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Problem

  • test/aot/run-aot.test.ts takes 66 s on debian 13 x64-asan (build 135385). Its 36 tests start 40 children one by one.
  • Only 1 test checks that compiled code ran. If each program runs from its source, 31 tests still pass.
  • 8 tests never read the exit code. 18 never read stderr.

Fix

  • The three describe blocks are describe.concurrent. The 40 children get the same commands and files as before.
  • Each test states stdout, all of stderr, whether compiled code ran, and the exit code. Multi-line stderr is an inline snapshot through normalizeBunSnapshot.
  • bun bd test: 176 to 209 s before, 46 to 66 s after. ASAN build on 8 CPUs: 36 to 46 s before, 10 s after.
  • Verified: 36 pass with debug, ASAN and release builds. Also every-test-runs-in-ci.test.ts, test-files-self-skip.test.ts.

Background

  • bun run --debug-aot compiles a program as bun build --compile --aot does, then runs the compiled code. With BUN_AOT_VERBOSE=1 it prints [aot] module: <path>, which compiled reads.
  • bun test runs 20 concurrent tests at once, 5 with ASAN (src/options_types/context.rs:547).
  • Considered one build for many cases. The compiler analyses a whole program, so one case changes what it knows about another.

Downsides

  • The children hold 3.1 GB at once with the ASAN build, 1.0 GB before.
  • CPU time is unchanged. On 1 CPU a release build takes 10.3 to 11.3 s, not 8.8 to 9.2 s.
  • A new compiler warning for one of these programs fails its test.
Notes

Times. The machine has 12 vCPUs on a shared host. The host took 1 s to 235 s of CPU time from the machine during one run, so main's file and this file ran in turns. A number is what bun test prints for the file. Each run has 36 pass.

Build Before After
debug, bun bd test test/aot/run-aot.test.ts 175.7, 199.0, 209.0 s 45.6, 46.4, 49.7, 59.0, 64.3, 65.9 s
release with ASAN (bun run build:asan), the variables of the ASAN lane, 8 CPUs 35.9, 39.5, 46.2 s 9.7, 10.4, 10.5 s
the same, beside 5 busy threads on the same 8 CPUs 38.8, 41.1 s 14.0, 14.2 s
the same, beside 16 busy threads 92.8, 95.1 s 21.9, 22.3 s
release (the canary da867c6, 6 commits before the base of this branch), 12 CPUs 6.8, 7.0, 7.5 s 1.2, 1.6, 1.7 s
release, 4 CPUs 6.4, 6.4, 6.5 s 2.8, 2.9, 2.9 s
release, 1 CPU 8.8, 9.2 s 10.3, 11.3 s
  • The ASAN rows use a copy of bun-asan from strip --strip-debug, as scripts/runner.node.ts makes in CI for the files of test/aot. The build is of f7607a3, the base of this branch. The variables are those that the runner sets for this file on that lane: BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks, BUN_JSC_dumpSimulatedThrows, BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT, ASAN_OPTIONS, LSAN_OPTIONS, BUN_GARBAGE_COLLECTOR_LEVEL=1, BUN_JSC_randomIntegrityAuditRate=1.0.
  • An earlier set, when the host took less, has the same ratios. It ran a draft of the assertions with the same 40 children. Without load: 27.5, 29.8, 31.7 s before and 8.7, 9.2, 9.7 s after. Beside 16 busy threads: 71.0, 72.4 s before and 20.2, 21.9 s after.
  • On that lane the runner starts three files of test/aot at once on 8 vCPUs (buildingFilesWidth in scripts/runner.node.ts). CI's 66 s for main's file lies between the row without load and the row with 16 busy threads.
  • The runner puts a test file that a PR changes in front and runs it alone (modifiedSerialTests). So the time of this file in the CI run of this PR is the time without neighbours.
  • CPU time of the debug runs (time, user + sys): 347 s before, 346 to 377 s after.

