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Problem

• Const inlining copies a const string of any length into every read. bun build --minify prints a 10,000-byte const with 5 reads as 50,091 bytes (esbuild: 10,090). bun file.js peaks at 910 MB on a 60 KB file.
• Cause: P::handle_identifier (src/js_parser/p.rs) returns the const_values entry for every read.

Fix

• A read of a const string over 64 UTF-16 units stays a name, so the string prints once.
• Macro, require() and import() arguments, enum initializers and class keys still get the literal. .length, typeof, tests and comparisons still fold.
• Verified: test/bundler/bundler_minify.test.ts (106 new tests, 50 fail on main), plus dce, transpiler and macro suites.
• Self-reviewed: 37 concerns raised, 33 addressed. Not done: an issue for the empty-module load, a React Compiler test, two leftovers (Notes).

Background

• const_values maps a leading const to its value. bun build --minify-syntax, bun file.js and Bun.Transpiler({ inline: true }) read it.
• Considered esbuild's cap in can_be_const_value: macro(CONST) then fails. Built a printer-side Expr node: 450 lines, 2.7 KB more.
• A fuzzer found this, not a user.

Downsides

• Above 64 units a run-time read loads a variable, and fn.toString() shows the name. A closure over a long const costs 20 more instructions per call. See fix(transpiler): don't inline const values into function bodies #27160.
• + and template folds are lost. A long const read only after a folded return stays, as in esbuild: 85 to 174 bytes in one bundle.
• A long const read once keeps its declaration: +8 bytes. On 32,036 npm files 37 grow by 2,830 bytes and 21 shrink by 65,717.

Notes

Question for a maintainer. Above 64 units, may a run-time read print the name and not the literal? #27160 stopped run-time inlining into all function bodies and was closed with "Nooo". This PR keeps run-time inlining for numbers, booleans and strings at or under 64 units. If the answer is no, the bound can apply to bun build and Bun.Transpiler only. The 910 MB case and the empty-module load below then stay.

Landing order. #41848, #30936 and #45507 move the tail of visit_stmts into minify_visited_stmts(stmts), which has no kind, and run it for a switch after every case is visited. A merge with any of them has no conflict in visit/mod.rs and does not compile: the kind == StmtsKind::SwitchStmt clause of this PR lands in that function. The PR that lands second deletes the clause. It is not needed there. #45507 also removes the second visit of a statement (is_revisit_for_substitution). It conflicts in p.rs and visit_expr.rs, and the PR that lands second deletes the three hooks of this PR in that visit. Other conflicts beyond the cache version line (git merge-tree): #35548 and #46924 in p.rs and visit/mod.rs, #45581 in p.rs, #44620 in visit_expr.rs. The convert_template_contents hunk is the one of #38993, byte for byte, so the two merge in either order.

Numbers. Release builds of main 179664e and of this branch, Linux x64. Instruction counts are user-space instructions from perf_event_open, median of 5 runs.

	main	this PR
bun build --minify, 10,000-byte const, 5 reads	50,091 bytes, 5 copies	10,095 bytes, 1 copy (esbuild 0.28.2: 10,090)
bun build --no-bundle --target=bun, same file	60,117 bytes, 6 copies	10,127 bytes, 1 copy
Bun.Transpiler({ inline: true }), same file	6 copies	1 copy
bun build --minify, 392-byte file: 13 consts, each `${prev}${prev}`, 3 reads of the last	98,355 bytes	289 bytes (esbuild: 219)
bun build --minify --target=bun of @asamuzakjp/css-color 2.8.3	181,729 bytes	166,737 bytes (esbuild: 177,282)
run time, f.toString().length of function f() { return [LONG, LONG] }, 100-byte const	235	39 (Node: 36)
run time, 4,000,000-byte const with 20 reads	80,000,626 chars of source, 244 MB RSS	666 chars, 40 MB
plain bun e.js, 60,259-byte file (40,000-byte const, 10,000 reads), peak RSS	910 MB	30 MB (let: 30 MB)
plain bun e.mjs, 144,087-byte file (96,000-byte const, 24,000 reads)	exit 0, prints nothing, 4,477 MB	runs, 32 MB
runtime transpiler cache entry for a 15,068-byte source	25,020,284 bytes	24,881 bytes
instructions, 10 transforms of a 200-byte const with 200,000 reads	12,160 M	7,370 M (-39.4%)
instructions, 10 transforms of typescript.js (9.1 MB)	10,096.79 M	10,081.32 M (-0.153%)

