[robobun]

Problem

• A repeated resolution runs the whole resolver again (VirtualMachine::resolve_without_on_resolve, src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs): the resolver mutex and a walk of the directory cache.
• A loaded require("pkg") costs 950 ns. Node 26.3.0 needs 100 ns.

Fix

• Each VM keeps a memo of resolver answers (src/resolver/resolution_memo.rs), keyed by specifier, source and kind. It keeps an answer only if the resolver read nothing from the disk for it.
• A process-wide epoch (bun_resolver::resolution_epoch) moves inside the functions that write the resolver's caches. An older entry is not used.
• Builds with assertions also run the resolver, which must agree with the memo and with its own last answer.
• Verified: test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts (33 tests, main fails 13), 22 cargo tests, test/napi/addon-allocations.test.ts. Self-reviewed twice (Notes).

ns per call, module loaded	node 26.3.0	main	this PR
require("./child.cjs")	73	640	150
require("pkg")	100	950	150
require.resolve("pkg")	10,230	963	127
import("/abs/child.mjs")	3,640	1,490	930
Bun.resolveSync("./child.cjs", dir)		643	80
require("pkg"), 8 workers	103	2,890	144
require("node:fs")	370	203	197

Background

• Every entry point ends in that function: require(), import(), import.meta.resolve() of a package name, Bun.resolveSync(). onResolve plugins run above it.
• The resolver caches directory listings. It reads one again after a failed lookup, a watcher event or a Bun.build().
• Considered Node's per-module request -> id cache: it changes which file require(id) names after a disk change.

Downsides

• A resolution that the memo does not answer takes 3% to 9% longer. A pair resolved exactly twice, among more pairs than the memo holds, takes 10% to 17% longer (Notes).
• A failed lookup moves the epoch. Each kept pair then runs the resolver once more (+4% instructions).
• This needs a maintainer's decision before more work: a new input of the resolver must move the epoch or call VirtualMachine::forget_resolutions().

Notes

The decision this PR needs. The memo is right only while every write to what the resolver reads moves the epoch, and every new input of the resolver does one of three things: move the epoch where it writes (state of the process), call forget_resolutions() (state of one VM), or make resolution_memo_keys skip the memo. That is a standing rule for the resolver, and only a maintainer can accept it.

• What it buys: a repeated resolution is 5 to 8 times cheaper. In next start that is 4.9 answers per request, about 1% of a request's instructions. An express app and a fastify app resolve nothing per request. No issue asks for this change.
• If the answer is no, this PR should close.
• If the answer is yes, the list under "Waits for the decision" is the work that follows.

What is remembered. What the resolver found, for a specifier without a ?query, in a run that read nothing from the disk: no lookup past the directory cache and no first stat of an entry. Never kept: a name that an onLoad plugin can serve (namespace:path), a blob: URL, a specifier, source or path of more than 1,024 code units, a resolution with options.paths, one in macro mode, and a package name while auto-install has a package manager. A builtin is answered before the memo, by the alias table. The memo is off in a VM that runs a program compiled ahead of time (bun build --compile --aot, bun test --aot): that resolver asks the disk at every call whether it has the file. BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_RESOLUTION_MEMO=1 turns it off everywhere.

The table. 1,024 buckets of two entries, built at the first kept answer or at the 64th distinct pair. A pair gets an entry at its second resolution and answers from the third. Up to 64 pairs of a VM, those seen before its table exists, get theirs one resolution later. If the entry that a pair would replace has not answered since it was put, the pair takes that place at one try of eight only: to replace one unproven entry by another gains nothing, and the strings of the old entry are out of the CPU cache by then. The worst case per VM is about 10 MB (2,048 entries with three strings of 1,024 code units).

The epoch. 64 bits, one per process, like the directory cache. Only bun_resolver moves it (bump() is pub(crate)), in the functions that write: EntriesMap::{put, mark_not_found, remove}, dir_info::Map::{mark_not_found, remove}, dir_info::put_slot, the in-place read of a listing in entries_at_locked, and FileSystem::set_top_level_dir. Each bumps only if the write gives a directory another answer. An entry keeps the low half of the epoch, and the memo drops every entry when the high half moves.

