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Closes #2729.

With LiveView as the array default (#2728) and the wrapper-construction costs removed (#2730, #2731), the dominant remaining cost of a collection member being re-read from script was wrapper re-creation per crossing. This flips Options.Interop.CacheRecentObjectWrappers to true: a small bounded ring (8 entries, per engine, strong references — cannot grow unbounded) makes repeated crossings of the same object reuse its wrapper by default. TrackObjectWrapperIdentity remains the opt-in for full identity persistence; setting CacheRecentObjectWrappers = false restores fresh-wrapper-per-crossing.

Latent cache bug fixed along the way (it also affects the existing opt-in flags): both identity-cache lookups ignored the exposed CLR type, so an object crossing once as its concrete type and later as an explicit interface/superclass view (holder.i1 vs holder.ci1) got the first wrapper back — resolving the wrong member set. Seven existing InteropExplicitTypeTests caught this the moment the cache was on by default. Cache hits now require the wrapper's ClrType to match the exposed type; the ring can hold both views of the same object, and the identity map replaces its entry when the view changes. A regression test exercises alternating views against the populated cache.

Observable changes (and their opt-outs):

  • Wrapper reference identity is now stable for recently-crossed objects, so script-attached state (Object.freeze, defineProperty, expandos) survives crossings. (=== was already true — wrapper equality compares targets.)
  • Under explicit ArrayConversionMode.Copy, repeated reads of the same CLR array now reuse the first JsArray snapshot while cached — CLR-side mutations are not re-copied. Full pre-4.14 semantics = Copy + CacheRecentObjectWrappers = false; the option XML doc spells this out and the snapshot-contract tests migrated to the explicit opt-out, mirroring the Default Interop.ArrayConversion to LiveView for 4.14 #2728 test migration.

Benchmarks (same machine, adjacent same-base A/B vs main@fed894d43, default job)

InteropWrapperChurnBenchmark:

Row main PR delta
ArrayMemberTraversal_DefaultLiveView 19.35 µs / 13,944 B 15.27 µs / 344 B −21% / −97.5%
ArrayMemberTraversal_LiveViewNoCache (new opt-out lane) — 19.51 µs / 13,944 B reproduces the old default
SameObjectReturnedInLoop_DefaultFlag 2.58 µs / 2,336 B 2.45 µs / 2,016 B wrapper reused
ArrayHoistedTraversal / Copy lanes flat / allocation-identical

EngineComparisonInteropBenchmark (Jint lane):

Row main PR delta
interop-collection-traversal 2,288 µs / 1,659 KB 1,501 µs / 332 KB −34% / −80%
interop-method-calls / property-access / string-passing allocation byte-identical, time within run-to-run wobble

Cumulative on this row across the 4.14 interop work (#2728 → #2730/#2731 → this PR): 15.6 ms / 32.9 MB → 1.50 ms / 0.33 MB.

Gates: full Jint.Tests (net10.0 + net472), Jint.Tests.PublicInterface, Test262 99,431 passed / 0 failed.

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Closes sebastienros#2729. With LiveView as the array default, wrapper re-creation per
crossing was the dominant remaining interop cost; the bounded recent-wrapper
ring (8 entries, per engine) makes repeated crossings of the same object
reuse its wrapper by default while staying memory-safe.

Flipping the default surfaced a latent cache bug that also affected the
opt-in flags: lookups ignored the exposed CLR type, so an object crossing
both as its concrete type and as an explicit interface/superclass view got
the wrong wrapper back. Cache hits now require the wrapper's ClrType to
match the exposed type; the ring can hold both views of one object, and the
identity map replaces its entry when the view changes.

Copy-mode tests that assert fresh-snapshot-per-crossing semantics opt out of
the cache explicitly, mirroring the sebastienros#2728 migration; the option XML doc
spells out how to restore the full pre-4.14 behavior.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Updated [Jint](https://github.com/sebastienros/jint) from 4.13.0 to
4.14.0.

