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Fixes #6.

The problem

Every getWorker call performed two store round-trips of its own before the per-chunk cache was ever consulted:

  • readArrayMetadata(arr) — a store.get on zarr.json, plus a second store.get on .zarray when falling back to v2.
  • probeActualChunkShape(...) — a store.get on chunk c/0/…, plus up to five further one-past-the-end probes when the metadata chunk shape doesn't match the data.

Only after both had resolved did the loop reach cache.get(cacheKey). A fully populated ChunkCache therefore could not eliminate them: it removed the chunk fetch and the decode, but each read still paid the metadata read and the shape probe. For a tiled viewer wiring a byte-bounded cache into the enableWorkerChunkDecode({ cache }) seam, that is per-tile overhead scaling with pan/zoom activity rather than with cache misses.

The change

Both results are immutable for the lifetime of an array, so they are now memoised. New exported resolveArrayInfo(arr, storeOpts) in fizarrita/src/get-worker.ts performs the metadata read and the shape probe once and hands back an ArrayMetadata whose codecMeta.chunk_shape already carries the probe's correction.

Implementation notes:

  • Keyed per (store, array path) via WeakMap<store, Map<path, Promise<ArrayMetadata>>>, mirroring the chunk-cache key built by createCacheKey. The WeakMap means entries die with the store; distinct zarr.open handles onto the same array share one entry.
  • The promise is memoised, not the value, so concurrent getWorker calls on a cold array share one resolution instead of racing duplicate store reads.
  • Rejections are evicted — guarded by an identity check, the same pattern shareInFlightChunk already uses — so a transient store failure is retried by the next call rather than becoming permanent for that array.
  • storeOpts only reaches the store on the call that performs the resolution; this is documented on the function.
  • Because the memoised chunk_shape is already corrected, getWorker's per-call correctedCodecMeta spread and the actualChunkShape local are gone.

Net effect: a repeat read served entirely from a warm chunk cache now performs zero store requests.

Tests

Four new tests in test/node/fizarrita.test.js, built on a CountingStore (a Map subclass that records every get):

  • a warm chunk cache serves a repeat read with zero store round-trips;
  • repeat reads without a cache pay only the four chunk fetches — no metadata read, no probe;
  • two concurrent reads on a cold array perform exactly six reads (one zarr.json, one probe, four chunks), proving one shared resolution;
  • a failed metadata read is retried, not memoised.

One existing browser test had to be reworked. test/browser/zarrita-worker.spec.ts's "concurrent reads of the same chunk fetch and decode it once" used three probe reads of c/0 as its signal that all three callers had reached their task phase — precisely the redundancy this PR removes, so it timed out. It now counts pool.runTasks submissions instead, which is a sound substitute because runTasks invokes task functions synchronously while the pool has free slots, so three submissions guarantee every caller's c/1 task has already joined the in-flight fetch. Re-ran it 6× to confirm it isn't flaky.

fizarrita/README.md documents the new behaviour in the chunk-caching section, and resolveArrayInfo is exported from fizarrita/src/index.ts alongside the other internals.

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  • pnpm build and pnpm --filter @fideus-labs/fizarrita build — clean.
  • pnpm test:node — 52 passed.
  • pnpm test — 127 passed.

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  • New Features

    • Added a public API for resolving and caching array metadata and chunk information.
    • Added cancellation support for reads, including queued operations and store requests.
  • Performance

    • Reduced repeated metadata and chunk-shape requests through caching and shared concurrent resolution.
    • Warm-cache reads can complete without additional requests.
  • Reliability

    • Failed or inconclusive resolutions can be retried automatically.
    • Cancellation is isolated per caller, and store options are consistently applied.
  • Documentation

    • Updated guidance for caching, cancellation, concurrent reads, and request options.

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The change adds shared memoization for array metadata and chunk-shape resolution. It forwards store options, isolates caller aborts, retries failed resolutions, updates worker decoding and cancellation, exports resolveArrayInfo, and adds tests and documentation.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Metadata resolution and memoization
fizarrita/src/get-worker.ts
Metadata reads forward store options. Chunk-shape probes report conclusive status. resolveArrayInfo shares concurrent resolutions and evicts rejected or inconclusive results.
Worker integration and cancellation
fizarrita/src/get-worker.ts, fizarrita/src/index.ts
getWorker uses resolved metadata for indexing and decoding. Chunk reads propagate options and caller aborts. Failed tasks terminate task-created workers. resolveArrayInfo is publicly exported.
Cache behavior validation and documentation
test/node/fizarrita.test.js, test/browser/zarrita-worker.spec.ts, fizarrita/README.md
Tests cover cache reuse, concurrent reads, option propagation, abort isolation, defensive copies, transient failures, and retries. Documentation describes cancellation and memoized reads.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b67f1

