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What does this PR do?

Replaces the vendored zstd C library (v1.5.7 at f8745da6, plus Bun's two patches) with a port of it to safe Rust, in the bun_zstd crate (src/zstd). Nothing of the C library is built for Bun or linked into it any more. (One test program in one developer configuration still takes its decoder: see Build.)

The goal of the port is that nobody can tell: the same compressed bytes for the same input and parameters, the same decompressed bytes, the same error codes, and the same input/output positions after every streaming call.

The crate

• #[forbid(unsafe_code)], and indexing_slicing, unwrap_used, expect_used, panic and unreachable are denied: a frame from the network cannot make it panic. Allocations whose size depends on the input or on parameters are fallible and report memory_allocation. The few small ones of fixed size (a new context, a worker's state) abort on failure, like the rest of Bun.
• Its only dependencies are strum, thiserror and bun_pod.
• Decoder: frames, skippable frames, checksums, raw and trained dictionaries, one-shot and streaming.
• Compressor: all nine strategies (fast, dfast, greedy/lazy/lazy2 with hash chains and with the row match finder, btlazy2, btopt, btultra, btultra2), dictionaries both attached and copied, long distance matching, the block splitters, targetCBlockSize, magicless frames, one-shot and streaming, and nbWorkers / jobSize / overlapLog.
• Workers share no memory. They take jobs from one queue; a job owns its input, sends its output through a channel, and hands the state that has to see the input in order (long distance matching, checksum) over to the next job. The sections are cut where the C code cuts them, so the frame is the same.
• Where the C code compares pointers into different buffers (the window, its extDict, a dictionary), the port gives each buffer a range of a virtual address space and does the same arithmetic on those addresses.

Not ported, because nothing in Bun can reach it: ZDICT_* (training), legacy formats, static and stable-buffer contexts, refPrefix on the compressing side, ZSTD_compress2, ZSTD_CCtx_reset, changing parameters in the middle of a frame, the sequence producer API, indexing a prefix for long distance matching, rsyncable mode, and the experimental parameters (ids 500 and 1000+).

Callers: Bun.zstdCompress* / Bun.zstdDecompress*, node:zlib (NativeZstd.rs), CompressionStream / DecompressionStream, fetch and Bun.serve bodies, compressed embedded assets, standalone executables, and the ICU data decompressor, which now calls a small Rust shim (src/runtime/icu_decompress.rs). ProcessBindingConstants.cpp no longer has zstd.h to take the ZSTD_* constants from, so it asks NativeZstd.rs, which takes them from the crate.

Build: bun_sema_standalone had a build script that compiled the C decoder from vendor/zstd into its test binaries. It is gone, with the cc build dependency and the clone-zstd target of the cargo test step (scripts/rust-test.ts), which now tests bun_zstd too. What stays: since #47129 the jsc shell of a WebKit built from source (--webkit=local) against the ICU of a prebuilt one (BUN_ICU_ROOT, Linux) reads that ICU's compressed data through a hook in WebKit's jsc.cpp, which calls the C library. scripts/build/deps/zstd.ts is kept for that program alone: the decoder only, enabled only in that configuration, and not among Bun's dependencies, so nothing of it reaches Bun's compiles or link. It is in a list of its own, programDeps, which the graph, the check of the names given to --local-deps and clean deep read beside allDeps, and it is no longer compiled with SafeStack, whose second stack only Bun has. No CI lane has that configuration. To drop it too, jsc.cpp would have to take its decoder from somewhere else, which is a change in WebKit. The ZstdCompressor feature of --trim listed the C entry points; it now names the crate's compressor by path (cxx-function bun_zstd ^<?bun_zstd::compress), since the macros that mark Rust entry points need unsafe.

What changes for users

• process.versions.zstd is "1.5.7" instead of a commit hash. There is no commit to name.
• node:zlib only lets the documented parameters through, but _handle.init() called by hand with a longer array could set experimental ones. Those are now refused (ERR_ZSTD_PARAM_SET_FAILED).
• Bug fix: a zlib.createZstdCompress() stream with ZSTD_c_nbWorkers >= 1 lost its data as soon as the input was enough for one job (Bun 1.4.4 ends such a stream with 0 bytes, without an error). With workers, ZSTD_compressStream2(ZSTD_e_continue) returns after any progress, and zlib.ts takes room left in the output to mean that the input was consumed. NativeZstd::do_work now calls it until one of the two is used up. It is in this PR because it is what makes the multithreaded code reachable from a stream at all.
• Bug fix: zlib.createZstdDecompress({ dictionary }) and zlib.zstdDecompressSync(..., { dictionary }) with a dictionary that cannot be loaded gave empty output without an error. They now throw ERR_ZLIB_INITIALIZATION_FAILED, as Node does.
• Bug fix: new DecompressionStream("zstd") failed after 16 empty chunks in the middle of a frame.
• Closing a stream with workers that are busy no longer waits for them (321 ms to 13 ms for a level 19 stream with 2 workers): they are told to stop and leave on their own, within a block or 4096 positions of the prefix of their job. 30 streams at level 19 with 4 workers that are dropped in the middle of a frame leave at most 8 threads and 380 MB behind, for 0.04 s.
• A new context is smaller (compress about 15 KB, decompress about 36 KB instead of 96 KB), since buffers that the C struct embeds are allocated when a frame needs them. zlib-estimated-size-gc.test.ts had the old size in it.
• Bun is larger. What bun build --compile --aot of a hello world maps on Linux x64 (test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts, Buildkite #134898 against main in #134846): 68,293,772 bytes instead of 68,121,612 (+172 KB), and 25,658,508 instead of 25,609,228 with --trim (+49 KB). Both are within the limits of the test, which are as they were. The code of the crate is 663 KB in a release build; the loops that find matches are compiled once for each size of table that a level comes with, which is what makes them as fast as they are (1 to 4% at levels 1 and 2, 3 to 8% at levels 3 and 4). c7888487 and 9b6d3303 took out the 156 KB of instances that bought nothing.
• Speed, see below.