What one VM alone reads. require.extensions is not in the caches. Its two handlers call VirtualMachine::forget_resolutions(), which makes that VM's entries stale and leaves other VMs alone.

Why not Generation. A generation is drawn before the reads that it asks for, and means "look again". The epoch moves after a write, and means "an answer changed". Only the second can say that a kept answer still holds. On main, Generation is also 16 bits, and only the bundler thread advances it. #47634 makes it a 64-bit counter of the process, and the first reason still stands.

The checks of builds with assertions (Environment::CI_ASSERT: debug and ASAN builds).

• A memo answer: the resolver runs too, without the retry that drops a directory, and the two must agree. The check counts the epoch moves of its own thread, so its own run cannot silence it.
• Every other resolver run: a second table keeps the last answer of each pair. A later run for the pair under the same epoch must find the same path, and must not fail, unless one of the two runs made a read that leaves no record. The message names resolution_epoch and forget_resolutions().
• A listing that another thread reads again in place is a change in progress until its epoch move, and neither check compares during it.
• These checks speak for the inputs that the test suite has. Neither fired in the x64 ASAN lanes of CI builds 139517, 139874 and 139922, which run the whole suite.

Method of the numbers. Linux x64, release builds of main 2596ac5 and of this branch at 663ead0, node v26.3.0. The first table is bench/snippets/require-cached.mjs (mitata p50, HOOK=1 and WORKERS=8 for those rows). Since these runs, main is merged into the branch (89452d2), the two counters of disk reads are atomics (one locked add where the resolver reads the disk), and the benchmark passes the parent of import.meta.resolve() as a path. I did not run the tables again. A loop on a release build of b984bfd gives 149 ns for require("./child.cjs"), and 735 ns with the memo off. All rows of one run, in ns:

	node	main	this PR
require("/abs/child.cjs")	651	576	127
require("fs")	287	202	207
require.resolve("./child.cjs")	470	635	125
require.resolve("pkg/feature"), through exports	10,200	1,113	131
require.resolve("./子.cjs"), a 16-bit string	450	790	123
require.resolve("fs")	249	125	129
import.meta.resolve("pkg", parent)		1,128	214
Bun.resolveSync("./child.cjs", ".")		638	81
require("pkg"), hooked _resolveFilename	100	1,170	300
require("./child.cjs"), 8 workers	119	2,239	126
round robin over 100 modules	122	755	142
over 1,000	294	744	317
over 10,000 (more than the memo holds)	2,234	1,399	1,096
never kept: require.resolve("./child.cjs?query")		1,035	861
never kept: require.resolve("./a:b.cjs")	488	906	710
never kept: require.resolve("pkg", { paths })	11,120	1,250	1,246
never kept: Bun.resolveSync(blob: URL, dir)		255	192
a failed require.resolve("./small/missing.cjs")	12,572	6,004	4,840
the same, then 100 modules	25,352	75,810	85,430
each of 10,000 pairs resolved twice	644	843	923

In one run of this table, the rows that the memo does not answer move by up to 20% in both directions. The next two tables are the evidence for them.

Interleaved A/B runs (ns per call, JIT on, one process per sample, the least of 5 samples, of 11 for the last two rows). "flag" is this build with the memo off. Two samples of one code path differ by 2% to 4%.

	main	this PR	flag
?query	710.1	770.1	754.8
./a:b.cjs	561.7	615.2	590.4
blob:	161.9	171.1	163.1
{ paths }	803.6	839.3	828.3
node:fs	188.1	186.8	188.0
a failed lookup	4,076.7	4,081.3	4,134.9
a failed lookup, then 100 kept pairs	67,151.9	78,500.4	70,381.6
require.resolve("./child.cjs")	570.2	116.1	595.3
require("./child.cjs")	611.1	118.9	652.8
each of 10,000 pairs once (least, median)	794.2, 866.9	854.5, 899.4	730.7, 877.4
each of 10,000 pairs twice (least, median)	707.5, 759.9	798.8, 854.0	738.1, 779.4

Instructions per call. instructions:u from perf_event_open over the whole process, as the difference of two loop lengths, BUN_JSC_useJIT=0, the least of 3 runs. perf and valgrind are not installed here.

