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[JSC] ExpressionInfo: start a chapter every 256 words. BytecodeRewriter: keep running sums - #995
A first lookup of a source position decodes expression info from the start of a chapter (ExpressionInfo::decodeEntryForInstPC, bytecode/ExpressionInfo.cpp:901). A chapter is 10,000 words, so N call sites in one function cost O(N) each.
Nobody reported it. It is not a regression. 2,000 describe() calls under --reporter=junit take 23.9 ms. A module of 20,000 statements with a breakpoint runs in 279 ms.
Fix
A chapter starts every 256 words, so a first lookup decodes at most one. The two cases take 13.1 ms and 69 ms.
BytecodeRewriter keeps running sums of its insertions, which Encoder::remap asks about per chapter. 2,000 awaits compile in 139M instructions, was 247M, and stay quadratic.
Verified: JSTests/stress/expression-info-chapters.js (5 modes, 15 to 63 ms each, also under debug ASan) and 31,893 stress runs with no new failure.
Self-reviewed twice: 45 concerns raised, 41 addressed. Please merge as two commits, so that each reverts alone.
Background
Expression info maps bytecode offsets to source offsets in delta-coded words. Decoding starts only at a chapter start.
Considered a lookup cursor (90 lines of mutable state for 1 ms at 2,000 call sites) and 64 words (13 times the bytes).
Downsides
Bytecode grows: +1,672 B (+0.02%) for TypeScript's _tsc.js.
An async function with one await compiles 17 instructions slower (of 127,546).
Two edge cases move (Notes): the line of a function with an out-of-order entry, and the largest async function that compiles.
Notes
What changed since the first version
The first version of this PR (8efbd40) had three parts: 256-word chapters, a cursor that let a line and column lookup continue where the last one ended, and an edit of Encoder::remap. A review of it found that the cursor was about 90 of the 99 lines added to ExpressionInfo.{h,cpp} and all of the new mutable state, for the last part of the gain. It found that the remap edit went around a linear helper in BytecodeRewriter when it could fix the helper. This version keeps the chapters, drops the cursor, leaves remap as upstream has it, and fixes the helper. The test is new: the old one took 1 to 3 seconds per mode.
A second review, of that version (e29580d), asked for three amendments, which are in:
This text: the debugger rows, what applies upstream, and what stays quadratic.
Two commits. A merge commit or a rebase keeps them apart. After a squash, a revert of the spacing takes the sums with it, and a bisect cannot tell them apart.
BytecodeRewriter::calculateDifference() subtracts two running sums. No change of behavior. It applies to upstream WebKit main as it is (git apply --check).
ExpressionInfo starts a chapter every 256 words. The spacing is the restricted option expressionInfoWordsBetweenChapters, which the encoder reads in place of the constant, so that a test can make chapters short. It does not apply upstream as it is: it uses options and test modes of this fork.
Bun's half is oven-sh/bun#47947: the pin, a test, and the bytecode snapshots that move.
Who this is for
Nobody reported it. The lookups that come in numbers are first lookups of many distinct instructions in one code block:
bun test --reporter=junit, which asks for the line of each describe() and test() call. Of the 3,543 test files in Bun's tree, 11 have 500 or more describe, test or it calls. The one with the most, test/js/bun/xml/xml-test-suite.test.ts (2,007 calls, 1,995 tests), goes from 99.4 ms to 97.8 ms.
A debugger with a breakpoint in the code, or after a pause. Debugger::pauseIfNeeded then asks for the line and column of each statement that runs (llint_op_debug, Debugger::atStatement, StackVisitor::Frame::computeLineAndColumn). A debugger that is only attached asks for none.
Errors thrown at many places of one large function or module.
It is not a regression: Bun 1.3.13 is slower on the same file than Bun 1.4.4. Node 26.3 with node:test and its junit reporter takes 356 ms where Bun takes 26 ms.
How the numbers were made
Two release builds of Bun made the same way on Linux x64: Bun main (675ee5b97b) with JavaScriptCore built from 4d45755, and the same with this PR. "Instructions" are user-space instructions of the whole process from perf_event_open, the minimum of 3 runs. Wall times are medians of 40 runs of each build in turn, from fresh copies of both binaries. The decoding loop runs at a high instruction rate, so the wall time falls less than the instruction count.
The rows for other spacings are this PR's build with BUN_JSC_expressionInfoWordsBetweenChapters=<n> (--expressionInfoWordsBetweenChapters=<n> for jsc). At 10,000 it matches the build before to within 0.1%.
bun test --reporter=junit
A file of N lines describe("d<i>", () => {}); and one test. Extra instructions per describe() over the same run without the reporter.
