Bun.pprof.heap: sampling native heap profiles in pprof format

[Jarred-Sumner]

Bun.pprof.heap samples the allocations of Bun's native allocator and writes a pprof heap profile (profile.proto, gzipped): what go tool pprof, speedscope, Pyroscope and Parca read. A sample has the JavaScript frames and the native frames that allocated, in one stack, and stays "in use" until the memory is freed. It costs nothing while no profile runs. While one runs at the default interval it costs 0.1% on a JSON workload and 2% on a loop that does nothing but allocate.

On main's mimalloc pin. The sampling hooks are upstream's mi_profiler_t with the fork's fixes to them (oven-sh/mimalloc#40, #43, #44, #45, brought in by #42668) and oven-sh/mimalloc#47, which this PR needs (a second profile starts every thread over) and which main has had since #42808 moved the pin along the same branch (oven-sh/mimalloc#47, #49, #50, #51). This PR no longer touches MIMALLOC_COMMIT: it is main's.

API and CLI

The names are provisional until the owner rules on them.

Bun.pprof.heap.start({ sampleInterval?: number }); // bytes, default 524288, at least 65536
Bun.pprof.heap.profile(): Uint8Array;               // the profile so far; keeps running
Bun.pprof.heap.stop(): Uint8Array;                  // the final profile
Bun.pprof.heap.isRunning: boolean;

bun --pprof-heap[=<path>] [--pprof-heap-interval=<bytes>] script.js   # written on exit; BUN_OPTIONS works

• One profile per process: it covers every thread, and start() throws ERR_INVALID_STATE while one runs (from any thread). profile()/stop() throw it when none runs. A bad sampleInterval is ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE / ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE before anything starts.
• profile() is for a scrape endpoint (/debug/pprof/heap): the same shape as heap.profile() of the pprof npm package and as Go, where reading a heap profile does not stop it.
• Without a path --pprof-heap writes Heap.<date>.<time>.<pid>.0.<seq>.pb.gz, named like the files of --cpu-prof and --heap-prof. It is also written on process.exit() and before a self-directed fatal signal, like those. The profile is the process's, so the request for the file is process-wide state and not a field of a VM: a Worker that ends the process (process.kill(process.pid, ...) with no listener for the signal) writes it, once (the main thread's JavaScript positions are then as the code ran, generated=true: only the main thread can use its sourcemaps), and process.exit() in a Worker, which only ends the Worker, leaves it running. If the profile cannot be started, bun prints why and exits 1 before the script runs. --pprof-heap-interval without --pprof-heap exits 9, like --heap-prof-interval.
• Alternatives considered for the names: samplingInterval (V8's spelling in HeapProfiler.startSampling) for sampleInterval; --heap-pprof for --pprof-heap (one letter from --heap-prof, which is a different and also valid flag, so a typo silently produces the other format).
• The JavaScript-visible names are all in BunPprofObject.cpp (plus one constant in PprofObject.rs for the option), the CLI spellings in two constants next to their two parse_param! lines: a rename is a few lines.

What a profile contains

• The four sample types of a Go heap profile: alloc_objects, alloc_space, inuse_objects, inuse_space (the default); period_type space/bytes, period = the interval.
• Stacks, leaf first: native frames as addresses with Mappings (path, page-aligned start/limit/offset, build id: NT_GNU_BUILD_ID on Linux, LC_UUID on macOS), and JavaScript frames as Function (name, file, start line) + Line (line, column) in their place among the native ones. A host function called from JavaScript appears under its name. drop_frames hides the allocator's own frames once the profile is symbolized.
• Positions go through sourcemaps (TypeScript, bundled code) on the thread that owns them: the thread that calls profile()/stop() resolves its own, a Worker resolves its own when it exits. Samples with a frame of another Worker that is still running keep the positions of the code as it ran and carry the label generated=true.
• Labels: thread (the thread's name: bun, Worker, Bun Pool 3, HTTP Client, JITWorker, ...) and, on a Worker's JavaScript thread, worker (its threadId). -tagfocus=thread=... works; without it pprof merges across threads.
• The weight of a sample is the bytes requested since the previous sample of that thread, so the samples add up to what was allocated, less what each thread allocated after its last sample (an interval's worth). period is the mean interval. The object count of a sample is its weight divided by the size of the allocation it landed on; for a sampled aligned allocation (a block of the garbage collector) that size is the over-allocated one, about twice the block.

