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Stack 8. Based on #15924.

Summary

StackFrame swaps its one mutable node for four immutable ones. run keeps pending steps on a List.

 StackFrame
   Done(result)
   Thunk(force)
-  More(next, contHead, contTail)   // mutable, with a ContCell queue
+  FlatMapped(source, f)
+  Mapped(source, f)

The helpers (mapRecur, foreachRecur, collectRecur, fillArray) no longer run f while they build the frame. Before, a walker built its first child's frame before it returned its own, so a long first-child chain overflowed the JVM stack.

 mapRecur(s, f)
-  loop = f(s(i)).flatMap(cont)       // runs f(s(0)) now
+  step = call(f(s(i)).flatMap(k))    // runs f when run forces step
+  k    = b => add b; i += 1; if more then step else done(result)

When f returns Done, flatMap calls k at once and k returns step. That element allocates nothing.

Since the helpers no longer run f, callers don't need call around them:

-call(childrenSeq.mapRecur(f)).map { ... }          // BaseIR.mapChildrenStackSafe
+childrenSeq.mapRecur(f).map { ... }
-_ <- call(check(ctx, child, childEnv))             // TypeCheck.check
+_ <- check(ctx, child, childEnv)

mapChildrenWithIndexStackSafe and the invariant walker drop call the same way. RewriteBottomUp drops its trailing yield, which allocated a Done per node. The StackSafe API is unchanged.

Benchmarks

Two new JMH benchmarks, run with -prof gc and @Fork(1):

• IRPassBenchmark times four passes on four IR shapes: lets (3000 chained Block bindings), deep (2000 nested StreamMaps), tree (16383 Add nodes) and wide (a 1000-field MakeStruct).
• StackFrameBenchmark rebuilds a 4096-leaf tree with mapRecur and with plain recursion, at 2, 8 and 64 children per node.

Change from 722f6ce to this PR, as time / bytes allocated per op:

pass	lets	deep	tree	wide
rewriteBottomUp	−21% / −9%	−17% / −8%	−20% / −9%	−33% / −12%
typeCheck	0% / 0%	−2% / −15%	−5% / −13%	−4% / −18%
normalizeNames	−10% / −2%	overflow → 912 µs	−6% / −2%	+2% / 0%
forwardLets	+3% / −2%	overflows in both	0% / 0%	−2% / 0%

StackFrameBenchmark	width 2	width 8	width 64
mapRecur	−16% / −13%	−40% / −41%	−56% / −59%

What the numbers mean:

• normalizeNames on deep overflowed before and now passes. That's the lazy helpers.
• rewriteBottomUp gains most because every node goes through mapChildrenStackSafe, which lost its call. Leaves now take the Done path.
• typeCheck allocates 13–18% less from dropping call in check. lets doesn't move because its 2.6 GB per op comes from outside StackFrame.
• forwardLets on deep still overflows, in ComputeUsesAndDefs. That's plain recursion, not StackFrame, so this PR leaves it.
• StackFrameBenchmark isn't like-for-like. The old walk wrapped each child in call and the new one doesn't.
• With one fork, read anything within ±10% as noise. plain doesn't touch StackFrame and moved from 21 to 12 µs between earlier runs.

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The PR replaces the StackFrame continuation-chain trampoline with an explicit-stack interpreter, updates recursive helpers and IR traversal call sites, and adds JMH benchmarks for IR passes and tree traversal.

Changes: Stack-safe traversal

Layer / File(s)	Summary
StackFrame interpreter and recursive helpers hail/hail/utils/src/is/hail/utils/StackSafe.scala	StackSafe.run interprets frame types with an explicit stack. StackFrame combinators and recursive collection helpers now use mapped, flat-mapped, and reusable step frames.
IR traversal call sites hail/hail/src/is/hail/expr/ir/BaseIR.scala, hail/hail/src/is/hail/expr/ir/TypeCheck.scala, hail/hail/src/is/hail/expr/ir/lowering/RewriteBottomUp.scala, hail/hail/src/is/hail/expr/ir/lowering/invariant/package.scala	IR child mapping, type checking, and invariant verification invoke recursive traversals directly. RewriteBottomUp uses flatMap and explicit pattern matching while retaining its described rule behavior.
Traversal benchmarks hail/hail/bench/src/is/hail/expr/ir/IRPassBenchmark.scala, hail/hail/bench/src/is/hail/utils/StackFrameBenchmark.scala	New JMH benchmarks measure four IR passes across generated IR shapes and compare recursive tree traversal with StackFrame.mapRecur.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: patrick-schultz