N
before (10,000)
512
256 (this PR)
128
64
100
+12,741
+12,646
+12,954
+9,482
+7,823
500
+42,989
+20,801
+13,622
+9,535
+7,502
2,000
+171,969
+20,503
+13,074
+9,292
+7,423
4,000
+260,237
+20,539
+13,050
+9,262
+7,423
8,000
+266,979
+20,394
+13,022
+9,270
+7,440
2,000 calls from one line
+2,616
+2,639
Whole run, instructions: 423.1M to 105.3M at N = 2,000, 2,439.7M to 407.7M at N = 8,000, 10.51M to 10.52M at N = 100.
Wall time of the whole run:
before
after
noise
N = 100
6.1 ms
6.3 ms
0.2 ms
N = 500
7.8 ms
7.1 ms
0.1 ms
N = 2,000
23.9 ms
13.1 ms
0.0 ms
N = 8,000
107.2 ms
38.4 ms
0.1 ms
N = 2,000, no reporter
13.0 ms
12.9 ms
0.1 ms
xml-test-suite.test.ts, junit
99.4 ms
97.8 ms
0.3 ms
xml-test-suite.test.ts, no reporter
96.6 ms
96.9 ms
1.8 ms
xml-test-suite.test.ts with the reporter costs 89.7M instructions more than without it before, and 37.3M after.
The same file of N describe() calls with released builds and with Node (node --test --test-reporter=junit, node:test), median of 20 runs:
N
Node 26.3
Bun 1.3.13
Bun 1.4.3
Bun 1.4.4
before
after
100
85.7 ms
10.4 ms
4.6 ms
6.5 ms
5.6 ms
5.8 ms
2,000
356.2 ms
37.9 ms
24.3 ms
26.2 ms
24.6 ms
13.7 ms
8,000
1,335.6 ms
149.7 ms
104.8 ms
130.5 ms
106.4 ms
38.5 ms
A debugger
A module of N lines x += <i>; under bun --inspect-wait. A client enables the debugger. Instructions of the whole process:
N = 5,000, before
after
N = 20,000, before
after
no debugger
25.3M
25.3M
91.3M
91.3M
a debugger attached, nothing else
84.4M
84.4M
291.5M
291.5M
a breakpoint by URL at the middle line
1,590.8M
155.9M
7,474.6M
556.9M
debugger; in front, resumed, no breakpoint
1,579.9M
144.5M
7,429.0M
511.3M
Wall time of client and process together for the breakpoint row at N = 20,000, the least of 5: 279 ms to 69 ms. The debugger; row at N = 5,000 with other spacings: 189.0M at 512, 121.9M at 128, 110.6M at 64.
In the debugger; row nothing reads the positions that Debugger::pauseIfNeeded computes. A position that is computed only when something reads it is a change in Debugger.cpp, and not part of this PR.
Error sites
jsc, no JIT: a program of N lines n += new Error("e").stack.length;. Instructions per line over the same program that reads .message.
N
before
512
256 (this PR)
128
64
500
121,193
19,272
11,733
7,742
5,749
2,000
263,420
19,427
11,574
7,648
5,701
8,000
298,647
19,395
11,574
7,663
5,715
Whole run at N = 2,000: 559.8M to 56.1M.
An error that the engine throws is looked up twice: once for the text in its message, through the entry map, and once for its line, through the line and column map. Both decode from the chapter start. A program of N lines try { o.x.y<i>; } catch (e) { n += e.line; }, whole run:
N
before
after
500
155.2M
28.0M
2,000
1,253.5M
126.2M
8,000
5,428.7M
834.4M
With n += 1 in the handler, so that only the message is made: 555.3M to 94.0M at N = 2,000.
Bytes
before
512
256 (this PR)
128
64
bun build --bytecode of TypeScript's _tsc.js
6,884,352 B
+480
+1,672
+6,656
+22,424
A chapter is 16 bytes in most functions: its Chapter record, its AbsInstPC word, and a wide word for the divot. _tsc.js gets 106 chapter starts in 58 of its 10,922 code blocks.
A 100 MB module of 24-character lines in a bun build --compile --bytecode executable is one code block of 4.2 million entries. Its embedded payload grows from 256,450,912 B to 257,204,576 B. There a chapter is more than 16 bytes: the encoder caps the AbsInstPC word at 23 bits of its 26, so a chapter above instruction 8,388,607 takes one or two more words. That cap is upstream's and this PR leaves it.
