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Remove 187 unsafe blocks from the VM, DNS, timers, and the socket and server code - #47871

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What does this PR do?

46 separate changes, one commit each: 17 in the VM and its workers (bun_jsc), 15 in DNS, timers, IPC and the module loader's hooks, and 14 in the socket and server code. They follow #47291, #47317, #47338, #47382, #47393 and #47414 and work the same way: signatures name the type and the lifetime that the value already has, hand-written pointer code becomes plain ownership and borrows that the compiler checks, and what was never needed is deleted.

Together: 187 fewer unsafe blocks, 37 fewer unsafe fns and 1 fewer unsafe impl, +1314/−2230 over 57 files. No safe function became unsafe, and no wrapper type was added. Where the compiled code changes lists every place where the program does different work.

# Change unsafe Diff
1 worker: new Worker() names the preload that does not resolve 0 +77/−91, 2 files
2 worker: the helpers that walk a parent's children take &VirtualMachine −14 blocks, −5 unsafe fn +36/−65, 2 files
3 jsc: remap_zig_exception has no Tail drop guard −3 blocks +45/−62, 1 file
4 jsc: print_error_instance_js keeps the parser-arena flag in a local −2 blocks +7/−10, 1 file
5 jsc: four RuntimeHooks slots take the reference their caller holds −8 blocks, −6 unsafe fn +20/−42, 3 files
6 jsc: borrow the uws loop as &Loop, not &mut Loop −5 blocks +48/−66, 8 files
7 jsc: GarbageCollectionController::init takes &VirtualMachine −1 block +5/−11, 2 files
8 jsc: RareData::close_all_socket_groups has no self −1 block +3/−7, 2 files
9 watcher: remove WatchItem.count −1 block +0/−16, 3 files
10 jsc, valkey: drop three detours through a raw pointer −3 blocks +8/−12, 3 files
11 worker: remove unsafe impl Send for ThreadStart −1 unsafe impl +6/−8, 2 files
12 hot reload: remove ImportWatcher::None −1 block +38/−68, 3 files
13 jsc: remap_stack_frame_positions takes &mut [ZigStackFrame] −1 block, −1 unsafe fn +4/−13, 2 files
14 jsc: eight functions exported to C++ take references −8 blocks, −7 unsafe fn +31/−56, 3 files
15 worker: the exports the messaging proxy calls take &WebWorker 0 +6/−10, 1 file
16 jsc: the GitHub-annotation guard borrows the exception 0 +5/−8, 1 file
17 worker: join_child_workers takes the list of children, not the VM 0 +4/−6, 2 files
18 dns: the pending caches are borrowed shared, and each record type names its own −5 blocks +66/−180, 2 files
19 dns: the request and lookup-node constructors take &Resolver −6 blocks +34/−52, 2 files
20 dns: lookup nodes are completed through &mut self and freed by their owner −24 blocks, −12 unsafe fn +234/−384, 2 files
21 dns: the connect-path cache key borrows &[u8], not a &ZStr −1 block +27/−55, 2 files
22 dns: get_channel_or_error returns the &mut Channel that get_channel gave it −6 blocks +22/−33, 1 file
23 dns, ipc: fill a fresh Box before releasing it, and two more raw hops −4 blocks +21/−30, 2 files
24 module loader: the guard that closes the input fd owns the fd and its flag −6 blocks +13/−45, 1 file
25 ipc: SendQueueOwner::Instance carries no pointer −7 blocks +29/−39, 2 files
26 jsc: the retroactively_report_discovered_tests hook takes &mut TestReporterHandle −2 blocks, −2 unsafe fn +10/−19, 3 files
27 module loader: TranspileArgs::extra is &TranspileExtra −5 blocks +45/−57, 3 files
28 dispatch: __bun_fire_timer takes now: &Timespec, and one poll arm reuses poll_ref −3 blocks +18/−32, 2 files
29 timer: clear_timer downcasts with as_class_ref, as it needs only &T −3 blocks +10/−14, 1 file
30 jsc_hooks: drop lifetime erasers and a raw round trip that change nothing −2 blocks +8/−20, 1 file
31 timer, jsc_hooks: three *mut parameters whose contract a reference states −5 blocks, −2 unsafe fn +33/−62, 4 files
32 timer: increment_timer_ref and increment_immediate_ref take &Loop −4 blocks +13/−25, 4 files
33 server: run_corked_with_type takes fn(&U) and &U −7 blocks +46/−80, 4 files
34 server: NewServer request dispatch takes &self −12 blocks +173/−289, 3 files
35 tls: SSLConfig reads buffers and files through &, not &mut −6 blocks +11/−24, 3 files
36 server: attach_http2 takes &self −4 blocks +17/−22, 1 file
37 jsc: VirtualMachine::{enqueue_task, tick, drain_microtasks} take &self −4 blocks +23/−34, 6 files
38 server: write_chunk and on_request_body_stream_drained take &self −2 blocks +10/−21, 2 files
39 server: listen() borrows the SNI names and the unix path −3 blocks +14/−38, 1 file
40 socket: Listener types its late write and its SNI out-parameter −4 blocks +35/−29, 2 files
41 socket: drop round trips through raw pointers −3 blocks +4/−14, 2 files
42 server: upgrade() guards with the reference it holds; ServerWebSocket::init takes its flags −2 blocks +8/−11, 2 files
43 node:http: slice the unwritten tail of a zero-copy write −1 block +3/−6, 1 file
44 tls: no_password is a safe extern "C" fn −1 unsafe fn +1/−1, 1 file
45 server, socket: type the out-parameters of four exported functions as references −6 blocks, −1 unsafe fn +17/−25, 3 files
46 server: request_pool is a &'static pool −2 blocks +32/−44, 5 files

The commits can be reviewed one at a time.

Worth knowing before reading on:

  • Change 1 fixes a bug, with a test. new Worker(url, { preload: ["./does-not-exist.js"] }) threw TypeError: undefined. It now names the preload that does not resolve. Nothing else that users can see changes.
  • Thirteen changes end an aliasing or contract bug that had no visible effect.
    • Changes 3, 7, 8, 17 and 37: a &mut VirtualMachine, &mut RareData or &mut ZigException was live while other code reached the same object through another pointer.
    • Change 6: the uws loop was borrowed as &mut Loop across tick, whose callbacks reach the loop again.
    • Change 18: two constructors retagged a whole HiveArray as &mut and then wrote through an older pointer to one of its slots.
    • Change 21: __bun_dns_prefetch made a ZStr from a slice with no NUL behind it. Nothing read that byte.
    • Change 35: SSLConfig made a &mut to array buffers and blobs that JS can reach.
    • Changes 31, 32 and 38: five safe functions dereferenced a raw pointer argument.
    • Change 40: listen() wrote a field through a raw pointer while a &Listener was live.
  • Eighteen functions that C or C++ calls take references (changes 14, 15, 40 and 45). Each message names the call sites and what they pass.
  • Two new functions, both without unsafe: remap_zig_exception_frames (change 3) and CAresRecordType::cache (18).
  • Parts of six changes are compiled only for Windows or macOS: 6 (uws::Timer::create), 18, 19 and 20 (dns_sd.rs, and one Windows function), 25 (the Windows IPC client) and 37 (WindowsNamedPipeContext, on_dns_poll_uv).

Where the compiled code changes

I compared the release assembly (x86-64 Linux, --emit=asm) of all 134 crates of the workspace, before and after. For 109 of them the files are the same byte for byte, among them bun_collections, bun_dns and bun_libuv_sys, which this PR touches, and bun_uws, bun_resolver and bun_spawn. The other 25 I compared function by function, with names demangled and labels normalised. In 21 of the 25 no function differs: what differs is line numbers in the debug information, the paths of the two checkouts and, in one function of bun_sql_jsc, the commit's own hash.

Crate Functions Differ Other constants or names only Same length Shorter Longer Instructions Branches Compares Calls Panic call sites
21 crates, among them bun_event_loop, bun_uws_sys, bun_http, bun_http_jsc, bun_install, bun_io and bun_sql_jsc 11,451 0
bun_watcher 67 6 1 0 5 0 −34 0 0 −1 0
bun_bundler 1,981 3 0 0 3 0 −26 0 0 −1 0
bun_jsc 1,765 35 3 5 21 6 −416 −60 −45 −31 −8
bun_runtime 11,204 634 294 87 216 37 −1,831 −47 −36 −212 −8

The last five columns are net, and count the functions that exist on one side only: 36 only before and 38 only after, which were removed, renamed or inlined, or are no longer inlined.

Three things account for most of the 634 functions of bun_runtime.

  • One field has another place (change 46). request_pool is a reference, which cannot be null, and the compiler sorts such a field differently: it is at offset 72 of NewServer, where it was at 1568, and what lies between moves by 8 bytes. 261 functions differ only in those offsets. 24 more differ only in constants for reasons of the same kind: the fields of Listener (change 40), of TranspileExtra (27) and of the DNS requests (19 and 20) are laid out differently, and the tag of SendQueueOwner has other values (25).
  • A finished job is not copied to the stack (change 10). Job::schedule has two closures per kind of job, and Job::take is inline in them. It copied the whole job out of its allocation, freed the allocation and then took the job apart. It now takes the two parts that it returns out of the allocation. 118 closures differ: 113 are between 1 and 25 instructions shorter, 2 have the same length, and 3 are longer: one by 5, and the two of ReadFile, which are in the table of checks. 90 of them have one or two calls of memcpy fewer. Together: −1,235 instructions. The order changes: the rest of the job, which holds its ticket on the VM, is dropped and the allocation freed after the keep-alive is released, not before. All three happen on the JS thread, with no script in between.
  • RequestContext is compiled eight times, so each difference in it (changes 33, 34 and 37) shows up eight times.

Checks. No path makes a check that it did not make before. These are all the functions in which the listing shows more conditional branches, compares or panic call sites than before, and why:

Function Listing Why
RequestContext::do_render_with_body, 8 instances 543 to 583, +7 branches, +8 compares, +2 calls do_render_blob got short enough (199 to 44, change 33) for the compiler to inline it here, where it was a jump. See change 33 below.
RequestContext::on_abort, the 4 instances for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 415 to 415, +1 branch, +1 compare, −1 call One lookup of the thread local goes (change 37). The compiler duplicates one test at an exit. The other 4 instances go from 358 to 347, with two lookups fewer.
The two closures of Job::<ReadFile>::schedule 23 to 57 and 26 to 63, +5 branches, +4 compares, +4 calls each They called Job::<ReadFile>::take (68 instructions), which is now short enough to be inline, as it is for every other job (change 10).
GetAddrInfoRequest::on_cares_complete, GetNameInfoRequest::on_cares_complete, Resolver::drain_pending_host_native, DNSLookup::on_complete_native 312 to 370, 295 to 326, 304 to 375, 56 to 65; between +1 and +6 branches They called DNSLookup::on_complete_with_array (53) or CAresNameInfo::on_complete (44), the first three at four places each. What those did is inline now, at two places each, with the drop of a waiter that destroy did (change 20). The two functions no longer exist on their own.
Bun__remapStackFramePositions 33 to 42, +2 branches, +2 compares, +1 panic site It builds the slice (change 13). The test for a null pointer and its panic come from remap_stack_frame_positions (222 to 216, −1 of each). The second test, of the length, runs only for a null pointer.
timer::All::clear_timer 229 to 225, +1 compare Change 29. A value that is not a cell skips two calls into C++.
dispatch::run_task::handle 3,121 to 3,119, +1 branch, −1 compare SendQueueOwner has another shape (change 25): the deferred close, which is inline here, tests the tag and then the pointer, where it compared one word twice.
WebWorker__create (bun_jsc) 2,135 to 2,175, +4 branches, +4 compares, +4 calls, +1 panic site The bug fix (change 1). The message for a preload that does not resolve is built here.
install_bun_watcher (bun_jsc) 31 to 33, +1 branch, +1 compare The compiler duplicates the test that follows the allocation, once per arm (change 12). One per path, as before.
EventLoop::run_pending_test_steps (bun_jsc) 76 to 76, +1 branch, +1 compare It passes the hook the global object (change 5). The test that the VM has one comes from the hook, run_pending_test_step, which goes from 6 to 1, with one branch, one compare and one call fewer.
Bun.serve, the function for the servers without TLS 1,596 to 1,607, +2 branches, +4 compares, +7 calls, −1 panic site Changes 36 and 39 take two bounds checks and one panic site away. The path after a failed listen (deinit, has_exception, throw) was shared by the two kinds of server, and the compiler now gives each its own copy. One per path, as before.
Bun.listen 694 to 693, +1 branch, +1 compare, −1 call The fields of Listener are laid out differently (change 40), and the compiler arranges the clean-up of the error paths differently: two drops of the TLS context share one call, and one test of a length is there twice, once per path.
Change What differs Effect
1 Apart from WebWorker__create: resolve_entry_point_specifier goes from 364 to 289, with 17 branches and 8 calls fewer, resolve_entry_point_specifier_quietly from 81 to 73, with 3 branches fewer, and the worker thread's entry from 1,016 to 945, with 10 branches and 9 calls fewer. The fix. The resolves that only want a path build no error text.
2, 15 on_room_timer goes from 94 to 87, WebWorker__join from 18 to 11, __setRef from 26 to 20, __releaseParentPollRef from 41 to 35 and __requestTermination from 86 to 80. Each loses its test for null and the panic behind it. Same calls.
3 remap_zig_exception goes from 2,364 to 2,304, and the guard's drop (65) goes. Same two steps, at the same point.
5 apply_standalone_runtime_flags goes from 15 to 16: a move. run_pending_test_step is in the table of checks. Same flags, same step.
6 tick_while_paused goes from 22 to 23. With &self the compiler loads and tests the loop's pointer once per turn, where it did so once in front of the loop. One load and one test more per tick of the loop, only while a debugger holds the VM paused.
6, 7 process_gc_timer and perform_gc read the VM from the event loop's field, not through the thread local. In perform_gc (26 to 27), auto_tick (235 to 240) and auto_tick_active (227 to 232) their early exits now come before the lookup of the thread local. tick_possibly_forever (98 to 103) kept the thread local's address in a register across the tick and now asks for it again afterwards. One lookup fewer where the GC timer has nothing to do. One more per blocking tick of an otherwise idle loop.
9 WatchItem loses 4 bytes. MultiArrayList::<WatchItem>::ensure_total_capacity is 14 shorter in each of the four crates that have a copy, without the memcpy of the column. flush_evictions goes from 259 to 250, and add_file, add_file_by_path_slow, append_directory_assume_capacity the on_file_update of the hot reloader, the dev server and the bundler, and BundleV2::on_parse_task_complete are between 3 and 6 shorter. This is all that differs in bun_watcher and bun_bundler. One increment fewer per file event.
10 Apart from the jobs: JSValkeyClient::connect goes from 469 to 464. Same calls.
12 TranspilerJob::run goes from 3,427 to 3,372, with 13 branches fewer. snapshot_package_json, add_to_watcher_if_needed, add_main_to_watcher_if_needed, report_exception_in_hot_reloaded_module_if_needed, enable_hot_module_reloading, auto_watch_file, TestCommand::exec and one closure of bun check --watch lose one branch each. bun_watcher_mut (10) goes. Same watcher.
17 join_child_workers was inline in teardown, its one caller, already. The separate copy (40), which was emitted because the function was pub, goes. teardown goes from 516 to 514 (with 6, 8 and 12). Same joins.
18 to 20, 22 57 functions of the DNS code differ and three go, by −454 instructions together. Eleven of the twelve CAresLookup::process_resolve are 12 or 19 shorter and the twelve callbacks of ResolveInfoRequest 17 or 18, each with 3 branches fewer: the tests of allocated and of the optional resolver. CAresReverse::destroy and two on_complete functions go. Five functions are longer: the four in the table of checks, and process_resolve for ANY (155 to 159, one branch fewer), which has the drop of its reply inline. Same results. A waiter is freed where destroy freed it.
21 Bun.dns.prefetch goes from 54 to 9 and the test-only seedCacheForTesting from 713 to 670. One allocation, one copy and one free fewer per prefetch.
23 getaddrinfo, which has addrinfo_chain inline, is the same 543 instructions. None.
24, 27 transpile_source_code_of_any_provenance::<false> goes from 4,586 to 4,573, with 2 branches fewer, and transpile_source_code_inner::<true> from 2,709 to 2,682, with 6 fewer. One store fewer after the close.
25 16 functions of the IPC code differ, one goes and two come, by −10 together. SpawnIPC::on_close goes from 19 to 6, close_socket from 59 to 52 with 4 branches fewer, and continue_send from 406 to 398. handle_ipc_message goes from 623 to 629, with no branch, compare or call more. The compiler inlines differently: schedule_deferred (49) is inline, and close_socket_next_tick (51) and socket_closed_notify (57) are functions of their own. Same messages and the same close.
28 __bun_fire_timer goes from 1,668 to 1,669. Same time.
30 The blob_store_path thunk goes from 5 to 2. Same slice.
33 Each of the ten cork sites loaded the context's pointer to itself from a field and now passes the self that it has. render_metadata_corked, a single jump, goes. What the compiler inlines changes: honor_embedded_file_range (151) was inline in do_render_blob and is a function of its own, called only for a request with a Range header. do_render_blob goes from 199 to 44 and is inline in do_render_with_body. do_render_stream is 7 longer (616 to 623, and 597 to 604 in the four instances of the debug servers: moves to and from the stack), and the handler of render_missing goes from 95 to 98 (in those four it keeps its 118). AnyRequestContext::write_chunk, which has one cork site of each of the eight instances inline, goes from 579 to 539. bun_uws_sys compiles to the same code. A response with a body saves a jump and five pushes and pops. One with a Range header makes one call more.
34, 37 on_node_http_request goes from 459 to 455, with 4 branches fewer. It looked the thread local up once, at its start, and kept the address. It now does so at the four places that use it: the two calls of uncaught_exception, and the two releases of a keep-alive (for a body that nobody reads, and for a request that ends inside the dispatch after a throw or an upgrade). deinit_if_we_can goes from 186 to 173 and the servers' finalizers from 80 to 61, with two lookups fewer each. schedule_background_pull is 1 shorter. A node:http request that reaches none of the four makes no lookup, where it made one.
36, 39 Bun.serve is three functions. The two for the servers with TLS go from 1,331 to 1,316, with 3 branches and 3 panic sites fewer each. The third is in the table of checks. Same names and paths.
40 Bun.listen is in the table of checks. Same port.
42 ServerWebSocket::init goes from 66 to 67 and the closure of upgrade() that calls it from 219 to 220. One instruction more in each per server.upgrade(): the flags are an argument.
43 NodeHTTPResponse.write goes from 661 to 653, with one branch fewer. Same bytes.
45 NodeHTTPResponse__createForJS goes from 190 to 189. Same values.

Changes 13, 29 and 46 are described above. Changes 4, 8, 11, 14, 16, 26, 31, 32, 35, 38, 41 and 44 ask for the same operations in the same order. Where they show up at all, it is in registers: print_error_instance_js keeps its 419 and connect_finish its 668. What changes 6, 18, 19, 20, 25 and 37 do to code for Windows or macOS is not compiled on Linux.

The comparison covers x86-64 Linux only, one crate at a time. The build that ships also inlines across crates when it links, and there a lookup of the thread local is two instructions, not a call.

The changes in detail

1. worker: new Worker() names the preload that does not resolve

WebWorker::create gave the transpiler the address of a temporary Log and then moved that Log into a scope guard. The resolver wrote its error into the slot the log had been moved out of, which was never dropped, and the error message was built from the empty copy: the constructor threw TypeError: undefined.

The Log now stays where it is, and the guard only restores the previous log pointer.

resolve_entry_point_specifier takes neither the log nor a string to fill. It returns why it failed: a text of its own, or the resolver's error, which is in the log the transpiler points at. Only the preload loop turns that error into a message. The two resolves in create() that only want a path create no JS objects for a text nobody reads. Neither does spin(), whose log already has the error and is reported by flush_logs.

2. worker: the helpers that walk a parent's children take &VirtualMachine

has_ending_child, has_returning_child, has_room_to_wait_for, join_returning_children and start_waiting_children were unsafe fns over *mut VirtualMachine whose whole contract was "the calling thread's VM". They only read the VM, and a &VirtualMachine cannot leave its thread, so the reference states that contract. create() passes the reference it already has.

on_room_timer takes &self and the VM whose timer heap fired it, which is the worker's parent, instead of a pointer it tested for null and a second pointer it read from the worker. It stays unsafe: it must only be called on a worker that waits for room.

3. jsc: remap_zig_exception has no Tail drop guard

A Tail drop guard held self and exception as raw pointers and turned them back into &mut in Drop, while the body went on using self and a third &mut made from the guard's pointer. The guard existed so that the last two steps also ran after the body's one early return. Panics abort, so it never ran on any other path.

The body moves into a private method, remap_zig_exception_frames, whose only caller is remap_zig_exception. The two steps follow the call and use the function's own self, exception and exception_list, so they still run whichever way the body returns. The preview flag is a &mut bool instead of a Cell, which is the only change inside the body.

4. jsc: print_error_instance_js keeps the parser-arena flag in a local

It turned the &mut ZigException it got from the holder into a raw pointer and dereferenced that twice, only so that it could also lend out the holder's need_to_clear_parser_arena_on_deinit field.

remap_zig_exception now writes the flag into a local, which is copied into the holder before deinit, its only reader. This is what write_trace already does, and exception stays a plain &mut.

5. jsc: four RuntimeHooks slots take the reference their caller holds

process_exit, create_node_fs and apply_standalone_runtime_flags took raw pointers. Every caller made the pointer from a reference, and the first thing each hook did was turn it back into one. run_pending_test_step took the VM as a raw pointer only to read its global(), and its caller holds a &VirtualMachine.

The slots now take &JSGlobalObject, &mut VirtualMachine, &mut Transpiler and &JSGlobalObject. The third stays unsafe because it downcasts the module graph. The others have no other contract and are safe functions.

6. jsc: borrow the uws loop as &Loop, not &mut Loop

Every uws::Loop method takes &self and every field is a Cell, because the callbacks that tick and close_all_groups dispatch reach the loop again. VirtualMachine::uws_loop_mut, platform_loop_opt and hold_forever_poll still dealt in &mut Loop, which claims an exclusive borrow across those calls.

  • uws_loop_mut returns &Loop and is now called uws_loop_ref, like the accessor on HTTPThread. platform_loop_opt returns Option<&_>.
  • hold_forever_poll, and uws::Timer::create on Windows, take &Loop. us_create_timer then asks for nothing but a live loop on its own thread, so it is a safe fn like us_timer_ext and us_timer_set.
  • tick_possibly_forever borrows the loop once instead of dereferencing the pointer four times, and teardown uses the accessor.
  • tick_while_paused only reads the event loop, so it takes &self.
  • On Windows platform_loop_opt hands out the libuv loop, on which has_handles calls uv::Loop::has_active_io_handles. That takes &self: of the loop, uv_walk writes only handle_queue, which becomes a Cell like active_handles.

7. jsc: GarbageCollectionController::init takes &VirtualMachine

init takes &self and only reads vm.jsc_vm, but asked for &mut VirtualMachine. To pass that next to the controller, which is a field of the VM, ensure_waker projected the field through a raw pointer and made a &mut of the whole VM from inside the VM's own event loop.

With &VirtualMachine both are shared borrows of the reference ensure_waker already uses. process_gc_timer and perform_gc take &self too, so their callers no longer go through as_mut().

8. jsc: RareData::close_all_socket_groups has no self

It took &mut self, discarded it with let _ = self; and worked only on the VM's uws loop. To call it, the stop phase made a &mut RareData and a &VirtualMachine from the same pointer, and the &mut stayed a live argument while socket close handlers reached RareData again.

It is now an associated function of the VM reference. The caller still runs it only when the VM has rare_data.

9. watcher: remove WatchItem.count

The field was set to zero when an item was added and incremented for every file event by the hot reloader and the dev server. Nothing ever read it. To increment it, the hot reloader built a &mut [u32] out of a &WatchList with unsafe, and the dev server did the same through items_mut.

The field, its two initialisers and both increments are gone.

10. jsc, valkey: drop three detours through a raw pointer

  • The ArenaReset guard in fetch_without_on_load_plugins turned its &mut VirtualMachine into a pointer and back to call reset_arena, a safe function. A plain reborrow does.
  • JSValkeyClient::connect took &mut VirtualMachine first, so it had to launder the context it borrowed from the VM through a pointer. It now keeps the client's &'static VirtualMachine and calls as_mut() only for client_socket_groups_in, as socket_body.rs does.
  • Job::take makes the Box first and unlinks the box's header, instead of dereferencing the raw pointer for the unlink and boxing it afterwards. The allocation is now freed after the keep-alive is released, not before.

11. worker: remove unsafe impl Send for ThreadStart

A ThreadStart never crosses a thread by value. What the spawn closure captures is OwnedByThread, a pointer to it with a Send impl of its own, so no bound needed the impl on ThreadStart.

Its SAFETY text, which OwnedByThread referred to, moves to OwnedByThread. The inventory of the thread-door source lint loses the entry.

12. hot reload: remove ImportWatcher::None

The variant was never constructed: vm.bun_watcher is null until install_bun_watcher stores a Hot or a Watch. Every match still carried an arm for it, and the HotReloaderCtx impl and the transpiler job dereferenced the pointer just to rule it out.

Without the variant "is a watcher installed" is the null test that VirtualMachine::is_watcher_enabled already was, and the trait method calls that. The transpiler job kept the answer in a flag and then matched the same Option again. It matches once, in the place of the flag. The dead arms go, and two if lets that can no longer fail become lets.

13. jsc: remap_stack_frame_positions takes &mut [ZigStackFrame]

It was an unsafe fn over a pointer and a count, and the first thing it did with them was build the slice. Its only caller is the function exported to C++, which had an unsafe block of its own for the call.

The export now builds the slice, where the pointer from C++ arrives, and the method is safe.

14. jsc: eight functions exported to C++ take references

These functions took raw pointers and their only unsafe act was &*p, &mut *p or *out = x. None has a Rust caller. A reference has the same ABI and puts the contract in the signature, as Bun__VmHandle__retain and Bun__setExitCode already do.

  • Out-parameters become &mut: Bun__standaloneInternalModuleBytecode, Bun__standaloneModuleKey, Bun__standalonePrelinkedModuleGraph and Bun__standalonePrelinkedModuleName.
  • The VM becomes &VirtualMachine in Bun__VirtualMachine__replaceEnteredContext and &mut VirtualMachine in Bun__ScriptExecutionContext__create.
  • The handle becomes &Shared in Bun__VmHandle__scriptAllowed and Bun__VmHandle__stateAddress.

All but Bun__standaloneModuleKey, which still builds a slice from a pointer and a length, are now safe functions.

The C++ call sites are generateInternalModuleFromText, StandaloneGlobalObject::moduleLoaderResolve, JSVMClientData::prelinkedModuleGraph and prelinkedModuleKey, which pass the addresses of distinct initialised locals, the constructor and destructor of ErrorHandlerContextScope and the ScriptExecutionContext(parent) constructor, which pass the thread's bunVM, and runPendingWork and JSVMClientData::create, which pass the client data's vmHandle.

15. worker: the exports the messaging proxy calls take &WebWorker

WebWorker__join, __setRef, __requestTermination and __releaseParentPollRef took *mut WebWorker, tested it for null and wrapped it in a ParentRef only to use it as a &WebWorker.

Their callers are terminateWorkerGlobalScope, setKeepAlive and releaseWorkerThread in WorkerMessagingProxy.cpp. Each returns early when m_workerThread is null, and the proxy holds a ref on the worker until it calls WebWorker__deref, so the parameter can be the reference.

16. jsc: the GitHub-annotation guard borrows the exception

print_error_instance_body kept the ZigException for its deferred annotation in a BackRef, a pointer without a lifetime. After the guard is made the function only reads the exception, so the guard can hold a plain &ZigException and the compiler checks what the field's comment asserted.

17. worker: join_child_workers takes the list of children, not the VM

It took &mut VirtualMachine, moved child_workers out of it and then called into C++ for each child. C++ comes back through WebWorker__releaseParentPollRef and WebWorker__join, which reach the same VM through the worker's parent pointer and read that same field. So the VM was read through another pointer while the &mut VirtualMachine parameter, which promises that nothing else touches it, was still live.

teardown now takes the list out of the VM, inside the unsafe block it already has, and hands it over. That borrow of the field ends before the first child is released, and the function holds no reference to the VM. Its only caller is in this crate, so it is pub(crate).

18. dns: the pending caches are borrowed shared, and each record type names its own

pending_host_cache, two of the HasPendingCacheKey::pending_cache impls and the Windows cancel_pending_uv_requests_for_teardown made a &mut HiveArray out of &Resolver with JsCell::get_mut. Every HiveArray method that they or their callers use takes &self, so they borrow &HiveArray with the safe JsCell::get. get_key_addr, get_key_nameinfo and two places in dns_sd.rs took the hive &mut through with_mut for the same &self methods; they use get too.

pending_cache_for::<T> made its &mut HiveArray another way: it matched on T::CACHE_FIELD, took JsCell::as_ptr of the chosen field and pointer-cast it to the HiveArray of T. Each field already has exactly that type, so CAresRecordType gets fn cache(&Resolver), in which each impl names its field, and the function and its cast are gone. Nothing else read CACHE_FIELD: it goes, with the field parameters that only passed it along and the fourteen PendingCacheField variants that only they used.

ResolveInfoRequest::init and GetAddrInfoRequest::init used to retag the whole hive &mut and then write through the older slot pointer new. With a shared borrow that order is fine.

19. dns: the request and lookup-node constructors take &Resolver

Every caller holds a &Resolver and passed Some(this.as_ctx_ptr()) (or the bare pointer, for DNSLookup::init). The constructors then took their ref with resolver.map(|r| unsafe { RefPtr::init_ref(r) }) and reached the pending cache through (*resolver.unwrap()).

They take resolver: &Resolver: the ref comes from resolver.ref_guard(), the cache is read through the reference, and resolver_for_caching is stored once at construction, not a second time in the New arm.

20. dns: lookup nodes are completed through &mut self and freed by their owner

CAresNameInfo, CAresReverse, CAresLookup<T> and DNSLookup are either the inline head of a request or a boxed waiter chained behind it. Their completion functions were unsafe fn(this: *mut Self, ..) that ended in Self::destroy(this), which freed this if its allocated flag said it was a waiter.

The caller always knows which of the two it holds, so the functions take &mut self and free nothing. A head is completed in place and dropped with its request as before. A waiter is completed as heap::take(waiter).on_complete(..): the temporary box drops at the end of that statement, where destroy ran. destroy, allocated and CAresLookup::new are gone. init returns Box<Self>, append takes the box and releases it into the list, and the callers read the promise before they hand the box over. The functions also moved the promise to a local with mem::take before they settled it; they settle self.promise where it is.

Nothing else uses a node while it is completed: each drain empties the cache slot and reads next first, the dns_sd path has removed the request from inflight, and LibcRequest is consumed. c-ares has the request as the arg of its query, but the pinned c-ares takes a query off all its lists before it runs the callback (end_query, ares_flush_requeue, ares_cancel, ares_destroy), so a cancel or destroy from inside a completion does not call back for the same request.

Not changed here: a c-ares thunk forms a &mut to the whole request and calls on_*(&mut self) on it, and under that borrow the drain uses and frees the request through key.lookup.

process_get_addr_info_native loses its result parameter, for which every caller passed null. The three functions that take a raw c-ares result stay unsafe fn, with that as their whole contract.

21. dns: the connect-path cache key borrows &[u8], not a &ZStr

__bun_dns_prefetch(loop_, hostname: *const u8, len, port) built its key with ZStr::from_raw(hostname, len), whose contract is ptr[len] == 0. Its one caller, bun install, passes the hostname of the registry URL, a sub-slice of the URL text with no NUL after it, so that contract was broken. It had no visible effect: nothing read the byte after the slice.

Nothing needs the NUL there. The borrowed RequestKey::host is only hashed, compared and logged as bytes, and to_owned() makes the NUL-terminated copy that getaddrinfo gets. So the key, getaddrinfo and prefetch take Option<&[u8]>, the extern takes hostname: &[u8], and us_getaddrinfo reads its C string with ffi::cstr(..).to_bytes().

prefetch_from_js and seed_cache_for_testing no longer allocate a NUL-terminated copy only to borrow it.

22. dns: get_channel_or_error returns the &mut Channel that get_channel gave it

get_channel hands out &mut c_ares::Channel. get_channel_or_error turned it into *mut, and its callers turned it back with unsafe { &mut *channel } for ares_process_fd, ares_set_local_ip4, ares_queue_active_queries and ares_cancel. It and get_channel_from_vm now return the reference, and the *_channel_* helpers take &mut Channel, which coerces to *mut at the raw FFI calls. reverse, do_resolve_cares and c_ares_lookup_with_normalized_name put get_channel's reference in a *mut local and called through (*channel); they keep the reference. Channel is a zero-sized opaque type, asserted in c_ares.rs, so a callback that derives its own reference to the same channel cannot conflict with this one.

close_channel_for_terminate took a RefPtr guard from this and then dereferenced this in two more blocks. It calls through the guard.

23. dns, ipc: fill a fresh Box before releasing it, and two more raw hops

Resolver::init and the connect-path Request::new returned heap::into_raw(Box::new(..)), and new_resolver and seed_cache_for_testing then set fields of the object they had just made through the raw pointer. Both constructors return Box<Self>; the callers fill it in safely and release it where the raw pointer is needed (to_js_ptr, the global cache).

addrinfo_chain linked its nodes with (*base.add(i - 1)).ai_next = base.add(i). The same loop writes nodes[i - 1].ai_next = &raw mut nodes[i]. i runs over 1..nodes.len(), so the compiler drops both bounds checks.

InternalMsgHolder::flush took self.messages through the laundered this pointer. It takes it from self before that pointer is formed.

24. module loader: the guard that closes the input fd owns the fd and its flag

transpile_source_code_of_any_provenance kept should_close_input_file_fd and input_file_fd as two locals, gave a scopeguard a *mut to each, and reached both only through those pointers afterwards, with an unsafe block per use, so that a fresh &mut would not invalidate the guard's pointers.

The guard's payload is now the (bool, Fd) pair itself, and the two names are &mut borrows of it. The parser's file_fd_ptr reborrow ends with the parse call, since ParseResult does not carry that lifetime. The guard is declared where it was, so it still runs before arena_guard. The store of Fd::INVALID after the close, which nothing could read, is gone.

25. ipc: SendQueueOwner::Instance carries no pointer

The variant held a NonNull<IPCInstance>, dereferenced only to call IPCInstance::handle_ipc_close(&self) and handle_ipc_message(&self, ..). Neither touches self (both work on the thread's VM), and every other match arm ignored the pointer.

It is a unit variant and the two functions have no receiver. With no back-pointer to fill in, get_ipc_instance passes the owner to SendQueue::new and reads the queue's address from the RefPtr before boxing the instance, and set_owner, which had no other caller, is gone. emit_handle_ipc_message only asks whether there is an instance.

26. jsc: the retroactively_report_discovered_tests hook takes &mut TestReporterHandle

The RuntimeHooks slot was unsafe fn(agent: *mut TestReporterHandle, i32) -> i32, and its body wrote unsafe { &mut *agent } at both places where it reports a test. Its one caller has just stored the live handle, so it makes the reference once, in the block it already had, and the hook is a safe fn that takes &mut TestReporterHandle. The handle is a zero-sized opaque type.

27. module loader: TranspileArgs::extra is &TranspileExtra

The field was *mut TranspileExtra, read through an unsafe block at every use, "so the .wasm re-entry can mutate loader and recurse". That re-entry, which sets loader and module_type, was the only write.

The field is a shared reference, and those two fields of TranspileExtra are Cells. The re-entry makes the same two stores with Cell::set and recurses with the same args. The five places that build a TranspileExtra wrap the two values in Cell::new, and the one place that reads them uses get.

28. dispatch: __bun_fire_timer takes now: &Timespec, and one poll arm reuses poll_ref

EventLoopTimer::fire, the only caller of __bun_fire_timer, holds now: &timespec and passed it to a *const parameter, which the arms turned back into a reference with &*now. The extern declaration, the function and the arm macros take &ElTimespec. The BunTest arm also copied the two fields into a bun_core::Timespec; ElTimespec is a re-export of that type, so it passes now on.

__bun_run_file_poll starts with poll_ref = &mut *poll. The MEMORY_PRESSURE arm made the same reference a second time from the raw pointer; it uses poll_ref. Its handler reaches the poll, which it may free, only through that reference.

29. timer: clear_timer downcasts with as_class_ref, as it needs only &T

clear_timer collected an Option<*mut TimerObjectInternals> with addr_of_mut!, tested it, and dereferenced it once to call cancel(&self, vm). It collects a &TimerObjectInternals: the object branches downcast with as_class_ref, the id branches borrow the field in the block they already had, and the branch that produced None returns directly.

as_class_ref tests is_cell() before the fromJS call, which from_js alone does not. is_string_literal() has just made the same test on the same value. A value that is not a cell now skips the two fromJS calls.

30. jsc_hooks: drop lifetime erasers and a raw round trip that change nothing

get_loader_and_virtual_source widened path.text to &'static [u8] with from_raw_parts before storing it in virtual_source_to_use. That slot is an `Option&lt;Source&lt;'a&gt;&gt;' and 'path.text' is '&'a [u8]', which the blob branch above already stores there as it is.

In the VmLoaderCtx impl, main, blob_store_path and blob_shared_view rebuilt the slice they return to make it 'static. (*this) is a raw place, whose borrow is unbounded, and blob(b) is &'static Blob, so the slices have that lifetime already.

load_preloads took &raw const of a preload's bytes and turned it back into a reference in a second block. It borrows them in one.

31. timer, jsc_hooks: three *mut parameters whose contract a reference states

DateHeaderTimer::enable was an unsafe fn and All::update_date_header_timer_if_necessary a safe fn with a # Safety section, both only because they took vm: *mut VirtualMachine, of which they read uws_loop(). They take &VirtualMachine, enable is safe, and the three callers write &*vm in the block they already had. enable reaches the loop through uws_loop_ref(), as DateHeaderTimer::run does. No JS runs under that borrow, and the timer heap it updates is not part of the VM.

normalize_specifier_for_loader was an unsafe fn over jsc_vm that read only origin.host and origin.path. It is a safe fn that takes &URL.