The change memoizes array metadata and chunk-shape resolution so warm-cache reads avoid redundant store requests; the supplied verification reports successful builds and tests, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant getWorker
  participant resolveArrayInfo
  participant Store
  participant WorkerPool
  Caller->>getWorker: request array chunks with options and signal
  getWorker->>resolveArrayInfo: resolve metadata and chunk shape
  resolveArrayInfo->>Store: read metadata and probe chunks
  Store-->>resolveArrayInfo: return array information
  resolveArrayInfo-->>getWorker: return resolved information
  getWorker->>Store: fetch shared chunk data
  getWorker->>WorkerPool: submit decode task with combined signal
  WorkerPool-->>getWorker: return decoded chunk
  getWorker-->>Caller: return array data
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One caller stopped; the rest ran on,
Failed reads were tried anon.
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@thewtex thewtex changed the title perf: memoise metadata read and chunk-shape probe per (store, path) perf(fizarrita): memoise array metadata and chunk-shape probe so a warm cache costs zero store reads Aug 13, 2026

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Pull request overview

This PR addresses Issue #6 by memoising per-array metadata resolution and the chunk-shape probe so that repeated getWorker calls (especially when a chunk cache is warm) avoid redundant store round-trips.

Changes:

  • Added resolveArrayInfo(arr, storeOpts) to memoise metadata reads and chunk-shape probing per (store, array path).
  • Refactored getWorker to consume the memoised codecMeta (with already-corrected chunk_shape), removing per-call probe/correction work.
  • Added/updated Node and browser tests plus README documentation to validate and explain the new caching behavior.

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test/node/fizarrita.test.js Adds CountingStore and new tests covering memoisation, cache-warm zero-I/O behavior, concurrency sharing, and rejection eviction.
test/browser/zarrita-worker.spec.ts Updates the concurrency test to use pool.runTasks call counting (instead of probe reads) as the synchronization signal.
fizarrita/src/index.ts Exports resolveArrayInfo from the package entrypoint.
fizarrita/src/get-worker.ts Implements resolveArrayInfo memoisation and updates getWorker to use it.
fizarrita/README.md Documents that metadata+probe are memoised and warm-cache reads can result in zero store requests.

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readArrayMetadata took no store options, so its zarr.json and .zarray
reads went out bare while probeActualChunkShape and every chunk fetch
honoured the caller's opts. An AbortSignal would abort the chunk reads
and leave the metadata read running; auth headers reached every request
but that one. resolveArrayInfo made the split conspicuous by passing
opts to the probe and not to the metadata read beside it, and its
docstring claimed the options reached the store, unqualified.

readArrayMetadata now takes storeOpts as an optional second parameter —
backward compatible for a function exported from the package index —
and forwards it to both reads. The resolveArrayInfo docstring now says
what is actually true: options are forwarded to every read the
resolution makes, but only on the call that performs it, so a caller
served by the memoised promise contributes no request for its own
signal to abort.

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probeActualChunkShape catches store failures and falls back to the
declared chunk shape. For a single read that is right: the probe is a
heuristic correction, and failing a whole read because a heuristic could
not fetch c/0/0 would break reads of arrays whose first chunk merely
happens to be unreachable. Each read re-probed, so a transient blip cost
one uncorrected read and healed itself.

Memoising the result removed the healing. A mis-declared array that hits
one blip during its first probe now decodes at the wrong shape for the
lifetime of the store — a regression this branch introduced.

The fallback still returns; it is now refused a cache entry. probeChunkShape
reports whether the shape was concluded from bytes it read or fallen back
to after an error, and resolveArrayInfo evicts an inconclusive resolution
once it settles, on the same conditional-identity path already used for
rejections. Callers already awaiting it are still served — only the
memoisation is withheld. validateCandidateChunkShape reports the same way,
since accepting a candidate because its probe threw is equally a guess made
under an error; it cannot tell a 404 from a network failure.

Errors are not propagated instead, as review suggested: reads that work
today would start throwing, and 404-throwing stores make the errors
unclassifiable at that layer.

Covered by a test that mis-declares 4x8 chunks as 4x4, fails the first
probe fetch, and asserts the second read finds the real chunking.
Verified to fail without the eviction.

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resolution, or expand the cache key to include every storeOpts value that
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415-443: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Timing-dependent abort tests stem from one missing observable event in GatedStore. GatedStore gives no signal when a gated read starts, so the abort tests use fixed 20 ms sleeps to guess when both callers reached the store.

