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Each entry of WorkspacePackageJSONCache owned a mimalloc heap for the nodes of its tree. A heap costs 30 KB or more of RSS, and mimalloc has about 64,500 heap slots. The nodes now go to the process heap, as the list buffers of the same trees already do, and are not freed. MapEntry::json_arena and impl Default for MapEntry are gone. The entry is inserted with StringHashMap::get_or_put_value, which no longer needs V: Default. The editors in update_interactive_command allocate spliced nodes in the CLI arena.
process_workspace_name and Package::parse_with_json_impl each created a mimalloc heap for every package.json, to transcode or copy strings. The strings of a parsed package.json are UTF-8, so both read them in place with Expr::as_utf8_string_literal.
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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 finding, I also checked that no reference to json_arena remains under src/, that cli_arena() in src/runtime/cli/mod.rs is a process-lifetime static so the nodes update_interactive_command.rs splices into the cached root survive the initialize_store() reset, and that expectRssDeltaBelow in test/harness.ts already applies the debug bound and disables the ASAN quarantine, so the new RSS test needs no separate isASAN branch.
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The change removes the per-entry mimalloc heap from WorkspacePackageJSONCache in favor of the process heap, moves get_or_put_value off the V: Default bound, repoints two AST splice sites in update_interactive_command.rs at the CLI arena, and adds two memory-regression tests plus a benchmark script; it touches no security-sensitive surface. It is an allocator-lifetime change in native install code with an acknowledged trade-off (replaced trees now leak), and the inline finding on test cost already signals a human look.
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Re-reviewed after ffe22be: the automated review found no bugs in this version, and both new tests now take the file's install slot. Because this deliberately trades a per-entry heap for AST nodes that are never freed (replaced trees on reparse_root, removed entries in bun pm pack) and the description notes a three-hunk conflict with #44222, a maintainer look at that trade-off and the landing order is still worthwhile.
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Arena::borrowing_default()wrapsmi_heap_main()withowns: false, so itsDropis a no-op and the cachedrootcannot dangle; everyget_with_pathcaller runs on the package-manager/main thread, matching the main-heap contract.get_or_put_valueis only reached after thecontains_keycheck, so the move out of theV: Defaultblock changes no behavior; no remaining references tojson_arenainsrc/.update_interactive_command.rsnow splices nodes fromcli_arena(), which is process-lifetime and already used by the adjacentcli_dupecall for the string bytes.- The bench header's "19 scripts of 19 lengths" matches the generator loop (8..883, 19 entries).
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The change removes the per-entry mimalloc heap from WorkspacePackageJSONCache and parses/deep-clones cached package.json ASTs into the process main heap, moves a StringHashMap helper between impl blocks, and repoints two update-interactive editors at the CLI arena; it adds a Linux benchmark script and two concurrent install tests. It touches no auth, crypto, or input-validation surface; the security-relevant aspect is allocator ownership, and the borrowing arena's no-op Drop plus main-thread-only callers make the lifetime sound. Deferral rather than approval rests on the intentional never-freed trees (a design trade-off the author quantifies but a maintainer should accept), the stated ordering dependency on #44222 that conflicts in the same file, and the inability to verify the heapStats().mimalloc.heaps stat in this checkout because the mimalloc vendor tree is not present.
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I re-reviewed the latest push and didn't find any bugs; the heap-count and RSS tests now take an install slot, which covers the earlier concern. Because this trades per-entry freeing for never-freed trees in the process heap (a design choice that also interacts with the stated #44222 landing order), a human look is still worthwhile.
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get_or_put_valuereplacingget_or_put+ overwrite:get_with_pathcheckscontains_keyfirst, so the insert path never hits an occupied entry and the moved method body is unchanged.cli_arena()for the splicedExprnodes inupdate_interactive_command.rs: process-lifetime, never reset, so the nodes outlive theinitialize_store()reset like the oldjson_arenadid.Arena::borrowing_default()'sDropis a no-op andreset()is debug-asserted off, so the cachedrootcannot be invalidated by the temporary going out of scope; all cache callers run under&mut PackageManageron the main thread.
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The change deletes the per-entry mimalloc heap from WorkspacePackageJSONCache::MapEntry and parses/deep-clones cached package.json ASTs into the process main heap instead, relocates StringHashMap::get_or_put_value out of the V: Default impl, repoints two update-interactive splice sites at the CLI arena, and adds a Linux benchmark script plus two regression tests. It touches no security-sensitive surface (no auth, parsing of untrusted input is unchanged). The code is small and behavior-preserving on the insert and splice paths, but it intentionally makes replaced or removed trees unfreeable and the PR itself describes a required landing order with another open PR, which is a design tradeoff a maintainer should confirm rather than something an automated review can settle.