• The report's table of 9 shapes (const read 1, 2, 5, 20 times, let, const behind a statement, const in a function, export const, template literal) with --minify: every row is byte-equal to esbuild 0.28.2.
• Bound sweep, 192 rows (lengths 63, 64, 65, 1000 ASCII and 64, 65 with one non-ASCII unit. 0, 1, 2, 5 reads. Function and module scope. --minify, --minify-syntax, --no-bundle --target=bun, Bun.Transpiler): every row at or under 64 units is byte-identical to main. Over the bound 57 rows shrink and 15 grow. The 15 are a const read once: +8 bytes with --minify, +11 to +15 without identifier minification.
• npm corpus, 32,036 files of test/node_modules/.bun (190 MB), Bun.Transpiler with inline: true: 58 files change. 21 shrink by 65,717 bytes in total. 37 grow by 2,830 bytes in total, at most 319 in one file. With inline: false no file changes.
• Choice of 64: of 3,455 const NAME = "literal" declarations in that corpus (regex count), 162 are over 64 units, 1,183 are over 20, and 3,078 are over 3 (the cap of esbuild).
• Per construct, instructions in the parser: identifier read 0.0, call expression 0.0, hit of a number or short string const +8.5, const declaration +2, an unused const that a function removes +3, const a = b declaration +9, a.length +5, a === b +3, if (a) b -47. _tsc.js (6.2 MB): -0.160%.
• The if number is why the totals are negative. s_if asked expr_can_be_removed_if_unused about the test of every if. It now asks only for an if with no body, which is the one case that uses the answer. The output of 2,040 if shapes and of the corpus is the same as before.
• Sizes: release .text 82,164,617 -> 82,171,273 bytes (+6,656), file 107,730,656 -> 107,734,752 (one page). handle_identifier 1,506 -> 1,623 bytes (JS) and 2,188 -> 2,300 (TS). P stays 4,080 bytes: the two new bools use end padding.

Tests. Each clause of the change was removed in turn in a debug build. Each removal fails at least one of the new tests. The one exception is the stack-depth guard of the condition walk: the visit pass uses more stack per level and stops first. test/bundler/bundler_bytecode_portable.test.ts pins the hash of two --minify builds whose corpus has a 72-unit const: the four hashes are updated, and they are the same on the 6 Linux lanes and on a local x64 build. Suites run on the debug build: bundler_minify, esbuild/dce, esbuild/default (one test there spawns 40 builds and runs close to its 5 s limit on this machine's debug build, with and without the change), esbuild/ts, bundler_edgecase, bundler_cjs2esm, bundler_feature_flag, bundler_string, bundler_env, transpiler.test.js, macro-test, runtime-transpiler, react-compiler, both react-compiler-fixtures suites, and regression/issue/22656. A differential run of 100 programs in two scopes (Node, main and this PR, run directly and through three bundle modes) shows only changes toward Node.

Fuzzing of the use counts. A read that is un-counted while it still prints removes its declaration, and the output throws ReferenceError. Three generators looked for that against Node, through the run-time door, Bun.Transpiler and bun build:

• 7,600 random functions.
• 11,600 functions for the second visit, removed aliases and empty if bodies. Each has one read that must survive.
• An enumeration of 558,006 programs: small expressions in 19 statement contexts, 8 of them with a single-use let. Each has one read that must survive. It ran at function scope and at module scope.

