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Perf optimization to visitor compilation.

Previously the flow for compiling and using a visitor was:

  1. Call initCompiledVisitor.
  2. Call addVisitorToCompiled with each visitor object.
  3. Call finalizeVisitor.
  4. Walk AST with compiled visitor.

initCompiledVisitor resets state after previous compilation.

Change this to:

  1. Call addVisitorToCompiled with each visitor object.
  2. Call finalizeVisitor.
  3. Walk AST with compiled visitor.
  4. Call resetCompiledVisitor.

The difference is that resetting state now happens at end of linting a file, rather than at the start of linting the next file.

The previous lifecycle design was motivated by needing to ensure state is reset even if an error is thrown during linting, but this case is now handled correctly by another means (#20166).

The reset-at-the-end lifecycle makes more sense.

It also has a perf benefit: Visit functions are freed earlier, so they can be garbage collected. This reduces the chance of ephemeral visit functions being pointlessly migrated to "old space" before they're deleted, which makes garbage collection cheaper. Also, they can now be garbage collected between linting files, while Rust side code is busy doing other tasks - rather than GC having to happen during linting on JS side, blocking main JS thread.

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Perf optimization to visitor compilation.

Previously the flow for compiling and using a visitor was:

1. Call `initCompiledVisitor`.
2. Call `addVisitorToCompiled` with each visitor object.
3. Call `finalizeVisitor`.
4. Walk AST with compiled visitor.

`initCompiledVisitor` resets state after previous compilation.

Change this to:

1. Call `addVisitorToCompiled` with each visitor object.
2. Call `finalizeVisitor`.
3. Walk AST with compiled visitor.
4. Call `resetCompiledVisitor`.

The difference is that resetting state now happens at *end* of linting a file, rather than at the start of linting the *next* file.

The previous lifecycle design was motivated by needing to ensure state is reset even if an error is thrown during linting, but this case is now handled correctly by another means (#20166).

The reset-at-the-end lifecycle makes more sense.

It also has a perf benefit: Visit functions are freed earlier, so they can be garbage collected. This reduces the chance of ephemeral visit functions being pointlessly migrated to "old space" before they're deleted, which makes garbage collection cheaper. Also, they can now be garbage collected *between* linting files, while Rust side code is busy doing other tasks - rather than GC having to happen during linting on JS side, blocking main JS thread.
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# Oxlint
### 🚀 Features

- 04a5ce0 oxlint: Support `vite.config.ts` `.lint` field (#20214)
(leaysgur)
- 1735215 linter: Implement `react/no-clone-element` rule. (#20129)
(connorshea)
- 68e6f6f linter: Implement `react/no-react-children` rule. (#20104)
(connorshea)
- fe3b32e linter/plugins: Add `oxlint-plugin-eslint` package (#20009)
(overlookmotel)

### 🐛 Bug Fixes

- 05f6a09 linter/no-inline-comments: Deserialize rule options with serde
(#20207) (camc314)
- c7eb09d linter/default-case: Deserialize rule options with serde
(#20206) (camc314)
- f85e16c linter/plugins: Fix types for visitor compilation (#20203)
(overlookmotel)
- 44e24e0 linter/exhaustive-deps: Ignore type-only typeof deps (#20201)
(camc314)
- 0b04998 linter/no-fallthrough: Deserialize rule options with serde
(#20192) (camc314)
- a1031cb linter/new-cap: Deserialize rule options with serde (#20161)
(camc314)
- ad27fd6 linter: Add help messages to import plugin diagnostics
(#20158) (John Costa)
- 1340307 linter/plugins: Ensure `after` hooks always run (#20167)
(overlookmotel)
- c4812ec linter/plugins: Reset visitor compilation state if error
during compilation (#20166) (overlookmotel)
- 887eecc linter/plugins: Add license notice to `oxlint-plugin-eslint`
package (#20164) (overlookmotel)
- e1713a4 linter/plugins: Include common chunks in
`oxlint-plugin-eslint` package (#20163) (overlookmotel)
- a9acb2b linter: Check `globals` entry for `no-undef`, only check
es2026 globals for `no-extend-native` and
`no-constant-binary-expression` (#20089) (Sysix)
- 5559f0d linter/no-unused-vars: `reportUsedIgnorePattern` should not
report used rest siblings (#20108) (Don Isaac)
- de7c0e2 linter/plugins: Correct error message for `markVariableAsUsed`
(#20152) (overlookmotel)

### ⚡ Performance

- 3a86427 linter/plugins: Pre-populate cache of `EnterExit` objects at
startup (#20194) (overlookmotel)
- d243391 linter/plugins: Replace arrays with `Uint8Array`s (#20190)
(overlookmotel)
- 8742f8b linter/plugins: Pre-populate cache of `VisitProp` objects
(#20189) (overlookmotel)
- 3061acb linter/plugins: Pre-populate cache of `EnterExit` objects
(#20187) (overlookmotel)
- c73912b linter/plugins: Free visit functions earlier (#20186)
(overlookmotel)
- d9f8ff4 linter/plugins: Faster reset of visitor state (#20185)
(overlookmotel)
- 42aff15 oxlint/lsp: Avoid computing diagnostics for non invoked code
actions requests (#20080) (Sysix)

### 📚 Documentation

- a080650 linter/plugins: Fix documentation of visitor compilation
(#20202) (overlookmotel)
- 542a04a linter: Add a link to the cyclomatic complexity Wikipedia
article in `eslint/complexity` (#20174) (connorshea)
# Oxfmt
### 🚀 Features

- 95943aa oxfmt: Support `vite.config.*` `.fmt` field (#20197)
(leaysgur)
- 172fc07 oxfmt: .js/.ts config file support (#20135) (leaysgur)

### 🐛 Bug Fixes

- e483569 oxfmt: Avoid double-escaping in css-in-js (#20211) (leaysgur)

Co-authored-by: leaysgur <6259812+leaysgur@users.noreply.github.com>
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