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Draft. Based on #582 (build-time bytecode optimizer), merged in as the base of this branch.

Startup work for programs loaded from a bytecode-cache image (what bun build --compile --bytecode --format=esm produces). Everything is behind runtime options. No LLInt asm changes; interpreter/JIT-touching code is ~150 lines and isolated in the catch-liveness commit.

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area options interpreter/JIT touch
Bytecode cache decode useThinChildExecutables useLazyFunctionExecutables useLazySymbolTableConstants useFastCachedAtoms useLazyCachedExpressionInfo materialize-before-enqueue hook in JITPlan / DFGDriver
Module loader: pre-resolved module graph usePrelinkedModuleInfo validatePrelinkedModuleInfo none
JIT policy scale startupJITDeferralScale startupJITDeferralMaxMs, VM::setStartupJITDeferralScale() ExecutionCounter / checkIf*ThresholdReached only
Yarr: lazy pattern construction useLazyRegExpPatternConstruction none
Lazy op_catch liveness useLazyCatchLiveness catch slow-path flag, defer-once in operationOptimize, DFGDriver backstop (severable)
Cache checksum removed (verifyBytecodeCacheChecksums deleted) none
  • Decode. Child function executables decoded from a cache image carry only what JSFunction creation needs; name, TDZ environment and rare data decode on first call or introspection; FunctionExecutables are created on first new_func; SymbolTable entries materialize in one sized pass; the decoder string table reuses per-index atoms and probes the atom table with the stored hash; expression info stays in the payload until an error stack or the debugger needs it. Anything a compiler thread or the collector may read is either materialized on the mutator first or readable without the atom table (ecmaNameWithoutGC).
  • Pre-resolved module graph. The embedder hands the loader a PrelinkedModuleGraph: bundled modules register by index in one pass, imports are pre-resolved to (module, export) indices, names are string-table indices; by-name paths remain for dynamic import() by string, star-export ambiguity and reflection; validatePrelinkedModuleInfo cross-checks every resolution against the normal resolver.
  • JIT policy scale. A multiplier on the LLInt→Baseline and Baseline→DFG threshold comparisons (nothing disabled; hot code still tiers up). Off unless the embedder sets it; VM::setStartupJITDeferralScale(n) arms/changes/ends it at runtime; an optional deadline exists for the shell.
  • Lazy RegExp. RegExp objects syntax-check at creation but build YarrPattern/character classes on first use; built-in classes are shared.
  • Lazy catch liveness. A catch executing in LLInt/Baseline no longer runs whole-function liveness on the main thread; its value-profile buffer is created when the block crosses its DFG threshold.
  • Cache checksum. The fork's per-block CRC32C is removed (format revision bumped); bounds checks stay.

Results

Large bundled CLI application (~2,300 modules), same application and embedder sources, 16 pinned cores on a loaded 64-core host, ×8 interactive sessions (instruction counts are the load-independent rows). "scale 8" = the embedder arms the JIT policy scale at 8 and never resets it.

main this branch this branch, scale 8
time to interactive prompt 698 ms 579 ms (−17%) 562 ms (−19%)
first turn / steady-state turns 764 / 250 ms 664 / 239 ms 693 / 253 ms
CPU per 20-turn session (all threads) 10.4 s 10.05 s 9.13 s (−12%)
JIT-thread CPU per session 3.80 s 3.75 s 2.47 s (−35%)
RSS at first interactive frame / peak 308 / 551 MB 285 / 540 MB 268 / 476 MB
--help: instructions / max RSS 0.69 G / 158 MB 0.56 G / 143 MB 0.51 G / 141 MB
headless single turn: instructions / CPU 2.95 G / 1.28 s 2.71 G / 1.21 s 2.01 G / 0.89 s