The first error.stack of that executable at three sites, with the file in the page cache: 9, 9 and 10 minor faults before, 11, 11 and 13 after. With a cold page cache (drop_caches before each run): 4 major faults before and 3 after. A --bytecode-order build does not prefetch the payload. Cold, it takes 10, 10 and 11 major faults before and 11, 9 and 13 after, in 524 to 758 microseconds before and 622 to 865 after. A lookup now reads the chapter table by binary search, then one chapter.
Text of jsc: 51,911,438 B to 51,913,390 B. Text of bun: 136,784,361 B to 136,785,705 B.
sizeof(ExpressionInfo) does not change. BytecodeRewriter::Insertion does not grow: the sum is in its padding.
What code that is never looked up pays
jsc, no JIT, no concurrent GC, which makes the counts repeat to within 15k of 1,177M.
Compile of a plain function, instructions per function over 5,000 functions of 5 property reads: 68,711 before, 68,708 after. Over 2,000 functions of 100 reads: 588,601 and 588,606. The encoder compares against the option where it compared against a constant.
A function of 1,000 property reads gets 7 chapter starts: +971 instructions on 5.5M.
Compile of an async function and a run to its first await:
awaits
before
256 words, no running sums
this PR
running sums at 10,000 words
1
127,546
127,563
2
159,817
159,761
3
186,417
186,228
8
324,506
322,863
100
3,055,372
3,051,147
2,792,929
2,787,135
500
25,107,855
25,137,282
18,367,449
18,364,104
2,000
247,142,934
247,739,251
139,180,198
139,168,878
8,000
3,326,520,228
3,335,381,406
1,598,378,935
1,598,311,621
Without the running sums, 256-word chapters make that compile 0.1% to 0.3% slower, because remap asks the rewriter about each chapter. With them the spacing does not show.
The running sums
calculateDifference() added the length of every insertion in a range. adjustAbsoluteOffset() asks for the range from the entry point. Generatorification inserts three fragments for each yield or await. One async function of 2,000 awaits made 8,031 such calls over 18.1 million insertions.
execute() sorts the insertions and then calls UnlinkedCodeBlockGenerator::applyModification(). Every reader of the sums runs below that call, and adjustJumpTarget() already needs the sorted order. BytecodeGeneratorification is the only user of the rewriter.
The bytecode is the same. A build that computes the difference both ways and aborts when they differ ran the 637 files of JSTests (stress, es6, modules, the two profiler collections) that have a generator or an async function, in four modes (default, bytecode optimizer, debugger bytecode, type and control flow profilers), and the 10,415 such files of test262: 333,592 calls, no difference.
The sums remove one quadratic loop, not all of them. The compile of a function of N awaits is still quadratic: 8,000 awaits cost 11.5 times what 2,000 cost. What is left is upstream's code: applyModification() moves the rest of the instruction stream once for each insertion (BytecodeRewriter.cpp:43 and :49), BytecodeBasicBlock::computeImpl scans every block for each branch, and the liveness analysis scans every exception handler for each instruction (#356 has the last two). No test fails when the sums are lost, because the bytecode is the same without them.
The test
JSTests/stress/expression-info-chapters.js builds five kinds of function with loadString: a function, a generator, a generator that has nothing to save across its yields, an async function and an async generator. The rewrite of the third leaves less bytecode than it found, so its chapter starts move down. Each case of a function throws at its own place: an index read of undefined, or a call of an index that is undefined. The test checks:
The line, the column and the message of every throw, computed from the text.
The shape from $vm.expressionInfoStats(): a chapter has at least as many words as the spacing, and ends with the entry that fills it.
$vm.expressionInfoWordsDecoded() for every bytecode offset: no lookup steps over more than one chapter, and one lookup steps over a whole chapter.
Modes: the default spacing, spacing 8 with the bytecode optimizer, spacing 1 with debugger bytecode, the default spacing from a bytecode cache with the optimizer (what bun build --bytecode does), and spacing 8 from a cache whose payload is borrowed. At spacing 1 every entry starts a chapter. A run that reads a cache written at spacing 8 while it asks for spacing 1 reports the chapters of spacing 8, so the functions do come from the cache.
Times on a release build: 31, 15, 15, 63 and 30 ms. On a debug ASan build: 0.9 to 5.0 s. JSTests/BUN-TEST-DIFFERENCES.md lists the test among the fork's own.
I changed the code in 15 ways, one at a time, and the test fails for each: the spacing 10,000, 128 and 512, the option ignored, the chapter search off, the chapter search one chapter early, chapter starts not remapped, AbsInstPC not remapped, AbsInstPC with the delta of the entry before it, a negative delta dropped, the AbsInstPC arm of adjustInstPC without the adjustment, and four errors in the running sums.