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<summary>Release notes</summary>

_Sourced from [Jint's
releases](https://github.com/sebastienros/jint/releases)._

## 4.14.0

Jint 4.14.0 is an **interop-focused performance release**: CLR arrays
now cross into script as live views instead of copies, recently wrapped
host objects reuse their wrappers, single-candidate interop method calls
dispatch through compiled invokers, and `JSON.parse` interns repeated
keys and values. Host collection traversal is **10.9× faster** than
4.13.0. **Two interop defaults changed in this release** — read the
first two highlights if you pass CLR arrays to scripts or rely on
per-crossing conversion behavior; everything else needs no code changes
to benefit.

### Highlights

**CLR arrays are live views by default (behavior change).**
`Options.Interop.ArrayConversion` now defaults to
`ArrayConversionMode.LiveView` (#​2721, #​2728, #​2735): a single-rank
`T[]` crossing into script becomes a live, fixed-size view over the
underlying array — the way wrapped `List<T>` already behaves — instead
of being copied into a new JS array on every read. Writes go through in
both directions, and arrays exposed through read-only-declared members
(e.g. `IReadOnlyList<T>`) produce read-only views. Iteration,
`Array.prototype` methods, JSON serialization, index-key enumeration
(`Object.keys` / `for..in` yield `"0"`..`"n-1"`) and `undefined` for
out-of-range reads all behave array-like, but `Array.isArray` returns
`false`, and because CLR arrays are fixed-size, resizing operations
(`push`/`pop`/`length` writes) throw a `TypeError` like integer-indexed
exotic objects do — `shift`/`splice` may move elements before their
length change throws, as for typed arrays. Set
`Options.Interop.ArrayConversion = ArrayConversionMode.Copy` to restore
the 4.13 behavior.

**Recently wrapped CLR objects reuse their wrappers (behavior change).**
The new `Options.Interop.CacheRecentObjectWrappers` defaults to `true`
(#​2734): a small bounded ring (8 entries, keyed by reference identity
and exposed type) reuses wrappers for host objects that repeatedly cross
into script. Wrapper identity becomes stable (`host.Obj === host.Obj`),
script-attached state (freeze, `defineProperty`, expandos) survives
crossings, and the per-crossing wrapper allocation disappears. Under
`Copy` array conversion this also means repeated reads of the same CLR
array reuse the first `JsArray` snapshot while it stays cached —
CLR-side mutations are not re-copied; set the option to `false` for the
pre-4.14 fresh-snapshot-per-crossing behavior. `Engine.Dispose()`
releases the ring.

**Interop fast lanes.** Single-candidate method calls run through a
compiled invoker that binds and invokes without argument arrays or
boxing (#​2733), with per-parameter binding flags precomputed (#​2719).
Resolved `ObjectWrapper` members get a per-call-site inline cache
(#​2722) and the member-call fast path covers primitive string receivers
(#​2717). Array-like wrapper creation is a cached factory call with
lazily materialized `length` (#​2730), primitive elements convert
without boxing on both indexed reads and `Array.prototype` iteration
(#​2731, #​2735), the wrapper identity caches cover CLR arrays (#​2716),
and implicitly implemented interface methods are deduplicated in member
resolution (#​2711).

**JSON.** `JSON.parse` interns property keys and string values within a
parse, parses numbers off the span with an exactly-rounded fast path and
scans string content in bulk (#​2718, #​2725, #​2732) — the
`json-parse-modern` comparison row is 6% faster with 23% less allocation
than 4.13.0. Parsing is also aligned with the JSON grammar (#​2738):
malformed numbers like `-09` and `1.` are now rejected as in V8, while
raw U+2028/U+2029 in strings and escaped control characters in keys —
both valid JSON — are now accepted.

**Strings.** Chained `slice`/`substring` and `split` segments stay
zero-copy views (#​2720), whole-string `substring`/`substr` return the
receiver, and mismatched-length comparisons no longer materialize views
(#​2740).

**Execution constraints at host boundaries.** Timeouts and cancellation
are re-checked when control returns from host CLR code, so detection
latency is bounded by one host call instead of a statement-count window,
without adding per-statement cost — gated on execution depth so
host-side reads of wrapped objects on an idle engine never observe a
stale timer (#​2713, #​2714, #​2715). Execution-context depth stays
balanced when constraint exceptions unwind generator/async frames, and a
host callback that re-enters the engine no longer resets the outer
script's budget (#​2736).