Where the time goes now. A child is two starts of Bun: one compiles, and then replaces itself with one that runs the compiled code. With the ASAN build the file takes 25 s on 2 CPUs, so all 40 children take about 50 s of CPU time. The three programs that pull in built-in modules (two dynamic imports, node:vm) keep more than two cores busy each: 48.7 s of CPU time in 20.0 s with the debug build.

The children are the same. A wrapper around harness/run.ts recorded, for each child, the command, the variables that the test sets, and every file of its folder with its text. Main's file and this file give the same 40 records.

What the new assertions catch. Each row is one fault, put into the helper that runs a child, with the release build. "Pass" counts tests.

Fault main's file This PR
none 36 pass 36 pass
A program that builds runs from its source (--aot in place of --debug-aot) 31 pass, 5 fail 8 pass, 28 fail
An exit code of 0 becomes 3 15 pass, 21 fail 7 pass, 29 fail
One more line on stderr 35 pass, 1 fail 0 pass, 36 fail
One more line on stdout 5 pass, 31 fail 0 pass, 36 fail

The tests that still pass in the last column are the ones that the fault does not reach. 8 tests start no compiled program through --debug-aot: 5 rejected flags, 2 type errors, and the executable of bun build. 7 tests have only children that end with 1.

The assertions, one kind at a time.

  • compiled is in every result. It is true for the 30 children that run a program. It is false for the other 10: the 9 that a flag, a variable or a type error stops, and the one bun build.
  • stderr is compared whole, without the two lines that BUN_AOT_VERBOSE=1 adds ([aot] image: has a size and an address, [aot] module: has a path). It is "" for 22 children. It is error: <message> for the 6 rejected flags and variables.
  • 9 inline snapshots hold a multi-line stderr: 3 type errors, 2 warnings of a dynamic import path, and 4 reports of bun test with the names of the tests that passed and the counts of pass, fail and expect() calls. They replace toContain("TS2322"), toContain("1 pass") and not.toContain("1 pass").
  • The two programs that write to locked built-ins list the place of each TS100014 warning, and nothing else may be on stderr. In main.mjs the places are the lines whose row of stdout says TypeError. main.cjs has one more TypeError, for a frozen object that is no built-in.
  • The line of --aot-log-type-mismatches must be the only line of stderr. The run without the flag must print none. Before, this was not.toContain("type-mismatch").
  • expect(stderr).not.toContain("TypeError") is gone. stderr must be empty there.
  • The one bun build (the test that builds an executable) must print nothing on stderr. Before, this was not.stringMatching(/^error\b|TS100064/m). Its stdout is the only output that is not compared: it is the summary of the build, with two durations and a build id.
  • The number of expect() calls goes from 63 to 57, because one toEqual now holds what two or three calls held.

Inline snapshots in concurrent tests. toMatchSnapshot throws in a concurrent test. toMatchInlineSnapshot does not: it matches, it fails on a difference, and bun test -u writes it. All three were checked with a debug build.

setDefaultTimeout(120_000) stays. supported.ts sets the same limit, but a module is evaluated once in a process and the runner drops the limit after each file. So a file that is not the first to import supported.ts gets the limit only from its own call. With the debug build the slowest test takes 25 to 29 s beside four others.

Memory. The resident memory of all children together, read every 50 ms:

Build Before After
release with ASAN 1047 MB, 1 process 3052 MB, 5 processes
release 171 MB, 1 process 1525 MB, 19 processes
debug not read 4244 MB, 5 processes

harness/run.ts ends the children of a file if together they hold more than 5/8 of the machine.

Runs with the final assertions. 44 with the release build (20 on 12 CPUs, 10 on 2 CPUs, 5 on 1 CPU, the rest for the tables), 26 with the ASAN build (9 beside 16 busy threads, 3 on 2 CPUs), 7 with the debug build. No run has a failure. The file also passes under node scripts/runner.node.ts --exec-path ./build/release-asan/bun-asan aot/run-aot.test.ts (3 runs).