Other runs:
Debug build with ASan and assertions: the test in its five modes, and the 637 files above in two modes. No assertion and no ASan report.
run-javascriptcore-tests with the release jsc, filtered to tests named after generators, async functions, stacks, errors, exceptions, lines, columns, eval, the debugger and the bytecode cache: 31,893 runs. Three fail, all stress/bigint-inc-dec-in-place.js at the memory limit of the runner, which fails the same way without this change.
check-webkit-style did not run: it downloads setuptools, and the machine has no route to PyPI.
Two edge cases that move
Both were found in review. Neither has an issue.
An entry of expression info out of order. The bytecode generator can record an entry at a smaller offset than the entry before it. #861 fixed that for the peepholes that replace a mov or a typeof. fuseCompareAndJump and fuseTestAndJmp (bytecompiler/BytecodeGenerator.cpp) still do it when something records an entry between the compare and the jump. An assignment to the name of a function expression does, and from 124 locals on the compare is wide and the fused jump is narrow:
On main and with this PR, sloppy code: the TypeError of o.foo has the line and the text of the if. A lookup decodes in order and stops at the first entry past its target, which is too early here.
On main and with this PR: bun build --bytecode of a file with such a function aborts, RELEASE_ASSERT(instPC >= lastInstPC) in ExpressionInfo::Encoder::rebuild. It builds with --no-optimize-bytecode.
What this PR changes: when a chapter starts between the two entries, the lookup finds the line of o.foo. In a probe that moves the function through 301 paddings, main reports the if line 301 times, and this PR 295 times.
The capacity of a generator or an async function. The offset of an extension word has 26 bits (encodeExtension), so the expression info of a function whose bytecode is rewritten holds about 67 million words. Chapters of 256 words add about 1.5% of words to such a function. One async function of an await and 1,024,000 statements f+f+ ... +f; (67.6 MB of source, 66.6 million words) compiles on main and aborts with this PR. With 1,010,000 statements it compiles with this PR, and with 1,040,000 it aborts on main too.
Not done here
Upstream WebKit has the same constant and the same rewriter. Commit 1 applies there as it is, and nobody has offered it.
The walk is now most of what a new call site costs under the junit reporter: about 128 words at about 60 instructions each, 59% of +13,074. Decoder::decode is called once for each entry, out of line. Bun's own source map lookup (InternalSourceMap::find, up to 63 mappings) is 23%.
PCToCodeOriginMap::findPC decodes from its first range on every call. AOT call-site positions have a table of their own with a checkpoint every 512 sites (AOTCallSiteTable.h). Neither goes through ExpressionInfo.
The rule that a stress test runs in under 200 ms has no check in CI.
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[JSC] ExpressionInfo: start a chapter every 256 words, and let a line/column lookup continue from the previous one
[JSC] ExpressionInfo: start a chapter every 256 words. BytecodeRewriter: keep running sums
Nov 4, 2026
calculateDifference() added the length of every insertion in a range.
adjustAbsoluteOffset() asks for the range from the entry point, once for
each jump target, exception handler, profiler offset, and entry of
expression info that starts a chapter or follows a label.
Generatorification inserts three fragments for each yield or await. So
this helper alone took O(N^2) steps for a function with N of them: one
async function of 2,000 awaits ran its loop 18 million times.
execute() now stores in each insertion the sum up to and including it,
right after the sort. Every reader runs below that call, and
adjustJumpTarget() already needs the sorted order. calculateDifference()
subtracts two sums. The sum is in padding of Insertion, so the sort
moves the same bytes as before.
The rewritten bytecode is the same. A build that computes the sum both
ways and aborts on a difference agrees on 333,592 calls, over the
JSTests and test262 files that have a generator or an async function.
Instructions to compile one async function and run it to its first
await (no JIT, no concurrent GC):
awaits before after
1 127,546 127,563
2 159,817 159,761
8 324,506 322,863
500 25,107,855 18,367,449
2,000 247,142,934 139,180,198
8,000 3,326,520,228 1,598,378,935
The compile of such a function is still quadratic, as the table shows.
applyModification() moves the rest of the instruction stream once for
each insertion. BytecodeBasicBlock::computeImpl scans every block for
each branch, and the liveness analysis scans every exception handler for
each instruction (#356).
The first lookup of a source position decodes the expression info of its
function from the start of a chapter. A chapter was 10,000 words, so the
first lookup at each of N call sites in one function cost O(N). The memo
maps help only the second lookup of the same instruction.
A chapter now starts every 256 words. A first lookup decodes at most one
chapter, wherever the call site is in the function.
