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Problem

  • test/js/bun/jsonl/json-from-utf8-bytes.test.ts takes 53 s on the debian 13 x64-asan lane (build #135385). bun bd test takes 246 to 251 s, and one test fails at its 120 s limit.
  • Two tests parse lines nested 600,000 deep, 40 times: 65 to 71% of the time.
  • The generator of the seeded cases joins strings one character at a time: 23%.

Fix

  • The generator writes UTF-8 bytes. Each seed gives the same bytes as before (21,000 seeds compared).
  • The deep tests nest 100,000 levels, and 20,000 in a debug or ASAN build. The native stack holds 11,822 levels (release), 2,082 (debug) and 901 (ASAN).
  • Five tests now compare values, read, done and error with exact values, or with JSON.parse. Before, they compared the bytes with the text only.
  • Verified: bun bd test takes 246 to 251 s before (1 of 10 fails) and 18 to 21 s after. The ASAN lane in CI takes 53 s before and 2.6 s after (build #135783).

Background

  • The file compares JSON read from bytes with JSON read from the decoded text of those bytes.
  • The parser takes one native frame for each level, up to 5 MB of stack. Then it keeps a stack of its own. The deep tests cover that part.
  • Considered 100,000 levels on every build: the debug build takes 41 s, the ASAN build 6 s. Considered concurrent tests: the work is on one thread.
Notes

Timings (Linux x64, 12 threads, nothing else running)

Bun before after
bun bd test (debug, ASAN) 246.4 s, 248.4 s, 250.9 s. 9 pass, 1 fails at 120 s 18.3 s to 20.8 s, 6 runs. 10 pass
ASAN release build (--profile=release-asan) of f7607a3, with the environment that scripts/runner.node.ts sets on the ASAN lane 36.0 s, 36.2 s, 36.8 s, 37.9 s 2.5 s to 3.2 s, 13 runs, median 2.75 s
release (canary da867c60b), with the environment of a lane that is not ASAN 5.8 s to 7.5 s, 5 runs 1.9 s to 2.3 s, 13 runs, median 2.08 s

The lane reports 53 s and this machine 37 s for the same kind of build. On the lane the file runs beside six others (bun test --parallel=7).

In CI (wall time of the file on each lane, build #135385 before and build #135783 after)

lane before after
debian 13 x64-asan 53 s 2.6 s
windows 11 aarch64 15 s 2.5 s
ubuntu 25.04 x64 8 s 2.1 s
windows 2019 x64 7 s 2.5 s
alpine 3.23 x64 6 s 2.2 s
darwin x64 6 s 2.3 s
the other five lanes 4 s to 5 s 1.7 s to 2.1 s

Each test, before and after (before: one run. after: one run of the debug build, the median of 5 runs of the others)

test debug ASAN build, lane environment release
parse and parseChunk of one value 27.2 s, 4.7 s 4.27 s, 0.49 s 1.30 s, 0.51 s
parseChunk of many lines 28.1 s, 2.9 s 3.47 s, 0.32 s 1.34 s, 0.52 s
three-byte sequences 0.80 s, 0.81 s 0.09 s, 0.09 s 0.02 s, 0.01 s
read counts three bytes 0.03 s, 0.03 s 0.26 s, 0.005 s 0.11 s, 0.002 s
json() of a Response, a Request and a Blob 12.5 s, 2.9 s 1.98 s, 0.39 s 0.75 s, 0.30 s
json() of a file 1.93 s, 0.32 s 0.32 s, 0.06 s 0.19 s, 0.06 s
arrays and objects nested beyond the native stack 54.3 s, 1.7 s 5.82 s, 0.31 s 0.97 s, 0.20 s
a line nested beyond the native stack 123.9 s (the limit), 4.8 s 18.0 s, 0.80 s 2.16 s, 0.36 s

Where the time went

  • Debug build: the two deep tests take 178 s of 251 s. The generator takes 58 s of the 70 s of the four seeded tests. The parses and the comparisons of those four tests take 10 s.
  • ASAN build with the lane environment: the deep tests take 23.9 s of 36.8 s and the generator 8.6 s.
  • The runner sets BUN_JSC_dumpSimulatedThrows=1 on the ASAN lane. Each ThrowScope that ends inside native code then records a stack trace. Without that variable the file takes 13.9 s, not 36.8 s.