	main	this PR	flag
require("./child.cjs"), loaded	11,173	5,486	11,328
require("pkg"), loaded	19,147	5,487	19,201
require.resolve("./child.cjs")	8,462	2,849	8,541
require.resolve("pkg")	16,299	2,792	16,378
Bun.resolveSync(x, __dirname)	6,718	1,342	6,783
Bun.resolveSync(x, ".")	6,600	1,240	6,664
require("node:fs")	6,276	6,198	6,277
{ paths } (skips the memo)	10,978	11,064	11,058
?query	9,719	9,957	9,798
./a:b.cjs	8,189	8,427	8,268
blob:	2,768	3,077	2,878
first resolution of a new specifier string	10,247	10,548	10,325
each pair resolved twice	9,516	9,880	9,595
round robin over 10,000 modules	8,817	8,946	8,896
a failed lookup	26,143	26,431	26,231
a failed lookup, then 100 kept pairs	878,012	915,588	886,033

• A resolution that the memo does not answer runs 0.8% to 11.2% more instructions than on main. The largest is the blob: URL, whose resolution is the shortest.
• The flag column differs from main's build by 1 to 8021 instructions (0.0% to 4.0%). With the flag, a resolution still reads the flag's state and calls the resolver's part, which is a function of its own now.
• The cost of the memo itself is the PR column minus the flag column: 199 for blob:, 159 for ?query, 223 for a first resolution (with the hash of a new string), 285 for the second resolution of a pair.
• "A failed lookup, then 100 kept pairs" is the worst case of stale entries: each of the 100 runs the resolver and then has its entry again (+4.3% instructions, +16.9% time).
• "Each pair twice" among more pairs than the memo holds is the worst case of the table: no pair is ever answered. It costs +3.8% instructions and +12.9% time (+12.4% by the medians, +12.5% cycles). Against the same build with the flag it is +8.2% (+9.6% by the medians). If something moves the epoch every 2,000 resolutions, the rule for entries that have not answered does not apply and the cost is 15% to 17%.
• The two require() rows of the first table carry a cost that this PR does not touch: the child that a cached require() appends to its parent (Cached CommonJS require() accumulates duplicate native child references, causing unbounded GC cost #43279, cjs: do not append a duplicate child on require() of a cached module #43315).

Cold start and memory.

• Instructions of a whole run, JIT off, the least of 7: hello.js -0.0%, 3,000 CJS requires +0.3%, 3,000 ESM imports +0.2%. Static imports and first requires resolve each pair once, so none is kept.
• hello.js: maximum RSS 31,892 KB (main: 31,128 KB), minor faults 1,145 (main: 1,148), medians of 15. RSS per live Worker: 3,246 to 3,287 KB (main: 3,211 to 3,259 KB).
• A full table is 64 KB (size_of::<Bucket>() == 64, asserted) plus three strings per entry. VirtualMachine grows by 184 bytes.
• Binary: size text 137,930,427 to 137,937,906 (+7,479 B), data and bss +0, file +8,192 B.

Real programs (release build of an earlier head, counted through resolutionMemoHits() and the epoch).

• next start (Next.js 15.5.29, an app with 8 routes): 78,000 memo answers per 16,000 requests, which is 4.9 per request. Each is a require() of an absolute path of a loaded module, made through Next's own Module._resolveFilename hook. The epoch does not move after start-up.
• An express app and a fastify app: 29 and 0 answers, all during start-up. The epoch does not move under load.
• A cache of requests in the CommonJS loader, valid on this PR's epoch, would answer a loaded require() in less time still (a review measured about 14 ns with an emulation). It cannot serve import() or require.resolve(), and it needs the epoch of this PR.