Speed

Latest measurement, 9b6d3303 against main. The survey that the next paragraph describes (266 rows) was run again with a better baseline: main at e64b59d9, which has the C library, built on the same machine with the same profile as this branch, so that nothing differs but zstd (Bun 1.4.4, the baseline of all the older numbers below, also has another WebKit and another everything else; main built here takes 1.008 of its time both ways). Two passes of each binary in turn, the better time of each row counts. Time of this branch, as a share of that of main, geometric mean: 0.90 to compress and 0.95 to decompress. 54 rows to compress and 73 to decompress are more than 3% slower, 144 and 139 more than 3% faster. By size, 1 KB to 8 MB: 0.92, 0.94, 0.93, 0.87, 0.84 to compress and 0.96, 0.98, 0.92, 0.94, 0.95 to decompress. By level, 1, 3, 9, 19: 0.91, 0.91, 0.88, 0.90 and 0.96, 0.96, 0.95, 0.94. From one pass to the other the mean moved by 0.002 to compress and by 0.03 to decompress. What is said below about the rows that are slower still holds.

	compress	worst	decompress	worst
zeros	0.82	1.77	0.79	1.10
noise	0.67	1.05	0.96	1.11
base64 of noise	0.97	1.16	0.80	0.99
hex of noise	0.94	1.15	0.92	1.17
4 letters	0.99	1.11	0.86	0.94
skewed bytes (7.1 bits each)	0.97	1.14	1.08	1.15
noise with a period of 1 KB	0.76	1.04	1.02	1.11
noise with a period of 100 KB	0.77	1.23	1.06	1.21
mostly zeros	0.97	1.15	1.00	1.22
rising 32-bit integers	0.94	1.14	1.06	1.23
doubles	0.97	1.04	0.98	1.05
JSON	0.95	1.02	0.92	0.99
log lines	0.95	1.12	0.88	1.03
noise and letters in turn	0.97	1.08	0.88	1.05

Correction to four rows of this table. To decompress zeros, noise or noise with a period is little more than a copy, and in Bun such a call takes one of two times from one pass to the next, with either binary: the first 16 KB of the noise with a period of 100 KB take main 0.74 to 0.78 us in two passes of six and 1.10 to 1.22 us in the four others, and this branch 0.76 to 0.83 and 1.10 to 1.26. By kind, the slowest pass of a row takes 1.15 (zeros) to 1.7 (period of 1 KB) times the fastest, the same for both binaries. Two passes were too few for such rows, in either direction: the 1.23 (worst 1.57) that stood here for a period of 100 KB was mostly main having had the better pass, and the 0.91 for noise was partly this branch having had it. These four kinds were run six more times with each binary, in turn, and their rows above are now the best of all eight passes. With them the means of all 266 rows are 0.90 to compress and 0.94 to decompress, 54 and 75 rows are more than 3% slower, 142 and 141 more than 3% faster. The ten other kinds alone, whose rows are as they were, decompress in 0.935.

The tables further down are for two files, source text and an executable, and they do not hold for every kind of data. A wider survey (14 kinds of generated data, 1 KB to 8 MB, levels 1, 3, 9 and 19, Bun.zstdCompressSync and Bun.zstdDecompressSync against Bun 1.4.4, best of 24 rounds, 266 rows) showed that at efbf33dd the port was slower than C on average: the geometric mean of all rows was 1.065 to compress and 1.077 to decompress, the worst rows 6.1 and 2.4. As of d106dc84 it is 0.93 and 0.96, the worst rows 1.9 and 1.6, and 85 rows to compress and 87 to decompress are still more than 3% slower. By level, to compress: 0.97, 0.94, 0.90 and 0.90; to decompress: 0.97, 0.96, 0.96 and 0.95. (At 40b288f6 the means were 1.005 and 0.97. The runner was replaced since, so the numbers for d106dc84 are from another machine, an AMD EPYC of the Zen 4 kind, where both binaries were measured again, twice each, and the better time of each row counts. From one pass to the next the means moved by 0.003, and by 0.02 for the port to decompress. They also move with the build: where the linker puts the loops has been worth 4 to 8% for single kinds of data.) Rows that run at the speed of memory depend on what the process has allocated before: measured alone in a new process, five of the worst rows to decompress (1.30 to 1.56 in the survey) come to 1.00, 1.07, 1.08, 1.14 and 1.24, and the two worst to compress after the 1 KB of zeros (1.39 and 1.44) to 1.08 and 1.11. So the port is not yet faster than C everywhere, and this is what is being worked on. Time relative to C by kind of data (geometric mean over sizes and levels, and the worst row):

	compress efbf33dd	compress d106dc84	worst	decompress efbf33dd	decompress d106dc84	worst
zeros	1.11	0.86	1.93	1.27	0.85	1.30
noise	1.58	0.86	1.25	1.56	0.95	1.11
base64 of noise	1.08	0.97	1.15	0.89	0.79	0.96
hex of noise	0.98	0.94	1.15	0.95	0.90	1.11
4 letters	1.00	1.00	1.14	0.87	0.86	0.94
skewed bytes (7.1 bits each)	1.12	0.99	1.14	1.27	1.08	1.15
noise with a period of 1 KB	1.04	0.78	1.10	1.27	1.08	1.46
noise with a period of 100 KB	1.29	0.83	1.44	1.33	1.23	1.56
mostly zeros	0.97	0.98	1.16	1.05	1.01	1.24
rising 32-bit integers	0.96	0.95	1.18	1.15	1.06	1.25
doubles	0.97	0.97	1.06	0.98	0.98	1.06
JSON	0.97	0.97	1.10	0.92	0.92	0.99
log lines	0.97	0.97	1.06	0.89	0.88	1.06
noise and letters in turn	1.00	0.98	1.10	0.94	0.90	1.21

