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Fixes #42539

Problem

  • expect(Promise.resolve()).toEqual({}) passes, so a forgotten await stays green. So does a WeakMap or URL against {}. Jest fails each.
  • Bun__deepEquals (src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp) compares such a pair by own enumerable properties only. Both sides have none.

Fix

  • A pair that is not two plain objects, arrays or module namespaces must have equal Object.prototype.toString tags (Jest's rule). The check runs after specialObjectsDequal. A Proxy counts as its target.
  • Plain objects keep main's answer, so req.params and fs.Stats still equal a literal. Only an object that is not plain holds state outside its own properties.
  • Verified: expect.test.js, deep-equals.test.ts, deep-equal.test.ts (36, 32 and 7 tests fail on main), and 26 more suites.
  • Self-reviewed: 8 concerns raised, 8 addressed. One differently: the strict-only branches in specialObjectsDequalSlow stay (Notes).

Background

  • Bun__deepEquals is behind toEqual, toStrictEqual, Bun.deepEquals and assert.deepEqual. specialObjectsDequal holds its per-type comparisons (typed arrays, Map, Date).
  • A plain object is a JSFinalObject: a literal, a class instance, Object.create(null).
  • Considered the tag comparison first, for every pair (the first version): +120 instructions per object pair, x7 for typed arrays, and every tagged plain object in bun needs a change.

Downsides

  • Breaking: suites that relied on the false green fail. It reverses Fixes #4089 #4105, where a URL against another kind of object was unequal only in toStrictEqual. No maintainer has ruled on either.
  • Four vendored elysia 1.4.28 tests fail. test/vendor.json skips their three files (47 tests, 43 pass).
  • Instructions per Bun.deepEquals call: two small objects 800 to 767, Uint8Array(8) 482 to 482, two URLs 803 to 812. .text +7,936 bytes.
Notes

The rule, case by case

pair main this PR Jest 29.7.0
Promise, WeakMap, WeakSet, WeakRef, DataView, Math, Response, Blob, URL, AbortController, a generator, arguments, a native constructor, a mock function, each against {} equal not equal not equal
two objects with different tags (Promise and WeakSet, Request and Response) equal not equal not equal
a Proxy of a Promise against {} equal not equal not equal
class instance against a literal, Object.create(null) against {}, Proxy of {a} against {a} equal equal equal
req.params, fs.Stats, fs.Dirent, URLSearchParams.prototype.toJSON() against a literal equal equal not equal when run on bun (the objects carry a tag)
a class instance with a Symbol.toStringTag getter against a literal equal equal not equal
a module namespace against a literal with the same exports equal equal not equal
two typed arrays, Maps, Sets, Dates by contents by contents, no tag read by contents

For a maintainer to decide

  • The change is on by default and has no flag. A suite that compared a Promise, a Response or a Blob with {} goes red.
  • Fixes #4089 #4105 chose "maybe just for isStrictEqual?" for a URL against an object that is not a URL, and Support Headers & URLSearchParams in expect().toEqual() #15195 did the same for Headers and URLSearchParams. After this PR toEqual also says "not equal" for those pairs, as Jest and Node do. The deepEquals URLs test from Fixes #4089 #4105 had a row for a plain copy of a URL that its loop never read. The row is now an explicit not.toEqual.
  • The three strict-only branches in specialObjectsDequalSlow stay. They decide nothing for toEqual now, because the tag comparison answers those pairs next. I left the code of that function as it is: a build with the branches removed ran 8 more instructions on the typed-array path of the same function (a different register layout).

What the self-review asked for

What changed from the first version of this PR

  • The tag comparison moved from before specialObjectsDequal, for every pair, to after it, for the pairs in the first three rows of the table only.
  • URLSearchParams.prototype.toJSON() and FormData.prototype.toJSON() keep their own Symbol.toStringTag. src/jsc/ConsoleObject.rs is as on main.
  • import-empty.test.js and require-extensions.test.ts are as on main, because a module namespace equals a literal again.
  • assert.deepEqual keeps the looseBug marker for {} against an object that inherits a tag. The marker for a WeakMap against a WeakSet is gone.