Tests. describe("a repeated resolution") in resolve.test.ts, 33 tests. Main fails 13 (those that read resolutionMemoHits()). Head 2b1bc6c fails 3: the two tests of a link that is gone, and the test of the length limit. 22 cargo tests of the table (cargo test -p bun_resolver resolution_memo). One copy of a release binary (a48ef45) per write site, with the call of bump() at that site patched out:

bump removed in	tests that fail
EntriesMap::put	2
EntriesMap::mark_not_found	1
EntriesMap::remove	1
entries_at_locked	1
set_top_level_dir	2
both removes of bust_dir_cache (EntriesMap::remove, dir_info::Map::remove)	5
dir_info::Map::remove	0
dir_info::Map::mark_not_found	0
dir_info::put_slot	0

• dir_info::Map::remove alone fails none: where it removes something, EntriesMap::remove does too. dir_info::Map::mark_not_found and put_slot did not run in the ten test directories that a review instrumented. All three bump for the callers to come.
• The Bun.build() tests build until a build itself sees the change on disk, with a pause between builds so that each starts a new drain of the bundler's queue (bundler: advance the resolver generation once per build instead of once per queue drain #38212 is the open PR for the generation of a first build).
• The tests that count memo answers resolve their pair in consecutive calls, and the pairs that the memo refuses come last, so that no hash value decides a count.
• test/napi/addon-allocations.test.ts resolves 20 external strings of an addon as package names, and none stays on loan after a collection.
• test/aot/runner-suites.programs.txt and runner-suites.known.txt list the tests that a compiled program settles when it is built, or that count memo answers, which such a program does not have.
• No test of this PR sets a timeout. The tests that build, or that read hundreds of files, run by themselves, and the compiled-executable test is skipped in a debug build, whose runtime is more than 1 GB.
• The entry-point test asks import.meta.resolve("pkg") from the module's own path. With a file: URL as the parent, that row got no memo answer on Windows (see "Windows and macOS").
• The --hot test runs its program once. The program asks again until the watcher's thread has dropped the listing. It makes one more new file at its 1st, 2nd, 4th and 8th ask, and so on: on Windows, a file that exists before that thread starts to watch is no event.
• In the debug build on this host, tests of these suites time out in a set that differs from run to run. None is an assertion.

Open PRs that write what the resolver reads. The order that a review worked out: #47336, #47634, #47902 and #47948 first, then this PR with one rebase.

• resolver: after a miss, look up once more at a fresh generation #47634 replaces the drop after a failed lookup by a fresh generation, and writes listings through DirEntry::replace_with, abandon and keep_if_current. The rebase puts the bump of entries_at_locked into replace_with, and adds one to abandon and to keep_if_current where it makes an entry stat again. A merge of the two heads does not compile today.
• Remove 420 unsafe blocks from bun_sys, uWS, the HTTP client, the shell, the package manager, bun_jsc, the Web APIs, node:fs and the bundler #47948 rewrites the block of entries_at_locked that holds the one bump outside a map method. The two PRs conflict there (src/resolver/lib.rs).
• node:module: make Module._initPaths() give the NODE_PATH directories to the resolver #47589 gives the resolver the NODE_PATH directories of Module._initPaths(). It needs vm.forget_resolutions() after each of its two writes. I built the two together: without the calls, two tests of this PR and one of its own stop at an assertion, and with them all pass. The runs are on node:module: make Module._initPaths() give the NODE_PATH directories to the resolver #47589.
• bun test --isolate: reset Module._extensions per file and ask it before the source cache answers a require() #47477 resets require.extensions between two --isolate files (read from its diff, not run). It needs forget_resolutions() at that reset.
• resolver: pass paths as an argument and delete Resolver::custom_dir_paths #47752 deletes Resolver::custom_dir_paths, which resolution_memo_keys reads. The second of the two to land does not compile until it decides where paths skips the memo.
• resolver: build DirInfo without listing the directory #48148 builds a DirInfo without a listing. A review merged it with this PR: the result builds, no assertion fires in the tests of either, and one answer of the resolver then comes from a stat at every call. The memo must refuse that answer when the two meet.