What it does not contain

• JavaScript objects one by one. The garbage-collected heap takes its blocks from the allocator, so it shows up as those block allocations (and large cells individually), attributed to the allocation that made the collector need another block. --heap-prof / Bun.generateHeapSnapshot() are the tools for objects.
• Memory that does not come from the allocator: the structure heap, JIT code, mmap'd reservations.
• On macOS, memory that system frameworks allocate (Bun does not replace the system malloc there).
• Symbols of native frames. A release build of Bun has none; the profile has addresses, mappings and build ids, and go tool pprof ./bun-profile heap.pb.gz with the -profile build of the same version resolves them offline.
• In an executable built with bun build --compile, and in code loaded from --bytecode output, exact lines: a JavaScript frame has the line where its function starts, and a function whose name is still only in the bytecode cache is (anonymous) (see "Found on the way" and the follow-up).

How it works

• mimalloc's mi_profiler_t hooks (compiled in already). on_alloc is called for about one allocation per sampleInterval requested bytes of each thread; the distance to the next sample is drawn from an exponential distribution with that mean (capped at 16 times it), so a periodic allocation pattern is not always sampled at the same point. mimalloc keeps 24 bytes of ours in front of a sampled block (the session, the bucket, the weight) and hands them to on_free, also when mi_heap_destroy frees an arena whole, so a free needs no lookup and there is no table of live samples. Nothing is attached until the first start().
• The hooks run inside malloc/free of any thread. They allocate only from a mimalloc heap that has sampling turned off (one mi_heap_t for all threads: in mimalloc v3 a heap is used from any thread, each through its own mi_theap_t), never from the default heap; they skip a sample when the calling thread already holds the session lock (a signal handler, an allocation made while the session is being read); a forked child gets a fresh lock, no session and a stopped profiler.
• Native frames: bun_core::debug::capture_frame_chain, a frame-pointer walk like the crash handler's StackIterator but with one process_vm_readv per 8 KiB window of stack instead of two per frame (25-40 us per sample became 2-3 us). Bounded by the thread's stack on Apple; RtlCaptureStackBackTrace on Windows. The crash handler is unchanged (it runs on an alternate stack that the window does not fit).
• JavaScript frames (BunPprofJSFrames.cpp): StackVisitor from vm.topCallFrame, which is only trusted when it is one of the frames of the machine stack as just read and JIT or LLInt code runs in it (it is stale after a JIT operation that does not record its frame). Names, URLs and positions are read without allocating and interned by content under the session lock; no cell is kept alive, no GC interaction.
• bun_sys::loaded_modules: the loaded images that contain a sampled address (dl_iterate_phdr, dyld, GetModuleHandleEx), with build ids. On ELF the build id is only read from a PT_NOTE that lies inside a readable PT_LOAD of the image: a note outside of one is not something the loader maps.
• src/pprof/encode.rs: a hand-written protobuf writer (varint, length-delimited, packed), first-seen numbering, gzip through libdeflate. No new dependency.
• heap.rs is the sample source (hooks, stacks, labels) and the sink that fills the buckets, encode.rs reads the buckets: a second sink would take the same events.

The mimalloc dependency

The hooks are upstream's; the fork's changes to them that this relies on are in main's pin (#42668):

• mi_heap_destroy reports the sampled blocks it frees through on_free (an arena that is freed whole is not "in use" forever).
• The small allocation that refilled its page is the sample, not the next one above 1 KiB, so sampleInterval can go down to 64 KiB.
• A rate that on_alloc changes starts a full period, so the drawn intervals do not inflate bytes_since_last_sample.
• A thread or an arena that starts while a profile runs is sampled from its first allocation, and mi_profiler_start reaches the threads that are already running (a Worker that allocates 64 KiB buffers used to notice 64 MiB later).
• An aligned allocation is only a sample through the over-allocating path, and on_free gets the pointer that on_alloc got.
• A thread that does not sample pays for the compiled-in hooks only in the generic path, and little (see Cost).
• profile: a theap starts over with each mi_profiler_start mimalloc#47 (on main since deps: mimalloc to the head of bun-dev3-v2 (oven-sh/mimalloc#47, #49, #50, #51): recently used large pages are left alone for a while #42808): every thread starts over with each mi_profiler_start. A thread that had allocated nothing through the allocator's slow path between a stop() and the next start() went on with the distance to its next sample that it had (none of 32 MiB sampled at 64 KiB after a profile at 256 MiB), and its first sample carried bytes from before the start. Found here by review, with the test below. Without a profiler attached the allocator is the same to within 4000 instructions of 2.03 G.