Instructions for `new Error("e").stack` on each of N lines of a program,
per line (jsc shell, no JIT):
N 10,000 words 256 words
500 121,193 11,733
2,000 263,420 11,574
8,000 298,647 11,574
The spacing is the restricted option expressionInfoWordsBetweenChapters,
which the encoder compares against in place of the constant. A test sets
it to 8 and to 1, so that a function of 24 cases has a chapter start at
every distance from an entry. Lookup, remap() and the bytecode cache
read the chapter records, and work with every spacing. The test throws
at an index and at a call of an index, whose columns no pending change
of the reported positions moves.
A chapter is 16 bytes in most functions. The bytecode cache of
TypeScript's _tsc.js grows by 1,672 bytes (+0.02%). The revision of the
cache format stays: no bit of a record has a new meaning, and a reader
takes a payload of either spacing.
$vm.expressionInfoStats() returns the words and the chapter starts of a
code block. $vm.expressionInfoWordsDecoded() returns how many words the
lookup of a bytecode offset steps over.
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.
Beyond the inline finding, I also checked the calculateDifference prefix-sum rewrite in BytecodeRewriter.h: every caller (adjustJumpTargets, adjustAbsoluteOffset for exception handlers and Encoder::remap, and applyModification) runs after execute() fills differenceThrough on the sorted insertions and before m_insertions.clear(), so it returns the same value as the old loop. The new stress test's bound of wordsInAChapter + 8 words per lookup also holds given that a chapter closes only once it has reached the option's word count and an entry adds at most a few words.
Extended reasoning...
The change lowers ExpressionInfo's chapter spacing from a 10,000-word constant to a restricted option defaulting to 256, replaces BytecodeRewriter::calculateDifference's per-call loop with prefix sums computed in execute(), and adds two $vm test hooks plus a stress test. It touches no auth, injection or data-exposure surface; it is bytecode metadata and the generator/async rewriter path under Source/JavaScriptCore, which CODEOWNERS assigns to jsc-reviewers. The confirmed inline finding about the 26-bit extension-offset RELEASE_ASSERT becoming reachable sooner, together with the ownership, means a human should look, so this is not an approval.
Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):
🟡 Source/JavaScriptCore/bytecode/ExpressionInfo.cpp — A very large generated async or generator function that compiled on the base branch can now crash the process at ExpressionInfo.cpp:297 instead of compiling. The RELEASE_ASSERT requires an extension offset to fit 26 bits, and 256-word chapters add an AbsInstPC and a Wide divot word every 256 words plus an adjustInstPC call for every chapter during remap, so the encoded-info vector reaches the limit for a smaller function than before. Fix: fail soft (drop expression info or fall back to a larger chapter spacing for that code block) instead of RELEASE_ASSERT, or cap the growth so the largest compilable function does not shrink.
Why this was flagged
Trigger: a generator or async function whose expression info approaches 2^26 words, compiled through BytecodeGeneratorification, which calls Encoder::remap (UnlinkedCodeBlockGenerator.cpp:145). remap calls adjustInstPC for every AbsInstPC word unconditionally (ExpressionInfoInlines.h:135, 'instPCDelta || isAbsInstPC'), and adjustInstPC emits an extension word via encodeExtension when the value does not fit (ExpressionInfo.cpp:379, :457-458). encodeExtension at ExpressionInfo.cpp:297 RELEASE_ASSERTs the offset fits maxSpecialValue, which is a process abort, not a thrown error. The chapter spacing change at ExpressionInfo.cpp:499 produces about 39 times more AbsInstPC words and about 16 extra bytes per 256 words, so the function size at which the assert fires is lower than on the base branch; the PR text itself lists 'the largest async function that compiles' as a moved edge. Remedy: replace the RELEASE_ASSERT with a graceful fallback or keep the growth below the previous limit.
Verification: ExpressionInfo.cpp:297 RELEASE_ASSERT((offset & maxSpecialValue) == offset) with maxSpecialValue = 2^26-1. The PR changes the chapter spacing from 10,000 to 256 words (ExpressionInfo.cpp:499). So per-chapter overhead goes from ~2/10,000 to ~2/256 words, moving the pre-existing 2^26-word ceiling down by ~0.78%; functions in that window compiled on the base and now hit the RELEASE_ASSERT.
The change makes expression-info chapter spacing configurable, adds chapter and decode-count inspection APIs, tracks cumulative bytecode rewrite size changes, and adds stress coverage across function kinds and execution configurations.
Chapter spacing now uses the restricted expressionInfoWordsBetweenChapters option, which defaults to 256. ExpressionInfo exposes counts and a method to report decoded entries for an instruction PC.