TimerObjectInternals::run(this: *mut Self, ..) opened with &*this, and both callers hold that same &Self across the call. It takes &self. Nothing makes a &mut to a live timer (init and deinit are the only &mut self methods) and the callers pin the parent, so the JS callback can only reach it through another &Self. It stays an unsafe fn for vm and thrown.

32. timer: increment_timer_ref and increment_immediate_ref take &Loop

Both were safe functions with a # Safety section: they took uws_loop: *mut Loop and dereferenced it in two blocks each. Loop::ref_ and unref take &self, so the parameter is &Loop and the functions have no unsafe and no contract left.

The five callers got the pointer from VirtualMachine::uws_loop(). They now call uws_loop_ref(), which returns the same pointer as a &Loop.

33. server: run_corked_with_type takes fn(&U) and &U

Every cork site in RequestContext held &self, erased it to a *mut Self (or the address of a stack StreamPair/HeaderResponsePair to a *mut) for run_corked_with_type(fn(*mut U), *mut U), and the callee opened with unsafe { &*ptr } to get the same reference back.

The handler and its context are typed fn(&U) and &U: the same two words in the stack tuple that the trampoline reads. The sites pass self or &pair, and the callees take &self or &Pair. do_render_stream asked for &mut on its pair and never wrote through it.

render_metadata_corked and drain_response_buffer_and_metadata_corked only turned the pointer into a reference, and the closures in render_missing and do_render_blob only passed theirs on. All four go, and the methods behind them are the handlers.

34. server: NewServer request dispatch takes &self

prepare_js_request_context, on_saved_request, handle_request, on_request, on_node_http_request and their _for twins took this: *mut Self and each re-derived &*this one to three times. Every field of NewServer is a Cell/JsCell or fixed after init(), every callee already takes &self, and the HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 path even started from &self, cast it to *mut and dereferenced it again.

They are &self methods. The two extern "C" trampolines turn the uWS user data into the reference, like on_listen, and AnyServer dispatches through its tag-checked accessors. RequestContext::create gets &ThisServer for its BackRef. on_user_route_request keeps its raw *const UserRoute and forms the server reference once.

on_node_http_request returns early on a null node_http_response, so it forms one &NodeHTTPResponse after that instead of five behind null tests.

35. tls: SSLConfig reads buffers and files through &, not &mut

handle_file and handle_file_array wrote unsafe { &mut *val.get() } on an ExternalShared to fill SingleFile::Buffer(&mut JSCArrayBuffer) and File(&mut Blob), which handle_single_file only reads. Both are refcounted objects that JS can reach, so &mut was the wrong type as well.

SingleFile holds shared references, filled through ExternalShared's Deref, and is Copy. JSCArrayBuffer::as_array_buffer takes &self: JSC__ArrayBuffer__asBunArrayBuffer only reads the buffer.

36. server: attach_http2 takes &self

It took this: *mut Self only because its two failure arms called Self::deinit(this); everything else read (*this).field in four unsafe blocks. Both callers in listen() hold the raw pointer and return JSValue::ZERO on false, so they free the server there, in the same order (throw, deinit, return), and attach_http2 is a &self method.

37. jsc: VirtualMachine::{enqueue_task, tick, drain_microtasks} take &self

Their bodies are only self.event_loop_mut().x(), and event_loop_mut takes &self. The &mut self receiver made the server write unsafe { (*vm).drain_microtasks() } on the raw thread-local pointer, which is a &mut VirtualMachine live while script runs.

on_node_http_request drains through the &VirtualMachine it already enters its scopes with, and reads vm_mut() only where it reports an uncaught exception. schedule_deinit enqueues through server.vm(). RequestContext::on_abort, RewriterPipe::schedule_background_pull and Resolver::on_dns_poll_uv drop the .as_mut() on the &VirtualMachine they hold, and WindowsNamedPipeContext its cast of a &'static VirtualMachine to *mut. Every other caller is unchanged, the .as_mut().tick() ones included.

38. server: write_chunk and on_request_body_stream_drained take &self

Both took this: *mut Self and opened with unsafe { &*this }: two safe functions that dereferenced a raw argument. They are &self methods.

No dereference goes away. AnyRequestContext is their only caller, and the two move into the reference arm of its dispatch! macro, which does the same tag match and cast and already serves thirteen other methods. What is gained is the two signatures.

end_chunk stays on the raw-pointer arm: it adopts the pipe's ref, which needs the pointer it was given.

39. server: listen() borrows the SNI names and the unix path

The SNI loop indexed config.sni, kept (name_ptr, name_len) and rebuilt a &CStr and a &ZStr from them; Addr::Unix { ptr, len } was rebuilt into a &ZStr further down. Both only erased a borrow of this_ref.config. this_ref is a Copy BackRef local that lives to the end of the function and Self::deinit(this) takes the raw pointer, so the borrow checker accepts the plain form, as it does for server_name a few lines above.

The loop iterates the slice, keeps the &CStr and uses ZStr::from_cstr; Addr::Unix holds &ZStr from ZBox::as_zstr.

40. socket: Listener types its late write and its SNI out-parameter

listen() only knows the bound port after the wrapper exists, so it wrote the plain connection field through the raw payload pointer while this_ref: &Listener was live. The field is a JsCell like its siblings (repr(transparent)), assigned through this_ref in with_mut: the same drop of the placeholder, then the same store.

decode_sni_result tested abort_handshake: *mut c_int for null and wrote through it in three places. The parameter is Option<&mut c_int>, the same ABI, test and store, from the top down: in us_dispatch_socket_server_name, us_dispatch_server_name, the callback type of ListenSocket::on_server_name, and dispatch_server_name.

The call site: us_select_cert_cb (openssl.c) passes &abort_handshake, a local initialised to 0, to one entry point or the other. Nothing else has its address, so the JS callback cannot reach it, and a nested handshake has its own.

41. socket: drop round trips through raw pointers

The TLS upgrade picked its SocketGroups in an if whose arms both yield &mut SocketGroups, cast the first to *mut to name a common type and dereferenced the result again. The if yields the reference.

dgram_get_sock_name_fd rebuilt the address bytes in both arms with from_raw_parts((&raw const addr.addr).cast(), len). The IPv6 addr is a [u8; 16], so &addr6.addr is that slice. The IPv4 one is a u32, read through bun_core::bytes_of.

42. server: upgrade() guards with the reference it holds; ServerWebSocket::init takes its flags

upgrade() already holds upgrader: &RequestContext and uses it after the option getters ran, but its scope guard kept the raw pointer and dereferenced it again for the paired deref(). The guard holds the reference.

init_for_ws_package called init and then unsafe { &*this } on the returned pointer just to set one flag bit. init takes the initial Flags, so the struct is built with the bit set. Nothing reads it before close(). server.upgrade(), the other caller, passes one more argument for it: it zeroes a register, and init stores the flags from that register instead of an immediate.

43. node:http: slice the unwritten tail of a zero-copy write

The tail was built with slice_from_raw_parts(bytes.as_ptr().add(consumed), bytes_len - consumed). It is &bytes[consumed..], as the else arm wrote it and drain_pending_pinned_write does. It is sliced once, directly under the early return for consumed >= bytes_len, and both arms use it. bytes_len is bytes.len() of the same local, so that comparison implies the bounds check.

44. tls: no_password is a safe extern "C" fn

The PEM password callback ignores its arguments and returns 0, so it has no contract for a caller to uphold. A safe extern "C" fn item coerces to the unsafe extern "C" fn pointer that PEM_bytes_read_bio takes.

45. server, socket: type the out-parameters of four exported functions as references

NodeHTTPResponse__createForJS, NodeHTTPResponse__adoptRawRequestHeaders, us_bundled_root_cert and Bun__parseIpAddress took raw pointers that each dereferenced once in an unsafe block. They take &mut bool and &mut *mut NodeHTTPResponse, &NodeHTTPResponse, &mut usize, and Option<&mut MaybeUninit<sockaddr_storage>> (it keeps its null test). The ABI is the same, and us_bundled_root_cert is a safe extern "C" fn. createForJS also keeps its Box until both jsc::Refs are taken instead of dereferencing the pointer it has just leaked.

The call sites: NodeHTTPServer__onRequest (NodeHTTP.cpp) passes &hasBody, a local initialised to false, and the &mut node_http_response it got from on_node_http_request, then *nodeHttpResponsePtr, which createForJS has just set; us_bundled_roots (root_certs.cpp) passes &roots.lens[i] of the vector it has just resized; try_parse_ip (context.c, for &local_addr_storage and &addr of us_socket_group_connect) and us_quic_socket_context_connect (quic.c, &peer_ss) pass uninitialised sockaddr_storage locals.

46. server: request_pool is a &'static pool

The HTTP/1 RequestContext pool is a leaked thread-local allocation that is never freed, and claim/put take &self, but the server stored it as *mut Pool and wrote unsafe { (*server.request_pool).claim() } for each request. The field is set in init() and never null, so it is a plain &'static Pool: the same load and call, with no Option in between.

Fallback::new_boxed returns Box<Self> like HiveArray::new_boxed, and request_pool() leaks it. Its two other callers, which turned the leaked pointer straight back into a Box, use Box::into_raw. mux_request_pool is null until listen() and stays raw.

How did you verify your code works?

  • Static checks on the final commits: cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --workspace (0 warnings), the source lints and cargo check --workspace --release on Linux, and cargo check --workspace --release for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc and aarch64-apple-darwin, because six changes touch code that only those targets compile.
  • Assembly: the comparison above.
  • The test of change 1 fails on a debug build of the base (TypeError: undefined) and passes on a debug build of these commits, with BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1 too.
  • 30 test files on the final commits, on a debug build with ASAN, all at once and each cut off after 50 seconds: the files for workers, DNS, timers, fake timers, vi utilities, sockets, UDP, Bun.serve, WebSocket servers, IPC, --watch and the resolver.
    • 21 files pass completely, 1,432 tests.
    • 4 files fail in one test each, and in the same test on a debug build of the base: resolve (needs tsyringe), vitest-apis (needs jest-extended), socket (needs the public internet) and setInterval (a memory test that a debug build does not finish in its 30 seconds).
    • setImmediate.test.js failed in one test, which gives a child process 500 ms to start and exit. On its own the file passes, five times out of five.
    • 4 files were cut off: hot, worker_threads, setTimeout and error-gc-test.
  • 422 test files before the last rebase. The rebase brought in 31 commits of main. In it I adapted three of the commits here to main's new code (1, 27 and 31), and a review after it changed six (1, 5, 6, 28, 30 and 31). The 422 files ran on a debug build with ASAN of the commits as they were and, where something failed, on a debug build of their base: all of test/js/web/workers/, test/js/node/worker_threads/, test/js/bun/dns/, test/js/node/dns/, test/js/web/timers/, test/js/bun/net/, test/js/node/net/, test/js/node/tls/, test/js/bun/http/, test/js/node/http/, test/js/node/http2/, test/js/bun/websocket/, test/js/web/websocket/, test/js/bun/udp/, test/js/node/child_process/, test/js/bun/resolve/, test/cli/hot/ and test/cli/watch/, and the files for IPC, error printing, stack traces and GC.
    • 396 files pass completely, 9,753 tests.

    • 3 of the 396 failed the first time, with eight files running at once on a busy machine, in tests with a time limit: watch.test.ts (3 tests), stack-frame-paths.test.ts (2) and h2-conformance.test.ts (2). I ran each three more times on its own: all pass every time.

    • 26 files fail in the same tests on both builds (serve-body-leak in one more on the base):

      Why Files (tests that fail)
      They need the public internet or its DNS. resolve-dns (30), node-dns (28), node-tls-connect (3), dns-resolver-class (2), websocket (2), node-net (2), bun-connect-x509 (1), socket (1)
      They need packages that I did not have. proxy (axios), plugins (svelte), node-http-connect (2, proxy), resolve (1, tsyringe)
      A time limit or a memory bound that a debug build with ASAN misses. serve-body-leak (1), req-url-leak (1), error-gc-test (1), inspect-error-leak (1), setInterval (1), timer-gc-roots (1), node-net (1)
      They compare a long record of calls with an expected one. node-http-state-through-an-heir-and-a-proxy (2), node-http-closed-response (1), node-http-proxy-traps (1), node-http-receivers-that-are-no-messages (1), node-stream-proxy-traps (1)
      Other. setTimeout (3), bun-test (2), leaks-test (1)
  • After the 422 files had run I removed four #[inline] attributes that an earlier form of change 18 had added. The static checks ran again on the final commits.

Generated by Claude Code

claude added 30 commits November 3, 2026 17:01
`WebWorker::create` gave the transpiler the address of a temporary `Log` and
then moved that `Log` into a scope guard. The resolver wrote its error into
the slot the log had been moved out of, which was never dropped, and the error
message was built from the empty copy: the constructor threw
`TypeError: undefined`.

The `Log` now stays where it is, and the guard only restores the previous log
pointer.

`resolve_entry_point_specifier` takes neither the log nor a string to fill. It
returns why it failed: a text of its own, or the resolver's error, which is in
the log the transpiler points at. Only the preload loop turns that error into
a message. The two resolves in `create()` that only want a path create no JS
objects for a text nobody reads. Neither does `spin()`, whose log already has
the error and is reported by `flush_logs`.
`has_ending_child`, `has_returning_child`, `has_room_to_wait_for`,
`join_returning_children` and `start_waiting_children` were `unsafe fn`s over
`*mut VirtualMachine` whose whole contract was "the calling thread's VM". They
only read the VM, and a `&VirtualMachine` cannot leave its thread, so the
reference states that contract. `create()` passes the reference it already
has.

`on_room_timer` takes `&self` and the VM whose timer heap fired it, which is
the worker's parent, instead of a pointer it tested for null and a second
pointer it read from the worker. It stays `unsafe`: it must only be called on
a worker that waits for room.
A `Tail` drop guard held `self` and `exception` as raw pointers and turned
them back into `&mut` in `Drop`, while the body went on using `self` and a
third `&mut` made from the guard's pointer. The guard existed so that the last
two steps also ran after the body's one early `return`. Panics abort, so it
never ran on any other path.

The body moves into a private method, `remap_zig_exception_frames`, whose only
caller is `remap_zig_exception`. The two steps follow the call and use the
function's own `self`, `exception` and `exception_list`, so they still run
whichever way the body returns. The preview flag is a `&mut bool` instead of a
`Cell`, which is the only change inside the body.
It turned the `&mut ZigException` it got from the holder into a raw pointer
and dereferenced that twice, only so that it could also lend out the holder's
`need_to_clear_parser_arena_on_deinit` field.

`remap_zig_exception` now writes the flag into a local, which is copied into
the holder before `deinit`, its only reader. This is what `write_trace`
already does, and `exception` stays a plain `&mut`.
`process_exit`, `create_node_fs` and `apply_standalone_runtime_flags` took raw
pointers. Every caller made the pointer from a reference, and the first thing
each hook did was turn it back into one. `run_pending_test_step` took the VM as
a raw pointer only to read its `global()`, and its caller holds a
`&VirtualMachine`.

The slots now take `&JSGlobalObject`, `&mut VirtualMachine`, `&mut Transpiler`
and `&JSGlobalObject`. The third stays `unsafe` because it downcasts the module
graph. The others have no other contract and are safe functions.
Every `uws::Loop` method takes `&self` and every field is a `Cell`, because
the callbacks that `tick` and `close_all_groups` dispatch reach the loop
again. `VirtualMachine::uws_loop_mut`, `platform_loop_opt` and
`hold_forever_poll` still dealt in `&mut Loop`, which claims an exclusive
borrow across those calls.

- `uws_loop_mut` returns `&Loop` and is now called `uws_loop_ref`, like the
  accessor on `HTTPThread`. `platform_loop_opt` returns `Option<&_>`.
- `hold_forever_poll`, and `uws::Timer::create` on Windows, take `&Loop`.
  `us_create_timer` then asks for nothing but a live loop on its own thread,
  so it is a `safe fn` like `us_timer_ext` and `us_timer_set`.
- `tick_possibly_forever` borrows the loop once instead of dereferencing the
  pointer four times, and teardown uses the accessor.
- `tick_while_paused` only reads the event loop, so it takes `&self`.
- On Windows `platform_loop_opt` hands out the libuv loop, on which
  `has_handles` calls `uv::Loop::has_active_io_handles`. That takes `&self`:
  of the loop, `uv_walk` writes only `handle_queue`, which becomes a `Cell`
  like `active_handles`.
`init` takes `&self` and only reads `vm.jsc_vm`, but asked for
`&mut VirtualMachine`. To pass that next to the controller, which is a field
of the VM, `ensure_waker` projected the field through a raw pointer and made a
`&mut` of the whole VM from inside the VM's own event loop.

With `&VirtualMachine` both are shared borrows of the reference `ensure_waker`
already uses. `process_gc_timer` and `perform_gc` take `&self` too, so their
callers no longer go through `as_mut()`.
It took `&mut self`, discarded it with `let _ = self;` and worked only on the
VM's uws loop. To call it, the stop phase made a `&mut RareData` and a
`&VirtualMachine` from the same pointer, and the `&mut` stayed a live argument
while socket close handlers reached `RareData` again.

It is now an associated function of the VM reference. The caller still runs it
only when the VM has `rare_data`.
The field was set to zero when an item was added and incremented for every
file event by the hot reloader and the dev server. Nothing ever read it. To
increment it, the hot reloader built a `&mut [u32]` out of a `&WatchList` with
`unsafe`, and the dev server did the same through `items_mut`.

The field, its two initialisers and both increments are gone.
- The `ArenaReset` guard in `fetch_without_on_load_plugins` turned its
  `&mut VirtualMachine` into a pointer and back to call `reset_arena`, a safe
  function. A plain reborrow does.
- `JSValkeyClient::connect` took `&mut VirtualMachine` first, so it had to
  launder the context it borrowed from the VM through a pointer. It now keeps
  the client's `&'static VirtualMachine` and calls `as_mut()` only for
  `client_socket_groups_in`, as `socket_body.rs` does.
- `Job::take` makes the `Box` first and unlinks the box's header, instead of
  dereferencing the raw pointer for the unlink and boxing it afterwards. The
  allocation is now freed after the keep-alive is released, not before.
A `ThreadStart` never crosses a thread by value. What the `spawn` closure
captures is `OwnedByThread`, a pointer to it with a `Send` impl of its own, so
no bound needed the impl on `ThreadStart`.

Its SAFETY text, which `OwnedByThread` referred to, moves to `OwnedByThread`.
The inventory of the thread-door source lint loses the entry.
The variant was never constructed: `vm.bun_watcher` is null until
`install_bun_watcher` stores a `Hot` or a `Watch`. Every match still carried an
arm for it, and the `HotReloaderCtx` impl and the transpiler job dereferenced
the pointer just to rule it out.

Without the variant "is a watcher installed" is the null test that
`VirtualMachine::is_watcher_enabled` already was, and the trait method calls
that. The transpiler job kept the answer in a flag and then matched the same
`Option` again. It matches once, in the place of the flag. The dead arms go,
and two `if let`s that can no longer fail become `let`s.
It was an `unsafe fn` over a pointer and a count, and the first thing it did
with them was build the slice. Its only caller is the function exported to
C++, which had an `unsafe` block of its own for the call.

The export now builds the slice, where the pointer from C++ arrives, and the
method is safe.
These functions took raw pointers and their only `unsafe` act was `&*p`,
`&mut *p` or `*out = x`. None has a Rust caller. A reference has the same ABI
and puts the contract in the signature, as `Bun__VmHandle__retain` and
`Bun__setExitCode` already do.

- Out-parameters become `&mut`: `Bun__standaloneInternalModuleBytecode`,
  `Bun__standaloneModuleKey`, `Bun__standalonePrelinkedModuleGraph` and
  `Bun__standalonePrelinkedModuleName`.
- The VM becomes `&VirtualMachine` in
  `Bun__VirtualMachine__replaceEnteredContext` and `&mut VirtualMachine` in
  `Bun__ScriptExecutionContext__create`.
- The handle becomes `&Shared` in `Bun__VmHandle__scriptAllowed` and
  `Bun__VmHandle__stateAddress`.

All but `Bun__standaloneModuleKey`, which still builds a slice from a pointer
and a length, are now safe functions.

The C++ call sites are `generateInternalModuleFromText`,
`StandaloneGlobalObject::moduleLoaderResolve`,
`JSVMClientData::prelinkedModuleGraph` and `prelinkedModuleKey`, which pass the
addresses of distinct initialised locals, the constructor and destructor of
`ErrorHandlerContextScope` and the `ScriptExecutionContext(parent)`
constructor, which pass the thread's `bunVM`, and `runPendingWork` and
`JSVMClientData::create`, which pass the client data's `vmHandle`.
`WebWorker__join`, `__setRef`, `__requestTermination` and
`__releaseParentPollRef` took `*mut WebWorker`, tested it for null and wrapped
it in a `ParentRef` only to use it as a `&WebWorker`.

Their callers are `terminateWorkerGlobalScope`, `setKeepAlive` and
`releaseWorkerThread` in WorkerMessagingProxy.cpp. Each returns early when
`m_workerThread` is null, and the proxy holds a ref on the worker until it
calls `WebWorker__deref`, so the parameter can be the reference.
`print_error_instance_body` kept the `ZigException` for its deferred
annotation in a `BackRef`, a pointer without a lifetime. After the guard is
made the function only reads the exception, so the guard can hold a plain
`&ZigException` and the compiler checks what the field's comment asserted.
It took `&mut VirtualMachine`, moved `child_workers` out of it and then called
into C++ for each child. C++ comes back through
`WebWorker__releaseParentPollRef` and `WebWorker__join`, which reach the same
VM through the worker's `parent` pointer and read that same field. So the VM
was read through another pointer while the `&mut VirtualMachine` parameter,
which promises that nothing else touches it, was still live.

`teardown` now takes the list out of the VM, inside the `unsafe` block it
already has, and hands it over. That borrow of the field ends before the first
child is released, and the function holds no reference to the VM. Its only
caller is in this crate, so it is `pub(crate)`.
…es its own

`pending_host_cache`, two of the `HasPendingCacheKey::pending_cache` impls and
the Windows `cancel_pending_uv_requests_for_teardown` made a `&mut HiveArray`
out of `&Resolver` with `JsCell::get_mut`. Every `HiveArray` method that they or
their callers use takes `&self`, so they borrow `&HiveArray` with the safe
`JsCell::get`. `get_key_addr`, `get_key_nameinfo` and two places in dns_sd.rs
took the hive `&mut` through `with_mut` for the same `&self` methods; they use
`get` too.

`pending_cache_for::<T>` made its `&mut HiveArray` another way: it matched on
`T::CACHE_FIELD`, took `JsCell::as_ptr` of the chosen field and pointer-cast it
to the `HiveArray` of `T`. Each field already has exactly that type, so
`CAresRecordType` gets `fn cache(&Resolver)`, in which each impl names its
field, and the function and its cast are gone. Nothing else read `CACHE_FIELD`:
it goes, with the `field` parameters that only passed it along and the fourteen
`PendingCacheField` variants that only they used.

`ResolveInfoRequest::init` and `GetAddrInfoRequest::init` used to retag the
whole hive `&mut` and then write through the older slot pointer `new`. With a
shared borrow that order is fine.
Every caller holds a `&Resolver` and passed `Some(this.as_ctx_ptr())` (or the
bare pointer, for `DNSLookup::init`). The constructors then took their ref with
`resolver.map(|r| unsafe { RefPtr::init_ref(r) })` and reached the pending cache
through `(*resolver.unwrap())`.

They take `resolver: &Resolver`: the ref comes from `resolver.ref_guard()`, the
cache is read through the reference, and `resolver_for_caching` is stored once
at construction, not a second time in the `New` arm.
…r owner

`CAresNameInfo`, `CAresReverse`, `CAresLookup<T>` and `DNSLookup` are either the
inline `head` of a request or a boxed waiter chained behind it. Their completion
functions were `unsafe fn(this: *mut Self, ..)` that ended in
`Self::destroy(this)`, which freed `this` if its `allocated` flag said it was a
waiter.

The caller always knows which of the two it holds, so the functions take
`&mut self` and free nothing. A head is completed in place and dropped with its
request as before. A waiter is completed as
`heap::take(waiter).on_complete(..)`: the temporary box drops at the end of that
statement, where `destroy` ran. `destroy`, `allocated` and `CAresLookup::new`
are gone. `init` returns `Box<Self>`, `append` takes the box and releases it
into the list, and the callers read the promise before they hand the box over.
The functions also moved the promise to a local with `mem::take` before they
settled it; they settle `self.promise` where it is.

Nothing else uses a node while it is completed: each drain empties the cache
slot and reads `next` first, the dns_sd path has removed the request from
`inflight`, and `LibcRequest` is consumed. c-ares has the request as the `arg`
of its query, but the pinned c-ares takes a query off all its lists before it
runs the callback (`end_query`, `ares_flush_requeue`, `ares_cancel`,
`ares_destroy`), so a cancel or destroy from inside a completion does not call
back for the same request.

Not changed here: a c-ares thunk forms a `&mut` to the whole request and calls
`on_*(&mut self)` on it, and under that borrow the drain uses and frees the
request through `key.lookup`.

`process_get_addr_info_native` loses its `result` parameter, for which every
caller passed null. The three functions that take a raw c-ares result stay
`unsafe fn`, with that as their whole contract.
`__bun_dns_prefetch(loop_, hostname: *const u8, len, port)` built its key with
`ZStr::from_raw(hostname, len)`, whose contract is `ptr[len] == 0`. Its one
caller, `bun install`, passes the hostname of the registry URL, a sub-slice of
the URL text with no NUL after it, so that contract was broken. It had no
visible effect: nothing read the byte after the slice.

Nothing needs the NUL there. The borrowed `RequestKey::host` is only hashed,
compared and logged as bytes, and `to_owned()` makes the NUL-terminated copy
that `getaddrinfo` gets. So the key, `getaddrinfo` and `prefetch` take
`Option<&[u8]>`, the extern takes `hostname: &[u8]`, and `us_getaddrinfo` reads
its C string with `ffi::cstr(..).to_bytes()`.

`prefetch_from_js` and `seed_cache_for_testing` no longer allocate a
NUL-terminated copy only to borrow it.
…nel` gave it

`get_channel` hands out `&mut c_ares::Channel`. `get_channel_or_error` turned it
into `*mut`, and its callers turned it back with `unsafe { &mut *channel }` for
`ares_process_fd`, `ares_set_local_ip4`, `ares_queue_active_queries` and
`ares_cancel`. It and `get_channel_from_vm` now return the reference, and the
`*_channel_*` helpers take `&mut Channel`, which coerces to `*mut` at the raw FFI
calls. `reverse`, `do_resolve_cares` and `c_ares_lookup_with_normalized_name`
put `get_channel`'s reference in a `*mut` local and called through `(*channel)`;
they keep the reference. `Channel` is a zero-sized opaque type, asserted in
c_ares.rs, so a callback that derives its own reference to the same channel
cannot conflict with this one.

`close_channel_for_terminate` took a `RefPtr` guard from `this` and then
dereferenced `this` in two more blocks. It calls through the guard.
`Resolver::init` and the connect-path `Request::new` returned
`heap::into_raw(Box::new(..))`, and `new_resolver` and `seed_cache_for_testing`
then set fields of the object they had just made through the raw pointer. Both
constructors return `Box<Self>`; the callers fill it in safely and release it
where the raw pointer is needed (`to_js_ptr`, the global cache).

`addrinfo_chain` linked its nodes with `(*base.add(i - 1)).ai_next = base.add(i)`.
The same loop writes `nodes[i - 1].ai_next = &raw mut nodes[i]`. `i` runs over
`1..nodes.len()`, so the compiler drops both bounds checks.

`InternalMsgHolder::flush` took `self.messages` through the laundered `this`
pointer. It takes it from `self` before that pointer is formed.
… flag

`transpile_source_code_of_any_provenance` kept `should_close_input_file_fd` and
`input_file_fd` as two locals, gave a scopeguard a `*mut` to each, and reached
both only through those pointers afterwards, with an `unsafe` block per use, so
that a fresh `&mut` would not invalidate the guard's pointers.

The guard's payload is now the `(bool, Fd)` pair itself, and the two names are
`&mut` borrows of it. The parser's `file_fd_ptr` reborrow ends with the parse
call, since `ParseResult` does not carry that lifetime. The guard is declared
where it was, so it still runs before `arena_guard`. The store of `Fd::INVALID`
after the close, which nothing could read, is gone.
The variant held a `NonNull<IPCInstance>`, dereferenced only to call
`IPCInstance::handle_ipc_close(&self)` and `handle_ipc_message(&self, ..)`.
Neither touches `self` (both work on the thread's VM), and every other match arm
ignored the pointer.

It is a unit variant and the two functions have no receiver. With no
back-pointer to fill in, `get_ipc_instance` passes the owner to `SendQueue::new`
and reads the queue's address from the `RefPtr` before boxing the instance, and
`set_owner`, which had no other caller, is gone. `emit_handle_ipc_message` only
asks whether there is an instance.
…tReporterHandle`

The `RuntimeHooks` slot was `unsafe fn(agent: *mut TestReporterHandle, i32) -> i32`,
and its body wrote `unsafe { &mut *agent }` at both places where it reports a
test. Its one caller has just stored the live handle, so it makes the reference
once, in the block it already had, and the hook is a safe fn that takes
`&mut TestReporterHandle`. The handle is a zero-sized opaque type.
The field was `*mut TranspileExtra`, read through an `unsafe` block at every use,
"so the `.wasm` re-entry can mutate `loader` and recurse". That re-entry, which
sets `loader` and `module_type`, was the only write.

The field is a shared reference, and those two fields of `TranspileExtra` are
`Cell`s. The re-entry makes the same two stores with `Cell::set` and recurses
with the same `args`. The five places that build a `TranspileExtra` wrap the two
values in `Cell::new`, and the one place that reads them uses `get`.
… reuses `poll_ref`

`EventLoopTimer::fire`, the only caller of `__bun_fire_timer`, holds
`now: &timespec` and passed it to a `*const` parameter, which the arms turned
back into a reference with `&*now`. The extern declaration, the function and the
arm macros take `&ElTimespec`. The BunTest arm also copied the two fields into a
`bun_core::Timespec`; `ElTimespec` is a re-export of that type, so it passes
`now` on.

`__bun_run_file_poll` starts with `poll_ref = &mut *poll`. The MEMORY_PRESSURE
arm made the same reference a second time from the raw pointer; it uses
`poll_ref`. Its handler reaches the poll, which it may free, only through that
reference.
…`&T`

`clear_timer` collected an `Option<*mut TimerObjectInternals>` with
`addr_of_mut!`, tested it, and dereferenced it once to call `cancel(&self, vm)`.
It collects a `&TimerObjectInternals`: the object branches downcast with
`as_class_ref`, the id branches borrow the field in the block they already had,
and the branch that produced `None` returns directly.

`as_class_ref` tests `is_cell()` before the `fromJS` call, which `from_js` alone
does not. `is_string_literal()` has just made the same test on the same value. A
value that is not a cell now skips the two `fromJS` calls.
…hing

`get_loader_and_virtual_source` widened `path.text` to `&'static [u8]` with
`from_raw_parts` before storing it in `virtual_source_to_use`. That slot is an
`Option<Source<'a>>` and `path.text` is `&'a [u8]`, which the blob branch above
already stores there as it is.

In the `VmLoaderCtx` impl, `main`, `blob_store_path` and `blob_shared_view`
rebuilt the slice they return to make it `'static`. `(*this)` is a raw place,
whose borrow is unbounded, and `blob(b)` is `&'static Blob`, so the slices have
that lifetime already.

`load_preloads` took `&raw const` of a preload's bytes and turned it back into
a reference in a second block. It borrows them in one.
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…self`

Their bodies are only `self.event_loop_mut().x()`, and `event_loop_mut` takes
`&self`. The `&mut self` receiver made the server write
`unsafe { (*vm).drain_microtasks() }` on the raw thread-local pointer, which
is a `&mut VirtualMachine` live while script runs.

`on_node_http_request` drains through the `&VirtualMachine` it already enters
its scopes with, and reads `vm_mut()` only where it reports an uncaught
exception. `schedule_deinit` enqueues through `server.vm()`.
`RequestContext::on_abort`, `RewriterPipe::schedule_background_pull` and
`Resolver::on_dns_poll_uv` drop the `.as_mut()` on the `&VirtualMachine` they
hold, and `WindowsNamedPipeContext` its cast of a `&'static VirtualMachine`
to `*mut`. Every other caller is unchanged, the `.as_mut().tick()` ones
included.
Both took `this: *mut Self` and opened with `unsafe { &*this }`: two safe
functions that dereferenced a raw argument. They are `&self` methods.

No dereference goes away. `AnyRequestContext` is their only caller, and the
two move into the reference arm of its `dispatch!` macro, which does the same
tag match and cast and already serves thirteen other methods. What is gained
is the two signatures.

`end_chunk` stays on the raw-pointer arm: it adopts the pipe's ref, which
needs the pointer it was given.
The SNI loop indexed `config.sni`, kept `(name_ptr, name_len)` and rebuilt a
`&CStr` and a `&ZStr` from them; `Addr::Unix { ptr, len }` was rebuilt into
a `&ZStr` further down. Both only erased a borrow of `this_ref.config`.
`this_ref` is a `Copy` `BackRef` local that lives to the end of the function
and `Self::deinit(this)` takes the raw pointer, so the borrow checker accepts
the plain form, as it does for `server_name` a few lines above.

The loop iterates the slice, keeps the `&CStr` and uses `ZStr::from_cstr`;
`Addr::Unix` holds `&ZStr` from `ZBox::as_zstr`.
`listen()` only knows the bound port after the wrapper exists, so it wrote
the plain `connection` field through the raw payload pointer while
`this_ref: &Listener` was live. The field is a `JsCell` like its siblings
(`repr(transparent)`), assigned through `this_ref` in `with_mut`: the same
drop of the placeholder, then the same store.

`decode_sni_result` tested `abort_handshake: *mut c_int` for null and wrote
through it in three places. The parameter is `Option<&mut c_int>`, the same
ABI, test and store, from the top down: in `us_dispatch_socket_server_name`,
`us_dispatch_server_name`, the callback type of
`ListenSocket::on_server_name`, and `dispatch_server_name`.

The call site: `us_select_cert_cb` (openssl.c) passes `&abort_handshake`, a
local initialised to 0, to one entry point or the other. Nothing else has its
address, so the JS callback cannot reach it, and a nested handshake has its
own.
The TLS upgrade picked its `SocketGroups` in an `if` whose arms both yield
`&mut SocketGroups`, cast the first to `*mut` to name a common type and
dereferenced the result again. The `if` yields the reference.

`dgram_get_sock_name_fd` rebuilt the address bytes in both arms with
`from_raw_parts((&raw const addr.addr).cast(), len)`. The IPv6 `addr` is a
`[u8; 16]`, so `&addr6.addr` is that slice. The IPv4 one is a `u32`, read
through `bun_core::bytes_of`.
…ket::init` takes its flags

`upgrade()` already holds `upgrader: &RequestContext` and uses it after the
option getters ran, but its scope guard kept the raw pointer and dereferenced
it again for the paired `deref()`. The guard holds the reference.

`init_for_ws_package` called `init` and then `unsafe { &*this }` on the
returned pointer just to set one flag bit. `init` takes the initial `Flags`,
so the struct is built with the bit set. Nothing reads it before `close()`.
`server.upgrade()`, the other caller, passes one more argument for it: it
zeroes a register, and `init` stores the flags from that register instead of
an immediate.
The tail was built with `slice_from_raw_parts(bytes.as_ptr().add(consumed),
bytes_len - consumed)`. It is `&bytes[consumed..]`, as the `else` arm wrote it
and `drain_pending_pinned_write` does. It is sliced once, directly under the
early return for `consumed >= bytes_len`, and both arms use it. `bytes_len` is
`bytes.len()` of the same local, so that comparison implies the bounds check.
The PEM password callback ignores its arguments and returns 0, so it has no
contract for a caller to uphold. A safe `extern "C" fn` item coerces to the
`unsafe extern "C" fn` pointer that `PEM_bytes_read_bio` takes.
… references

`NodeHTTPResponse__createForJS`, `NodeHTTPResponse__adoptRawRequestHeaders`,
`us_bundled_root_cert` and `Bun__parseIpAddress` took raw pointers that each
dereferenced once in an `unsafe` block. They take `&mut bool` and
`&mut *mut NodeHTTPResponse`, `&NodeHTTPResponse`, `&mut usize`, and
`Option<&mut MaybeUninit<sockaddr_storage>>` (it keeps its null test). The ABI
is the same, and `us_bundled_root_cert` is a safe `extern "C" fn`.
`createForJS` also keeps its `Box` until both `jsc::Ref`s are taken instead
of dereferencing the pointer it has just leaked.

The call sites: `NodeHTTPServer__onRequest` (NodeHTTP.cpp) passes `&hasBody`,
a local initialised to `false`, and the `&mut node_http_response` it got from
`on_node_http_request`, then `*nodeHttpResponsePtr`, which `createForJS` has
just set; `us_bundled_roots` (root_certs.cpp) passes `&roots.lens[i]` of the
vector it has just resized; `try_parse_ip` (context.c, for
`&local_addr_storage` and `&addr` of `us_socket_group_connect`) and
`us_quic_socket_context_connect` (quic.c, `&peer_ss`) pass uninitialised
`sockaddr_storage` locals.
The HTTP/1 `RequestContext` pool is a leaked thread-local allocation that is
never freed, and `claim`/`put` take `&self`, but the server stored it as
`*mut Pool` and wrote `unsafe { (*server.request_pool).claim() }` for each
request. The field is set in `init()` and never null, so it is a plain
`&'static Pool`: the same load and call, with no `Option` in between.

