react-compiler: merge scopes that invalidate together in linear time

[robobun]

Problem

• MergeReactiveScopesThatInvalidateTogether takes time quadratic in the number of consecutive reactive scopes that it merges into one. Debug build: 197 ms for 500 static siblings, 2812 ms for 2000.
• The merge candidate collects the declarations of every merged scope. For each further scope merge_scopes_in_block (src/react_compiler/reactive_scopes/merge_reactive_scopes_that_invalidate_together.rs:273) searched that list and ran retain over it. can_merge_scopes copied it and scanned it per dependency.

Fix

• The candidate keeps its declarations in CandidateDeclarations: a hash map with the insertion position, a min-heap on the last usage, and a count per declaration id. Pass 3 writes them back to the scope in insertion order.
• Correct because the range end of a candidate only grows: the heap pops the entries that retain removed. The output is byte-identical. After: 38 ms and 141 ms. A release build of 4000 element pairs takes 22% less CPU time.
• Verified: two new tests in test/bundler/transpiler/react-compiler.test.ts. The timing test fails without the fix on a debug build. Also that file and react-compiler-fixtures.test.ts.
• Two independent review passes before the push (equivalence with the old code, tests and conventions) raised 7 concerns. 5 addressed. Kept: the debug-only timing test and its timeout (Notes).

Background

• A reactive scope is a group of instructions that the compiler memoizes together. Its declarations are the values that later code reads.
• This pass merges consecutive scopes that invalidate together. It prunes a declaration when the merged range covers its last use.
• The file is a port of the upstream pass, which keeps declarations in a Map.

Notes

Inputs. static N: <div title={props.t}> with N children <b id="i0" />. No child has a dependency, so all N scopes merge into one, and every child stays a declaration because the <div> reads it. pairs N: <div> with N children <i><b id={props.x} /></i>. Each <b> depends on props.x and each <i> on its <b>, so all 2N scopes merge. Each <b> is pruned when its <i> merges, and each <i> stays declared. pairs reaches all three changed paths: the key lookup, the prune, and the third check of can_merge_scopes.

Time of the pass, debug build, best of 5, in ms. BUN_REACT_COMPILER_TIMING=1 prints the wall time of each pass at exit, in debug and ASAN builds only. The host was under load, so compare the growth: about 3.6 times per doubling before, 2 times after.

input	before	after
static 500	197	38
static 1000	706	77
static 2000	2812	141
pairs 250	185	58
pairs 500	611	117
pairs 1000	2225	255

For pairs 1000 the pass was 29% of the time of all passes before and 4% after.

Whole build, release build, user CPU time of bun build --react-compiler, best of 7, in ms. Other passes are also quadratic on these inputs (RenameVariables on static, for example), so the whole build stays superlinear.

input	main	this branch
static 2000	244	215
static 4000	864	776
static 8000	3715	3089
pairs 2000	343	249
pairs 4000	1244	967

The release binary grows by 3 KB of text. The final sort uses bun_collections::index_sort, so it adds no new instance of the std sort.

Why the output is the same. Map.set keeps the position of a key that exists and appends a new key. updateScopeDeclarations deletes every entry whose last usage is before the range end. The map, the position counter and the heap do the same. A declaration is keyed by its own identifier everywhere in the crate (debug_assert_eq! in extend), so a new value for a key has the same last usage. Checks:

• react-compiler-fixtures.test.ts: 3293 upstream fixtures, byte for byte.
• A temporary debug build ran the old algorithm next to the new one and asserted, for every call of can_merge_scopes and after every merge, that the result and the ordered declarations are equal: the fixtures (1254 merges), the inputs above, and 3200 generated components (67000 merges, up to 500 live declarations, all three checks of can_merge_scopes).
• Builds of main and of this branch give identical output for 430 generated files (about 8000 components) and for the 197 .jsx and .tsx files under test/, bench/, docs/ and packages/.

Tests.

• The timing test builds one component of 800 pairs and a control file with the same pairs in components of 10, at the same time, and compares the time of the pass. The ratio is 5 to 7 without the fix and about 1 with it. The limit is 3, and the test takes the best of up to three rounds.
• The timing test runs on debug builds only, so no CI lane runs it. Only debug and ASAN builds have the report. Optimized code needs about 4000 pairs for a ratio of 4, and other passes recurse once per block: a release build overflows its stack at 8000 pairs and a debug build at 1750 (react-compiler: check the stack in every pass that recurses as deep as the source nests #43230 is open for that). A whole-build timing test cannot isolate this pass on a debug build, because the linear part of all the other passes is much larger. No test fails on a release build of main, because the output is the same.
• One round takes about 5 s on a debug build, which is the default timeout, so the test sets 60 s. bun-build-api.test.ts has a test for debug and ASAN builds with an explicit timeout too.
• The order test passes before and after. It pins the names t0 to t63 of 64 declarations of one merged scope, half of them with a pruned declaration in between. It fails when into_declarations does not sort. No fixture merges more than 8 declarations into one scope.