How the check decides (Bun__deepEquals, after the first specialObjectsDequal call returns no answer)

  1. When the second value is a plain object or array, the reverse specialObjectsDequal call is skipped. That function has no case for those types as its first cell.
  2. Two plain objects or arrays: no check.
  3. Two objects of one Structure that are not Proxies: no check. They have one class and one prototype chain.
  4. Both are a plain object, an array, a module namespace, or a Proxy whose target is one of those: no check. The Proxy's get trap is not asked for Symbol.toStringTag.
  5. Every other pair: both tags are read with JSC's objectPrototypeToString, and different tags are not equal.

The node entry points (assert.deepStrictEqual, util.isDeepStrictEqual) already compared the tags. Only step 1 applies to them.

Cost. Instructions of the main thread per call, main 4b02e1031d against this PR merged on it. perf and valgrind were not available, so the count is single steps (PTRACE_SINGLESTEP) between two marker system calls, with BUN_JSC_useConcurrentJIT=0, median of 3 to 5 rounds. For the first version of this PR the same tool gave 800 to 920 for two small objects and 482 to 3,510 for Uint8Array(8) (on main 5a183c1ebc), where the automated check reported +116 and x6.6.

main this PR change
expect(a).toEqual(b)
two small objects {a, b} 1,545 1,512 -33 (-2.1 %)
nested object (4 objects, 1 array) 5,236 5,087 -149 (-2.8 %)
Uint8Array(8) 1,228 1,228 0
array of 20 Uint8Array(4) 13,582 13,590 +8 (+0.1 %)
Map { 1 => {a} } 1,966 1,934 -32 (-1.6 %)
two URLs 1,611 1,621 +10 (+0.6 %)
number 877 877 0
string 967 967 0
toStrictEqual, two small objects 2,688 2,652 -36 (-1.3 %)
toStrictEqual, Uint8Array(8) 1,254 1,254 0
Bun.deepEquals(a, b)
two small objects {a, b} 800 767 -33 (-4.1 %)
same keys in another order 1,162 1,129 -33 (-2.8 %)
class instance and literal 1,162 1,129 -33 (-2.8 %)
nested object (4 objects, 1 array) 4,414 4,253 -161 (-3.6 %)
array of 50 {id, name} 50,505 48,918 -1,587 (-3.1 %)
[1, 2, 3] 1,584 1,547 -37 (-2.3 %)
a new object shape on every call 3,773 3,718 -55 (-1.5 %)
Uint8Array(8) 482 482 0
Float64Array(4) 498 498 0
array of 20 Uint8Array(4) 12,548 12,511 -37 (-0.3 %)
Buffer(11) 482 482 0
ArrayBuffer(8) 446 446 0
Map { 1 => {a} } 1,210 1,177 -33 (-2.7 %)
Set { 1, 2, 3 } 893 891 -2 (-0.2 %)
Date 383 383 0
RegExp 487 487 0
Error 5,304 5,304 0
new String("ab") 2,393 2,393 0
number 144 144 0
string 224 224 0
strict, two small objects 1,949 1,913 -36 (-1.8 %)
strict, Uint8Array(8) 513 514 +1 (+0.2 %)
pairs that reach the property walk and are not two plain objects
two URLs 803 812 +9 (+1.1 %)
two Headers 2,842 2,851 +9 (+0.3 %)
two URLSearchParams 1,247 1,256 +9 (+0.7 %)
two Responses 1,007 1,016 +9 (+0.9 %)
two Promises 587 596 +9 (+1.5 %)
two DataViews 693 702 +9 (+1.3 %)
two arguments objects 3,761 3,773 +12 (+0.3 %)
two new Number(1) 713 725 +12 (+1.7 %)
two generators of one function 587 596 +9 (+1.5 %)
two generators of two functions 627 864 +237 (+37.8 %)
Proxy of {a} and {a} 4,155 4,143 -12 (-0.3 %)
{a} and Proxy of {a} 4,472 4,503 +31 (+0.7 %)
two Proxies of {a} 5,697 5,735 +38 (+0.7 %)
module namespace and its spread 17,903 17,886 -17 (-0.1 %)
pairs that are not equal after this PR
Promise and {} 627 538 -89 (-14.2 %)
{} and Promise 627 594 -33 (-5.3 %)
URL and {} 681 592 -89 (-13.1 %)
URL and Response 821 775 -46 (-5.6 %)
{} and Date (not equal on main too) 425 430 +5 (+1.2 %)
  • The rounds of a Bun.deepEquals row differ by less than 10 instructions per call. The new-shape row is the exception (3,400 to 3,800 on both builds), so read it as no change. The toEqual rows allocate per call and move by about 10 between runs.
  • specialObjectsDequalSlow is the same machine code in both builds, and so is Bun__deepEquals up to the first specialObjectsDequal call.
  • Two generators of two functions +237: their structures differ and JSC does not cache their tags, so both tags are computed on every call.
  • Binary: .text 80,678,993 to 80,686,929 bytes (+7,936). 5,605 of them are one out-of-line copy of objectPrototypeToString.