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bun installkeeps one live mimalloc heap for each package.json it reads: about 50 KB of peak RSS for each workspace on linux-x64. 3,000 workspaces peak at 165 MB, against 104 MB on 1.3.14.MapEntryofWorkspacePackageJSONCacheowns abun_alloc::Arena, which is onemi_heap_new()(src/install/PackageManager/WorkspacePackageJSONCache.rs:53,:66,:188). Bump mimalloc: faster heaps, less purge churn; release memory during Bun.sleepSync #44560 made heaps cheaper to create, not to keep.Fix
Arena::borrowing_default()), as in 1.3.14.MapEntry::json_arenais deleted. The same install peaks at 89 MB.test/cli/install/bun-workspaces.test.tsfail on main (a live heap count, a peak RSS difference). Alsotest/cli/install/on an ASAN build.Background
WorkspacePackageJSONCachekeeps the parsed tree of each package.json that the package manager reads.PackageManager::ast_arena(the cache fills before the manager exists) and one cache-owned arena (one more heap per process).Downsides
reparse_rootreplaces, or thatbun pm packremoves, is no longer freed: 2,360 bytes for a 975-byte package.json.bun update -ron 3,000 workspaces peaks at 141 MB (main: 214 MB)..textshrinks by 768 bytes.Notes
There is no user report. The work on #44222 measured the cost. This is cleanup of a regression from the Rust rewrite: 1.3.14 cloned the tree into the default allocator, and the arena field first ships in 1.4.0. The effect is 2 to 3 MB at 100 workspaces and grows from there. #36386 shows a user with a generated workspace of 30,460 packages.
What changes. Three
Arena::new()inWorkspacePackageJSONCache.rsbecomeArena::borrowing_default().impl Default for MapEntryis deleted with the field: the entry is inserted withStringHashMap::get_or_put_value, which moves out of theV: Defaultblock. The two editors inupdate_interactive_command.rsallocate the nodes they splice in from the CLI arena.Bunfig::parsealready borrows the process heap for the same reason ("Parsed config lives for the process lifetime either way").Order with #44222. Land #44222 first. It deletes
Expr::deep_clone, which this change still calls, and the two conflict in three hunks ofWorkspacePackageJSONCache.rs. After #44222 this change rebases to: passArena::borrowing_default()toparse_package_json_utf8_with_opts_into_arena, takeroot: parsed.root, deletejson_arenaandimpl Default for MapEntry, and delete theNodesInArenadestination and theDetachAstHeapguard that #44222 adds for the heap of the entry.Repro.
bench/install/workspaces.sh(new) generates a root package.json with"workspaces": ["packages/*"]and N directoriespackages/p<i>/package.json, runsbun installfrom a clean tree and thenbun update -r, and prints the median peak RSS, minor faults and CPU from GNU time. No registry access. Manifest kinds:two-key(name and version),full(975 bytes) andescaped(19 scripts of 19 lengths, each with an escaped quote).Measurements. linux-x64 only. "main" is
13a98b0dbd1, which contains #44560 and #44575 (mimalloc pin92ef6587). "this PR" is the branch on top of it. Both are local release builds from one toolchain, without the order file that CI links with. 1.3.14 and 1.4.2 are the published binaries, which are linked with the order file. So compare main with this PR, and read the two published columns as context. Median of 5 interleaved runs.Peak RSS of
bun installin MB, and minor page faults in parentheses:Peak RSS of
bun update -rafter a fresh install by the same binary, in MB:The lines that the design review asked for:
mi_heap_new/mi_heap_destroyfor each install (gdb breakpoints): 2N+5 / 2N+3, two heaps live at exit (main 4N+7 / 3N+4, N+3 live). The same with a lockfile and with--frozen-lockfile.bun pm lsfrom a member directory: N+4 / N+2 (main 3N+4 / 2N+2), and 24.4 MB against 106.4 MB in the 3,000-workspace repo.bun update -r: 5N+10 / 5N+8 (main 8N+14 / 7N+11).file:dependencies: 11 / 9 (main 13 / 10). Its one cache miss, a 206-byte package.json: 16,178 instructions and 46 allocator calls (main 32,080 and 54). One workspace in the middle of a 100-workspace install (get_with_path): 33,672 instructions (main 55,056)..text: 80,732,817 bytes (main 80,733,585, delta -768).oh no: Bun has run out of memory.at 1.9 GB. main at 64,000: exit 0 at 2,278 MB).bun.lockis byte-identical to main on the two-key, full and escaped repos of 1,000 workspaces.Instructions are counted by single-step in gdb from the entry of the function to its return.
