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Bun.write: write a string from its own buffer, not from a copy - #47602
Bun.write(file, string) copies the string on the JS thread before the write starts. For 128 MiB of ASCII the call takes 16 ms. Bun's fs.promises.writeFile takes 5 ms.
On main the copy is the string arm of Blob::from_js_without_defer_gc (src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs:2978).
Fix
write_file_with_source_destination takes a WriteSource: a Blob, or a JS string that the write reads in place. The call takes 5 ms now.
The write reads a string in place when it is 8-bit ASCII and not an atom or a substring. Any other string becomes a Blob.
Verified: "a string source" in test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js. "is not copied inside the call" fails on main.
Self-reviewed: 30 concerns raised, 28 addressed. Rejected: an owner check in ThreadIsolated (own PR), more bench rows.
Background
On POSIX the write is a WriteFile job on a work-pool thread. The JS thread drops the job.
JS can make a string an atom (a key in one thread's table). Only that thread can release an atom, so the job only reads the buffer.
A substring shares its base string's buffer, so a pending write would keep the base alive.
Considered a Blob store around the string: any thread can drop a store.
Downsides
A pending write keeps its string alive. For a string from blob.slice().text() that is the whole blob.
The call copies a non-ASCII string, an atom, a substring and a typed array. An awaited rewrite of a file takes 1.8x fs.promises.writeFile: the job opens with O_TRUNC.
The job grows 8 bytes and .text grows 3,840 bytes.
Notes
Who reported it. No issue reports the stall. #9057 has the one maintainer statement about this copy: "We should consider not cloning the data in Bun.write". #10588 was a leak of the same copy. await fs.promises.writeFile(path, string) in Bun already reads the string in place, and that is the target here.
Numbers. Release builds of main at 4f7acde and of this change on that commit, Linux x64, 12 cores. bench/snippets/write-string.mjs ran 3 times for each runtime, in turns. A cell is the median of the 3 runs, and a run is the median of 5 writes. Times are in ms. 1 M is 1,048,576 characters.
Time inside the call, ASCII:
String
Write
Bun 1.4.3
main
This PR
Bun's fs.promises.writeFile
Node 26.3.0 fs.promises.writeFile
4 M
spaced
1.88
1.84
0.20
0.21
1.85
4 M
back-to-back
0.77
1.29
0.12
0.13
1.50
32 M
spaced
16.5
16.9
1.14
1.22
13.7
32 M
back-to-back
4.21
4.38
1.15
1.17
12.4
128 M
spaced
60.7
61.8
4.39
4.78
50.5
128 M
back-to-back
16.7
16.4
4.69
4.90
48.7
A spaced write comes 150 ms after the write before it and makes a new file. The allocator gives a freed copy back to the OS after about 100 ms. So main takes page faults for each new copy: 16,390 minor faults in the call for 64 MiB, and 4 with this PR.
A back-to-back write follows the write before it immediately and replaces the same file.
Time inside the call, other strings (no change is expected):
String
Write
Bun 1.4.3
main
This PR
Bun's fs.promises.writeFile
Node 26.3.0 fs.promises.writeFile
0.125 M ASCII
back-to-back
0.012
0.011
0.011
0.024
0.058
128 M Latin-1
spaced
264.6
95.9
97.7
88.2
93.6
128 M Latin-1
back-to-back
270.5
37.3
38.9
30.5
88.7
128 M UTF-16
spaced
203.7
209.3
208.4
199.4
508.2
128 M UTF-16
back-to-back
78.4
86.5
81.2
70.8
503.7
On POSIX, Bun.write writes a primitive string below 0.25 M characters on the JS thread. That path has 693 instructions on main and 689 with this PR.
The ranges of main and of this PR overlap in each Latin-1 and UTF-16 row. A second comparison of 128 M of Latin-1, spaced, with the order of the builds alternated, gives 115.2 ms and 115.3 ms (6 runs each).
At 0.5 M of ASCII, both builds vary between 0.02 ms and 0.45 ms in the call. Over 200 back-to-back writes the median is 0.30 ms for both.