Experiments that were tried, measured, and removed

experiment measured why it failed
Lazy scope-op linking (useLazyCodeBlockLink) link walk 66 ms → 0, total CPU / time-to-prompt ±0 ~100% of a created block's scope ops execute during startup; the work moved to first execution
Batched first-execution link +15…25 ms walks whole instruction streams of blocks that run a fraction of their code
Global resolve memo; module-env resolve cache; in-block resolve dedup; SymbolTable key filter; import-name Bloom filter −0.6% / −4 ms for +2.3 MB / −0.4% / −0.4% / ±0 link-time import lookups are mostly hits; misses are cheap already
Direct module environment init; lazy heap constants; synthetic module scope ±0 / ±0 / 0…−0.8% work already cheap, or JSC already does it (uncaptured module bindings live in registers)
Deferral re-arm at window end; executed-only GC CodeBlock walks; get_by_id first-miss tweaks noise / ±0 / noise no measurable effect; the last one touches the interpreter
Time/idle/first-output based automatic end of the JIT scale fixed a turn-1–5 regression but gave back most of the JIT/RSS win replaced by the explicit embedder API (opt-in scale + setStartupJITDeferralScale)
Heap pre-population; payload in evaluation order; kernel fault-around suppression (embedder side) no-op / ±0 warm and cold / −25 MB file-backed RSS only not worth their code; the last is Linux-only and cosmetic
"Metadata over-allocated 2.7×" false lead ×3 sampling artifact; real ~1.4 KB per CodeBlock
Per-CodeBlock creation-cost instrumentation used to find the above removed from the branch (kept out of tree)

Tests

JSTests stress / modules / test262-module: no option-dependent failures with each option off, on release and assertion-enabled builds, including bytecode-cache round trips and forced tier-up. New stress tests: JIT policy scale (arm/re-arm/end), lazy catch liveness, lazy RegExp (+ a 24k-pattern differential fuzz), lazy function executables, GC-time error stacks / jettison dumps / sampling profiler with deferred names, lazy expression info at GC time. Embedder side: compile suites plus 25 ESM module-graph cases pass with the graph on, with validatePrelinkedModuleInfo, and off; debugger/profiler/heap-snapshot tests on a compiled bytecode executable.

…ages

Decode -> IR -> CFG/liveness -> DCE, copy propagation, destination coalescing,
jump threading, constant branch folding, redundant TDZ check elimination ->
re-emit with jump relaxation and exact remap of handlers, switch tables and
expression info. Runs before generatorification when the VM is generating a
bytecode cache image or Options::useBytecodeOptimizer() is set.
…anches, TDZ fixes

- DeclaredNamesLink: enclosing declared names per function executable (VM side
  table, cache-image generation only) so the optimizer can tell environment-
  resolved names from global ones.
- cacheScopeResolutions: resolve each stable name once per straight-line
  availability region into a fresh var register (temporaries shift up by an
  even amount; argv/stackOffset operands follow), repeats become movs; caches
  reset at yields.
- jmp->ret duplication, constant-folded conditional branches.
- TDZ pass: bindings keyed by resolution path; stores of possibly-empty values
  do not count as initialization; generatorification tolerates removed yields.
- Call frame clobber model includes alignment padding; operands never renamed
  into a frame region; async iterator ops excluded from substitution.
…nk), env-record keyed scope caches, inlining survey

