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What does this PR do?

Fixes a --splitting bundle that throws at load from every entry point, where the same build on 1.4.2 loads. A regression from #42695, which no release has.

// index.js
import("./m5.js").then(m => console.log("ok", m.w5));
// worker.js
import "./flag.js"; import "./m6.js"; console.log("worker");
// flag.js
globalThis.IS_WORKER = true;
// m2.js
export { v5 as x } from "./m5.js"; export function v2() { return 2 }
// m5.js
import { v2 } from "./m2.js"; import { v6 } from "./m6.js";
export function v5() { return v2 }
export const w5 = globalThis.IS_WORKER ? null : v6.toUpperCase();
// m6.js
import { v2 } from "./m2.js"; export const w6 = typeof v2; export let v6 = "six";

bun build --splitting --outdir=out index.js worker.js

	out/index.js	out/worker.js
unbundled, 1.4.2	ok SIX	worker
main	TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'v6.toUpperCase')	the same
this PR	ok SIX	worker

The cause

m2.js, m5.js and m6.js import each other and share a chunk. A chunk prints its files in one order, that of its owner: the entry point that loads first among the chunk's entry points. Here that is worker.js. It enters the cycle at m6.js, so in its order m5.js comes first, and m5.js reads v6 when it runs.

The change

When the owner's order puts a statement that evaluates code at load ahead of a binding that it reads, the chunk follows the next entry point by rank whose order does not. Here that is the import("./m5.js"), with m2.js, m6.js, m5.js. With no such entry point, the chunk stays as it is on main.

• A read counts when the statement names the binding itself, or through the functions that it names (part.dependencies). const f = () => x is a function to search through, not a read of x (Expr::can_be_moved).
• Only a chunk that two or more entry points share, and in which the walk comes back to a file that it has not left, is looked at. Every other build takes the same path as before.
• The walk that passes the check lays the chunk out, so the order that prints is the one that was checked. Every other chunk of the build keeps the layout that it has on main.
• All of it is in findAllImportedPartsInJSOrder.rs. run_walks and create_walks are moves, so that more walks can run.

Not fixed

• A cycle that no one order serves stays as on main: a.js reads b.js under one entry point, and b.js reads a.js under another.
• The read is judged by syntax, per statement. A closure inside an object or a call ({ get: () => store }) counts as a read of what it names, and so does a read that a condition skips at run time.
• The entry point that gives the chunk up no longer gets its own order of side effects in that chunk. The one that takes it does. So a file that needs what another file of the cycle sets on a shared object, not through a binding, can run too early for the first entry point. That takes an order of its own that breaks a read by the rule above.
• In the example, flag.js still runs after the shared chunk, so w5 is "SIX" under worker.js, where the source has null. 1.4.2 does the same (bundler(splitting): keep import order when an entry point's chunk takes no fold #44028, bundler(splitting): run an entry's earlier imports before shared code #44495).

#44823 handles these with __esm wrappers, and changes much more.

How did you verify your code works?

10 new tests. 9 fail on a build of main: the example, the entry points in the other order, --target=browser, minified, [hash] in the entry names, without flag.js, a read through a function, a function that is only stored, and --compile with a Worker. The other one passes there: an owner whose order breaks no read keeps its chunk, which the first commit of this branch got wrong.

bun bd test on bundler_splitting, esbuild/splitting, bundler_html and css/*: 442 pass, 0 fail. On the first commit, those with bundler_edgecase, bundler_cjs2esm and bundler_barrel: 805 pass, 0 fail. No existing test or snapshot changes.

Builds that must not change. Two entry points that share hono, svelte or axios (49, 105 and 87 modules): every output file is identical to main. 900 random graphs without --splitting: all identical.

Random module graphs with many cycles, each built by main and by this branch and compared with the unbundled program. Every module logs when it runs and what it reads at load. The script is not in the repo.

	ES modules	wider syntax	up to 73 files	"sideEffects": false package	HTML pages	package with top-level await
graphs	1,000	600	150	800	400	500
graphs whose output differs	54	66	43	39	33	16
values that the source reads and the bundle does not, main	106	441	630	102	191	75
the same, this branch	75	352	503	49	146	48
entry point runs that lose more values than on main	0	0	0	0	0	0
pairs of effects in the wrong order, main	520	2,859	10,025	654	2,232	354
the same, this branch	554	2,930	10,180	648	2,342	348

The values that are still lost are not traced one by one. These graphs are dense with cycles, and the first two limits under "Not fixed" both leave the owner as it is. The order of effects moves a little either way, for the third.

What these graphs do not cover: none has a statement like const f = () => x, so only the tests reach that rule. Every module logs, so --min-chunk-size folds next to nothing: 1,550 graphs with it give the same counts.

Not run: Windows and Linux locally, a timing comparison.

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Walkthrough

The linker checks cyclic shared chunks for load-time binding reads that occur before their bindings. When an owner’s order is unsafe, it can use a safe walk from another entry point to lay out the chunk. New tests cover cyclic module graphs and entry-point configurations.