VM inspection queries and stress coverage Source/JavaScriptCore/tools/JSDollarVM.cpp, JSTests/stress/expression-info-chapters.js, JSTests/BUN-TEST-DIFFERENCES.md
$vm gains queries for expression-info counts and decoded-word counts. The stress test checks chapter boundaries, source-position results, and decode counts across function kinds and execution configurations. The test inventory lists the new test.
Possibly related PRs
oven-sh/WebKit#861: It changes expression-info entry ordering in the same encoder area and addresses an ordering edge case noted by this PR.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 0f1ec
The new stress test uses a fixed workload across configurations. Adjust it to follow the test configuration while preserving chapter coverage.
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Supported by static analysis
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printf'%s\n''--- cited file ---'
nl -ba JSTests/stress/expression-info-chapters.js | sed -n '1,230p'printf'%s\n''--- nearby testLoopCount patterns ---'
rg -n -F --glob 'JSTests/stress/*.js' -e 'testLoopCount' -e 'wasmTestLoopCount' JSTests/stress | head -80
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Use testLoopCount to control this test’s workload.
The fixed 24-case run and the scaled-up run ignore the configured iteration count. Keep the chapter-boundary assertions, but derive the workload from testLoopCount. Measure the test with --report-execution-time in each configuration, including debug ASan, and keep it under 200 ms.
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Update the workload calculations in the loop over kinds to use testLoopCount
instead of the fixed 24 in both check calls, while preserving the
chapter-boundary assertion and scaling behavior. Measure execution time with
--report-execution-time in each configuration, including debug ASan, and keep
the test under 200 ms.
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Problem
ExpressionInfo::decodeEntryForInstPC,bytecode/ExpressionInfo.cpp:901). A chapter is 10,000 words, so N call sites in one function cost O(N) each.describe()calls under--reporter=junittake 23.9 ms. A module of 20,000 statements with a breakpoint runs in 279 ms.Fix
BytecodeRewriterkeeps running sums of its insertions, whichEncoder::remapasks about per chapter. 2,000 awaits compile in 139M instructions, was 247M, and stay quadratic.JSTests/stress/expression-info-chapters.js(5 modes, 15 to 63 ms each, also under debug ASan) and 31,893 stress runs with no new failure.Background
Downsides
_tsc.js.awaitcompiles 17 instructions slower (of 127,546).Notes
What changed since the first version
The first version of this PR (8efbd40) had three parts: 256-word chapters, a cursor that let a line and column lookup continue where the last one ended, and an edit of
Encoder::remap. A review of it found that the cursor was about 90 of the 99 lines added toExpressionInfo.{h,cpp}and all of the new mutable state, for the last part of the gain. It found that theremapedit went around a linear helper inBytecodeRewriterwhen it could fix the helper. This version keeps the chapters, drops the cursor, leavesremapas upstream has it, and fixes the helper. The test is new: the old one took 1 to 3 seconds per mode.A second review, of that version (e29580d), asked for three amendments, which are in:
main.cachedTypesFormatRevisionstays at 14. No bit of a record has a new meaning, a reader takes a payload of either spacing, and Bun keys its caches on the WebKit version. Upgrade to upstream WebKit 1d4bed41aca8 #992, [JSC] Store the namedefaultfor an anonymous default export #950 and [JSC] The control flow profiler counts the branches of a decision #894 each take 15.Two commits. A merge commit or a rebase keeps them apart. After a squash, a revert of the spacing takes the sums with it, and a bisect cannot tell them apart.
BytecodeRewriter::calculateDifference()subtracts two running sums. No change of behavior. It applies to upstream WebKitmainas it is (git apply --check).ExpressionInfostarts a chapter every 256 words. The spacing is the restricted optionexpressionInfoWordsBetweenChapters, which the encoder reads in place of the constant, so that a test can make chapters short. It does not apply upstream as it is: it uses options and test modes of this fork.Bun's half is oven-sh/bun#47947: the pin, a test, and the bytecode snapshots that move.
