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Problem

  • The 94 error cases of test/js/bun/yaml/yaml-test-suite.test.ts assert a bare toThrow(). Any exception passes.
  • The file takes 22 to 40 s on the two darwin lanes and 0.1 to 1.0 s on the others (Buildkite 131050, 131032, 130806). The test file is not the cause, so this PR does not change that time.

Fix

  • Each error case compares the caught error with new SyntaxError("<message>"). toEqual compares the class and the message of two errors, so the file still makes 408 expect() calls.
  • translate_yaml_test_suite_to_bun.py emits the same assertion. It asks the debug build of the checkout (or --bun) for each message, and stops if it gets no answer.
  • Verified: bun bd test test/js/bun/yaml/yaml-test-suite.test.ts, 402 pass, 3.0 to 3.2 s before and 2.8 to 3.7 s after. The generator output for the 94 cases equals the file.

Background

  • The darwin time comes from a heap snapshot that stays registered in the VM. While it does, JSC walks every cell of the heap at the end of every collection. [JSC] Prune a retained heap snapshot only after a full collection WebKit#656 removes that walk for eden collections.
  • A bun test --parallel worker on darwin runs about 200 files. shell-blocking-pipe.test.ts and heap-snapshot.test.ts take a snapshot in that worker, xml.test.ts leaves 3,000,000 cells, and CI collects after every expect().
  • The runner runs a modified test file outside the parallel batch. In this PR's CI (build 131407) it takes 0.16 s on darwin aarch64 and 0.29 s on x64. That is not the batch time.
Notes

Where the darwin time goes

  • Build 131050, darwin aarch64, shard 1: one bun test --parallel=4 batch holds 817 files. The worker that runs this file runs about 114 consecutive files, from shell/bunshell-instance.test.ts to yaml/yaml-test-suite.test.ts. Their times add up to 101.8 s. The batch takes 102.6 s.
  • Two files call a snapshot API inside that worker: test/js/bun/shell/shell-blocking-pipe.test.ts (generateHeapSnapshot("v8")) and test/js/bun/util/heap-snapshot.test.ts (Bun.generateHeapSnapshot(), 7 calls). The snapshot stays in the VM's HeapProfiler. From then on Heap::didFinishCollection calls removeDeadHeapSnapshotNodes, which is MarkedSpace::forEachDeadCell over the whole heap, after every collection.
  • test/js/bun/xml/xml.test.ts runs just before the yaml files and leaves about 3,000,000 cells (80 MB) in the old generation. BUN_GARBAGE_COLLECTOR_LEVEL=1 requests a collection for every expect().
  • Darwin aarch64 against debian x64 in that build, same worker: yaml-test-suite.test.ts 32.2 s against 0.2 s, yaml-block-scalar-matrix.test.ts 7.8 s against 0.1 s, expect.test.js 16.6 s against 2.0 s, stringWidth.test.ts 6.0 s against 0.5 s. Linux has 20 shards and Windows has 8, so these files land in different workers there.

This PR's CI run (Buildkite build 131407)

  • The file is modified here, so the runner runs it alone in a new process, with the same CI environment: [3/3073] on darwin aarch64 shard 1 takes 157 ms, [3/1291] on darwin x64 shard 0 takes 286 ms. Both pass 402 tests.
  • In the parallel batch on main the same file takes 32.2 s and 26.8 s (build 131050), 21.6 s and 32.0 s (131032), and 39.6 s on aarch64 (130806).
  • So on the same machines the file is fast when the worker has no history. After this PR merges the file is in the batch again, and the batch time stays until [JSC] Prune a retained heap snapshot only after a full collection WebKit#656 lands.