Review. Two read-only passes looked at the diff before the push. One tried to find an input where the new structure differs from the old list (8 points, none found). One checked the tests and the conventions. A full adversarial design review did not run to completion for this PR. The 7 concerns:

• Fixed: a doc comment said that insertion order is the order of the cache slots. Codegen sorts the slots by name. RenameVariables names the declarations in insertion order.
• Fixed: the timing test now asserts one object with calls, scopes and exitCode, and shows stderr when the report line is missing.
• Fixed: the order test no longer passes throw: false, so a failed build shows its errors.
• Fixed: hash_map::Entry is written with its full path, as infer_mutation_aliasing_effects.rs does. crate::collections has an Entry of its own.
• Fixed: this body now says that no test fails on a release build of main.
• Kept: the timing test runs on debug builds only (reasons under Tests).
• Kept: the explicit 60 s timeout (reasons under Tests).
  Not in upstream: comments mark the two deviations from the upstream file.

Not changed. are_equal_dependencies compares two dependency lists in quadratic time, as upstream does. That is quadratic in the dependencies of one scope, not in the number of merged scopes. Pass 3 still clones the statements that it moves, as upstream does.

[robobun]

^{Updated 1:53 AM PT - Sep 19th, 2026}

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Changes

Reactive scope merging

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Candidate declaration tracking src/react_compiler/reactive_scopes/merge_reactive_scopes_that_invalidate_together.rs	CandidateDeclarations tracks declaration order, counts, last use, repeated values, pruning, lookup, and materialization into HirVec.
Scope merge integration src/react_compiler/reactive_scopes/merge_reactive_scopes_that_invalidate_together.rs	Merge candidates propagate tracked declarations. Compatibility and dependency checks use the accumulated declaration state.
Merge regression validation test/bundler/transpiler/react-compiler.test.ts	Debug-only tests measure merge timing and verify declaration ordering, generated names, and memo-cache slot counts.

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[robobun]

Status: ready for review.

How to reproduce the problem on main with a debug build:

bun -e '
const n = Number(process.argv[1]);
let s = "export function App(props) {\n  return <div title={props.t}>";
for (let i = 0; i < n; i++) s += `<b id="i${i}" />`;
s += "</div>;\n}\n";
require("fs").writeFileSync("static.jsx", s);
' 2000
BUN_REACT_COMPILER_TIMING=1 bun bd build static.jsx --react-compiler --target=browser --external "*" > /dev/null

The report on stderr has a line for MergeReactiveScopesThatInvalidateTogether. On main it shows 197 ms for 500 elements and 2812 ms for 2000. With this PR it shows 38 ms and 141 ms.

The new timing test in test/bundler/transpiler/react-compiler.test.ts does the same comparison with bun bd test. It runs on debug builds only.

[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline findings (all on the timing test), I also checked the CandidateDeclarations bookkeeping in src/react_compiler/reactive_scopes/merge_reactive_scopes_that_invalidate_together.rs for two things and ruled both out: a stale env.scopes[..].declarations being read between a merge and the pass-3 write-back (nothing reads the current scope's list after the candidate is created — can_merge_scopes uses the candidate, extend only reads the next scope, and nested blocks finish their own pass 3 before the parent block merges), and the declaration_ids count underflowing on a stale heap entry (each heap entry corresponds to exactly one vacant insert, and a key can only become vacant again by being popped, so pops and increments stay paired).

Extended reasoning...

The three posted findings are all about the new debug-only timing test (CI coverage, wall-clock flakiness under load, and the 60 s timeout), so the review body records what was examined in the Rust change itself. I diffed the old in-place retain/linear-search path against the new hash map + min-heap + count structure: pruning pops entries with last_usage < range_end, which is the same predicate the old retain used, and untracked declarations are kept in both. Insertion order is preserved through the position counter and the final sort, and an existing key updated via extend keeps its original position, matching TS Map.set. The len() short-circuit before are_equal_dependencies mirrors that function's own length check. I did not find a correctness issue in the pass; the remaining question for a human is only whether the test shape (debug-only, timing-based) is acceptable, which the inline comments already raise.