`Fallback::new_boxed` returns `Box<Self>` like `HiveArray::new_boxed`, and
`request_pool()` leaks it. Its two other callers, which turned the leaked
pointer straight back into a `Box`, use `Box::into_raw`.
`mux_request_pool` is null until `listen()` and stays raw.
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Minor Remove the overlapping &mut to the global channel in setchannelservers.
Minor Report the entry-point failure reason even when the worker log already has an error.
Minor Pass a raw mut Self through the cork callback instead of &RequestContext.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/jsc/web_worker.rs:
- Around line 1159-1162: Update the unresolved-entry handling around
`Unresolved::Because` so it adds the resolution reason to `vm_log` even when
`vm_log.errors` is already nonzero. Preserve the existing behavior for other
unresolved cases.

Review comments at @src/runtime/dns_jsc/dns.rs:
- Around line 5300-5301: Update the global-channel comparison in
set_channel_servers to compare raw pointers and obtain the global channel
pointer without creating another mutable reference while set_global_servers
holds one. Preserve the active-query check and the distinction between global
and resolver channels.

Review comments at @src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:
- Line 1152: Update the cork callback path around render_missing_corked to pass
*mut Self rather than materializing &RequestContext while the callback may
release the context. Propagate the raw pointer through end(), deref(), and
deinit(), and form a reference only after establishing that the context remains
alive; preserve the existing release behavior on every branch.

Walkthrough

This pull request updates Rust ownership and borrowing patterns across runtime, DNS, worker, server, and socket code. It changes APIs to use owned boxes, references, slices, and interior mutability in place of several raw-pointer patterns. It also updates worker preload resolution and adds a test for unresolved preload paths.

Changes

Runtime references and event-loop access

Layer / File(s) Summary
VM references and exception handling
src/collections/hive_array.rs, src/jsc/ScriptExecutionContext.rs, src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs, src/jsc/VmHandle.rs, src/jsc/array_buffer.rs, src/jsc/bindgen_test.rs, src/jsc/job.rs, src/runtime/hw_exports.rs, src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs
Several VM, array-buffer, and exception APIs now use references or slices instead of raw pointers. Fallback::new_boxed returns its box directly.
Event-loop and timer references
src/event_loop/EventLoopTimer.rs, src/jsc/event_loop.rs, src/jsc/rare_data.rs, src/libuv_sys/libuv.rs, src/runtime/dispatch.rs, src/runtime/timer/*, src/uws_sys/Timer.rs
Timer snapshots and loop access use references. tick_while_paused, has_active_io_handles, and timer APIs now accept shared references where described.
Supporting runtime call sites
src/jsc/Debugger.rs, src/jsc/GarbageCollectionController.rs, src/jsc/JSCScheduler.rs, src/runtime/api/bun/subprocess.rs, src/runtime/api/html_rewriter.rs, src/runtime/socket/WindowsNamedPipeContext.rs, src/uws_sys/Response.rs
Call sites use shared VM or loop access, and cork callbacks borrow their data. run_pending_test_step and related hooks use references.

Transpilation, watchers, and workers

Layer / File(s) Summary
Transpiler and watcher updates
src/jsc/ModuleLoader.rs, src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerStore.rs, src/jsc/hot_reloader.rs, src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs, src/watcher/Watcher.rs, src/runtime/bake/dev_server/watch.rs, test/internal/source-lints/vm-thread-door.inventory.json
Transpilation arguments borrow TranspileExtra, whose loader fields use Cell. Watcher registration no longer checks an absent enum variant, and WatchItem no longer contains its update count.
Worker resolution and lifecycle
src/jsc/web_worker.rs, src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs, src/jsc/Debugger.rs, test/js/web/workers/worker.test.ts
Worker resolution returns structured results for preload and entry-point failures. Worker lifecycle helpers use VM and worker references. The worker test checks the error for an unresolved preload.

DNS ownership and caches

Layer / File(s) Summary
DNS requests, caches, and channel access
src/dns/lib.rs, src/runtime/dns_jsc/dns.rs, src/runtime/dns_jsc/dns_sd.rs
DNS request and waiter nodes use boxes during creation and completion. Cache access and channel calls use references, and connect-path hostnames use byte slices.

Server request and response flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Server contexts and request handling
src/runtime/server/mod.rs, src/runtime/server/server_body.rs, src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs, src/runtime/server/AnyRequestContext.rs, src/runtime/server/NodeHTTPResponse.rs
Server methods and request-context creation use references. Cork callbacks borrow their data, and response creation retains a box until initialization completes.
WebSocket and cork APIs
src/runtime/server/ServerWebSocket.rs, src/uws_sys/Response.rs, src/uws_sys/h2.rs, src/uws_sys/h3.rs
WebSocket initialization accepts initial flags. Cork callback APIs pass shared references to callback data.

Socket and IPC updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Socket and TLS references
src/runtime/socket/Listener.rs, src/runtime/socket/SSLConfig.rs, src/runtime/socket/SocketAddress.rs, src/runtime/socket/bundled_root_certs.rs, src/runtime/socket/socket_body.rs, src/runtime/socket/system_certs.rs, src/runtime/socket/udp_socket.rs, src/uws_sys/ListenSocket.rs, src/runtime/valkey_jsc/js_valkey.rs
Listener connection state uses JsCell; TLS and address paths use references or typed output values. SNI callback output is optional.
IPC queue ownership
src/runtime/ipc.rs, src/runtime/ipc_host.rs
The instance-owner variant no longer stores an instance pointer. Queue ownership is set during construction, and message dispatch uses associated functions.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to c5008

Resolve the DNS channel aliasing and request-context callback lifetime issues before merging. Both affect runtime memory-safety contracts, although no user-visible corruption has been demonstrated.

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Nitpick Cover the revoked blob preload error path.

33-38: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the revoked blob preload error path.

The new test covers only the unresolved-file preload. A revoked blob: preload fails with Unresolved::Because("Blob URL is missing") at src/jsc/web_worker.rs:441. No test in test/js/web/workers uses a blob: preload. The existing Blob URL is missing assertion in worker_blob.test.ts uses the entry-point path, not this one. Replacing the arm with an empty string would not fail any test in this directory. Add the test below to worker.test.ts.

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     test("names the entry that does not resolve", () => {
       expect(() => new Worker("data:text/javascript,1", { preload: ["./does-not-exist-xyz.js"] })).toThrow(
         expect.objectContaining({
           name: "TypeError",
           message: 'BuildMessage: ModuleNotFound resolving "./does-not-exist-xyz.js" (entry point)',
         }),
       );
     });
 
+    test("names a revoked blob preload", () => {
+      const url = URL.createObjectURL(new Blob(["1"]));
+      URL.revokeObjectURL(url);
+      expect(() => new Worker("data:text/javascript,1", { preload: [url] })).toThrow(
+        expect.objectContaining({ name: "TypeError", message: "Blob URL is missing" }),
+      );
+    });
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BuildKite build 137329 of c5008e7 has finished. It is red, and nothing fails only here. The four macOS x64 test jobs found no machine for 1 hour 50 minutes and expired. Three of them ran on a retry: two pass, and one fails in native-6.test.ts (below). The fourth was not retried, so one of the four shards of tests did not run on macOS x64. I have no means to run that job, or the build, again.

38 files failed once and then passed:

  • 30 files under test/aot/, on ASAN. Most of them timed out or were interrupted in the parallel batch, and all passed alone or on a retry. main has no ASAN jobs. In build 137212, 29 did, 23 of them the same files.
  • 7 more do so on main or on other branches too. I looked at main's four builds above and at the 72 other builds from 137256 to 137345 that have annotations: every-build-configuration.test.ts, spawn-stdin-readable-stream.test.ts, spawn_waiter_thread.test.ts, hot.test.ts, bun-install-git-deps.test.ts, remix.test.ts and fetch/body.test.ts (the same test with the same ECONNRESET on Windows in 137293).
  • test/js/web/fetch/fetch-session.test.ts does so only here (Ubuntu x64, in the parallel batch). A request through a proxy on deadPort() ended in Malformed_HTTP_Response where the test expects ECONNREFUSED. deadPort() holds its port as the local side of a connection, and Linux may give a connect() to that port the same port as its source. The socket is then connected to itself and reads its own CONNECT request back. A loop of plain connect() calls to a port held that way did so 2 times in 60,000. This PR does not change the fetch client.

On GitHub, Format, the lints, cargo clippy, mordant, cargo miri test and the lol-html tests pass on c5008e7.


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…de:fs` and `fs.watch` (#47893)

### What does this PR do?

42 separate changes, one commit each: 14 in the event loop, the I/O
crate and spawn, 14 in the rest of `bun_jsc`, and 14 in `node:fs`,
`fs.watch` and their neighbours. They follow #47291, #47317, #47338,
#47382, #47393, #47414 and #47871 and work the same way: signatures name
the type and the lifetime that the value already has, hand-written
pointer code becomes plain ownership and borrows that the compiler
checks, and what was never needed is deleted.

Together: **128 fewer `unsafe` blocks, 14 fewer `unsafe fn`s, 6 fewer
`unsafe impl`s and 1 fewer `unsafe extern` block**, +632/−1383 over 64
files. No safe function became `unsafe`, and no wrapper type was added.
**[Where the compiled code changes](#where-the-compiled-code-changes)
lists every place where the program does different work.**

| # | Change | `unsafe` | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spawn: the waiter thread's singleton is a plain `static` | −4
blocks, −1 `unsafe impl` | +28/−79, 1 file |
| 2 | io: `FilePoll` and `EventLoopCtx` borrow the uws loop as `&Loop` |
−1 `unsafe fn` | +42/−97, 7 files |
| 3 | spawn, install: pass the uws loop to `register` and
`set_as_parent_of` as `&Loop` | 0 | +5/−5, 3 files |
| 4 | dns: `on_dns_socket_state` gets the loop from
`VirtualMachine::uws_loop_ref` | −1 block | +1/−2, 1 file |
| 5 | io, timer: the two loop callbacks that uSockets calls take `&Loop`
| −2 blocks | +4/−11, 2 files |
| 6 | event_loop: `SpawnSyncEventLoop::init` returns `Option<Box<Self>>`
| −1 block | +8/−26, 2 files |
| 7 | io: remove `PosixStreamingWriterParent::on_ready` | −1 block, −3
`unsafe fn` | +3/−14, 3 files |
| 8 | spawn: `Process::init_posix` returns `RefPtr<Process>` | −1 block
| +4/−6, 1 file |
| 9 | event_loop: `ConcurrentTask::default` builds its placeholder
`Task` with `Task::new` | −1 block | +2/−3, 1 file |
| 10 | event_loop: `init_global` fills the `MiniEventLoop` before boxing
it | −1 block | +15/−30, 1 file |
| 11 | io: `PosixBufferedReader::close_if_final` takes `&mut self` | −1
block, −1 `unsafe fn` | +4/−8, 1 file |
| 12 | spawn_sys: one `safe fn kill` for the four crates that send
signals | −4 blocks, −1 `unsafe extern` block | +13/−26, 6 files |
| 13 | uws_sys: remove the unused `Zeroable` impl for
`socket_group::VTable` | −1 `unsafe impl` | +0/−2, 1 file |
| 14 | uws_sys: `feed_path` turns its `&CStr` into a `&ZStr` with
`ZStr::from_cstr` | −1 block | +1/−3, 1 file |
| 15 | jsc: `TranspilerJob::run` borrows its locals for the parse and
the print | −6 blocks | +20/−77, 1 file |
| 16 | jsc: the guards of `TranspilerJob::run` hold references | −3
blocks | +29/−43, 1 file |
| 17 | jsc: `TranspilerJob` owns its path text as a `Box<[u8]>` | −2
blocks | +12/−33, 1 file |
| 18 | console: `message_with_type_and_level` takes `&[JSValue]` | −5
blocks | +46/−90, 3 files |
| 19 | jsc: only the guards destruct an exception scope | −6 blocks, −2
`unsafe fn` | +38/−113, 3 files |
| 20 | jsc: `SourceLocation` is not `Send` or `Sync` | −2 `unsafe impl`
| +1/−21, 2 files |
| 21 | jsc: three questions about an AOT image are `safe fn` over
`FfiSlice` | −3 blocks | +34/−34, 1 file |
| 22 | jsc: callbacks take references where C++ passes the address of a
live object | −6 blocks | +18/−29, 5 files |
| 23 | jsc: `Bun__NodeCompileCache__enable` is typed as what C++ passes
| −3 blocks, −1 `unsafe fn` | +7/−12, 1 file |
| 24 | jsc: `SavedSourceMap::put_value` returns nothing | −2 blocks |
+9/−22, 2 files |
| 25 | jsc: remove two exports that nothing calls | −2 blocks, −2
`unsafe fn` | +2/−34, 4 files |
| 26 | mimalloc: `mi_is_in_heap_region` is a `safe fn` | −2 blocks |
+6/−8, 4 files |
| 27 | jsc: five `unsafe` blocks that a better declaration makes
unnecessary | −5 blocks | +16/−24, 4 files |
| 28 | jsc: `resume_loading_module` prints into the thread-local printer
in place | −1 block | +6/−28, 1 file |
| 29 | node:fs: `mkdir_recursive_os_path_impl` reborrows
`sync_error_buf` | −8 blocks | +13/−49, 1 file |
| 30 | node:fs: `NewAsyncCpTask::run_from_js_thread` takes the `Box` it
frees | −8 blocks, −1 `unsafe fn` | +44/−67, 3 files |
| 31 | jsc: `MarkedArrayBuffer::from_bytes` takes `Box<[u8]>` | −4
blocks | +10/−30, 3 files |
| 32 | node:fs: the NUL-terminated paths of `cpSync` and recursive
`readdir` borrow their buffers | −5 blocks | +8/−17, 1 file |
| 33 | node:fs: recursive `readdir` frees each queued result list as it
pops it | −3 blocks | +5/−25, 1 file |
| 34 | fs.watch: `PathWatcherManager::mutex` owns the maps it guards |
−13 blocks | +103/−134, 1 file |
| 35 | fs.watch: `FSWatchTask::deinit` takes the `Box` | −3 blocks, −2
`unsafe fn` | +21/−36, 2 files |
| 36 | fs.watch: `FSWatcher::init` returns the JS wrapper | −1 block |
+5/−17, 2 files |
| 37 | fs.watchFile: three raw-pointer detours in `StatWatcher` setup |
−3 blocks | +5/−12, 1 file |
| 38 | fs.watch: three single sites in path_watcher.rs | −2 blocks, −1
`unsafe impl` | +13/−30, 2 files |
| 39 | node: `Bun__Buffer_fill` and `posix_fadvise` say in their types
what they need | −4 blocks | +14/−12, 4 files |
| 40 | node:os: `networkInterfaces` drops its counting pass over the
`getifaddrs` list | −1 block | +1/−15, 1 file |
| 41 | fs.watch (macOS): `FSEventsLoop::mutex` owns the state it guards
| −6 blocks, −1 `unsafe fn` | +9/−30, 1 file |
| 42 | fs.watch (macOS): the FSEvents task is typed, and three smaller
sites | −3 blocks, −1 `unsafe impl` | +10/−32, 3 files |

The commits can be reviewed one at a time.

Worth knowing before reading on:

- **Nothing that users can see changes.** Under `test/` only the
inventory of the `vm-thread-door` source lint changes: it loses the
entries of four removed `unsafe impl`s (changes 20, 38 and 42).
- **Seven changes end an aliasing or contract bug that had no visible
effect.**
- Changes 2, 3 and 4: the uws loop was borrowed as `&mut Loop` in
`FilePoll`, `Process` and the DNS code, while the callbacks of the same
loop reach it again.
- Changes 15 and 16: the guards of `TranspilerJob::run` kept raw
pointers to the job, its logs and its transpiler, and turned them into
`&mut` while the body used the same objects.
- Change 30: `run_from_js_thread(&mut self)` freed its own allocation
while that `&mut self` was live.
- Change 31: `MarkedArrayBuffer::from_bytes` took `&mut [u8]` and freed
it later.
- **Two mutexes own what they guard** (changes 34 and 41): the state of
`PathWatcherManager` and of the FSEvents loop sat in `UnsafeCell`s next
to the lock. Each lock is taken and released at the same places as
before. The waiter thread's singleton needs no cell at all (change 1).
- **Ownership is in the types:** what is freed arrives as a `Box` or a
`RefPtr` (changes 6, 8, 17, 30, 31, 33, 35 and 42). A watch task's
`deinit` can no longer be called on the task that is embedded in the
watcher.
- **Seven functions that C or C++ calls take references** (changes 5,
22, 23 and 39). Each message names the call sites and what they pass.
- **Nine imports are `safe fn`s:** `kill` (change 12), three questions
about an AOT image (21), `mi_is_in_heap_region` (26),
`Bun__Bindgen__exceptionPresenceMatches`, `GetLocalTime` and
`Bun__EncoderStringTable__create` (27), and `posix_fadvise` (39). Each
message says what the C side reads and writes.
- **Dead code goes:** `PosixStreamingWriterParent::on_ready` (change 7),
a `Zeroable` impl (13), two exports and three declarations in
`headers.h` (25), and a pass over the `getifaddrs` list whose result was
thrown away (40).
- **Parts of eleven changes are compiled only for Windows, macOS or
FreeBSD:** 2 (`windows_event_loop.rs`, `dns_sd.rs`), 7 (the Windows
writer), 12 and 39 (FreeBSD), 27 (`GetLocalTime`), 29 (the Windows path
buffer), 30 (an import), 34 (kqueue), 35 (the Windows watch task), 41
and 42 (FSEvents).

### Where the compiled code changes

I compared the release assembly (x86-64 Linux, `--emit=asm`) of all 134
crates of the workspace, before and after. For 78 of them the files are
the same byte for byte, among them `bun_mimalloc_sys`, which this PR
touches. The other 56 I compared function by function, with names
demangled and labels normalised. In 45 of the 56 no function differs:
what differs is line numbers in the debug information and the paths of
the two checkouts. One function of `bun_sql_jsc` holds the commit's own
hash, and is not counted below.

| Crate | Functions | Differ | Other constants or names only | Same
length | Shorter | Longer | Instructions | Branches | Compares | Calls |
Panic call sites |
|---|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|
| 45 crates, among them `bun_alloc`, `bun_sys`, `bun_spawn_sys`,
`bun_uws_sys`, `bun_install`, `bun_http` and `bun_bundler` | 37,921 | 0
| | | | | | | | | |
| `bun_http_jsc` | 180 | 34 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| `bun_sql_jsc` | 409 | 48 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| `bun_install_jsc`, `bun_js_parser_jsc`, `bun_patch_jsc`,
`bun_sourcemap_jsc` | 339 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| `bun_io` | 138 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| `bun_spawn` | 61 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | −1 | −1 | −2 | −1 | 0 |
| `bun_event_loop` | 49 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −17 | −5 | −6 | −1 | 0 |
| `bun_jsc` | 1,762 | 322 | 308 | 4 | 7 | 3 | −249 | −12 | −18 | −18 |
−4 |
| `bun_runtime` | 11,209 | 1,186 | 1,166 | 4 | 11 | 5 | −177 | −23 | −21
| −13 | −1 |

The last five columns are net, and count the functions that exist on one
side only: 8 only before and 2 only after, which were removed, renamed
or inlined.

**1,571 of the 1,610 functions that differ do so only in a constant or
in the name of a callee. Two things account for almost all of them.**

- **The fields of the VM move (change 17).** A `TranspilerJob` is 40
bytes smaller, and the VM holds a pool of 64 of them, so every field
behind the pool is 2,560 bytes closer to the start: 26,896 becomes
24,336, for example. The functions that read such a field differ in that
constant and in nothing else.
- **An exception scope is destructed without a hop (change 19).**
`TopExceptionScope::destroy` was a single jump to the C++ function. Its
callers now call the C++ function. 49 functions of `bun_runtime` differ
only in that name, and 34 more in that name and in the offsets.

**Checks.** No path makes a check that the source did not already have.
These are all the functions in which the listing shows more conditional
branches, compares or panic call sites than before, and why:

| Function | Listing | Why |
|---|---|---|
| `NodeFS::mkdir_recursive` | 490 to 497, +1 branch, +1 compare, +1
call, +1 panic site | Change 29. `&working_mem[..first_match]`, the last
expression of the function, has a bounds check in the source before and
after. The compiler used to prove it away on every path. On the path
where the last `mkdir` reports `EEXIST` it no longer does. **One compare
and one branch more there, after a system call.** |
| `NewAsyncCpTask::<false>::run_from_js_thread`,
`__bun_release_task_unrun::handle` | 117 to 129 and 478 to 493, +1
branch, +1 compare, +3 and +2 calls | Change 30. Both called `destroy`
(49 instructions), which released the keep-alive and freed the task. The
release is inline in both now, and the rest is the drop of the `Box`
(38). `destroy` no longer exists. |
| `SpawnSyncEventLoop::init` (`bun_event_loop`) | 30 to 44, +1 branch,
+3 calls, +1 panic site | Change 6. It makes the box, which its one
caller `RareData::spawn_sync_event_loop` made before (42 to 11, −2
branches, −4 calls, −1 panic site). |
| The drop of a `TranspilerJob` (`bun_jsc`) | 116 to 122, +1 branch, +1
compare, +1 call | Change 17. It frees the path text, which three other
places freed by hand: `run_from_js_thread` (813 to 800),
`release_queued_jobs_for_teardown` (95 to 82) and `teardown` (514 to
508) lose one branch, one compare and one call each. |

| Change | What differs | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The waiter thread's loop goes from 366 to 365, with one branch,
one compare and one call fewer. `WaiterThreadPosix::start` keeps its
171, with one compare fewer. | Same thread, same queue. |
| 2 | `FilePoll::unregister` goes from 106 to 105. | Same system calls.
|
| 4 | `Resolver::on_dns_socket_state` goes from 283 to 279, without an
`unwrap` and its panic. | Same polls. |
| 7 | The two `on_ready` functions that nothing called go: 51
instructions for `Terminal` and 10 for `FileSink`. | None. |
| 10 | `MiniEventLoop::init_global` goes from 261 to 230, with 6
branches, 4 calls and a panic site fewer. | The loop is filled in before
it is boxed, not through the box. |
| 15, 16, 17 | `TranspilerJob::run` goes from 3,372 to 3,323, with 2
branches, 6 compares and a call fewer.
`RuntimeTranspilerStore::transpile` goes from 236 to 237. | Same parse
and print. The path text is the same allocation, freed with the job's
other fields. |
| 18 | `message_with_type_and_level` goes from 427 to 409, with 3
branches, 3 calls and 3 panic sites fewer. The function that C++ calls
builds the slice and goes from 8 to 12. `onRejectEntryPointResult` (18
to 17) and `Run::start` (527 to 526) pass one argument fewer. | Same
output. |
| 19 | Apart from the callers above: `TopExceptionScope::init` (14) and
`destroy` (1) go. | One jump fewer per scope. |
| 22 | In the test runner's formatter `PropertyIterator::for_each` goes
from 274 to 271, with the same branches, compares and calls. The two
`Formatter::print_object` of `console.log` keep their 136, and the
callback of `URLSearchParams::to_string` its 6: the same instructions in
another order. | Same output. |
| 25 | `AbortSignal__Timeout__run` (1) and
`Zig__GlobalObject__reportUncaughtException` (24) go. | None: nothing
called them. |
| 27 | `write_diagnostic_filename` keeps its 122: `std::process::id()`
is a jump to `getpid`, which was called directly. `takeHeapSnapshot`
keeps its 21. | One jump more per CPU or heap profile that is written. |
| 28 | `AsyncModule::on_done` goes from 783 to 693, with 3 branches and
4 calls fewer. | The printer is not moved out of its thread local and
back. |
| 29 | Apart from the row in the table of checks: the other instance of
`mkdir_recursive_os_path_impl` keeps its 461 and compares with 4,096
instead of 4,097. | Same directories, same errors. |
| 30 | Apart from the rows in the table of checks: `fs.cp`'s entry point
goes from 249 to 256, all moves between registers. | Same copy. If the
conversion of a result failed, the early return would free the task,
where it leaked it, and the keep-alive would stay taken as before.
Neither conversion can fail today. |
| 33 | `AsyncReaddirRecursiveTask::on_subtask_done` goes from 329 to
226, with 11 branches and 6 calls fewer, and `clear_result_list` from
128 to 105. | The lists were collected in a `Vec` and freed afterwards.
Three `reserve` calls, a `memcpy` and a free go. |
| 34, 38 | `unlink_watcher_locked` (185) is `Locked::unlink_watcher`
(185). **`add_watch`, `add_one`, `walk_and_add` and `remove_watch` get
the maps as an argument, which is one argument more for each.** They no
longer fetch the maps from the manager. `Linux::add_one`, the only one
of the four that is not inline in its caller, goes from 353 to 352. In
`FSWatcher::detach` (201 to 215) the compiler loads the map's fields
once in front of the loop and keeps them on the stack, which a `&mut`
lets it do. The inotify thread keeps its 1,296 and asks for zeroed
memory in one call, where it called `malloc` and `memset`.
`PathWatcherManager::default` stores its fields in another order. | Each
lock is taken and released where it was. |
| 35, 36 | `fs.watch`'s entry point goes from 2,029 to 2,021, with a
branch, a call and a panic site fewer. | Same watcher. |
| 37 | `fs.watchFile`'s entry point goes from 721 to 714. The lazy
set-up of the VM's rare data was inline twice and is inline once. | Same
watcher. **The VM's ticket for the first `stat` is issued before the
watcher's ref is taken, not after.** |
| 39 | `Bun__Buffer_fill` goes from 652 to 649, with one compare fewer.
| Same bytes. |
| 40 | `os.networkInterfaces` goes from 676 to 670, with 2 branches
fewer. | One pass over the list fewer. |

Changes 3, 5, 8, 9, 11 to 14, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 31 and 32 ask for the
same operations in the same order, and show up in no listing, or only in
the offsets above. What changes 2, 7, 12, 27, 29, 30, 34, 35, 39, 41 and
42 do to code for Windows, macOS or FreeBSD is not compiled on Linux.
There, by reading: the Windows view of the path buffer in change 29
covers the whole buffer instead of its first 65,534 bytes, and the
FreeBSD helpers of change 34 have one more argument each, like those for
Linux.

The comparison covers x86-64 Linux only, one crate at a time. The build
that ships also inlines across crates when it links.

### The changes in detail

#### 1. spawn: the waiter thread's singleton is a plain `static`

`INSTANCE` was an `UnsafeCell<WaiterThreadPosix>` behind a hand-written
`unsafe impl Sync`, for two fields. `active`, the list of processes
being waited for, is touched by the waiter thread alone, so the thread
function owns it as a local and passes it to `NewQueue::loop_`, which no
longer has to swap it out of a cell and back on every wake-up. `eventfd`
is written once in `start()` and read from the other threads and the
SIGCHLD handler, so it is an `AtomicI32` with relaxed loads and stores,
like the stdio fds in `bun_core::output`. What is left is atomics only,
the struct is `Sync` by itself, and `Instance`, `instance()` and
`instance_ref()` go.

`NewQueue::loop_` dereferences the pointers in the list it is handed, so
it and the thread function, its only caller, are private to the module.

#### 2. io: `FilePoll` and `EventLoopCtx` borrow the uws loop as `&Loop`

Every `Loop` method takes `&self` since its fields are `Cell`s, but
`FilePoll::register`/`unregister` and their helpers (on Windows,
`unregister` and `deinit_possibly_defer`) still asked for `&mut Loop`,
and `EventLoopCtx::loop_mut` and `FilePollRef::uws_loop_mut` made one
out of the raw pointer. They only call `fd`, `inc`, `dec`, `add_active`,
`sub_active`, `ref_` and `unref`, so all of them take or return `&Loop`.

`pub unsafe fn platform_event_loop` existed to put the "no other live
`&mut Loop`" rule on the caller. With a shared borrow there is no such
rule, so it and `loop_mut` are one private accessor. It stays private
because a spawnSync ctx hands out the loop that has no uWS `LoopData`,
which the safe `update_date` and `flush_pending_writes` rely on. The two
callers outside the crate (the memory-pressure watch, and `dns_sd` on
macOS) dereference `loop_()` in the `unsafe` blocks they already have.

The doc of `FilePollRef::uws_loop` said that the loop is the
process-global one and lives for the program. A spawnSync reader passes
the isolated loop, and a Worker's loop is freed, so it says what the
callers do pass.

#### 3. spawn, install: pass the uws loop to `register` and
`set_as_parent_of` as `&Loop`

`Process::watch` and `rewatch_posix` turned the raw loop pointer into
`&mut Loop` for `FilePoll::register`, and `PackageManager::init` did the
same for `EventLoopHandle::set_as_parent_of`. `register` takes `&Loop`,
and `set_as_parent_of` only calls `set_parent_raw(&self)`, so the three
sites borrow the loop shared.

#### 4. dns: `on_dns_socket_state` gets the loop from
`VirtualMachine::uws_loop_ref`

It turned `event_loop_handle` into `&mut Loop` in an `unsafe` block to
pass it to `FilePoll::register` and `unregister`, which take `&Loop`.
The arm is POSIX-only, where `event_loop_handle` is the loop that
`uws_loop_ref()` borrows, so it calls that.

The `unwrap()` of the handle, and its panic, go with the block:
`uws_loop_ref()` asserts that the handle is set in debug builds only, as
it does for the three other callers in this file. `VirtualMachine::init`
sets the handle, through `ensure_waker`, before it creates the global
object.

#### 5. io, timer: the two loop callbacks that uSockets calls take
`&Loop`

`Bun__internal_dispatch_ready_poll` and
`Bun__internal_ensureDateHeaderTimerIsEnabled` took `*mut Loop` and
turned it into `&Loop` in an `unsafe` block. Each of their C callers
(`us_internal_dispatch_ready_polls`, `us_internal_enable_sweep_timer`)
dereferences `loop` just before the call, so it is non-null and live,
which is what `&Loop` says. It stays live for the call: the dispatch
loop uses `loop` again afterwards, and the date-header callback only
refreshes the date and arms a timer.

A reference argument has to stay valid for the whole call, and the poll
handler that the first one dispatches re-enters the loop. Nothing there
can invalidate it: a grep of `src/` finds no `&mut Loop` (under any of
its aliases) in a signature, no `&mut *` or `as_mut()` on a `*mut Loop`
or `NonNull<Loop>`, and no `&mut self` method on `Loop` or
`InternalLoopData`.

#### 6. event_loop: `SpawnSyncEventLoop::init` returns
`Option<Box<Self>>`

`init` filled a `&mut MaybeUninit<Self>` and returned a `bool`, so
`RareData` allocated an uninitialized box first and called `assume_init`
on it. The comments gave the reason that the value must not move once
the loop's parent is set, but what is stored there is the value of the
`event_loop` field, a heap pointer, not the address of the struct. The
one thing that does keep that address is the Windows timeout timer,
which takes it later. `init` does the boxing itself, so the value is at
its final address before anything can point at it, and the caller stores
what it gets. A loop that cannot be created no longer costs an
allocation.

#### 7. io: remove `PosixStreamingWriterParent::on_ready`

Nothing calls it: `PosixStreamingWriter` reports progress through
`on_write`, and `FileSink` and `Terminal` resume from its `Drained`
status. The trait's default method, the one the macro stamps and
`Terminal`'s own go. The macro keeps its `on_ready =` argument for the
Windows `on_writable` slot, which leaves `FileSink::on_ready` with a
caller on Windows only.

#### 8. spawn: `Process::init_posix` returns `RefPtr<Process>`

It boxed the `Process`, returned the raw pointer, and its only caller
wrapped that in `RefPtr::from_raw`. `RefPtr::new` does the same boxing
and owns the initial ref from the start.

#### 9. event_loop: `ConcurrentTask::default` builds its placeholder
`Task` with `Task::new`

The placeholder came from `zeroed_unchecked()`. `Task::new` is a `const
fn` over the three fields, and tag 0, a null pointer and
`ContextId::NONE` are the same values.

#### 10. event_loop: `init_global` fills the `MiniEventLoop` before
boxing it

It boxed a fresh value, turned the raw pointer back into `&mut` in an
`unsafe` block, and set `env` and `top_level_dir` through that. Both are
plain fields of a value the function still owns, so they are set on the
local, which is boxed afterwards. Only the loop's parent needs the heap
address; it is set right after the boxing, that is after the env and cwd
code, which does not look at the loop.

#### 11. io: `PosixBufferedReader::close_if_final` takes `&mut self`

It was an `unsafe fn` over `*mut Self` whose whole body was one
`(*this).close_without_reporting()`, which passes no callback and so
never reaches the parent. It takes `&mut self` like `fill_scratch` and
`fill_buffer`, which `read_loop` calls on the lines just before it in
the same way.

#### 12. spawn_sys: one `safe fn kill` for the four crates that send
signals

`pifd_from_pid` called `libc::kill` in an `unsafe` block, and so did
three places in `bun_runtime`: the Fuzzilli comparison run, twice, and
`terminate_process_group` of `bun test --parallel`. `kill(2)` takes two
integers by value and answers a bad one with an errno, so it has no
precondition for the caller to uphold. `bun_io` and `bun_spawn` said so
already, with three private `safe fn` declarations between them
(`ParentDeathWatchdog.rs`, `Process::send_signal` and the job-control
code of `spawnSync`). Both depend on `bun_spawn_sys`, so the declaration
goes there once, into the `extern` block that `ffi` already has, and all
seven places call it. `bun_runtime` reaches it as
`bun_spawn::ffi::kill`.

On FreeBSD the declaration was the only user of the `c_int` import in
`ParentDeathWatchdog.rs`, so the import gets the `cfg` of what still
uses it.

#### 13. uws_sys: remove the unused `Zeroable` impl for
`socket_group::VTable`

Nothing zero-initializes a `VTable`: the two places that build one
(`vtable::make` and the test runner's `Channel`) list all eleven fields.

#### 14. uws_sys: `feed_path` turns its `&CStr` into a `&ZStr` with
`ZStr::from_cstr`

It took the `&CStr`'s length and rebuilt the same string from the raw
pointer with `ZStr::from_raw` in a second `unsafe` block.
`ZStr::from_cstr` is that conversion.

#### 15. jsc: `TranspilerJob::run` borrows its locals for the parse and
the print

`run` handed `input_file_fd` and `cache` to `ParseOptions` as `&mut
*addr_of_mut!(x)`, cast the `Transpiler` copy to a shorter lifetime
through a raw pointer, closed the fd from a guard that held a raw
pointer to it, and swapped the thread-local printer into a local that a
second raw-pointer guard swapped back.

None of that is needed. `ParseOptions` asks for `&'b mut` borrows of the
fd and the cache, and plain `&mut` borrows do, as in
`transpile_source_code_of_any_provenance`. The parse result keeps a
`NonNull` to the cache, through which the print stores its output. It is
made from that borrow in either form, so the raw form bought nothing.
`Transpiler<'a>` is covariant, so the copy takes the arena's lifetime by
itself.

The fd is the value of its own close guard. Where the watcher adopts it,
`run` stores `Fd::INVALID` in the guard, so the `Cell<bool>` that told
the old guard not to close is gone.

`source_code_printer` is already an exclusive borrow of the
thread-local's printer for the whole of `run`, so the print writes into
it in place: no swap, no placeholder `BufferPrinter`, no guard.

`transpile` logs the `loader` it was given instead of reading it back
from the job.

#### 16. jsc: the guards of `TranspilerJob::run` hold references

Three scope guards in `run` kept raw pointers to the job, to the two
logs and to the `macro_context` field of the `Transpiler` copy, and
dereferenced them in `unsafe` when they fired, while the body went on
using `self` and `transpiler`.

Each guard now owns the `&mut` and the body reborrows through it: the
dispatch guard holds the job (`this` is a reborrow, so its fields still
borrow apart), the log guard holds both logs and `set_log` gets its
pointer from the guard, and the macro-context guard holds the
`Transpiler` reference.

The guards are declared where they were, so they fire in the same order.

#### 17. jsc: `TranspilerJob` owns its path text as a `Box<[u8]>`

The job stored a `Path<'static>` whose slices pointed into a `Box<[u8]>`
leaked with `heap::into_raw`, and `reset_for_pool` rebuilt the box from
`path.text` to free it.

The job now holds the box itself. `run` builds the `Path` from a borrow
of it (`Path::init` only stores the slice), and the box is freed with
the other fields by the `drop_in_place` of `store.put()`, which follows
both calls of `reset_for_pool`. The slot is 40 bytes smaller.

#### 18. console: `message_with_type_and_level` takes `&[JSValue]`

It was declared `#[host_call] extern "C"` with an unused `*mut
ConsoleObject` and a `(*const JSValue, usize)` pair, which made it an
`unsafe fn`. It has no C symbol and is never used as a function pointer:
all five callers are Rust, and four of them wrapped one local `JSValue`
in `unsafe` to call it.

It is now a plain `fn` over a slice. Only
`Bun__ConsoleObject__messageWithTypeAndLevel`, the export that C++
calls, builds the slice from the raw pair. C++ passes its stack array
there, so the null test of `ffi::slice` is gone too.

#### 19. jsc: only the guards destruct an exception scope

`TopExceptionScope::destroy` and `ExceptionValidationScope::destroy`
were `unsafe fn`s whose callers were the `Drop` of the two guards, plus
one hand-written `init`/`destroy` pair in `for_each_property_ordered`.
`ExceptionValidationScope::init_at` cast its `MaybeUninit` storage to
the inner type and then called `assume_init_mut`.

`for_each_property_ordered` uses `top_scope!` like its siblings.
`TopExceptionScopeGuard::drop` calls the C++ destructor itself, and the
validation guard drops a `TopExceptionScopeGuard` over its inner scope.
`ExceptionValidationScope::init_guard_at` writes the wrapper with a
zeroed inner scope and constructs that in place, which is what
`TopExceptionScope::init_guard_at` does.

Both `destroy` and the unused `TopExceptionScope::init` are gone. The
`init_at` of both types and `ExceptionValidationScope::init` only served
the `init_guard*` constructors and are folded into them.
`init_in_place`, the one function that still constructs a scope without
a guard, is private to the module, because nothing outside it could
destruct such a scope.

The construct and destruct calls are the same, on the same addresses.

