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What does this PR do?

Bumps WebKit to oven-sh/WebKit#768. Nothing else is in the range.

  • JSC's worker threads (wasm and JIT compilers, GC helpers) release the free memory of their mimalloc heap after 100 ms idle instead of when they exit after 10 s (for WebAssembly.compile retains ~10 MB per wasm compiler thread; RSS grows with core count and is never released #41438). This also matters for the GC heap: after a full collection with the event loop still busy, RSS goes from 219 MB to 76 MB in 1 s, where it was still at 104 MB after 6 s.
  • A thread that blocks in Atomics.wait for over 100 ms does the same. It used to keep everything it had freed for the whole wait.

Next.js (pages router, getServerSideProps) under oha -c 32: RSS at the end of the load 269 MB to 247 MB, peak 311 MB to 288 MB, 28.3 to 32.0 faults per request, the same requests/s and p99. More numbers are in the WebKit PR.

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Three tests, run with release builds against the previous WebKit and this one. All are skipped under ASAN, where malloc is not mimalloc.

  • atomics.test.ts, "lets mimalloc release this thread's free memory": heapStats().mimalloc.purge_calls goes up by over 3000 during the waits, and by 0 with the previous WebKit.
  • atomics.test.ts, "a notify that arrives while Atomics.wait releases ... is not lost": a worker frees memory and waits, and the main thread notifies it 100 to 107 ms later, while the waiter has dropped the lock of the waiter list. A waiter that misses the notification is off the list already, so it still answers "ok", after the whole timeout; the test checks how long each wait took. With a WebKit build where the waiter goes back to sleep without testing the loop condition again, 2 of the 8 waits are late in each of 4 runs.
  • compile-rss.test.ts, from Bump WebKit (oven-sh/WebKit#567 preview): idle JSC worker threads release their mimalloc heap #41449: 8 idle wasm compiler threads keep 28 to 35 MiB with the previous WebKit (limit 10), and pass with this one, 3 runs each.

CI also passed on two preview builds of the WebKit PR before it was merged.

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The change updates the pinned WebKit commit and adds subprocess tests for Atomics wait behavior and WebAssembly compiler memory usage.

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Update WebKit version
scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts
The pinned WebKit commit hash changes.

Atomics Wait Tests

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Check Atomics wait behavior
test/js/web/atomics.test.ts
Two tests skipped under ASAN run Bun subprocesses. One checks mimalloc purge-call growth during timed Atomics.wait calls. The other checks worker notification results while memory release is underway.

WebAssembly Compiler RSS Test

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Measure WebAssembly compiler memory
test/js/bun/wasm/compile-rss-fixture.mjs, test/js/bun/wasm/compile-rss.test.ts
The fixture generates a WebAssembly module, measures memory during repeated compilation and idle polling, and reports measurements as JSON. The test checks peak and idle memory-growth thresholds.

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The identified test concerns do not currently block merging: both memory measurements take an initial sample, and the long-running Atomics test falls within the timeout rule’s exception.

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Beyond the inline finding, I also checked whether heapStats() calling mi_collect(false) on every read (src/jsc/modules/BunJSCModule.h:379) could let the new test pass on the old WebKit by itself — the stable-baseline loop (three consecutive equal purge_calls reads before the waits) absorbs any purges the polling triggers, so the >= 500 delta can only come from the thread going idle during Atomics.wait.

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The PR bumps the pinned oven-sh/WebKit commit in scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts and adds one subprocess test in test/js/web/atomics.test.ts asserting that a timed-out Atomics.wait causes mimalloc purge_calls to rise; the runtime behavior itself lives upstream and is not visible in this diff. It touches no security-sensitive surface. The inline finding about missing coverage for the notify-during-handoff race already signals that a human should look, so this note only records the one additional concern that was examined and ruled out.

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

const delays = [];
for (let delay = 100; delay <= 107; delay += 1) delays.push(delay);
for (const delay of delays) {
while (Atomics.load(view, WAITING) !== 1);

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🟡 nit (optional): if the worker never reaches its first wait, maintainers get a 30 s hang with no diagnostic instead of a quick, named failure. The main thread spins without a bound in while (Atomics.load(view, WAITING) !== 1); at test/js/web/atomics.test.ts:405, and because it is spinning synchronously a worker error event can never be delivered, and no worker.onerror is set anyway. Fix: bound each spin with a deadline that throws a message naming the round, and wire worker.onerror to reject results, so a worker startup or runtime failure ends the subprocess with output the test can show rather than a timeout kill. [also at: test/js/web/atomics.test.ts:400 - nit: when the worker throws or never reaches its first wait, the parent spins forever and the test only dies by timeout with no diagnostic.]

Why this was flagged

The worker script in test/js/web/atomics.test.ts:369-396 is loaded from a blob URL inside a bun -e subprocess; if it fails to start or throws before Atomics.store(view, 1, 1) (for example a regression in blob-URL workers, Buffer in workers, or Bun.gc), the WAITING slot never becomes 1. The parent thread at test/js/web/atomics.test.ts:405 loops on Atomics.load(view, WAITING) !== 1 with no deadline and no await, so it never returns to the event loop and never sees the worker's error event; worker.onerror is not set either (only worker.onmessage at line 401). The subprocess therefore hangs until the explicit 30_000 ms test timeout at line 424 fires and await using proc kills it, so the failure shows as a bare timeout with empty stdout and stderr instead of the worker's error. REVIEW.md asks that every failure event be wired to reject the awaited promise and that conditions be polled within a bounded window; on the base branch this test does not exist, so this is a quality defect of the new test rather than a runtime regression.

Verification: nit — triggers only when the worker fails to start or throws before its first Atomics.store(view, 1, 1). test/js/web/atomics.test.ts:405 while (Atomics.load(view, WAITING) !== 1); is an unbounded synchronous spin; no worker.onerror. The main thread never yields from the spin, so the error task never runs and the test only dies at the 30_000 ms timeout (line 423) with no diagnostic.

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Leaving this one. A worker that never gets to its first wait still fails the test, by the timeout, and that would be a failure of workers in general that many other tests report first.

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Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

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  • Unresolved: 1 minor or pre-existing.

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