Two later commits follow the reviews. The [aot] module: line is read only where it starts a line of stderr, because a diagnostic can quote a line of the program that holds this text. The one bun build states all of its stderr. After them, each of the three builds has 36 pass, and the fault of the second row above still gives 8 pass and 28 fail. With a warn: line added to the stderr of the bun build, the test passes before the second commit and fails after it.

In CI. The file has 36 pass on each of the three lanes that run it, in both builds of this PR.

Lane main's file (build 135385) This PR (build 135773, 52a6fef) This PR (build 135785, 7190db5)
debian 13 x64-asan 66 s 8.1 s 8.9 s
alpine 3.23 x64 9 s 4.6 s 5.1 s
alpine 3.23 aarch64 7 s 3.2 s 2.8 s

In the builds of this PR the file ran in front and alone, because this PR changes it. Main's file ran beside other files. So the ASAN row of this PR compares with the row without load of the first table, not with the 66 s.

Both builds of this PR are red for test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts (pipeline/gc/custom-accessor-reached-computed-key.ir), which this PR does not touch. The test fails the same way in build 135385, the last build of the commit that this branch starts from.

What was weighed and left out. Neither was built. The numbers follow from the times of the children with the debug build.

  • The two children of one test at once, in the three tests that have two independent children: about 1 s of 46 s. More than 5 children of an ASAN build would then run at once.
  • The tests that take longest in front: at most 5 s. The tests add up to 179 s, a fifth of that is 36 s, and a run takes 41 s when the host is quiet. The order of the file would then follow a clock.

What was not run. Windows and macOS. CI runs this file on Alpine (x64, arm64) and on the ASAN lane.


no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/aot/run-aot.test.ts

… child prints

The three describe blocks are describe.concurrent. The 40 children get
the same commands and the same files as before.

Each test now states stdout, all of stderr, whether compiled code ran,
and the exit code. A multi-line stderr is an inline snapshot through
normalizeBunSnapshot.
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Updated 8:40 AM PT - Oct 30th, 2026

❌ @robobun, your commit 7190db5 has 1 failures in Build #135785 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 47470

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-47470 executable, so you can run:

bun-47470 --bun

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Status: closed by a maintainer. #47942 rewrites the front end of the ahead-of-time compiler and its tests, and this change would conflict with it.

Notes for a later pull request against main, once #47942 is in:

  • On the branch of AOT: front end, test runs and tests for the rewritten compiler #47942, at the time of this note, test/aot/run-aot.test.ts still has its three serial describe blocks and starts its children one by one. So the change of this PR still applies in outline: describe.concurrent, and one whole result for each child.
  • Take the expected stderr texts and the times again with the new compiler.

The measurements of this PR are in the Notes of the PR body.

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The AOT test helper normalizes stderr and reports whether compilation occurred. The suite adds result and snapshot assertions across AOT runtime behavior, diagnostics, warnings, and bun test.

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AOT test coverage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Harness and startup results
test/aot/run-aot.test.ts
The helper normalizes stderr and returns compilation status. Startup, feature, and option tests assert diagnostics and process results.
AOT runtime behavior assertions
test/aot/run-aot.test.ts
Runtime tests assert compilation status, stderr, output, and exit status. Coverage includes dynamic imports, type diagnostics, locked-built-in warnings, runtime-created contexts, and tail calls.
AOT bun test results
test/aot/run-aot.test.ts
bun test cases assert test-run summaries, version output, compilation status, and exit status, with snapshots for diagnostics and warnings.

Possibly related PRs

  • oven-sh/bun#47468: Both PRs run AOT test cases concurrently and add complete output and diagnostic assertions.
  • oven-sh/bun#47463: Both PRs strengthen result assertions for AOT tests in separate test files.
  • oven-sh/bun#47474: Both PRs parallelize AOT test cases and check complete executable results.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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The compiled-code check now ignores markers embedded within diagnostic lines. No merge-blocking issue remains identified; normal platform checks should complete before merging.

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Minor follow-up Anchor the compiled check to the start of a line.