What is known about the rows that are slower: level 19 on 1 KB of zeros (1.9: tables that are cleared) and on 1 to 16 KB of integers or of mostly zeros (1.15 to 1.2); 8 MB of hex digits at level 9 (1.15, also when measured alone); literals with long Huffman codes, to encode (skewed bytes, base64 and 4 letters at levels 1 to 9: 1.07 to 1.14) and to decode (1.09 to 1.15: C has assembly and BMI2 for that); inputs of 1 KB at level 1 (1.1 to 1.25, of 1.5 us); integers to decode at levels 1 to 9 (1.1 to 1.25); mostly zeros of 1 MB and more to decode (1.1). In the harness, where both sides get the same buffers, 1 MB of noise, of zeros and of either period decode in 1.00, 0.78, 0.85 and 1.00 of the time of C.

What d106dc84 and the six commits before it changed. To compress: long matches are counted 64 bytes at a time, and at levels 13 and up the positions of a stretch without any match are gone over in one loop (128 KB of noise at level 19 takes 0.85 of the time of C, from 1.25; 16 KB 0.5, from 1.2). To decompress: what is appended to a large new buffer is copied 2 KB at a time, because glibc's rep movsb is slow to write to pages for the first time (8 MB at level 9, us in Bun 1.4.4, before and now: noise 608, 720, 510; a period of 100 KB 506, 668, 534; of 1 KB 457, 710, 537); and short matches from less than 16 bytes back, which the loop for common sequences left to the careful path, have an instance of that loop of their own where a few of them follow each other (integers compressed at level 19: 1.01, from 1.21). That last one is not free: the test for such a run costs other data 0.5% (JSON, text) to 2.5% (mostly zeros at level 19) of the time to decode, in the harness. e48dc2dc, which the table does not include, is about dictionaries: the loop for common sequences lost sight of the dictionary wherever the output did not start at the start of its buffer, so in every frame but the first of a call (20 frames of pieces of 8 to 16 bytes of a dictionary, in the harness: 1.24 ms, from 2.59; C 1.64). 39b1e9fa, not in the table either: of more than 64 KB of literals the C library keeps some in the output buffer where that has no room for all (in a stream, and in the last blocks of a frame decoded to a buffer of its size), and refuses a sequence whose output catches up with them; for that one error such blocks were decoded one sequence at a time. Now the loop for common sequences stops short of where those literals would be. In the harness, of the time before: 128 KB of half text, half noise at level 1 0.79 (0.91 of C, from 1.15); streams of noise with short matches 0.86 to 0.93, but 1.016 where the matches are from 16 to 55 bytes back; hex digits as a stream 0.88 to 0.92; an executable as a stream 1.005 to 1.014, text 1.006, integers 1.006.

What 0cfb03b5 and the two commits before it changed: a block asks for room in the output when its sequences are known and not before, a block that is stored is appended, and a block without a sequence is neither copied to the store of literals nor, if it is seen to stay as it is, written as raw literals first. Noise of 128 KB and more now compresses in 0.6 to 0.96 of the time of C at levels 1 to 9 but for one row (1.08). Blocks that may be split (levels 16 and up) or have a target size are left as they were, on purpose: they spend their time elsewhere.

What a87cc412 and the two commits before it changed: literals whose codes are long are decoded one to a lookup, from a table chosen by how many symbols a lookup would yield; at levels 16 and up a position without a match takes less, and the tables of the parser are as long as a block, not always 4099 positions. Rows measured again with the binaries in turn showed no row slower than before.

What 5a031e0a fixed: glibc 2.39 copies more than 2 KB at 3.5 GB/s instead of 57 to 97 on Zen 4 if the destination is 1 to 15 bytes further into its page than the source (BZ 30994), which the port always hit with literals that are stored, since mimalloc aligns its buffers to pages (the C library hits it too, with stored blocks of an input that is aligned to a page: 49 us for 128 KB of noise, the port 87 before and 16 now); the output of one call was zeroed before it was written; and the counts of a table were read with 13 cycles of latency each.

The aim is to be faster than the C library everywhere. As of efbf33dd, in Bun itself, for these two files, for inputs of 3 MB and more it compresses faster at every level measured, by 3 to 22%, and decompresses faster, by 1 to 11%, except what level 1 made of 15 and 20 MB, where the two are even (1.00). For smaller inputs it depends on how one measures. With a different input for every call, which is what a program does, it is faster in 31 of the 32 cells measured (700 bytes to 100 KB, levels 1 to 9, both directions), by 2 to 15%, and 1% slower in one (100 KB of level 1 to decompress). With the same call repeated thousands of times, so that no branch is ever mispredicted, it is faster from level 6 on and for decompressing 100 KB, and 1 to 4% slower for 4 KB and 100 KB at levels 1 and 3 to compress and for 4 KB to decompress. The C library has hand-written assembly for Huffman decoding on x64 and picks BMI2 kernels at run time; the port has neither.

