Parent: #97 Follows: #426 Dependency experiment: zig-utils/zig-gc#42
Disposition: rejected and fully reverted
The exact 8b271b34 phase profile showed nursery sweep dominating the eight-lane cooperative pause, so this issue tested whether clearing and recycling wholly dead 64 KiB backing chunks could remove the per-cell cost. A correct prototype consumed zig-gc's address-ordered dead-run contract, batch-unpublished complete runs before finalization, reset full-chunk ownership/free bitmaps after finalization, and retained the exact partial-live fallback.
Completed experiment
- Implement an explicit owned-backing capability over the zig-gc dead-run prototype.
- Preserve classification-before-finalizer ordering, stable realm ownership, live/free accounting, relocation, reuse, teardown, and partial-live fallback in focused tests.
- Prove the complete-chunk path executes in the cooperative nursery regression.
- Run seven alternating fresh-process pairs per 1/2/4/8 lane against exact parent
8e4580cf+ zig-gc529e0f2, with unchanged checksums and collector invariants. - Apply the retain/revert gate: eight-lane sweep improved only 0.7%, wall time regressed 0.9%, and the candidate won 2/7 pairs; one lane regressed 1.1%.
- Fully revert both the uncommitted zig-js activation and zig-gc prototype (
64d2660reverted by88ea254). - Publish raw samples and the verdict.
- Leave README benchmark scores unchanged.
ReleaseSafe/TSan downstream retention gates were deliberately not run after the earlier performance gate rejected the candidate; no downstream code remained to certify. zig-gc's prototype itself passed normal and suppression-free TSan before measurement.