#### 20. jsc: `SourceLocation` is not `Send` or `Sync`

It had hand-written `unsafe impl Send` and `unsafe impl Sync`. Nothing
needs them: a `SourceLocation` is built by `src!()` or `from_caller` and
passed by value straight into the scope constructors on the same thread.
It is never stored in a static or a field and never handed to another
thread.

Both impls are removed, with the sentence in the doc of
`intern_location_file` that relied on them and their two entries in the
`vm-thread-door` lint inventory.

#### 21. jsc: three questions about an AOT image are `safe fn` over
`FfiSlice`

The `Bun__AOT__*` imports that take bytes took a local `Bytes { ptr, len
}` built from a `&[u8]`, so every call sat in an `unsafe` block.

Their argument is now `bun_core::ffi::FfiSlice`, which has the same C
layout and carries the borrow. `bytes_of` is gone, and `Bytes` is only
what C++ hands to Rust: the result of `imageCode` and an argument of
three callbacks.

`admittedCode`, `admitsUnknownJavaScript` and `loadsCodeOutsideImage`
have no precondition beyond a readable slice, so they are `safe fn`, and
`admitted` is `&mut u32`. C++ rejects bytes that are shorter than the
header or misaligned before it reads the header. What it then reads are
a `uint8_t` and a `uint32_t`, for which every bit pattern is valid, and
it reads nothing after it returns.

The other six stay `unsafe`. `omitsFunctionSource` reads a C++ `bool`
from the header, which the check of magic and stamp does not cover.
`useImage` makes the bytes executable; its two slices are
`FfiSlice<'static>`. `useNoImageOnThisThread` must run before the thread
has a VM. `forEachFilePathStartingWith`, `noteFirstLoadInEarlierProcess`
and `imagesHoldFile` take raw pointers as well.

#### 22. jsc: callbacks take references where C++ passes the address of
a live object

The trampoline of `MarkedArgumentBuffer::new`, the callback of
`URLSearchParams__toString` and `ForEachPropertyCallback` declared raw
pointers and dereferenced them in `unsafe` first thing.

C++ calls them in `MarkedArgumentBuffer__run` (`callback(ctx, &args)`),
in `URLSearchParams__toString` (`callback(ctx, &slice)`), twice in
`JSC__JSValue__forEachPropertyImpl` and once in
`forEachPropertyOrderedImpl` (`iter(globalObject, arg2, &key, ...)`),
and `args`, `slice` and `key` are locals of the calling frame each time.

The parameters are now `&mut Ctx<F, R>`, `&mut MarkedArgumentBuffer` and
`&EncodedSlice`, like the `&JSGlobalObject` that
`ForEachPropertyCallback` already took. In `MarkedArgumentBuffer::new`,
`f` is moved out of `ctx` before it runs and `ctx` is a local that
nothing else points to. The `cast_fn_ptr` that erases the trampoline's
type was there already.

#### 23. jsc: `Bun__NodeCompileCache__enable` is typed as what C++
passes

The export was an `unsafe extern "C" fn` over raw `BunString` pointers
that it turned into a reference, or wrote through, in `unsafe` blocks.

It is called only at NodeModuleModule.cpp:946, with null or
`&directoryStr`, `&outDirectory` and `&outMessage`, all locals.

So the parameters are `Option<&BunString>` and `&mut
MaybeUninit<BunString>`, and the function is not `unsafe`.
`MaybeUninit::write` drops nothing, like the `ptr::write` it replaces.

#### 24. jsc: `SavedSourceMap::put_value` returns nothing

It returned a `Result` that was always `Ok(())`: the insert aborts on
OOM. Two callers had an `Err` arm that freed the value again in
`unsafe`, one ignored the result and one wrapped it in `handle_oom`.

It returns `()` now and the four callers just call it.

#### 25. jsc: remove two exports that nothing calls

`AbortSignal__Timeout__run` has no reference outside its definition: the
timer dispatch calls `Timeout::run` directly.
`Zig__GlobalObject__reportUncaughtException` was only declared in
headers.h and never called.

Both `unsafe extern "C" fn`s are removed, with the C++ declaration and
`VirtualMachine::report_uncaught_exception`, which had no other caller.

Two neighbouring declarations in headers.h go too:
`Zig__GlobalObject__fetch` and
`Zig__GlobalObject__promiseRejectionTracker` have no definition and no
caller.

#### 26. mimalloc: `mi_is_in_heap_region` is a `safe fn`

It takes any address: it looks it up in the page map behind a range
check and never dereferences it, and the page map pointer starts out as
a static empty map. The two callers in `bun_jsc` wrapped it in `unsafe`
only because of the declaration.

It is declared `safe fn` like its neighbours without preconditions. In
`mi_free_checked` the assertion moves out of the `unsafe` block, which
stays for the frees.

#### 27. jsc: five `unsafe` blocks that a better declaration makes
unnecessary

- `Bun__Bindgen__exceptionPresenceMatches` only reads the VM's pending
exception. It is a `safe fn` over `&JSGlobalObject`, which
`JsHeap::global_object` already gives.
- `JsWrapper::payload_ptr` offsets the `NonNull` cell pointer with
`NonNull::byte_add`, and `payload` is its `as_ptr()`, instead of
offsetting the raw pointer in one block and wrapping it with
`new_unchecked` in another.
- `write_diagnostic_filename` asks `std::process::id()` on every
platform instead of `libc::getpid()` or `GetCurrentProcessId()`.
- `GetLocalTime` (Windows) only writes its out-parameter: `safe fn` over
`&mut SystemTime`.
- `Bun__EncoderStringTable__create` returns the result of a C++ `new`,
which is never null: it is a `safe fn` that returns
`NonNull<EncoderStringTable>`.

#### 28. jsc: `resume_loading_module` prints into the thread-local
printer in place

The function swapped the thread-local `BufferPrinter` into a local and
restored it from a guard that held two raw pointers, to the
thread-local's box and to the local, and swapped a second placeholder in
when it fired.

It now takes one `&mut` to the thread-local's printer, resets it and
prints into it, as the synchronous path in jsc_hooks.rs does. There is
no swap, no placeholder and no guard. The buffer is reused as before,
also when the print fails.

That borrow lives until the function returns. Nothing in between goes
through the thread-local: the print only calls back into
`SavedSourceMap`, `SourceMapHandlerGetter` and the transpiler cache, and
no JavaScript runs. The raw pointer that `source_map_handler` stashes
and the writer both derive from that one borrow.

#### 29. node:fs: `mkdir_recursive_os_path_impl` reborrows
`sync_error_buf`

The function kept a `*mut PathBuffer` next to a `&mut OSPathBuffer` cast
from it, rebuilt each NUL-terminated parent with `from_raw`, and
re-derived a `&mut PathBuffer` from the raw pointer on every error
return.

None of that needs a raw pointer. `working_mem` is a reborrow of the
buffer through `cast_slice_mut` (the way `copy_file_inner` already views
`sync_error_buf`, and `os_path_kernel32` its `PathBuffer` argument), the
parents borrow `working_mem` through `from_buf`, and each error return
uses the buffer only after the last use of both, which the borrow
checker accepts. The guard is still dereferenced once.

On Windows the alignment `assert!` is the one inside `cast_slice_mut`,
and the view covers the whole buffer (49151 units) instead of the first
32767. Only an index panic moves: every caller keeps well-formed paths
at 32766 units or fewer.

#### 30. node:fs: `NewAsyncCpTask::run_from_js_thread` takes the `Box`
it frees

`run_from_js_thread(&mut self)` freed its own allocation through `unsafe
fn destroy(*mut Self)` while the `&mut self` was still live, and kept
the promise as a raw pointer from the start so that it could outlive
that.

The task is a `Box` that nobody else holds once `subtask_count` is zero,
so the places where the pointer arrives (the two dispatch arms, the mini
event loop's callback, `release_unrun`) now reclaim it with
`heap::take`, and `run_from_js_thread` and `destroy` take `self:
Box<Self>`. The promise stays a reference until just before `destroy`.
`run_from_js_thread_mini` only forwarded and is folded into its one
caller.

`create` reads the promise value before it hands the promise over, like
`AsyncFSTask::create`, instead of through the scheduled task's pointer.
The shell passes a `ParentRef` built from its `&mut self` instead of a
nullable raw pointer. Nobody used the pointers `schedule_new` and
`create_for_shell` returned.

If a result conversion failed, the early return would now free the task
where it used to leak it. The keep-alive, which only `destroy` releases,
would stay taken as before. Neither conversion can fail today.

#### 31. jsc: `MarkedArrayBuffer::from_bytes` takes `Box<[u8]>`

`from_bytes` took `&mut [u8]` but owns the bytes: `Drop` frees them, and
so does JSC once they are handed over. Every caller had a `Box<[u8]>`
one line earlier and turned it into a raw pointer (or leaked it) only to
build that `&mut`.

The parameter is now the box, stored through
`ArrayBuffer::from_owned_bytes`, which writes the same pointer and
length. The callers pass what they have.

#### 32. node:fs: the NUL-terminated paths of `cpSync` and recursive
`readdir` borrow their buffers

`cp_sync_inner` and `cp_sync_one_directory` built `src` and `dest` with
`OSPathSliceZ::from_raw`, which gives them a lifetime that has nothing
to do with `src_buf` and `dest_buf`, although both functions write to
those buffers later. `from_buf`, already used for the per-file paths a
few lines down, returns the same pointer and length tied to the buffer,
so the compiler now checks that the last use comes before the next
write.

The async twin `cp_async_one_directory` keeps `from_raw`. `cp_async`
does not write the two NULs itself as `cp_sync_inner` does, and for an
empty `dest` `os_path` returns `ZStr::EMPTY` without touching
`dest_buf`, so `from_buf`'s debug assert could fire on a stale pooled
buffer.

`readdir_with_entries_recursive_async` took the dirent name as bytes,
reduced the joined `&ZStr` to bytes, and rebuilt a `ZStr` from either.
It now uses `name_assume_z()`, as the `lstatat` call below does, and
keeps the joined `&ZStr`.

#### 33. node:fs: recursive `readdir` frees each queued result list as
it pops it

Both loops over the result queue kept the previous node in an
`Option<*mut ResultListEntry>` and freed it one iteration late, "because
the next value will be read by the iterator". `BatchIterator::next`
reads the link of a node before it returns the node, so the node can be
reclaimed at once, as the FSEvents task queue already does.

Each node is now taken as a `Box` where it is popped: no `Option`, no
trailing free after the loop, and no `&mut *val` on the raw pointer.

#### 34. fs.watch: `PathWatcherManager::mutex` owns the maps it guards

The manager had a bare `Mutex` next to `UnsafeCell`s for the dedup map
and the platform dispatch maps. Every access was `unsafe { &mut
*cell.get() }` with a comment saying that the caller holds the lock, and
the inotify reader laundered an owner's subpath through a raw pointer so
that it could call `add_one` later.

`mutex` is now a `Guarded<Locked>` holding both maps. Each `lock()`
binds the guard and each `unlock()` is a `drop` of it at the same place,
so the critical sections and the lock order with the FSEvents loop are
unchanged. `add_watch`, `add_one`, `walk_and_add` and `remove_watch` get
the platform maps as `&mut Linux` / `&mut Kqueue` instead of fetching
them from the manager, and `unlink_watcher_locked` is
`Locked::unlink_watcher`. The subpath is a plain borrow of `wd_map`: its
last use comes before `add_one` needs the map.

That is one argument more for each of the four, on Linux and on FreeBSD.
The inotify `add_one` and `walk_and_add` needed the manager for nothing
else but the inotify fd, so they take the `Fd` in its place. The kqueue
`add_one` still needs the manager for `next_gen`.

`PathWatcher`s stay raw pointers, and `platform_fd`, `next_gen` and the
`Sync` impl are as they were.

#### 35. fs.watch: `FSWatchTask::deinit` takes the `Box`

`deinit` was an `unsafe fn(*mut Self)` whose first step was
`heap::take`, and the dispatcher dereferenced the same raw pointer once
more to call `run`.

The heap task has one holder from the moment it is popped (or its post
is refused), so the three places where the pointer arrives reclaim the
`Box`, and `deinit(self: Box<Self>)` is a safe fn that can no longer be
called on the `current_task` embedded in the watcher. The debug assert
against that is gone. The order is the same: run, drop the entries,
release the watcher's ref, free.

`deinit` still releases a ref through an `unsafe` call. That the box
holds one rests on module privacy: `ctx` is private, and only the
enqueue sites box a task with it set, after `ref_task()`.

The Windows task changes the same way, because the dispatch arm is
shared.

#### 36. fs.watch: `FSWatcher::init` returns the JS wrapper

`init` and `create_fs_watcher` returned a `*mut FSWatcher` whose only
use was `unsafe { (*result).js_this() }` in `NodeFS::watch`. `init`
still holds its `&FSWatcher` at that point, so it reads the wrapper
itself and returns the `JSValue`. The `js_this()` accessor existed for
that one caller.

#### 37. fs.watchFile: three raw-pointer detours in `StatWatcher` setup

`init` armed a scope guard that would free the watcher "on the error
path", but there is no return between the guard and its `into_inner`,
and after `to_js_ptr` the wrapper owns the allocation anyway. The guard
is gone.

`lazy_scheduler` fetched the `RareData` slot a second time after
`StatWatcherScheduler::init(vm)` so that no `&mut` would span the call.
`init` only stores the pointer, so the slot it already holds is written
directly.

`InitialStatTask::create_and_schedule` dereferenced its raw watcher
pointer to get a ticket from the VM. Its one caller has the watcher as a
reference and passes the ticket in; it is now issued before the
watcher's ref is taken instead of after.

#### 38. fs.watch: three single sites in path_watcher.rs

`watch` boxed a `PathWatcher` with an empty handler map and then added
the first handler through the raw pointer it had just made.
`PathWatcher::new` now takes the handler and adds it while it still
holds the `Box`.

The inotify reader allocated its 64 KiB buffer with `new_uninit`,
`write_bytes` and `assume_init` on a local `align(4)` newtype. A
`Box<[u32; 16 * 1024]>` from `boxed_zeroed` has the same size and
alignment, and `read` gets its bytes through `bytes_of_mut`.

`unsafe impl Send for PathWatcherManager` had no user: the manager only
crosses threads as `&'static PathWatcherManager`, which needs `Sync`.
The inventory of the vm-thread-door lint is regenerated.

#### 39. node: `Bun__Buffer_fill` and `posix_fadvise` say in their types
what they need

`Bun__Buffer_fill` took `*const EncodedSlice` and turned it into a
reference on its first line. Both C++ callers pass the address of a
local, so the parameter is `&EncodedSlice`, as in
`Bun__Process__setCwd`. The fn stays `unsafe` for its buffer pointer.

`posix_fadvise` takes four scalars and reports a bad fd through its
return value, so it joins `fallocate` and `ftruncate` in `bun_sys`'s
`safe_libc` block as a `safe fn` with the `libc` crate's signature, and
is re-exported from `bun_sys::c` like `fchmod`. Its three callers lose
their `unsafe` blocks.

#### 40. node:os: `networkInterfaces` drops its counting pass over the
`getifaddrs` list

The first walk over the list only counted the INET interfaces, and the
count was discarded with `let _ =`. The walk and its raw dereference are
gone.

#### 41. fs.watch (macOS): `FSEventsLoop::mutex` owns the state it
guards

The loop had a bare `Mutex`, an `UnsafeCell<FSEventsLoopState>` and an
`unsafe fn state(&self) -> &mut FSEventsLoopState` whose contract was
"the caller holds the mutex". All five users took the lock guard on the
line before.

`mutex` is now a `Guarded<FSEventsLoopState>`, and each `lock_guard()` +
`unsafe { state() }` pair is one `lock()`. The guard is bound where
`_guard` was, so every function holds the lock over the same range, and
`events_cb`, which only reads the watcher list, gets a shared view.

#### 42. fs.watch (macOS): the FSEvents task is typed, and three smaller
sites

`Task::new<T>` erased `&'static T` and `fn(&T)` to `*mut ()` and
`fn(*mut ())` with `cast_fn_ptr`. `T` is always `FSEventsLoop`, so
`Task` holds `&'static FSEventsLoop` and `fn(&FSEventsLoop)` and calls
one with the other.

`ConcurrentTask::auto_delete` was `true` at its only construction site.
The field is gone, and `cf_loop_callback` reclaims each popped node as a
`Box`, runs it and drops it, in the same order as before.

`unsafe impl Send for FSEventsLoop` had no user: the loop only crosses
threads as `&'static FSEventsLoop`, which needs `Sync`. The inventory of
the vm-thread-door lint is regenerated.

`Darwin::init` turned a fresh `Box` into a raw pointer and dereferenced
it to get the `&'static` manager, which is never freed. That is
`Box::leak`.

### How did you verify your code works?

- **Static checks on the final commits:** `cargo fmt --check`, `cargo
clippy --workspace` (0 warnings), the source lints and `cargo check
--workspace --release` on Linux, and `cargo check --workspace --release`
for `x86_64-pc-windows-msvc`, `aarch64-apple-darwin` and
`x86_64-unknown-freebsd`, because eleven changes touch code that only
those targets compile.
- **Assembly:** the comparison above.
- **30 test files on the final commits**, on a debug build with ASAN,
all at once and each cut off after 50 seconds: the files for spawn
(signals, the waiter thread, pidfd, pipes), `Bun.Terminal`, `FileSink`,
DNS polls, `fs.cp`, `mkdir`, `opendir`, `fs.promises`, recursive
`readdir`, `fs.watch`, `fs.watchFile`, `node:os`, the console,
`URLSearchParams`, the shell's `cp` and `mkdir`, the transpiler cache,
`node:module` and source maps.
  - 28 files pass completely, 676 tests.
- `spawn_waiter_thread` fails on this build and on a debug build of the
base alike: it allows a child 750 ms of CPU time, and a debug build
takes about 1,050 ms on both.
  - `test/cli/test/parallel.test.ts` was cut off.
- **After the assembly comparison and the 30 files had run,** a rebase
brought in one more commit of `main` (#47836). It left all 42 patches
here as they were. The static checks ran after it.
- **409 test files before an earlier rebase.** That rebase brought in 31
commits of `main`. In it I adapted five of the commits here to `main`'s
new code (1, 16, 17, 21 and 23) and dropped one, and a review after it
changed code or comments in four (2, 12, 19 and 35). The 409 files ran
on a debug build with ASAN of the commits as they were, ten at a time,
and the files that failed also on a debug build of their base. They are
all of `test/js/bun/test`, `bun/spawn`, `bun/shell`, `bun/resolve`,
`bun/sourcemap`, `bun/console`, `test/cli/run`, `node/fs`,
`node/process`, `node/child_process`, `node/module`, `node/watch` and
`web/console`, and 61 more files that reach the event loop, the console,
`fs.watch` or the transpiler store.
  - 377 files pass completely, 7,926 tests.
- 28 files fail in the same tests on both builds (the number of failing
tests in brackets; 0 means that the file does not load): `glob-on-fuse`
(1), `run-file-on-fuse` (1), `run-crash-handler` (4), `bun-write-leak`
(1), `fetch-abort-slow-connect` (2), `plugins` (0), `bun-write` (1),
`watch` (2), `require-cache` (8), `resolve` (1), `shell-pipe-read-fault`
(11), `shell-write-fault` (1), `spawn-pipe-start-error` (21),
`spawn-stdio-syscall-error` (17), `shell-load` (1), `spawn-pipe-leak`
(3), `pretty-format-overflow` (1), `spyMatchers` (0), `leak` (7),
`snapshot` (1), `readdir-malformed-dirent` (1), `inspect-error-leak`
(1), `process-nexttick-is-native-code` (1), `stdin-pause-pty` (1),
`dlopen-duplicate-load` (17), `test-process-stdout-async-iterator` (2),
`fs` (2), `process` (3).
- 3 files fail in fewer tests than on the base, all on time limits with
ten files running: `spawn_waiter_thread`, `run-aot` and
`stdin-fixtures`.
- `spawn-maxbuf` failed once in one test: a `sleep 1` took 1,737 ms
against a bound of 1,500. Alone it passes 3 of 3 times on both builds.
- **After the 409 files had run** I removed one `#[inline]` attribute
from change 1.


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…ch`, `Response` and the S3 client (#47895)

### What does this PR do?

29 separate changes, one commit each, in `Blob`, `Bun.write`,
`FileSink`, `fetch`, `Response`, the S3 client and the streams. The last
three answer the checks and the reviews of the first 26 on this PR: a
lint finding (27), and two older bugs beside lines that this PR touches
(28 and 29). They follow #47291, #47317, #47338, #47382, #47393, #47414,
#47871 and #47893 and work the same way: signatures name the type and
the lifetime that the value already has, hand-written pointer code
becomes plain ownership and borrows that the compiler checks, and what
was never needed is deleted.

Together: **131 fewer `unsafe` blocks, 11 fewer `unsafe fn`s and 3 fewer
`unsafe impl`s**, +819/−1567 over 48 files. No safe function became
`unsafe`, and no wrapper type was added. **[Where the compiled code
changes](#where-the-compiled-code-changes) lists every place where the
program does different work.**

| # | Change | `unsafe` | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | webcore: a new `Blob` goes to JS by value (`BlobExt::into_js`) |
−20 blocks | +51/−147, 10 files |
| 2 | webcore: a file read's completion stays a `Box` from creation to
`run` | −15 blocks, −7 `unsafe fn` | +105/−216, 4 files |
| 3 | webcore: `FileSink`'s entry points take the `RefPtr` their callers
hold | −6 blocks | +84/−108, 5 files |
| 4 | webcore: `Bun.write`'s promise travels as a `JSPromiseStrong`, not
a boxed `WriteFilePromise` | −6 blocks, −1 `unsafe impl` | +70/−128, 2
files |
| 5 | webcore: the S3 tasks are set up before `into_raw` and borrow from
the caller's `Blob` | −5 blocks | +32/−69, 2 files |
| 6 | streams: `WritablePending::promise` returns the `JSValue` every
caller wants | −4 blocks | +15/−28, 4 files |
| 7 | webcore: `FormDataContext` names the lifetime its entries have |
−3 blocks | +22/−40, 1 file |
| 8 | webcore: `WriteFileWaitFromLockedValueTask` settles through the
`JSPromiseStrong` it owns | −3 blocks | +33/−49, 2 files |
| 9 | node:fs: `AsyncFSTask::schedule` for callers that have no
`Binding` | −3 blocks | +14/−22, 4 files |
| 10 | webcore: replace two drop guards over raw pointers | −2 blocks |
+19/−24, 2 files |
| 11 | webcore: leak a `Box` with `heap::release`, borrow a `JsCell`
with `as_mut` | −5 blocks | +22/−49, 6 files |
| 12 | Blob: finish a value before it is boxed;
`to_form_data_with_bytes` takes `&[u8]` | −5 blocks, −2 `unsafe fn` |
+20/−52, 1 file |
| 13 | Blob: `Bun.file(path).formData()` frees the bytes it read | 0 |
+30/−2, 2 files |
| 14 | webcore: functions exported to C++ take references and
`Option<Box<T>>` | −14 blocks | +20/−54, 5 files |
| 15 | fetch: `FetchTasklet::on_body_received` needs no raw pointer | −6
blocks | +28/−67, 1 file |
| 16 | fetch: `FetchTasklet::get` borrows from a `&'static mut` tasklet
| −3 blocks | +9/−27, 1 file |
| 17 | s3: the request setup keeps the `&mut AsyncHTTP` that
`MaybeUninit::write` returns | −5 blocks | +13/−24, 2 files |
| 18 | s3: multipart callbacks borrow from their ref guard; `root` is
set through the reference | −4 blocks | +6/−10, 2 files |
| 19 | s3: `get_sign_error_message` returns `&'static str` | −1 block |
+27/−51, 2 files |
| 20 | webcore: remove an exported function and two `unsafe impl Send`
that nothing uses | −1 block, −1 `unsafe fn`, −2 `unsafe impl` |
+16/−36, 3 files |
| 21 | webcore: `Response::to_js` takes the `RefPtr` whose ref the
wrapper adopts | −9 blocks, −1 `unsafe fn` | +46/−83, 4 files |
| 22 | webcore: drop five detours through raw pointers that the
signatures do not need | −5 blocks | +20/−55, 5 files |
| 23 | fetch: `S3StreamWrapper` keeps the URL string it needs, not a URL
that borrows its sibling | −2 blocks | +8/−25, 1 file |
| 24 | fetch: `url` and `proxy` borrow `url_proxy_buffer` | −1 block |
+7/−23, 1 file |
| 25 | webcore: two `&mut` to a wrapper's payload become `&` | 0 |
+10/−10, 2 files |
| 26 | http: `ThreadSafeStreamBuffer` is a `Guarded`, and its methods
take `&self` | −3 blocks | +73/−145, 9 files |
| 27 | webcore: `ReadFile::create` takes the `Blob` it reads | 0 |
+8/−22, 2 files |
| 28 | HTMLRewriter: `RewriterPipe::init` clones the headers before it
allocates the pipe | 0 | +3/−3, 1 file |
| 29 | Bun.Image: `.blob()` tells the GC the size of its bytes | 0 |
+11/−1, 2 files |

The commits can be reviewed one at a time.

Worth knowing before reading on:

- **Change 13 fixes a leak, with a test.** Every
`Bun.file(path).formData()` leaked a buffer the size of the file.
- **Change 29 fixes what the GC is told, with a test.** A `Blob` from
`.blob()` of a `Bun.Image` counted as 440 bytes, whatever it held.
- **Two more leaks and a dangling borrow end, on paths that are rarely
taken.**
- Change 1: `Archive.files()` leaked a `Blob` when the conversion of a
name failed.
- Change 5: on a signing error, `list_objects` freed its options while
the callee still held a reference to them.
- Changes 21 and 28: `RewriterPipe::init` leaked a `Response` with both
refs, and the pipe, when the clone of the headers failed.
- **Seven changes end an aliasing or contract bug that had no visible
effect.**
- Change 1: `BlobExt::to_js(&self)` was a safe function that was only
right for a pointer from `Blob::new`.
- Change 3: a `&mut FileSink` was live while the pump ran JS that
reaches the sink through another pointer.
  - Change 15: the same for a `&mut Response` in `FetchTasklet`.
- Change 21: `make_maybe_pooled` was a safe function that dereferenced
whatever pointer it was given.
- Change 25: `fetch` and `new Request` made a `&mut` to a `Request` and
a `Response` that script holds.
- Change 10: a guard wrote into `self` through a raw pointer while a
`&mut self` method ran.
- Change 26: the JS thread and the HTTP thread each made a `&mut
ThreadSafeStreamBuffer` from their shared pointer before they had the
lock.
- **Ownership is in the types:** what is handed over arrives as a value,
a `Box` or a `RefPtr` (changes 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 14 and 21). The messages
of changes 3 and 21 follow the ref count on each path.
- **Three changes cost a little:** nine callers copy a 120-byte `Blob`
once more on its way to JS (change 1), the file-copy loop makes one
store more per system call (change 10), and a read of a file calls code
that was inline in seven places (change 27). All three are described
below.
- **Fewer allocations:** one per `Bun.write` (change 4), a clone of the
credentials per S3 read (5), and a boxed copy of the URL and a second
parse per streamed upload to `s3://` (23).
- **Twelve functions that C++ calls take references or
`Option<Box<T>>`** (change 14). The message names the call sites and
what they pass.
- **Dead code goes:** an exported C symbol named `c` and two `unsafe
impl Send` (change 20), and an arm of `get_current_response` that could
not be taken (15).
- **Parts of four changes are compiled only for Windows:** 2
(`ReadFileUV`), 3 (the Windows arm of `Blob.writer()`), 4
(`WriteFileWindows`) and 11 (`CopyFileWindows`, `ReadFileUV`).

### Where the compiled code changes

This comparison covers the first 26 changes. Changes 27 to 29 follow at
the end of the section.

I compared the release assembly (x86-64 Linux, `--emit=asm`) of all 134
crates of the workspace, before and after. For 113 of them the files are
the same byte for byte, among them `bun_s3_signing`, which this PR
touches. The other 21 I compared function by function, with names
demangled and labels normalised. In 19 of the 21 no function differs:
what differs is line numbers in the debug information, the paths of the
two checkouts and, in one function of `bun_sql_jsc`, the commit's own
hash.

| Crate | Functions | Differ | Other constants or names only | Same
length | Shorter | Longer | Instructions | Branches | Compares | Calls |
Panic call sites |
|---|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|
| 19 crates, among them `bun_jsc`, `bun_http_jsc`, `bun_install`,
`bun_bundler` and `bun_core` | 14,372 | 0 | | | | | | | | | |
| `bun_http` | 376 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −30 | −1 | −1 | −4 | −1 |
| `bun_runtime` | 11,207 | 135 | 27 | 44 | 39 | 25 | −584 | −96 | −90 |
−98 | −19 |

The last five columns are net, and count the functions that exist on one
side only: 22 only before and 16 only after, which were removed, renamed
or inlined, or are no longer inlined. Eleven more functions of `impl
BlobExt for Blob` have the same code under another mangled name, because
change 2 puts an `impl` in front of theirs. 17 of the 27 functions in
the fourth column differ only in such a name.

**Two of the 26 changes cost something.**

- **A `Blob` on its way to JS is copied once more in nine places (change
1).** Every caller used to move its `Blob` (120 bytes) to the heap
inline. `into_js(self)` does that now, in a function of its own (68
instructions). A caller that has lent its local `Blob` out before
(`&blob`) first copies it into the argument slot. That is 8 loads and 8
stores more per call of `Bun.file()`, `blob.slice()`, `Request.blob()`,
`Response.blob()`, `Body::Value::resolve`, `S3Client.file()` (static and
on an instance), `construct_s3_file` and per entry of `Archive.files()`.
Each of these also allocates the `Blob` and a JS object. In the other
nine callers the `Blob` is copied as often as before. 14 of the 18
callers are between 14 and 50 instructions shorter, most of them with 3
or 4 branches, 4 calls and a panic site fewer.
- **The copy loop stores its total once per system call (change 10).**
The guard that wrote `read_len` on every exit is a wrapper around the
loop now, and the loop adds to a `&mut` total. The compiler inlines the
wrapper and not the loop, so the total lives in memory: one store more
after each `copy_file_range`, `sendfile` or `splice`. The six instances
of the loop go from 171–354 to 181–366 instructions, and `CopyFile::run`
from 979 to 993.

**Checks.** No path makes a check that it did not make before, apart
from the bug fix. These are all the functions in which the listing shows
more conditional branches, compares or panic call sites than before, and
why:

| Function | Listing | Why |
|---|---|---|
| `ToFormDataWithBytesFn::call`, and the closure of `NewReadFileHandler`
that calls it | 12 to 30 and 55 to 65, +1 branch and +1 call each |
**The bug fix (change 13):** they free the bytes that were read. |
| `TextEncoder__encode16` | 1 to 187 | It was a jump to `encode16_impl`
(187), whose other caller was the export that nothing used (change 20).
The two are one function now. |
| `ReadFileCompletionFns::of::cancel` for the read handlers | 1 to 27,
+6 branches, +4 calls | It was a jump to the drop of the boxed handler
(27), which the compiler now puts here (change 2). |
| `S3Client.file()` (static), `construct_s3_file` | 97 to 119 and 6 to
40, +2 and +1 branches | `construct_internal_js` (61) is inline in its
two callers (change 1). |
| `Archive.files()`'s `run_from_js` | 191 to 199, +3 branches, −2 calls,
−1 panic site | Change 1. It drops the `Blob` on the path where the
conversion of a name fails, where it leaked it. |
| `Blob__onStructuredCloneDeserialize` | 561 to 561, +1 branch, +1
compare, −4 calls | Changes 1 and 10. The guard's drop (41) goes, and
the `Blob` is dropped at the two exits that need it. Four boxes are not
made. |
| `WriteFileWaitFromLockedValueTask::then_wrap` | 296 to 313, +3
branches, +4 calls | Change 8. It read the promise once at the top and
reads it in each of the four arms, so once per path as before. It called
the drop of the box at four places, and that drop is inline at one. |
| `FetchTasklet::queue` | 562 to 566, +1 branch, +1 compare, +1 call, +1
panic site | Change 26. `ThreadSafeStreamBuffer::new` (21, in
`bun_http`) is gone. The same allocation, with its test, is inline here.
|
| `Blob::from_url_search_params` | 130 to 146, +1 panic site | Change
22. `Store::init` is inline: the same allocation with its test. One free
fewer. |
| `FileSink::pipe_stream` | 451 to 452, +1 branch, +3 compares, −1 call
| Change 3. It borrows the caller's `RefPtr`: one load more, and one
increment, one decrement and the call of `destroy` fewer. The compiler
duplicates a test at three exits. |
| `Blob.writer()` | 766 to 771, +1 branch, +1 call | Change 3. One
increment fewer. The compiler duplicates one exit, with its free. |

| Change | What differs | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | The six `run` functions of the read handlers go from 229 to 215,
with 2 branches fewer. For `Bun.Image`, `cancel` goes from 53 to 45,
`run` from 50 to 42, `on_read_bytes` from 22 to 13 the task's `done`
from 65 to 57 and `Image::schedule` from 570 to 565, with 4 branches
fewer. | Same reads. |
| 3 | Apart from the two rows above: `end_from_js` goes from 432 to 396
with 6 branches fewer, `assign_to_stream` from 424 to 417,
`Subprocess::get_stdin` from 107 to 101, `FileSink::to_js` from 11 to
10. `pipe_readable_stream_to_blob` and `spawn_maybe_sync`, which has
`Writable::init` inline, are 1 longer. | The ref count goes up and down
less often. The message follows it on each path. |
| 4 | `write_file_with_source_destination` goes from 1,832 to 1,792
(with 1), `WriteFile::then` from 108 to 99 with 4 calls fewer. One
closure of the job is 1 shorter and one 4 longer. | One allocation fewer
per `Bun.write`. |
| 5 | `list_objects` keeps its 517, and its `resolve` goes from 505 to
509. The drop of the boxed wrapper (116) is the drop of the options
(110). `S3BlobDownloadTask::init` keeps its 154, and its callback goes
from 147 to 153. | One clone of the credentials fewer per S3 read. |
| 6 | `Writable::to_js` goes from 82 to 92 and the two `flush_from_js`
from 72 to 77 and from 129 to 137: they call `Strong::value` where they
called `Strong::get`, and keep the new handle on the stack for that. |
Same promise. |
| 9 | `AsyncFSTask::schedule` is a function of its own for `stat`,
`fstat` and `unlink` (140, 127 and 138), and `create` forwards to it.
`Blob.stat()` goes from 163 to 125 with 5 branches and 6 calls fewer,
and `unlink` from 131 to 127. `run_async` goes from 156 to 163 for
`fstat` and from 223 to 224 for `unlink`. For the 37 other operations
`schedule` is inline in `create`, which keeps its length and uses other
registers. | `Blob.stat()` no longer sets up the VM's `NodeFS` on first
use, and `unlink` no longer takes a path buffer from the pool for a
`Binding` that nothing read. |
| 12, 13 | `to_form_data` goes from 228 to 201, with 5 branches fewer.
`to_form_data_with_bytes` (112) has no type argument. | Same form data.
|
| 14 | `Body::Value::from_js` goes from 369 to 351,
`Blob__fromMmapWithType` from 133 to 129. | Same values. |
| 15, 16 | `FetchTasklet::on_progress_update` goes from 1,619 to 1,560,
with 11 branches and 10 calls fewer. `on_resolve` keeps its 310. | Same
body. |
| 21 | `Response::make_maybe_pooled` (31) is `Response::to_js` (30).
`HTMLRewriter::begin_transform` goes from 1,406 to 1,405. | Same
wrapper. |
| 21, 23, 24, 25 | `fetch_impl::<false>` goes from 4,666 to 4,629, with
5 branches, 7 calls and 2 panic sites fewer. Two `URL::parse`, a
`memcpy`, a `memmove`, a shrink of the buffer and two bounds checks go.
| Same request. |
| 23 | `s3_stream_wrapper_resolve` goes from 181 to 165, with 4 branches
and 5 calls fewer. **The URL's string is made when the upload starts,
not when it ends.** | One boxed copy of the URL and one parse fewer per
streamed upload to `s3://`. |
| 26 | In `bun_http`, `ThreadSafeStreamBuffer::new`, `acquire` and
`release` go (21, 7 and 2), `report_drain` (9) belongs to the guarded
state, and 8 functions differ in the offsets of its fields.
`HTTPClient::flush_stream::<false>`, which is instantiated in
`bun_runtime`, goes from 126 to 129. | The lock is taken and released
where it was. |

Changes 7, 11, 17, 18 and 19 ask for the same operations in the same
order. Where they show up at all, it is in registers. What changes 2, 3,
4 and 11 do to code for Windows is not compiled on Linux.

**Changes 27 to 29** I compared in the same way, the first 26 commits
against all 29. 133 of the 134 crates give the same file byte for byte.
In `bun_runtime` 10 of 11,205 functions differ, and together they have
599 instructions, 32 branches, 33 compares, 33 calls and 18 panic call
sites fewer:

| Change | What differs | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | `ReadFile::create` was inline in its seven callers, which call it
now. `to_string`, `to_json`, `to_json_source`, `to_form_data` and the
two `to_array_buffer_view`, which have `do_read_file` inline, are 88 to
90 shorter, and `Image::schedule` goes from 565 to 486. `create` goes
from 104 to 107, with 1 branch, 1 compare and 1 panic site more: the
`expect` on the store is there now. | **One call more per read of a
file.** The same work otherwise. |
| 28 | `HTMLRewriter::begin_transform`, which has `init` inline, goes
from 1,405 to 1,415, with 1 branch more and 1 call fewer. | The exit for
a failed clone drops the `Rc` of the context, which it leaked with the
pipe. |
| 29 | `PipelineTask::then` keeps its 741 and calls `into_js` (68) where
it called `JsClass::to_js`. | **The bug fix:** the size is computed and
the GC is told. |

The comparisons cover x86-64 Linux only, one crate at a time. The build
that ships also inlines across crates when it links.