Time until the promise settles, 128 M of ASCII:
Write
Bun 1.4.3
main
This PR
Bun's fs.promises.writeFile
Node 26.3.0 fs.promises.writeFile
spaced, new file
98.3
101.2
46.0
45.6
149.8
back-to-back, same file
64.6
69.0
56.1
32.0
236.4
The write job opens the file with O_TRUNC (OPEN_FLAGS in write_file.rs). node:fs does not. That is the difference in the second row, and this PR does not change it.
Other measurements:
Peak RSS over three awaited writes of a 128 MiB string: +129 MiB on main, +0 with this PR.
JSON.stringify of 700,000 rows gives 79 MiB. The Bun.write call for it takes 36 to 42 ms on main and 3 ms with this PR.
With json + "\n" (a rope) the call takes 78 ms on main and 28 to 33 ms with this PR. The call makes the rope flat, as on main. The copy after that does not happen.
With one non-ASCII character in the rows the call takes 29 ms on both.
Instructions on the JS thread inside one call of write_file_internal (gdb, single steps), and allocations in the call:
Source
main
This PR
Allocations, main
Allocations, this PR
"short string" (written on the JS thread)
693
689
0
0
Blob of 1 KiB
2,234
2,161
4
4
Uint8Array of 300,000 bytes
16,584
16,509
6
6
["abc", "def"]
4,064
3,979
10
10
ASCII string, 0.25 M
38,984
20,064
6
4
ASCII string, 1 M
152,435
73,596
6
4
new Response(string), 1 M
270,864
73,552
6
4
Latin-1 string, 0.25 M
172,205
172,118
6
6
Atom, 1 M
152,322
152,193
6
6
Substring, 1 M
152,322
152,193
6
6
Other users of the same converter, instructions inside one call on main and with this PR: new Blob(["abc"]) 520 and 513, new Blob([u8]) 477 and 477, new Response(["abc"]) 517 and 514.
On main, to_blob_if_possible scans a string body of a Response or a Request before the write. That call now runs only for a Locked body.
The call takes the pointer and the length of the string's bytes. The write job reads those on the pool thread and does not touch the string object.
An S3 destination with a local server, 16 MiB of ASCII, time in the call: 4.2 to 4.9 ms on main and 4.1 to 4.4 ms with this PR.
Windows writes no string on the JS thread, so there a short string that qualifies is read in place too. I could not run Windows or macOS here. bun run rust:check-all passes for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc, aarch64-apple-darwin and x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.
The first Downsides bullet. The text of a 2 MiB slice of a 64 MiB in-memory Blob (blob.slice(a, b).text()) is a view of the blob's memory. With the blob and the string dropped and the write pending on a full pipe, the process holds 69 MiB more than at the start. On main it holds 7 MiB. The string cannot tell the write that it is a view.
Outside the two regions, the merged text has no use of borrowed_view. It has no use of Blob::get or from_js_clone_optional_array, which this PR deletes.
This PR deletes Blob::get and from_js_clone_optional_array. The write was the only caller of the <false, false> arm. The other four callers now call from_js_move and from_js_clone.
Tests.
"is not copied inside the call" reads the RSS inside the call for 8 entry points, and then reads each file back. On main every row has copied: true. A ninth row is an atom, which the write copies.
"each kind of string is written as its UTF-8 bytes" writes 10 kinds of string through 5 kinds of source.
In the pipe tests the fixture makes a FIFO, holds both ends of it, and writes to it before it reads. The write waits on the io loop each time the pipe is full, or terminate() stops the worker while the write waits. The write is the only holder of the string, and the string is an atom by then.
The fixture reads the number of bytes that it wrote and does not wait for the end of the pipe. On macOS, kqueue gives the reader of a FIFO no event when the last writer closes it (fifo_close_internal in XNU wakes the socket, not the vnode).
The read stops early when the write settles first. A write that rejects, or that settles after fewer bytes, then fails the test with its reason and not with a timeout.