None differs from Node. The two random generators fail at once when an un-count is made to run where it must not.

Run-time cost of a name read (x86-64, instructions per call, a 100-byte const):

	main	this PR
function read() { return LONG }, all JIT tiers	8.8	9.1
same, Baseline JIT only (BUN_JSC_useDFGJIT=0)	109.1	118.4
same, interpreter only (BUN_JSC_useJIT=0)	525.0	598.0
make()() where make returns a closure over a long local const, all tiers	24.9	45.0

A function that returns a module-scope const goes from 2 to 5 unlinked bytecodes (resolve_scope, get_from_scope, check_tdz).

How the pieces fit.

• The bound is in the one reader of const_values that substitutes, so it covers a leading const, a const that holds a macro result, and a const pattern over a macro result. A let or a var that holds a macro result is substituted as before (js_parser: admit a macro result to const_values only for const, and narrow a destructured result into a new node #35548 and Bug with --minify-syntax and macro #12067 are about those).
• The unit is EString::len(): UTF-16 code units for a string literal or a macro result, UTF-8 bytes for a define value.
• const_literal_required is set while the parser visits macro, require(), require.resolve() and import() arguments, enum initializers and computed class member keys. feature() and delete look the name up after the visit. The class key matters with useDefineForClassFields: false: a field is moved into the constructor only when every computed field key is a literal.
• const T = S gives T the string of S. A read of T prints T. macro(T) gets the string.
• A fold that removes the read still sees the value, and takes the read out of the use counts (take_long_const_read). A read that is only tested (!S, if (S), S ? a : b, S && x, a loop test) becomes true. So does a read that is an operand of && or || in such a condition (if (x && S), !(x || S)): long_const_condition walks that tree before the boolean simplifier drops the operand. typeof S is "string". A comparison with a literal or with another such const folds (data_eql). .length folds, which docs/bundler/macros.mdx shows for a macro result. So if (!URL) require("./dev-only") and if (ENV === "production") still drop the branch, and a const that is only tested is removed: a key from --define that the code only checks for does not ship.
• SideEffects::to_boolean and to_null_or_undefined answer for a read that stays, so S || x and S ?? x are S.
• Three more places drop a read and take it out of the use counts. simplify_unused_expr drops an unused identifier (KEY || fail()). The scope-exit filter removes an alias declaration (const T = S). s_if drops an if with no body together with its test, and walks the test with simplify_unused_expr.
• A let that holds such a read and is used once is substituted into its use, and the statement is visited again. That second visit does not reach handle_identifier. e_identifier gives the moved read its literal when the consumer needs one, so let spec = LONG; return cond ? import(spec) : null still bundles the module. A fold in that second visit also takes the read out of the use counts (forget_long_const_read). The second visit can find a branch dead that the first visit counted as live: const prod = true; return prod ? A : B. e_identifier takes each such read out (forget_dropped_long_const_read). A second visit starts only in live code, because the one use that moved was counted.
• A read stays a counted use, so the use_count_estimate == 0 filter and tree shaking keep the declaration. One guard covers a read that is visited after the statement list of the declaration: a later switch case.
• The single-use substitution does not take such a const. It visits the statement again, and that second visit turns (0, eval)(code) into a direct eval and rejects exports.x = v (js_parser: do not visit a statement again after a single-use value is inlined #45507). A leading const string never went through it.
• convert_template_contents in the React Compiler read only the first segment of a folded template quasi (react_compiler: keep every folded segment of template heads, tails and computed keys #38993). A template can now hold a name between two folded pieces, so `${LONG} ${SHORT} px-4` printed as `${LONG} `.
• TypeScript import A = S becomes const A = S. The import scan drops an unused import-equals whose value is an identifier, as a type alias, and it drops the whole statement. Two changes keep that correct. The scan keeps an alias of a long const string: on main its value is the literal, so the statement stays. And the parser does not merge an import-equals statement with a neighbour declaration (Local::can_merge_before_import_scan). Main merged them and then dropped the neighbour with the alias. For a leading const that was harmless only because every read was the literal.
• RuntimeTranspilerCache version 43 -> 44.