Second self-review (head 2b1bc6c): 34 concerns. Done in 663ead0:

• A kept answer that differed from the resolver's. A build reads a listing again in place, and its entries stat again at their next use. If a link is gone by then, the resolver answers that one call with the link and the calls after it with the target. The memo kept the first answer. The resolver now counts every read of the disk, the first stat of an entry included, and the memo keeps nothing from a run that made one. Two tests.
• The last-answer check fired for a lookup from a folder more than 256 uncached directories deep, where the resolver itself answers differently the second time. Such a lookup now counts as a read that leaves no record. One test.
• Both checks could fire while the bundler thread read a listing again in place. That is a change in progress now.
• The --isolate hit-count test failed for 1 temporary folder name in 64, and the entry-point test for 3 runs in 100,000. Both are reshaped.
• The import.meta.resolve("./child.mjs", parent) row never reached the resolver. The row and a test now use a package name.
• The only length limit was MAX_PATH_BYTES, 98,302 on Windows. It is 1,024 code units everywhere.
• The bump in EntriesMap::remove had no test. It has one.

Waits for the decision:

• Make a missed bump a compile error: close the raw write handles of the two maps (a review built it: about +229/-227 lines in 5 files), and give the in-place write of a listing one method that bumps.
• A setter in the resolver for extra_cjs_extensions, so that no caller has to remember forget_resolutions().
• The rule in REVIEW.md and on struct Resolver.
• A re-check of one memo answer in 256 in release builds, which bounds what a missed bump can do (+2.4% to +5.1% instructions on a hit).
• The size of the table under bun test --isolate: a suite of seven packages kept 35% of its memo answers.
• Tests that are missing: that the two checks are alive, that a Worker's memo is freed when it ends, the global_cache bits of the key, a 16-bit source, macro mode.

After the second self-review (head b984bfd). Main is merged (89452d2). Its ResolveMode::EsmResolve resolves as Esm does, so the two share a kind in the memo. The two counters of disk reads are AtomicU32, no longer Cell<u32>: LinkerContext is Sync and holds the resolver by reference, which the mordant check of CI named. Two tests changed (see "Tests"). This push had no self-review: its source change is those two fields.

First self-review (head 31fdd43): 46 concerns. 44 addressed in the head before this one: no answer from a run that went past the directory cache, keys copied unless they own their characters, a mark for pairs that are never kept, the lazy table, the bumps inside the write primitives, forget_resolutions(), the two checks, the benchmark rows. Rejected: a cargo test that builds a Resolver (the checks state the same rule at run time), and a source lint with a freeze of the fields of Resolver (the lint cannot see a write through a new field, and the freeze makes every PR that adds a field edit one shared list).

Windows and macOS. I have no machine for them in this session, so CI is the evidence. One test is skipped off Linux (bytes that are not UTF-8 in a file name). Four are skipped on Windows (a : in a file name, a link, a folder 300 deep). Two accept any path on Windows where a file stands in the place of a directory.

• CI build 139874 (head 91f33da) ran the memo tests on macOS aarch64 and on Windows x64 and aarch64. One row failed, on both Windows lanes: import.meta.resolve("pkg", parent) with a file: URL as the parent got no memo answer.
• Read from the code, not run on Windows: the resolver gets /C:/... as the importer's folder, because normalize_source only cuts file:// off. It finds no such folder and looks from the drive root. There auto-install makes a package manager, and the memo keeps no package name after that. On Linux, the same call with a parent folder that does not exist installs pkg from the registry. That lookup is main's, and this PR leaves it as it is. The test row now names no parent.
• The --hot test timed out in 1 of 4 tries on Windows aarch64: a run that the test waited for after a save never came. It now runs the program once (see "Tests").
• CI build 139922 (head b984bfd) ran the changed tests on the same lanes. The 184 jobs that ran passed, the Windows and ASAN lanes included. The macOS x64 test jobs found no agent in this build and in the two before it.

History. A first version kept request -> id on each JSCommonJSModule, as Node's relativeResolveCache does. A review found that it changed behaviour: require(id) and require.resolve(id) could name different files after a disk change, and a Module._resolveFilename override turned it off. This version sits under all entry points and changes no answer.

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Status: waiting for a maintainer's decision. The change is ready for review at b984bfd. Main is merged into it (89452d2).

Reviewed: this PR should stay open because nothing else removes the cost of a repeated resolution, and each review so far kept the design. It should not merge before a maintainer accepts the rule that it adds: every write to what the resolver reads moves resolution_epoch, and every new input of the resolver moves it, calls VirtualMachine::forget_resolutions(), or skips the memo. If a maintainer declines the rule, this PR should close. The description says what the rule buys, what it costs, and which work waits for the answer.