A debug build with a deliberate release of the string on a pool thread stops at the first large string write: "ThreadLock is locked by thread N, not thread M". Without that assertion the two pipe tests abort with ASSERTION FAILED: wasRemoved in AtomStringImpl::remove.
A build that lends atoms and substrings fails the atom row and the substring test.
Debug build with ASAN: test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js (114 pass, also with the CI settings for LeakSanitizer and exception checks), and in test/js/web/fetch/: blob.test.ts, blob-write.test.ts, blob-array-fast-path.test.ts, blob-cow.test.ts, body.test.ts, body-clone.test.ts, body-mixin-errors.test.ts, response.test.ts.
Also on that build: bun-file.test.ts, bun-file-read.test.ts, filesink.test.ts, image.test.ts, bun-server.test.ts, s3-storage-class.test.ts, s3-requester-pays.test.ts, s3-moved-store.test.ts, s3-write-to-file-sync-close.test.ts.
An owner check inside ThreadIsolated, for all of its users. It touches node:fs, the shell and crypto, so it is a PR of its own. LentString in this PR has its own check.
Bench rows for an atom, a substring, a rope and a Response. The table of instructions has the atom, the substring and the Response. The rope has a timing above.
no test proof · iteration 3 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js
Bun.write(file, string) copied the string on the JS thread before the
write job started. For 128 MiB of ASCII that call took 16 ms, and 62 ms
when the allocator had given the last copy back to the OS.
write_file_with_source_destination now takes a WriteSource: a Blob, or
a JS string that the write job reads in place. The job reads a string
in place when it is 8-bit, all ASCII, and not an atom, a symbol or a
substring. The thread that lent the string drops it, and debug builds
assert that. Every other string becomes a Blob of its UTF-8 bytes, as
before. A one-element array, a String object, and a string body of a
Response or a Request take the same path.
to_blob_if_possible no longer scans a string body before the write. It
runs only for a Locked body.
Blob::get and from_js_clone_optional_array are deleted. The write was
the only caller of the <false, false> arm. The other callers now call
from_js_move and from_js_clone.
Reproduced on main: Bun.write(file, string) for 128 MiB of ASCII holds the JS thread for 16 ms in the call, and for 62 ms after a pause of 100 ms. The process gains the size of the string inside the call.
How: bun bench/snippets/write-string.mjs, and the test "a string source > is not copied inside the call" in test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js, which fails on main.
CI on 5fc9e58 (build 136381, finished): no lane reports a failure in the tests of this PR. macOS aarch64 passes test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js (94 pass, 0 fail). The four macOS x64 jobs did not run: no agent took them, and they expired.
The other file is test/aot/heap-limit.test.ts: 1 of 100 runs of a compiled program stopped with "memory allocation of 8 bytes failed". The program does not call Bun.write. The same failure is in build 136276 of another branch.
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Walkthrough
Bun.write now supports write sources that contain a Blob or an eligible thread-isolated string. Blob and body conversion paths pass these sources to file writers. The change adds tests for string writes and a benchmark comparing Bun.write with Node.js file writes.
Changes
String-backed Bun.write sources
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Summary
String and Blob conversion contracts src/bun_core/string/mod.rs, src/runtime/node/types.rs, src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs, src/runtime/webcore/Body.rs
String::is_thread_isolated is public. StringOrBuffer::lend_string lends eligible strings. Blob-part conversion can return a WriteSource or fall back to byte-backed Blob conversion. Body values add string extraction, and Blob conversion entry points use the updated APIs.
WriteSource and platform writers src/runtime/webcore/blob/write_file.rs
WriteSource holds a Blob or lent string. POSIX and Windows write paths accept this source and read its bytes.
Blob and body write dispatch src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs, src/runtime/webcore/Body.rs, src/runtime/server/server_body.rs
Write dispatch creates sources from body values, archives, and other inputs. In-memory sources go directly to file writers; other sources convert to Blobs for remaining destination paths. Server and body conversion call sites use the updated Blob conversion methods.
Tests check copying, UTF-8 output across string forms and wrappers, mixed Blob parts, pending pipe writes, substring memory release, and RSS growth.