### The changes in detail

#### 1. webcore: a new `Blob` goes to JS by value (`BlobExt::into_js`)

`BlobExt::to_js(&self)` was a safe fn that cast `&self` to `*mut Blob`
and gave that pointer to the JS wrapper, which is only right for a
pointer that came from `Blob::new`. Every caller therefore wrote `let
ptr = Blob::new(blob); unsafe { BlobExt::to_js(&*ptr, global) }`, and
some set fields through the raw pointer in between.

`into_js(self)` takes the `Blob` by value, computes the estimated size,
boxes it with `Blob::new` and hands the pointer to the wrapper. Callers
set their fields on the value first. `on_structured_clone_deserialize`
keeps a `Blob` value to the end, so its error paths drop it instead of
running two `deinit` guards, one of them over a raw pointer.
`construct_s3_file_internal` had one caller and is gone.

`Archive.files()` now drops the `Blob` instead of leaking it when
`name.to_js` fails.

#### 2. webcore: a file read's completion stays a `Box` from creation to
`run`

`do_read_file` and `Image`'s `BlobReadChain` boxed their handler, turned
it into a raw pointer at once, wrote its promise through the pointer,
and each `unsafe fn run(ctx: *mut Self, ..)` / `on_read_bytes(this: *mut
Self, ..)` took the box back by hand. The read buffer travelled the same
way: a `*mut [u8]` that both consumers turned back into the `Box<[u8]>`
it was.

`ReadFileCompletion::run`/`cancel` and `ReadBytesHandler::on_read_bytes`
take `self: Box<Self>`, `read_bytes_to_handler` takes `Box<H>` and is
safe, and `ReadFileRead::buf` is a `Box<[u8]>`. The only raw pointer
left is the erased `ctx` of `ReadFileCompletionFns`: `of` makes it from
the box and its two shims take the box back, so its fields are private.

Erasing the type also erases its lifetimes, so the handler types are
bound by `'static`. `NewReadFileHandler` and `BlobReadChain` held a `&'a
JSGlobalObject` from the call that started the read; they hold a
`BackRef<JSGlobalObject>`.

A `ReadBytesHandler` is a `ReadFileCompletion` through one blanket impl,
which replaces `Adapter`, `InternalReadFileFn` and
`NewInternalReadFileHandler`.

`NewReadFileHandler::run` moves the blob out of the box instead of
swapping a default one in. The box is still freed before the promise is
settled.

#### 3. webcore: `FileSink`'s entry points take the `RefPtr` their
callers hold

`to_js`, `to_js_for_subprocess`, `pipe_stream` and `assign_to_stream`
took `&mut self`. Every caller holds a `RefPtr<FileSink>`, which has no
`DerefMut`, so they wrote `unsafe { (*sink.as_ptr()).pipe_stream(..) }`
or went through `Writable::pipe_sink_mut`. Inside, the functions turned
`&mut self` back into the raw pointer they hand to the controller, the
JS wrapper and the pump's reactions, and took a guard ref with `unsafe {
RefPtr::init_ref(..) }`. That `&mut FileSink` was also live while the
pump ran JS that reaches the sink through the controller's pointer.

`pipe_stream` and `assign_to_stream` take `this: &RefPtr<FileSink>`: the
pointers come from `as_non_null()` / `as_ptr()`, and the fields, all
`Cell`/`JsCell`, are read through `Deref`. The borrow of the caller's
`RefPtr` keeps the sink alive for the call, so the two guard refs go.

`to_js` and `to_js_for_subprocess` take the `RefPtr` by value. The
wrapper used to take a ref of its own and every caller dropped its ref
right after the call; the caller's ref is the wrapper's.

`JSSink::create_object` takes the `NonNull` it stores. `pipe_sink_mut`
is deleted.

#### 4. webcore: `Bun.write`'s promise travels as a `JSPromiseStrong`,
not a boxed `WriteFilePromise`

`write_file_with_source_destination` boxed a `WriteFilePromise`, turned
the box into a raw pointer, and two lines later took it back with
`unsafe`. The job carried the box, `WriteFile::then` leaked it again to
pass it as `*mut c_void` to a fn pointer that was always
`WriteFilePromise::run`, and `run` needed four `unsafe` blocks to take
it apart. The struct also needed a hand-written `unsafe impl JsAffine`
for its `*const JSGlobalObject`.

The job's JS half is `(JSPromiseStrong, BackRef<JSGlobalObject>)`, both
`JsAffine` already, stored in the job itself: one allocation fewer per
write. `settle` is `run`'s body on `&mut JSPromise` and
`&JSGlobalObject`. `WriteFilePromise` and `WriteFileOnWriteFileCallback`
are deleted.

The global stays the one the promise was made in. `then`'s `cx.global()`
is the VM's own global, which is a different one for a write started in
a `ShadowRealm`.

`WriteFileWindows` holds the same two values in place of the callback
and its context, and takes the promise out before `deinit`.
`create_with_ctx` becomes `create`, which only forwarded to it.

#### 5. webcore: the S3 tasks are set up before `into_raw` and borrow
from the caller's `Blob`

`S3BlobDownloadTask::init` leaked its box first and then went through
the raw pointer twice: to ref the keep-alive, and to read the path and
credentials out of the dupe's store. `read_bytes_to_handler` stashed the
path as a raw slice and cloned the credentials for the same reason. The
dupe shares its `Store` with the `&Blob` both functions are given, so
they read it from there, finish the box while it is still a `Box`, and
then leak it. The credentials clone goes with it.

The downloaded bytes went `*mut [u8]` -> `&mut [u8]` -> `*mut [u8]` on
their way to `ReadFileToJs::call`: `S3ReadHandler` takes the raw slice,
under that function's contract. `call_handler` only forwarded to the
handler and is written out in its one caller.

`list_objects` kept its options in the leaked `Wrapper` only to borrow
them back through the pointer. `resolve` never reads them and
`s3_client::list_objects` uses them only to build the query string, so
they stay a local, freed on return. On a signing error the callback runs
inside that call and frees the wrapper, which used to free the options
the callee was holding a reference to.

#### 6. streams: `WritablePending::promise` returns the `JSValue` every
caller wants

It returned `*mut JSPromise`, made from the strong's value with
`as_promise()` and two `unwrap`s. All nine callers turned the pointer
straight back into that value: `FileSink` with `unsafe {
(*promise).to_js() }`, the others with
`JSPromise::opaque_ref(p).to_js()` and its null check.

It returns `strong.value()`. For a new promise the value is read before
the strong moves into `self.future`, so the second `match` with its
`unreachable!()` arm goes too.

#### 7. webcore: `FormDataContext` names the lifetime its entries have

`on_entry` and `push_string_slice` took their slices with an anonymous
lifetime and stretched three of them with `detach_lifetime` to put them
into the joiner. The names, string values, file names and blobs all
belong to the `DOMFormData` that `from_dom_form_data` borrows until
after `joiner.done()`, which is the lifetime the context already has.

Both functions take `'a` now, so the pushes type-check as they are, and
the claim sits on the derefs in the `DOMFormData__forEach` callback.
`FormDataEntry::File` holds `&Blob`: `resolve_size` takes `&self`.

#### 8. webcore: `WriteFileWaitFromLockedValueTask` settles through the
`JSPromiseStrong` it owns

`then` took a raw `*mut JSPromise` out of `this.promise` on entry, freed
`this` in three of the arms and then settled through the pointer. It
owns the box, so each arm asks `this.promise` for the promise where it
settles it, and the box is freed when `then` returns. The arm that waits
for another callback does not look the promise up at all.

`write_file_internal` reads the promise's value while the task is still
a `Box`, and both sites leak it with `into_raw_nn`.

#### 9. node:fs: `AsyncFSTask::schedule` for callers that have no
`Binding`

`AsyncFSTask::create` takes a `&Binding` only because `run_async` calls
every `create` through one function pointer type; it never reads it. To
have one to pass, `Blob::stat` cast the VM's `NodeFS` pointer to a
`&Binding` in three places, and `unlink` built a whole
`Binding::default()`.

The body of `create` is `schedule`, without that parameter, and `create`
forwards to it. The four callers outside `node:fs` call `schedule`, and
`Binding` no longer derives `Default`.

#### 10. webcore: replace two drop guards over raw pointers

`write_file_with_empty_source_to_destination` took `&mut Blob` and kept
a `*mut Blob` for the guard that detaches it, because a guard over the
`&mut` would have blocked the reads in between. Everything it calls on
the blob takes `&self`, so it takes `&Blob` and the guard holds a copy
of that.

`CopyFile::do_copy_file_range` counted into a local and had a guard copy
it to `self.read_len` through two raw pointers on the way out, one of
them into `self` while `self.fallback_read_write(..)` ran. Its body
moves to `copy_file_range_loop`, which counts through a `&mut SizeType`.
`do_copy_file_range` owns the counter and stores it in `read_len` after
the call, on success and on failure: one store, as the guard did.

#### 11. webcore: leak a `Box` with `heap::release`, borrow a `JsCell`
with `as_mut`

`NewSource::new_mut`, `CopyFileWindows::init` and
`ReadFileUV::start_with_ctx` turned a fresh `Box` into a raw pointer and
dereferenced it at once to get a `&mut`. That is `Box::leak`, which
`heap::release` spells for an allocation that is freed elsewhere.

`s3::client::readable_stream` did the same by hand on top of
`NewSource::new`. It calls `new_mut`, and `new`, which has no other
caller, is deleted.

`FileSink::source` has `&mut self`, so it can use the safe
`JsCell::as_mut` instead of `get_mut`.

#### 12. Blob: finish a value before it is boxed;
`to_form_data_with_bytes` takes `&[u8]`

`from_url_search_params` stored the MIME type through the new store's
raw pointer, and `jsdom_file_construct` and `Blob__fromMmapWithType` set
`Cell` fields through the pointer `Blob::new` had just returned. Each of
them still owns the value one line earlier, so the store is built with
its MIME type and the fields are set before `Blob::new`.

`to_form_data_with_bytes` only reads its bytes and never looked at its
const parameter. It is a safe function over `&[u8]`; `to_form_data`
passes `shared_view()`.

#### 13. Blob: `Bun.file(path).formData()` frees the bytes it read

A file read hands its buffer to `ReadFileToJs::call` as a leaked
`Box<[u8]>` with `Lifetime::Temporary`, and the callee has to free it.
`ToFormDataWithBytesFn::call` ignored the lifetime, so every
`Bun.file(path).formData()` leaked a buffer the size of the file.

It holds the buffer in a `TemporaryBytes` for that lifetime, as
`to_string_with_bytes` and `to_json_with_bytes` do. The parser copies
everything the `FormData` keeps. The S3 path passes `Lifetime::Clone`
and still only lends its bytes.

#### 14. webcore: functions exported to C++ take references and
`Option<Box<T>>`

Twelve exported functions took raw pointers and turned them into
references, or into a `Box`, in their first lines. None has a Rust
caller, and the functions next to them already take `&JSGlobalObject`,
`&ReadableSinkController` and `&mut bool`.

- The four `TextEncoderStreamEncoder__*` steps take
`&TextEncoderStreamEncoder`. Both fields are a `Cell` and a `RefCell`,
so the reference may span the chunk's string coercion, which runs user
JS. The pointer was already read before the coercion and used after it.
- Both `destroyForStream` functions take `Option<Box<T>>` and drop it:
the same null test and the same free.
- `TextDecoder__createForStream` takes `&mut bool` and `&mut
EncodingLabel`.
- `JSS3File__bucket`, `__presign` and `__stat` take `&Blob` and
`&JSGlobalObject`; `Body__jsonSource` and `Response__createFromParts`
take `&JSGlobalObject`.

The callers: `encodeAndEnqueue` (JSTextEncoderStream.cpp) makes all four
encoder calls with `m_encoder`, under `runNativeArm`, which defers
`nativeTransformReleaseState` until the arm returns; the destroy
functions get `std::exchange(p, nullptr)` from the finalizers of the two
stream cells and from `nativeTransformReleaseState`, and the possibly
null `decoder` from the error path of
`JSTextDecoderStreamConstructor::construct`, which is also the one
caller of `createForStream` and passes the addresses of `bool
utf8FastPath = false` and `uint8_t encoding = 0` (`Utf8`);
`getterS3File_bucket`, `functionS3File_presign` and
`functionS3File_stat` (JSS3File.cpp) pass `wrapped()`, a `void* const`
set at construction, of a checked downcast; the last two are entries of
the generated table of direct functions, which declares their first
parameter as the realm, and are reached through it by compiled code and
by `functionCallingDirectly` (InternalForTesting.cpp), which passes the
`JSGlobalObject*` of its own host call there.

#### 15. fetch: `FetchTasklet::on_body_received` needs no raw pointer

Three raw pointers in one function, none of them needed:

- `body` was kept as `*mut BodyValue` "because borrowck can't see
through the accessors". `Response::get_body_value` and
`get_fetch_headers` both take `&self`, so the `&mut BodyValue` can
simply be kept. No JS runs between the place it is taken and
`BodyValue::resolve`, which already got it as `&mut`.
- The buffer reset ran in a `scopeguard::defer!` that reached
`scheduled_response_buffer` through a raw pointer taken before the `&mut
self` calls of the body. The body is now `deliver_body`, and
`on_body_received` resets the buffer after it returns, whatever it
returns: every `return` and every `?` of the body ends up there, after
the body's own locals are dropped, which is when the guard ran. Panics
abort, so there is no other way out.
- `current_response_mut` made a `&mut Response` of any lifetime out of
`&self`, and it was live while `ByteStream::on_data` ran JS that reaches
the same `Response`. Every method called on it takes `&self`. Both
places read `self.native_response.get().as_deref()`, as
`on_response_finalize` does: a `&Response` that borrows one field, so
`scheduled_response_buffer` can still be borrowed mutably next to it.

`get_current_response` also fell back to the wrapper behind the weak
`response` handle. That arm could not be taken. `on_resolve` is the only
place that fills the handle, and it sets `native_response` right after.
`clear_data` and `abandon_response_body`, the only places that set
`native_response` to `None`, clear the handle on the line before. So
there is no wrapper to find when `native_response` is `None`, and the
arm is gone.

#### 16. fetch: `FetchTasklet::get` borrows from a `&'static mut`
tasklet

`get` turned the fresh tasklet pointer into a reference of a lifetime it
picked, borrowed `request_headers.buf`, `request_body` and
`unix_socket_path` from it and widened each borrow to `'static` with
`Interned::assume`. The reference can be `'static` itself, which is what
the three calls claimed one by one. After those borrows the function
only names single fields of the tasklet, so the borrow checker accepts
the writes to `http` and the other fields next to them. The one `unsafe`
deref carries the reason: the three fields are not touched until
`clear_data`, which drops the `AsyncHTTP` first.

#### 17. s3: the request setup keeps the `&mut AsyncHTTP` that
`MaybeUninit::write` returns

The three functions that start an S3 request wrote `task.http` and, a
few lines down, asked for the same reference again with
`assume_init_mut()`. `MaybeUninit::write` already returns it.

`execute_simple_s3_request` held a shared `&'static` task and went back
to the raw pointer for everything that needs `&mut`:
`signal_store.to()`, the write of `http`, `http_ticket` and `context`.
It takes `&'static mut` like `list_objects`, which builds the same
`S3HttpSimpleTask`, and like `download_stream`, which sets up its
`S3HttpDownloadStreamingTask` the same way: the `'static` loans are on
`sign_result.url`, `headers.buf`, `body` and `proxy_url`, and the fields
it writes are others. Only `arm_owner`, which wants the raw pointer, is
still `unsafe`.

#### 18. s3: multipart callbacks borrow from their ref guard; `root` is
set through the reference

`single_send_upload_response` and `start_multi_part_request_result`
adopt the request's ref into a `RefPtr` guard and then dereferenced the
raw pointer a second time, with a comment promising that the reference
does not outlive the guard. `&*guard` is the same pointer, and the
borrow checker holds it to that promise.

`writable_stream` and `upload_stream` dereferenced the fresh task
pointer once to set `root`, a `Cell`, and once more for the shared
reference they keep. They take the reference first and set `root`
through it.

#### 19. s3: `get_sign_error_message` returns `&'static str`

The six messages were byte-string literals, and `error_jsc.rs` turned
them back into `&str` with `from_utf8_unchecked` to format them. They
are string literals instead, and `get_sign_error_code_and_message`, the
one user that wants bytes, calls `as_bytes()`.

#### 20. webcore: remove an exported function and two `unsafe impl Send`
that nothing uses

- `TextEncoder.rs` exported a C symbol named `c`, a copy of
`TextEncoder__encode16`. No C, C++, Rust or TypeScript source declares
or calls it, and none of the linker lists (`symbols.txt`, `symbols.def`,
`linker.lds`, `linker-freebsd.lds`) names it. `encode16_impl`, which the
two shared, has one caller left and is written into it, the way
`TextEncoder__encode8` is written.
- `CompressionStreamCoder` and `AsyncInput` were declared `Send` by
hand, and no bound asks for it. Both are used only in their own file, as
fields of `CompressionAsyncCtx`, which has an `unsafe impl Send` of its
own: it needs one either way, because `RefPtr<T>: Send` wants `T: Sync`
too. That impl's comment takes over the reason the coder's impl gave,
and `AsyncInput::slice`, whose SAFETY comment pointed at the other one,
the reason that one gave.

The inventory of the `vm-thread-door` lint is regenerated.

#### 21. webcore: `Response::to_js` takes the `RefPtr` whose ref the
wrapper adopts

`Response::to_js` was an `unsafe fn` over a raw pointer whose contract
was "the caller owns a ref, which the wrapper adopts". That is what a
`RefPtr<Response>` passed by value means. It gives the wrapper the
pointer, sets `js_ref` and the body's stream ref through the `RefPtr` it
still holds, and lets go of the ref with `into_raw` at the end.
`make_maybe_pooled`, a safe function that dereferenced whatever pointer
it was given, is gone. `Response::clone` returns a `RefPtr`, and the
callers build theirs with `RefPtr::new`, which is `Box::new` plus
`into_raw`.

The count, per path:

- `JsClass::to_js`, `do_clone`, `construct_json_response`, `redirect`,
`error`, `from_parts`, `data_url_response`, the `file:` branch of
`fetch_impl` and both arms of `S3StreamWrapper::resolve`: it starts at 1
and the wrapper adopts that ref. No increment and no decrement, before
and after.
- `FetchTasklet::on_resolve`: it starts at 1 and is incremented once,
before and after. The tasklet keeps the ref it made and the wrapper gets
the clone, so the increment comes before `to_js` instead of after it.
`native_response` is still set before `attach_abort_signal`, which still
wants the raw pointer.
- `RewriterPipe::init`: it starts at 1 and is incremented once for the
pipe, before and after; the path that finds no cell still drops the
pipe's ref with the pipe.

`RewriterPipe::init` clones the headers of the original before it makes
the `Response`, not after, so that no `RefPtr` is live across the `?` on
that clone. The clone runs no script and touches neither the pipe nor
the new `Response`. When it fails, the `Response` is not allocated,
where it was allocated and leaked with both refs. That path still leaks
the pipe. (Change 28 ends that.)

#### 22. webcore: drop five detours through raw pointers that the
signatures do not need

- `Request::ensure_fetch_headers` kept the content type as `*const [u8]`
"across the field borrow". `body_value()` and `headers_mut()` both take
`&self`, so it can stay a `&[u8]`. The deref of the `ByteBlobLoader`
pointer stays.
- `Request::construct_into` did the same with `ct_ptr`. `ct` is already
live across `req.headers_mut()` in the condition above, and `StringView`
has no drop glue, so the temporary does not reach the `&mut req` of
`bail!`.
- `Response::write_format` took `&mut Body` out of the `JsCell` for
`Body::write_format`, which takes `&self`.
- `Body.rs` had a shim that turned the `&mut DOMFormData` of
`DOMFormData::from_js` into a raw pointer, which its one caller turned
back.
- `URLSearchParams::from_js` handed out a `NonNull`, a second shim made
it a raw pointer, and the same caller made it a `&mut`. `from_js` was a
safe function already and that was its only use. It returns `Option<&'a
URLSearchParams>`, as `DOMFormData::from_js<'a>` does, but shared: the
type is an opaque zero-sized handle, and `to_string` only calls the C++
`toString() const`.

#### 23. fetch: `S3StreamWrapper` keeps the URL string it needs, not a
URL that borrows its sibling

For a streamed upload to `s3://`, `fetch()` boxed `url_proxy_buffer`,
parsed the URL a second time out of the box through a lifetime eraser,
took the proxy href out of it through another, and stored the parsed URL
next to the box it borrows from. `resolve` only ever read `url.href`, to
make the `Response`'s URL string from it, and `upload_stream` copies the
path and the proxy href before it returns.

The wrapper holds that `BunString`, and `upload_stream` gets
`url.s3_path()` and `proxy.href` of the URLs that are already parsed.
The same bytes as before: `URL::parse` keeps its whole input as `href`.

The string is made when the upload starts instead of when it ends, once
and on the JS thread in both cases, and moved into the `Response`. The
`into_boxed_slice` and the second parse are gone, and the buffer is
freed when `fetch()` returns.

On the four early returns of `upload_stream` (a disturbed or invalid
stream, a `Bytes` or `File` source that already failed) the string is
made although the callback never runs. Those paths leaked the wrapper
before and still do.

#### 24. fetch: `url` and `proxy` borrow `url_proxy_buffer`

`fetch_impl` parsed its two URLs through `parse_url_detached!`, a macro
that erased the lifetime of the slice, because `url_proxy_buffer` is
replaced twice while the two variables exist. At each replacement both
are only overwritten next, never read, and dropping a `URL<'a>` does not
touch `'a`, so a plain borrow is accepted once the statements are in the
order "build the new buffer, store it, parse from it".

- The `proxy` option: the buffer is stored before the two parses, not
after.
- The signed S3 URL with a proxy: the old buffer was moved aside so that
`proxy_.href` stayed readable and dropped by hand at the end. It is read
before the new buffer is stored, which drops the old one.
- `has_proxy` is read before the S3 branch instead of after it.
Otherwise `proxy` is live across the arm that replaces the buffer when
there is no proxy. The branch never changes whether there is one.
- That leaves nothing that reads the `proxy` the S3 branch parsed again
from the new buffer, so that parse is gone.

The old buffers are freed before the parses instead of after them.
Nothing else differs. The eraser behind `FetchOptions`, which moves the
buffer together with the URLs that borrow it, stays.

#### 25. webcore: two `&mut` to a wrapper's payload become `&`

`fetch_impl` reborrowed the `Request` it was given as `&mut` at six
places, and `Request::construct_into` took a `&mut Response` out of its
argument. Script holds the same objects, and every method called on
either takes `&self`, like the `&Request` that `construct_into` takes a
few lines above.

`fetch_impl` keeps the raw pointer and a fresh reborrow per use, instead
of one `&Request` for the whole function: option getters run between the
uses, and script can call `server.upgrade(request)` there, which writes
`request_context`, a plain field.

#### 26. http: `ThreadSafeStreamBuffer` is a `Guarded`, and its methods
take `&self`

The buffer and its drain callback sat next to a bare `Mutex`, and every
method, `lock` included, took `&mut self`. So the JS thread
(`stream_buffer_mut`) and the HTTP thread (`from_attached`) each made a
`&mut ThreadSafeStreamBuffer` out of their shared pointer before they
had the lock: two `&mut` to one object on two threads.

The two fields are a `State` inside `bun_threading::Guarded`, which
hands out `&mut State` only under the lock. `lock` and
`clear_drain_callback` take `&self`, `report_drain` is a method of the
locked `State`, and `from_attached` and `Stream::buffer_ref` return
`&Self`. `StreamBufferGuard`, `acquire`, `release` and
`set_drain_callback` are gone.

- The three HTTP-thread users (`write_to_stream`, and `drain_send_body`
of h2 and h3) took the lock with `acquire()` and gave it back with
`release()` on each path. Each holds one guard and has a `drop(locked)`
at every place a `release()` was, always before the `detach()` that can
free the buffer. Nothing runs under the lock that did not, or outside it
that was inside.
- `FetchTasklet` borrows the buffer from its
`request_body_streaming_buffer` field. That is a borrow of one field, so
`self.http.as_mut()` next to it stays legal, which is what the
accessor's invented lifetime was for. The two guards there live as long
as before.
- The drain callback is an argument of `new`, so `FetchTasklet::get` no
longer writes it through the fresh raw pointer.

Same mutex, same lock and unlock calls. `report_drain` loses its debug
assertion that the lock is held: it can only be reached through the
guard.

The struct, of which there is one per streamed request body, goes from
56 to 64 bytes in a release build for x86_64 Linux (`size_of`): the
4-byte mutex and the 4-byte count no longer share a word, because the
padding inside `Guarded<State>` cannot be reused. A debug build has 72
bytes before and after.

`mordant.toml` no longer lists `StreamBufferGuard` among the lock
guards, and `mordant-baseline.toml` loses the finding that
`from_attached` was.

#### 27. webcore: `ReadFile::create` takes the `Blob` it reads

`do_read_file::<F>` is compiled once for each of its six `F`, and
`do_read_file_internal::<C>` once for each `C`. Both made their
`ReadFile` in the same way: clone the blob's store, read its offset and
its size, call `ReadFile::create`, and unwrap a `Result` that is never
`Err`. None of that depends on the type parameter, and mordant's
`generic_body_not_generic` reports it in `do_read_file`.

`create` takes `&Blob`, does these steps itself and returns the
`ReadFile`. It has no other caller. The store is still cloned before
`do_read_file` makes its promise.

#### 28. HTMLRewriter: `RewriterPipe::init` clones the headers before it
allocates the pipe

The `?` on `clone_init_headers` stood after the pipe was allocated and
its lol-html rewriter built. Nothing owns the pipe's first ref until its
wrapper cell exists, so that exit leaked the pipe, the rewriter and the
pipe's `Rc` of the context. The exit for a failed wrapper, further down,
releases the ref by hand.

The clone needs only `original` and the global object, runs no script,
and touches nothing that `init` builds. It is now the first statement,
so its `?` has nothing to release.

No test. `WebCore__FetchHeaders__cloneThis` fills a new, empty
`FetchHeaders`, and for an empty one `FetchHeaders::fill` copies three
vectors and returns no exception. So the `?` is taken only when an
exception is pending for another reason, such as a termination.

#### 29. Bun.Image: `.blob()` tells the GC the size of its bytes

`PipelineTask` handed its `Blob` to JS with `JsClass::to_js`, which
boxes the value and makes the wrapper. It does not call
`calculate_estimated_byte_size`, so `reported_estimated_size` stayed 0
and the GC counted the wrapper alone: 440 bytes for a `Blob` that holds
a 14 KB PNG.

It calls `BlobExt::into_js`, as `Bun.file()`, `blob.slice()` and
`Response.blob()` do. `into_js` computes the size first. Its test for an
S3 store is false here, because `Blob::init` makes a store of bytes.

The new test compares `estimateShallowMemoryUsageOf(blob)` with
`blob.size`.

### How did you verify your code works?

- **Static checks on the final commits:** `cargo fmt --check`, `cargo
clippy --workspace` (0 warnings), the source lints and `cargo check
--workspace --release` on Linux, and `cargo check --workspace --release`
for `x86_64-pc-windows-msvc` and `aarch64-apple-darwin`, because four
changes touch code that only Windows compiles.
- **Assembly:** the comparison above.
- **The test of change 13** fails on a debug build of the base (memory
grows by 131 MiB, the bound is 64) and passes on a debug build of these
commits.
- **The test of change 29** fails on a debug build without that change
(the estimate is 440, and the `Blob` holds 14,578 bytes) and passes with
it.
- **12 test files on the final commits,** for changes 27 to 29, on a
debug build with ASAN, all at once: `image.test.ts`,
`image-adversarial`, `html-rewriter.test.js`, `blob.test.ts`,
`blob-write`, `blob-file-name-ownership`, `body.test.ts`, `body-clone`,
`bun-write`, `FormData.test.ts`, `FormData-file-error-leak` and
`readable-stream-blob-consumed`. All pass completely, 1,733 tests.
- **30 test files on the first 26 commits**, on a debug build with ASAN,
all at once and each cut off after 50 seconds: files for `Blob`, `Body`,
`fetch`, `Bun.write`, `FileSink`, the S3 client, streams,
`TextDecoderStream`, `FormData` and `Bun.Image`.
  - 27 files pass completely, 2,130 tests. None fails.
- 3 files were cut off: `direct-readable-stream`, `body-stream` and
`streams.test.js`.
- **After the assembly comparison and the 30 files had run,** a rebase
brought in one more commit of `main` (#47836). It left all 26 patches
here as they were. The static checks ran after it.
- **277 test files before an earlier rebase**, which brought in 31
commits of `main` and left all 26 patches here as they were. They ran on
a debug build with ASAN, six at a time, and the files that failed also
on a debug build of the base. They are all of `test/js/web/fetch`,
`web/workers`, `web/streams`, `web/encoding`, `web/html`, `web/request`,
`web/url`, `web/abort`, `test/js/workerd`, `bun/s3`, `bun/spawn`,
`bun/image`, `bun/io`, `bun/stream`, `bun/archive-golden` and `node/fs`,
28 files of `bun/http`, 10 of `bun/util` and 4 more.
  - 260 files pass completely, 18,895 tests.
- 12 files fail in the same tests on both builds (the number of failing
tests in brackets): `proxy` (it needs `axios`, which I did not have),
`bun-write-leak` (1), `spawn_waiter_thread` (1), `spawn-pipe-leak` (3),
`streams-string-limit` (1), `fetch-tcp-stress` (4), `streams-leak` (1),
`fs.test.ts` (1), `request-clone-leak` (1),
`abort-signal-leak-read-write-file` (1), `serve-body-leak` (1) and
`fetch-leak` (2).
- 3 files fail in fewer tests than on the base, on time limits with six
files running: `fetch-abort-slow-connect` (2, base 3),
`worker-terminate-funnels` (1, base 9) and `worker.test.ts` (1, base 2).
- `spawn-stdin-pipe-fd-leak` failed once with six files running (25
descriptors still open, the bound is fewer than 25). Alone it passes 6
of 6 times, and 5 of 5 on the base.
- `fetch.test.ts` fails in "should allow to follow redirect if
connection is closed". Alone that test fails 3 of 3 times on both
builds.
- **After the 277 files had run** I removed one `#[inline(always)]`
attribute from change 9.


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…ler and the transpiler (#47901)

### What does this PR do?

27 separate changes, one commit each: 15 in `bun_threading`, `bun_alloc`
and a few other low-level crates, and 12 in the bundler and the
transpiler. They follow #47291, #47317, #47338, #47382, #47393, #47414,
#47871, #47893 and #47895 and work the same way: signatures name the
type and the lifetime that the value already has, hand-written pointer
code becomes plain ownership and borrows that the compiler checks, and
what was never needed is deleted.

Together: **98 fewer `unsafe` blocks, 26 fewer `unsafe fn`s and 16 fewer
`unsafe impl`s**, +521/−1440 over 54 files. No safe function became
`unsafe`, and no wrapper type was added. **[Where the compiled code
changes](#where-the-compiled-code-changes) lists every place where the
program does different work.**

| # | Change | `unsafe` | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threading: `Semaphore` and `Channel` keep their state in a
`Guarded` | −8 blocks, −3 `unsafe impl` | +38/−111, 3 files |
| 2 | threading: `Task::from_node` is a cast, and `Batch::pop` reads its
own `len` | −5 blocks, −1 `unsafe fn` | +7/−11, 1 file |
| 3 | threading: `IntrusiveWorkTask` and `OwnedTask` are safe traits |
−5 `unsafe impl` | +11/−22, 2 files |
| 4 | alloc: `secure_zero` takes `&mut [u8]` | −4 blocks, −1 `unsafe fn`
| +14/−24, 3 files |
| 5 | collections: drop `VecExt::from_bump_slice` and
`VecExt::writable_slice` | −5 blocks, −4 `unsafe fn` | +19/−104, 8 files
|
| 6 | sema: the stand-ins that ignore their arguments are safe `extern
"C" fn`s | −11 `unsafe fn` | +11/−14, 2 files |
| 7 | alloc, opaque: remove dead code that carried `unsafe` | −2 blocks,
−1 `unsafe fn`, −6 `unsafe impl` | +5/−186, 7 files |
| 8 | alloc: `WTFStringImplStruct::m_ref_count` is an `AtomicU32` | −1
block | +8/−27, 1 file |
| 9 | alloc: `Mutex::lock` returns a guard that borrows the mutex | −1
block | +20/−40, 1 file |
| 10 | alloc: use the reference `MaybeUninit::write` returns, and index
a checked slot | −3 blocks | +4/−8, 1 file |
| 11 | alloc: `Zone::init` takes `&'static CStr` | −1 block, −2 `unsafe
fn` | +10/−22, 4 files |
| 12 | threading: a worker's `Thread` is only ever borrowed shared | −4
blocks | +52/−62, 1 file |
| 13 | threading: `Bun__lock` takes `&ReleaseImpl` | −1 block, −1
`unsafe fn` | +2/−3, 1 file |
| 14 | ptr: `DebugData::deinit` takes `&self` | −3 blocks | +10/−17, 1
file |
| 15 | sql: `PostgresSQLConnection::drop` zeroes `options_buf` with
`secure_zero` | −1 block | +2/−5, 1 file |
| 16 | bundler: `zig__ModuleInfoDeserialized__deinit` takes the `Box`
that it drops | −3 blocks, −1 `unsafe fn` | +3/−19, 1 file |
| 17 | transpiler: `print_with_source_map` takes `Option<&mut
ModuleInfo>` | −1 block | +6/−24, 3 files |
| 18 | bundler: five `unsafe` blocks that plain borrows replace | −5
blocks | +40/−97, 10 files |
| 19 | bundler: `BundleThread::enqueue` takes `&self`; `generation` is a
local of the thread | −7 blocks | +23/−49, 1 file |
| 20 | bundler: `enqueue_entry_points_dev_server` borrows the transpiler
where it uses it | −2 blocks | +28/−34, 1 file |
| 21 | bundler: `process_html_import_files` borrows four fields of the
parse graph | −5 blocks | +20/−41, 2 files |
| 22 | transpiler: `Linker` takes what it reads as parameters instead of
pointing into its `Transpiler` | −3 blocks | +35/−160, 7 files |
| 23 | transpiler: `Transpiler::init` builds its value with a struct
literal | −2 blocks | +21/−57, 3 files |
| 24 | bundler: three worker contexts that only read the linker hold
`&LinkerContext` | −3 blocks, −2 `unsafe impl` | +21/−52, 5 files |
| 25 | bundler: `LinkerContext::load` and `link` take the fields they
use, not `*mut BundleV2` | −12 blocks, −1 `unsafe fn` | +56/−134, 4
files |
| 26 | bundler: the back-pointers of the tasks name the bundle's
lifetime | −7 blocks | +29/−70, 5 files |
| 27 | threading: `ThreadPool::each_ptr` hands each task a `&mut V` | −9
blocks, −3 `unsafe fn` | +28/−49, 4 files |

The commits can be reviewed one at a time.

Worth knowing before reading on:

- **Nothing that users can see changes.** No test is added or changed.
- **Five changes end an aliasing or contract bug that had no visible
effect.**
- Change 12: a worker's `pop(&mut self)` was not exclusive, because
other workers read the same `Thread` through the pool's list while it
ran.
- Change 18: `is_done` held a `&mut Graph` and a `&mut BundleV2` that
contains it at the same time, and `scan_css_imports` was a safe function
that dereferenced the raw pointer it was given.
- Change 21: `process_html_import_files` made a `&mut Graph` over the
whole graph while the source map workers read it.
- Change 26: `ParseTask::init` was a safe function that read through a
`*mut BundleV2`.
- Change 8: `WTFStringImplStruct::ref_count()` read a counter without an
atomic while other threads may change it.
- **Four functions stay `unsafe fn`, with a smaller contract** that
their doc comments state: `ThreadRegistration::new` (change 12),
`BundleThread::enqueue` (19), `do_step5` (24) and `LinkerContext::load`
(25). `LinkerContext::link` is safe now.
- **Locks own what they guard:** `Semaphore` and `Channel` use the
existing `Guarded` (change 1), and `bun_alloc::Mutex::lock` returns a
guard with a real lifetime instead of a transmuted `'static` one (9).
- **The thread pool vouches for what only it can know:** `each_ptr`
gives each task a `&mut V` (change 27), and three contexts hold
`&LinkerContext` (24).
- **`Linker` no longer points into the `Transpiler` that holds it**
(change 22), so nothing has to be re-seated after a move, and
`Transpiler::init` is a struct literal (23).
- **Two functions that C or C++ calls have typed parameters:**
`Bun__lock(&ReleaseImpl)` (change 13) and
`zig__ModuleInfoDeserialized__deinit(Box<ModuleInfoDeserialized>)` (16).
Each message names the call sites and what they pass.
- **Dead code goes:** `MaxHeapAllocator`, `FfiLayout` and three `unsafe
impl Send`/`Sync` that no bound asks for (change 7), two `VecExt`
methods (5), `Transpiler::init_in_place` (23), and three accessors of
`Linker` with `reseat_self_refs` (22).
- **Parts of four changes are compiled only for Windows, macOS or
FreeBSD:** 7 (two arms of `MAX_ALIGN_T`), 11 (the macOS arm of
`Zone::init`), 13 (the lock implementations behind `Bun__lock`) and 19
(one line of `thread_main`).