- DeclaredNamesLink carries the environment-record frames at each function's creation site (captured
  names -> scope offsets, with/eval barriers); resolve() gives hops+slot for closure/module variables.
- resolve_scope of such a name at depth 0 becomes a mov of the scope register; deeper ones keep a
  resolve_scope whose resolveType encodes the outer hop count (firstStaticClosureVarResolveType+h);
  CodeBlock::finishCreation links those with a pointer walk (validation option cross-checks against
  JSScope::abstractResolve). Paired get_from_scope becomes ResolvedClosureVar with the static slot when
  it stays narrow.
- Scope caches are keyed by environment record for static resolutions (all names in one record share a
  cache); imports stay keyed by name. Optional hoisting to entry (off: no count win, hurts generators).
- reportBytecodeOptimizer: whole-tree survey of call sites to tiny module-level leaf functions.
… recursivelyGenerateUnlinkedCodeBlock* instead of a VM flag
- One forward must-dataflow solver shared by copy propagation, TDZ elimination and scope caching.
- Drop development scaffolding (opcode histograms, inlining survey, bisect options, entry hoisting).
- Pass OptimizeBytecode and the parent DeclaredNamesLink through BytecodeGenerator's constructors
  (constructors already create function executables); no VM handoff field.
- Clear VM::m_pendingDeclaredNames when a recursive generation finishes.
- TDZ elimination: only key bindings reached through resolve_scope when the enclosing scopes prove the name
  lives in an environment record (a with object / sloppy eval var could otherwise answer the first lookup and
  expose an outer binding still in its TDZ on the second); a store of a possibly-empty value forgets the key;
  exact keys grouped by base register; bounded state.
- DeclaredNamesLink: shared per-scope Names/Frame nodes, O(1) per created function; carried on the
  UnlinkedFunctionExecutable's RareData until its code is generated (no VM side table).
- resolveTypeName()/dumper understand static closure-var resolve types.
- Constant folding via JSValue::pureToBoolean/pureStrictEqual; per-opcode instruction casts.
- coalesceDestinations: do not rename into a register live into the covering handler; cap transient memory.
- Reachability walks the enclosing-handler chain; switch tables rewritten via updateStoredJumpTargetsForInstruction;
  replaceWith() helper; one liveness computation per round.
Compile time on a 10MB bundle chunk: 2.4s -> 3.8s (was 17s), memory unchanged.
Every name a nested function can refer to is captured and therefore has an environment slot in some Frame; listing
uncaptured vars, parameter names and the function's own identifier as Stable was wrong for closures created in a
parameter list (their scope is above the var environment) and for function names that are not in scope.
… strict); decode op_jnstricteq with its own struct; bound jump-size relaxation
…, static scope model, call frames/generators)
…ses, surface async assertion failures, check the TDZ message
…all back to abstractResolve if the scope does not hold the name; validation after the metadata writes
…operands (LLInt reads some as frame slots; branch folding tracks known constants separately), do not propagate the empty value, give removed yields the default dispatch target in generatorification, resolve_scope is pure only for non-dynamic resolve types, a scope store drops stale binding registers, link static resolves only against JSLexicalEnvironment
…yields, exception value flow and stack positions, switch tables and jump relaxation, generators/iterators, register shift, scope model (hoisting/classes, params/generators, eval/with/global, deep nesting, cache control flow)
…e (the paired get_from_scope already carries the slot); let simplifyJumps see constants recorded on branches; testLoopCount in the hot loops
…t/arguments values; drive return() through the finally with a removed yield
@Jarred-Sumner Jarred-Sumner changed the title Faster startup for bytecode-cache module graphs: pre-resolved module loading, lazy CodeBlock link, thin child executables, startup JIT deferral Faster startup for bytecode-cache module graphs: pre-resolved module loading, thin child executables, startup JIT deferral Sep 8, 2026
…nExecutables, one-pass SymbolTable materialization, cached-atom fast path, lazily decoded expression info, trusted embedded payload integrity

Decode-side work for programs that start from a bytecode cache image, each
piece behind its own option (all default on):

- useThinChildExecutables: an UnlinkedFunctionExecutable decoded from an owned
  or persistent payload leaves its name, parent-scope TDZ variables, rare data
  and the source positions only introspection reads in the payload until first
  use. The CachedFunctionExecutable varint tail is split into a hot and a cold
  part and gains an IsClass header bit (cachedTypesFormatRevision folds this
  into the cache version).
- useLazyFunctionExecutables: a CodeBlock creates the FunctionExecutable for a
  declaration / expression the first time new_func* runs for it instead of at
  link time; a module body never creates one for its heap-allocated
  declarations (UnlinkedModuleProgramCodeBlock::numberOfHeapAllocatedFunctionDecls).
- useLazySymbolTableConstants: SymbolTable constants (and their per-CodeBlock
  scope-part clones) keep their entries in the payload until first read;
  concurrent readers see a pending table as empty.
- useFastCachedAtoms: strings from the shared DecoderStringTable carry the
  stored hash, long atoms alias the table, 3-character inline names hit a
  small direct-mapped cache on the VM, bulk decoders prefetch slot / header /
  atom-table bucket ahead of use, and module code does not re-clone its
  module-environment SymbolTable constant. UnlinkedMetadataTable::link() sizes
  and expands a steps-backed table in one walk.
- useLazyCachedExpressionInfo: an UnlinkedCodeBlock from a persistent payload
  leaves its ExpressionInfo record unread until a source position is asked for.
- useTrustedEmbeddedBytecodeIntegrity: a payload the embedder marked
  integrity-pre-verified skips per-block checksums and the child-record walk
  (the O(1) structural checks stay).