String-write benchmark
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Summary
Benchmark measurement and execution bench/snippets/write-string.mjs
The benchmark compares Bun.write, when available, with fs.promises.writeFile across string encodings and sizes. It reports median call time, maximum event-loop stall, and total completion time for spaced and back-to-back writes. It removes temporary files and its directory.
oven-sh/bun#47509: This PR makes String::is_thread_isolated public, which this change uses to decide whether a string can be lent to a write job.
oven-sh/bun#47491: Both changes alter source memory handling for Bun.write; this PR avoids a copy for eligible strings.
oven-sh/bun#47558: Both changes reduce copying for string sources in Bun.write, though they apply to different destination paths.
Suggested reviewers: dylan-conway, jarred-sumner
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Check the file contents for the fd and Bun.file(path).write string cases.
The new long-string cases for Bun.write(fd, string) and Bun.file(path).write(string) check only copied and the byte count. A write that stores wrong bytes with the correct length passes these checks. In copies mode, the fixture does not read the destination back.
Add a read-back to the fixture's copies mode. After each write, read the destination file and compare its contents with the input string. Return the comparison result with copied and written. In bun-write.test.js, assert that result for both inPlace entries. Keep the existing copied and written checks.
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Review comment at @test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js around lines 1751 - 1752:
Update the long-string write fixture’s copies mode to read the destination after
each write, compare its contents with the input string, and return that
comparison alongside copied and written; assert the comparison for both the
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Review comments at @bench/snippets/write-string.mjs:
- Around line 45-50: Update the `time()` function so it clears `pending` in a
`finally` block around `await promise`; this ensures the `turn` callback stops
scheduling immediates if the write rejects. Preserve the existing total-time
calculation on successful writes.
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- Around line 1751-1752: Update the long-string write fixture’s copies mode to
read the destination after each write, compare its contents with the input
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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 findings, I also checked the refactor for behavior drift: get::<false,false> mapped to from_js_without_defer_gc::<false,false> on the base, so the new ::<WriteSource,false,false> call keeps the same MOVE/REQUIRE_ARRAY semantics, and the removed scopeguard detach is equivalent to dropping the now by-value WriteSource (Blob::detach is just store.set(None)). The lent string's hash/flags word and an off-JS-thread drop of the job were also examined and ruled out.
Extended reasoning...
The change replaces the copied bytes Blob in the Bun.write job with a WriteSource that can lend an isolated 8-bit ASCII JS string to the work-pool thread, and makes the Blob parts converter generic over the result type. It touches no security-sensitive surface. Two inline findings were confirmed (string pinning on slow destinations and a debug-only quadratic ASCII rescan), so the note only records what else was checked and found equivalent to the base.
…away from the GC
LentString now keeps the pointer and the length of the string's bytes from
the time the string is lent. The write job reads those, so it does not touch
the string object, and debug builds no longer scan the string for each chunk.
The fixture of "is not copied inside the call" kept the Buffer of the ASCII
string alive, but not the Buffer of the atom. When the GC freed that Buffer
before the write of the atom, the copy of the atom reused its memory and the
RSS did not grow. Both Buffers now stay alive. The fixture also reads each
file back.
bench/snippets/write-string.mjs stops its setImmediate loop when a write
rejects.
bench/snippets/write-string.mjs: time() clears pending in a finally block, so a rejected write stops the setImmediate loop.
The fixture of "is not copied inside the call" reads each file back and reports same for every row, the fd and Bun.file(path).write rows included.
The write loop no longer scans the string for each chunk in debug builds. It reads a pointer and a length that the call took from the string.
The note about a string that is a view of a Blob store stays as a documented downside. The reason is in that thread.
The same commit fixes the Windows failure of "is not copied inside the call". The fixture did not keep the Buffer of the atom alive. When the GC freed it before the write of the atom, the copy reused that memory and the RSS did not grow.