Who this is for
Nobody reported it. The lookups that come in numbers are first lookups of many distinct instructions in one code block:
bun test --reporter=junit, which asks for the line of eachdescribe()andtest()call. Of the 3,543 test files in Bun's tree, 11 have 500 or moredescribe,testoritcalls. The one with the most,test/js/bun/xml/xml-test-suite.test.ts(2,007 calls, 1,995 tests), goes from 99.4 ms to 97.8 ms.Debugger::pauseIfNeededthen asks for the line and column of each statement that runs (llint_op_debug,Debugger::atStatement,StackVisitor::Frame::computeLineAndColumn). A debugger that is only attached asks for none.It is not a regression: Bun 1.3.13 is slower on the same file than Bun 1.4.4. Node 26.3 with
node:testand its junit reporter takes 356 ms where Bun takes 26 ms.How the numbers were made
Two release builds of Bun made the same way on Linux x64: Bun
main(675ee5b97b) with JavaScriptCore built from 4d45755, and the same with this PR. "Instructions" are user-space instructions of the whole process fromperf_event_open, the minimum of 3 runs. Wall times are medians of 40 runs of each build in turn, from fresh copies of both binaries. The decoding loop runs at a high instruction rate, so the wall time falls less than the instruction count.The rows for other spacings are this PR's build with
BUN_JSC_expressionInfoWordsBetweenChapters=<n>(--expressionInfoWordsBetweenChapters=<n>forjsc). At 10,000 it matches the build before to within 0.1%.bun test --reporter=junitA file of N lines
describe("d<i>", () => {});and one test. Extra instructions perdescribe()over the same run without the reporter.Whole run, instructions: 423.1M to 105.3M at N = 2,000, 2,439.7M to 407.7M at N = 8,000, 10.51M to 10.52M at N = 100.
Wall time of the whole run:
xml-test-suite.test.ts, junitxml-test-suite.test.ts, no reporterxml-test-suite.test.tswith the reporter costs 89.7M instructions more than without it before, and 37.3M after.The same file of N
describe()calls with released builds and with Node (node --test --test-reporter=junit,node:test), median of 20 runs:A debugger
A module of N lines
x += <i>;underbun --inspect-wait. A client enables the debugger. Instructions of the whole process:debugger;in front, resumed, no breakpointWall time of client and process together for the breakpoint row at N = 20,000, the least of 5: 279 ms to 69 ms. The
debugger;row at N = 5,000 with other spacings: 189.0M at 512, 121.9M at 128, 110.6M at 64.In the
debugger;row nothing reads the positions thatDebugger::pauseIfNeededcomputes. A position that is computed only when something reads it is a change inDebugger.cpp, and not part of this PR.Error sites
jsc, no JIT: a program of N linesn += new Error("e").stack.length;. Instructions per line over the same program that reads.message.Whole run at N = 2,000: 559.8M to 56.1M.
An error that the engine throws is looked up twice: once for the text in its message, through the entry map, and once for its line, through the line and column map. Both decode from the chapter start. A program of N lines
try { o.x.y<i>; } catch (e) { n += e.line; }, whole run:With
n += 1in the handler, so that only the message is made: 555.3M to 94.0M at N = 2,000.Bytes
bun build --bytecodeof TypeScript's_tsc.jsChapterrecord, itsAbsInstPCword, and a wide word for the divot._tsc.jsgets 106 chapter starts in 58 of its 10,922 code blocks.bun build --compile --bytecodeexecutable is one code block of 4.2 million entries. Its embedded payload grows from 256,450,912 B to 257,204,576 B. There a chapter is more than 16 bytes: the encoder caps theAbsInstPCword at 23 bits of its 26, so a chapter above instruction 8,388,607 takes one or two more words. That cap is upstream's and this PR leaves it.error.stackof that executable at three sites, with the file in the page cache: 9, 9 and 10 minor faults before, 11, 11 and 13 after. With a cold page cache (drop_cachesbefore each run): 4 major faults before and 3 after. A--bytecode-orderbuild does not prefetch the payload. Cold, it takes 10, 10 and 11 major faults before and 11, 9 and 13 after, in 524 to 758 microseconds before and 622 to 865 after. A lookup now reads the chapter table by binary search, then one chapter.jsc: 51,911,438 B to 51,913,390 B. Text ofbun: 136,784,361 B to 136,785,705 B.sizeof(ExpressionInfo)does not change.BytecodeRewriter::Insertiondoes not grow: the sum is in its padding.What code that is never looked up pays
jsc, no JIT, no concurrent GC, which makes the counts repeat to within 15k of 1,177M.await:Without the running sums, 256-word chapters make that compile 0.1% to 0.3% slower, because
remapasks the rewriter about each chapter. With them the spacing does not show.The running sums
calculateDifference()added the length of every insertion in a range.adjustAbsoluteOffset()asks for the range from the entry point. Generatorification inserts three fragments for eachyieldorawait. One async function of 2,000 awaits made 8,031 such calls over 18.1 million insertions.execute()sorts the insertions and then callsUnlinkedCodeBlockGenerator::applyModification(). Every reader of the sums runs below that call, andadjustJumpTarget()already needs the sorted order.BytecodeGeneratorificationis the only user of the rewriter.The bytecode is the same. A build that computes the difference both ways and aborts when they differ ran the 637 files of