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 940b7

The traversal changes appear mergeable with bounded follow-up: add a deep-chain regression test and correct the benchmark description. Whether the deep ForwardLets benchmark overflows remains unconfirmed.

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Minor · Correct the Add-node count in the tree description. · IRPassBenchmark.scala:19

hail/hail/bench/src/is/hail/expr/ir/IRPassBenchmark.scala:19
Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Correct the Add-node count in the tree description.

The tree shape builds 8191 Add nodes and 8192 leaves, for 16383 nodes in total. The doc comment says it has 16383 Add nodes, which overstates the Add count by about 2x. Change the description to state both counts.

📝 Suggested fix

-  *   - `tree`: a balanced tree of 16383 `Add` nodes.
+  *   - `tree`: a balanced tree of 8191 `Add` nodes and 8192 leaves, 16383 nodes in total.

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Review comment at @hail/hail/bench/src/is/hail/expr/ir/IRPassBenchmark.scala at
line 19:
Update the `tree` description in the benchmark doc comment to state that it
contains 8191 `Add` nodes and 8192 leaves, for 16383 nodes in total.

Nitpick comments: 1

hail/hail/utils/src/is/hail/utils/StackSafe.scala: 1

74-74: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add a regression test for a deep first-child chain through mapRecur.

No test runs a deep first-child chain through the StackSafe helpers. The existing IR tests use wide nodes, and the deep-nesting benchmark is a JMH benchmark, not a test. If mapRecur evaluated f eagerly again, the current suite would still pass.

Add a test in a new suite for StackSafe. Nest mapRecur about 10,000 levels deep, then run the result. Wrap it in the test annotation that the repository's suites use:

import is.hail.utils.StackSafe._

def chain(n: Int): StackFrame[Int] =
  if (n == 0) done(0)
  else IndexedSeq(0).mapRecur(_ => chain(n - 1)).map(_.head + 1)

assert(chain(10000).run() == 10000)

Under eager evaluation, this recursion can grow the JVM stack once per level, so the test can fail with StackOverflowError.

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Review comment at @hail/hail/utils/src/is/hail/utils/StackSafe.scala at line 74:
Add a StackSafe test suite with a regression test that builds a roughly
10,000-level first-child chain using mapRecur and runs the resulting StackFrame,
asserting the expected value without overflowing the JVM stack. Use the test
annotation and conventions established by the repository’s existing suites.

Additional comments: 1

hail/hail/bench/src/is/hail/expr/ir/IRPassBenchmark.scala-74-75: 1

74-75: Minor · Potential issue · Quick win

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We couldn't verify this from the code. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.

The benchmark invokes ForwardLets on every shape, including the 2000-level deep shape, although the PR description reports that ForwardLets still overflows in ComputeUsesAndDefs.

That benchmark may throw StackOverflowError instead of producing a measurement, preventing a complete run of the configured cases.

This can occur when: JMH runs forwardLets with shape set to deep.

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Review comments at @hail/hail/bench/src/is/hail/expr/ir/IRPassBenchmark.scala:
- Line 19: Update the `tree` description in the benchmark doc comment to state
that it contains 8191 `Add` nodes and 8192 leaves, for 16383 nodes in total.

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Review comments at @hail/hail/utils/src/is/hail/utils/StackSafe.scala:
- Line 74: Add a StackSafe test suite with a regression test that builds a
roughly 10,000-level first-child chain using mapRecur and runs the resulting
StackFrame, asserting the expected value without overflowing the JVM stack. Use
the test annotation and conventions established by the repository’s existing
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