Replay on Linux x64 (release canary 1.4.4-canary.1+5c6d4e24c, the same 112 files in one worker, CI environment)

file with the two snapshot files without them
yaml-test-suite.test.ts 5.2 to 12.3 s (2.9 to 9.4 s user CPU) 2.3 s (0.19 s user CPU)
yaml-block-scalar-matrix.test.ts 2.3 to 11.1 s 1.0 s
expect.test.js 9.2 s 4.5 s
stringWidth.test.ts 4.3 s 1.3 s
  • gdb on the worker during yaml-test-suite.test.ts: 10 of 14 main-thread samples are JSC::MarkedBlock::Handle::isLive under JSC::Heap::didFinishCollection under JSC::Collector::runEndPhase.
  • One process, 3,000,000 live objects: edenGC() from bun:jsc takes 0.05 to 2.4 ms before Bun.generateHeapSnapshot() and 13 to 17 ms after it.

Why this PR does not change it

The assertions

message cases
YAML Parse error: Unexpected token 52
YAML Parse error: Unexpected character 18
YAML Parse error: Tab characters cannot be used as indentation 9
YAML Parse error: Multiline implicit key 8
YAML Parse error: Unexpected document end 2
Multiple anchors, Unexpected document start, Unexpected EOF, Unresolved tag handle, Multiple YAML directives 1 each
  • One expect() and not two: expect(new TypeError("x")).toEqual(new SyntaxError("x")) fails, and so does a different message or a missing error. A second expect() is a second collection request in CI.
  • I ran the generator against yaml-test-suite 6e6c296 with yaml@2.9.1, formatted the output with prettier, and compared it with the file. The 94 error cases are byte-identical. The file differs from the generator output only where it did before this PR: the import order and 5 success cases that were corrected by hand.
  • Release canary, no CI environment: 73 to 109 ms before, 71 to 91 ms after.

[auto-merge] gate passed · iteration 0 · 2 files touched

passes on PR (with fix)
Test-only change.

Debug/ASAN (expected pass):
$ bun bd test 'test/js/bun/yaml/yaml-test-suite.test.ts'
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test test/js/bun/yaml/yaml-test-suite.test.ts
bun test v1.4.4 (367d939d9)

test/js/bun/yaml/yaml-test-suite.test.ts:
(pass) yaml-test-suite/229Q [55.04ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/236B [42.15ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/26DV [6.01ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/27NA [2.20ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/2AUY [2.65ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/2CMS [3.30ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/2EBW [3.19ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/2G84/00 [3.44ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/2G84/01 [3.08ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/2G84/02 [1.47ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/2G84/03 [1.62ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/2JQS [2.51ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/2LFX [1.46ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/2SXE [2.29ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/2XXW [2.34ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/33X3 [2.04ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/35KP [3.71ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/36F6 [2.38ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/3ALJ [1.96ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/3GZX [10.33ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/3HFZ [5.06ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/3MYT [2.67ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/3R3P [2.66ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/3RLN/00 [2.16ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/3RLN/01 [1.64ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/3RLN/02 [1.92ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/3RLN/03 [1.67ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/3RLN/04 [5.38ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/3RLN/05 [1.62ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/3UYS [2.10ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/4ABK [1.68ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/4CQQ [1.91ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/4EJS [3.70ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/4FJ6 [8.61ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/4GC6 [1.94ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/4H7K [2.98ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/4HVU [2.73ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/4JVG [2.78ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/4MUZ/00 [2.04ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/4MUZ/01 [1.44ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/4MUZ/02 [1.71ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/4Q9F [1.44ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/4QFQ [1.64ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/4RWC [1.69ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/4UYU [1.21ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/4V8U [1.46ms]
(pass) yaml-test-suite/4WA9 [2.02ms]
(pass) yaml-test
... (truncated)
Exit: 0
diff hotspot
.../bun/yaml/translate_yaml_test_suite_to_bun.py   |  68 +-
 test/js/bun/yaml/yaml-test-suite.test.ts           | 941 +++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 724 insertions(+), 285 deletions(-)

gate history · 3 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

evidence per changed file
file                                                  reads  edits  tests
test/js/bun/yaml/translate_yaml_test_suite_to_bun.py      6      9     51
test/js/bun/yaml/yaml-test-suite.test.ts                  0      0     39

…ror case

The 94 error cases asserted a bare toThrow(), which any exception
satisfies. Each one now compares the caught error with
new SyntaxError("<message>"). toEqual compares the class and the
message of two errors, so the file still makes 408 expect() calls.

translate_yaml_test_suite_to_bun.py emits the same assertion. It asks
the bun given by --bun for the message of each rejected input.
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Updated 12:27 PM PT - Oct 23rd, 2026

✅ @robobun, your commit 2ade81cea78cc8fe8e01cf759123a5ac0ca6e450 passed in Build #131407! 🎉


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 46610

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-46610 executable, so you can run:

bun-46610 --bun

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Status: ready for review. Test-only.