  • test/node/fizarrita.test.js#L415-L443: add an entered promise that resolves when the first gated read starts.
  • test/node/fizarrita.test.js#L457-L543: replace each setTimeout(r, 20) with await store.entered, and await the shared resolution instead of sleeping after release().
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In `@test/node/fizarrita.test.js` around lines 415 - 443, In
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883-981: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Optional: build the memo entry without the extra clone.

detach runs twice for the caller that starts the resolution. Line 952 clones the metadata to build the memo entry, and Line 978 clones it again for that caller. Both clones are correct and cheap, so this is only a small saving.

The rest of the flow is sound. The memo stays private, each caller gets a detached copy, encodeChunkKey remains shared, the caller signal governs only the caller's wait, and an inconclusive or rejected resolution is evicted with the identity-guarded forget.

Based on learnings, resolveArrayInfo must remove the caller AbortSignal from the shared metadata and probe requests and apply it only to the caller's wait, and must build the memo entry from a detached deep copy because the v2 path can return arr.chunks by reference. Both requirements are met here.

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In `@fizarrita/src/get-worker.ts` around lines 883 - 981, Optionally optimize
resolveArrayInfo to avoid detaching the initiating caller’s result twice:
construct the private memo entry from one detached deep copy while still
returning an independent detached copy to every caller. Preserve the shared
encodeChunkKey, signal-only wait behavior, and eviction logic.

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getWorker paid two store round-trips of its own on every call — the
zarr.json read in readArrayMetadata and the chunk fetch in
probeActualChunkShape — both ahead of the per-chunk cache lookup, so a
fully populated ChunkCache could never eliminate them. For a tiled
viewer that is per-tile overhead scaling with pan/zoom activity rather
than with cache misses.

Both results are immutable for the lifetime of an array, so
resolveArrayInfo now memoises them per (store, array path): a WeakMap
keyed on the store instance (entries die with the store), holding a Map
keyed by array path, mirroring the chunk-cache key. The promise is
memoised rather than the value, so concurrent calls on a cold array
share one resolution; a rejected resolution is evicted so a transient
store failure is retried instead of becoming permanent. The memoised
codecMeta.chunk_shape already carries the probe's correction, which
also drops the per-call correctedCodecMeta spread.

A repeat read served from a warm cache now performs zero store
requests, covered by new node tests counting store.get calls. The
browser test for concurrent chunk dedup used "three c/0 probe reads"
as its readiness signal — exactly the redundancy removed here — and
now counts runTasks submissions instead, which is sound because
runTasks invokes task functions synchronously while the pool has free
slots.

Fixes #6

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
readArrayMetadata took no store options, so its zarr.json and .zarray
reads went out bare while probeActualChunkShape and every chunk fetch
honoured the caller's opts. An AbortSignal would abort the chunk reads
and leave the metadata read running; auth headers reached every request
but that one. resolveArrayInfo made the split conspicuous by passing
opts to the probe and not to the metadata read beside it, and its
docstring claimed the options reached the store, unqualified.

readArrayMetadata now takes storeOpts as an optional second parameter —
backward compatible for a function exported from the package index —
and forwards it to both reads. The resolveArrayInfo docstring now says
what is actually true: options are forwarded to every read the
resolution makes, but only on the call that performs it, so a caller
served by the memoised promise contributes no request for its own
signal to abort.

Raised by Copilot in review of #14.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
probeActualChunkShape catches store failures and falls back to the
declared chunk shape. For a single read that is right: the probe is a
heuristic correction, and failing a whole read because a heuristic could
not fetch c/0/0 would break reads of arrays whose first chunk merely
happens to be unreachable. Each read re-probed, so a transient blip cost
one uncorrected read and healed itself.

Memoising the result removed the healing. A mis-declared array that hits
one blip during its first probe now decodes at the wrong shape for the
lifetime of the store — a regression this branch introduced.

The fallback still returns; it is now refused a cache entry. probeChunkShape
reports whether the shape was concluded from bytes it read or fallen back
to after an error, and resolveArrayInfo evicts an inconclusive resolution
once it settles, on the same conditional-identity path already used for
rejections. Callers already awaiting it are still served — only the
memoisation is withheld. validateCandidateChunkShape reports the same way,
since accepting a candidate because its probe threw is equally a guess made
under an error; it cannot tell a 404 from a network failure.

Errors are not propagated instead, as review suggested: reads that work
today would start throwing, and 404-throwing stores make the errors
unclassifiable at that layer.

Covered by a test that mis-declares 4x8 chunks as 4x4, fails the first
probe fetch, and asserts the second read finds the real chunking.
Verified to fail without the eviction.