The numbers that were here before 0a40fdcf were too good. They came from a harness in which rustc generated the crate's code. A release build of Bun leaves that to ThinLTO in the link, and the same source comes out differently there. One difference was large: the comparison of the 64 tags of a row (levels 11 and 12) was no longer a comparison of vectors (281 instructions instead of 31), so that in the real binary level 12 took 1.10 (text) and 1.20 (executable) times as long as C, where the harness said 0.81 and 0.93. That is fixed, no other function has lost its vector code, and the harness now builds the crate as a release build does (bitcode from rustc, ThinLTO at level 2 in lld, the standard library from source). The first tables below are of Bun itself.

Bun.zstdCompressSync and Bun.zstdDecompressSync in Bun 1.4.4 (C) and in a release build of this branch, so with the allocation of the output. One thread, x64 (an AMD EPYC), built for nehalem as Bun is, MB/s; the last column of each group is the time of the port relative to C (below 1 is faster). Bun 1.4.4 is the official build and the other is a local one (same flags for the crate; the C++ around it is not under LTO). At 901a9d9a the same local build of main as of the merge base, with the C library, was within 3% of Bun 1.4.4 in every row of the table of smaller inputs, mostly within 1%, so the comparison is fair. These are the best of 4 to 48 calls (the more the faster the level) and of 32 for decompression. The libraries alone, further down, are as of e5c4c3cf. That many are needed: with buffers of 15 to 20 MB a call takes up to half as long again, in either binary, when the allocator has to get pages from the kernel, and with fewer calls it is luck which of the two is seen at its best. At levels 1 and 3 the medians give the same ratios to within 0.02.

15 MB of TypeScript and JavaScript sources:

level	compress C	compress Rust		decompress C	decompress Rust
1	411	446	0.92	1368	1374	1.00
3	280	302	0.93	1217	1257	0.97
5	145	149	0.97	1220	1286	0.95
7	91.2	101	0.90	1347	1406	0.96
9	61.8	68.1	0.91	1392	1451	0.96
12	29.6	37.1	0.80	1430	1492	0.96
15	6.1	7.1	0.86	1455	1528	0.95
19	2.7	3.2	0.84	1389	1475	0.94

20 MB of an executable:

level	compress C	compress Rust		decompress C	decompress Rust
1	515	536	0.96	1297	1300	1.00
3	270	290	0.93	1108	1139	0.97
5	143	148	0.96	943	985	0.96
7	94.2	98.6	0.96	952	1012	0.94
9	65.1	66.8	0.97	944	1023	0.92
12	31.1	33.7	0.92	935	1031	0.91
15	7.6	9.6	0.79	942	1036	0.91
19	2.9	3.7	0.78	1010	1021	0.99

Smaller inputs (text), time relative to Bun 1.4.4. A different input for every call, 150 to 3,800 of them in turn, taken from all over the 15 MB:

input	compress 1	3	6	9	decompress
700 bytes	0.92	0.93	0.85	0.93	0.96 to 0.97
4 KB	0.97	0.96	0.87	0.96	0.97 to 0.98
20 KB	0.93	0.96	0.93	0.88	0.95 to 0.98
100 KB	0.93	0.96	0.93	0.87	0.94 to 1.01

The same call again and again:

input	compress 1	3	6	9	decompress
4 KB	1.02	1.02	0.91	0.94	1.01 to 1.04
100 KB	1.01	1.03	0.92	0.86	0.85 to 0.96
3 MB	0.91	0.92	0.91	0.89	0.89 to 0.96

Safe code can only write to memory that has a value, and the room that a frame can take is as large as its input. Up to e5c4c3cf all of it was made zeros first, which at level 1 on the executable cost as much in the kernel as the port was ahead in user mode (20 against 15 million cycles per call, of some 160 million). Now the room is the capacity of a Vec whose length grows, with zeros, ahead of each block (15 million).

One context per thread for Bun.zstdCompressSync, kept from call to call, would save 0 to 7% for inputs of up to 100 KB (7% at 700 bytes, 4% at 4 KB, 1% at 100 KB, at levels 1 and 3) (measured in the harness, with the same bytes out). That is not worth memory that a thread never gives back, so each call makes its own, as with the C library.

The libraries alone, in the harness, into buffers that are there already. Correction: the C library here is built from the same pin, but with -O2, where Bun's release build has -O3, which I had wrong. With Bun's flags it compresses JSON 5 to 6% faster at levels 1, 3 and 19 and data without matches 7 to 13% faster at level 19, is as fast on literals alone, and decompresses 4% slower, so the compression ratios in these tables flatter the port by as much. The tables and the survey above, which are against Bun 1.4.4 itself, are not affected. The harness now has both builds.

15 MB of TypeScript and JavaScript sources:

level	compress C	compress Rust		decompress C	decompress Rust
1	404	452	0.89	1335	1475	0.91
3	282	308	0.91	1187	1396	0.85
5	145	154	0.94	1194	1418	0.84
7	90.4	103	0.88	1326	1584	0.84
9	61.0	69.7	0.88	1364	1634	0.83
12	28.4	37.0	0.77	1423	1713	0.83
15	6.1	7.2	0.85	1460	1747	0.84
19	2.6	3.2	0.81	1391	1675	0.83

20 MB of an executable:

level	compress C	compress Rust		decompress C	decompress Rust
1	511	542	0.94	1591	1641	0.97
3	287	300	0.96	1333	1474	0.90
5	139	153	0.91	1147	1304	0.88
7	90.8	99.4	0.91	1196	1385	0.86
9	63.3	69.1	0.92	1186	1389	0.85
12	29.6	33.9	0.87	1204	1423	0.85
15	7.6	9.6	0.80	1218	1434	0.85
19	2.8	3.7	0.75	1308	1416	0.92

Differences of less than 2% are not to be trusted either way: moving the hot functions of the decoder by 32 bytes changes as much. The list that follows was measured before the harness was built like a release build, and has not been measured again.