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I re-reviewed the latest push (8c29b4b) and found no new bugs. Because the change hands a raw slice of a JS string's buffer to the work pool and reshapes how buffered body strings are consumed, a maintainer's look is still worthwhile, mainly to weigh the documented tradeoff that a pending write now pins the lent string (and anything it views) instead of a copy.
What was reviewed on this push:
LentString now captures the byte slice once at lend time, which resolves the per-chunk debug rescan from my earlier comment; the owning _string is dropped only on the JS thread (Job completion or teardown release), so the atom/last-deref constraint holds, and the worker-terminate fixture exercises that path.
lend_string fallbacks: empty, Latin-1 non-ASCII, UTF-16, atom and substring all take the UTF-8 copy path via is_thread_isolated + is_shared, and the strings fixture covers each with the file read back.
Dropping the scopeguard detach is safe: WriteSource moves into the job or into a local Blob whose RefPtr<Store> releases on drop.
Restricting to_blob_if_possible to Locked bodies does not change non-string bodies, since Value::use_ still calls it internally; use_as_string moves the body's one ref into the lent string.
Extended reasoning...
The change touches src/runtime/webcore/blob/write_file.rs, Blob.rs, Body.rs, node/types.rs and bun_core/string/mod.rs: Bun.write and Response/Request string bodies now lend a JS string's 8-bit ASCII buffer (as a RawSlice plus a ThreadIsolated owner) to the POSIX/Windows write job instead of copying into a Blob, with atoms, substrings and non-ASCII strings still copied. It touches no auth, injection or data-exposure surface but is cross-thread unsafe Rust where lifetime and thread-affinity errors would be memory-unsafe. The second commit addressed one of my two earlier inline comments; the other (view strings pinning their base store) is an explicitly accepted design tradeoff in the PR text, and that design decision plus the unsafe cross-thread scope are what make a human look worthwhile rather than approving. The hunt ran dry with no findings, and the new fixtures cover the in-place, copy, parked-pipe, worker-terminate and substring cases.
On macOS, kqueue gives the reader of a FIFO no event when the last
writer closes it. The three pipe tests waited for the end of the pipe
in the test process, so they timed out on macOS.
The fixture now makes the FIFO, holds both ends of it, and reads the
number of bytes that it wrote. It prints one JSON result on stdout.
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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 note on the fixture's read loop, I also checked the refactor hunks that looked riskiest and found them behavior-preserving: dropping the scopeguard detach is equivalent because WriteSource now moves the Blob by value and its RefPtr<Store> drops with it; gating to_blob_if_possible on Locked changes nothing for other bodies since Value::use_ still calls it internally; into_blob tagging all-ASCII is sound because WriteSource::String only exists for Utf8Bytes::Shared, which into_utf8 yields only when to_utf8_from_latin1 found no byte above 0x7f. The LentString drop assertion also holds on the teardown path, since Job::release_unrun and complete both run on the JS thread.
Extended reasoning...
The change replaces the string-to-Blob copy in Bun.write with a WriteSource that lends the JS StringImpl's bytes to the POSIX work-pool job and the Windows libuv job, touching Blob.rs, Body.rs, write_file.rs, node/types.rs, and the Bun.write tests; it touches no auth, injection, or data-exposure surface. One minor test-fixture finding is posted inline; the ruled-out items above are the refactor hunks the prior runs' inline comments did not cover.
The fixture read the pipe until it had every byte. A write that
rejected, or that settled after fewer bytes, left that loop with no
end: the test timed out and the reason was lost. The read now stops
when the write has settled and the pipe is empty, and the caller then
awaits the write.
The "strings" mode starts the nine writes of a source together and
collects once. A debug build needed about 3 s for its 45 collections,
which is close to the default timeout of 5 s.
test/js/bun/io/bun-write-string-fixture.js: read stops when the write has settled and the pipe is empty. A write that rejects, or that settles after fewer bytes, now fails the test with its reason and not with a timeout.
The "strings" mode of the fixture starts the nine writes of a source together and collects once. On a debug build the mode took about 3.0 s, and now it takes about 1.7 s. It prints the same rows.
The read loop has no deadline, and the worker mode has no change. The review thread has the reasons.