Raised by CodeRabbit in review of #14.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…d out copies

resolveArrayInfo memoises one resolution per (store, path) that concurrent
callers join, but the shared store requests ran on whichever caller's
storeOpts happened to start them. A signal belongs to one caller: if the
initiator aborted mid-metadata-read every joined caller rejected with an
AbortError they never asked for, and if it aborted mid-probe the probe
swallowed the abort and every joined caller got the fallback chunk shape
for a probe *they* did not abort. Now the shared resolution runs on the
options common to all callers (headers, credentials, ...) with the signal
separated out; each caller's signal governs its own wait — aborting rejects
that caller promptly with the signal's reason, while the resolution runs on
for the others and for the memo.

The memoised entry was also returned by reference — and, via the v2
metadata path, aliased zarrita's own arr.chunks — so a caller could rewrite
codecMeta.chunk_shape or codecs for every later read on the array. The memo
is now built from a clone and each caller receives its own structured clone
(getMetaId keys on JSON.stringify, so clones share a metaId).

Regression tests: an aborting caller neither fails the callers sharing its
metadata read nor hands them an unprobed shape; a lone aborter is rejected
promptly and its resolution still lands for the next call; mutating a
returned copy reaches neither the memo nor the next caller.

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144-149: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the timing and scope of signal forwarding.

Line 144 states that the signal is forwarded to every store.get call when the signal fires. Two details are inaccurate.

The signal is placed into the store options when the read starts, not when it fires. getWorker builds storeOpts with the combined signal before it issues any request.

The signal does not reach every store.get call. resolveArrayInfo removes it from the shared metadata read and the chunk-shape probe. Only the chunk fetches for this read carry it. Lines 186-189 already state this exception, so the current wording contradicts that paragraph.

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-When the signal fires, the signal is forwarded to every `store.get` call, so
-stores that honour it (e.g. `FetchStore`, whose options are a `RequestInit`)
-cancel their network requests; chunk tasks still queued on the pool are
-dropped rather than started; and the returned promise rejects with the
-signal's reason. A decode already running on a worker is not interrupted —
-its result is discarded.
+The signal is passed to each chunk `store.get` call the read makes, so stores
+that honour it (e.g. `FetchStore`, whose options are a `RequestInit`) cancel
+their network requests when it fires. Chunk tasks still queued on the pool are
+dropped rather than started, and the returned promise rejects with the
+signal's reason. A decode already running on a worker is not interrupted —
+its result is discarded. The shared metadata read and chunk-shape probe are
+the exception; see [Chunk caching](`#chunk-caching`).
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In `@fizarrita/README.md` around lines 144 - 149, Update the README
signal-behavior description to state that the combined signal is added to store
options when the read starts, before requests are issued, and is forwarded only
to chunk-fetch store.get calls. Clarify that resolveArrayInfo metadata and
chunk-shape probe reads do not receive the signal, while preserving the existing
cancellation, queued-task, rejection, and worker-decode behavior.
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test/node/fizarrita.test.js (1)

754-757: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the absence of the injected codec rather than an empty codec list.

Line 756 asserts second.codecMeta.codecs equals []. That value depends on how zarrita populates codecs in zarr.json for an uncompressed array. readArrayMetadata copies metadata.codecs verbatim on the v3 path, so a zarrita change that writes a default bytes codec would fail this test for a reason unrelated to the defensive copy under test.

Assert that the injected bogus codec did not reach the memo. That states the intent of the test directly.

♻️ Proposed change
   const second = await resolveArrayInfo(arr)
   assert.notEqual(second.codecMeta, first.codecMeta)
   assert.deepEqual(second.codecMeta.chunk_shape, [4, 4])
-  assert.deepEqual(second.codecMeta.codecs, [])
+  assert.ok(
+    !second.codecMeta.codecs.some((c) => c.name === 'bogus'),
+    'the injected codec did not reach the memo',
+  )
   assert.equal(second.codecMeta.data_type, 'int32')
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In `@test/node/fizarrita.test.js` around lines 754 - 757, Update the codec
assertion in the test around second.codecMeta and first.codecMeta to verify that
the injected “bogus” codec is absent from second.codecMeta.codecs, rather than
requiring the entire codec list to equal an empty array. Preserve the existing
assertions for chunk_shape and data_type.
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Inline comments:
In `@fizarrita/src/get-worker.ts`:
- Around line 874-897: Update untilAborted to attach a rejection handler to the
supplied promise before returning the already-aborted rejection, ensuring later
promise failures are consumed without changing the returned abort error
behavior. Preserve the existing signal-listener cleanup and resolve/reject
handling for non-aborted signals.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@fizarrita/README.md`:
- Around line 144-149: Update the README signal-behavior description to state
that the combined signal is added to store options when the read starts, before
requests are issued, and is forwarded only to chunk-fetch store.get calls.
Clarify that resolveArrayInfo metadata and chunk-shape probe reads do not
receive the signal, while preserving the existing cancellation, queued-task,
rejection, and worker-decode behavior.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@test/node/fizarrita.test.js`:
- Around line 754-757: Update the codec assertion in the test around
second.codecMeta and first.codecMeta to verify that the injected “bogus” codec
is absent from second.codecMeta.codecs, rather than requiring the entire codec
list to equal an empty array. Preserve the existing assertions for chunk_shape
and data_type.
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Comment thread fizarrita/src/get-worker.ts
thewtex and others added 3 commits August 18, 2026 21:41
The cancellation section said the signal is forwarded to every
`store.get` call when it fires. Neither half held: the signal is placed
in the store options when the read starts, before any request goes out,
and it reaches only the chunk fetches — the shared metadata read and
chunk-shape probe run without it, as the caching section already said
two paragraphs down. Reworded to match, with a pointer to the exception.