Where C is still ahead: inputs of up to 16 KB at level 11, where the optimal parser starts (0 to 14%, half of it from clearing its tables), and of 32 to 128 KB at levels 11 and 13 (up to 7%); random data at levels 13 and 15 (about 30%) and 19 to 22 (5%); very repetitive data at levels 13 to 16 (6 to 8%); a dictionary that is copied, on binary data at level 11 (4%); small JSON at level 9 (1 to 3%); the match finder of levels 3 and 4 on log files and JSON (4 to 7%, even for the whole compression); data that is mostly literals, where the Huffman encoder is 15% behind (5 to 7% overall); some synthetic data at levels 9 to 19 (8 to 16%); in the decoder, frames of 30 bytes with a dictionary (4 to 6%), very repetitive data with matches of a few hundred bytes (3 to 21%), random far matches (10 to 15%), a stream of frames with a window of 128 MB on one decoder (10 to 16%), and more than 16 MB of mostly zeros decompressed in one call (up to 30%, since the output is cleared before it is written; even on real data). These numbers hold for the pinned toolchain: with an older LLVM (21), which does not vectorize the comparison of 16 bytes in the binary trees, levels 13 to 19 take up to 3x the time of C on data with very long matches (with the pinned one, built like a release build: 0.71 to 0.98 on the same files).

Where the port no longer follows the C code line by line, to be faster with the same result:

• Decoder: the output of one call is a Vec that grows: blocks that are stored or one byte, and literals and matches of 256 bytes or more that do not fit in what is there, are appended and never zeroed; sequences are decoded 128 at a time into an array and then executed; a small output is decoded where there is room to copy in chunks up to its end, and then copied out; a Huffman lookup yields up to three literals (one, in a simpler loop, where codes of up to 11 bits are so long that few lookups would yield more), and a stream that does not end exactly where it should is decoded again by a second decoder that does what C does, step by step, so that damaged input gives the same bytes and errors; matches in a dictionary or in the wrapped part of the window are handled by the common path.
• Greedy, lazy and lazy2 (levels 5 to 12): one parser loop over 32-bit positions; candidates that cannot beat the best match so far are dropped by looking at the bytes where they would have to be longer; hash chains put off the insertion of a position until the next search; rows of tags are compared 16 at a time by code that the compiler vectorizes. For rows of 64 entries (levels 11 and 12) on inputs of known size, a second byte of tag per entry (4 to 8 MB more memory) avoids most false candidates.
• Fast and dfast (levels 1 to 4): a dictionary is indexed without reading the tables, which are empty (a dictionary loaded for each frame took 1.3 to 1.7x the time of C, now 0.5 to 1.06x); the input is read once per step, what is needed once per match is kept out of the search, a candidate's bytes are compared before its index is checked, and the table sizes of the default levels are known at compile time.
• Binary trees and the optimal parser (levels 13 to 22, and from level 9 on small inputs): what the next positions will need is prefetched, 16 bytes are compared at a time in a way that also tells which side of the tree to go down, prices are kept in arrays of their own and updated when a frequency changes, the three repeat offsets are compared at once, a position whose hash has no candidate in the window skips the walk, and the tables of the parser have a position for each byte of a block instead of always 4099. btlazy2 compares a candidate's first 16 bytes without waiting for what the way down so far says they share, does not go down a tree that has nothing, and has a version without prefetching for segments of up to 64 KB.
• Entropy stage: a first pass makes one record per sequence and the three histograms, a second writes each sequence at once; Huffman tables are built from the symbols that occur; the tables of the predefined distributions are constants.
• Output that goes to the spare capacity of a Vec: a block asks for room, which has to be zeroed, once its literals and sequences are known, which bound what they take; a block that is stored is appended. A block without a sequence reads its literals where they are.
• Contexts: nothing is allocated or cleared before it is needed, and tables that get smaller and larger again from frame to frame are not cleared as long as indices go on.
• Copies of more than 2 KB are made 2 KB at a time where glibc would be slow (see Speed), on x86_64 with glibc only.
• Everywhere: state in local variables instead of behind references (a write to the output makes the compiler reload everything that is behind one), slices that shrink and 32-bit positions instead of usize positions (a bounds check that the compiler can remove, or that is one comparison), tables indexed through a mask, match lengths counted 16 bytes at a time.
• A thread keeps the tables (about 30 KB) of the last decoder that was dropped on it for the next one, since clearing new ones takes longer than decoding a small frame. Nothing reads a table that the frame has not set.

Buffers whose size a frame header or a parameter dictates are no longer cleared when they are allocated. They grow as they are written: with mimalloc, clearing a recycled window-sized buffer for a stream of a few bytes was by far the largest cost of such a stream.

bun_zstd is built with opt-level = 3 in debug builds too, as the C library was; at opt-level = 0 tests time out.

bun_pod gets try_zeroed_vec, a fallible calloc for a Vec of Zeroable elements, which is how the crate allocates its tables without unsafe of its own.

src/sema/check/regexp_scanner.rs carries the change of #47181 (a test that takes Miri hours is ignored there), without which cargo miri test does not finish on any branch. It drops out once main has it.
scripts/verify-baseline.ts carries the change of #45530 (a per-test timeout for the emulated run), because a JPEG test that has nothing to do with zstd times out under Intel SDE on this branch as on others. It drops out once main has it.

How did you verify your code works?

Against the C library. A harness (not in this PR, it needs the C sources) links the C library, built from the same pin with the same patches and flags, and the crate into one program and compares them on random inputs: every return value, every position, every output byte.