Behaviour that changes besides size (strings over 64 units only):

• A read that runs before the declaration throws as in Node. Before, the read was the literal. It takes a function that is declared after the const and called before it, for example from an earlier const cfg = load() or through an import cycle. In a bundle the declaration is a var, so that read is undefined, as in an esbuild bundle. .length and a test of the value fold there as before.
• A const declared in one switch case and read in a later case is a read of the binding, as in Node (Bun inlines constants across switch cases, preventing an error that would happen in node #18477). A --target=browser bundle then holds let A in a case. When bun runs that bundle, the let meets the single-use bug that minify: don't inline a single-use let out of a switch case another case still references #41848 fixes.
• A read inside with (obj) reads obj.NAME when the object has it, as in Node.
• S + "x", a template with S, S < "y" and S[0] are not folded. An unused export that is built from a long const then stays in a bundle: an import of one const from the constants module of @asamuzakjp/css-color is 56 -> 2,136 bytes (esbuild: 1,562). const U = `${S}/x` is then not a const value, so macro(U) fails and require(U) is not bundled. const U = S + "/x" never was one.
• A function that is sent elsewhere as text (fn.toString() for page.evaluate(fn), new Function, a worker blob) carried the literal. Above 64 units it carries the name, which is not defined there. In Node it never carried the literal (Runtime transpiler inlines const literals into closures, so Function.prototype.toString() no longer returns the source text #43460, requireing a module is sharing the current global scope with said module #12710).
• A const whose only reads follow a folded return keeps its declaration: if (process.env.NODE_ENV === "production") return h; h.token = TOKEN; return h with --minify is 85 -> 174 bytes (esbuild: 171). Main strips those statements after it counted their reads. The literal left with them. A name leaves its count. To close this, the visit has to mark statements after a jump as dead, or a walk has to un-count each stripped statement.
• Other declarations that stay with no read left: an unused long const in a switch case. A const in the same statement list as the declaration that held its last read (const T = S with T unused, or let t = S; return !t): the list removes its unused consts before it moves single-use values. A const whose only read leaves with void S, ![S], an indexed array literal, or a function literal that is folded away.
• A read that a lowering pass moves can meet a binding of the same name, as a let does today. class A { x = S; constructor(S) {} } with useDefineForClassFields: false reads the parameter. In namespace N { export const x = "..."; export function f(N) { return x } } the read is N.x of the parameter (js_parser: rename the TS namespace closure argument when a nested binding shadows it #41984 is an open fix). Both need a run with no renamer, so a bundle is not affected.
• In the corpus, 5 files have a declaration built from a long const (77 declarations, 56 of them in one highlight.js language file).

One change at any length (TypeScript, minify.syntax, no bundling): an import-equals statement is not merged with a neighbour declaration. An unused alias is dropped alone. On main import X = NS.Y; const helper = () => 42 lost helper, and an alias after a const was never dropped. Two used aliases of one namespace print as two statements and no longer as const { Y: X, Z } = NS. A bundle is not affected: the linker merges after the scan.

Not changed here (same class, copied per read as before):

• A string at or under 64 units: a 64-byte const with 5 reads is 411 bytes (esbuild: 159). One read of a 64-unit string prints 66 bytes, or 386 on the bun target when every unit is a \uXXXX escape.
• A read inside a function that is inside a require(), import() or macro argument: require(pick(() => [S, S, S, S, S])) is 50,206 bytes on both builds. A computed class member key is the literal too.
• TypeScript string enum members and --define strings: 50,029 bytes for 5 reads of 10,000 bytes, the same as esbuild.
• Macro-result arrays and objects: [macro] minify breaks object equality #7196 tracks them and js_parser: keep a const macro object or array as one value, and fold macro().prop only for a read #46924 changes them.
• A component-local const in a React-compiled component: the constant propagation of the React Compiler copies it, as upstream does (4 copies for 4 reads on both builds).
• Number consts: 3.141592653589793 with 5 reads is 104 bytes (esbuild: 48).

