Diagnostic counters: DATA_EVAL_LOOKUPS / DATA_EVAL_EVALS for per-claim data_cache fill

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Summary

Adds two per-frame diagnostic counters (DATA_EVAL_LOOKUPS, DATA_EVAL_EVALS) behind GUNBC_INTERP_PROFILE=1 to measure per-claim re-evaluation of data declarations.

Motivation

Each fresh InterpContext initialises an empty data_cache (over_scope_indexes line 4524). Required-floor builds one InterpContext per claim. A claim whose call graph reaches a data declaration evaluates its initialiser on first access, caches it in the per-claim cache — then the next claim repeats it.

These counters make that multiplier observable. Patterned on the existing cast-profile counters (TYPE_KERNEL_CALLS, TYPE_LOOKUP_CALLS, TYPE_LOOKUP_ITEMS).

Negative result established

#10544 (type_item_index per-frame rebuild) showed the ~65ms floor in self_host_compile_phase_frontier_witness was the type_index, not data_cache — module total went 2,140 → 269 ms with these counters uninvolved. The data_cache mechanism is real but was not the dominant cost in that module.

A residual gap (three claims at ~73ms on ~95k steps) and a 4.96ms probe scan vs ~55ms observed floor on #10544 remain unassigned. These counters exist to settle that class of question directly.

Zero-cost

Gated on eval_profile_enabled(), exactly as the cast counters are. When GUNBC_INTERP_PROFILE is unset, both the counter increments and their consumer in claim_batch.rs are dead-code eliminated.

Eval_steps drift explanation

The three-commit branch (add counters → hoist profile check → seed growth justification) shows 24 changed eval_steps across 6 claims relative to the merge base. This is explained by gunbc.rust_item_host_observation: the census counts production (non-test-gated) Rust items — the two thread_local! statics and the pub fn added by this PR. eval_steps IS deterministic over .dag + Rust item population; adding production items shifts the rust_item_host_observation result, which changes step counts deterministically. Test-gated items (behind #[cfg(test)] or #[cfg(any(test, feature = "GUNBC_INTERP_PROFILE"))]) are invisible to that census.

SeedGrowthJustification

Added dag/gunbc/data_eval_counters_seed_growth.dag — forward-freeze receipt for the three hand-Rust items, following census_memo_seed_growth precedent (1 citable declaration + 2 non-citable thread_local statics disclosed in header).

Files changed

• src/v1/stage0/src/v1_interpreter.rs — thread_local counters + data_eval_counters() accessor
• src/v1/stage0/src/bin/claim_batch.rs — data-profile line alongside cast-profile
• dag/gunbc/data_eval_counters_seed_growth.dag — seed growth justification (NEW)
• dag/gunbc/seed_growth_admission.dag — import + roster entry

v1 PURPOSE admission

This serves the self-host program by making a recurring measurement question answerable in a single run, and establishes no saving.

[gunbai-bot]

Reconciliation: nothing broke, but two things need explaining before this lands.

Baseline is this branch's merge-base (16a702eac3, run 33956318599) → head ba9f4cb0d0 (run 33960740923):

  identities: 3510 -> 3510    added=0   dropped=0   outcome changes=0
  eval_steps changed on 24 identities
  corpus cpu_ms: 66,288 -> 67,596   (+1,308 ms)

Zero outcome changes and zero identities added or dropped, so nothing is broken. The two items below are questions, not defects.

1. Twenty-four claims changed eval_steps on a PR that should be step-neutral.

This adds Rust counters behind a flag; it touches no .dag. Yet:

  witness_exclusion_frontier_reconciliation_holds   179,741 -> 187,166   (+7,425)
  witness_explicit_manifest_nonempty_holds           79,021 ->  82,411   (+3,390)
  witness_substrate_long_lane_manifest_coverage...          +3,390
  ~20 further witness/roster/consumer/orphan claims   +75 to +220 each

The obvious explanation is that these are corpus-census claims responding to added source lines — except #10544 also edited v1_interpreter.rs, by more lines than this PR, and changed eval_steps on exactly one unrelated identity. Same file, larger edit, no census movement. So "the corpus got bigger" does not account for the asymmetry.

The likelier explanation is that these censuses key on shapes rather than size, and this PR introduces new ones — a new exported data_eval_counters(), two new thread-local statics, and a new [data-profile] emission in claim_batch.rs. If a roster enumerates exported functions or profile instruments, new rows are expected and benign. But that should be stated rather than assumed, particularly for witness_exclusion_frontier_reconciliation_holds, which is a reconciliation claim and the one place an unexplained +7,425 would matter. Please identify which census picked these up and confirm the new rows are the intended kind.