• Decoder: valid frames from every level and parameter, with and without dictionaries, then the same frames damaged (bit flips, truncation, insertion, copying); one-shot with exact, short and long outputs; streaming with random input and output sizes down to one byte.
• Compressor: random parameters (valid, out of range, unknown), levels, pledged sizes right and wrong, raw and trained and damaged dictionaries, several frames on one context, random cuts of the input and output, flushes, frames given up half way.
• Workers: only the concatenated output is compared, since when output becomes available depends on timing in the C library too.
• Each module was first compared on its own against the C function it ports (match finders on the sequences they emit, entropy coders on their bytes and tables), with mutation testing of the harness for the fast and dfast finders (45 of 45 seeded bugs caught).
• Frames over 3.5 GB, and 9 GB of frames on one context, for the index overflow correction.

No difference is known other than those listed below. Each push is checked with tens of thousands of iterations of this harness (the push of the rewritten decoder: 48,000 decoder iterations, each of which decodes one set of frames about 20 ways, after 220,000 while it was written; 12,000 compressor iterations, 4,500 with dictionaries, 250 with workers).

Fuzzing, which goes on while this PR is open, in lockstep with the C library:

• The same harness with 15 more kinds of data and fresh seeds: about 950,000 compressor, 550,000 decoder, 1.4 million dictionary and 90,000 multithreaded iterations so far.
• libFuzzer targets for the decoder, the compressor, dictionary loading, the wrappers in lib.rs, frames built from sequences that the fuzzer chooses, and the entropy coders called directly: about 50 million executions.
• 4 million variants of frames from upstream's decodecorpus. The decoder's corpora were also run against a C build without assembly or BMI2, which gives the same as the one with.
• A stress test for workers (flush storms, contexts dropped or reset with jobs in flight), one context reused for hundreds of frames, 4.4 GB inputs for index overflow correction with every strategy, allocation failure under an address space limit, and about 140 scenarios that compare CPU time.
• What the ICU shim relies on for its from_raw_parts: frame_extent never asks for more bytes than the frame has.

It reached 95% of the lines of the crate, and what was left and reachable was then aimed at. It has found no difference in output, no panic and no hang. It has found performance bugs, all fixed here:

• With workers and long distance matching, every flush zeroed a buffer that was sized for a whole job (20x the time of C at level 22).
• The optimal parser took twice the time of C with targetLength at its maximum on repetitive input.
• A worker cleared its tables whenever a job was larger than those before.
• A job was bound to one worker when it was posted, so that it could wait for a busy one while others were idle.

And one bug that only shows when an allocation fails: the block splitter took that for an estimate that failed, which means no split, so the frame was valid and success was reported, but the bytes were not those of C. It is an error now.

It has also found two crashes in the C library (so in Bun 1.4.4, if anything there gets to them; I have not tried). When a frame with workers is given up while a job waits for a free worker, jobReady stays set, and the next frame on that context posts a job description that has been zeroed, which a worker dereferences; I have checked this one against the source. The other, which I have not checked myself: after a frame is given up, raising nbWorkers for the next one resizes the pool before the old jobs are waited for, and they use memory that has been freed. The port has no such state.

One more thing in 1.5.7 that the port does as well, found on the way: there are inputs, made on purpose, that a stream at level 22 cannot compress. One block of them is split into so many parts, all of which are stored, that they do not fit the stream's own output buffer (ZSTD_compressBound of a block), and ZSTD_compressStream2 fails with dstSize_tooSmall; ZSTD_compress with the bound for the whole input has the room. Both do the same here as in C. Only levels 16 and up split blocks in that way.

What is not the same as 1.5.7, on purpose. The rule: where 1.5.7 reports success for something that breaks the format or the API's contract, and what it gives is not defined, the port reports the error.

• For some trained dictionaries the C library reads table entries that it never initialized (symbols above the dictionary's maximum), so its own output depends on what malloc returns. The port gives what C gives when that memory is zero.
• An offset beyond the frame's window, which the format forbids and 1.5.7 does not check. A streaming decoder keeps little more than the window, so once its buffer has wrapped around, such an offset gets whatever is there by then, and the streaming output of the C library differs from its own one-shot output. The port reports corruption_detected from that point on. Decoding in one call, where all of the output is still there, is as in C.
• A compressed block that makes more than the largest block size. In 1.5.7 only the streaming decoder refuses it; decoded in one call, such a block can overwrite literals that it has yet to read. The port reports corruption_detected in both.
• With workers and a frame of more than one job, 1.5.7 does not notice input that is not of the pledged size, and makes a frame with the wrong size in its header, which cannot be decoded. The port reports srcSize_wrong, as both do without workers.
• With long distance matching and ldmHashRateLog above the window log, 1.5.7 makes a table of 8 GiB because a subtraction wraps around. The port does what upstream does since cef5a5611 (March 2026) and makes the smallest table, which can give other output than 1.5.7 for those parameters.
• After ZSTD_decompressStream has returned an error, zstd.h calls another call undefined behavior, and 1.5.7 goes on with sizes that no longer belong together. The port returns the same error again until the stream is reset. Only the two errors that tell of a lack of progress leave the stream as it was, in both.
• zstd.h says that what starts a new decompression job, ZSTD_decompressDCtx among them, resets the context. 1.5.7 does not reset the stream: one that was under way goes on afterwards with what the other job left. The port does what the header says.
• After ZSTD_compressStream2 has failed in the middle of a frame, which the header calls undefined as well, 1.5.7 goes on with the frame if it has no workers (later calls can succeed) and starts a new one if it has. The port returns the same error from then on and lets its workers go. Nothing in Bun uses a context again after an error, or mixes streams and whole frames on one.