Behaviour against Jest and Node. 6,241 ordered pairs of 79 kinds of values, main against this PR:

  • toEqual and Bun.deepEquals: 1,048 pairs change. 670 move to Jest's answer. For 376 Jest throws. 2 move away from Jest: an empty array iterator against an empty Map iterator, which Jest drains and finds equal. Pairs that differ from Jest: 717 before, 49 after.
  • toStrictEqual: 2 pairs change, both to Jest's answer.
  • assert.deepEqual: the same 1,048 pairs change, all to Node's answer (pairs that differ from Node: 1,096 before, 48 after). assert.deepStrictEqual: 0 change.
  • 38 pairs that the first version changed stay as on main: the tagged plain objects and the module namespace of the table above.

Random values. 42,000 random values (21 seeds), each against a twin and against a twin with one changed leaf, through 11 entry points (924,000 comparisons). A value against its twin: 0 results differ from main. Against the changed twin: 110 comparisons go from pass to fail, all of them a pair of two different kinds inside a Set or under one key. None goes from fail to pass.

Suites on the debug (ASAN) build

  • The three changed files: test/js/bun/test/expect.test.js 475 pass, test/js/bun/bun-object/deep-equals.test.ts 118 pass, test/js/node/assert/deep-equal.test.ts 435 pass. On main with these tests: 36, 32 and 7 fail. deep-equals.test.ts and deep-equal.test.ts also pass with BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1.
  • The part of the new expect.test.js block that is outside if (isBun) passes on Jest 29.7.0 (52 tests).
  • Pass: jest-extended.test.js, mock-fn.test.js, spyMatchers.test.ts, expect-toHaveReturnedWith.test.js, expect-extend.test.js, expect-formdata-tojson-crash.test.ts, expect-stack-overflow-crash.test.ts, jest-each.test.ts, test/js/bun/test/expect/, test/js/bun/test/mock/, assert-typedarray-deepequal.test.ts, assert.test.cjs, assert.spec.ts, assert-promise.test.ts, import-empty.test.js, require-extensions.test.ts, bun-serve-routes.test.ts, FormData.test.ts, URLSearchParams.test.ts, headers.test.ts, inspect.test.js, util.test.js, and test-assert.js, test-assert-deep-with-error.js, test-assert-typedarray-deepequal.js, test-util-isDeepStrictEqual.js from test/js/node/test/parallel/.
  • elysia 1.4.28, whole suite on release builds: main 1,520 pass and 5 fail, this PR 1,515 pass and 10 fail. One of the 5 more is a timing test that fails on both builds when it runs alone (Stream > stop stream on canceled request). The other 4 are Cookie Response > don't set cookie if new value is undefined (a Promise that is never awaited against {}), TypeSystem - Form > Create (a plain object against a FormData), and two should create a product tests in formdata.test.ts ({} from JSON against a Bun.file). elysia 1.4.30 still has the four assertions. test/vendor.json can only skip a file, so 43 passing tests of those three files stop running.