perfis not usable in this environment and valgrind is not installed.Why a live heap is expensive. A heap shares no page with another heap, and each size class needs its own 64 KiB page. A standalone probe against the pinned mimalloc (3,000 entries of 60 small blocks) measured 29.1 KB for each entry with one size class, 50.0 KB with three and 66.7 KB with six. The same blocks in
mi_heap_main()cost 2.5, 3.5 and 5.8 KB.sizeof(mi_theap_t)is 8,240 bytes andsizeof(mi_heap_t)is 2,088 bytes.Escaped strings. The parser decodes a string that has an escape into a block of its own in the arena. Each length lands in its own size class, so each one opened one more page in the heap of that entry. That is the
escapedrow: 203 KB for each workspace on main.The abort. Each live heap takes one of 64,512 thread-local slots in mimalloc. When none is left,
mi_heap_new()returns NULL and bun reports out of memory. This change removes the package.json cache from that limit. Other owners of one heap for each item can still reach it:Bun.Transpiler(#32384, closed),FileSystemRouter(#42920), the shell (#42928).The tests.
parseLockfilefrombun:internal-for-testingon an npm lockfile with 5 and with 50 workspaces, in a freshbun -eprocess. The npm migration reads each workspace package.json through the cache. The test readsheapStats().mimalloc.heapsaround each call. On main the number of live heaps grows by one for each workspace, and with the change it does not grow. It also checks that at most one heap is created for each workspace (main: three). That one is the scratch arena ofprocess_workspace_name, see install: three mimalloc heaps are created and destroyed for each package.json #44635. This path does not reachPackage::parse_with_json_impl.bun -escript throughexpectRssDeltaBelow. On Linux,ru_maxrssof a child is never below the peak RSS of the process that spawned it, becauseexeckeeps the high-water mark of the old address space. From the test runner that floor is about 45 MB on a release build and 350 MB on a debug build.Suites. On a release build with ASAN, through
scripts/runner.node.ts: every file intest/cli/install/andtest/cli/install/migration/, andtest/cli/update_interactive_*. That run was on an earlier base of this branch (f4d755a9cf) and included the scratch-heap change that has since moved to #44635. These did not pass, for reasons that main shares:bun-install.test.ts(13 tests) andmigration/complex-workspace.test.tsneed bitbucket.org, gitlab.com or another external host, which this environment blocks.bun-security-scanner-matrix-with-node-modules.test.tsreached the time limit of the runner while it still passed tests. Thewithout-node-modulesfile was not run.bun-lock.test.ts"peer no published version satisfies (hoisted linker) > declared by a registry package" and three manifest cache tests inbun-install-registry.test.tsfail in some runs. On an ASAN build of main the first failed in 2 of 6 runs and the second group in 1 of 5 runs. The second install finds no cached manifest on disk.Considered, in more detail.
PackageManager::ast_arenais the existing process-lifetime arena for package.json nodes.PackageManager::initfills the cache before the manager and its arena exist, and 24 call sites ofget_with_pathwould take one more argument. It frees nothing in a release build either.MimallocArenaadds a branch to every arena allocation in the parser and the bundler..rootand turns a cache hit into a parse. It is a larger change that can follow json, pnpm: build parsed trees in the arena of their owner and delete Expr::deep_clone #44222.Found on the way, not changed here.
StringBuilder::allocatezero-fills one path buffer of lockfile string space for each workspace, 4 KB on Linux and 98 KB on Windows. 1.3.14 reserved that space and did not write it. A two-key workspace still costs 3.2 KB more than on 1.3.14, and this is 4 KB of reservation by arithmetic. It is also most of the 122 MiB that Windows CI measured for 1,000 workspaces, and the 65,000-workspace install above would zero-fill 5.95 GiB on Windows.print_jsonare created and destroyed at once. An earlier form of this PR removed the first two. They cost CPU only: 9.8 ms at 3,000 two-key workspaces (95% CI 4.7 to 15.6 ms), which is not separable from the noise with the 975-byte manifest.parse_classic, thendeep_clone) and the first set of list buffers stays resident. 1.3.14 did the same. json, pnpm: build parsed trees in the arena of their owner and delete Expr::deep_clone #44222 removes the second build.StringArrayHashMap::get_or_put_valueandArrayHashMap::get_or_put_valuekeep theirV: Defaultbound. No install path calls them.Self-review. Not done: a measurement on Windows or macOS. Every figure here is linux-x64, except the 122 MiB from Windows CI. The commit charge on Windows, where mimalloc commits each fresh page in full, was not measured.
no test proof · iteration 1 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/cli/install/bun-workspaces.test.ts