JSTests(stress,es6,modules, the two profiler collections) that have a generator or an async function, in four modes (default, bytecode optimizer, debugger bytecode, type and control flow profilers), and the 10,415 such files of test262: 333,592 calls, no difference.The sums remove one quadratic loop, not all of them. The compile of a function of N awaits is still quadratic: 8,000 awaits cost 11.5 times what 2,000 cost. What is left is upstream's code:
applyModification()moves the rest of the instruction stream once for each insertion (BytecodeRewriter.cpp:43and:49),BytecodeBasicBlock::computeImplscans every block for each branch, and the liveness analysis scans every exception handler for each instruction (#356 has the last two). No test fails when the sums are lost, because the bytecode is the same without them.The test
JSTests/stress/expression-info-chapters.jsbuilds five kinds of function withloadString: a function, a generator, a generator that has nothing to save across its yields, an async function and an async generator. The rewrite of the third leaves less bytecode than it found, so its chapter starts move down. Each case of a function throws at its own place: an index read ofundefined, or a call of an index that isundefined. The test checks:$vm.expressionInfoStats(): a chapter has at least as many words as the spacing, and ends with the entry that fills it.$vm.expressionInfoWordsDecoded()for every bytecode offset: no lookup steps over more than one chapter, and one lookup steps over a whole chapter.Modes: the default spacing, spacing 8 with the bytecode optimizer, spacing 1 with debugger bytecode, the default spacing from a bytecode cache with the optimizer (what
bun build --bytecodedoes), and spacing 8 from a cache whose payload is borrowed. At spacing 1 every entry starts a chapter. A run that reads a cache written at spacing 8 while it asks for spacing 1 reports the chapters of spacing 8, so the functions do come from the cache.Times on a release build: 31, 15, 15, 63 and 30 ms. On a debug ASan build: 0.9 to 5.0 s.
JSTests/BUN-TEST-DIFFERENCES.mdlists the test among the fork's own.I changed the code in 15 ways, one at a time, and the test fails for each: the spacing 10,000, 128 and 512, the option ignored, the chapter search off, the chapter search one chapter early, chapter starts not remapped,
AbsInstPCnot remapped,AbsInstPCwith the delta of the entry before it, a negative delta dropped, theAbsInstPCarm ofadjustInstPCwithout the adjustment, and four errors in the running sums.Other runs:
run-javascriptcore-testswith the releasejsc, filtered to tests named after generators, async functions, stacks, errors, exceptions, lines, columns, eval, the debugger and the bytecode cache: 31,893 runs. Three fail, allstress/bigint-inc-dec-in-place.jsat the memory limit of the runner, which fails the same way without this change.check-webkit-styledid not run: it downloadssetuptools, and the machine has no route to PyPI.Two edge cases that move
Both were found in review. Neither has an issue.
An entry of expression info out of order. The bytecode generator can record an entry at a smaller offset than the entry before it. #861 fixed that for the peepholes that replace a
movor atypeof.fuseCompareAndJumpandfuseTestAndJmp(bytecompiler/BytecodeGenerator.cpp) still do it when something records an entry between the compare and the jump. An assignment to the name of a function expression does, and from 124 locals on the compare is wide and the fused jump is narrow:mainand with this PR, sloppy code: theTypeErrorofo.foohas the line and the text of theif. A lookup decodes in order and stops at the first entry past its target, which is too early here.mainand with this PR:bun build --bytecodeof a file with such a function aborts,RELEASE_ASSERT(instPC >= lastInstPC)inExpressionInfo::Encoder::rebuild. It builds with--no-optimize-bytecode.o.foo. In a probe that moves the function through 301 paddings,mainreports theifline 301 times, and this PR 295 times.The capacity of a generator or an async function. The offset of an extension word has 26 bits (
encodeExtension), so the expression info of a function whose bytecode is rewritten holds about 67 million words. Chapters of 256 words add about 1.5% of words to such a function. One async function of anawaitand 1,024,000 statementsf+f+ ... +f;(67.6 MB of source, 66.6 million words) compiles onmainand aborts with this PR. With 1,010,000 statements it compiles with this PR, and with 1,040,000 it aborts onmaintoo.Not done here
Debugger::pauseIfNeededcomputes a position that nothing reads when no breakpoint is set (thedebugger;row).applyModification()and the two loops of bytecode: avoid quadratic work in basic block linking and liveness propagation #356 keep the compile of many awaits quadratic.Decoder::decodeis called once for each entry, out of line. Bun's own source map lookup (InternalSourceMap::find, up to 63 mappings) is 23%.PCToCodeOriginMap::findPCdecodes from its first range on every call. AOT call-site positions have a table of their own with a checkpoint every 512 sites (AOTCallSiteTable.h). Neither goes throughExpressionInfo.