Related, not in this PR


no test proof · iteration 2 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/bun-object/deep-equals.test.ts

…s in toEqual

toEqual, toStrictEqual and Bun.deepEquals skipped the tag comparison that
only the node:assert entry points ran. A Promise, WeakMap, WeakSet,
DataView, Response, URL, Math or AbortController has no own enumerable
properties, so each of them compared equal to {}. Run the tag comparison
in every mode, as jest's equals() does. The constructor and [[Prototype]]
identity rule stays limited to the node:assert strict mode.

Fixes #42539
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Bun deep equality now checks object tags in specified prototype-blind comparisons. Tests cover plain objects, built-in and host objects, proxies, and related equality APIs. The toEqual documentation describes these comparisons, and test/vendor.json adds four temporary Elysia test skips.

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Deep equality tag comparison

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tag comparison in deep equality
src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp
Bun__deepEquals classifies plain objects and arrays and checks tags for eligible pairs in prototype-blind modes. It skips the reverse special-object comparison when the second operand is a plain object or array.
Regression coverage for equality APIs
test/js/bun/bun-object/deep-equals.test.ts, test/js/bun/test/expect.test.js, test/js/node/assert/deep-equal.test.ts, packages/bun-types/test.d.ts
Tests cover tag mismatches, same-tag comparisons, plain-object comparisons, tag getter behavior, URLs, typed arrays, and additional object kinds. The toEqual documentation describes the equality distinction.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Temporary test skips
test/vendor.json
Adds temporary skips for four Elysia test files and describes their assertion mismatches.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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In a narrow but reachable case, toEqual can treat same-structure objects with different non-enumerable Symbol.toStringTag values as equal. The impact is bounded, but this equality edge remains unfixed.

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Pushed 9956100. It shortens the comment above the tag comparison in Bun__deepEquals to two lines. No code change. The earlier push, 1dcc00d, updated require-extensions.test.ts, which compared a module namespace to a plain object.

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Add tag-specific expect regressions.

Both expect(...).toEqual and expect(...).toStrictEqual use the Jest equality entrypoints that reach this all-mode tag comparison. Existing tests cover these matchers only with generic cases. They do not cover mismatched Object.prototype.toString tags. Add mismatched-tag cases through both matchers, such as expect(new Promise(() => {})).not.toEqual({}) and the corresponding toStrictEqual assertion. Without these cases, removing the all-mode check could pass the current suite.

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On the review note about matcher-specific regressions: they are in this PR. The test "toEqual() - objects with different Object.prototype.toString tags" in test/js/bun/test/expect.test.js asserts a Promise, WeakSet, WeakMap, DataView, Response, URL, Math, AbortController and an object with a Symbol.toStringTag getter against {} through toEqual and toStrictEqual, in both argument orders. That test fails on the current release and passes with this change. The latest push, 4f8da05, only trims the code comment in Bun__deepEquals.

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Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

  • 🔴 src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp — Running the tag comparison in every mode makes expect(moduleNamespace).toEqual({}) fail (namespaces carry @@ toStringTag: "Module"), so the existing test test/js/bun/resolve/import-empty.test.js:45 — expect(await import("./empty-file", { with: { type } })).toEqual({}) — will now fail in CI where it passed on the base branch. Fix: update every existing test that compares a module namespace (or other tagged object) to a plain object literal via toEqual, e.g. spread the namespace (expect({ ...empty_file_js }).toEqual({})) or assert Object.keys(...).length === 0; the PR only ran test/js/bun/test/ and test/js/node/assert/.

