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[query] Thread Block envs in the walkers and build each node once - #15928
Part of a stack that writes IR scoping once, as functions of the bound values. #15918 has
the full motivation.
The generic walkers were quadratic in two ways:
A Block child's env was rebuilt from bindings 0 until k, so walking a Block of n
bindings cost O(n²). A-normal form makes long Blocks common.
mapChildrenWithEnv copied the node after each changed child, because ChildEnv.get
read types from the node. That is quadratic on wide nodes, such as a MakeStruct whose
fields PruneDeadFields narrows.
Summary
ChildEnv.walkBlock and walkBlockStackSafe walk a Block's bindings, then its body.
They bind each name once, using the type of its rewritten value, so walking a Block is
linear.
The four env walkers in BaseIR pass Blocks to these helpers. For other nodes they call ChildEnv.get with the children rewritten so far, then copy the node once.
mapChildrenWithEnv(env)(v)(f)
- for i <- children- childEnv = ChildEnv.get(env, res, i)(v) // Block: folds bindings 0 until i- if f changed child i: res = res.copyWithNewChildren(newChildren)+ this match+ case b: Block => ChildEnv.walkBlock(b, env)(v)((c, i, ce) => newChildren(i) = f(c, ce))+ case _ => for i <- children: newChildren(i) = f(child i, ChildEnv.get(env, this, newChildren, i)(v))+ copyWithNewChildren(newChildren), once, if any child changed
ForwardLets, LowerMatrixIR and NormalizeNames wrote Block's scoping by hand; they
now call Binds.aggSeq. Extract's env gains agg and scan scopes, so it binds those
names like any other.
ForwardLets, Extract, Simplify and LowerMatrixIR walk children with mapChildrenWithEnv instead of calling ChildEnv.get per child.
TypeCheck.checkVoidTypedChild drops its unused env.
New IRSuite tests check that mapChildrenWithEnv returns the node itself when no child
changes, holds every new child when all change, and gives later children the new types.
In IRPassBenchmark, against #15929: TypeCheck on a 3000-binding Block drops from
531 ms to 4.9 ms, and NormalizeNames on a 1000-field MakeStruct from 8.6 ms to
0.26 ms. ForwardLets allocates 22% less on a balanced tree and 14% less on the MakeStruct. Other cases move by 5% or less.
Environment-aware IR traversal now handles block bindings in order and threads updated environments between children. Several naming, extraction, lowering, and simplification passes use the updated traversal and scope helpers.
Changes: Environment-threaded IR traversal
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Summary
Block traversal and validation hail/hail/src/is/hail/expr/ir/BaseIR.scala, hail/hail/src/is/hail/expr/ir/ChildEnv.scala, hail/hail/src/is/hail/expr/ir/IR.scala, hail/hail/src/is/hail/expr/ir/TypeCheck.scala, hail/hail/test/src/is/hail/expr/ir/IRSuite.scala
ChildEnv adds block walkers that pass each binding value’s mapped type into the next environment. BaseIR uses these walkers in environment-aware iteration and mapping, including stack-safe methods. Tests check unchanged nodes, replacements, and updated binding types.
Scope-aware naming and extraction hail/hail/src/is/hail/expr/ir/NormalizeNames.scala, hail/hail/src/is/hail/expr/ir/agg/Extract.scala
NormalizeNames and Extract use scope-derived environments. Extract initializes aggregation and scan scopes, preserves non-EVAL binding scope, and maps children with their environments.