Found on the way, not fixed here.

• An unused TypeScript import A = N.x beside a used import B = N.y runs the last statement of the file twice (bun t.ts, bun build). It reproduces on main with a namespace and no long string. The multi-pass loop over parts in P::to_ast (src/js_parser/p.rs) scans the stale tail again. esbuild repeats only a small pass there (scanForUnusedTSImportEquals). No issue tracks it yet.
• A module whose printed text passes the maximum string length loads as an empty module: exit 0, nothing runs. src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs:3267 and src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerStore.rs:1149 copy the printed text with String::clone_latin1 and do not check the result. The 144,087-byte file in the table reaches it on main. A 192,091-byte file with a TypeScript string enum still reaches it with this PR (5,229 MB). No issue tracks it yet.

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How the problem was reproduced (release build of main 179664e, Linux x64):

• e.js is const ICON = "x..."; with a 10,000-byte string, then five lines console.log(i, ICON);. bun build e.js --minify --outfile=o.js writes 50,091 bytes with 5 copies of the string. With this PR it writes 10,095 bytes with 1 copy.
• p.js is const A = "v..."; with a 40,000-byte string, then globalThis.x = [A, A, ...]; with 10,000 reads. Plain bun p.js peaks at 910 MB. With this PR it peaks at 30 MB.

PR: #46966

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The parser now preserves names for constant strings longer than 64 UTF-16 code units in ordinary reads and uses their values in selected literal-required contexts. Parser analysis, bundler and runtime tests, React Compiler string handling, cache versioning, and documentation are updated.

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Long constant strings

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Preserve and track long constant reads src/js_parser/p.rs, src/js_parser/scan/*, src/js_parser/visit/mod.rs, src/js_parser/visit/visit_binary.rs, src/ast/s.rs	The parser preserves reads of over-limit constant strings and tracks their values for analysis. Side-effect checks, comparisons, declaration cleanup, import-equals handling, and declaration merging account for those reads.
Resolve literals and fold long-constant expressions src/js_parser/fold.rs, src/js_parser/visit/visit_expr.rs, src/js_parser/visit/visit_stmt.rs	Import, call, enum, and computed-property processing uses long constant values where literals are required. Condition handling and eligible .length reads can also fold long constants.
Validate and document long-string handling test/bundler/bundler_minify.test.ts, test/bundler/bundler_bytecode_portable.test.ts, packages/bun-types/bun.d.ts, docs/runtime/transpiler.mdx, src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerCache.rs	Tests cover the 64-unit boundary, literal-required contexts, runtime behavior, and output duplication. Documentation describes the threshold and exceptions. The runtime transpiler cache version advances to 44.

React Compiler rope strings

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Flatten rope strings into arena storage src/react_compiler/lowering/build_hir/expr.rs	Roped cooked template strings and roped string literals use arena-backed flattened bytes before conversion.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#35548: Changes macro results and constant binding narrowing in the constant-substitution flow.
• oven-sh/bun#42019: Changes string representation and length handling for define, environment, macro, and inlined strings.
• oven-sh/bun#46269: Fixes minified string folding for environment values joined to another string.

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- Line 2214: Update long_const_read in the parser to accept E::Identifier by
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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the needs_literal_args restructuring in src/js_parser/visit/visit_expr.rs: the only code now between the old and new set points of ignore_dce_annotations/should_fold_typescript_constant_expressions is the --drop block, which reads neither flag, so the arg visit sees the same state as before. The new const T = S alias branch in src/js_parser/visit/mod.rs can also populate const_values for a let whose initializer folded to a long-const name after a macro call, but the base already stored the folded string for that shape, so it is not a regression.

