compile: load an executable's embedded ES module graph without per-import round trips - #40643
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…port round trips `bun build --compile --splitting` executables spent a large share of startup in the module loader: every import edge between embedded chunks re-ran the filesystem resolver on an already-final `/$bunfs/` key, and every edge went through a fetch promise + microtask chain even though the whole graph is in memory. - Compiled executables get a `StandaloneGlobalObject` method table (like `EvalGlobalObject`) so their loader hooks cost nothing elsewhere. - Its `moduleLoaderResolve` returns embedded keys as-is; bare and `node:` builtins are answered from a codegen'd `BuiltinModuleKeys.h` in every mode. - Its `moduleLoaderFetch` registers the fetched module's static-import closure (records built from the embedded `module_info`) and pre-fills each record's `[[LoadedModules]]`, so JSC runs one load step per module instead of one per edge. - Embedded source strings are created with the hash the graph already stores instead of being rehashed at load; module records reserve their entry capacity up front. - WebKit 568ccc283a73 for `ExternalStringImpl::createStatic(span, hash)`, `AbstractModuleRecord::reserveCapacity`, and the shared-string-table change. On a 614-chunk app: `--help`-style startup 243ms -> 203ms, peak RSS 157MB -> 139MB, resolver calls 29k -> 6, loader microtasks 41k -> 1.2k.
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WalkthroughThe change adds standalone module loading for compiled Bun executables, generated builtin-module indices, precomputed external-string hashes, module-record capacity counts, and compile-splitting regression coverage. It also updates the default WebKit revision. ChangesStandalone module loading
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Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Large embedded module graphs can currently trigger a debug assertion or unsafe pointer handling during startup if the collected records exceed buffer capacity or allocation fails. This should be fixed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
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In `@src/bun_core/string/mod.rs`:
- Around line 365-371: Update create_static_external_latin1_with_hash to be
unsafe because it retains the input slice without copying; document that bytes
must remain valid and immutably accessible for the lifetime of the returned
BunString, typically by requiring static storage. Ensure callers must explicitly
uphold this lifetime invariant.
In `@src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.cpp`:
- Around line 3751-3760: Update createStandaloneRecord so reusable cached
providers retain provider->m_moduleInfo instead of deinitializing and nulling
it; only consume the module information for providers confirmed to be
single-use, preserving later makeModule calls after clearModuleRegistry().
In `@test/bundler/bundler_compile_splitting.test.ts`:
- Around line 15-67: Replace the outer bytecode for-loop with
describe.each([false, true]) and move the existing itBundled definition into its
callback, preserving the bytecode parameter and all test setup and assertions
unchanged.
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| /// [`Self::create_static_external`] for Latin-1 bytes whose `WTF::StringImpl::hash()` is already known, so the | ||
| /// result is thread-shareable without reading the bytes. | ||
| pub fn create_static_external_latin1_with_hash(bytes: &[u8], hash: u32) -> Self { | ||
| debug_assert!(!bytes.is_empty()); | ||
| // SAFETY: as above; `hash` is StringImpl::hash() of `bytes`. | ||
| unsafe { BunString__createStaticExternalLatin1WithHash(bytes.as_ptr(), bytes.len(), hash) } | ||
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Make the static-storage requirement explicit.
This safe function passes bytes to C++ without copying. A caller can pass a temporary or heap-backed slice, drop its owner, and leave the returned BunString with a dangling pointer. Make the constructor unsafe and document the lifetime invariant, or otherwise require static storage in the API.
Based on learnings: mark an API unsafe when callers must uphold a memory-safety invariant.
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In `@src/bun_core/string/mod.rs` around lines 365 - 371, Update
create_static_external_latin1_with_hash to be unsafe because it retains the
input slice without copying; document that bytes must remain valid and immutably
accessible for the lifetime of the returned BunString, typically by requiring
static storage. Ensure callers must explicitly uphold this lifetime invariant.