### Where the compiled code changes

I compared the release assembly (x86-64 Linux, `--emit=asm`) of all 134
crates of the workspace, before and after. For 42 of them the files are
the same byte for byte. The other 92 I compared function by function,
with names demangled and labels normalised. In 77 of the 92 (43,319
functions) no function differs: what differs is line numbers in the
debug information and the paths of the two checkouts. 15 crates differ:

| Crate | Functions | Differ | Other constants or names only | Same
length | Shorter | Longer | Instructions | Branches | Compares | Calls |
Panic call sites |
|---|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|
| `bun_alloc` | 24 | 0 | | | | | +11 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 |
| `bun_threading` | 81 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | −3 | −2 | 0 | 0 |
| `bun_core` | 1,159 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| `bun_resolver` | 509 | 18 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 5 | +2 | +3 | +3 | +1 | 0 |
| `bun_sql_jsc` | 409 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | −43 | −12 | −8 | +3 | 0 |
| `bun_jsc` | 1,758 | 165 | 154 | 3 | 5 | 3 | −4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| `bun_bundler` | 1,981 | 54 | 31 | 2 | 20 | 1 | −144 | −15 | −14 | −10
| +1 |
| `bun_runtime` | 11,205 | 544 | 487 | 16 | 32 | 9 | −358 | −44 | −44 |
+13 | −1 |
| `bun_standalone_graph`, `bun_sourcemap_jsc`, `bun_lint` | 4,143 | 4 |
0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | −6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| `bun_http_jsc`, `bun_install`, `bun_install_jsc`, `bun_js_parser_jsc`
| 3,141 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

The last five columns are net, and count the functions that exist on one
side only: 7 only before and 8 only after, which were removed, renamed
or inlined, or are no longer inlined. The table leaves out one function
of `bun_sql_jsc` that holds the commit's own hash. Nearly all of the 689
functions that differ only in constants address a field that moved: the
`Transpiler`, which the `VirtualMachine` holds by value, is 24 bytes
smaller (change 22).

**What costs something.** No change adds an allocation, a lock, a
reference count or a test to the source. The compiler's choices differ
in these places:

- **`String::clone` is called at 17 places where it was inlined (change
8).** A `ref` is the same load, test and `lock add` as before, but the
inliner weighs it differently.
- `String::create_if_different` (52 instructions) was called at 16
places in the module loader and had `String::clone` inlined. It is
inlined at those 16 places now and calls `String::clone` (18
instructions), so each path makes as many calls as before.
- At 15 other places in `bun_runtime`, and at one each in `bun_jsc` and
`bun_bundler`, `String::clone` is a call and a return more than before.
They are in `transpile_source_code_of_any_provenance::<false>` and
`transpile_source_code_inner::<true>` (6 together),
`__bun_fetch_builtin_module` (3), the three instances of
`resolve_without_on_resolve`, `Blob::get`, `realpath_inner`,
`Printer::print_dom`, the debug server's `fetch` and
`generate_chunks_in_parallel`.
- `transpile_source_code_of_any_provenance::<false>` goes from 4,573 to
4,651 instructions for it (below), and
`transpile_source_code_inner::<true>` from 2,682 to 2,687 with 3
branches fewer. The other functions named here are between 13 and 51
shorter, except `realpath_inner` (below).
- **`free_sensitive` is a call into `bun_alloc` (change 4).** Without
its type parameter it is compiled once there (20 instructions), and
`Sensitive::drop` calls it (21 to 6). The four closures of
`PasswordJob`, `Bun.password.hash` and `Bun.password.verify` are between
4 and 41 shorter.
- **`Semaphore::wait` goes from 54 to 61 (change 1),** with the same
branches, compares and calls: one `lea` before its wait loop, because
`cond` is not at offset 0, and one more callee-saved register to save
and restore.
- **The one `Channel` is 8 bytes larger (change 1),** 1,072 instead of
1,064, from padding. `render_markdown_file`, which has it on its stack,
goes from 1,007 to 1,013.
- **`generate_symbol_import_and_use` goes from 257 to 269 (change 5),**
with the same 29 branches, 3 compares more and one call fewer. Its loops
are vectorised and unrolled as before with other induction variables,
and the panic for a slice index out of range is gone.

**Checks.** The source makes no check that it did not make before. These
are all the other functions in which the listing shows more conditional
branches, compares or panic call sites than before, and why:

| Function | Listing | Why |
|---|---|---|
| `Resolver::dir_info_cached_miss` | 1,231 to 1,253, +5 branches, +5
compares, +2 calls | Change 9. The compiler lays out the block that
appends two strings to the `BSSStringList` twice, so `append` has 4 call
sites instead of 2. A path runs one of the copies. |
| `NodeFS::realpath_inner` | 615 to 631, +1 branch, +1 compare, +1 call
| Change 8. `Utf8WithString::clone` (78), which only this function
called, is inlined here as its two halves. |
| `SystemError::clone`, `Blob__setAsFile`, `Request`'s constructor | 161
to 165, 61 to 66 and 1,391 to 1,389, +1 branch and +1 compare each |
Change 8. The inlined `String::clone`s test their tags in another order,
and one test is duplicated. |
| `fetch_impl::<false>` | 4,629 to 4,626, +3 branches, +3 compares, same
calls | Change 8. It has a `String::clone` inline. Its frame is 64 bytes
smaller, its registers are allotted differently, and three tests are
laid out twice. |
| `transpile_source_code_of_any_provenance::<false>` | 4,573 to 4,651,
+1 branch, +1 compare, +20 calls | Change 8. It has ten copies of
`String::create_if_different` inline, each with three call sites where
there was one. |
| The main function of the bundle thread | 540 to 566, +2 branches, +2
compares, +1 call | Change 19. One exit is laid out twice, so
`mi_heap_destroy` has 5 call sites instead of 4. |
| `BundleV2::finish_from_bake_dev_server` | 3,953 to 3,963, +2 panic
call sites, no branch or compare more | Change 25. It calls `load`. Two
bounds checks that shared a call of `panic_bounds_check` with others
have their own. |
| `Transpiler::init`, `Transpiler::transform` | 2,035 to 2,010 and 3,865
to 3,862, −4 and −1 branches, +1 panic call site each | Changes 22 and
23. One more copy of the exit for a failed allocation. |

| Change | What differs | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apart from the above: `Semaphore::post` (39) and
`RawRwLock::unlock_shared` (46), which has it inline, differ in field
offsets. | Same locks, waits and signals in the same order. |
| 5 | `get_ast` goes from 4,054 to 4,044, with 2 branches and 2 calls
fewer. | Two arena allocations fewer per sqlite import. |
| 7 | `MaxHeapAllocator::drop` (9) goes. `write_output_files_to_disk`
goes from 2,794 to 2,770 and loses its 6 call sites. | That `drop` never
had anything to free. |
| 8 | Apart from the above: `String::thread_isolated_copy` goes from 73
to 74. In `bun_jsc`, `dupe_with_content_type` goes from 113 to 103,
`PathLike::clone` from 254 to 247, `run_from_js_thread` from 800 to 801
and the two `collect_row` from 602 to 612. `handle_request_for` of the
two debug servers goes from 348 to 316, and `NodeFS::readdir` from 5,732
to 5,739. | Same counts on the same strings. |
| 9 | An out-of-line `slot_at` (28) stands where the out-of-line
`at_index` of the `DirInfo` map (26) stood. Apart from the row above, 4
functions of `bun_resolver` are shorter (`load_node_modules` by 40,
three by 1), 8 keep their length and 4 are longer (by 1, 2, 8 and 10):
the slot's address is computed in another order, and registers shift
around it. | The locks are taken and released at the same places. |
| 10 | `OverflowList::append` (128), in `bun_resolver`, `bun_jsc` and
`bun_install`, spells one test `> 2047` instead of `>= 2048`. | None. |
| 12 | `ThreadRegistration::drop` goes from 68 to 64 and loses a null
test. `Thread::run`, which has the steal loop inline, is the same. |
Same loads and stores with the same orderings. |
| 13 | `Bun__lock` is the same, and `Mutex::lock` (3) is emitted as an
alias of it. | None. |
| 15 | `PostgresSQLConnection::drop` goes from 94 to 73 and the drop of
its box from 381 to 359, with 6 branches fewer each. | **The byte loop
of volatile stores is one `memset`,** which a `black_box` and a compiler
fence keep. |
| 17 | `print_with_source_map` keeps its 1,217 with 2 branches fewer.
`print_with_source_map_maybe::<false>` goes from 1,008 to 999, and the
two `print_ast_esm_ascii_not_bun_cold` from 86 to 78. | Same output. |
| 18, 24, 27 | `generate_chunks_in_parallel::<false>` goes from 7,546 to
7,524 with 3 branches fewer, `find_all_imported_parts_in_js_order` from
3,258 to 3,255. `scan_imports_and_exports` keeps its 8,343. One instance
of `each_impl::call` (13) has another type argument. | Same tasks on the
same threads. |
| 20 | `start_from_bake_dev_server`, which has
`enqueue_entry_points_dev_server` inline, goes from 346 to 341 with 2
branches fewer. | Same entry points. |
| 22, 23 | Five functions that set the `Linker`'s pointers, or set them
again after a `Transpiler` had moved, are 3 to 6 shorter:
`configure_linker_with_auto_jsx`, `Worker::get`,
`transpiler_for_target`, `initialize_client_transpiler` and
`for_worker`. `Linker::link::<false, true>` keeps its 500, and
`transpile_file::<false>` goes from 839 to 855 with one branch fewer. |
The `Transpiler` goes from 3,040 to 3,016 bytes. |
| 25 | `BundleV2::link` (39) is new: it splits the borrow and calls
`LinkerContext::link`, which goes from 2,617 to 2,562 with 2 branches, 2
calls and a panic site fewer. `load` keeps its 1,996 with one branch
fewer. Of the four callers of `link`, three are 5 shorter and
`bundle_pages` 11. | Same linking. |

Every function that differs and is not named above differs by 4
instructions or fewer. Changes 2, 3, 6, 11, 14, 16, 21 and 26 do not
show up in this comparison. What changes 7, 11, 13 and 19 do to code for
Windows, macOS and FreeBSD is not compiled on Linux.

The comparison covers x86-64 Linux only, one crate at a time. The build
that ships also inlines across crates when it links.

### The changes in detail

#### 1. threading: `Semaphore` and `Channel` keep their state in a
`Guarded`

`Semaphore` had a `Mutex` next to an `UnsafeCell<usize>`, and `Channel`
a `Mutex` next to an `UnsafeCell<LinearFifo>` and a `Cell<bool>`. Every
access to an `UnsafeCell` was an `unsafe` dereference whose reason was
"the mutex is held", and three `unsafe impl Send`/`Sync` repeated it for
the types. `Guarded<T>` is that pair as one type: the same
`bun_threading::Mutex`, the value behind its lock guard, and
`Condition::wait_guarded` waits on the guard's own mutex.

The lock is taken on entry, given up and retaken inside the wait, and
released on return, as before, and the signals are still sent while it
is held.

`Channel::read_item` was the only reader. It went through `read_all` and
`read_items` with a `[MaybeUninit<T>; 1]` cast to `&mut [T; 1]`. It
takes the `Option<T>` of `LinearFifo::read_item` instead, which is
`None` exactly when the fifo is empty, so the separate length test, the
two helpers and the `debug_assert` on the count are gone.

`Send` and `Sync` are derived. For `Channel<T, B>` they ask for `B:
Send` as well as `T: Send`; the one user has a `StaticBuffer<u32, 256>`.

The fields of `Semaphore` are laid out in another order. In the release
assembly `post` differs in field offsets. `wait` goes from 54 to 61
instructions with the same branches, compares and calls: one `lea`
before its wait loop, because `cond` is not at offset 0, and one more
callee-saved register to save and restore.

`Channel<u32, StaticBuffer<u32, 256>>` grows from 1064 to 1072 bytes in
Linux and macOS release builds. No field is added: `State` and `Guarded`
are each padded to a multiple of 8, where the flat struct was padded
once. The bytes that `init_static` zeroes are no longer one run, so it
has one store more. The one user makes one channel per call of
`prefetch_remote_images`, a cold path. In a scratch crate `write_items`
differed in field offsets only, and `read_item` made the same calls in
the same order.

The two `[bun_threading]` entries of `mordant-baseline.toml` counted the
removed impls. They are deleted, and the section with them.

#### 2. threading: `Task::from_node` is a cast, and `Batch::pop` reads
its own `len`

`Task::from_node` was an `unsafe fn` around `from_field_ptr!(Task, node,
..)`. `node` is the first field of the `repr(C)` `Task`, which `node_of`
already asserts at compile time for the opposite direction, so the
subtraction is by zero. It is a safe pointer cast with the same
assertion, and its three callers lose their blocks. `Thread::run` and
`drain_idle_events` still dereference the result in `unsafe`.
`Batch::pop` only stores it in `self.head`, and the next `pop`
dereferences it.

`Batch::pop(&mut self)` viewed `self.len` as an `AtomicUsize` to load
it. `&mut self` is exclusive, so it is a plain read.

The release assembly of `bun_threading` is the same before and after.

#### 3. threading: `IntrusiveWorkTask` and `OwnedTask` are safe traits

Both were `unsafe trait`s without a promise of their own.

`IntrusiveWorkTask` said its contract is inherited from its supertrait
`IntrusiveField<Task>`, which stays `unsafe` and which
`intrusive_field!` implements with `offset_of!`. The trait only adds two
provided methods that forward to the supertrait. `OwnedTask::__callback`
passes what `from_task_ptr` returns to `Box::from_raw`, so a type must
not be able to replace that method in safe code: there is one blanket
impl for every `IntrusiveField<Task>` instead of an impl per type, and
both arms of `intrusive_work_task!` expand to `intrusive_field!` alone.

`OwnedTask` said that `run` executes on a worker thread, which is the
`Send` bound. `schedule_owned` gives the box away and relies on nothing
else that an implementor writes: a replaced `__callback` can only leak
the box unless it has `unsafe` of its own.

The `unsafe impl Send` in `owned_task!` stays. No code changes: the same
methods are called on the same types.

#### 4. alloc: `secure_zero` takes `&mut [u8]`

`secure_zero(p: *mut u8, len: usize)` was an `unsafe fn`, and three of
its four callers took apart bytes they held safely to call it: a `&mut
[u8]` (`Data::zdeinit`), a `&mut Box<[u8]>` (`zero_sensitive`) and a
`Box<[T]>` (`free_sensitive`). It takes the slice and is safe.
`<[u8]>::fill` is specialised to `write_bytes`, in debug builds too, so
it is still one `memset`, followed by the same `black_box` and fence.

`Data::zdeinit` passes the slice it has, and `zero_sensitive` its box,
which coerces. `free_sensitive` was generic over `T: Copy` and cast to
bytes; its one caller has a `Box<[u8]>`, so it takes that.
`free_sensitive_cstr` has only a C string, and builds the slice inside
the `unsafe` block it already had.

Without its type parameter `free_sensitive` is compiled once, in
`bun_alloc` (20 instructions in release mode), and `Sensitive::drop` in
`bun_runtime` calls it where it held a copy (21 to 6 instructions). The
release assembly of `bun_sql` and `bun_s3_signing` is the same before
and after.

#### 5. collections: drop `VecExt::from_bump_slice` and
`VecExt::writable_slice`

The two `unsafe fn`s had three callers between them, all in the bundler,
and `Vec` serves each of them.

The sqlite loader in `ParseTask` filled two arena slices with defaults,
overwrote them, and had `from_bump_slice` copy them into new `Vec`s. It
builds the `Vec`s from the values: `init_one` for the property and
`from_arena_slice` for the two arguments, the form
`require_embedded_asset` above uses for its one argument. The
`Expr::init` calls keep their order. Two arena allocations, their
default values and the drop of the default property are gone.

`generate_symbol_import_and_use` took an uninitialised tail from
`writable_slice` and assigned to it in a zip loop. `extend` over a
mapped slice iterator is `TrustedLen`: one reserve, raw writes and one
store of the length, which comes after the loop instead of before it.
The closure is `move` so that it holds the index by value even where
`extend` is not inlined. `Dependency.source_index` takes
`source_index_to_import_from` as it is: `crate::Index` is
`bun_ast::Index`, so `Index::init(x.get())` was an identity. The
parameter was `impl Into<Index>`, and every caller passes an `Index`, so
it is `Index`. In release mode the function goes from 257 to 269
instructions, with the same 29 branches, 3 compares more and one call
fewer: the loops are vectorised and unrolled as before with other
induction variables, and the panic for a slice index out of range is
gone.

Eleven comments named the two methods: six in `vec_ext.rs` and one each
in `ast_alloc.rs`, `bun_core/lib.rs`,
`computeCrossChunkDependencies.rs`, `renameSymbolsInChunk.rs` and
`p.rs`. The last two were already wrong about the code below them.

#### 6. sema: the stand-ins that ignore their arguments are safe `extern
"C" fn`s

Eleven of the `#[no_mangle]` stand-ins for C and C++ symbols in
`src/sema/standalone` (ten in `native_libraries.rs`, one in `native.rs`)
were `unsafe extern "C" fn` although every parameter is unused: four
return a constant and seven panic. No argument can make them misbehave,
so they are safe, like `Bun__AOT__addressOfOffsetInCode` and the other
stand-ins next to them that take no pointer.

Nothing names them in Rust. The crates that import them declare the
symbols themselves, so no caller changes, and neither does the compiled
code.

#### 7. alloc, opaque: remove dead code that carried `unsafe`

`MaxHeapAllocator`: `init` sets its private `ptr` to `None` and no
method allocates, so the `dealloc` in `Drop` never ran and the `unsafe
impl Send` and `Sync` guarded nothing. Its only users were three locals
and a per-chunk `scope()` guard in `write_output_files_to_disk`, which
their own comments called placeholders. `MAX_ALIGN_T`, with its Windows
and FreeBSD aarch64 arms, had no other use. That function loses three
calls to the `Drop` impl and one store of `len = 0` per chunk.

`unsafe impl Send`/`Sync for BSSList`: the list is only reached as a
`*mut` out of the `AtomicPtr` static of `bss_singleton!`, which asks for
neither.

`unsafe impl Send for Zone`: `OnceLock<&'static Zone>` needs `Zone:
Sync`, which stays.

`unsafe trait FfiLayout` and its `unsafe impl` in `assert_ffi_layout!`:
the trait was never a bound and its two constants were never read. The
`const` assertions of the macro stay. The `[bun_opaque]` entry of
`mordant-baseline.toml` counted the two constants and goes with them.

`opaque_deref_mut_nn` had one caller, `opaque_deref_mut`, and is merged
into it. Its `debug_assert` for null went: the pointer comes out of a
`NonNull`.

Apart from `MaxHeapAllocator::drop`, the release assembly of `bun_alloc`
and `bun_core` is the same before and after.

#### 8. alloc: `WTFStringImplStruct::m_ref_count` is an `AtomicU32`

The C++ field is `std::atomic<uint32_t> m_refCount` (StringImpl.h:162).
The Rust mirror declared it `Cell<u32>` and had a private accessor that
turned the cell's address into an `&AtomicU32` with
`AtomicU32::from_ptr` for `is_static`, `ref` and `deref`. The field has
the atomic type itself, which has the size and alignment of `u32`, and
the accessor is gone. The struct stays `!Freeze`, and `!Send` and
`!Sync` through its other fields. Its doc comment said that `ref` and
`deref` let C++ write the count; they do it in Rust. One line says who
writes the two interior-mutable fields.

`ref_count()` read the cell without an atomic. It does a relaxed load,
as `StringImpl::refCount()` does (StringImpl.h:429), so it does not race
with another thread's `ref` or `deref`. It has four callers: three
`debug_assert`s and `Any::memory_cost`. The orderings of the other three
are unchanged.

The release assembly of `bun_alloc` is the same. In `bun_core` one
function differs, `String::thread_isolated_copy`, which touches no
count: it tests the two tags in the other order and uses one `add` more
to address the 16 bytes it copies. The crates that use
`bun_core::String` emit the same load, test and `lock add` for a `ref`,
but the inliner chooses differently around them. In `bun_runtime`,
`String::create_if_different` (52 instructions) was called at 16 places
and had `String::clone` inlined. It is inlined at those places and calls
`String::clone` (18 instructions). At 15 other places in `bun_runtime`,
and at one each in `bun_jsc` and `bun_bundler`, `String::clone` is
called where it was inlined.

#### 9. alloc: `Mutex::lock` returns a guard that borrows the mutex

`bun_alloc::Mutex::lock` transmuted the `std::sync::MutexGuard<'_, ()>`
to `'static` and wrapped it in its own `MutexGuard`, so that `&mut self`
methods could be called while the guard was alive. Only one place needed
that: `BSSMapInner::get` calls `self.at_index(..)` under the lock.
`get_or_put`, `mark_not_found`, `put` and `remove` only touch sibling
fields, and the four callers that have a `*mut Self` dereference it for
every access.

`lock` returns `std::sync::MutexGuard<'_, ()>`. The body of `at_index`
moves, with its `unsafe` block, into a private `slot_at` that takes the
two fields it reads, and `at_index` and `get` call that. In `get` the
compiler now checks that nothing borrows the mutex mutably while it is
locked.

Four comments said that the guard stores a raw pointer. It held the
`std` guard, which is a reference. Those sentences are deleted. What
they concluded was not true either, and is unchanged:
`(*this).do_append(..)` and `(*this).append_overflow_uninit()` still
form a `&mut Self` that spans `mutex` while the guard holds `&mutex`;
the borrow checker does not follow borrows through a raw pointer.

The locks are taken and released at the same places. The release
assembly of `bun_alloc` is the same. In `bun_resolver`, where the map is
instantiated, an out-of-line `slot_at` (28 instructions) stands where
the out-of-line `at_index` of the `DirInfo` map (26) stood.

#### 10. alloc: use the reference `MaybeUninit::write` returns, and
index a checked slot

`OverflowListBlock::append` and `BSSMapInner::put` wrote a slot with
`MaybeUninit::write`, dropped the `&mut T` it returns, and indexed the
slot again for `unsafe { assume_init_mut() }`. They keep the returned
reference. In `append` it borrows `items` while the sibling `used` is
stored, in the same order as before.

`BSSListOverflowBlock::append_uninit` returns `Err` when `index >=
BSS_LIST_CHUNK_SIZE` and then did `as_mut_ptr().add(index)` in `unsafe`.
`&raw mut self.data[index]` is the same address; the array has
`BSS_LIST_CHUNK_SIZE` elements, so its bounds check repeats the test
above it.

The release assembly of `bun_alloc` is the same before and after. In
`bun_resolver`, which instantiates all three, `OverflowList::append`
spells one test `> 2047` instead of `>= 2048`, and the rest is the same.

#### 11. alloc: `Zone::init` takes `&'static CStr`

Both `cfg` arms of `heap_breakdown::Zone::init` were `unsafe fn(name:
*const c_char)` whose contract was "NUL-terminated and valid for the
whole process". That is `&'static CStr`, so the function takes one and
is safe. The macOS arm keeps its `unsafe` block for
`malloc_set_zone_name` and `&*zone`.

Its one caller, `get_zone!`, built the pointer from `concat!($name,
"\0")` in an `unsafe` block. It passes the literal on, and the two users
of `c_thunks_for_zone!` write `c"brotli"` and `c"zlib"`.

Zones exist only in macOS debug builds without ASAN (`ENABLED`). There
`init` receives a pointer and a length instead of a pointer, once per
zone. Elsewhere the call is dead code: the release assembly of
`bun_alloc`, `bun_zlib` and `bun_brotli` on Linux is the same before and
after. The macOS arm passes `cargo check --target aarch64-apple-darwin`.

#### 12. threading: a worker's `Thread` is only ever borrowed shared

`Thread::run` took `&raw mut self_` and dereferenced it in `unsafe` to
call `pop` and, twice, `drain_idle_events`, and `ThreadPool::register`
stored `(*thread).next` in `unsafe`. `drain_idle_events` and every
method of `Queue` and `Buffer` already take `&self`. `pop` took `&mut
self` only to store `self.target`, and that `&mut` was not exclusive:
while a worker is in `pop`, other workers read its `next`, `run_queue`
and `run_buffer` through the pool's list.

`next` and `target` are `Cell<*mut Thread>`, which keeps them at offsets
0 and 8. `next` is set before the compare-exchange that publishes the
thread and only read afterwards; `target` is used by its own worker
alone. Each field says so. `pop` takes `&self`, `run` calls the methods
on its local, and `ThreadRegistration` holds `&'a Thread`.

`register` had one caller, `ThreadRegistration::new`, and is written
into it, so no safe fn leaves the address of a `&Thread` in the pool's
list. `new` stays `unsafe`: a leaked guard would leave `CURRENT` and
that list pointing at a dead stack frame, and `pool` has to count the
calling thread in `spawned`, which `unregister` subtracts from.
`unregister` takes `Option<&Thread>` instead of `*mut Thread`, which has
the same ABI: `drop` passes `Some(self.thread)`, `warm` and
`notify_slow` pass `None`, and the step through `NonNull` and `BackRef`
is gone.

The steal loop reads and writes the same fields in the same order with
the same orderings: the release assembly of `Thread::run`, into which
`pop` is inlined, is the same before and after. One function of
`bun_threading` differs: `ThreadRegistration::drop` loses the null test
of `unregister`'s `maybe_thread` (68 to 64 instructions).

#### 13. threading: `Bun__lock` takes `&ReleaseImpl`

`Bun__lock` was `unsafe extern "C" fn(ptr: *mut ReleaseImpl)` around
`(*ptr).lock()`. Only C calls it, at six places in
`packages/bun-usockets/src`:

- `fault_inject.c:44`, `:54`, `:63` and `:73` pass `&us_fault_lock`, a
`static zig_mutex_t`.
- `loop.c:376` and `:400` pass `&loop->data.mutex`, a field of the
`us_loop_t` that `us_create_loop` gets from `us_xcalloc`.

Both are non-null and zero-initialised, which is the unlocked state of
the futex, `os_unfair_lock` and SRWLOCK implementations. `zig_mutex_t`
is `uint32_t`, `os_unfair_lock` or `void *`, which have the alignment of
the Rust types. Every caller goes on to use the data that the mutex
guards, so the object is live for the whole call. All three
implementations are interior-mutable, so a shared reference lets other
threads lock at the same time.

`Bun__unlock` keeps its raw pointer, for the reason `Mutex::unlock_raw`
gives.

`Bun__lock` compiles to the same instructions. It now equals
`Mutex::lock` down to the parameter attributes, so in the Linux release
build LLVM emits `Mutex::lock` as an alias of it. The Windows and macOS
implementations pass `cargo check` for their targets.

#### 14. ptr: `DebugData::deinit` takes `&self`

`DebugData` is the canary that `RefCount` and `ThreadSafeRefCount` carry
in builds with `debug_assertions`. Its `deinit` took `&mut self` to
clear `magic: u32`. `RefCount::deref`, `ThreadSafeRefCount::deref` and
`ThreadSafeRefCount::release` have a `&` to the count in scope, so each
of them projected the field from the raw pointer a second time, in
`unsafe`, to get a `&mut` next to that `&`.

`magic` is an `AtomicU32` that is read and written relaxed, `deinit`
takes `&self`, and the three callers write `count.debug.deinit()`.

Release builds contain none of this: the release assembly of `bun_ptr`
is the same before and after. In debug builds the plain load and store
of `magic` become relaxed atomic ones.

#### 15. sql: `PostgresSQLConnection::drop` zeroes `options_buf` with
`secure_zero`

`drop` cleared the buffer that holds the connection options, the
password among them, with its own loop of one `write_volatile` per byte
in `unsafe`. `bun_alloc::secure_zero` takes the `&mut [u8]` and is safe,
and `bun_sql_jsc` already depends on `bun_alloc`.

The compiled code changes: the byte loop becomes one `memset`, which a
`black_box` on the pointer and a compiler fence keep rustc's LLVM
backend from removing. `write_volatile` is guaranteed by the language
and `black_box` is documented as best effort; this is the form
`secure_zero`'s doc comment argues for, and the other Rust code that
zeroes a secret it owns uses it (`Data::zdeinit`, `zero_sensitive`,
`free_sensitive`, `free_sensitive_cstr`).

#### 16. bundler: `zig__ModuleInfoDeserialized__deinit` takes the `Box`
that it drops

The exported function took `*mut ModuleInfoDeserialized`. It turned the
argument into a `NonNull` with `unwrap_unchecked`, turned that back into
a raw pointer, and passed it to `ModuleInfoDeserialized::deinit`, an
`unsafe fn` with no other caller whose body was
`drop(heap::take(this))`.

The parameter is now `Box<ModuleInfoDeserialized>` and the body is
`drop(info)`. That is what C++ passes: `ResolvedSource.module_info` is
an `Option<Box<ModuleInfoDeserialized>>`, and C++ gives back the pointer
that it found in that field. A `Box` of a sized type is passed as that
pointer, and `heap::take` is `Box::from_raw`, so the same box is
dropped. As a `Box` the parameter is `noalias`, `nonnull` and aligned
for LLVM. No `unsafe` is left in the function. `deinit`, the `NonNull`
import and `use bun_core;` are gone.

A `Box` is never null and is owned by the callee. The four C++ call
sites hold to both. `Bun__analyzeTranspiledModule`
(BunAnalyzeTranspiledModule.cpp) has returned early if `m_moduleInfo` is
null, and `releaseModuleInfo` (ZigGlobalObject.cpp) gets a provider only
if it is set; both set the field to null after the call.
`~SourceProvider` (ZigSourceProvider.cpp) and `~ErrorableResolvedSource`
(headers-handwritten.h) test the pointer in an `if`, and the object that
held it is gone afterwards. `m_moduleInfo` gets its value only from
`std::exchange(resolvedSource.module_info, nullptr)`, so the two objects
never hold the same pointer.

#### 17. transpiler: `print_with_source_map` takes `Option<&mut
ModuleInfo>`

The two callers that collect a module record own it in a local
`Option<Box<ModuleInfo>>`. They turned `as_deref_mut()` into an
`Option<*mut ModuleInfo>`, which went through four functions of
`Transpiler`, all safe, one of them public, until `print_ast_esm_ascii`
turned it back into the `Option<&mut ModuleInfo>` that
`js_printer::Options` holds.

The four functions now take `Option<&mut ModuleInfo>` and the two
callers pass `module_info.as_deref_mut()`. They touch the box again only
after the call has returned. The third caller, in `AsyncModule`, passes
`None` as before.

The argument is one pointer with null for `None`, where it was a tag and
a pointer.

#### 18. bundler: five `unsafe` blocks that plain borrows replace

`StaticRouteVisitor` held `&'a LinkerContext<'a>`. `LinkerContext` is
invariant in its lifetime, so no borrow of the `&mut LinkerContext<'a>`
that `generate_chunks_in_parallel` gets has that type, and the borrow
was detached. The struct now has two lifetimes, `&'a
LinkerContext<'ctx>`, and holds `&*c`. Up to the visitor's last use `c`
is only used shared; `write_output_files_to_disk(c, ..)` is in the other
arm of the `if`.

`is_done` called `(*this).graph.drain_deferred_tasks(&mut *this)`: a
`&mut Graph` and a `&mut BundleV2` that contains it, both live.
`drain_deferred_tasks` is now a method of `BundleV2` that names
`self.graph.*`. It stays in Graph.rs, next to the counters it moves.

`scan_css_imports` was a safe function that took `*const [CssCol]` and
dereferenced it. It takes `&[CssCol]`. `finish_from_bake_dev_server` has
a slice and passes it. `scan_imports_and_exports` has column pointers
and uses `col_ref!`, as it does for the arguments next to this one.

`find_imported_files_in_css_order` cast a slice to `*const [LayerName]`
and dereferenced it, as a cast "between shadow types".
`crate::bun_css::LayerName` re-exports
`::bun_css::css_parser::LayerName`, so there is one type and the `match`
yields `&[LayerName]`. For the same reason the
`.cast::<Vec<LayerName>>()` on each of the two pointers that the
function hands to `Layers::borrow` cast to the type it already had. Both
are gone, with the comments there, on `Layers::borrow` and in
`prepareCssAstsForChunk.rs` that spoke of two types. `Layers::borrow`, a
safe function whose result `inner()` dereferences, took a `NonNull` for
those casts. It takes `&Vec<LayerName>`, and `BackRef::new` stores the
same pointer.

`run_resolver` kept the slot from `get_or_put` as `*mut u32` in both
arms. With `self.graph.build_graphs[target]` written out, which is the
body of `path_to_source_index_map`, the arm for an existing entry reads
`*entry.value_ptr` next to `self.graph.ast`. The other arm calls
`enqueue_parse_task(&mut self)` before it fills the slot and keeps the
pointer.

The operations and their order stay the same at all five sites.

#### 19. bundler: `BundleThread::enqueue` takes `&self`; `generation` is
a local of the thread

`generation` was a field that only `thread_main` read and wrote, through
the raw `instance` pointer. It was also the only field written after the
thread has set `ready_event`, and so the reason why no thread could hold
a `&BundleThread`.

It is now a local of `thread_main`. After `waker` is written, every
thread only reads the fields or uses the atomics in `ready_event` and
`queue`, so `thread_main` takes one `&*instance` there, in place of a
dereference each for `ready_event.set()`, `queue.pop()`, `waker.wait()`
and, on Windows, `waker.uv_loop()`.

`enqueue` was an `unsafe fn(*mut Self, *mut C)` that rebuilt a `NonNull`
with `new_unchecked`. Its one caller has a `NonNull<C>` and passed
`.as_ptr()`. It is now `unsafe fn enqueue(&self, NonNull<C>)`. The types
say that the instance is live and that the task is not null, and the
body has no `unsafe` block: `UnboundedQueue::push` and `Waker::wake` are
safe `&self` functions on every platform. It stays `unsafe` for the one
obligation that no type carries: `completion` must be a live task node
that stays valid until the bundle thread has run or freed it, because
`thread_main` dereferences what it pops. The caller dereferences the
singleton pointer and calls `enqueue` in one block, where it called the
old function.

The counter moves from the heap allocation to the thread's stack or a
register. The calls and their order stay the same.

#### 20. bundler: `enqueue_entry_points_dev_server` borrows the
transpiler where it uses it

The loop picked the client or the server transpiler at its top and kept
it as `*mut Transpiler`, because a borrow would have held `self` across
the plugin dispatch that follows. The pointer was dereferenced three
times further down: for `resolve_entry_point`, and twice in its error
arm for `log`.

The transpiler is now picked after the plugin dispatch, right before
`resolve_entry_point`, as a `&mut`. What that call returns borrows only
`abs_path` and `dot_slash`, so `self` is free again in both arms. The
error arm first copies `transpiler.log` and uses the copy; the
dereference for `reset()` stays.

The pick now runs only for entry points that no plugin matched. It has
no side effect here: the one caller is the dev server, which sets
`linker.dev_server` and `client_transpiler` before, so
`transpiler_for_target` only selects a pointer.

#### 21. bundler: `process_html_import_files` borrows four fields of the
parse graph

The function went through the raw `parse_graph` pointer five times, four
of them in every iteration. One of the five,
`(*parse_graph).path_to_source_index_map(..)`, made a `&mut Graph` over
the whole graph only to call `get(&self)` on one map, while the source
map workers that `link` has just scheduled read the same graph. A sixth
block made a `&mut Symbol` with `symbol_mut` to set `link`, which is a
`Cell`.

One block now borrows the four fields that are used:
`html_imports.html_source_indices` mutably, and
`html_imports.server_source_indices`, `input_files` and `build_graphs`
shared. The workers hold `&Graph` and `&BundleV2` at that time, and of
the graph they read only `input_files` and `pool`. The symbol comes from
`LinkerGraph::symbol`, which is `symbols.get_const(..).expect(..)`.
`get_const` has the same two guards as `get` and no bounds check either.
`symbol` was compiled only with `debug_assertions`, because its one user
was, and loses that `cfg`.

The loop iterates over `server_source_indices` instead of indexing it,
which drops one bounds check per iteration, and the `source` column and
the browser map are looked up once instead of per iteration.

#### 22. transpiler: `Linker` takes what it reads as parameters instead
of pointing into its `Transpiler`

`Transpiler` holds its `Linker` by value. The `Linker` held three raw
pointers back into the same `Transpiler`: `options`, `resolve_queue` and
`resolve_results`. They were null after `Transpiler::init`, were set by
`configure_linker*`, and had to be set again by `wire_after_move` after
each move. Three accessors dereferenced them.

`resolve_queue` and `resolve_results` served only
`enqueue_resolve_result`, which has one caller,
`Transpiler::enqueue_entry_points`. It is now an associated function
that gets `&mut self.resolve_results` and `&mut self.resolve_queue`.
`options` served only two scalar reads at the top of `link`, which now
takes `options: &BundleOptions<'_>`. Its two callers in `Transpiler`
pass `&self.options`. The two callers outside the crate, in
`AsyncModule` and `jsc_hooks`, pass `&(*jsc_vm).transpiler.options` in
the `unsafe` block they already have; that is the field the pointer
pointed to, because the VM calls `configure_linker*` on the transpiler
in place.

`Linker` is left with `log`, and `Linker::init` takes only that. The
three accessors and `reseat_self_refs` are gone.

`link` gets the address in an argument register instead of loading it
from `self`, `Transpiler` is 24 bytes smaller, and the debug assertions
that the pointers are not null are gone with the pointers.

#### 23. transpiler: `Transpiler::init` builds its value with a struct
literal

`init` made a `MaybeUninit<Transpiler>` on its stack and passed it to
`init_in_place`, which wrote the twelve fields with
`addr_of_mut!(..).write(..)`. `init` then returned
`Ok(slot.assume_init())`. `init_in_place` was meant for callers that own
the final storage, but it is `pub(crate)` and `init` was its only
caller: the VM, in another crate, calls `init` and writes the result
into its field.

`init` now has the body of `init_in_place` and ends in `Ok(Transpiler {
.. })`, with the fields in the same order, so the calls that compute
them run in the same order. All the fallible work still comes first.

No large value is moved more often than before. The options went from a
local into the slot and now go from the same local into the literal. The
resolver went from the result of `Resolver::init1` into the slot and now
goes into the literal. The whole struct went from the slot into the `Ok`
and now goes from the literal into the `Ok`.

The message of the panic for a null `log` names `init` instead of
`init_in_place`.

#### 24. bundler: three worker contexts that only read the linker hold
`&LinkerContext`

`find_all_imported_parts_in_js_order` and `run_walks` put
`ParentRef::from_ref_mut(this)` in the context they hand to `each_ptr`,
and each task turned it back with `unsafe { &*ctx.c.as_mut_ptr() }`. The
first of the two built a whole `GenerateChunkCtx` and used only its `c`.
Step 5 of `scan_imports_and_exports` wrapped a `*mut LinkerContext` in a
struct with its own `unsafe impl Sync`, and `do_step5` began with
`&*this`.