Lazily materialized state vs. concurrent compilers
(useLazyCodeBlockStateCompilerFence, forced on when either lazy option is on):
CodeBlock::prepareLazyStateForConcurrentCompilation() completes a block's
deferred state on the mutator before any JIT plan is created for it
(JITPlan(), setupWithUnlinkedBaselineCode(), newReplacement()); DFG::compile
prepares the likely inlinees up front and inlineFunctionForCapabilityLevel
refuses a block that is not prepared. Names read from compiler / GC threads go
through tryGetEcmaNameConcurrently() / inferredNameForTools().
…kedModuleInfo, validatePrelinkedModuleInfo)

PrelinkedModuleGraph holds an embedder-resolved module graph (requests,
import/export entries and pre-resolved bindings, with names as slots of the
shared DecoderStringTable). JSModuleRecord::createPrelinked makes a record for
module i of the graph; with usePrelinkedModuleInfo such records keep their
entries in the graph: requested modules are wired by index
(setPrelinkedRequestedModule), resolveImport/resolveExport, GetImportedModule,
InitializeEnvironment and GetModuleNamespace read the graph's tables, and the
by-name entry maps are only built on demand (materializePrelinkedEntries).
The loader keeps the record registered for each graph module and falls back
to by-name resolution once a module's registry entry has been deleted or
replaced. With the option off the record copies its entries out of the graph
and behaves like one from ModuleAnalyzer. validatePrelinkedModuleInfo
cross-checks every pre-resolved binding against ResolveExport.

Also: JSModuleLoader::registryEntry() skips the by-specifier scan when no
non-JavaScript entries exist, and DecoderStringTable gains hashForSlot /
slotEquals for answering name queries without creating atoms.
…alMaxMs, VM::endStartupJITDeferral)

While the window is active, LLInt->Baseline and Baseline->DFG tier-up
thresholds behave as if multiplied by startupJITDeferralScale (1 = off, the
default). The window starts at VM creation and ends after
startupJITDeferralMaxMs, when the embedder calls VM::endStartupJITDeferral(),
or via $vm.endStartupJITDeferral(). Counters armed during the window are
clipped to re-check within one unscaled threshold period, so ending it needs
no CodeBlock walk. A block that already has an optimized replacement is not
scaled (only OSR-entry retries are being spaced there).
…struction); share built-in character classes

RegExp creation only syntax-checks and capture-counts patterns longer than 64
characters (Yarr::checkSyntax now returns a SyntaxSummary: error, subpattern
count, named groups, nesting depth, literal-only) instead of building a
YarrPattern it then discards; pure literals, named-group and deeply nested
patterns are still built eagerly. The pattern is first built when the RegExp
is compiled, so YarrPatternConstructor::setupOffsets errors surface there.

The built-in character classes (\d, \s, \w, ., newline and their inverses,
plus the unicode-ignore-case word class) are immutable process-wide
singletons created on first use instead of per-YarrPattern copies.
An op_catch that executes in the LLInt / Baseline JIT no longer runs the
function's bytecode liveness analysis just to size its value-profile buffer.
OpCatch metadata records that it executed without a buffer; when the function
first crosses its DFG threshold, operationOptimize creates the buffers of the
catches that have executed and delays that tier-up once so they can profile,
and DFG::compile creates any still missing before the plan parses the block
(the parser only makes a catch OSR entrypoint where the buffer exists).
op_catch profiling and operationTryOSREnterAtCatchAndValueProfile are no-ops
until the buffer exists.

Adds JSTests/stress/lazy-catch-liveness-tier-up.js and runs the existing
catch OSR-entry stress tests with the option off as well.
…deBlockCreationCosts, off by default)

CodeBlockCreationStats collects per-UnlinkedCodeBlock decode and per-CodeBlock
link cost counters (rdtsc laps per phase, instruction / identifier / constant
counts, child executable fate, atom-table outcomes of the shared string
table, lazy materializations) and dumps a report to stderr at VM shutdown,
or every reportCodeBlockCreationCostsIntervalMs. Thread-safe; everything is
behind an [[unlikely]] enabled() check.
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@Jarred-Sumner Jarred-Sumner changed the title Faster startup for bytecode-cache module graphs: pre-resolved module loading, thin child executables, startup JIT deferral Faster startup for bytecode-cache module graphs: pre-resolved module loading, thin child executables, lazy RegExp construction, JIT policy scale Sep 9, 2026
…and Structure::get are used (unified-source bundle shift broke the Windows link)
…read RMW'd bit-field byte, prelinked Unresolved exports resolve by name (re-export cycles), V8 heap snapshots materialize lazy SymbolTables, BFS inline-candidate walk, int32 cap on the deferred re-arm step, leaf executables only for updatable cache records, enum/table static_asserts, testLoopCount and robustness fixes in the new stress tests