An earlier state of this PR carried fallbacks for a mimalloc without these behind one constant. They are deleted: the constant, bun_alloc's heap_destroy_hook and its call in MimallocArena, the table of live samples in heap.rs, the fixed interval and the 128 KiB minimum.

Cost

Release builds of this branch and of the commit of main it has merged (7d792a53834f, the same mimalloc pin), Linux x64, pinned to 8 cores, 5 interleaved runs (7 for bun -e 1), medians with the range; user-mode instructions from perf stat. The machine was loaded (load average 90 on 64 cores), wall times vary by +-5% between identical runs.

With no profile started:

	main	this branch
bun -e 1	9.73 M (9.72..9.73)	9.72 M (9.72..9.74)
JSON.stringify + JSON.parse of a 200-user object, 3000 times	4787.2 M (4786.1..4788.4)	4788.6 M (+0.03%; 4787.9..4791.8)
3M ArrayBuffers of 16 B to 2 KiB, a ring of 4096 kept (3.1 GB allocated in 1.9 s)	5809 M (5762..5839)	5796 M (-0.2%; 5788..5831)
the same with the JIT off and a non-concurrent GC (the runs of one binary agree to 0.1%)	9453.6 M (9448.2..9458.5)	9450.0 M (9446.4..9461.7)
bun -e 1, anonymous memory / peak RSS	3.68 MB / 26.5 MB	3.67 MB / 27.2 MB

No code of this PR is on an allocation path while no profile runs, and the allocator is the same object code as main's. The 0.7 MB of peak RSS are pages of the executable itself (r-x +444 KB, r-- +200 KB resident; the binary is 56 KB larger, the rest is where the linker put things relative to the kernel's fault-around windows).

What the compiled-in hooks cost in the allocator alone, with none attached (25 M mi_malloc + 25 M mi_free of 16 to 1039 bytes, mimalloc built with Bun's flags; the runs of one build agree to 100 instructions): 2.0305 G against 2.0244 G with MI_PROFILE=0 (+0.30%), and 2.0568 G for the pin before #42668.

With a profile running (--pprof-heap, so the numbers include encoding and writing the file at exit), against the same binary without:

	samples	instructions:u	wall
JSON loop, 512 KiB (the default)		+0.09% (4791.0 M, 4790.3..4793.7, against 4786.7 M)	inside the spread
JSON loop, 64 KiB		+0.52%	inside the spread
ArrayBuffer loop, 512 KiB	6800	+2.3% (5940 M, 5908..5975, against 5803 M, 5776..5847); +1.6% with the JIT off	-1% to +5%
ArrayBuffer loop, 128 KiB	27000	+5.0%	+4%
ArrayBuffer loop, 64 KiB	53000	+7.6%	+7%

The ArrayBuffer loop does nothing but allocate (1.6 M allocations a second), which is the worst case. Fitted over the three intervals, 1.6% of its cost is there at any interval: what a thread that samples pays in mimalloc's generic path to keep count (the other side of the unattached cost going from +1.46% to +0.30% in oven-sh/mimalloc#44). A sample itself is 6000 to 7000 instructions, most of it the two stack walks.