The three contexts now hold `&LinkerContext`. `each` and `each_ptr` ask
for `Ctx: Sync`, which `&LinkerContext` has through the existing `unsafe
impl Sync for LinkerContext`. `find_all_imported_parts_in_js_order` and
`run_walks` took `&mut LinkerContext` for `from_ref_mut`, and
`find_safe_walks` took it to call `run_walks`. All three take
`&LinkerContext`, and `do_step5` takes `&self`. It stays an `unsafe fn`:
the caller must give each concurrent call its own rows.

While the pool runs, the calling thread is blocked in `each` /
`each_ptr` and holds only shared borrows of the linker: the context and
`worker_pool()`. The tasks hold `&LinkerContext`, as before, and write
the rows and the one column they own through the raw pointers of
`split_raw(&self)`, which come from the buffer pointer stored in the
list and not from the reference.

`unsafe impl Send for PrepareCssAstTask` is removed: no bound asks for
it. The tasks stay in a local `Vec` and reach the pool as `*mut Task`.

The change is in the types only, with two exceptions.
`find_all_imported_parts_in_js_order` no longer forms the two unused
pointers into `chunks`. And the attributes of the changed parameters
follow their types: the three that were `&mut LinkerContext` lose
`noalias` and `dereferenceable`, which a `&` to a type with atomics in
it does not get, and `do_step5`'s, which was a raw pointer, gains
`nonnull` and `align`.

#### 25. bundler: `LinkerContext::load` and `link` take the fields they
use, not `*mut BundleV2`

Both were `unsafe fn(&mut self, bundle: *mut BundleV2, ..)`, because
`self.linker.link(self, ..)` does not borrow-check. All five callers
hold a `&mut BundleV2` or the `Box`, and each made a raw pointer from it
in an `unsafe` block to project `linker`, `graph.entry_points` and
`graph.server_component_boundaries`. Inside there were nine more blocks:
five project or read a field of `*bundle` that is disjoint from `linker`
(`graph`, `dynamic_import_entry_points`, `transpiler`,
`has_any_top_level_await_modules`, `unique_key`), two read the graph
through `self.parse_graph`, one builds the resolver's `ParentRef`
through a pointer cast, and one is `link`'s call of `load`.

`load` now takes `&mut Graph`, `&Transpiler` and the `&mut` map of
dynamic import entry points, which the callers borrow as disjoint fields
next to `&mut self.linker`. It reads the entry points, the boundaries,
the sources and the original names from the graph. The pointer cast that
"erased" the resolver's lifetime is gone: the lifetime was `'a` already.
`link` takes the `bool` and the `u64` it read from the bundle and no
longer calls `load`. The new `BundleV2::link` calls both, and four
callers call that. The dev server only loads, and calls `load` as
before.

`load` stays an `unsafe fn`, with a smaller contract. That its arguments
are valid and disjoint from `self` is now checked by the compiler. What
is left is that `self` keeps the raw `parse_graph` pointer and a
`ParentRef` to the transpiler's resolver after those borrows have ended,
and that safe accessors such as `parse_graph()` and `resolver()`
dereference them later. So both arguments must be those of the
`BundleV2` that holds `self`. `BundleV2::link` and the dev server call
`load` in one `unsafe` block each. `link` is a safe function. It relies
on `load` having run, like its callees `parse_graph()` and
`compute_chunks`, which are safe functions too.

`load` is separate so that no `&mut Graph` is live while the pool works
on this bundle. It runs after parsing is over and before any task of the
link step is scheduled, and its borrows end when it returns.
`BundleV2::link`'s own `&mut self` does span the link step, and the
workers' pointers derive from it. `generate_from_cli` and
`generate_from_bake_production_cli` held only the `Box` and a raw
pointer there. `LinkerContext::link`, which schedules the source map
tasks and step 5, holds `&mut LinkerContext` as before, and two fewer
borrows into the graph: the entry points and the boundaries were
parameters of it.

`load` is called from `BundleV2::link` instead of from
`LinkerContext::link`, and the two scalars are read before
`LinkerContext::link` is called instead of during it. Nothing writes
them while linking. The stores in `load` keep their order.

#### 26. bundler: the back-pointers of the tasks name the bundle's
lifetime

`ParseTask<'a>` and `ServerComponentParseTask<'a>` carry the bundle's
`'a`, but their `ctx` was a `ParentRef<BundleV2<'static>, Mut>`. Nine
places fill it. The six in `ParseTask.rs` and `bundle_v2.rs` have the
bundle as `BundleV2<'a>`, so each wrote `unsafe {
ParentRef::from_raw_mut(p.cast::<BundleV2<'static>>()) }`. In the five
in `bundle_v2.rs`, `p` is `ptr::from_mut` of the bundle. The sixth is
`ParseTask::init`, a safe function that took `*mut BundleV2<'a>` and
read through it; its five callers all pass `self`. The three places in
`aot` (`plugins.rs`, `native_plugins.rs` and `components.rs`) fill `ctx`
from a `BundleV2<'static>` carrier and do not change.
`SourceMapDataTask` did the same as the six with
`LinkerContext<'static>`.

`ctx` is now `ParentRef<BundleV2<'a>, Mut>`, and those six places use
the safe `ParentRef::from_ref_mut(self)`. `init` takes `&mut
BundleV2<'a>`. `SourceMapDataTask` and `SourceMapData` get the linker's
`'a`, and their `ctx` is `ParentRef::new(&*self)`. `ParseTask<'a>` is
now invariant in `'a`. Only the runtime's task relied on shortening
`'static`, so `RuntimeSource` and the functions that make it are generic
over `'a`.

The worker side does not change. The thread pool callbacks recover the
task from its intrusive field as `ParseTask<'static>`, and so on, as
before, so `Result.ctx` and the code in `aot` keep `BundleV2<'static>`.

The pointers have the same value and provenance as before:
`ptr::from_mut(self)` and `ptr::from_ref(self)` reborrowed `self` too.
In `init` the reborrow is now the parameter. It lasts for that call, on
the bundle thread, inside a caller that holds `&mut BundleV2` anyway.
The change is in the types only, apart from the `noalias` and
`dereferenceable` attributes that `init`'s parameter gets as a `&mut`.

#### 27. threading: `ThreadPool::each_ptr` hands each task a `&mut V`

`each_ptr` takes `values: &mut [V]`, makes one task per index, and
blocks until all of them are done. It passed each task a `*mut V`. All
six callbacks, which are all in the bundler, dereferenced it with the
reason "`each_ptr` hands each task a distinct pointer". Five began with
`unsafe { &mut *ptr }`. The sixth, `run_nested_rename_task`, read two
fields at its start and wrote one at its end. That the pointers are
distinct and live is something only the pool can know.

The callback is now `Fn(&Ctx, &mut V, usize)`. `each_impl` has the
exclusive borrow of the slice, does not use it while the tasks run, and
gives each index to one task, so the block that computed `&raw mut
(*values)[i]` makes `&mut (*values)[i]` instead. The bound is
higher-ranked, so a callback cannot keep the reference, and `V: Send`
was required already. `EachCall::call` is a safe function now. Its
`ByValue` impl, which serves `each` and `each_while`, copies out of the
reference. Apart from step 5 of the linker, which passes its own
snapshot of the reachable files, every caller of those two passes a
fresh `vec[(); n]`.

No `&mut` lives longer than before in the five callbacks that made one
on entry. `generate_chunk` reads the other chunks through `ctx.chunks`
while each task holds the `&mut` to its own, as it did before.

The address and the bounds check are the same. What changes are the
attributes of the callbacks' parameter: as a `&mut V` it is `noalias`
and `dereferenceable`. Four of the six callbacks pass it on, and their
callees had these attributes on the same pointer already:
`post_process_js_chunk`, `post_process_css_chunk` and
`post_process_html_chunk` under `generate_chunk`, `generate_js_renamer_`
under `generate_js_renamer`, and `find_imported_parts_in_js_order` and
`EntryWalk::run` under the two closures. For `finish_js_renamer` and
`run_nested_rename_task` they are new; neither uses another way to reach
its value.

The doc of `GenerateChunkCtx` said that `each_ptr` asks for `Ctx: Sync +
Copy`. It asks for `Sync`.

### How did you verify your code works?

- **Static checks on the final commits:** `cargo fmt --check`, `cargo
clippy --workspace` (0 warnings), the source lints and `cargo check
--workspace --release` on Linux, and `cargo check --workspace --release`
for `x86_64-pc-windows-msvc`, `aarch64-apple-darwin` and
`x86_64-unknown-freebsd`, because four changes touch code that Linux
does not compile.
- **Assembly:** the comparison above.
- **After the assembly comparison and the tests had run,** three more
commits went into #47895, which is under these, and a rebase brought in
one more commit of `main` (#47900). Together they touch 17 files, none
of which this PR touches, and they left all 27 patches here as they
were. The static checks ran after that.
- **30 test files on the final code,** on a debug build with ASAN, all
started at once and each stopped after 50 seconds: 22 files of
`test/bundler` (plugins, HTML, CSS, loaders, minify, naming, chunks,
`defer()`, metafile, cjs, browser, bytecode, the resolver's cache, the
transpiler) and 8 for the other changes (`Bun.password`, `fs.promises`,
two Postgres files that bring their own servers, glob, zlib, S3 and `bun
-e`).
  - 26 files pass completely, 1,419 tests. None fails.
- 4 files were stopped at 50 seconds: `transpiler.test.js`,
`esbuild/css.test.ts`, `bundler_bytecode_portable.test.ts` and
`glob/scan.test.ts`.
- With fewer files at once, `transpiler.test.js` passes completely (258
tests).
- Run by name, the 31 tests of `esbuild/css.test.ts` with `Layer` in
their names pass, and the 18 with `AtImport`. So do 11 of the 22 tests
of `bundler_bytecode_portable.test.ts`; the others did not end in 50
seconds.
- **30 test files on an earlier base,** some of them the same, run the
same way: 22 files of `test/bundler` (the API, plugins, HTML, CSS,
loaders, minify, naming, splitting, compile, metafile), the 3 files of
`test/bundler/resolver`, 3 of `test/bake/dev` and 2 of `test/js/bun/md`.
  - 21 files pass completely, 559 tests.
- 3 files need packages that I did not have, and fail in the same tests
on a debug build without these commits: `bundler_edgecase`
(`aws-cdk-lib`), `bake/dev/css` (16 tests) and `bake/dev/html` (9 tests,
both `happy-dom`).
- 6 files were stopped at 50 seconds: `bake/dev/bundle`,
`bun-build-api`, `bundler_cjs2esm`, `bundler_compile`,
`bundler_splitting` and `md-edge-cases`. In `bake/dev/bundle` 16 tests
had failed by then, all for `happy-dom`. In the other five no test had
failed by then.
- **22 scenarios by hand** on a debug build of an earlier form of the 12
bundler and transpiler commits, and on a debug build of their base. They
were `bun build` with splitting, minify, the source map modes, cjs
output, CSS layers, server HTML imports, HTML entry points, top-level
await, macros, `--compile`, bytecode and `--no-bundle`, running the
outputs, `Bun.build` in sequence, in parallel, with plugins and
`defer()`, and with failing builds, and the dev server with an edit and
a rebuild. Every bundle had the same digest on both builds, and ASAN
reported nothing.


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dylan-conway added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 5, 2026
…-ares, BoringSSL, `node:quic` and the parser (#47944)

### What does this PR do?

35 separate changes, one commit each: 10 in IPC, N-API, `bun:ffi` and
their neighbours, 15 in `node:zlib`, the c-ares and BoringSSL bindings
and `node:quic`, and 10 in the parser, the printer, CSS, `Bun.Image` and
smaller crates. They follow #47291, #47317, #47338, #47382, #47393,
#47414, #47871, #47893, #47895, #47901 and #47940 and work the same way:
signatures name the type and the lifetime that the value already has,
hand-written pointer code becomes plain ownership and borrows that the
compiler checks, and what was never needed is deleted.

Together: **125 fewer `unsafe` blocks, 17 fewer `unsafe fn`s and 4 fewer
`unsafe impl`s**, +870/−1499 over 58 files. No safe function became
`unsafe`, and no wrapper type was added. **[Where the compiled code
changes](#where-the-compiled-code-changes) lists every place where the
program does different work.**

| # | Change | `unsafe` | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ipc: `CHANNEL` holds `&'static IPCInstance`, boxed once the
transport is up | −9 blocks, −1 `unsafe fn` | +34/−74, 3 files |
| 2 | napi: `Bun__napi_check_gc` and `NapiHandleScope__escape` are `safe
fn` | −2 blocks | +4/−7, 1 file |
| 3 | napi: entry points take the env and scope handles as `Option<&T>`
or `&T` | −7 blocks | +92/−73, 1 file |
| 4 | napi: `Finalizer::run` and `schedule` borrow their env, and three
more borrows | −5 blocks, −1 `unsafe impl` | +14/−27, 2 files |
| 5 | tcc: `Config::options` is `Option<&'a ZStr>` | −2 blocks | +9/−12,
2 files |
| 6 | ffi: no reference is made from an address only to turn it back
into one | −2 blocks, −1 `unsafe fn` | +38/−64, 3 files |
| 7 | ipc: the JSON decoder's free callback takes `&Cell<bool>` | −1
block | +7/−9, 1 file |
| 8 | sql: the `ssl_config_from_js` and `timer_heap` hooks are safe
`fn`s | −1 block, −4 `unsafe fn` | +5/−6, 2 files |
| 9 | webview: both `spawn` functions take `&VirtualMachine` | −2 blocks
| +10/−23, 2 files |
| 10 | crash_handler: `uv_posix` calls `unsupported_uv_function` as a
Rust function | −1 block | +16/−17, 2 files |
| 11 | node:zlib: the write's completion owns its ref as a `RefPtr<T>` |
−4 blocks, −2 `unsafe fn` | +13/−36, 2 files |
| 12 | node:zlib: `borrow_input_copy` borrows the copy through
`JsCell::get` | −1 block | +4/−6, 1 file |
| 13 | node:zlib: `NativeBrotli` passes `&raw mut self.next_in` and
keeps `last_result` as a `c_int` | −5 blocks | +11/−32, 1 file |
| 14 | c-ares: `AresReply` names its parser as an associated const | −6
blocks | +15/−27, 1 file |
| 15 | c-ares: `get_sockaddr` and `get_name_info` take
`sockaddr_storage` | −4 blocks | +19/−52, 3 files |
| 16 | boringssl: `Bun__X509__checkHost` types its certificate and its
out-parameter | −2 blocks | +7/−8, 1 file |
| 17 | boringssl_sys: `X509_get_subject_name` is a `safe fn`, and a
stack free without fn-pointer transmutes | −2 blocks, −3 `unsafe fn` |
+7/−18, 1 file |
| 18 | boringssl_sys: the digest getters return `&'static EVP_MD`, and
`EVP_DigestInit` is a `safe fn` | −3 blocks | +35/−55, 3 files |
| 19 | net: `BlockList__onStructuredCloneDestroy` takes the
`RefPtr<BlockList>` it releases | −2 blocks, −2 `unsafe fn` | +4/−14, 1
file |
| 20 | node:quic: `on_new_conn` uses the `Conn` it already has | −4
blocks | +5/−27, 2 files |
| 21 | node:quic: the loop-driver callbacks take `&QuicEndpoint`;
`lookup_cert` stays typed | −4 blocks, −3 `unsafe fn` | +23/−62, 2 files
|
| 22 | node:quic: `QuicEndpoint::constructor` reads its options before
it creates the cell | −6 blocks | +81/−88, 1 file |
| 23 | node:quic: `QuicSession::create` and `QuicStream::create` return
the reference they make | −7 blocks | +61/−75, 3 files |
| 24 | node:quic: a session holds `Option<Conn>` and a stream holds
`Option<Stream>` | −13 blocks | +165/−181, 4 files |
| 25 | ast: `Binding::to_expr` takes `&mut C` and the method that wraps
an identifier | −3 blocks | +18/−160, 5 files |
| 26 | js_parser: `P::init` returns the `&mut P` it wrote, and `init_p!`
binds it | −5 blocks | +31/−50, 3 files |
| 27 | js_printer: the three `write_reserved` callers use `print_slice`
| −3 blocks | +12/−47, 1 file |
| 28 | image, aot, mimalloc: imports that only write their
out-parameters are `safe fn` | −8 blocks | +51/−72, 7 files |
| 29 | js_parser_jsc: `MacroContext::call` borrows `self.macros` and
`self.bump` | −2 blocks | +6/−20, 1 file |
| 30 | ast, sql_jsc: remove three `unsafe impl Send`/`Sync` that nothing
needs | −3 `unsafe impl` | +0/−15, 3 files |
| 31 | css: two needless `unsafe` in values/ident.rs | −1 block, −1
`unsafe fn` | +2/−11, 1 file |
| 32 | valkey, image, sql_jsc, ast: `&Self` guards, `&Blob`, `&Symbol`,
a `const` array | −3 blocks | +17/−34, 4 files |
| 33 | aot, md: three byte views go through `bun_core::slice_as_bytes` |
−3 blocks | +16/−22, 5 files |
| 34 | ast: `Rope<'a>` links its segments with `Option<&'a mut
Rope<'a>>` | −1 block | +34/−56, 3 files |
| 35 | c-ares: `ResolveHandler` names its callback as an associated
const | −1 block | +6/−21, 2 files |

The commits can be reviewed one at a time.

Worth knowing before reading on:

- **Nothing that users can see changes.** Under `test/`, a comment in
`spawn.ipc.test.ts` named a function that change 1 deletes, and the
inventory of the `vm-thread-door` source lint loses the entries of
removed `unsafe impl`s (changes 4 and 30).
- **Five changes end an aliasing or contract bug that had no visible
effect.**
- Change 6: `bun:ffi`'s `toBuffer` and `toArrayBuffer` made a `&mut
[u8]` over memory that belongs to the caller.
- Change 9: both `spawn` functions of the webview were safe functions
that dereferenced a `*mut VirtualMachine`.
- Change 15: `get_sockaddr` took a `&mut sockaddr`, 16 bytes, and wrote
a 28-byte `sockaddr_in6` through it.
- Change 24: ten safe functions of `node:quic` took a raw lsquic pointer
that they or a later function trusted.
- Change 32: `BlobReadChain::start` held a `&mut Blob` across a call
that can run JS.
- **The parser copies less:** moving the parser's slot into its drop
guard was a `memcpy` of 4,344 bytes per parse, and most callers made a
second one to drop it. Both are gone (change 26), and `P` is 32 bytes
smaller (25).
- **N-API entry points say what an add-on may pass** (change 3):
`Option<&NapiEnv>` has the ABI of a nullable pointer, null is `None`,
and every null test is where it was.
- **In `node:quic` the lifetimes come from the owner:** `create` returns
a reference that borrows from the endpoint or the session (change 23),
and a session holds `Option<Conn>` and a stream `Option<Stream>`, one
pointer each, with six repeated null tests fewer (24).
- **Functions that C, C++ or add-ons call have typed parameters**
(changes 3, 7, 16, 19 and 21). Each message names the call sites and
what they pass.
- **Imports that are `safe fn`s:** `Bun__napi_check_gc` and
`NapiHandleScope__escape` (change 2), `X509_get_subject_name` (17),
`EVP_DigestInit` and the digest getters, which return `&'static EVP_MD`
(18), and four that only write their out-parameters (28). Each message
says what the C side reads and writes, for every argument, in every
state and on every thread. The other shims over `NapiEnv` stay unsafe
imports, because they belong on the env's JS thread.
- **Dead code goes:** `IPCInstance::new` and `deinit` (change 1),
`write_reserved`, `advance` and `advance_by` (27), three declarations of
BoringSSL functions that nothing calls (18), three `unsafe impl
Send`/`Sync` (30) and an `unsafe fn as_slice` (31).
- **Parts of four changes are compiled only for Windows or macOS:** 1
(the Windows arm of `get_ipc_instance`), 9 (the macOS
`HostProcess::spawn` and the Windows arms of Chrome's `spawn`), 15 (the
WinSock names) and 28 (`mi_process_info` on Windows).

### Where the compiled code changes

I compared the release assembly (x86-64 Linux, `--emit=asm`) of all 134
crates of the workspace, before and after. For 95 of them the files are
the same byte for byte. The other 39 I compared function by function,
with names demangled and labels normalised. In 26 of the 39 (30,267
functions) no function differs: what differs is the debug information.
13 crates differ:

| Crate | Functions | Differ | Other constants or names only | Same
length | Shorter | Longer | Instructions | Branches | Compares | Calls |
Panic call sites |
|---|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|
| `bun_ast` | 352 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | −555 | −45 | −45 | −46 | −9 |
| `bun_js_parser` | 1,361 | 374 | 327 | 4 | 34 | 9 | +223 | −24 | −32 |
+12 | −6 |
| `bun_bundler` | 1,983 | 38 | 26 | 0 | 6 | 6 | +143 | +5 | +3 | −8 | −4
|
| `bun_runtime` | 11,204 | 131 | 76 | 12 | 21 | 22 | −207 | +2 | +3 |
−16 | −8 |
| `bun_js_printer` | 130 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | −11 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 |
| `bun_install`, `bun_sourcemap_jsc` | 3,000 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +97 |
+9 | +9 | −7 | 0 |
| `bun_sha_hmac` | 34 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | −54 | 0 | 0 | −24 | 0 |
| `bun_boringssl_sys` | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | −10 | −2 | −2 | −1 | −1
|
| `bun_ini` | 59 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | −24 | −11 | −12 | −1 | 0 |
| `bun_js_parser_jsc` | 51 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | −20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| `bun_cares_sys` | 21 | 0 | | | | | −6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| `bun_crash_handler` | 123 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +5 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 |
| All 13 | 18,332 | 570 | 429 | 18 | 80 | 43 | −419 | −66 | −76 | −91 |
−28 |

The last five columns are net, and count the functions that exist on one
side only: 38 only before and 27 only after, which were removed, renamed
or inlined, or are no longer inlined. Where only constants differ, each
is an offset into the parser's `P` and is 32 lower, because `P` is 32
bytes smaller (change 25). The names that differ:

- `Store::append` has the same 112 instructions for `E::Object` and
`E::Array`, and the compiler keeps one copy in `bun_js_parser`. That
copy was named after `E::Object` and is named after `E::Array`, at 173
call sites.
- The twelve `do_resolve_cares` load the address of another function
(change 35, in the last table), and five functions of `Bun.Image` call a
wrapper (change 28, below).

**What costs something.** No change adds an allocation, a lock or a
reference count, and none adds a test to the source. These are the
places where the compiled code does more than before:

- **`Binding::to_expr` is compiled once per wrapping method (change
25).** One copy in `bun_ast` (505 instructions), which called the method
through a function pointer, becomes four in `bun_js_parser` (210 to 223)
and one in `bun_bundler` (225), which call it directly or have it
inline. That is about 590 instructions of code more. Each copy is less
than half as long as the one it replaces, and a call of it loses the
indirect calls and an `expect` per array or object pattern.
`maybe_relocate_vars_to_top_level` was one copy (134) for two instances
of the parser and is two (130 each), because each calls its own
`to_expr`.
- **Around it the inliner chooses differently.** `E::Array` and
`E::Spread` were stored through `into_data_store` (115 and 111) and two
`new_expr` (77 each). They are stored through `Store::append` (112 and
108), which is inline in some parser functions and not in others, in
both directions: `parse_type_script_decorators` and `pfx_t_open_brace`
of the bundler's parser are 88 and 86 shorter, `pfx_t_open_bracket` of
one instance 56 shorter, `parse_prefix` and `parse_jsx_element` of
another 31 and 30 longer. In the bundler two `from_bump_vec` (101 and
100) are functions of their own.
- **`has_globals_of_vitest` (35) is a function of its own (change 26).**
It was inline in both `_parse`, which call it once each.
- **`Bun.Image` unpins its input through `JSValue::unpin_array_buffer`
(change 28).** Six call sites in five functions called the C++ function
through a declaration of their own. They call the wrapper that `bun_jsc`
has for it, as `node:zlib` and `node:http` do. The wrapper is one jump,
which goes where the link inlines across crates.
- **The fields of `EVP` are laid out in another order (change 18).**
`md` is a reference now, and the compiler puts it first, so the context
is at offset 8. `EVP::drop` (1 to 2), `CryptoHasher::update` and its
export for `node:crypto` (1 more each) add 8 to a pointer that they used
as it was, and `EVP::final` (40 to 43) keeps that address in one more
register. `byteLength`, `digest` and `getDigestSize` are 1 longer for
another reason: they load `md` for `EVP_MD_size`, where
`EVP_MD_CTX_size` loaded it from the context after a null test.
- **The constructor of `QuicEndpoint` goes from 557 to 635 (change
22),** with 3 branches, 3 compares and 3 call sites more. It reads its
options before it makes the cell, so when a read throws it has to free
the bind host and the `Strong` on the block list itself. Seven fields
are stored once instead of twice. It runs once per endpoint.
- **The six `uv_*` stand-ins are 1 longer (change 10):** they load the
length of their name before the call that ends the process.

**Checks.** The source makes no check that it did not make before. These
are all the other functions in which the listing shows more conditional
branches, compares or panic call sites than before, and why:

| Function | Listing | Why |
|---|---|---|
| In the printer: `FmtAdapter::write_str` and `write_char`,
`print_binding`, `print_identifier_utf16`. 15 copies in `bun_bundler`,
`bun_install`, `bun_runtime` and `bun_sourcemap_jsc`. | 22 to 38, 59 to
71, 1,122 to 1,134, 106 to 114 and 133 to 162. +1 branch, +1 compare and
−1 call per place that writes. | Change 27. Each write called
`reserve_next` and `advance_by` in `bun_js_printer`. The capacity test
of the first and the store of the second are inline now, and growing the
buffer is the only call left. The `memcpy` is the same. In `write_str`
the compiler also skips it for an empty string. |
| `FFI.toBuffer()` | 224 to 223, +1 compare | Change 6. The compiler
duplicates one compare. |

Everything else that differs:

| Change | What differs | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | `get_ipc_instance` goes from 197 to 188, with 2 calls fewer.
`Bun__closeChildIPC`, `send` and `emitHandleIPCMessage` keep their
length. | **`CHANNEL` is set after the socket is set up instead of
before.** Nothing reads it in between. When the set-up fails, no box is
made or freed. |
| 4 | `napi_create_promise` goes from 76 to 75, with one call fewer: it
reads the promise with `value()`, and **stores `*deferred` after that
read instead of before it.** | Same promise. |
| 10 | Apart from the above: the body of
`CrashHandler__unsupportedUVFunction` (46 to 6) is
`unsupported_uv_function` (45), and `uv_posix::unsupported` (2) forwards
to it. | Only on a path that ends the process. |
| 11 | `run_task::handle` goes from 3,119 to 3,101 with 3 branches, 3
calls and 3 panic sites fewer. The three `release_unrun` go from 69 to
63 with one of each fewer. | The same count goes up and down at the same
places. |
| 12 | The three `write` go from 517, 519 and 519 to 514, 516 and 516. |
The same range check, after the copy is filled instead of while it is
borrowed. |
| 13 | `native_brotli_impl::Context::do_work` goes from 53 to 45. | Same
calls of brotli. |
| 14 | Six `AresReply::parse`, one jump each, go. | The parser is called
directly. |
| 15 | `Resolver::reverse` goes from 547 to 545, with one call fewer:
for an address that does not parse it calls `on_hostent` and not the C
thunk around it. | Same error. |
| 17 | `call_general_name_free` goes from 10 to 2: it calls
`GENERAL_NAME_free` by name, and loses a null test with its panic.
`GeneralNames::drop` keeps its length and passes null where it passed
that function. | Same frees. |
| 18 | Apart from the above: `Algorithm::md` goes from 63 to 25, because
its 16 calls are tail calls. The `init` of the 8 hashers goes from 28 to
26, and `getByName`, `getFromOther` and `copy` are 2 shorter: **one call
of `EVP_MD_CTX_init` fewer each**, which `EVP_DigestInit` repeats.
`EVP::by_name` goes from 53 to 48, `tls_server_end_point_hash` from 98
to 96 with one null test fewer. | Same digests. |
| 20 | `on_new_conn` goes from 683 to 684. Two exits call
`Conn::abort_error`, which calls lsquic, where they called lsquic. The
two exits that call `Conn::abort_silent` shared a call site and have one
each. | Only when a connection is refused. |
| 23, 24 | `QuicStream::bind_raw` goes from 264 to 258 with a branch, a
call and a panic site fewer. `create` and `create_stream` are 2 shorter,
`on_new_stream` is 1 longer. `QuicEndpoint.connect()` goes from 1,032 to
1,035: the exit for a failed connect is laid out twice, so `teardown`
has 2 call sites. Four functions keep their length. | Same calls of
lsquic. The result of `create` is tested for null instead of by a tag. |
| 25 | Apart from the above: two closures per parser instance (6 and 38)
and the code in `prepare_for_visit_pass` that stored them go. |
`to_expr` on a `P` before `prepare_for_visit_pass` used to panic and now
works. Nothing does that. |
| 26 | `_parse` goes from 5,133 to 5,075 and from 5,553 to 5,477,
`_scan_imports` from 895 to 830 and from 930 to 865,
`to_lazy_export_ast` from 582 to 569, `parse_only` from 1,674 to 1,662,
the drop glue of the guard in `_parse::<true>` from 615 to 556, and each
instance of `P::init` is 4 shorter. In `bun_runtime`,
`ContextParameter::of` goes from 2,047 to 1,969 and
`write_inline_snapshots` from 2,946 to 2,732. The stack frames of the
eight callers of `P::init` named here are 2,208 to 4,736 bytes smaller.
| **One or two copies of the whole `P`, 4,344 bytes, fewer per parse.**
`write_inline_snapshots` copied `P` in pieces, and copies fewer of them.
|
| 27 | Apart from the above: `advance_by` (2) goes, and `reserve_next`
goes from 19 to 10 because it returns nothing. | Same bytes. |
| 29 | `__bun_macro_context_call` goes from 1,876 to 1,870 and its
closure from 337 to 323. | Same macro calls. |
| 34 | `Rope::append` goes from 24 to 22. In `bun_ini`, `prepare_str`
goes from 1,030 to 1,018 with 9 branches fewer, `str_to_rope` from 143
to 136 and `commit_rope_part` from 66 to 61. | Same ropes. |
| 35 | The twelve `raw_callback` (33 to 52) had the record type's thunk
inline. They go, and the twelve thunks are functions under their own
names, with the same instructions apart from change 14. | c-ares calls
the same code. |

Every function that differs and is not named above differs by 18
instructions or fewer, and has the same or a smaller number of branches,
compares and panic call sites. Changes 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 16, 19, 21, 30,
31, 32 and 33 do not show up in this comparison. What changes 1, 9, 15
and 28 do to code for Windows and macOS is not compiled on Linux.

The comparison covers x86-64 Linux only, one crate at a time. The build
that ships also inlines across crates when it links.

### The changes in detail

#### 1. ipc: `CHANNEL` holds `&'static IPCInstance`, boxed once the
transport is up

`CHANNEL` held `Option<NonNull<IPCInstance>>` and `get_ipc_instance`
returned `Option<*mut IPCInstance>`, so `send`, `close_child_ipc`,
`global_object_connected_ipc` and `get_ipc_instance` itself dereferenced
a raw pointer. A channel that came up is never freed. The only free was
`IPCInstance::deinit`, on the two paths where the socket (on Windows the
pipe) could not be set up, and it was needed only because the box was
made and published before that attempt.

`get_ipc_instance` sets the transport up on the `RefPtr<SendQueue>` it
holds and boxes it after that has succeeded: `Box::leak` gives the
`&'static IPCInstance` that `CHANNEL` stores and the function returns.
On failure it detaches the queue and the `RefPtr` drops.
`IPCInstance::new` and `deinit` are gone, and the socket group stays the
`&mut SocketGroup` that `spawn_ipc_group` returns.

What differs when it runs: `CHANNEL` is set after `from_fd` and
`set_timeout` (on Windows after `windows_configure_client`) instead of
before. Only `get_ipc_instance`, `global_object_connected_ipc` and
`global_object_has_ipc` read it, and none of them runs in between:
`us_socket_from_fd` arms the poll, links the socket and may start the
date header timer. The failing path neither allocates the box nor
touches `CHANNEL`, and it releases the queue after the warning is
printed instead of before.

The comment on the test of the failing path in spawn.ipc.test.ts named
`IPCInstance.deinit`. It says what the path does now.

#### 2. napi: `Bun__napi_check_gc` and `NapiHandleScope__escape` are
`safe fn`

Each was declared with a raw handle pointer and called in an `unsafe`
block from a safe method on `&self`, which passed its `as_mut_ptr()`.
The handle is the only pointer they take. They take it by reference, as
the `safe fn` shims over `JSGlobalObject` do:

- `Bun__napi_check_gc` reads `nm_version`, which never changes, and asks
the heap whether the current thread is doing GC work, which any thread
may ask. It can abort the process.
- `NapiHandleScope__escape` answers false once the escape slot is used
or the scope is closed. It took the value as `usize`; it takes
`JSValue`, which is `repr(transparent)` over it. The empty value is
fine: the write barrier and the visitor skip a null cell.

The other shims over `NapiEnv` stay unsafe imports: they belong on the
env's JS thread, and a `&NapiEnv` is also held on pool threads and by
the collector.

Same calls with the same arguments.

#### 3. napi: entry points take the env and scope handles as
`Option<&T>` or `&T`

The 44 N-API functions written in Rust that begin with `get_env!`,
`preamble!` or `ungated!` took `env_: *mut NapiEnv`, and `get_env!` made
the reference with `unsafe { $env.as_ref() }`. `napi_escape_handle` did
the same with its scope, `napi_ref_threadsafe_function` and
`napi_unref_threadsafe_function` with the env in a debug assertion, and
three functions that only Bun's C++ calls with `&*env_` or `as_ref()`.
`napi_open_callback_scope` and `napi_close_callback_scope` ignore their
env and get the same type.

`NapiEnv` and `NapiHandleScope` are `opaque_ffi!` types: zero-sized,
align 1 and `!Freeze`, so every non-null pointer is a valid reference to
one, and `Option<&T>` has the ABI of a nullable pointer. The parameter
types say what the macro did: null is `None` and still answers
`napi_invalid_arg`.

Call sites of the three that addons cannot reach:

- `Bun__napi_register_cleanup_zig(env: &NapiEnv)`: `this`, in the body
of the `NapiEnv` constructor (napi.h).
- `Bun__napi_run_finalizers_after_teardown_wait(env: &NapiEnv)`: `this`,
in `NapiEnv::cleanup()` (napi.h).
- `Bun__napi_enqueue_finalizer(env: Option<&NapiEnv>, ..)`, five: `this`
in `enqueueRefFinalizer` and `doFinalizer` (napi.h), an env dereferenced
just before in `drainOneRefFinalizer` (NapiRef.cpp), one that
`node_api_post_finalizer` has tested for null (napi.cpp), and
`RefPtr::get()` in `NapiFinalizer::call` (napi_finalizer.cpp), for which
it keeps its null test.

Every null test is where it was. `type napi_env` stays for the
declarations of the functions written in C++ and for the callbacks into
addons.

#### 4. napi: `Finalizer::run` and `schedule` borrow their env, and
three more borrows

`Finalizer::run(&mut self)` only reads its fields, and it made an
unbounded `&NapiEnv` from `self.env.get()`. It takes `&self` and borrows
the env from the `NapiEnvRef` it holds, so the reference lives as long
as that ref. Its three callers own the `Finalizer` (two locals, one box
just taken back) and drop `mut`.

`NapiFinalizerTask::schedule` made the same unbounded reference twice.
Both go through the `NapiEnvRef` as well. Each borrow ends with its
statement, before `self` is given away: `vm_handle()` returns a
`BorrowedRef`, which has no lifetime, and `bun_vm()` returns `&'static
VirtualMachine`. The one other use of `global_this` was
`global_this.bun_vm()`, which is `vm`. `as_mut()` reads the thread-local
itself and uses its receiver in a debug assertion only, so a release
build runs the same code.

`napi_async_work::run_from_js` dereferenced `env` a second time for
`surface_exception`. `env_ref`, made from the same pointer, is still in
use after that line: the handle scope guard holds it to the end of the
function.

`napi_create_promise` read the promise back through the raw pointer it
had just made from its box. It reads the value first, with
`JSPromiseStrong::value()`, and gives the box away after, so `*deferred`
is stored after that read instead of before it.
`get().as_value(env.to_js())` reached the same value the long way: it
downcast the value in the strong slot to `*mut JSPromise` and turned
that pointer back into a `JSValue`. Two FFI calls go (the downcast,
`JSC__JSValue__asPromise`, and `NapiEnv__globalObject` for an argument
that `as_value` ignores), and with them the `is_cell` test and the null
test in `as_promise`, the unwrap of its result and the null test in
`opaque_mut`.

`napi_node_version::release` was a `*const c_char` to a literal, which
needed an `unsafe impl Sync` for the static. It is a `&'static [u8; 5]`,
`b"node\0"`: a thin pointer at the same offset, and the struct is `Sync`
by itself. The inventory of the `vm-thread-door` lint drops the entry.

#### 5. tcc: `Config::options` is `Option<&'a ZStr>`

`Config::options` was an `Option<NonNull<ZStr>>`, "kept as a raw ptr
rather than a borrow", and `State::init` turned it back into a reference
in two `unsafe` blocks on the caller's word that the string outlives the
call. Both callers start from a `&ZStr` and build the `Config` in the
argument of `init`, and `tcc_set_options` copies what it parses, so a
borrow for the call says the same.

`Config` has a lifetime and holds the `&ZStr`. In `CompileC::compile`
the string can borrow `self.flags`, so the `*mut CompileC` for the error
handler is taken before that borrow starts instead of in the `Config`
literal. The handler only pushes to `deferred_errors`.

Same pointers and the same calls.

