserve the enumerable fallback and cover empty concrete-list results.
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I believe this approach is both cleaner architecturally and has a much bigger impact: #132955

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I believe this approach is both cleaner architecturally and has a much bigger impact: #132955

Should I close this pull request then? I'd rather go with your solution

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Summary

  • Let hot dependency producers explicitly expose their existing concrete lists to the dependency analyzer.
  • Enumerate those lists with their struct enumerators, avoiding boxed IEnumerable<T> enumeration without runtime type tests in the analyzer.
  • Preserve the existing IEnumerable<T> contract and fallback for all other nodes.

Motivation

Dependency analysis exposes dependencies as IEnumerable<T>, but hot NativeAOT nodes commonly build DependencyList or List<CombinedDependencyListEntry>. Enumerating those values through the interface boxes collection enumerators.

The original profiling experiment observed 28.536 million static concrete-list visits covering 96.861 million entries and 6.715 million conditional-list visits covering 73.188 million entries. A general prototype established the optimization ceiling: graph and mark time each improved by about 7.3 seconds, managed allocation fell by 1.35-1.39 GiB, and output was byte-identical.

Implementation

DependencyNodeCore now has internal opt-in methods for nodes that naturally own a concrete static or conditional dependency list. ObjectNode, VirtualMethodUseNode, ScannedMethodNode, MethodCodeNode, and EETypeNode implement those paths. DependencyAnalyzer asks each producer for its concrete representation and otherwise uses the unchanged enumerable fallback.

This keeps representation knowledge with the producer: the analyzer contains no collection casts or runtime type checks. The public IEnumerable<T> APIs remain unchanged for existing consumers and source-included implementations.

The concrete paths use normal List<T>.Enumerator values, retaining ordering and version checks if an OnMarked callback mutates a list during enumeration. Null, already-marked, and deferred conditional dependencies retain their previous behavior.

Validation

  • .\dotnet.cmd test src\coreclr\tools\aot\ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests\ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests.csproj -c Release -p:Platform=x64 -p:UseSharedCompilation=false
    • 69 passed, 0 failed
    • Covers concrete-list and enumerable fallback selection, ordering, empty/single/multiple entries, custom enumerable behavior, null concrete lists, immediate/deferred/null conditions, and mutation detection
  • Built ILCompiler Release x64: 0 warnings, 0 errors
  • Built ILCompiler.ReadyToRun Release x64: 0 warnings, 0 errors
  • .\src\tests\build.cmd nativeaot Release tree nativeaot /p:UseSharedCompilation=false
  • .\src\tests\run.cmd runnativeaottests Release
    • 28 passed, 0 failed

Current-main benchmark

The retained RDM response is pinned to net10.0, WindowsDesktop 10.0.11, and the matching .NET 10 framework closure, while current main builds a net11.0 compiler and framework. Mixing those contracts would not be a valid comparison.

Instead, an ignored local runner generated a current-main net11.0 workload with 10,000 worker/marker type pairs and ran five interleaved baseline/changed pairs after warmup. Both compilers contained identical temporary measurement probes; no probes or experiment gates are in this change.

MetricBaseline medianChanged medianChange
Wall time5.257 s5.383 s+2.41%
CPU time13.484 s13.156 s-2.43%
Graph time3.110 s3.113 s+0.07%
Mark time1.396 s1.429 s+2.40%
Graph allocation846.06 MiB831.21 MiB-14.84 MiB (-1.75%)
Peak private memory714.26 MiB713.40 MiB-0.86 MiB

Short-run wall and phase measurements are within machine noise; the repeatable local signal is lower graph allocation. Every baseline/changed run produced the same 39,922,359-byte object with SHA-256 CE5C81C91A3774A8324455A306F9AE6AE06C30331E7A14D762F94AEEA27CC919.

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Enumerate known concrete dependency lists and arrays directly while preserving custom enumerable and mutation semantics.
Add focused coverage for collection shapes, ordering, conditional dependencies, and mutation.
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Pull request overview

This PR updates the NativeAOT dependency analysis “mark” walk to avoid allocator churn when static/conditional dependencies are provided as common concrete collections but exposed via IEnumerable<T>.

Changes:

  • Adds fast paths in DependencyAnalyzer.GetStaticDependenciesImpl for exact DependencyList, exact List<T>, and arrays to avoid boxing/allocation of enumerators.
  • Extracts conditional dependency handling into a shared helper (ProcessConditionalDependency) while keeping existing conditional/deferred semantics.
  • Adds targeted unit tests covering ordering, fallback enumeration behavior (including List<T> subclasses that reimplement IEnumerable<T>), and mutation detection.
File summaries
FileDescription
src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.DependencyAnalysisFramework/DependencyAnalyzer.csAdds exact-type fast paths for list/array dependency enumeration and factors conditional dependency handling into a helper.
src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests.csprojIncludes the new DependencyAnalyzerTests.cs in the explicit compile item list.
src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler.Tests/DependencyAnalyzerTests.csAdds coverage for ordering, fallback enumeration semantics, null/unconditional condition handling, and mutation detection.
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Move concrete-list selection to dependency producers so the analyzer no longer relies on runtime type checks. Preserve the enumerable fallback and cover empty concrete-list results.
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I believe this approach is both cleaner architecturally and has a much bigger impact: #132955

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Should I close this pull request then? I'd rather go with your solution

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