The generator

  • Before: each string literal grew by text += character, and damage() made a JS array of the bytes with Array.from(). After: each table holds UTF-8 pieces, and a case is written into one buffer. damage() works on a Uint8Array.
  • generator(), the random draws and their order are not changed.
  • A script loaded the part of the file in front of describe() before and after the change. It compared the bytes of every case of the four seeded tests, and the end of the sliced test: seeds 1 to 6,000, -3,000 to 2,999, 123,456 to 129,455 and 4,000,000,000 to 4,000,002,999. 408 MB, no difference. Each case is a Uint8Array of its own of the exact length, as before.
  • One TextDecoder now decodes for every comparison. 24,308 decodes of the cases give what a new TextDecoder gives.
  • Time of the generator for the cases of the three big tests: 52 to 56 s before and 1.2 to 1.6 s after in the debug build. 8.6 to 9.0 s and 0.33 s in the ASAN build with the lane environment.
  • random.pick(escapesOneIn) | 0: without | 0 the generator takes 2.4 s in the ASAN build. 17 of 19 gdb samples of the thread are in operationValueMod, 14 of them in the stack trace that ThrowScope::simulateThrow records.

The depth

  • gdb, with a breakpoint on JSC::LiteralParser<WTF::Latin1Character, (JSC::JSONReviverMode)0>::parse(JSC::VM&, JSC::ParserState, JSC::JSONRanges*). That is the parser with its own stack. Bun.JSONL.parseChunk of [ nested 20,000 deep reaches it with 11,822 frames of parseRecursively on the stack in the release build, 2,082 in the debug build and 901 in the ASAN build.
  • A frame of parseRecursively takes 432 bytes in the release build, 2.4 KB in the debug build and 5.6 KB in the ASAN build.
  • So 20,000 levels are beyond the native stack of each of the three builds, and 100,000 levels are 8 times what the release build holds. 600,000 levels did the same work 6 to 30 times over.
  • The depth of 1,000 stays. It is inside the native stack of the release and debug builds, and about 100 levels beyond that of the ASAN build.
  • The first deep test had the depths 1,000, 100,000 and 600,000. It now has 1,000 and the deep one.
  • Collections during the two deep tests in the ASAN build with the lane environment (BUN_JSC_logGC=1): 99 before, 50 after. The runner has a collection follow every expect(), so the deep tests keep one expect() for each parse.

Assertions

  • Arrays and objects nested beyond the native stack. Before: values.length, done and error of the bytes equal those of the text. After, for the text and for the bytes: one value, the count of its levels, the leaf, read, done: true, error: null. For the text that stops in the middle: no value, read: 0, done: false, error: null.
  • A line nested beyond the native stack. Before: the values, and read, done and error of the bytes equal those of the text. After, for the text and for the bytes: the values of parse and of parseChunk, read at the end of the third line, done, and error (SyntaxError: Failed to parse JSONL or null).
  • read counts three bytes. Before: values, read and done, three expect() for each of 34 inputs. After: the whole result with error: null, in one toStrictEqual.
  • Three-byte sequences. Before: the bytes equal the text. After: each of the two equals [JSON.parse(text)].
  • Bytes shared with another thread. Before: values. After: the whole result of parseChunk.
  • expect() calls go from 207 to 89.
  • Copies of the old and the new file ran with a bug put into Bun.JSONL that the text and the bytes share. The old assertions pass with each bug. The new assertions fail with each:
bug test that now fails
a deep value gives no value arrays and objects
a deep value comes back one level short arrays and objects
read is one too many arrays and objects
read is one too many a line nested
read is one too many bytes shared
done is always true a line nested
an error for a value that is not complete read counts
an error for a value that is not complete arrays and objects
U+FFFD lost from the strings of parse three-byte sequences