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I reviewed this revision and found no new bugs; the latest push also settles the fixture read-loop thread I left earlier. Because the change lends a JS string's backing buffer to a work-pool thread (unsafe ThreadIsolated wrapping, a drop-thread assertion, and a new way of spending a string body), a human maintainer look is still worthwhile.
What was reviewed:
lend_string encoding gate: into_utf8_with_string yields an owned copy for Latin-1 non-ASCII and UTF-16, so a shared lend is always ASCII and the all_ascii = true in into_blob holds.
Dropping the scopeguard detach in write_file_internal: the source Blob is now either moved into the job or dropped at function end, and store is a RefPtr, so the store ref is still released on every arm.
WriteSource::from_body vs the old use_(): non-string bodies still go through use_() (which calls to_blob_if_possible), and the string fallback builds the blob with Blob::init as before.
Every caller of the changed signatures (WriteFile::create, WriteFileWindows::create, write_file_with_source_destination, the removed Blob::get) is updated, including the cfg(windows) arm.
Extended reasoning...
The diff replaces the bytes_blob: Blob field of the POSIX and Windows write jobs with a WriteSource enum that can hold a lent JS string (ThreadIsolated<StringOrBuffer> plus a raw byte slice), makes Blob::from_js_without_defer_gc generic over a FromBlobParts trait, adds body::Value::use_as_string, and makes bun_core::String::is_thread_isolated public, with a new subprocess fixture, leak-fixture rows, and six tests. It touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface, but it does cross-thread ownership of WTF string buffers, which the repository's memory-safety rules treat as the most-blocked category. Since the last review the only change is a test-fixture commit that addresses the nit I raised; the Rust changes read as behavior-preserving on the paths checked above and the bug hunt ran dry. The complexity of the cross-thread lending and the fact that the PR is bot-authored are what rule out approving without a human.
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Problem
Bun.write(file, string)copies the string on the JS thread before the write starts. For 128 MiB of ASCII the call takes 16 ms. Bun'sfs.promises.writeFiletakes 5 ms.Blob::from_js_without_defer_gc(src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs:2978).Fix
write_file_with_source_destinationtakes aWriteSource: aBlob, or a JS string that the write reads in place. The call takes 5 ms now.Blob.test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js. "is not copied inside the call" fails on main.ThreadIsolated(own PR), more bench rows.Background
WriteFilejob on a work-pool thread. The JS thread drops the job.Blobstore around the string: any thread can drop a store.Downsides
blob.slice().text()that is the whole blob.fs.promises.writeFile: the job opens withO_TRUNC..textgrows 3,840 bytes.Notes
Who reported it. No issue reports the stall. #9057 has the one maintainer statement about this copy: "We should consider not cloning the data in Bun.write". #10588 was a leak of the same copy.
await fs.promises.writeFile(path, string)in Bun already reads the string in place, and that is the target here.Numbers. Release builds of main at 4f7acde and of this change on that commit, Linux x64, 12 cores.
bench/snippets/write-string.mjsran 3 times for each runtime, in turns. A cell is the median of the 3 runs, and a run is the median of 5 writes. Times are in ms. 1 M is 1,048,576 characters.Time inside the call, ASCII:
fs.promises.writeFilefs.promises.writeFileTime inside the call, other strings (no change is expected):
fs.promises.writeFilefs.promises.writeFileBun.writewrites a primitive string below 0.25 M characters on the JS thread. That path has 693 instructions on main and 689 with this PR.Time until the promise settles, 128 M of ASCII:
fs.promises.writeFilefs.promises.writeFileO_TRUNC(OPEN_FLAGSinwrite_file.rs).node:fsdoes not. That is the difference in the second row, and this PR does not change it.Other measurements:
JSON.stringifyof 700,000 rows gives 79 MiB. TheBun.writecall for it takes 36 to 42 ms on main and 3 ms with this PR.json + "\n"(a rope) the call takes 78 ms on main and 28 to 33 ms with this PR. The call makes the rope flat, as on main. The copy after that does not happen.Instructions on the JS thread inside one call of
write_file_internal(gdb, single steps), and allocations in the call:"short string"(written on the JS thread)Blobof 1 KiBUint8Arrayof 300,000 bytes["abc", "def"]new Response(string), 1 Mnew Blob(["abc"])520 and 513,new Blob([u8])477 and 477,new Response(["abc"])517 and 514.to_blob_if_possiblescans a string body of aResponseor aRequestbefore the write. That call now runs only for aLockedbody.What this PR does not change, and why.