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    await import("./empty-file", { with: { type: "js" } }) returns a JSModuleNamespaceObject, which per ES spec has an own non-enumerable Symbol.toStringTag of "Module" (confirmed at test/js/bun/resolve/bun-main-entry-point.test.ts:30). Before this change, the !checkPrototypes instantiation used by jestDeepEquals skipped the block at bindings.cpp:901-958 entirely, specialObjectsDequal has no case for ModuleNamespaceObjectType so it returned std::nullopt, and the own-enumerable-property walk found nothing on either side → the assertion at import-empty.test.js:45 passed. After the change, objectPrototypeToString yields "[object Module]" vs "[object Object]", sameTag is false, and Bun__deepEquals returns false before ever reaching specialObjectsDequal, so expect(empty_file_js).toEqual({}) throws for each of the four js_like iterations. The PR description lists only test/js/bun/test/, test/js/node/assert/ and Node parallel assert files as verified — test/js/bun/resolve/ was not run. The new behaviour matches Jest, so the assertion, not the…

    Verification: normal — merging this PR turns an existing green test red. The tag block is now unconditional ({ at src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp:901, previously if constexpr (checkPrototypes)), so the jest toEqual instantiation (checkPrototypes=false) now executes objectPrototypeToString on both operands (bindings.cpp:946-955) and returns false when the tags differ. `await import("./empty-file", {…

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…ON()

Both toJSON() results carried an own Symbol.toStringTag so that console.log
printed the class name. That tag made Object.prototype.toString report
[object URLSearchParams] and [object FormData], so expect(x.toJSON()).toEqual({...})
fails once deep equality compares tags. Drop the tag and let the console
formatter print the class name prefix itself. An empty FormData now prints
as FormData {} instead of {}.

Also compare the spread of the module namespace in import-empty.test.js and
keep the null-prototype assertion in deep-equals.test.ts to non-strict mode.
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Pushed 1bc51ff. It addresses the CI failures and the review findings:

  • test/js/bun/resolve/import-empty.test.js compared a module namespace to {}. It now compares { ...ns }.
  • URLSearchParams.toJSON() and FormData.toJSON() put an own Symbol.toStringTag on their result, so expect(params.toJSON()).toEqual({ a: "b" }) failed under the tag comparison. The result is now a plain object. The console formatter prints the class name prefix itself, so console.log output is unchanged, except an empty FormData prints as FormData {} instead of {}.
  • The Object.create(null) assertion in deep-equals.test.ts is limited to the non-strict iteration.

The PR body describes the change as it now stands.

… a Blob to plain objects

toEqual now compares Object.prototype.toString tags, so these assertions
fail the same way they fail under Jest.
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Pushed 38632a0. CI on 1bc51ff turned up three vendored elysia 1.4.28 tests that relied on the old leniency:

  • cookie/response.test.ts calls expect(res).toEqual({}) on a Promise it never awaits (the same case as the issue).
  • type-system/form.test.ts compares a plain object with one symbol key against a FormData instance.
  • type-system/formdata.test.ts compares parsed JSON ({ image: {} }) against a request body that holds Bun.file(...).

Jest fails all three. They are skipped in test/vendor.json with the reason, the same way the existing elysia skips are recorded. The PR body now lists them. The bun-patch.test.ts failure on Windows is unrelated to this change and is reported separately.

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I worked on this bug in parallel, from a hand-off made before #42539 was filed. I will not open a second PR. Here are two findings on this diff, and a branch with a narrower rule.

1. req.params no longer equals a literal. Route params in Bun.serve inherit Symbol.toStringTag = "RequestParams" (src/jsc/bindings/ServerRouteList.cpp:306). It is the same case as the toJSON() results this PR un-tags.

const server = Bun.serve({
  port: 0,
  routes: { "/u/:id": req => Response.json({ eq: Bun.deepEquals(req.params, { id: "1" }) }) },
});
console.log(await (await fetch(`http://localhost:${server.port}/u/1`)).json());
// main: { eq: true }    this PR: { eq: false }

expect(req.params).toEqual({ id: "1" }) fails the same way.