How I reproduced it (Linux x64, release build of main 2596ac5 against node v26.3.0): in a directory with child.cjs and node_modules/pkg, a loop of require("./child.cjs") and require("pkg") after the first load costs about 0.64 us and 0.95 us per call on main, and about 0.07 us and 0.10 us on node. bench/snippets/require-cached.mjs in this PR runs the same cases (HOOK=1 and WORKERS=8 for the two extra rows).

CI on this head (build 139922): the 184 jobs that ran passed, on Linux x64 and aarch64 (glibc and musl), the ASAN lane (which has the new assertions on), Windows x64 and aarch64, and macOS aarch64. The 4 macOS x64 test jobs found no agent, as in the two builds before this one. Buildkite lets them expire after two hours and queues them again, so the status of the build stays pending. The builds of main get agents for these jobs. Earlier heads: build 139517 (2b1bc6c) passed on the same lanes. In build 139874 (91f33da) two tests of this PR failed on Windows, and this head changed both (the description says how).

With #47589 and #47634: each adds a write that the memo has to know of. The notes are on those PRs. The order that a review proposes is #47336, #47634, #47902 and #47948 first, then this PR with one rebase.

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Walkthrough

Adds per-VM resolution memoization with fixed-size LRU storage, resolver-epoch invalidation, testing bindings, resolver tests, and cached require() benchmarks.

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Resolution memoization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Memo storage and string keys src/bun_alloc/lib.rs, src/bun_core/string/mod.rs, src/jsc/resolution_memo.rs, src/jsc/lib.rs	Adds WTF string accessors and a fixed-size two-way LRU memo keyed by specifier, source, resolution kind, and resolver epoch.
Resolver epoch invalidation src/resolver/resolver.rs, src/resolver/lib.rs, src/resolver/dir_info.rs, src/jsc/NodeModuleModule.rs, src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs	Adds the process-wide resolution epoch and advances it after resolver cache refreshes, extension changes, and process.chdir().
VM memo integration and inspection src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs, src/runtime/api/BunObject.rs, src/js/internal-for-testing.ts, src/codegen/generate-js2native.ts	Adds eligible-resolution lookup and storage, VM cleanup, and a testing binding for memoization-hit counts.
Resolution validation and benchmarks src/bun_core/env_var.rs, test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts, bench/snippets/require-cached.mjs	Tests repeated resolutions, invalidation, plugins, compiled executables, and memo capacity. Adds cached require() and require.resolve() benchmarks.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to e99b5

Concurrent or relative-path resolutions can remain stale after filesystem changes. Correct both invalidation paths before merging.

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[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked two things and ruled them out: the drop(self.resolution_memo.take()) in destroy() (src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs) releases WTF-refcounted strings, not GC-heap cells, and sits next to the existing main_resolved_path drop that already does the same at that point; and the lazy StringImpl::hash() read in slot() (src/jsc/resolution_memo.rs) only runs on the JS thread for strings owned by that VM's resolve call, so it is not a cross-thread hash race.

Extended reasoning...

Verified findings exist (epoch coverage of the in-place dir-entry refresh, the zero miss-tag in put, u32 epoch wrap, and retained data: URL copies), so approval is out and the inline comments already signal that a human must look. This note only records what else was examined from the diff: the memo's teardown ordering in VirtualMachine::destroy matches the existing string drops at that site, and the hash() read on WTFStringImplStruct is confined to the JS thread of the owning VM, so the two ruled-out candidates on those lines do not need a human's time.

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[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Re-checked after a531bf3: the scopeguard bumps in src/resolver/lib.rs now cover the unreadable/error exits of an in-place re-read, the u64 epoch with the high-half flush in low_half() rules out wraparound revalidation, and (tag as u8).max(1) keeps a fresh bucket from passing the miss check. Beyond the inline nit, I also checked the new WTFStringImplStruct::hash() read of m_hash_and_flags for cross-thread hazards — the memo is per-VM and only sees specifier/source strings on that VM's JS thread, matching what WTF::StringImpl::hash() itself does; and the process.chdir bump sits after set_top_level_dir, so a resolution racing the chdir carries the pre-bump epoch and is not reused.