#### 6. ffi: no reference is made from an address only to turn it back
into one

`make_napi_env_if_needed` cast the `*mut c_void` from
`make_napi_env_for_ffi` to `&'static NapiEnv`. Its one caller hands the
result to `Function::compile`, which turned it back into an address for
`add_symbol`, where it is a symbol's value and is not dereferenced.
`'static` was true (`makeNapiEnvForFFI` returns `&out.leakRef()`, so the
allocation is never freed), but nothing used the reference as a
reference. The function returns `NonNull::new(..)` of the pointer it
got, an `Option<NonNull<c_void>>` with the same niche, and `compile`
passes `as_ptr()`. `CompileC::compile` already passes that pointer as it
comes.

The comment at `add_symbol` called the env VM-owned; it names the leaked
ref. The doc of `make_napi_env_for_ffi` called it "owned by this global"
and ended "callers in `bun_runtime` cast to `*mut NapiEnv`", which
neither caller does. It says that C++ leaks a ref, and the clause is
gone.

`to_buffer` built a `&mut [u8]` over the caller's foreign memory for
`create_buffer_with_ctx`, a private function with this one caller that
split the slice into pointer and length again for C++. Its call of
`JSBuffer__bufferFromPointerAndLengthAndDeinit` is written into
`to_buffer`, with the pointer and length that `get_ptr_slice` returned.
Debug builds lose the precondition check inside `from_raw_parts_mut`;
release builds make the same call.

The helper declared that symbol itself, so the call was made from
`bun_runtime` before too; the declaration stands at the head of
`to_buffer`. `JSValue::create_buffer_with_ctx` in `bun_jsc` makes the
same call but is neither generic nor `#[inline]`, so it would stand
between `to_buffer` and C++ wherever the linker does not inline it.

`to_array_buffer` built the same kind of slice only for
`ArrayBuffer::from_bytes`, which stores the slice's pointer, its length
in `len` and `byte_len`, and the type, and takes the other fields from
`Default`. A struct literal sets the same four fields from the pointer
and length of `get_ptr_slice` and takes the rest from `Default` too. The
`unsafe` block stays for `to_js_with_context`, an `unsafe fn`. Debug
builds lose the same check here.

`noop_bytes_deallocator` has an empty body and is not an `unsafe fn`. It
still coerces to the `unsafe extern "C" fn` pointer that the deallocator
slot holds.

#### 7. ipc: the JSON decoder's free callback takes `&Cell<bool>`

`json::decode_ipc_message` wraps an ASCII line in an external string and
gave the address of a local `bool` as the context of the string's free
callback, which set the flag through the `*mut bool` in an `unsafe`
block.

`create_external` is generic over the context and documents it as a raw
pointer or `&T`. The flag is a `Cell<bool>`, the context is
`&Cell<bool>` and the callback calls `set(true)`. The callback has two
callers: `create_external` itself when the line is too long, and
`ExternalStringImpl::freeExternalBuffer` when the string is destroyed,
with the `m_freeCtx` it stored at creation (`releaseBufferEarly` also
calls it; nothing calls that).

The `unsafe` on `create_external` stays, and its comment names the flag
too: the string carries the lifetime of neither borrow.

The same byte is stored and read back.

#### 8. sql: the `ssl_config_from_js` and `timer_heap` hooks are safe
`fn`s

`SqlRuntimeHooks::ssl_config_from_js` was an `unsafe fn(&JSGlobalObject,
JSValue)` and its one call sat in an `unsafe` block whose comment named
no obligation ("may run JS getters / throw"). The one implementation
calls `SSLConfig::from_js` and boxes the result, all safe. The field is
a `fn`, the implementation and the call are safe.

`timer_heap` was an `unsafe fn(*mut VirtualMachine) -> *mut c_void` and
states no obligation either: the one implementation ignores its argument
and calls the safe `timer_all()`. The field and the implementation are a
`fn`. The block at its one call stays, for the dereference of the
result.

An `unsafe fn` does not coerce to a `fn` field, so an implementation of
either hook has to be safe. The same indirect calls.

#### 9. webview: both `spawn` functions take `&VirtualMachine`

`ChromeProcess::spawn` and the macOS `HostProcess::spawn` are safe
functions that took `vm: *mut VirtualMachine` and dereferenced it twice.
Each has one caller, which holds a `&JSGlobalObject`:
`Bun__Chrome__ensure` passed `bun_vm_ptr()`, and
`Bun__WebViewHost__ensure` cast the `&'static VirtualMachine` from
`bun_vm()` to `*mut`.

Both callers pass `global.bun_vm()`. `VirtualMachine::event_loop` and
`EventLoopHandle::init` are safe functions, so that block goes in each.
The block that dereferences the raw `transpiler.env` stays. Its comment
in ChromeProcess.rs called `map` a `&mut Map` slot; it is a field of the
loader, and the sentence goes.

In a release build `bun_vm()` and `bun_vm_ptr()` are the same read of
the thread-local, so the same code runs.

#### 10. crash_handler: `uv_posix` calls `unsupported_uv_function` as a
Rust function

`uv_posix::unsupported` reached the crash handler, which is Rust,
through its C symbol. It declared `CrashHandler__unsupportedUVFunction`
itself, returning `()` where the definition returns `!`, called it in an
`unsafe` block with the pointer of its `&'static CStr`, and put
`unreachable!` after the call.

The body of the symbol moves into `pub fn
unsupported_uv_function(name_bytes: &'static [u8]) -> !`. The symbol,
which `__bun_throw_not_implemented` in uv-posix-polyfills.c calls, keeps
its `cstr` and calls that function. `uv_posix` calls it too and has no
declaration of its own. Only the C symbol needed the NUL terminator, so
`unsupported`, `handle_type` and `ref_state` take the name as `&'static
[u8]`, and the six literals are `b"uv_close"` and so on.

The literals are one byte shorter. The rest differs only on a path that
ends the process: from `uv_posix` the length of the name comes with the
slice instead of from a `strlen`, which is one more instruction before
the call in each of the six. From C the counter is bumped after the
`strlen` instead of before it, and the reported stack starts one frame
deeper unless the function is inlined into the symbol.

#### 11. node:zlib: the write's completion owns its ref as a `RefPtr<T>`

`run_from_js_thread` and `release_unrun` were `unsafe fn(*mut T)`. Each
turned the pointer into a `ParentRef` behind an `expect` and released
the ref that `write()` took with `unsafe { T::deref(this_ptr) }`, once
on each of their four exits.

Both now take `RefPtr<T>`, read the stream through it and `drop` it
where the `deref` was, after `poll_ref.unref`. Their two callers, the
dispatch arm and `Taskable::release_unrun`, keep one `unsafe` block
each: `RefPtr::from_raw` on the queued pointer, which adds no ref.
`RefPtr::drop` calls `rc_deref`, which the derive forwards to the same
`CellRefCounted::deref`, so every path still releases exactly one ref.
The two `expect` null tests are gone.

#### 12. node:zlib: `borrow_input_copy` borrows the copy through
`JsCell::get`

The slice was taken inside the `with_mut` closure and rebuilt with
`slice::from_raw_parts` to get it out of the closure's `&mut` borrow.

The closure now only fills the copy and says whether the allocation
worked. The slice is taken afterwards from `input_copy().get()`, a
shared borrow that lasts as long as `&self`, which is what the signature
already promised. The range check is the same one `get(range)`, moved
after the closure. `write()` does not touch `input_copy` between this
call and `set_buffers`.

#### 13. node:zlib: `NativeBrotli` passes `&raw mut self.next_in` and
keeps `last_result` as a `c_int`

`do_work` copied `next_in` into a local, passed the local's address to
brotli and then advanced the field with `self.next_in.add(local -
self.next_in)`, in both modes. It now passes the address of the field,
as it does for `next_out`. brotli only advances `*next_in` and does not
keep the address.

`last_result` was a union of the encoder's `c_int` and the decoder's
`BrotliDecoderResult`, read with `unsafe` in three places. It is a
`c_int`: the decode arm stores `result as c_int` and compares the enum
value it still holds, and `get_error_info` compares with
`needs_more_input as c_int`. The slot keeps its size and its initial
value 0. The union had no other user.

#### 14. c-ares: `AresReply` names its parser as an associated const

`AresReply::parse` was an `unsafe fn` whose six impls each forwarded
their three arguments to the matching `ares_parse_*_reply` extern from
inside an `unsafe` block.

The trait now has `const PARSE: unsafe extern "C" fn(..)`, the shape
`HostentWithTtlsHandler::PARSE` has, and each impl names its extern. The
six externs have exactly that signature. `ares_reply_callback`, the only
caller, keeps its `unsafe` block and calls `(R::PARSE)(..)`, which is a
direct call to the C function once the callback is monomorphised.

#### 15. c-ares: `get_sockaddr` and `get_name_info` take
`sockaddr_storage`

`get_sockaddr` took `&mut sockaddr`, 16 bytes, and wrote a 28-byte
`sockaddr_in6` through it. Its one caller,
`Resolver::global_lookup_service`, cast its `sockaddr_storage` to that
type in an `unsafe` block, twice. Both functions now take the
`sockaddr_storage` the caller has. `get_name_info` takes it shared:
`ares_getnameinfo` has `const struct sockaddr *` and copies the address.
The first cast block in dns.rs goes, the second shrinks to `&mut
*request`.

Inside `get_sockaddr`, the two address stores went through `(&raw mut
field).cast().write(..)`. They assign `sin_addr.s_addr` and
`sin6_addr.s6_addr`, which libc and `bun_windows_sys::ws2_32` both name
so: the same 4-byte and 16-byte stores.

`get_host_by_addr` reported an unparsable address by calling its own C
thunk with `ARES_ENOTIMP`. The thunk only turns the pointer back into
`&mut T` and the status into `Some(Error::ENOTIMP)`, so it calls
`ctx.on_hostent` with that. Only `Error::ENOTIMP` names `ARES_ENOTIMP`
now, so it is a plain `const` like its neighbours that only the enum
names.

The comment on the `winsock` import in cares_sys is cut to the one line
that still holds.

#### 16. boringssl: `Bun__X509__checkHost` types its certificate and its
out-parameter

`x509` was a `*mut X509` turned into a reference with `unsafe { as_mut()
}`, and `out_peer` a `*mut String` that `set_peer` tested for null and
wrote with `unsafe { out_peer.write(..) }`.

They are `Option<&mut X509>` and `Option<&mut MaybeUninit<String>>`: the
same two null tests, and `MaybeUninit::write` stores without dropping,
as `ptr::write` did. The function stays `unsafe` for `host_ptr`.

Its one caller is `X509View::checkHost` in ncrypto.cpp. It returns early
when `cert_` is null, and passes either null or the address of a local
`BunString` that it initialises to the empty string and does not touch
during the call. `X509` is an opaque zero-sized `!Unpin` type, so `&mut
X509` claims nothing about the certificate's memory.

#### 17. boringssl_sys: `X509_get_subject_name` is a `safe fn`, and a
stack free without fn-pointer transmutes

`X509_get_subject_name` (crypto/x509/x509_cmp.cc:69) returns the address
of a member and reads nothing. It is a `safe fn` over `&X509`.
`common_names` is its only Rust caller.

`GeneralNames::drop` transmuted `GENERAL_NAME_free` to `fn(*mut c_void)`
and passed it to `sk_pop_free_ex` as `free_func`, and its trampoline
unwrapped that argument and transmuted it back before calling it.
`OPENSSL_sk_pop_free_ex` (crypto/stack/stack.cc:112) only passes
`free_func` on to the trampoline, so `drop` passes `None` and the
trampoline calls `GENERAL_NAME_free` by name. That removes two
transmutes and an `expect`, and the indirect call per element becomes a
direct one.

#### 18. boringssl_sys: the digest getters return `&'static EVP_MD`, and
`EVP_DigestInit` is a `safe fn`

The 16 `EVP_*()` getters returned `*const EVP_MD`, so `EVP::init` was a
safe fn with a `# Safety` section about its `md` pointer. Each getter
returns the address of a static object
(crypto/fipsmodule/digest/digests.cc.inc through `DEFINE_DATA` in
delocate.h:62, and crypto/digest/digest_extra.cc:276, 301, 326, 359, 393
and 416), so they return `&'static EVP_MD`.

`EVP_get_digestbyname` (digest_extra.cc:218) and `EVP_get_digestbynid`
(:79) walk one table (:43) and return what one of these getters or
`EVP_md5_sha1` returns, or null. `EVP_md5_sha1` (:455) returns the
address of a constant at file scope too. Both return `Option<&'static
EVP_MD>`. `Algorithm::md()` and the `EVP::md` field follow.
`Option<&EVP_MD>` is one word where `Option<*const EVP_MD>` was two.

A result that goes on to a `*const EVP_MD` parameter coerces, so those
calls are unchanged. Two callers tested a result for null.
`EVP::by_name` matches on the `Option`. In
`X509::tls_server_end_point_hash` the test stood after a `match` with an
`EVP_sha256()` arm and an `EVP_get_digestbynid()` arm. The second arm
ends in `?` and the test goes, so that arm has one null test as before
and the first has none.

`EVP_DigestInit` (crypto/fipsmodule/digest/digest.cc.inc:162) starts
with `EVP_MD_CTX_init`, which overwrites the three pointers of the
context before anything reads them, then calls `EVP_DigestInit_ex`,
which keeps `type` in `ctx->digest` (:157). It becomes `safe fn(&mut
EVP_MD_CTX, &'static EVP_MD)`. `EVP::init` calls it instead of
`EVP_MD_CTX_init` followed by `EVP_DigestInit_ex`: the same work in one
call. The `new_evp!` hashers in sha.rs called `EVP_MD_CTX_init` and then
`EVP_DigestInit`. They lose the first call and the block around the
second: one FFI call fewer per `init`, for the 8 types.
`EVP_MD_CTX_init` has no Rust caller left and its declaration goes.

bun-sema links no BoringSSL and has weak stand-ins in
src/sema/standalone/native_libraries.rs: its `EVP_sha256` (:167) returns
the address of a static, and its `EVP_DigestInit` (:199) aborts on any
other `type_` and overwrites the whole context, so both keep what the
signatures promise. Its `EVP_MD_CTX_init` (:187) stays, because a test
in that file calls it.

`EVP::size` asked `EVP_MD_CTX_size(&self.ctx)`, which is
`EVP_MD_size(ctx->digest)` after a null test. `ctx.digest` is `self.md`
from `init` on, so it asks the new `safe fn EVP_MD_size(&EVP_MD)`
(digest.cc.inc:36). `ctx` was a `pub` field that nothing outside EVP.rs
used. It is private, so only EVP.rs can break that equality.
`EVP_MD_CTX_size` has no caller left and its declaration goes.
`EVP_MD_do_all_sorted` has no caller either, and its declaration goes
too. The comment on `md` repeated its type and goes. `EVP::reset` is
unchanged.

#### 19. net: `BlockList__onStructuredCloneDestroy` takes the
`RefPtr<BlockList>` it releases

The hook was `unsafe extern "C" fn(*mut c_void)` and ended in `unsafe {
BlockList::deref(ptr.cast()) }`, the only use of that inherent `unsafe
fn deref`.

It now takes `bun_ptr::RefPtr<BlockList>` by value, which is
`repr(transparent)` over `NonNull`, so C++ passes the same pointer. It
removes the table entry under the lock as before and then drops the
`RefPtr`, which calls the same `ThreadSafeRefCount::deref`: one ref down
per call, matching the one ref up in
`BlockList__onStructuredCloneSerialize`. `BlockList::deref` goes.

SerializedScriptValue.cpp calls it in two places, the destructor (line
4300) and `releaseSerializedRefs` in `create` (line 4957). Both walk a
vector whose only `append` (line 1440) stores the `blockList->wrapped()`
that the line before passed to the serialize hook as `&BlockList`, and
each vector is walked once.

#### 20. node:quic: `on_new_conn` uses the `Conn` it already has

`QuicEndpoint::on_new_conn` wraps lsquic's pointer in a `Conn` at its
top. Two later exits wrapped the same pointer again with `unsafe {
Conn::from_raw }` and a null test to call `abort_silent`, and two more
called `lsquic_conn_abort_error` on the raw pointer. All four use the
first `Conn`.

`Conn::abort_error` takes a `&CStr`, so the two refusals pass `c""`
where they passed null. `lsquic_conn_abort_error` (lsquic_conn.c:208)
replaces a null reason with `""`, so the frame is the same. The argument
is now the address of a constant instead of zero.

No other crate names `lsquic_conn_abort_error`, so the declaration is
private.

#### 21. node:quic: the loop-driver callbacks take `&QuicEndpoint`;
`lookup_cert` stays typed

`Bun__nodeQuic__drainEndpoint` and `Bun__nodeQuic__processEndpoint` were
`unsafe extern "C" fn(*mut c_void)` that cast the pointer through
`unsafe fn from_driver_owner` and called `run_driver_pass(&self)`. They
take `&QuicEndpoint`, and `from_driver_owner` goes.

Each has one call site, node_quic_shim.c:601 and :615, both under `if
(d->owner)`. `owner` is written only by `us_nq_loop_register` (:571),
whose one caller, `link_loop_driver`, passes `from_ref(self)`.
`unlink_loop_driver` takes the node off the list before the endpoint can
be freed. A walk that is under way has read its successor already, so it
can still call an endpoint that the pass before it closed and unlinked;
`run_driver_pass` returns at once for it, as before. The reference lives
exactly as long as the `&self` of `run_driver_pass` did.

`lookup_cert` already held `this: &QuicEndpoint` and still ended in
`unsafe { get_ssl_ctx(owner, local) }`, which turned the `void*` back
into the same reference behind a second null test. The body of
`get_ssl_ctx` moves to `fn server_ssl_ctx(&self)`, and both callbacks
call it.

`lookup_cert` was the one use of the form `ctx: *mut c_void as r: &T` of
`lsquic_callback!`. The two arms for that form were otherwise only what
the two short arms forwarded to, so the short arms hold the expansion
themselves and the forwarding goes. No other use of the macro changes.

#### 22. node:quic: `QuicEndpoint::constructor` reads its options before
it creates the cell

The constructor built the struct with defaults, moved it into its JS
cell, and then stored each option it read through the raw payload
pointer, in six `unsafe { (*raw).field.set(..) }` blocks.

It now reads the options into locals first and puts them in the struct
literal, so seven fields are stored once instead of twice. The two
blocks that need the cell's address or the wrapper (the vtable, and
`state`/`stats`) stay.

What changes in order: the six property reads (`address`, `blockList`,
`blockListPolicy`, `disableStatelessReset`, `statelessResetBurst`,
`statelessResetRate`) keep their order and their conversions, but run
before the cell and the boxed vtable are allocated instead of after. If
one of them throws, the cell and the vtable are never allocated, and the
default bind host and the `Strong` on the block list are freed on return
instead of when the GC finalizes the abandoned cell. Nothing could reach
that cell, and its `Drop` has nothing to release at that point. The one
caller, `new Endpoint_(options)` in quic.ts, passes a fresh
null-prototype object of data properties.

#### 23. node:quic: `QuicSession::create` and `QuicStream::create`
return the reference they make

Both constructors form `&*payload` to finish setting the object up and
then returned the raw pointer, so each caller went back through `unsafe
{ (*session).x() }` with "was just created" as the reason.

They return `&'a Self`, and `'a` is the borrow of the owner.
`QuicSession::create` takes `endpoint: &'a QuicEndpoint`,
`QuicStream::create` takes `session: &'a QuicSession`, and
`create_stream` borrows from `&self` and passes the reference on.
`global` has a lifetime of its own. Both constructors took the owner as
`*mut`, and all five call sites passed `from_ref(self).cast_mut()`. They
pass `self`, and the cast stands at the one place in each constructor
that stores the back-pointer. In every caller the owner is the caller's
own `&self`, so no body can choose a longer `'a`. That is how
`live_session` and `endpoint_ref` bound what they return.

`apply_server_session_options` takes `&QuicSession`. Seven blocks go: in
`on_new_conn`, `apply_server_session_options`, `connect` and
`connect_verneg_probe`, two in `on_remote_stream` and one in
`open_stream`. The large block in `connect` shrinks to the
`lsquic_conn_set_ctx` call.

The payload belongs to the GC, and the compiler does not check that it
lives for `'a`. `create` roots the wrapper with `set_strong` before it
returns, and only `teardown` (for a stream, also `release_close_root`)
undoes that. After that the frame that has the reference holds the cell,
which is what `JsWrapper::payload_ref` asks of its caller. Of the
callers only `connect` tears the session down, and it returns right
after. Nothing forms a `&mut` to either payload before the sweeper drops
it.

Where a pointer is stored (`sessions`, `pending_new_sessions`,
`provisional`, `pending_verneg`, `streams`, the conn and stream ctx, the
two back-pointers) it is `ptr::from_ref(x).cast_mut()`, the form these
files use for `self`. Every use of those pointers forms `&T`. The
operations and their order are unchanged.

#### 24. node:quic: a session holds `Option<Conn>` and a stream holds
`Option<Stream>`

`QuicSession::conn` and `QuicStream::raw` were `Cell<*mut _>`. Nine
places wrapped the field again with `unsafe { from_raw(..) }` before
using it, among them the safe accessors `conn()` and `ls()`. Ten safe
functions took a raw lsquic pointer that they or a later function
trusted: `bind_conn`, `cache_sockaddrs`, `conn_peer_addr`,
`on_remote_stream`, `bind_raw`, `QuicEndpoint::on_new_conn`,
`defer_stream_abort`, `QuicSession::create`, `create_stream` and
`QuicStream::create`. `bind_conn`, `on_remote_stream` and `bind_raw`
wrapped their parameter, and `connect` wrapped at its end the pointer it
had tested for null further up.

The fields are `Cell<Option<Conn>>` and `Cell<Option<Stream>>`, and
those ten functions take the handle or an `Option` of it. 13 blocks go
and none is added. In `connect`, `from_raw` joins the block that calls
`lsquic_engine_connect`. The block in `QuicEndpoint::on_new_conn` moves
into the `on_new_conn` callback with its SAFETY comment. What is left to
prove sits where lsquic hands a pointer over (the `on_new_conn`
callback, `connect`, `on_new_stream`, `on_stream_read`). The fields are
cleared where they were set to null. `DeferredAbort::ls` stays a raw
pointer with its own `from_raw`, because what keeps it alive is a
different argument. `defer_stream_abort` stores `ls.raw()` in it.

In `connect` the local `Conn` is used after `apply_options`, as the raw
pointer was. The SAFETY comment at `from_raw` says why no script runs in
between when quic.ts calls.

`Conn` and `Stream` hold a `NonNull` and are `repr(transparent)`, so the
`Option` is one pointer with null as `None`. Each `is_null()` becomes
`is_none()`, `is_some()` or `if let Some`, one for one. Six null tests
go:

- `connect` tested the pointer from `lsquic_engine_connect`, and again
in `from_raw` at its end.
- `bind_conn` matched on `from_raw` of its parameter.
- `on_remote_stream` did the same.
- `refresh_conn_stats` tested the field and then `from_raw` of it.
- `bind_raw` had `from_raw(..).expect(..)`. Its panic path goes too.
- The `on_new_conn` callback tested its pointer, and
`QuicEndpoint::on_new_conn` tested it again in `from_raw`.

`report_close` matches on the field instead of testing it in a guard and
reading it again. 39 lines in lsquic_sys pass `self.0.as_ptr()`. `Conn`
gains `raw()`, which `Stream` had. The other operations and their order
are unchanged.

#### 25. ast: `Binding::to_expr` takes `&mut C` and the method that
wraps an identifier

`to_expr` took a `*mut c_void` context and a `ToExprWrapper`: a back
reference to the arena and a fn pointer to a trampoline that cast the
context back to `&mut P` or `&mut ExportHoist`. All four call sites hold
that `&mut` and the arena, so they pass both, and name the method
(`Self::wrap_identifier_namespace`, `Self::wrap_identifier_hoisting`,
`ExportHoist::wrap_identifier`) instead of a trampoline around it.

`to_expr` is generic over the context and the function. The function is
a zero-sized fn item, so nothing is passed for it and the call to it is
direct.

The cost is code size: `to_expr` is compiled once per method (four
copies in bun_js_parser, one in bun_bundler) and not once in bun_ast. In
a `--release` build bun_js_parser grows by 526 instructions in 343,000
and bun_bundler by 78, and bun_ast shrinks by 553.

`ToExprWrapper` goes away, and with it the `expect` on its arena for
every array and object pattern, the two fields of `P` that held it (32
bytes) and the code in `prepare_for_visit_pass` that filled them. One
behaviour differs: `to_expr` on a `P` before `prepare_for_visit_pass`
used to panic and now works.

#### 26. js_parser: `P::init` returns the `&mut P` it wrote, and
`init_p!` binds it

`P::init(out: &mut MaybeUninit<P>, ..)` returned `Result<(), Error>`.
`init_p!` called it, moved the slot into a drop guard and gave the guard
to the caller. Each of the four users of the macro then took its `&mut
P` out with `unsafe { __p.assume_init_mut() }`, and so did the fifth
caller of `P::init`, the copy of the macro that
runtime/test_runner/snapshot.rs writes out by hand because the macro is
local to its crate.

`init` cannot fail: its body has no `?`, `return`, `Err`, `unwrap`,
`expect` or `panic!`. And `MaybeUninit::write` returns the reference the
callers want. So the signature is

```
pub fn init<'o>(out: &'o mut MaybeUninit<Self>, ..) -> &'o mut Self
```

The guard holds that reference and the macro binds the caller's `p` to
it. The slot and the guard are locals of the expansion, which the caller
cannot name. The guard's closure runs `drop_in_place` on the reference,
which is what `assume_init_drop` does. snapshot.rs does the same by
hand: its guard type `InitializedParser` holds the reference, and its
`Drop` runs `drop_in_place`. Five `unsafe` blocks go, and with the `?`
the macro's hidden early return.

Compiled code, in a `--release` build of bun_js_parser (default flags,
no LTO), the parent of the commit before this one against this commit,
so with the 32 bytes that that commit takes off `P`:

- Moving the slot into the guard was a `memcpy` of the whole `P` (4344
bytes) in every caller. `_parse::<false>` and both `_scan_imports`
copied it a second time to drop it. All eight copies are gone.
- Stack frames: `_parse::<false>` 13240 to 11016 bytes, `_parse::<true>`
12856 to 10648, `_scan_imports` 9480 to 5176, `to_lazy_export_ast` 10008
to 5816.
- Instructions: `_parse::<false>` 5133 to 5075, `_parse::<true>` 5553 to
5477, `_scan_imports::<false>` 895 to 830, `to_lazy_export_ast` 582 to
569, and 4 fewer in each of the four instances of `init`.
- `init` returns its first argument, and LLVM sees that. In the five
callers that were read (both `_parse`, both `_scan_imports`,
`to_lazy_export_ast`) the code after the call ignores the returned
register and addresses `p`'s fields off the stack pointer, as before,
without a spilled pointer to `p`.
- `P` is dropped as before: inline in `_scan_imports`, by a call to its
drop glue in `_parse::<false>` and `to_lazy_export_ast`, and by a call
to the guard's drop glue in `_parse::<true>`.

No cost was found in the assembly. Run time was not measured.

#### 27. js_printer: the three `write_reserved` callers use
`print_slice`

`WriterTrait::write_reserved` got a raw pointer to `n` spare bytes from
`reserve`, copied the bytes there and committed them with `advance`. On
`BufferWriter`, the only `WriterContext`, that is `Vec::reserve`, a copy
and `set_len`, which is what `print_slice` does through
`Vec::extend_from_slice`. The three callers use `print_slice`, two of
them through `self.print` like the code around them, and
`write_reserved`, `advance` and `advance_by` go away.

`reserve` has two more callers, `print_ast` and
`print_with_writer_and_platform`, which pre-size the buffer and ignore
the pointer, so `reserve` and `reserve_next` stay and return nothing.

`print_slice` is `#[inline]` down to the `Vec`. `reserve_next` and
`advance_by` are not, and the printer is instantiated in other crates,
so without LTO each `write_reserved` made two calls into bun_js_printer.

#### 28. image, aot, mimalloc: imports that only write their
out-parameters are `safe fn`

Four imported functions took raw pointers to locals of the caller, and
every call was an `unsafe` block. Typed as references, the signature
says that the pointers are valid:

- `JSC__JSValue__borrowBytesForOffThread` (bindings.cpp) writes
`*out_ptr` and `*out_len`, or neither, and reads neither.
- `tj3GetScalingFactors` (turbojpeg.c) stores a constant in `*n` and
returns its static table.
- `Bun__AOT__initializeOptions` (BunAOTCompile.cpp) calls
`WTF::initialize()`, which is a `call_once`, and assigns
`makeDefaultCompileOptions()`: zeroes, three integers, a double and two
enumerators of enums generated from the schema that also generates the
Rust type. One of the integers comes from
`WTF::numberOfProcessorCores()`, which caches its answer in a plain
`static int`; two first calls at once both store the same value, and
safe Rust could already make them through `EngineOptions::new`.
- `mi_process_info` (mimalloc, src/util/stats.c) tests each of its eight
pointers for null before it writes through it, so they are `Option<&mut
usize>`.

`&mut T` and `Option<&mut T>` are passed like the pointers they replace.

Image.rs also had its own declaration of
`JSC__JSValue__unpinArrayBuffer`. bun_jsc declares that function `safe`
and wraps it as `JSValue::unpin_array_buffer`, which other files of
bun_runtime call. The two calls in Image.rs use the wrapper. That is the
removal of a duplicate declaration, not a proof: the compiler checks
nothing new at those two sites, and the C++ function still wants a value
that was pinned. In Image.rs that holds by construction, because `Pin`'s
field is private and a `Pin` is built only for a result of 2.

#### 29. js_parser_jsc: `MacroContext::call` borrows `self.macros` and
`self.bump`

`call` turned the map entry and the arena into `*const Macro` and
`*const Arena` "so the closure does not extend `&mut self`", and the
closure made references of them again with two `unsafe` blocks.

Both are borrows of one field each. What else `call` touches while they
live is other fields (`self.javascript_object`, and before that
`self.env` and `self.transform_options`), so the borrow checker accepts
`&Macro` and `&Arena` as they are. `call` holds `&mut self` across the
macro's JS as before, and `Runner::run` got the same two shared
references.

`disabled` and `vm` were copied out of the entry "so the borrow can be
released". They are read through `macro_`, `vm` after the `disabled`
test and not before it.

#### 30. ast, sql_jsc: remove three `unsafe impl Send`/`Sync` that
nothing needs

`JsonTape` is five `Vec<_, TapeAlloc>` and a fieldless enum. `TapeAlloc`
and what the element types hold (`StoreStr`, `StoreRef<ObjectJSON>`,
`StoreRef<ArrayJSON>`) have `Send` and `Sync` impls of their own, none
behind a `cfg`, so `JsonTape` is `Send + Sync` as an auto trait and its
two impls said nothing more.

sql_jsc's handle to the runtime's `SSLConfig` was declared `Send`. No
code asks for that. The type is not named outside the crate, and none of
its four holders looks at the bound:

- `MySQLConnection` sits in `JSMySQLConnection` as a
`JsCell<MySQLConnection>`, and `JsCell<T>` is `Send + Sync` for every
`T`.
- `PostgresSQLConnection` and `ConnectParams` hold an `Rc<SSLConfig>`,
which is never `Send`.
- `ConnectionCtorArgs` is `pub(crate)`, and nothing in the crate puts a
bound on it.

`Send` occurs nowhere else in the code of sql_jsc or sql, and the crate
has no platform `cfg`. Without the impl the handle is `!Send`, like the
`NonNull` in it.

The entry for src/sql_jsc/jsc.rs leaves vm-thread-door.inventory.json.

#### 31. css: two needless `unsafe` in values/ident.rs

`IdentOrRef::as_ident` built a `&[u8]` with `from_raw_parts` only to
turn it into the `*const [u8]` that `Ident` stores.
`slice_from_raw_parts` builds that pointer and no reference.

`arena_slice_newtype!` gave its three types an `unsafe fn as_slice` that
calls the safe `v()`. It has no caller.

#### 32. valkey, image, sql_jsc, ast: `&Self` guards, `&Blob`,
`&Symbol`, a `const` array

- `JSValkeyClient::on_valkey_connect` put `self.as_ctx_ptr()` in its
drop guard and dereferenced it there. Both calls in the guard take
`&self`, and `&Self` is `Copy`, so the guard holds `self`. The eight
other drop guards in js_valkey.rs held `BackRef::new(self)` (or `this`)
for the same kind of call. They hold the plain reference too, with no
other change.
- `BlobReadChain::start` made a `&mut Blob` of what `as_::<Blob>()`
returned and only called `read_bytes_to_handler(&self, ..)` on it, which
can run the handler, and through it JS, before it returns.
`as_class_ref` is `as_` plus the shared dereference, so the same tests
run.
- `CachedStructure::build_from_columns` made its array of `MaybeUninit`
with `MaybeUninit::uninit().assume_init()`. `[const { .. }; 70]` is the
safe spelling. In an optimised build neither form writes anything; at
opt-level 0 (the debug build) the old form copied the whole array with a
`memcpy` and the new one fills it with a `memset`, 70 × 32 = 2240 bytes
either way.
- `Symbol::merge_contents_with` only reads `old`, so it takes `&Symbol`.
No `unsafe` goes away with this one: its caller makes both references
from raw pointers.

#### 33. aot, md: three byte views go through `bun_core::slice_as_bytes`

`OutputSlice::put_words` (`&[u32]`), the test helper `bytes_of`
(`&[u64]`) and the markdown parser's copy of `current_block_lines` into
`block_bytes` (`&[VerbatimLine]`) each built the `&[u8]` with
`from_raw_parts`. `slice_as_bytes` is that same expression,
`#[inline(always)]`, behind the bound `T: NoUninit`.

`bytes_of` would only be another name for it, so it goes and its four
call sites, all in tests, call `slice_as_bytes`.

`VerbatimLine` (`#[repr(C)]`, three `u32`) gets the bound from
`impl_no_uninit!`, which compiles only if rustc can prove that the type
has no padding.

#### 34. ast: `Rope<'a>` links its segments with `Option<&'a mut
Rope<'a>>`

`Rope::next` was a `*mut Rope`. `append` walked the chain through
`StoreRef`, and `next_ref` turned the pointer into a `&'a Rope` of any
lifetime with an `unsafe` block for `get_or_put_object`.

Every segment is allocated in the arena that the head is allocated in
(`ropealloc` in the INI parser; `bun init` has a single segment), so the
link is a `&'a mut` into that arena. `append` walks a `&mut Option<..>`
cursor, and `get_or_put_object` reads `rope.next.as_deref()`.

`append` returned `Result<*mut Rope, AllocError>`, always `Ok`, and its
three call sites dropped the pointer. It returns nothing.

The null niche keeps the layout. In a `--release` build of bun_ast,
`get_or_put_object` compiles to the same instructions and `append` loses
the two that built its return value.

#### 35. c-ares: `ResolveHandler` names its callback as an associated
const

`ResolveHandler::raw_callback` was an `unsafe extern "C" fn` in the
trait. Its one impl, for `ResolveInfoRequest<T>`, forwarded its five
arguments to `T::RAW_CALLBACK` from inside an `unsafe` block.

The trait now has `const RAW_CALLBACK: unsafe extern "C" fn(..)`, the
shape `CAresRecordType::RAW_CALLBACK` and `AresReply::PARSE` have, and
the impl names `T::RAW_CALLBACK`. `Channel::resolve`, the only user,
keeps its two `unsafe` blocks: it calls the constant for a bad name and
hands it to `ares_query` otherwise. c-ares then calls the record type's
thunk itself, and not a thunk that calls it.

### How did you verify your code works?

- **Static checks on the final commits:** `cargo fmt --check`, `cargo
clippy --workspace` (0 warnings), the source lints and `cargo check
--workspace --release` on Linux, and `cargo check --workspace --release`
for `x86_64-pc-windows-msvc`, `aarch64-apple-darwin` and
`x86_64-unknown-freebsd`, because four changes touch code that Linux
does not compile.
- **Assembly:** the comparison above.
- **After the assembly comparison and the tests had run,** three more
commits went into #47895, which is under these, and a rebase brought in
one more commit of `main` (#47900). Together they touch 17 files. This
PR touches one of them, Image.rs, in other functions, and all 35 patches
here stayed as they were. Then changes 2 and 17 were narrowed: six
imports that they had marked `safe fn` stay unsafe imports and are
called as on `main`. I compared the release assembly of all crates
before and after that, and no function differs. The static checks ran
last.
- **30 test files on the final code,** on a debug build with ASAN, all
started at once and each stopped after 50 seconds.
- 24 files of Bun's own tests pass completely, 3,137 tests:
`macro-test`, `css.test.ts`, `image.test.ts`, `image-adversarial`,
`bun-cryptohasher`, `x509`, `node-https-checkServerIdentity`,
`blocklist-gc`, `napi-value-ffi`, `cc.test.ts` and `ptr-byte-offset` of
`bun:ffi`, `ini.test.ts`, `valkey-gc`, 4 files on IPC (`spawn.ipc`,
`spawn-ipc-gc`, `bun-ipc-inherit`, `child_process_ipc`), 4 of
`test/js/node/zlib` and 3 of `test/js/node/quic`.
- 4 of Node's own tests for `node:quic` pass: `test-quic-blocklist`,
`test-quic-connection-limits`, `test-quic-endpoint-busy` and
`test-quic-internal-endpoint-options`.
- `node-dns.test.js` passes 144 tests and fails 28, the same 28 as on a
debug build without these commits. They need a DNS server, which I did
not have.
- `snapshot.test.ts` was stopped at 50 seconds, also when it ran alone.
No test had failed by then. Its group `inline snapshots`, which runs the
code that change 26 touches in snapshot.rs, passes when run by name: 35
tests, and 1 that the file skips.
- **8 more files for the parser, the printer and their users,** run the
same way.
- 6 pass completely, 964 tests: `transpiler.test.js`, `decorators`,
`decorator-metadata`, `es-decorators`, and `vitest-flavor` and
`expect-deferred`, whose callbacks go through `ContextParameter::of`.
- `bake/dev/esm.test.ts`, for the bundler's `to_expr`, passes 12 tests
and fails 7, the same 7 as on a debug build without these commits. They
need `happy-dom`, which I did not have.
  - `ffi.test.js` was stopped at 50 seconds. No test had failed by then.


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