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Brummel 65e280bb70 Bench: GC overhead via bump-allocator comparison
Adds --alloc=<gc|bump> to ail build/run. Bump path links a 256MB
no-free arena C stub instead of libgc; IR is byte-identical except
for the @GC_malloc → @bump_malloc symbol swap. Bench harness times
two allocation-heavy workloads (list cons/sum and balanced tree
build/walk) under both modes.

Numbers (RUNS=5, median of 4):
  bench_list_sum   gc 0.141s  bump 0.048s  +194%
  bench_tree_walk  gc 0.103s  bump 0.041s  +151%

Bucket: large. ~60% of runtime is Boehm on these workloads —
upper bound for any realistic program. Both fixtures hold the
heap fully live, so the cost we're seeing is Boehm's allocate
path itself, not collection work; that fact narrows the design
space for the GC discussion.

- crates/ailang-codegen: AllocStrategy enum, three callsites and
  the IR header parameterised.
- crates/ail/src/main.rs: --alloc flag plumbed; bump runtime
  located + compiled on demand.
- runtime/bump.c: 256MB static arena, abort-on-overflow.
- examples/bench_list_sum, bench_tree_walk: accumulator-form
  fixtures (textbook recursive sum was constructor-blocked).
- bench/run.sh: harness with Python timing helper (Arch's
  /usr/bin/time isn't part of the base install).

No language-level changes; default --alloc=gc, all 141 workspace
tests green, all 5 IR snapshots unchanged, 11 prior fixtures
produce identical stdout.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 00:06:20 +02:00

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