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Kept as a safe fn to match create_static_external / create_static_external_utf16 right above it, which have the identical retained-slice contract; the doc comment states the lifetime requirement.
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@Jarred-Sumner, the existing constructors have the same issue. Consistency does not make the retained-storage invariant safe.
create_static_external_latin1_with_hash returns a String that can outlive bytes. A caller can pass non-static storage through this safe API. The returned value then contains a dangling pointer after that storage is released.
The documentation helps callers, but it does not enforce the memory-safety invariant. The constructor should be unsafe, or its input type should require static storage.
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File: src/bun_core/string/mod.rs:365-371
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Learning: In `src/bun_core/string/mod.rs`, `String::create_static_external`, `String::create_static_external_utf16`, and `String::create_static_external_latin1_with_hash` use caller-owned storage without copying. Their documentation describes a process-lifetime storage requirement, but their safe signatures do not enforce it.
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File: src/jsc/VM.rs:69-74
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…bedded modules Mirror Bun__analyzeTranspiledModule: under the isolated module cache a SourceProvider is reused across globals, so its module_info must stay alive for the next record build instead of being freed after the first.
…l test output, tidy placement - scripts/build/codegen.ts: list BuiltinModuleKeys.h and generated_builtin_module_key_index.rs as bundle-modules outputs so a change to the builtin module list rebuilds their C++ and Rust includers. - test: don't print path.sep (differs on Windows); keep the new test from splitting an existing test's comment. - lib.rs: move builtin_module_key_index below resolved_source_tag so each keeps its own doc comment; use bun_core::ffi::slice in the new FFI entry points.
… in the standalone fetch hook Bun::toString(const String&) borrows the StringImpl; building it from a temporary left the BunString pointing at a freed impl.
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I reviewed the latest push and didn't find any new bugs — all five earlier findings (Windows path.sep in the test, undeclared ninja outputs, misplaced doc comment, raw from_raw_parts, and the dangling BunString referrer in fetchStandaloneSource) are now addressed in the code. Given the scope — a new GlobalObjectMethodTable, pre-registering module records into JSC's registry, new FFI surface, and a WebKit bump — a human look is still worthwhile.
What was reviewed: the StandaloneGlobalObject resolve/fetch hooks and provideStandaloneImportClosure for exception-scope discipline and GC rooting (MarkedArgumentBuffer keepAlive, EnsureStillAliveScope keepProbe); the fetchStandaloneSource referrer lifetime fix; the codegen output declarations in scripts/build/codegen.ts; the new bun_core::ffi::slice call sites; and the reworked test fixture's platform-neutral assertions.
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Overview
This PR adds a StandaloneGlobalObject method table that specializes moduleLoaderResolve/moduleLoaderFetch for bun build --compile executables, pre-registering the entry module's static-import closure into JSC's module registry so the graph walk skips per-edge fetch promises and microtasks. It also adds a builtin-alias resolve fast path (codegen'd BuiltinModuleKeys.h + generated_builtin_module_key_index.rs), a pre-hashed static-external Latin-1 StringImpl constructor, capacity hints for JSModuleRecord, four new Rust FFI predicates, and a WebKit dependency bump. Sixteen files touched across C++ bindings, Rust runtime, codegen scripts, and bundler tests.
Security risks
No user-facing attack surface is introduced — the fast paths only engage inside compiled standalone executables on embedded /$bunfs/ keys, and both resolve and fetch hooks bail to the base implementation whenever a plugin runner or virtual modules are present. The main risk class is memory safety in the JSC integration: GC rooting during the closure walk (handled via MarkedArgumentBuffer and EnsureStillAliveScope), exception-scope discipline (each fallible call is followed by RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION), and borrowed BunString lifetimes (the earlier dangling-referrer bug is now fixed by keeping a named String local). No injection, auth, or data-exposure concerns.