- CodeBlock: m_isLazyStatePreparedForConcurrentCompilation and m_hasCatchThatExecutedWithoutBuffer
  become whole bools (in existing padding) instead of bits of the byte a Baseline compile thread
  read-modify-writes through m_capabilityLevelState; a lost catch summary bit was never re-set.
- AbstractModuleRecord::prelinkedResolution: the by-name tail calls resolveExportByName() on the
  target, so an Unresolved entry on an in-graph re-export cycle ends as NotFound instead of recursing
  through resolveExport()'s prelinked fast path.
- HeapSnapshotBuilder::materializeLazyStateForHeapAnalysis(), also used by BunV8HeapSnapshotBuilder
  so V8-format snapshots keep closure variable names of cache-backed SymbolTables.
- DFG prepareLazyStateOfInlineCandidates walks breadth-first so shared blocks expand at minimum depth.
- ExecutionCounter::setThreshold caps the startup-deferral re-arm step at INT32_MAX.
- CachedTypes: leaf executables are recorded only for Updatable records (the layout addFunctionUpdate patches).
- static_asserts tying JSModuleLoader::registryEntry's type list and Yarr's shared class table to their enums.
- Tests: testLoopCount in lazy-catch-liveness-tier-up (and no DFG-compiled assertion under executable
  allocation fuzzing) and bytecode-cache-deferred-names-off-mutator; lazy-function-executables keeps its
  closures when testLoopCount < 100; reset lastIndex before the final /g exec; expected line recorded
  next to its definition; bytecode-optimizer-iterators compares builtin-thrown "not a function" messages
  without their ASSERT_ENABLED-only expression wording.

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3878-3878: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Validate nested CachedPtr targets before decoding.

When HasTDZ or HasRareData is set, CachedFunctionExecutable::isIntact() validates only the local record and scalar tail. It does not validate the targets of the tdz or rareData fields. decode() then dereferences these targets without bounds checks. A damaged payload can therefore cause an out-of-payload read. Recursively validate each nested target and reject the cache when validation fails.

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In `@Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/CachedTypes.cpp` at line 3878, Update
CachedFunctionExecutable::isIntact() and its regionIsIntact() validation path to
recursively validate the CachedPtr targets referenced by tdz and rareData
whenever HasTDZ or HasRareData is set. Reject the cache if either nested target
fails validation, before decode() can dereference it, while preserving existing
validation for the local record and scalar tail.
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- Line 3878: Update CachedFunctionExecutable::isIntact() and its
regionIsIntact() validation path to recursively validate the CachedPtr targets
referenced by tdz and rareData whenever HasTDZ or HasRareData is set. Reject the
cache if either nested target fails validation, before decode() can dereference
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…r::setActiveHeapAnalyzer so every analyzer (incl. queryHolders) sees closure variables; narrow the iterator test canonicalizer

- The SymbolTable pre-materialization walk moves from HeapSnapshotBuilder::materializeLazyStateForHeapAnalysis
  (called explicitly by HeapSnapshotBuilder::buildSnapshot and BunV8HeapSnapshotBuilder::json/jsonBytes) into
  HeapProfiler::setActiveHeapAnalyzer(analyzer) for a non-null analyzer, so the inspector's HeapHolderFinder
  (queryHolders) also sees closure-variable holders whose scope SymbolTable is still cache-backed. The helper
  takes its own HeapIterationScope; all three callers are on the mutator under PreventCollectionScope before
  collectNow. setActiveHeapAnalyzer loses NODELETE since decoding drops the Decoder ref.
- bytecode-optimizer-iterators.js: only the builtin-frame "X.@y is not a function. (In ..., 'X.@y' is V)"
  wording that ASSERT_ENABLED builds produce is reduced to the release "V is not a function"; user-frame
  messages and the recorded expectations are compared verbatim.

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…y header (format revision 4); assert prelinked request wiring in hostResolveImportedModule
…-used through JSObject inlines; Windows link)
…r owned or persistent payloads; transient-payload stress test; regionIsIntact scope comment

- useLazySymbolTableConstants now takes the lazy path only when
  Decoder::canDeferIntoPayload() (payload owned by the CachedBytecode or
  declared persistent), the same gate useThinChildExecutables uses; a bare
  borrowed span (no destructor, not persistent) decodes its SymbolTable
  entries eagerly. canDeferIntoPayload() is now purely the payload-lifetime
  predicate and the thin-executable site checks its option itself.
- jsc shell: evalTwiceFromTransientBytecodeCache(source) decodes a program
  from a borrowed copy, evaluates it, scribbles over and frees the copy, and
  evaluates the same block again in a fresh realm.
  JSTests/stress/bytecode-cache-transient-payload.js drives it with eval-captured
  block and catch scopes (crashes with the gate removed).
- CachedCodeBlock::regionIsIntact: say what the bounds check covers and that
  nested string/TDZ/rare-data/constant records are trusted like the rest of
  the payload (unchanged behaviour; answers a review question).
- Option/comment text for useLazySymbolTableConstants names the precondition.