ArrayBuffer. Without the copy, a later store to the buffer can reach the file. That is a change of behaviour and needs a decision (Bun.write: borrow TypedArray sources instead of snapshotting on the JS thread #36535, question 2 of Bun.write: free the write job's heap copy of the source when the write is done #47491).Image.write()goes through that arm too.URLor a plain object thatBun.writeconverts withtoString(). Bun.write: accept Bun.Image and reject unsupported input with ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE #44006 proposes to reject those values.node:fsdoes: the type that carries the string to the job does not hold atoms.Blob, as on main. s3: copy a buffer or string once into the request and stop holding the source store #47558 changes the copies of that path.bun run rust:check-allpasses forx86_64-pc-windows-msvc,aarch64-apple-darwinandx86_64-unknown-linux-musl.The first Downsides bullet. The text of a 2 MiB slice of a 64 MiB in-memory
Blob(blob.slice(a, b).text()) is a view of the blob's memory. With the blob and the string dropped and the write pending on a full pipe, the process holds 69 MiB more than at the start. On main it holds 7 MiB. The string cannot tell the write that it is a view.Order with other PRs.
src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs. The conflict is two regions of two lines each. They are the destination and source arguments ofWriteFileWindows::create(L4340 to L4341 at 5fc9e58) and ofWriteFile::create(L4356 to L4357).source. http: consolidate the open fetch, Bun.serve, node:http, node:http2 and HTTP/3 pull requests #46528 at 001958b removesBlob::borrowed_viewand changes both arguments to.dupe(). The PR that merges second passesdestination_blob.dupe()andsourceat both calls.borrowed_view. It has no use ofBlob::getorfrom_js_clone_optional_array, which this PR deletes.on_finishhunk forWriteSource::Blob. A string that the write reads in place has no copy to free.it.serialline for "Bun.file(0) survives GC" as Bun.write: free the write job's heap copy of the source when the write is done #47491, so the two merge.String::is_thread_isolated. A trial merge of that branch and this one has no conflict.Blob::getandfrom_js_clone_optional_array. The write was the only caller of the<false, false>arm. The other four callers now callfrom_js_moveandfrom_js_clone.Tests.
copied: true. A ninth row is an atom, which the write copies.terminate()stops the worker while the write waits. The write is the only holder of the string, and the string is an atom by then.fifo_close_internalin XNU wakes the socket, not the vnode).ThreadLockis locked by thread N, not thread M". Without that assertion the two pipe tests abort withASSERTION FAILED: wasRemovedinAtomStringImpl::remove.test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js(114 pass, also with the CI settings for LeakSanitizer and exception checks), and intest/js/web/fetch/:blob.test.ts,blob-write.test.ts,blob-array-fast-path.test.ts,blob-cow.test.ts,body.test.ts,body-clone.test.ts,body-mixin-errors.test.ts,response.test.ts.bun-file.test.ts,bun-file-read.test.ts,filesink.test.ts,image.test.ts,bun-server.test.ts,s3-storage-class.test.ts,s3-requester-pays.test.ts,s3-moved-store.test.ts,s3-write-to-file-sync-close.test.ts.bun-write.test.js15 times,bun-write-leak.test.ts,worker-terminate-funnels.test.ts,worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts,worker-late-completion.test.ts.The 2 rejected concerns.
ThreadIsolated, for all of its users. It touchesnode:fs, the shell and crypto, so it is a PR of its own.LentStringin this PR has its own check.Response. The table of instructions has the atom, the substring and theResponse. The rope has a timing above.no test proof · iteration 3 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js