Level of scrutiny
High. This touches the module loader — a correctness-critical hot path — adds a new GlobalObjectMethodTable, threads new state through JSC's registry (ensureRegistered, setStatus, fulfill, setImportedModule), crosses the Rust/C++ FFI boundary in several new places, and bumps the vendored WebKit revision. REVIEW.md's memory-safety and cross-platform sections both apply, and the WebKit-side changes (ExternalStringImpl::createStatic, reserveCapacity, Identifier::fromUid atom-table skip) are not visible in this diff. A maintainer familiar with the JSC module-loader state machine should confirm the Fetching → Fetched transition and settled-promise shape matches what InnerModuleLoading expects for every edge.
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Over three review rounds this bot raised five findings; commits 2f4e9ff and 5591c75 address all of them, verified against the current diff. The new itBundled test in bundler_compile_splitting.test.ts covers cycles through the entry, builtins reached from pre-registered chunks, overlapping dynamic-import closures, and the bytecode/no-bytecode matrix, and now uses isAbsolute("/x") instead of path.sep so it is platform-neutral. One coderabbitai thread on src/bun_core/string/mod.rs:371 remains open (author replied), and the PR author is the repo owner. Exit reason was dry_streak, so the hunt ran to completion.
No-Verification-Needed: version pin bump; the only WebKit delta from 568ccc283a73 is CI configuration.
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…table change WebKit 568ccc283a73 routes 1-3 character strings through the shared string table when one is in use, so the two snapshot entries that use a shared table change (the table grows from 836 to 1044 bytes); every other entry is byte-identical. Failed identically on all 11 CI platforms, which is the "format changed, update the snapshot" case described at the top of the test. No-Verification-Needed: snapshot-only test update.
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…before JSC walks it The previous shape registered embedded dependencies in the loader's "module settled" state and let JSC run a load step per module, which still re-visited every not-yet-registered edge (the root chunk, builtins) once per referrer walk. Now the fetch hook builds records for everything statically reachable from the module being fetched — embedded ES modules from their module_info, node:/bun: builtins through the loader's synchronous fetch + makeModule — and, when that covers the whole closure, fills every record's [[LoadedModules]] and settles every loadPromise, so JSC's graph walk completes without calling HostLoadImportedModule per edge. If anything reachable can't be produced synchronously (a CommonJS file, a typed import, a module some other load has in flight, or a root whose entry the caller owns), nothing is marked loaded and JSC's normal per-module pipeline finishes the job. Also reuse the VM's "undefined" atom for the referrer string instead of allocating one per fetch.
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In `@src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.cpp`:
- Around line 3925-3947: Update the keepAlive handling in the surrounding
module-loading function: after each keepAlive.append call, check
keepAlive.hasOverflowed(), and on overflow return through the normal loader path
before using the collected closure records. Ensure allocation failure cannot
leave raw pointers in closure unprotected, including the append of rootRecord.
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…provideModule WebKit 0bb01ed52617 adds provideModule(), which leaves an entry Fetched with settled fetch/module promises without queuing the fetch -> makeModule reaction; use it instead of driving ensureFetchPromise/ensureModulePromise by hand. Drops one no-op microtask per pre-registered module.
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This pull request has now been reviewed several times and this review found new issues. Before patching these one by one, step back: would one root-cause fix close several of them? Is the pull request's scope growing with each push? Prefer root-cause fixes, keep scope fixed, and note out-of-scope improvements as follow-ups.
… its key On Windows the same embedded file can be named with either separator; return the standalone graph's stored name so every importer lands on one registry entry. On POSIX the stored name is the printed specifier, so this still hands the incoming string straight back.
…tecode graph makes Uses JSC's dumpModuleLoadingState log: one line per resolve/fetch/evaluate host hook. The fixture must load with a fetch per root rather than per module and a resolve per root/builtin rather than per import edge. No-Verification-Needed: test-only change (test/bundler/bundler_compile_splitting.test.ts).