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Thanks — the follow-up commits address everything I'd raised, and this pass over the eight new commits found no further issues. Given the scope (a new bytecode-rewriting pass, cache-decode lifetime changes, module-loader resolution, and tier-up threshold plumbing across LLInt/Baseline/DFG), a human review is still warranted before merge.

What was reviewed in this pass:

  • Prelinked Unresolved re-exports now go through resolveExportByName, restoring the resolve-set cycle guard (AbstractModuleRecord.cpp).
  • Lazy SymbolTable materialization moved into HeapProfiler::setActiveHeapAnalyzer, so both HeapSnapshotBuilder and BunV8HeapSnapshotBuilder (and queryHolders) now see closure-variable names.
  • m_hasCatchThatExecutedWithoutBuffer / m_isLazyStatePreparedForConcurrentCompilation moved to whole bytes outside the compile-thread-RMW'd bit-field, removing the lost-bit hazard.
  • New stress tests switched to testLoopCount; the checksum/instrumentation removal and include fixes look mechanical.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

Since the last review at 85bb340, eight commits landed: one large "address review comments" commit (ceeef2b) covering the bit-field race, the prelinked re-export cycle, V8 heap-snapshot materialization, a BFS inline-candidate walk, an int32 cap on the deferred re-arm step, and testLoopCount fixes; a follow-up (7c755b7) that generalizes the SymbolTable pre-materialization by moving it into HeapProfiler::setActiveHeapAnalyzer; removal of the CodeBlock creation-cost instrumentation and the per-block cache checksum (9acf76c); a boot-session-UUID header cleanup with a format-revision bump (2ad7522); three new stress tests; and include-order fixes for the Windows unified build. Net: ~1670 lines removed, ~390 added since the last pass.

Security risks

No new attack surface was introduced by these follow-up commits — they narrow existing behavior (whole-byte flags instead of shared bit-field bits, cycle-safe by-name resolution instead of unbounded recursion) or delete code (checksum, instrumentation). The checksum removal is a policy change the description calls out; bounds checks on the payload remain, and the format revision was bumped so old images are rejected. The broader branch still deserves attention around payload-lifetime for lazy SymbolTable decode (previously noted as optional) and the correctness of the ~2200-line bytecode rewriter, but nothing new surfaced there this run.

Level of scrutiny

High. The overall diff spans 110 files including a new bytecode-mutating optimization pass, changes to how CodeBlocks materialize state for concurrent compilation, module resolution semantics, and JIT tier-up thresholds. Any one of these areas would merit careful human review on its own; together, and given the PR is still a draft, this should not be auto-approved.

Other factors

Every blocking issue I previously raised has a corresponding, verified fix in the code (not just a commit message): resolveExportByName at AbstractModuleRecord.cpp:472, the materialize loop at HeapProfiler.cpp:64-80 called from every setActiveHeapAnalyzer(this) site including both BunV8HeapSnapshotBuilder paths, the flag relocation at CodeBlock.h:1082-1084, and testLoopCount in lazy-catch-liveness-tier-up.js. Several coderabbit threads remain unresolved on the timeline, and the author's own draft status both indicate a human pass is still expected.

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Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

…eferral(); the scale is Options::startupJITDeferralScale / VM::setStartupJITDeferralScale only
…LoadedModules]] instead of a per-record Vector<WriteBarrier>
…RAII member (DeferredMembers) instead of raw unions
…ports; findImport probes it instead of binary-searching the hash-sorted array
… over imports; findImport probes it instead of binary-searching the hash-sorted array"

This reverts commit 7bbff82.

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This pull request has been reviewed before and this review found new issues. Where they share a root cause, one fix may close them together.