**Correctness (including a pre-release review).** A review of everything
since 4.13.0 fixed: spurious TDZ when a for-header reads a name the loop
body shadows (#​2709) and stale closure captures from destructuring
defaults in for-loop headers (#​2739); the compiled-invoker lane now
defers to custom `ITypeConverter`s and preserves reflection exception
types (#​2737); and the new wrapper defaults were hardened —
declared-type contracts for arrays (an `IReadOnlyList<T>`-typed member
no longer yields a writable view), a static type-mapper poisoning crash,
`Engine.Dispose` releasing the wrapper caches, and JS-array
`in`/enumeration/out-of-range semantics on array views (#​2735). Closure
reads memoize slot-cache chain reachability (#​2726).

On the [engine comparison
benchmarks](https://github.com/sebastienros/jint/blob/main/Jint.Benchmark/README.md),
Jint 4.14.0 beats ClearScript (native V8) by 7.1×–9.1× on every script ↔
host interop row — host collection traversal went from last to second
among all engines at 15,597 → 1,433 µs with 99% less allocation — while
remaining the fastest managed engine on 10 of 12 pure-JS scripts and the
fastest interpreter on all 12, and now leading `array-stress` and
`dromaeo-object-array`, rows V8 narrowly led at 4.13.0.


## What's Changed
* Refresh EngineComparison benchmarks for 4.13.0 by @​lahma in
sebastienros/jint#2704
* Fix spurious TDZ when a for-header reads a name the loop body shadows
by @​svenrog in sebastienros/jint#2709
* Bump the testing group with 1 update by @​dependabot[bot] in
sebastienros/jint#2710
* Add tests for using modules from script code run via Evaluate by
@​lahma in sebastienros/jint#2712
* Deduplicate implicitly implemented interface methods in member
resolution by @​lahma in sebastienros/jint#2711
* Re-check amortized constraints at interpreter/host-code boundaries by
@​lahma in sebastienros/jint#2713
* Add ClearScript V8 to engine comparison benchmarks, trim suite, add
script-to-host interop suite by @​viceice in
sebastienros/jint#1775
* Gate host-boundary constraint checks on active evaluation and harden
coverage by @​lahma in sebastienros/jint#2714
* Key the host-boundary constraint gate on execution depth and close
remaining lanes by @​lahma in
sebastienros/jint#2715
* Cover CLR arrays with the interop identity caches by @​lahma in
sebastienros/jint#2716
* Extend the member-call fast path to primitive string receivers by
@​lahma in sebastienros/jint#2717
* Intern object property keys within a single JSON parse by @​lahma in
sebastienros/jint#2718
* Precompute per-parameter interop binding flags by @​lahma in
sebastienros/jint#2719
* Keep slice-of-slice and split segments zero-copy by @​lahma in
sebastienros/jint#2720
* Add opt-in ClrArrayConversion.LiveView interop mode for CLR arrays by
@​lahma in sebastienros/jint#2721
* Cache resolved ObjectWrapper members per member-expression node by
@​lahma in sebastienros/jint#2722
* Refresh engine comparison README after the V8-gap campaign by @​lahma
in sebastienros/jint#2723
* Bulk string scanning and a simple-number fast path for JSON.parse by
@​lahma in sebastienros/jint#2725
* Memoize slot-cache chain reachability for closure reads by @​lahma in
sebastienros/jint#2726
* Refresh engine comparison tables after the second campaign round by
@​lahma in sebastienros/jint#2727
* Default Interop.ArrayConversion to LiveView for 4.14 by @​lahma in
sebastienros/jint#2728
* Cache array-like wrapper factories and materialize length lazily by
@​lahma in sebastienros/jint#2730
* Convert primitive array-like wrapper elements without boxing by
@​lahma in sebastienros/jint#2731
* Add a compiled-invoker fast lane for single-candidate interop method
calls by @​lahma in sebastienros/jint#2733
* Intern JSON.parse string values and parse numbers off the span by
@​lahma in sebastienros/jint#2732
* Default Interop.CacheRecentObjectWrappers to true for 4.14 by @​lahma
in sebastienros/jint#2734
* Harden LiveView array wrappers and interop wrapper caches for 4.14 by
@​lahma in sebastienros/jint#2735
* Keep execution-context depth balanced under raw constraint exceptions
by @​lahma in sebastienros/jint#2736
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