2. Cost. The comparison now runs objectPrototypeToString on both values of every object pair, before specialObjectsDequal. JSC caches the tag on the Structure in two cases only: the Symbol.toStringTag lookup ends in a data property on the prototype chain, or it finds nothing. %TypedArray%.prototype[Symbol.toStringTag] is an accessor. So every typed array comparison calls it twice and builds two strings. The first comparison of each new object shape also allocates a StructureRareData and its watchpoints. Release builds of one tree, bindings.cpp from main, from this PR and from the branch below, minimum of 12 rounds:

Bun.deepEquals(a, b), ns per call main this PR branch
{a,b} and {a,b} 56.6 64.2 55.7
nested object (4 objects, 1 array) 292.3 351.3 294.5
array of 50 {id,name} 3459.9 4051.9 3459.3
Uint8Array(8) 32.9 348.5 31.2
Float64Array(4) 35.2 349.4 35.6
array of 20 Uint8Array(4) 833.5 7311.4 818.9
Buffer(11) 37.6 43.5 35.0
Map { 1 => {a} } 87.8 112.5 90.1
Date 29.5 36.9 29.5
a new object shape on every call 770.7 1111.2 807.1

A narrower rule is on robobun/e687be3e/toequal-compare-tostring-tags (bindings.cpp +49 -9):

  • Run the comparison after specialObjectsDequal, so Map, Set, Date and typed arrays never reach it.
  • Skip it when both values are ordinary objects or arrays (FinalObjectType, ArrayType, DerivedArrayType). Those keep all of their state in own properties, so the property walk already sees it.
  • Count a module namespace object as [object Object].

It rejects the same Promise, WeakMap, WeakSet, WeakRef, DataView, Math, Response, Blob, URL, AbortController, Headers, generator and arguments cases, in both argument orders and nested. req.params, the toJSON() results and expect(ns).toEqual({ ... }) stay as they are on main. So it needs none of the producer or test edits in this PR. It still needs the three test/vendor.json skips. The trade: it does not reject a class instance with a Symbol.toStringTag getter against {}, which Jest does.

The branch also has a larger test matrix: 13 kinds in both orders, nested in an object, array, Map and Set, through toContainEqual and toHaveBeenCalledWith, with asymmetric matchers, a throwing tag getter, req.params, and four new assert.deepEqual rows. Take what is useful.

…in objects

The tag comparison ran first, for every pair of objects. That made
`req.params` and `fs.Stats` differ from an object literal, because bun
puts a `Symbol.toStringTag` on those plain objects. It also called the
`Symbol.toStringTag` getter of every typed array.

`Bun__deepEquals` now compares the tags after `specialObjectsDequal`, and
only when one of the two values is not a plain object, an array or a
module namespace. A Proxy counts as its target. Two objects of one
Structure skip the read. Two plain objects or arrays also skip the second
`specialObjectsDequal` call, which has no case for them.

`URLSearchParams.prototype.toJSON()` and `FormData.prototype.toJSON()`
keep their own `Symbol.toStringTag`, and the console formatter is as on
main again.
…s and the JSDoc

The `deepEquals URLs` test reads every row of its table, and states that a
plain copy of a URL's properties does not equal the URL. That pair was
equal in `toEqual` and not equal in `toStrictEqual` (#4105).

The new tests no longer pin the `Symbol.toStringTag` of `fs.Stats`,
`fs.Dirent`, `req.params` and the `toJSON()` results. The elysia skips in
`test/vendor.json` say how many tests of each file still pass. The
`toEqual` JSDoc states the rule.
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@robobun robobun changed the title bun:test: reject objects with different Object.prototype.toString tags in toEqual bun:test: compare toString tags in toEqual unless both values are plain objects Oct 1, 2026
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New head: 433eed1. It answers the two findings on the previous head (38632a0). The description is rewritten for it.