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RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION(throwScope, false);

// Nothing was deferred, so there is nothing for prepareLazyStateForConcurrentCompilation() to do.
if (!Options::useThinChildExecutables() && !m_numberOfUnmaterializedFunctionExecutables)

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🔴 Options::useThinChildExecutables() is referenced without a #if USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS) guard, but that option is declared inside FOR_EACH_JSC_BYTECODE_CACHE_DECODER_OPTION, which expands to nothing when USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS) is off — so the non-Bun configuration no longer compiles. Fix: guard both call sites (or move useThinChildExecutables out of the Bun-only option macro) so every reference to a Bun-only option is behind #if USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS), matching how this PR guards useFastCachedAtoms/useLazySymbolTableConstants elsewhere. Sites: CodeBlock.cpp:847, dfg/DFGDriver.cpp:65.

Extended reasoning...

OptionsList.h:92-105 defines useThinChildExecutables only inside the #if USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS) branch of FOR_EACH_JSC_BYTECODE_CACHE_DECODER_OPTION; the #else branch is empty, so no Options::useThinChildExecutables() accessor is generated. Every pre-existing reference to options in that macro (e.g. useLeanBytecodeCacheDecoder at CachedTypes.cpp:1132/1441/1512, useBorrowedBytecodeFromCache at CachedTypes.cpp:81) is wrapped in #if USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS), and this PR follows that pattern for its own new uses of useFastCachedAtoms/useLazySymbolTableConstants/useLazyCachedExpressionInfo in CachedTypes.cpp and CodeBlock.cpp:1195. But the two new lines if (!Options::useThinChildExecutables() && …) at CodeBlock.cpp:847 (end of finishCreation) and DFGDriver.cpp:65 (prepareLazyStateOfInlineCandidates) are unguarded. Building with -DUSE_BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS=OFF (root CLAUDE.md lists it as an optional key build flag, and the codebase otherwise keeps that path compiling) now fails with an undeclared-identifier error at both sites, where the base branch built cleanly.

Verification: nit — The claim is factually correct. useThinChildExecutables is declared only inside the #if USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS) arm of FOR_EACH_JSC_BYTECODE_CACHE_DECODER_OPTION (/home/claude/webkit/Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/OptionsList.h:92-105); the #else at line 105 expands to nothing, so no Options::useThinChildExecutables() accessor exists when the Bun additions are off. Yet this PR…

…dges that touch it into [[LoadedModules]] so importers keep (and keep answering for) their targets

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void JSModuleLoader::forgetPrelinkedRecordsWithKey(UniquedStringImpl* keyOrNullForAll)
{
for (unsigned i = 0; i < m_prelinkedRecords.size(); ++i) {
auto& slot = m_prelinkedRecords[i];
if (slot && (!keyOrNullForAll || slot->moduleKey().impl() == keyOrNullForAll)) {
pinPrelinkedEdges(i);
slot.clear();
m_prelinkedRecordRemoved.ensureSize(m_prelinkedRecords.size());
m_prelinkedRecordRemoved.quickSet(i);
}
}

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🟡 (optional) clearAll() (Loader.registry.clear()) is now O(N²·R) in the graph size: forgetPrelinkedRecordsWithKey(nullptr) calls pinPrelinkedEdges(i) for every module, and each call re-walks all N slots' request lists. For the PR's own 2 300-module target that is ~26 M iterations (≈50 ms) under the loader's cellLock(), and it grows quadratically (10 k modules ≈ 1 s). Before this fix commit the same call was O(N). Fix: when keyOrNullForAll is null, pin every record's outgoing edges in one pass before any slot is cleared and skip the per-module importer scan; the importer loop is only needed when a single slot is being forgotten in isolation.

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Introduced by commit b3919f8. JSModuleLoader::clearAll() (JSModuleLoader.h:217-225) takes cellLock() and calls forgetPrelinkedRecordsWithKey(nullptr). That loop (JSModuleLoader.cpp:1202-1209) visits every slot i and, before clearing it, calls pinPrelinkedEdges(i). pinPrelinkedEdges (1169-1189) does pin(leaving, noModule) (O(R_i)) and then iterates all of m_prelinkedRecords (for (auto& slot : m_prelinkedRecords)), calling pin(slot, i) on each live slot, which itself walks that slot's full request list. Summed over i that is Σ_i Σ_j |requests(j)| ≈ N · totalRequests inner iterations. For the 2 300-module bundled CLI the PR benchmarks, avg 5 requests/module → ≈26 M iterations plus ≈2·11 500 setImportedModule calls, all while holding the loader's cell lock that visitChildrenImpl (line 268-278) contends on. Prior to this commit the same path just cleared each slot (O(N)); on the base branch there was no prelinked table at all. The importer scan is redundant for the clear-all case because every record eventually has pin(record, noModule) executed for it — a…