How the darwin time was reproduced (Linux x64, release canary 1.4.4-canary.1+5c6d4e24c):

  1. Set the CI environment: BUN_GARBAGE_COLLECTOR_LEVEL=1, BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_INTERNAL_FOR_TESTING=1, BUN_JSC_randomIntegrityAuditRate=1.0.
  2. Take the 112 files that come before this file in the darwin aarch64 worker of Buildkite build 131050, from test/js/bun/shell/bunshell-instance.test.ts to test/js/bun/yaml/yaml-test-suite.test.ts.
  3. Run them with bun test --parallel=2 --dots --reporter=junit --reporter-outfile=out.xml, with enough slow filler files in front that one worker runs the 112 files in order.
  4. yaml-test-suite.test.ts takes 5.2 to 12.3 s. Without shell-blocking-pipe.test.ts and heap-snapshot.test.ts in the list it takes 2.3 s.

The fix for that time is oven-sh/WebKit#656. This PR changes the assertions only.

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The YAML test generator accepts a Bun executable path and retrieves parser error messages. Generated tests and updated invalid-input cases assert specific SyntaxError messages when available.

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Generate parser error expectations
test/js/bun/yaml/translate_yaml_test_suite_to_bun.py
The generator adds a --bun option and runs the selected executable on YAML inputs to retrieve SyntaxError messages. Generated tests assert the message when available, or check the error type otherwise.
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Use the same Bun executable for generation and test execution.

When --bun points to one build, the generator stores that build's YAML message in each assertion. The generated test later parses YAML with whichever Bun runs the test. toEqual compares non-empty error messages, so a diagnostic difference can fail the affected assertions even when both runtimes throw SyntaxError.

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+ python3 test/js/bun/yaml/translate_yaml_test_suite_to_bun.py --bun <bun-under-test>
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

…en it cannot

The generator asked the bun on PATH for the message of each rejected
input unless --bun was given. It now asks build/debug/bun-debug of the
checkout, so the messages come from the parser under test.

A probe that failed raised, and the loop over the test directories
skips a test whose generation raises. So a missing or crashing bun
left the error tests out of the output. The generator now exits with
an error and writes no file.
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About the note outside the diff (use the same bun to generate the file and to run it): the generator now asks the debug build of the checkout by default (2ade81c). That is the build that bun bd test runs. A message that differs between the file and the bun that runs the test is what these assertions are there to report.

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LGTM — commit 2ade81c addresses both points from the earlier review (the probe now defaults to the checkout's debug build and aborts non-zero instead of letting a failed probe drop an error case), and the regenerated suite follows.

What was reviewed:

  • The new probe in translate_yaml_test_suite_to_bun.py: per-probe NamedTemporaryFile removed in finally, every failure path (non-zero exit, empty stdout, bad JSON, timeout, missing binary) reaches sys.exit rather than the per-test skip.
  • The generated assertion: toEqual(new SyntaxError(msg)) fails on a missing throw, a different class, or a different message; the error: unknown capture stays undefined when nothing throws.
  • The 94 pinned messages against the parser source: all prefixed from YAMLObject.rs:1114 with bodies present in src/parsers/yaml.rs.
Extended reasoning...

The change is test-only: a Python generator script under test/js/bun/yaml gains a subprocess probe that asks the debug bun for each error case's SyntaxError message, and the checked-in generated test file is regenerated so 94 error tests assert class and message instead of a bare toThrow(). It touches no runtime code and no security-sensitive surface; the only subprocess is the local bun binary run on a temp file the script itself writes. The two concerns raised in the prior review (PATH bun default, silent drop of failed probes) are both fixed in the latest commit, the one third-party inline thread was resolved by a non-author, and the hunt ran dry with no findings, which decided approve.

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