1. Right tests that turned red (req.params, fs.Stats). The tag comparison no longer applies to two plain objects. req.params, fs.Stats, fs.BigIntStats, fs.StatFs, fs.Dirent and the toJSON() results are plain objects (JSFinalObject), so they compare by their properties, as on main. I built the previous head merged on main and saw the two tests of the check fail there. They pass on this head, and both cases are now in test/js/bun/bun-object/deep-equals.test.ts. The producer edits of the previous head are gone: URLSearchParams.prototype.toJSON() and FormData.prototype.toJSON() keep their tag, and ConsoleObject.rs is as on main. A module namespace equals a literal again, so import-empty.test.js and require-extensions.test.ts are as on main too.

2. Cost. The tag read now comes after the per-type comparisons, so a typed array, Map, Set, Date or RegExp pair never reaches it. Two plain objects or arrays skip it, and so do two objects of one Structure. Instructions per call, main 4b02e1031d against this head:

main this head
toEqual, two small objects 1,545 1,512
toEqual, nested object 5,236 5,087
toEqual, Uint8Array(8) 1,228 1,228
toEqual, number / string 877 / 967 877 / 967
Bun.deepEquals, two small objects 800 767
Bun.deepEquals, Uint8Array(8) 482 482
Bun.deepEquals, array of 20 Uint8Array(4) 12,548 12,511
Bun.deepEquals, Date 383 383
Bun.deepEquals, two URLs 803 812

Two plain objects run 33 fewer instructions than on main, because the reverse specialObjectsDequal call is skipped when the second value is a plain object or array. A pair of one native class that reaches the property walk (two URLs, two Promises) pays 9 instructions for the test. .text grows by 7,936 bytes. The full table and the method are in the Notes of the description. perf was not available where I measured, so the counts are single steps between two marker system calls. For the previous head the same tool gave 800 to 920 (two small objects) and 482 to 3,510 (Uint8Array(8)), which matches the +116 and x6.6 of the check.

What the rule is now. Two objects must have equal Object.prototype.toString tags unless both are a plain object, an array, a module namespace, or a Proxy of one of those. On 6,241 value pairs against Jest 29.7.0, toEqual changes 1,048 answers: 670 to Jest's answer, 376 where Jest throws, and 2 away from it (an empty array iterator against an empty Map iterator). The 38 pairs that only the previous head changed are tagged plain objects and a module namespace against its spread. They keep main's answer, and that is the one place where this head is less strict than Jest.

Two things need a maintainer's decision.

  • The change is on by default and breaks suites that relied on the false green. Four vendored elysia 1.4.28 tests do. test/vendor.json can only skip a file, so the skips switch off 47 tests, 43 of which pass.
  • It reverses the choice in Fixes #4089 #4105 ("maybe just for isStrictEqual?"): a URL against an object that is not a URL is now unequal in toEqual too. The same holds for Headers and URLSearchParams (Support Headers & URLSearchParams in expect().toEqual() #15195). Jest and Node reject those pairs.

Not in this PR. #42558 removes the Symbol.toStringTag of fs.Stats, fs.Dirent and StatFs. I filed #44381 (two different native functions compare equal, for example expect(Array).toEqual(Object)) and #44382 (the diff of a failed toEqual prints the tag on its own line).

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- Around line 1000-1012: In the deep-equality comparison, remove the
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline findings, two more candidates were checked and ruled out: a revoked Proxy reaching ownPropertiesAreWholeState (revocation clears only the handler, so target() is still non-null and the later property walk throws the TypeError the new test asserts), and expect(process.env).toEqual({ ...process.env }) (process.env is not a plain object so it enters the tag check, but both sides produce [object Object], so it still passes).

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The change narrows Bun__deepEquals in src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp so non-strict comparisons of objects with different Object.prototype.toString tags return false, with the reversed specialObjectsDequal call now skipped for plain second operands; it touches no security-sensitive surface. The hunt exited on max_bugs with confirmed findings posted inline, so this note only records the two additional candidates examined this run.

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