Changes

Shared chunk ownership

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Plan and track entry-point walks src/bundler/linker_context/findAllImportedPartsInJSOrder.rs	WalkPlan stores entry-point ranks and assigns chunks to entry points. EntryWalk tracks files left during a walk and records when an owned chunk encounters a cycle.
Check load-time reads and select a safe owner src/bundler/linker_context/findAllImportedPartsInJSOrder.rs, src/bundler/linker_context/README.md, test/bundler/bundler_splitting.test.ts, test/bundler/bundler_compile_splitting.test.ts	LoadTimeReads detects binding reads that occur before their bindings in a candidate order. For an unsafe cyclic shared chunk, the linker tries other owners by rank and can use a safe walk’s chunk runs. Tests cover cycles, alternate entry orders, and load-time reads through functions. The README describes the ownership rule.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#40547: Changes shared-chunk evaluation order across entry points, which this change uses when selecting a safe chunk owner.
• oven-sh/bun#42695: Introduces EvaluationWalk ordering that this change extends with load-time read checks.

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Review comments at @src/bundler/linker_context/findAllImportedPartsInJSOrder.rs:
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Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

• 🟡 src/bundler/linker_context/findAllImportedPartsInJSOrder.rs — A shared cyclic chunk can be handed to an entry point whose real output order still throws at load, because the order that was checked is not the order that gets printed. The trial at findAllImportedPartsInJSOrder.rs:378 owns only the one chunk, so every other chunk the candidate owns gets slot None at :863 and runs = loads(file, loader) at :868 instead of true, and the folding loop at :776 walks only that chunk's folded files, in a different slot order than the final walk. Fix: run the trial with the candidate's full ownership (or re-run is_broken_by on the final walks after :40 and revert any owner whose final order is broken).

  Why this was flagged

  Trigger: a --splitting build with a cyclic shared chunk flagged at :884 and found broken at :357, where the candidate entry point also owns other chunks. In the trial (:368-:378) trial_plan.owner_of_chunk marks only the one chunk, so for the candidate's other chunks slot_of (:815) returns None: runs at :868 falls back to loads(file, loader), which is false once a LoadNow edge (:935) changed loader to an entry point that does not load that file, so require() and CSS dependency edges at :601/:617 are skipped and later files are entered in a different order. Independently, the folding loop at :776-:791 in the trial starts from the checked chunk (slot 0), while in the final walk the candidate's lower-index chunks walk their folded files first. is_broken_by at :380 therefore judges an order that the second run_walks at :40 never produces; the final order can be broken although the trial passed (or a safe candidate rejected). On the base branch the owner never changes, so the old owner's side-effect order is at least stable.

  Verification: pre-existing — the bundle throws at load in this corner exactly as the base does. The trial plan at :360-366 starts with owner_of_chunk: vec![u32::MAX; chunks.len()] and :376 marks only K, so slot_of (:815-825) returns None for every other chunk C owns and runs (:868) falls back to loads. is_broken_by (:379) judges a part order that is not the one the rerun at :41-42 prints.

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I reviewed the second push and found no bugs; the rework to find_safe_walks and the new LoadEffect::Assigns class address the stored-closure, whole-layout-rerun and serial-trial points from my earlier pass. Because this is ~400 lines of new graph analysis and parallel trial walks in the splitting linker, a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• find_safe_walks rounds: a trial walk only overwrites runs_of_chunk for chunks that passed is_broken_by, entered is pruned to those chunks, and chunk_of_file is never u32::MAX for an entered file so the is_safe index is in bounds; owner_of_chunk is not read after the destructive fill.
• LoadEffect::of against Expr::can_be_moved: identifiers, non-macro object/array literals, extends classes and non-literal static fields all stay Evaluates, so const y = x and { f: () => x } still count as reads, matching the README bullet.
• has_cycle: seen is set on pop, not push, so a diamond (A→B, A→C, B→C) does not trip it, only a true back-edge; run.end.min(parts_len) guards the u32::MAX sentinel in for_each_part_backward.
• SharedChunkOwnerKeepsChunkWithStoredFunction fails on the first push (chunk would move to b.js and cfg.name reads undefined) and passes here, so the Assigns clause is load-bearing.

Extended reasoning...

The change rewrites the code-splitting chunk-ordering pass in src/bundler/linker_context/findAllImportedPartsInJSOrder.rs (about 385 added lines), adding a per-part load-effect graph, a cycle flag on the walk, and parallel trial walks that hand a cyclic shared chunk to another entry point when the owner's order breaks a load-time read; it also adds eight bundler tests and a README bullet. It touches no security-sensitive surface. The second commit substantively changed the mechanism in response to the prior review, and no CODEOWNER covers the changed paths. Deferral rather than approval is driven by the size and subtlety of the new analysis (unsafe parent-ref casts reused inside the trial loop, a heuristic read check with documented limits), which a bundler maintainer should weigh.