The profiler's own memory is bounded

What a session keeps is: 24 bytes in front of each sampled block (the allocator's, gone with the block), and four tables that grow with the number of distinct things seen: one bucket of 56 bytes and its stack words for every distinct (stack, thread), JavaScript positions of 64 bytes, and interned strings. They converge in a program that does the same things over and over, but nothing made them stop (recursion of varying depth, generated code with many positions). Now each has a limit, and Vecs grow by doubling up to it and not past it:

	limit	bytes at the limit	the CLI application, 20 turns at 64 KiB	JSON server, 360 k requests at 64 KiB
distinct stacks	65,536	3.5 MiB + 0.5 MiB index	6,198	373
words of their stacks	1,048,576	8 MiB	164,854 (27 a stack)	5,916 (16 a stack)
JavaScript positions	16,384	1 MiB + 0.1 MiB index	2,816	21
strings	32,768 / 1 MiB	1.5 MiB + 0.25 MiB index	1,435 / 11 KB	17 / 144 B
samples taken			31,599	33,825

14.9 MiB when all of them are full (a table that grows exists twice for a moment, and profile() copies what there is in order to encode it). The limits are 6 to 10 times what the larger of the two uses; at the application's 27 words a stack the words run out first, at some 39,000 stacks.

Past a limit nothing is lost from the totals. A sample whose stack has no room is counted in one bucket that is made when the session starts (so reaching the limit allocates nothing, and the check on the allocation path is two compares): one sample with the single frame (other stacks) and no labels; its frees are counted there too. A JavaScript frame or a string that has no room is (truncated). Running out of memory takes the same paths, so "N not recorded" is gone from the profile's comment. The comments now say how full the tables are and what went past them, go tool pprof -comments:

bun 1.4.3: 11344 samples
stacks=108/65536 stack_words=2140/1048576 js_locations=16/16384 strings=14/32768 string_bytes=127/1048576
past the limits: other_stacks_objects=0 other_stacks_bytes=0 truncated_frames=0 truncated_strings=0

BUN_PPROF_HEAP_MAX_STACKS, BUN_PPROF_HEAP_MAX_JS_LOCATIONS and BUN_PPROF_HEAP_MAX_STRINGS lower a limit (never raise it); they are internal, for the tests to reach one in a fraction of a second.

Thirty minutes in a server

Bun.serve with a JSON handler (parses an order of 5 to 24 items, keeps the last 5,000 customers in a Map, answers with the order and 20 recent ones), 500 requests a second from one client process for 30 minutes: 900,000 requests, none failed. One server with the profile on from the start at the default 512 KiB and GET /debug/pprof/heap (Bun.pprof.heap.profile()) every 60 s, one with it off; same binary, both at the same time on cores of their own (4 for each server, 4 for each client), on a machine that other work kept busy.

	profile off	profile on, scraped every 60 s
latency, all requests: p50 / p90 / p99 / p99.9 / max (ms, measured in the client)	0.202 / 0.518 / 7.96 / 13.29 / 48.1	0.205 / 0.580 / 8.27 / 12.65 / 53.1
per 10 s window (179 of them): median p50, median p99	0.192, 7.69	0.194, 7.41
RSS after 1 / 10 / 20 / 30 min (MB; highest reading)	42.2 / 41.8 / 40.9 / 41.7 (45.0)	43.8 / 42.8 / 42.9 / 42.1 (44.5)
samples, distinct stacks, stack words after 1 min		45 stacks, 783 words
after 5 / 10 / 20 / 29 min		79, 1,417 / 88, 1,654 / 97, 1,861 / 108, 2,140 (11,344 samples; 16 JavaScript positions, 14 strings)
the profiler's tables after 29 min		about 28 KB
profile() in the server (29 scrapes): median / max		0.6 ms / 1.7 ms, 5.3 KB gzipped
the scrape as the client sees it: median / max		0.87 ms / 10.8 ms
the 49 requests that were in flight during a scrape: p50 / max		2.19 ms / 11.1 ms

(The 8 ms at p99 in both columns are the load generator and the machine, not the server: a timer of 1 ms that starts what is due, on a busy box.) The two servers cannot be told apart by latency or by memory. A scrape holds the JavaScript thread for the 0.6 ms that profile() takes, which a request that arrives just then waits for.