One more thing can show, with frames that no encoder makes. A raw or RLE block larger than the frame's largest block size is accepted by 1.5.7 when a frame is decoded in one pass and refused when it is streamed, and a streaming decoder takes the one pass if the frame says its size, all of it is there and there is room for all of its output. The port does all of that. But the decoder of fetch response bodies no longer offers the decoder all the spare capacity of its buffer at once, so such a frame of more than 4 KB that used to get through, depending on that capacity, is now an error. The other way round, a frame without a checksum that ends with an empty last block before it has made as many bytes as its header says is refused in one pass and accepted when it is streamed, by 1.5.7 and by the port alike. Such a frame that says more than the room it is offered (4 KB to 256 KB), and that used to be refused if the spare capacity happened to be enough, now gets through. Two more answers of 1.5.7 depend on that room in the same way, and the port gives them call by call. The limit on the window (128 MB) is only checked when a frame is streamed, so a frame with a larger window that says a small size, which is legal but which no encoder I know of writes, used to get through if the spare capacity was enough for all of it, and is now refused if it says more than the room it is offered. And a frame that makes more than its header says is refused at the block that does not fit or only at its end, depending on the buffer that an earlier frame left in the decoder: if such a frame is also cut off, the error of fetch can now be that the body ended early instead of that it is corrupt.

The differential harness now compares with two builds of the C library: the pin, and the pin with these changes made to it.

zstd's own history. All 4,141 commits that touched the library or its tests, from 2015 to upstream's dev of October 2026, were gone through for bug fixes, each of which was checked against the Rust code as it is now (much of it no longer follows the C code line by line) and, where a reproducer can be made, run on both sides. The four CVEs: CVE-2019-11922 (one-pass compression to a buffer below the bound) is not there: the check that fixed it is, and compressing and decompressing to every capacity from 0 to the bound gives what C gives (1.5 million calls); CVE-2021-24031, CVE-2021-24032 and CVE-2022-4899 are in the command line tool, which is not ported. The last four differences above come from this, and so do the two smaller bug fixes for users. For index overflow correction, both sides were also built with the limit at 48 MB instead of 3.5 GB, so that it happens every few frames: about 200 runs over every strategy, dictionaries, long distance matching and workers gave the same bytes. Parts of the crate were rewritten for speed after the commits that concern them had been checked, so those findings were checked again against the code as it is now: of 386 findings, 335 concerned code that had changed; 330 were read again and 236 run again. That found three bugs that the rewrites had brought in, all fixed: after 3.4 GB through one context and a change of parameters, an attached dictionary in a window of 32 MB or more was let go of at another place than in C (valid output, other bytes); a context whose tables could not be allocated went on with stale indices in the tables it had (a frame that does not decode, after 3.4 GB through that context); and a stream with workers could hang after a thread had failed to start. The harness now also compares the index that both contexts have got to after every call, which shows the first of these within a few iterations instead of after 3.4 GB. The 28 findings about the binary trees and the optimal parser were checked last, on that code as it is now: none is a bug. For these, 31 copies of the crate were made with one fix taken out of each, to see whether the runs that count as evidence notice: seven went unnoticed, so six reproducers were written that do notice them. Four of those are now tests ("the optimal parser"); the other two need a context that changes its dictionary, which no API of Bun does, or the build with the low index limit. Three more cannot show: a condition that cannot be false, one without effect where it can be reached, and a guard that was not reached in 2.6 billion comparisons. Limits of this review: nothing above 4 GB in one call was run with the binary trees at the real index limit, and about 340 of the oldest commits were dismissed by their subject line alone.

In this repo.

• New in test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts, "the output is that of zstd 1.5.7": size and hash of the output at every level, with 14 sets of parameters, with a raw and with a trained dictionary at 8 levels and 2 sizes, and in a stream with flushes. The expected values were recorded with Bun 1.4.4, which has the C library at the same pin, so these tests pass there too; that is the point of them.

• "in a stream with workers" fails with Bun 1.4.4 and passes here.

• "in a stream with workers, where a flush does not cost as much as a whole job" and "where a larger job than those before does not clear the tables" are for the performance bugs above: they timed out before the fixes. Bun 1.4.4 passes them.

• "bugs of zstd 1.5.7": one test for each of the last four differences above. The size of the table of long distance matches does not show from JavaScript, so that has a unit test in the crate as well, which cargo miri test now runs.

• "bugs that zstd has had": 87 tests from the review of the history (frames that were once decoded wrongly or crashed, inputs that were once compressed wrongly, parameter bounds, dictionaries, workers). The expected values are those of the C library (Bun 1.4.4, and Node 24 where Bun 1.4.4 has a bug of its own), so 81 of them pass on Bun 1.4.4; they are there because the port does not follow the C code line by line.

• "few literals whose codes are long": three tests for the Huffman decoder's loop of one literal to a lookup. While that was being written it read one bit too many of a stream whose last byte is 1 and whose first seven codes have 8 bits, and gave a wrong byte without an error; the differential harness found that in 1 of some 20,000 frames, the first of these tests finds it in its third. Bun 1.4.4 passes them.

• "literals that take many bits": three kinds of bytes at six sizes, decoded both ways, with how the literals of each block are written pinned, so that blocks that go on with the code of the block before are known to be among them. A unit test in the crate drives the tables directly: codes of 8 to 12 bits, blocks of 200 to 16384 literals in one and four streams that go on with one code, every change from one kind of table to the other, damaged streams compared with the exact decoder.

• "where a block is one match, which is too short for the optimal parser to take at once" reaches the last position of the parser's tables: with one position less it fails. A unit test compresses a long, a short and the long input again on one context. Both, like most tests here, hold values from Bun 1.4.4 and pass there.