Lowering and rewrite consumers hail/hail/src/is/hail/expr/ir/lowering/ForwardLets.scala, hail/hail/src/is/hail/expr/ir/lowering/LowerMatrixIR.scala, hail/hail/src/is/hail/expr/ir/lowering/Simplify.scala
These passes use environment-aware child traversal or Binds.aggSeq to obtain scoped environments.
sequenceDiagram
participant BaseIR
participant ChildEnv
participant Block
BaseIR->>ChildEnv: walk block children
ChildEnv->>Block: visit binding value with scoped environment
Block-->>ChildEnv: return mapped binding value
ChildEnv->>ChildEnv: bind mapped value type in environment
ChildEnv->>Block: visit body with accumulated environment
ChildEnv-->>BaseIR: return traversed children
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Possibly related PRs
hail-is/hail#15927: Introduces the effectful child-mapping APIs and environment-aware traversal that this PR extends.
hail-is/hail#15920: Updates BaseIR environment-aware walkers that this PR extends with sequential block traversal.
hail-is/hail#15919: Introduces Binds and ChildEnv, which this PR uses for scope-aware traversal.
Suggested reviewers:patrick-schultz, chrisvittal
Merge Risk: Low · previous review b9be5
Deeply nested empty Blocks can now overflow the stack during type checking. The impact is narrowly scoped; defer the body callback and include a regression test before merging, or explicitly accept this limitation.
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Cover AGG and SCAN Block bindings in the new environment test.
mapChildrenWithEnvReadsNewChildTypes binds x only in EVAL scope, so it does not exercise the AGG or SCAN paths of ChildEnv.step. Add AGG- and SCAN-scoped cases that check the type a later child sees in those environments.
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Review comment at @hail/hail/test/src/is/hail/expr/ir/IRSuite.scala around lines
4641 - 4644:
Extend mapChildrenWithEnvReadsNewChildTypes with AGG- and SCAN-scoped Block
binding cases, alongside the existing EVAL case. For each, verify that a later
child observes the bound variable’s type in the corresponding environment,
exercising the AGG and SCAN paths of ChildEnv.step.
Add a branching-monad case to the mapChildrenWithEnvM tests.
Add a branching-monad case to the mapChildrenWithEnvM tests.
The new mapChildrenWithEnvBoth helper calls mapChildrenWithEnvM only with StackSafe, which produces a single result per step. No test in the suite runs this method with a monad that yields several alternatives, such as List. A regression that mixes or overwrites children or environments across alternatives would not fail these tests.
Add a test that calls mapChildrenWithEnvM with Monad[List] on a node with at least two children. Make the function return more than one result for an early child. Assert that each alternative's children, and the environment seen by later children, match that alternative alone.
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Review comment at @hail/hail/test/src/is/hail/expr/ir/IRSuite.scala around lines
4610 - 4612:
Extend the `mapChildrenWithEnvM` tests to exercise branching results with
`Monad[List]` on a node with at least two children. Make the mapping function
return multiple alternatives for an early child, then assert that each result
preserves its own children and that later children receive only the environment
from that alternative.
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cd hail/hail 2>/dev/null ||trueecho"== TypeCheck.scala =="
nl -ba src/is/hail/expr/ir/TypeCheck.scala | sed -n '20,60p'echo"== NormalizeNames.scala =="
nl -ba src/is/hail/expr/ir/NormalizeNames.scala | sed -n '60,120p'echo"== IR.scala Block factory =="
nl -ba src/is/hail/expr/ir/IR.scala | sed -n '240,262p'
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cd hail/hail 2>/dev/null ||trueecho"== base forEachChildWithEnvStackSafe =="
git show 940b795c5680e465f5d9392dd6620433598fd521:hail/hail/src/is/hail/expr/ir/BaseIR.scala 2>/dev/null | rg -n -A12 'def forEachChildWithEnvStackSafe'|| git show 940b795c5680e465f5d9392dd6620433598fd521:src/is/hail/expr/ir/BaseIR.scala 2>/dev/null | rg -n -A12 'def forEachChildWithEnvStackSafe'||echo"base file not found"echo"== Parser / Simplify Block construction and removal =="
rg -n -F -e 'Block(' src/is/hail/expr/Parser.scala src/is/hail/expr/ir/Simplify.scala 2>/dev/null ||test"$?" -eq 1
rg -n -F -e 'case Block(FastSeq()' -e 'bindings.isEmpty' src/is/hail/expr/ir 2>/dev/null ||test"$?" -eq 1
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Defer the body walk in walkBlockStackSafe for empty Blocks.
