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Request the post-entry-point full collection asynchronously - #40338
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After the entry point has been evaluated and before the event loop starts, the main thread and every worker ran a full collection through `JSC__VM__runGC(vm, sync=false)`, which still called `collectSync(Full)`: the first event-loop tick waited for marking the freshly loaded heap, which is the largest it gets at startup. Nothing depends on that collection completing synchronously, and its return value was discarded. Replace the two call sites with a dedicated `JSC__VM__collectAfterEntryPoint` that drops unlinked code blocks (`DeleteAllCodeIfNotCollecting`) and then requests the full collection with `collectAsync`. `runGC` loses its `sync` parameter: only the `Bun.gc(true)` path remains. Dropping the unlinked code blocks is kept on purpose: on a large --compile --bytecode application, a variant that keeps them has the same startup time but +20 MB of resident payload pages, since the unlinked code keeps its source providers and cached bytecode reachable. The worker-exit streaming-fetch test relied on the synchronous collection delaying the worker's first tick, so that the expired 150 ms exit timer and the pending fetch completions were processed in the same tick; with the collection asynchronous the timer can fire before any response has arrived on a slow debug build. It now exits shortly after the first response has been touched, and keeps the "no fetch ever arrived" guard as a 5 s fallback.
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WalkthroughChangesThe VM garbage-collection API now provides separate synchronous and post-entry-point concurrent collection methods. Rust and runtime call sites use the updated methods, and the worker lifetime test updates its exit timing. Garbage collection API migration
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In `@test/js/web/workers/worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts`:
- Around line 992-1000: Replace the timer-based exits in the worker termination
test with event-driven control: exit successfully after the required response
state is reached following rd.read(), and poll a deadline for the failure
fallback instead of using setTimeout. Preserve the existing exit-code semantics
and remove the scheduling-dependent timer waits.
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Replace timer-based test control.
The setTimeout calls make the exit race depend on machine scheduling. The five-second fallback can fail when the required response state arrives late. Exit from an event after rd.read() is started. Poll a deadline for the fallback instead of waiting with setTimeout.
As per coding guidelines, “Do not use setTimeout or await sleep(N) to wait for a condition; poll with a deadline or await the event itself.”
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In `@test/js/web/workers/worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts` around lines 992 -
1000, Replace the timer-based exits in the worker termination test with
event-driven control: exit successfully after the required response state is
reached following rd.read(), and poll a deadline for the failure fallback
instead of using setTimeout. Preserve the existing exit-code semantics and
remove the scheduling-dependent timer waits.
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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Since it changes GC synchronization timing at startup (sync→async collection after entry-point evaluation) and makes measured performance claims, a maintainer familiar with the JSC startup path should sign off.
What was reviewed:
- Verified all
run_gccallers updated after the signature change;Bun.gc(true)andBun.gc(false)paths throughgarbage_collect()are behaviorally unchanged. - Checked
collectAfterEntryPointpreservesDeleteAllCodeIfNotCollectingand only swapscollectSync→collectAsync; droppedfinalizeSynchronousJSExecutioncalls are intentional given the collection no longer completes here. - Test rewrite: exit now keys off the first touched response (the state under test) rather than a fixed 150 ms; the 5 s exit-code-3 fallback keeps the "not exercising what it claims" guard.
Extended reasoning...
Overview
The PR replaces the two post-entry-point run_gc(false) calls (in run_command.rs and web_worker.rs) with a new collect_after_entry_point() that requests the full collection via collectAsync instead of the accidentally-synchronous collectSync. JSC__VM__runGC loses its sync parameter (only the sync/Bun.gc(true) path remains); VirtualMachine::garbage_collect's sync=false branch already used the separate collect_async and is unchanged. Ancillary changes are doc-comment updates and a test rewrite to remove a timing dependency the sync collection was masking.
Security risks
None. No user-controlled input, no auth/crypto/permissions surface. Pure GC scheduling.