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Anchor the compiled check to the start of a line.

spawned sets compiled with an unanchored stderr.includes("[aot] module: "). A type diagnostic can quote a source line that contains this text. A test that expects compiled: false for such a fixture then fails, even though compilation stopped. Match only at line start, as the same helper already does when it strips these lines.

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-    compiled: stderr.includes("[aot] module: "),
+    compiled: /^\[aot\] module: /m.test(stderr),

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A diagnostic quotes a line of the program. If that line holds the text
"[aot] module: ", `compiled` was true for a program that never ran. The
helper already removes the marker only where it starts a line.
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The compiled check now reads the marker only at the start of a line (52a6fef).

I checked the finding first. A program with a type error on a line that holds the text [aot] module: gave compiled: true with the old check, because the diagnostic quotes that line. It gives compiled: false now. No fixture of this file has such a line, so no result changes: 36 pass with a debug build, an ASAN build and a release build.

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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 nit, I also checked the two things most likely to make the tightened assertions flaky: the single-line --aot-log-type-mismatches regex (no m flag) is safe because the runtime only appends a ; total line for a site hit more than once, and test/aot/mismatch-log.test.ts already pins that a once-hit site logs just count 1; and toMatchInlineSnapshot inside describe.concurrent is fine because src/runtime/test_runner/expect.rs swallows SnapshotInConcurrentGroup for inline snapshots (only file snapshots throw). The placesWarnedOf line:col lists for main.mjs/main.cjs line up with the stdout rows that print TypeError, and each test creates its own tempDir, so the concurrent blocks share no state.

Extended reasoning...

Test-only change to test/aot/run-aot.test.ts: strips the BUN_AOT_VERBOSE lines, normalizes stderr with normalizeBunSnapshot, adds a compiled flag, and converts every assertion to whole-object toEqual or inline snapshots while making all three describe blocks concurrent. No security-sensitive surface. The one surviving finding is a pre-existing partial assertion on the --compile-inspector build child; the ruled-out concerns (the ; total summary line, inline snapshots in concurrent groups, shared tempDir) were verified against src and sibling tests.

Comment thread test/aot/run-aot.test.ts Resolved
The build of "an executable built with --compile-inspector loads such a
module from disk" was checked only for no error line and no TS100064 on
stderr. It now states that stderr is empty, that no compiled code ran,
and the exit code. stdout stays out: it is the summary of the build,
with two durations and a build id.

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LGTM — test-only tightening of test/aot/run-aot.test.ts, and the latest push now asserts { stderr, compiled, exitCode } on the --compile-inspector build child too.

What was reviewed:

  • spawned(): the [aot] image/module stripping and the compiled probe both anchor at line start with the m flag, and normalizeBunSnapshot (realpath'd <dir> substitution, duration stripping, trim) matches what every inline snapshot and stderr: "" / error: <message> literal expects.
  • describe.concurrent through ./supported: the alwaysSkipped proxy forwards .concurrent, so the skip-when-unsupported path still works; each child runs in its own tempDir/tempDirWithBunTypes, so no shared state across concurrent tests.
  • placesWarnedOf(): the replacement leaves only main.mjs:L:C / main.cjs:L:C segments split on blank lines, so any extra stderr line fails the toEqual.
  • No existing assertion was weakened; every toContain / not.toContain became an exact value or snapshot.
Extended reasoning...

The change touches a single test file, test/aot/run-aot.test.ts, converting its three describe blocks to describe.concurrent and replacing partial stdout/stderr checks with whole-object toEqual and inline snapshots through normalizeBunSnapshot; no production code and no security-sensitive surface is involved. The file is not covered by CODEOWNERS, the bug hunt ran dry with no findings, and the one nit from the prior review (the partially checked build child) is addressed in the current diff. The helpers the new assertions depend on (normalizeBunSnapshot, harness/run.ts, supported.ts) were read and behave as the test assumes, which decided approve over defer.

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Closing: #47942 rewrites the front end of the ahead-of-time compiler and its tests for the engine's new compiler (oven-sh/WebKit#997, merged), so this no longer applies and would conflict with it. If the problem still shows once that is in, please open a new pull request against main.

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