When b.bindings is empty, foreachRecur returns done(()). The following flatMap then runs f(b.body, ...) during frame construction. A chain of nested empty Blocks therefore recurses on the JVM stack in TypeCheck.check and can throw StackOverflowError. Wrap the body in call, as RichOption.mapRecur does.
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Review comment at @hail/hail/src/is/hail/expr/ir/ChildEnv.scala around lines 165
- 170:
Update walkBlockStackSafe to defer the body walk through the existing call
mechanism after processing bindings, so empty Blocks do not invoke f for b.body
during frame construction. Preserve the current body index and environment
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ChildEnv.get rebuilt a Block child's env from all the bindings before
it, so walking a Block was quadratic in its bindings. The env walkers
also rebuilt a node after every changed child.
ChildEnv.walkBlock and walkBlockStackSafe walk a Block's bindings, then
its body. They bind each name once, using the type of its rewritten
value, so walking a Block is linear. The four env walkers in BaseIR
pass Blocks to these helpers. For other nodes they call ChildEnv.get
with the children rewritten so far, then call copyWithNewChildren once.
ForwardLets, LowerMatrixIR and NormalizeNames call Binds.aggSeq instead
of matching on the scope. Extract's env gains agg and scan scopes, so
it binds agg and scan names like any other binding. ForwardLets,
Extract, Simplify and LowerMatrixIR walk children with
mapChildrenWithEnv instead of calling ChildEnv.get per child.
TypeCheck.checkVoidTypedChild drops its unused env.
In IRPassBenchmark, TypeCheck on a 3000-binding Block drops from 531 ms
to 4.9 ms. NormalizeNames on a 1000-field MakeStruct drops from 8.6 ms
to 0.26 ms. ForwardLets allocates 22% less on a balanced tree and 14%
less on the MakeStruct. Other cases move by 5% or less.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Stack 9. Based on #15929.
Why
Part of a stack that writes IR scoping once, as functions of the bound values. #15918 has
the full motivation.
The generic walkers were quadratic in two ways:
Blockchild's env was rebuilt from bindings0 until k, so walking aBlockof nbindings cost O(n²). A-normal form makes long
Blocks common.mapChildrenWithEnvcopied the node after each changed child, becauseChildEnv.getread types from the node. That is quadratic on wide nodes, such as a
MakeStructwhosefields
PruneDeadFieldsnarrows.Summary
ChildEnv.walkBlockandwalkBlockStackSafewalk aBlock's bindings, then its body.They bind each name once, using the type of its rewritten value, so walking a
Blockislinear.
The four env walkers in
BaseIRpassBlocks to these helpers. For other nodes they callChildEnv.getwith the children rewritten so far, then copy the node once.ForwardLets,LowerMatrixIRandNormalizeNameswroteBlock's scoping by hand; theynow call
Binds.aggSeq.Extract's env gains agg and scan scopes, so it binds thosenames like any other.
ForwardLets,Extract,SimplifyandLowerMatrixIRwalk children withmapChildrenWithEnvinstead of callingChildEnv.getper child.TypeCheck.checkVoidTypedChilddrops its unused env.New
IRSuitetests check thatmapChildrenWithEnvreturns the node itself when no childchanges, holds every new child when all change, and gives later children the new types.
In
IRPassBenchmark, against #15929:TypeCheckon a 3000-bindingBlockdrops from531 ms to 4.9 ms, and
NormalizeNameson a 1000-fieldMakeStructfrom 8.6 ms to0.26 ms.
ForwardLetsallocates 22% less on a balanced tree and 14% less on theMakeStruct. Other cases move by 5% or less.🤖 Generated with Claude Code