Level of scrutiny
Medium-high. The diff is small and mechanical, but it changes when the first full collection completes relative to the first event-loop tick. Anything that implicitly relied on that synchronous collection (as the adjusted test did) could surface as flakiness elsewhere. The PR description is thorough with before/after measurements on macOS arm64, and the repo's review guidance calls out performance claims and hot-path changes as needing maintainer attention.
Other factors
- All
run_gc/JSC__VM__runGCcall sites in the tree were checked; no stale callers remain and the napi test'srun_gcis unrelated. - The new C++ function takes the JSLock and uses existing
Heap::deleteAllUnlinkedCodeBlocks/Heap::collectAsync(CollectionScope::Full)— standard JSC API. - The test change awaits the actual condition (first response touched) rather than a fixed delay, which is the pattern the review guide asks for; the fallback guard is preserved.
- No prior reviews from me on this PR.
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This PR's hunk in test/js/web/workers/worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts (the worker-exit streaming-fetch fixture) overlaps with #40781, which makes that fixture exit once all eight responses are touched and is the standalone fix for the red macOS x64 lane. When #40781 lands, this PR can drop its copy of that hunk on rebase. |
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What does this PR do?
After the entry point has been evaluated and before the event loop starts, the main thread and every worker ran a full collection through
JSC__VM__runGC(vm, sync=false). Despite the name, that path calledcollectSync(Full): the first event-loop tick waited for the collector to mark the freshly loaded heap, which is the largest it gets at startup. Nothing depends on that collection completing synchronously and its return value was discarded.This replaces the two call sites with a dedicated
JSC__VM__collectAfterEntryPointthat drops unlinked code blocks (DeleteAllCodeIfNotCollecting, as before) and then requests the full collection withcollectAsync.runGCloses itssyncparameter; only theBun.gc(true)path remains and is unchanged.Dropping the unlinked code blocks is kept on purpose: measured on a large
--compile --bytecodeapplication, a variant that keeps them has the same startup time but +20 MB of resident payload pages, since the unlinked code keeps its source providers and cached bytecode reachable.Measurements
Release builds of
mainand this branch, macOS arm64. The collection still runs, just concurrently: in a long-lived process the heap size andphys_footprintreach the same values as before within ~50 ms of the first tick.Where it helps: an entry point that builds a large retained heap and then needs the event loop (delay from the end of the entry point to the first
setImmediate):Short-lived scripts that exit before the concurrent collection finishes also spend less CPU (100 MB case: 213 → 93 ms user).
Where it does not:
console.log("hi")is unchanged (12.1 vs 12.0 ms; this path is skipped when the event loop is not alive). On a large--compile --bytecodeapplication, startup to first render (median of 40 interleaved runs) is 337 vs 337 ms and idlephys_footprintis 163–166 MB in both, because an allocation-triggered full collection is already in flight at that point and the synchronous wait was only a few ms. Loadingtypescript+prettier+react-dom/servergoes from 16–17 ms to 13 ms to the first tick; the remaining 13 ms is unrelated to GC (it stays with both steps ofcollectAfterEntryPointdisabled).So this is a small fix for a path that was synchronous by accident, not a broad startup win.
Test
The worker-exit streaming-fetch test in
worker-terminate-lifetime.test.tsrelied on the synchronous collection delaying the worker's first tick, so that the expired 150 ms exit timer and the pending fetch completions were processed in the same tick; with the collection asynchronous the timer can fire before any response has arrived on a slow debug build. It now exits shortly after the first response has been touched, which is the state it wants alive at exit, and keeps the "no fetch ever arrived" guard as a 5 s fallback.How did you verify your code works?
bun bd test test/js/web/workers/worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts(24 pass; the one failure,dns.lookup() is in flight, is a LeakSanitizer report insidelibsystem_configurationfromares_init_sysconfig_macos, unrelated to this change)setImmediatein 2 ms (a full collection takes ~170 ms in the debug build);BUN_JSC_logGC=1shows the collection running after the entry point andheapStats().heapSizedropping from 30.7 MB to 0.1 MB in a long-lived process;Bun.gc(true)still collects synchronously; the same check inside aworker_threadsWorker.