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The change alters const-string inlining in the JS parser (src/js_parser/p.rs, visit/, fold.rs, scan_side_effects.rs), bumps the runtime transpiler cache version, adds a React Compiler rope flattening, and ships 683 lines of bundler_minify tests; it touches no auth, crypto or injection surface. Five inline findings were posted, so a human look is already signalled; this note only records two further concerns that were examined and ruled out from the code.

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Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

• 🔴 src/js_parser/visit/mod.rs — TypeScript users with useDefineForClassFields: false lose constructor-assignment lowering for every field of a class whose computed key reads a const string over 64 units. The lower_fields gate at src/js_parser/visit/mod.rs:1283-1291 only accepts an EString/ENumber computed key; on the base branch the key was inlined to a literal, now it stays an EIdentifier, so the whole class keeps native [[Define]] fields and inherited setters are no longer invoked. Fix: treat a computed key that long_const_read resolves (or any side-effect-free const read) as a literal key in this gate, or run long_const_literal on the key before the check, so lowering still happens for every class that lowered before.

  Why this was flagged

  Input: a TS file under a tsconfig with "useDefineForClassFields": false, transpiled with inlining on: const KEY = "<65+ chars>"; class A { set x(v) { this._x = v } } class B extends A { [KEY] = 1; x = 2 }. The key [KEY] is visited at src/js_parser/visit/mod.rs:1143; on the base branch handle_identifier replaced it with the EString, so the check at mod.rs:1283-1291 saw an EString computed key and lower_fields stayed true, emitting this["..."] = 1; this.x = 2 in the constructor. After this change src/js_parser/p.rs:2246-2256 keeps the read as an EIdentifier, the any(...) at mod.rs:1284 matches it, lower_fields becomes false, so B is printed with native class fields. At run time x = 2 now defines an own property instead of calling A's setter, and this._x is never set. No test in test/bundler/bundler_minify.test.ts covers a long const as a class field key.

  Verification: The computed key is visited at src/js_parser/visit/mod.rs:1143; after this PR src/js_parser/p.rs:2246-2256 leaves a long const read as an EIdentifier. The unchanged gate at src/js_parser/visit/mod.rs:1283-1291 then sets lower_fields false, so the PR keeps native [[Define]] fields for the whole class and set x is never called. No test in test/bundler/bundler_minify.test.ts covers class fields.

• 🔴 src/js_parser/visit/visit_expr.rs — Builds with --minify that guard a dev-only require() or import() behind S === "..." on a const string over 64 units now resolve and bundle that module, and fail with a resolve error when it does not exist; the base folded the branch away. The read stays an identifier at src/js_parser/p.rs:2256, so the ===, typeof and + folds in visit_expr.rs no longer see two literals and the branch is never marked dead. Only truthiness and ?? were given a long-const arm (scan_side_effects.rs:806, :902). Fix: fold comparisons and typeof against a long-const read the same way (consult long_const_read in the EBinary/typeof folds), or set const_literal_required for operands of ===/!==/typeof so the literal is restored only in folds that produce no copy.

  Why this was flagged

  Input: const ENV = "<65+ units>"; if (ENV === "production") { require("./dev-only") } (or import()), built with bun build --minify or --minify-syntax. On the base branch handle_identifier returned the EString for every read; the EBinary === fold in visit_expr.rs produced false, the if became dead code, and the require at visit_expr.rs:2230 became null without being resolved. After this change p.rs:2246-2256 leaves the read as an EIdentifier, nothing folds EIdentifier === EString, the branch stays live, and the require is resolved by the bundler; a missing or dev-only module turns a previously-green build into a 'Could not resolve' error, and an existing one is bundled into production output. The PR added long-const arms only to to_boolean/to_null_or_undefined (scan_side_effects.rs:806, :902) and the .length fold (fold.rs:176), so equality, typeof and concatenation guards are an uncovered sibling of the same class.