Tests

test/js/bun/pprof/heap.test.ts (16) and test/cli/run/pprof-heap.test.ts (20), each case in a subprocess (the fixtures run from a copy of their directory in a temporary one), with a small profile.proto decoder in the test directory; test/integration/bun-types/fixture/pprof.ts for the types. All fail on the released bun (Bun.pprof is undefined) except the case that is about the decoder itself. They cover:

• the state machine and every rejected option; the file written by the flag in each spelling, through BUN_OPTIONS, on process.exit(), and not written when the script stopped the profile itself
• 64 MiB kept stays in use and 64 MiB dropped does not after Bun.gc(true), within 15%; the JavaScript frame has the function, the file and the line of the TypeScript source, with native frames on both sides and each inside a mapping
• a Worker's samples carry thread/worker, generated=true while it runs and resolved positions once it has exited
• a profile that starts when a Worker has already allocated 32 MiB has the 16 MiB it allocates from then on, within 2 MiB
• a second profile at 64 KiB after one at 256 MiB has the 32 MiB that a Worker allocates in it (0, or 72 MB with the first profile's bytes, on the previous pin)
• two call sites that a sourcemap maps to one position (a file with // @bun and a hand-made inline map) are one sample with what both allocated; without the merge there are two, without the sum half of the bytes
• reading the profile five times gives one sample per stack each time, and a position first sampled after an earlier read is still resolved
• a second session ignores the frees of what the first one sampled
• an arena freed whole (Bun.Transpiler, 60 MiB per call) is not reported as in use
• 200 sessions leave RSS where it was
• with the limit on stacks lowered to 16, 64 functions that allocate 256 KiB each leave 16 stacks and one sample (other stacks) without labels that has all of the second 32 (what the comments say it has), the stack words do not grow between two reads, and the totals are within 15% of a run without the limit, which has no such sample; with the limit on JavaScript positions at 8 or on strings at 12, frames are (truncated), the comments count them, and the totals are again the same (without the limit applied: 41 stacks where 16 are expected)
• the file is written before the main thread or a Worker ends the process with process.kill(process.pid, "SIGTERM"); under --watch, whose SIGINT handler is installed with or without listeners, a Worker's SIGINT gets the file written when nothing listens and leaves the profile running when the main thread does (a Worker reads the listener count that --watch mirrors); a Worker's process.kill() with a signal the main thread listens for, and a Worker's process.exit(), leave the profile running
• Go's pprof -raw (pprof's own profile.Parse, which checks every id and string index) reads the file and shows the sample types, the period and the JavaScript frame; it runs the prebuilt binary in GOTOOLDIR and is skipped where there is none (no Go, or a Go that compiles its tools on demand)
• on Linux the executable's mapping carries its 40-digit build id

Each of these was checked against a build with the piece under test removed: no generation check -> 0 of 32 objects in use; no sourcemap resolve -> wrong line and generated=true after the Worker's exit; on_free not called for an arena that is freed whole (the previous pin) -> 165 MB in use where < 24 MB is expected; threads not told of the start (the previous pin) -> 6.3 to 8.5 MB of the late-start Worker's 16.8 MB; session not dropped -> +60 MiB where < 16 is expected; the file request left on the main VM -> no file after a Worker's process.kill(); no main-thread check in on_exit -> isRunning is false after a Worker's process.exit(); no check of the installed handler from a Worker -> isRunning is false in the main thread's listener; --watch's signal not excepted from that check -> no file; its listener count not read -> isRunning is false in the main thread's SIGINT listener. Quantitative cases are skipped under ASAN with the reason (malloc goes to the sanitizer; only arenas reach the allocator).

Found on the way

These only happen while a profile runs. 1 and 2 have a regression test that fails most runs without the fix; 3 and 5 were found by the arm64 lanes on the existing tests.

1. Abort in CodeBlock::lineColumnForBytecodeIndex (its RELEASE_ASSERT): a sample landed in an allocation made while code tiers up, where the frame's recorded call site is not an offset into the code block that is in the frame. The bytecode index is now checked against the code block before it is used (as the sampling profiler does).

2. Self-deadlock in executables built with --compile --bytecode: code from a bytecode cache decodes its source positions (and function names) on first use, under the code block's lock, and allocates while it holds it; a sample in that allocation asked the same code block for a position. For such code the hook now reports the start of the function, and uses tryGetEcmaNameConcurrently() for the name.

3. Abort in CallFrame::bytecodeIndex() (arm64, where the call-linking thunk has a prologue): while a call is being linked, vm.topCallFrame is the callee's frame under construction, and its code block slot holds the code block that is being prepared, which has no entrypoint yet. The top frame is now classified first (its code block is looked up in the VM's code block set, under a try-lock) and skipped when it is not complete; the frames that called it are.