Raised by CodeRabbit in review of #14.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The abort-isolation tests slept 20 ms to guess when the shared read had
reached the store, and again after release() to guess when the resolution
had landed. GatedStore now exposes `entered`, resolved when the first gated
read starts, and the tests await that; the post-release wait joins the
memoised resolution through resolveArrayInfo instead, which returns
exactly when it has settled. No timing left to get wrong.

The copies test asserted the memo's codec list is empty, which is really
an assertion about what zarrita writes for an uncompressed array; it now
asserts what it means — that the injected codec did not reach the memo.

Both raised by CodeRabbit in review of #14.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ut of

untilAborted rejects an already-aborted caller on the spot — right, but it
returned without attaching anything to the promise it was handed. Both
call sites in resolveArrayInfo hand it a fresh derived promise
(`promise.then(({ info }) => detach(info))`), so nothing else observed it,
and if the shared resolution then failed, that derived promise rejected
with no handler: an unhandled rejection, fatal under Node's default.

Reachable from getWorker: only `opts.signal` is pre-checked, so a
store-level signal in `opts.opts` that is already aborted reaches
resolveArrayInfo aborted, and a transient metadata or probe failure after
that would have taken the process down.

The early branch now absorbs the promise's outcome before rejecting the
caller. Other observers of the chain are unaffected — a `.catch` on one
derived promise does not swallow the rejection for anyone else — and the
declined resolution still runs to completion for the memo, as documented.

Regression test: an already-aborted store-level signal, a gated metadata
read that fails once it is released, and an `unhandledRejection` listener
that must stay empty; then a fresh read that succeeds, since the failure
was not memoised. Fails against the previous build with the raw store
error surfacing as an unhandled rejection.

Raised by CodeRabbit in review of #14.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Follow-up on the items from the last two reviews that were posted in the review body rather than as threads:

fizarrita/README.md 144–149 — signal forwarding wording (Minor). Verified and fixed in ab225ec. Both inaccuracies were real: the signal goes into the store options when the read starts, not when it fires, and since 39e0f31 it reaches only the chunk fetches — the shared metadata read and chunk-shape probe run without it, exactly as the caching section already said two paragraphs down. Reworded along the lines proposed, with a pointer to the exception.

Timing-dependent abort tests / GatedStore (Trivial). Done in fee2137. GatedStore now exposes entered, resolved when the first gated read starts, and the three abort-isolation tests await that instead of sleeping 20 ms. The post-release() sleep in the lone-aborter test is gone too: it joins the memoised resolution via resolveArrayInfo(arr), which returns exactly when the shared read has settled. Stable across repeated runs.

Assert absence of the injected codec (Trivial). Done in fee2137 — the copies test now asserts that bogus did not reach the memo, rather than that the codec list equals [], which was really an assertion about what zarrita writes for an uncompressed array.

Optional: build the memo entry without the extra clone (Trivial, low value). Left as is, deliberately. The two clones for the initiating caller are not redundant: the memo needs a copy it owns (the v2 path aliases zarrita's arr.chunks), and the initiator needs a copy distinct from the memo. Dropping either hands someone an object they can mutate through — the raw object would let the initiator write into arr.chunks on v2, and the memo's object would reintroduce the finding on line 877. A clone-only-on-v2 branch would save a microsecond next to the JSON.stringify already paid per call; not worth the asymmetry.

The inline finding on untilAborted is addressed in b67f15b and answered on its thread. 67 node tests and 127 browser tests pass at b67f15b.

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