  Verification: Trigger: bun build --minify-syntax on a module whose leading const S = "<65+ UTF-16 units>" is compared with ===/!== to decide a branch that contains require("./x") or import("./x"). src/js_parser/p.rs:2245-2256: when is_string_over_inline_bound and const_literal_required is false, handle_identifier leaves the read as EIdentifier instead of returning the EString. No arm in eql consults long_const_read.

[claude]

🟡 (optional) Bun-runtime programs that serialize a function (Playwright/Puppeteer page.evaluate, new Function(fn.toString()), worker blobs) break once a captured module const exceeds 64 units. At src/js_parser/p.rs:2246-2256 a read of a const string longer than MAX_INLINED_CONST_STRING_LEN keeps the name, but only above the bound, so the same program works with a 64-unit selector and throws ReferenceError in the target context at 65. Fix: make the run-time rule independent of length — e.g. apply the bound only when options.bundle or an explicit Bun.Transpiler inline is set, and keep bun file.js inlining as on main — or state the serialized-function expectation in docs/runtime/transpiler.mdx and the 64-unit threshold in the error users see.

Why this was flagged

bun file.js runs the parser with features.inlining on (src/bundler/options.rs:1950-1953: inlining = tree_shaking, true for the bun target). On main P::handle_identifier substitutes the const value into every read, so function f() { return SELECTOR } prints return "…" and f.toString() carries the literal. After src/js_parser/p.rs:2246-2256, a read of a const string whose EString::len() exceeds 64 keeps the identifier while a 64-unit one is still inlined. A program that hands a closure to Playwright/Puppeteer page.evaluate(fn) (which ships fn.toString() to the browser) or to new Function/a worker blob keeps working while the module const is ≤ 64 units and fails with ReferenceError: SELECTOR is not defined in the target context at 65 — no diagnostic names the threshold. No safeguard applies: const_literal_required covers only macro/require/import/enum sites, and no option restores the old run-time behaviour.

Verification: src/js_parser/p.rs:2245-2255 returns the literal only when !Self::is_string_over_inline_bound(&replacement.data) || self.const_literal_required || kind != Constant, otherwise sets has_long_const_read = true and falls through so the read prints the identifier (is_string_over_inline_bound at p.rs:2189-2195 is str.len() > MAX_INLINED_CONST_STRING_LEN = 64, so 64 inlines, 65 keeps the name).

[robobun]

This is the open question for a maintainer in the PR notes. The run-time door is where the 910 MB case is, so the bound stays there unless a maintainer decides otherwise. If the answer is no, the bound applies to bun build and Bun.Transpiler only.

The notes now name this consequence under "Behaviour that changes besides size": a function that is sent elsewhere as text carried the literal, and above 64 units it carries the name. In Node it never carries the literal (#43460, #12710).

[robobun]

The two findings below the inline comments of the review are both fixed in d591a36.

Class field lowering with useDefineForClassFields: false. A computed class member key is now visited with const_literal_required, so a key that names a const string is the literal again and the lower_fields gate sees a constant key. The test "a computed class field key that names a long const string is still lowered" runs the case from the review: the inherited setter is called again at 65 units and more.

===, !==, ==, != and typeof guards. data_eql compares a read of a long const string as its string when the other side is a literal, and typeof S is "string". A known result takes the read out of the use counts. if (ENV === "production") require("./dev-only") drops the branch again and the module is not bundled (41 bytes at 65 units, as on main). The tests are minify/ConstStringOfLength65DropsTheDeadBranch and the rows "typeof and a comparison with a literal" and "only typeof and comparisons".

S + "x" and a template with S stay unfolded, because the fold would copy the string again. The PR body names that limit.

[claude]

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