4. lineColumnForBytecodeIndex() fills a per-code-block cache, which allocates: positions now come from expressionInfoForBytecodeIndex(), which does not.

5. Two samples with the same stack and labels in one profile (the aarch64 Linux lanes, on the scrape test, once the pin made the first allocation of every thread a sample). The word above a thread's first frame record there is not zero and differs per thread; it is in no loaded image, so it is left out of the profile, and the buckets of the helper threads, which all start the same way, came out as identical samples. The same can happen with JIT code that is not a JavaScript frame, and with two positions that a sourcemap maps to one place. A sample is its locations and labels: the encoder numbers locations by what they say and adds buckets that say the same up.

Platforms

Linux x64 and aarch64 (glibc and musl) and macOS run the whole test file in CI. Windows arm64 walks frame pointers within the thread's stack (from the TEB) to find the JavaScript frames and appends them after the native ones from RtlCaptureStackBackTrace. On x64 Windows rbp points into the frame and not at a saved rbp, so there is nothing to check JavaScriptCore's record of the top frame against: samples there have native frames only, and the cases that find samples by function name are skipped with that reason. Also on Windows: no thread-name label (GetThreadDescription allocates), no build ids. macOS gives the main thread no name, so it has no thread label.

Follow-ups

• Exact positions in compiled executables: a small accessor in JavaScriptCore, UnlinkedCodeBlock::expressionInfoIfDecoded(), gives the hook the expression info only if reading a position from it needs no decode; the two conservative checks here (cachedBytecode() of the source provider, Bun__hasStandaloneModuleGraph()) then go.
• A second sample type for GC cell allocation sites; a tracing sink on the same sample source.

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Native heap profiling now includes mimalloc sampling, pprof serialization, JavaScript and CLI APIs, platform support, VM lifecycle handling, documentation, and comprehensive tests.

Native heap profiling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Profile data and serialization src/pprof/*, src/mimalloc_sys/mimalloc.rs	Added allocation sampling, live-allocation tracking, pprof encoding, protobuf serialization, metadata, mappings, and gzip output.
Sampling and platform runtime src/bun_alloc/*, src/bun_core/debug.rs, src/sys/*, src/windows_sys/*	Added heap-destruction hooks, platform-specific stack capture, loaded-module discovery, and Windows stack-bound access.
JavaScript API and VM integration src/jsc/*, src/runtime/api/*, src/runtime/api.rs	Added JavaScript frame capture, sourcemap resolution, VM lifecycle handling, Bun.pprof.heap, and profile file output.
CLI configuration and public surface Cargo.toml, src/options_types/*, src/runtime/cli/*, packages/bun-types/bun.d.ts, docs/project/benchmarking.mdx	Added workspace wiring, runtime options, CLI flags, TypeScript declarations, and profiling documentation.
Profiling validation and fixtures test/cli/run/*, test/integration/bun-types/*, test/js/bun/pprof/*	Added profile decoding, CLI, API, allocation, worker, session, tiering, source-map, cleanup, and arena tests.

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In `@docs/project/benchmarking.mdx`:
- Line 331: Update the Bun.serve configuration in the profiling endpoint example
to bind explicitly to 127.0.0.1 instead of all interfaces, and add a note that
remote deployments must place the endpoint behind an authenticated network
boundary.

In `@src/jsc/BunHeapPprof.rs`:
- Around line 79-86: Update the location handling in the callback containing
resolve_source_mapping to return early when the converted column is zero, before
calling Ordinal::from_one_based; preserve the existing line filtering and
one-based conversion for valid nonzero columns.

In `@src/options_types/context.rs`:
- Line 625: Replace the derived Default implementation for PprofHeap with a
hand-written #[inline(always)] implementation that preserves the same default
field values. Keep the change limited to PprofHeap and ensure
RuntimeOptions::default continues to use PprofHeap::default().

In `@src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs`:
- Around line 1352-1358: Update the Err branch handling bun_pprof::heap::start
in Run::start to terminate immediately after reporting the startup error,
preventing execution of the entry point when profiling fails. Preserve the
existing error message and successful-start behavior.

In `@src/sys/loaded_modules.rs`:
- Around line 100-116: The PT_NOTE scan in the build_id initializer must not
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