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…ering embedded modules
…ises (#40674) ### What does this PR do? Follow-up to #40643. When a compiled executable pre-registers its embedded module graph, each module got a fetch promise, a module promise and a resolved load promise that nothing ever awaits (the graph walk reads `[[LoadedModules]]` / `record()` directly). With oven-sh/WebKit@f5deafe090cf: - `ModuleRegistryEntry::provideModule(vm, record)` stores the record without allocating any promise or reaction (and no extra GC field); `ensureFetchPromise()` / `ensureModulePromise()` hand back ones already settled with the record if a later top-level load asks, and `moduleLoadTopSettled` treats a record result as already provided. - `AbstractModuleRecord::evaluateModuleSync` evaluates a `SyntheticModuleRecord` (Bun's `node:*` / `bun:*` builtins) directly instead of wrapping `undefined` in a fresh promise — InnerModuleEvaluation hits that once per import edge to a builtin. - `markLoaded()` states that the record's `[[LoadedModules]]` is complete; `hostLoadImportedModule` treats such an entry as loaded and only materializes a load promise (`loadedPromise()`) for the edge that actually needs one (in practice: each root). Bun's `registerStandaloneClosure` now calls those two instead of building promises itself. | `claude --help` (2.1.250, `--compile --bytecode --splitting`) | before | after | |---|---|---| | `JSPromise::create` calls | 2,986 | 630 | | loader microtasks | 603 | 603 | | host resolve / fetch calls | unchanged | | The remaining promise allocations are ~10 per *root* (JSC's top-level `loadModule` / evaluate chain × 61 roots here); nothing is per module or per import edge anymore. ### How did you verify your code works? `test/bundler/bundler_compile_splitting.test.ts` (incl. the host-hook-count assertions added in #40643), `bun-build-compile.test.ts`, `bundler_compile.test.ts`; drove compiled apps by hand (static/dynamic imports, cycles through the entry, builtins, Worker, `import.meta.resolve`, missing embedded path, CJS + bytecode); built the Claude Code CLI with this branch and compared `BUN_JSC_dumpModuleLoadingState` / promise / microtask counts against `main`.
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Faster startup for
bun build --compileexecutables that use--bytecode --splitting(ESM chunks), by removing per-import-edge work from the module loader:StandaloneGlobalObject— compiled executables get their ownGlobalObjectMethodTable(same pattern asEvalGlobalObject), so the standalone-specific loader hooks below cost nothing in the normal runtime./$bunfs/key, somoduleLoaderResolvehands it straight back instead of round-tripping through the resolver (UTF-8 conversion,resolve_and_auto_install, re-atomizing the result). Bare/node:builtins are answered from a codegen'dBuiltinModuleKeys.htable (indexed the same way asInternalModuleRegistry) in every mode.module_info(already embedded),node:/bun:builtins through the loader's synchronous fetch +makeModule— registers them, fills each record's[[LoadedModules]], and settles their load promises. JSC's graph walk then finds every edge already loaded instead of allocating a promise + microtask per(importer, request)pair. If anything reachable can't be produced synchronously (CommonJS file, typed import, a module another load has in flight), nothing is marked loaded and JSC's normal pipeline finishes the job.StringImplis seeded with the hash the graph already stores, instead of rehashing every module's source at load.module_infocounts.WebKit side (oven-sh/WebKit@0bb01ed52617):
ExternalStringImpl::createStatic(span, hash),AbstractModuleRecord::reserveCapacity,ModuleRegistryEntry::provideModule,Identifier::fromUidskips the atom table for atoms, and the bytecode-cache encoder routes 1–3 char strings through the shared string table when one is present.Numbers
A large CLI app built with
--compile --bytecode --splitting(614 chunks loaded at startup, ~29k import edges), Linux x64, same JSC on both sides, bytecode cache hitting on both:app --help(hyperfine ×40)app --version--helphostLoadImportedModulecalls--help(Both sides built locally against the same WebKit; bytecode cache hitting on both.)
Tests
test/bundler/bundler_compile*.test.ts,test/bundler/bun-build-compile.test.ts,test/cli/compile-*.test.ts,test/js/bun/resolve,test/js/bun/plugin,test/js/node/module: same results asmain.