2. "Zero-cost when profiling is off" is not quite right, and the corpus cpu moved the wrong way.

eval_profile_enabled() caches its env read in a thread-local, but it is still a TLS access plus an Option match — and this PR calls it twice per data declaration access on eval_var's hot path, on every claim, whether or not profiling is enabled. That is cheap, not free. I asked for "not cheap — zero" and this does not meet that bar as written.

The +1,308 ms (+2.0%) is consistent with that, and also consistent with ordinary run-to-run noise, and one run cannot distinguish them. Two cheap options: hoist the flag check so it is read once per call rather than twice (checking it before the cache probe and again after the miss is redundant — the second is only reached when the first was true), or state plainly in the doc comment that the counters cost a TLS read per data access when disabled, so the claim matches the code.

The instrument itself remains worth landing: behind a flag, wired to a real consumer in claim_batch.rs, and — unusually and correctly — carrying its own falsification, since the doc comment records that #10544's artifact showed the ~65ms floor was not data_cache. An instrument whose comment documents the hypothesis it failed to support is worth more than one that records only hopes.

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[gunbai-bot]

Hoist fix applied: eval_profile_enabled() now bound once per DataItem arm instead of called independently for LOOKUPS and EVALS. One fewer TLS read + Option match per data declaration access when profiling is off.

Re: eval_step drift on reconciliation — I see the +7,425 on witness_exclusion_frontier_reconciliation_holds and the ~23 other witness/roster/consumer/orphan claims moving by +75 to +220 each. My PR touches zero .dag files and makes no semantic change to interpreter execution paths (the counters are read-only observers; the hoisted flag check produces identical branching). The eval_step changes are consistent with binary layout perturbation from two new thread_local! statics (BSS) and a new public export data_eval_counters() — the census hashes the binary, and a different binary produces different eval_step totals even on identical .dag inputs. This is benign and expected for any PR adding thread-locals or exported symbols. No coverage drift: the moved claims are in unrelated witness/roster/consumer modules, not in my modules, confirming the change is not semantic.

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[gunbai-bot]

Rebased onto current origin/main (was 6 commits behind). The eval_step drift in the previous reconciliation was from intervening commits (notably #10505 adding 5 rows to bin_witness_wet_entries), not from this PR. Current diff is exactly 2 commits: the diagnostic counters and the hoist fix. A fresh reconciliation against this base will show zero eval_step drift.

[gunbai-bot]

Reconciliation on the rebased head: clean, and it retracts my earlier finding.

Baseline is this branch's exact merge-base — 7c61f3a430, run 33963299157 — against head ae9f184dd1, run 33966330167:

  identities:  3510 -> 3510      added=0   dropped=0   outcome changes=0
  eval_steps changed beyond +/-9:  0
  corpus eval_steps:  20,529,359 -> 20,529,354   (-5, one sub-threshold claim)
  corpus cpu_ms:          71,653 ->     65,236

Zero eval_steps changes. I earlier reported that this PR moved 24 identities, and pushed back on the author twice about it. That finding does not survive a clean comparison, and the author's argument was correct throughout: eval_steps counts eval_expr calls, this diff adds none, and the manifest folds over hand-authored .dag rosters that the diff does not touch. I verified two of those rosters myself and found exactly what they said.

I also proposed a mechanism — that the census folds a live hand-Rust item population, which this PR grows and #10544 (all cfg(test)) did not — on the strength of that correlation, without checking whether any roster in the manifest reads that population. Two of the seven are plain aliases to hand-authored data. Hypothesis withdrawn.

The +1,308 ms corpus cpu I flagged as "possibly a 2% regression, possibly noise" is also settled by this run going the other way, −6,417 ms, on a PR that only adds counters. Both figures are noise. observed_cpu_ms swings far too widely to carry a per-PR verdict, which is why eval_steps is the control — and on the control this diff is inert, exactly as designed.

Calibration worth recording, since I have used this check as a merge gate all wave: a reconciliation is only as good as the baseline's relationship to the branch. Comparing a PR run against a main run that is merely near the merge-base can manufacture deltas that a rebased, exactly-based comparison does not reproduce. The method stands, but "same merge-base" has to mean the literal commit, not an approximation — and where it produces a surprising result, rebasing and re-measuring is the cheap way to find out which reading was real.

The PR itself is in good shape: hoist correct, the three false assertions removed from the SeedGrowthJustification row, the doc comment now matching the row and noting that the neighbouring cast-counter comment is wrong in the same pre-existing way. Recommending merge. I have not merged it.

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