• "where blocks are nothing but literals", in one call and streamed, at levels -5 to 16. A unit test has literals that start and end like noise with something compressible between, which the C library stores, at the capacities around the size of the frame: a review found a first version to compress them, or to succeed where C fails, when there were fewer than 7 bytes to spare.

• "where blocks that are stored are between blocks that are compressed", with values from Bun 1.4.4, and a unit test in the crate (not under Miri, where it takes over 10 minutes) that compares room that grows with room that is there, at five levels and five capacities. The first version gave a block that is made in parts (levels 16 and up) room for 197 of them. A review made two inputs of 35 MB for level 22 that need more, on which it failed or gave other bytes than C; 100,000 frames of the differential harness had not come near that. Such blocks now get all the room at once, as before.

• "short matches from less than 16 bytes back": noise with copies planted 1 to 15 bytes back in every, every second or every eighth sequence, decoded in one call, as a stream, in a window of 1 KB, and after a dictionary that the first two matches reach into. With the new loop made to skip a match that reaches before the output, it fails. "where matches are far between, for the optimal parsers" has values from Bun 1.4.4 for the loop that goes over what has no match.

• Unit tests in the crate, which cargo miri test runs: every offset and length of the copy for short close matches; matches counted up to where they end, around the 64 bytes that are compared at a time; long copies in parts; three for streams after an error, each clause of which was taken out once to see the test fail; and two for matches in a dictionary from frames that are not the first of a call, one of which calls the loop for common sequences itself and fails with the rule that was there before. "frames one after the other whose matches are in a dictionary" does the same from JavaScript. One more has blocks made by hand with more than 64 KB of literals, in one call and in a stream whose buffer has wrapped: valid ones, blocks that make too much, and blocks whose 125th sequence the C library refuses because its output catches up with its literals; the results were checked against the C library, and each of the four conditions of the change was taken out once to see the test fail. "blocks of more than 64 KB of literals" has four cases from JavaScript (matches all over, only at the start, in the older part of a stream's buffer, in a dictionary).

• "frames that no encoder makes decode as with zstd 1.5.7": 116 frames from upstream's decodecorpus, each decoded 20 ways (one-shot, streams cut in several ways, truncated, damaged), with the results recorded with Bun 1.4.4.

• Run on a debug (ASAN) build on Linux x64:

  • test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts (252), test/js/node/zlib/zlib.test.js (473), zlib-handle-bounds-check (41), zlib-estimated-size-gc (6), zlib-reset-race (5), zlib-onerror-reentrancy (3), leak (8)
  • test/js/web/streams/compression.test.ts (74), test/js/web/fetch/fetch-compress.test.ts (32), test/js/web/intl/intl.test.ts (21, for the ICU data)
  • test/regression/issue/18413-*, 20053, 23314/*, test/js/node/errors/error-code-messages.test.ts
  • test/js/node/test/parallel/test-zlib-zstd*.js and the other test-zlib*.js that have a zstd case
  • --trim, on a release build with the trimming link (local WebKit and the system's ICU, so without ICU's data package): all of compile-trim-runtime-by-use (243), compile-trim-runtime-by-use-features (44) and compile-trim-remove.test.ts (18) pass. The compressor is 643 KB of an executable that uses it, an executable that only decompresses does not have it, and one that has it forced out says --trim removed zstd compression from this executable.
  • By hand: the same script on this build and on Bun 1.4.4 (every API above, valid and damaged input) prints the same sizes, hashes and error codes; a --compile --sourcemap executable remaps its stack traces.

• Left to CI: the rest of the test suite and every platform other than Linux x64. Not run locally either: test/js/node/process/process.test.js, which needs a package that I could not install.

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• cargo clippy (GitHub) and cargo-test (Buildkite #134862): src/bundler/aot/testing.rs:84, no method fs on Transpiler. Not from this PR: main failed the same way at 3a9ea00 (Buildkite #134846) and fixed it in Fix the build of bun_bundler with the test_support feature #47299, which f677884 merges in.
• test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts ("hello world maps no more bytes than it did"): this one is from this PR. 68,445,196 bytes against a limit of 68,440,000; main has 68,121,612. The limit stays as it is. c788848 and 9b6d330 take 158 KB of code out of bun_zstd (838 KB to 680 KB in my harness; the C library is 559 KB there) without making it slower. I will put the sizes that CI measures into the description.

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src/zstd/lib.rs: 1

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Assert consumed input when the frame completes.

feed discards the InBuffer it creates, so the tests that call it never check how far the decoder advanced pos. StreamingDecoder::decompress reads in_buf.pos to detect short reads, so a regression that stops advancing pos can pass these tests while output stays correct. Assert the consumed input at the call that completes the frame. The final bytes end the frame, so all of them must be consumed. Other calls in these tests return a hint or an error, so this assertion does not set their expected pos.

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         let result = feed(&mut stream, output, &[]);
         assert_eq!(result, Err(Error::NoForwardProgressInputEmpty));
-        assert_eq!(feed(&mut stream, output, end), Ok(0));
+        let mut input = InBuffer { src: end, pos: 0 };
+        assert_eq!(stream.decompress_stream(output, &mut input), Ok(0));
+        assert_eq!(input.pos, end.len());

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Review comment at @src/zstd/lib.rs around lines 451 - 453:
Update the test call that completes the frame instead of using `feed`: create an
`InBuffer` for the final `end` bytes, pass it to `stream.decompress_stream`, and
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- Around line 133-145: Update freqs_from_bit_costs to avoid wrapping the shift
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