Extended reasoning...

The four items from the prior review were verified against the current tree rather than the commit message: _bump_epoch guards are armed before the fallible open/read in both read_directory_with_iterator paths, the epoch is AtomicU64 with the low half stored per entry and a full-table clear when the high half moves, the miss tag can no longer be 0, and remember_resolution skips paths over MAX_PATH_BYTES. The hash() accessor reads the lazily-computed hash word without synchronization, but the only callers are slot() on strings owned by the current VM's thread, so it is no weaker than WebKit's own accessor. The remaining inline finding is a test-coverage nit; a human should still weigh the design (64 KB per VM, process-global epoch shared by workers), which is not something this run can settle.

[claude]

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Inline comments:
In `@src/resolver/lib.rs`:
- Around line 1271-1272: Replace the deferred scopeguard-based epoch bump in the
in_place refresh path with an immediate resolution_epoch::bump() while the
existing cache lock is held. Apply the same change where existing.generation <
generation triggers a stale refresh, and remove both deferred bump guards so
each refresh causes only one immediate invalidation.

In `@test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts`:
- Around line 2218-2224: Strengthen the capacity test around
resolutionMemoHits() so it verifies eviction rather than merely any memo hit:
keep the two entry-population passes, record the hit count, resolve all count
entries again, and assert the resulting hit increase is less than count. Replace
the answeredSome output and expectation with an evicted boolean, while
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[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline nit, I also checked the remaining gap around the new scopeguard in read_directory_with_iterator (src/resolver/lib.rs:1272): a directory the runtime cached as not-found (mark_not_found, resolver.rs:4527-4528) that a later in-process Bun.build() lists does not bump the epoch, but the runtime resolver's shared dir_cache slot stays NotFound (dir_info_cached_maybe_log, resolver.rs:4310) until bust_dir_cache, which does bump, so the memo answer matches what the base branch resolves there.

Extended reasoning...

The only candidate this run examined beyond the posted finding was whether a not-found directory entry being replaced by a fresh listing (via a bundler read at a newer generation) could leave a stale memo hit without an epoch bump. In read_directory_with_iterator the in_place guard is only armed when an existing Entries slot is being re-read, so a NotFound slot turning into Entries does not bump. However, the runtime resolver consults the process-singleton DirInfo dir_cache first, and a slot marked not-found there short-circuits (status != Unknown) without re-reading the fs entries, so the base branch keeps returning the same fallback until bust_dir_cache removes it — and that path now bumps the epoch. The memo therefore agrees with the resolver in that scenario.

[claude]

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[claude]

I re-reviewed the latest push (e6242d4) and found no bugs, but this adds a process-global invariant (the resolution epoch) that every future directory-cache mutation must honor, so a maintainer look is still worthwhile before merging.

What was reviewed on this push:

• Epoch coverage: traced every write to the directory/entries cache (EntriesMap::put/mark_not_found, DirInfo::put_slot, both in-place DirEntry replacements, the two in-place re-read scopeguards, bust_dir_cache, require.extensions, process.chdir) — each now bumps after the change; all watcher/hot-reload/dev-server paths reach the cache only through bust_dir_cache.
• Memo key vs. resolver inputs: _resolve depends on specifier, source, is_esm, is_a_file_path, cwd (relative sources are not stored), the dir cache, custom_dir_paths, the package manager, plugins and macro mode — each is either in the key, epoch-guarded, or a memo bypass; Require vs RequireResolve only differ for builtins, which return before the memo.
• put retention/ordering after the "same pair, older epoch" rewrite: the found way is swapped to MRU, the path is only reused when 8-bit and pure ASCII, and every replaced Entry drops its three refs; hash() matches WTF's s_flagCount = 8 / 24-bit hash.
• CI_ASSERT double-resolve path: retry_on_not_found=false keeps the assert from mutating the cache, and debug_assert! is live in the release-assertions/canary profile where CI_ASSERT is true.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR adds src/jsc/resolution_memo.rs (a 1024x2-way set-associative cache of resolver answers keyed on the WTF hashes of specifier and source plus a Kind bit pair), consults it in VirtualMachine::resolve_maybe_needs_trailing_slash, and adds a process-global bun_resolver::resolution_epoch (SeqCst AtomicU64) bumped at every site that changes what the resolver would answer. Supporting changes expose WTFStringImplStruct::hash(), String::as_wtf_impl(), a BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_RESOLUTION_MEMO kill switch, a bun:internal-for-testing hit counter, and ~420 lines of tests in test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts. The latest commit (e6242d4) reworked put to keep an entry across an epoch change when the answer is unchanged, moved the tag to the bits directly below the bucket index, added epoch bumps on EntriesMap::put/mark_not_found/DirInfo::put_slot when a previously checked slot gets a new answer, and made a memo hit under CI_ASSERT also run the resolver and assert agreement.