Verification: nit — The complexity analysis is correct. clearAll() (JSModuleLoader.h:217-225) takes cellLock() and calls forgetPrelinkedRecordsWithKey(nullptr). That loop (JSModuleLoader.cpp:1202-1210) visits every slot i and calls pinPrelinkedEdges(i) before clearing. pinPrelinkedEdges (JSModuleLoader.cpp:1169-1189) does pin(leaving, noModule) and then unconditionally iterates the whole vector at…

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…ule graph, optimized bytecode, compile.jitPolicy (#42002)

Draft. **Requires oven-sh/WebKit#588**; `WEBKIT_VERSION` currently
points at its preview build (`autobuild-preview-pr-588-9acf76c5`) and
must become a release tag before merge.

## What
- **Pre-resolved module graph** for `bun build --compile --bytecode
--format=esm`: the standalone payload carries, next to the bytecode, a
graph of every bundled ES module with imports resolved to (module index,
export index) and names as string-table indices. At runtime it is handed
to JSC's module loader, which registers the bundle in one pass instead
of resolving every import by name and hashing specifiers per edge.
Always on for compile+bytecode+esm (no option);
`BUN_JSC_usePrelinkedModuleInfo=0` /
`BUN_JSC_validatePrelinkedModuleInfo=1` exist for A/B and validation.
- **Optimized bytecode** at image generation (`Bun.build({ optimize: {
bytecode } })`, `--no-optimize-bytecode` to turn off): runs the
WebKit#582 bytecode optimizer when producing the embedded cache.
- **JIT policy (opt-in):** `Bun.build({ compile: { jitPolicy: 8 } })` /
`--compile-jit-policy <n>` bakes a JSC tier-up threshold scale into the
executable (default `1` = normal, engine untouched); the app calls
`Bun.unsafe.setJITPolicy(1)` once it is interactive (or any `n ≥ 1`
later). Nothing is disabled — hot code still tiers up — startup code
just stays in the interpreter instead of occupying JIT threads and heap.
- Fixes found along the way: module-registry double-lock in Worker exit
/ `--hot` / `jest.mock` / `Loader.registry.delete` paths (with the new
loader locking), the executable's bytecode string table is now installed
on every VM (fixes `inspector.open()` in `--compile --bytecode` binaries
— pre-existing crash), stack traces read function names without
materializing them during GC.
- Tests: 25 compile+bytecode ESM module-graph cases (cycles, star
exports, namespaces, dynamic import, TLA, CJS interop, 60-module
generated graph) × {graph, validate, by-name}; `jit-policy` tests;
debugger / sampling profiler / heap snapshot on a compiled bytecode
executable; bytecode portability snapshot updated for the new cache
format (≈7% smaller payloads).

## Results
Large bundled CLI application (~2,300 modules), same source, ×8
interactive sessions on 16 pinned cores of a loaded 64-core host;
instruction counts are load-independent. "jitPolicy 8" = built with
`--compile-jit-policy 8` and never reset by the app.

| | main | this branch | this branch, `jitPolicy 8` |
|---|---|---|---|
| time to interactive prompt | 698 ms | **579 ms (−17%)** | **562 ms
(−19%)** |
| first turn / steady-state turns | 764 / 250 ms | **664 / 239 ms** |
693 / 253 ms |
| CPU per 20-turn session | 10.4 s | 10.05 s | **9.13 s (−12%)** |
| JIT-thread CPU per session | 3.80 s | 3.75 s | **2.47 s (−35%)** |
| RSS at first frame / peak | 308 / 551 MB | 285 / 540 MB | **268 / 476
MB** |
| `--help`: instructions / max RSS | 0.69 G / 158 MB | 0.56 G / 143 MB |
0.51 G / 141 MB |
| headless single turn: instructions / CPU | 2.95 G / 1.28 s | 2.71 G /
1.21 s | 2.01 G / 0.89 s |

An app that sets `jitPolicy: 8` and calls `Bun.unsafe.setJITPolicy(1)`
when interactive should see the right column's startup and RSS-at-ready
with the middle column's steady-state turns.

## Notes
- Binary size: +0.45–0.65 MB vs canary across targets (≈0.28 MB of it is
the WebKit#582 optimizer).
- Payload size: the module graph replaces per-module `module_info`
bodies; net ≈ +0.8 MB on the application above; serialized bytecode
itself is ≈7% smaller (no per-block checksum, thinner function records).

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