Security risks

None specific to this change: no user-controlled bytes become paths or reach C APIs, and the memo only caches answers the resolver already produced. The security-relevant property is false hits (a stale path being loaded); I checked the key against every input _resolve reads and every cache-mutation path and found each covered by the key, the epoch, or a memo bypass. Memory is bounded (64 KB of buckets plus three string refs per entry, both strings capped at MAX_PATH_BYTES before hashing), and all refs are dropped on entry replacement, high-half flush, and VirtualMachine::destroy.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is a ~930-line change to the hot path of every require/import/Bun.resolveSync, and its correctness rests on an invariant ("every future write to the directory cache must bump the epoch") that lives outside the new file and is easy for a later PR to break. The prior review threads on this PR were all resolved by the author; from the diff, each concern they raised (missing bump on error re-reads, first-miss tag of 0, u32 epoch wrap, long data: URL retention, eviction test that never read an entry, build-generation race) has a corresponding code or test change in later commits, so I did not find any unaddressed objection. Still, a maintainer should weigh the design (process-global epoch vs. per-VM state, and the perf trade-off the description reports for the miss path) before this merges.

Other factors

The tests exercise every entry point plus the stale-answer scenarios (failed lookup, require.extensions, Bun.build() re-read and directory gone, nearer package found mid-build, process.chdir from a relative source and in a compiled executable, late onResolve plugin, blob: revoke, eviction with 800 pairs). The hit-count assertions that depend on bucket/tag sharing accept 3 or 4 of 5, and the one exact afterChange: 4 relies on the child.cjs entry surviving roughly ten other insertions across 1024 buckets, which is a negligible collision probability. The Bun.build() loops are bounded at 100 builds and the compile test drains stderr before awaiting exit. I did not run the build locally; the assessment is from reading the diff and the surrounding resolver, hot-reloader, and string code.

This review covers commit e6242d4, which is no longer the latest commit on this pull request; later commits are not covered by it.

[claude]

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 reference accounting of the redesigned memo (get hands out a cloned ref that into_string adopts; Borrowed is ManuallyDrop so share()/keep() are the only refs an entry owns; keep() copies substrings and external impls), that Kind not keying ResolveMode::Require vs RequireResolve is safe because the two only diverge in the alias-table path, which returns before found_by_resolver is set and so is never kept, and that resolution_memo is reset in destroy. I did not run the benchmarks or the test suites, so the perf table and the "neither assertion fired" claims rest on the author's runs; the process-global epoch plus the new "every resolver input must bump it or call forget_resolutions()" rule is a design decision a maintainer should weigh.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds a per-VM resolver-answer memo keyed by specifier/source WTF hashes and a resolution Kind, guarded by a process-global epoch bumped from the resolver's cache writes, and splits VirtualMachine::resolve_without_on_resolve into a memo front-end and the resolver path. It touches no auth, crypto or input-parsing surface, but it is a cache on the module-resolution hot path where a false hit changes which file loads. Refcount balance, lifecycle reset and the Kind-vs-ResolveMode key were checked by reading; benchmarks and tests were not run here. The remaining inline finding is a test nit, and the design introduces a cross-cutting invariant the PR itself says needs maintainer agreement, so a human look is still worthwhile.

[claude]

Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

[claude]

Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

[claude]

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