Also

  • Five tests keep a limit of their own, 30 s in place of 120 s. They take 1.7 to 4.9 s in a debug build, and bun bd test allows each test 5 s. The test of json() of a file takes 0.3 s there and has no limit of its own any more.
  • The deep tests build their texts with Buffer.alloc() in place of repeat(), as test/CLAUDE.md asks. The encoding is Latin-1 both ways. Buffer.alloc(n, fill).toString() would make a string of 16-bit characters of the {"é": text, and send it to the UTF-16 parser. Each text keeps its content and the width of its characters (jscDescribe, 30 texts).
  • The file passes with other seeds: JSON_FROM_BYTES_SEED 7001, 250000, -90000 and 3999990000 with 20,000 cases in the release build, 7001 and 250000 with 6,000 cases in the ASAN build.
  • prettier --check and oxlint report nothing for the file. tsc reports no error in it.
  • Left as they were, after review. The escaped form of the name U+1F600 stays "\ud83d", a lone surrogate: another escape changes the cases. An escaped pair \ud83d\ude00 is in 355 names of the default seed by way of writeString() (1,516 in a release build). The expected read of the U+FFFD test stays too. Bun.JSONL.parseChunk counts 3 bytes for each invalid sequence, so read can be larger than the offset where the value ends in the input (7 and 5 for 22 61 80 62 22 0a 5b 31 2c). The test pinned that before this PR, and this PR does not change Bun.JSONL. Bun.JSONL.parseChunk: read counts the bytes of invalid UTF-8, not 3 per U+FFFD #46630 is open and changes that value.
  • Not run here: the Windows and macOS lanes.

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

Debug/ASAN (expected pass):
$ bun bd test 'test/js/bun/jsonl/json-from-utf8-bytes.test.ts'
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "test/js/bun/jsonl/json-from-utf8-bytes.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.4 (367d939d9)

test/js/bun/jsonl/json-from-utf8-bytes.test.ts:
(pass) JSON from UTF-8 bytes against JSON.parse of the decoded text > Bun.JSONL.parse and parseChunk of one value [4456.76ms]
(pass) JSON from UTF-8 bytes against JSON.parse of the decoded text > Bun.JSONL.parseChunk of many lines, whole and in slices [2431.45ms]
(pass) JSON from UTF-8 bytes against JSON.parse of the decoded text > short texts of three-byte sequences, well formed and not, at every place [791.25ms]
(pass) JSON from UTF-8 bytes against JSON.parse of the decoded text > `read` counts three bytes for each U+FFFD that stands for an invalid sequence [23.80ms]
(pass) JSON from UTF-8 bytes against JSON.parse of the decoded text > json() of a Response, a Request and a Blob [2948.66ms]
(pass) JSON from UTF-8 bytes against JSON.parse of the decoded text > json() of a file [311.51ms]
(pass) JSON from UTF-8 bytes against JSON.parse of the decoded text > arrays and objects nested beyond the native stack [1729.51ms]
(pass) JSON from UTF-8 bytes against JSON.parse of the decoded text > a line nested beyond the native stack among other lines [4239.46ms]
(pass) JSON from UTF-8 bytes against JSON.parse of the decoded text > a name or a text seen as Latin-1 is not taken for the same bytes of UTF-8, nor the other way around [38.45ms]
(pass) JSON from UTF-8 bytes against JSON.parse of the decoded text > bytes shared with another thread are read [6.43ms]

 10 pass
 0 fail
 89 expect() calls
Ran 10 tests across 1 file. [19.05s]
Exit: 0
diff hotspot
test/js/bun/jsonl/json-from-utf8-bytes.test.ts | 288 ++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 181 insertions(+), 107 deletions(-)

gate history · 2 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

evidence per changed file
file                                            reads  edits  tests
test/js/bun/jsonl/json-from-utf8-bytes.test.ts     11      4     58

…tes, nest 100,000 deep

The generator of the seeded cases writes UTF-8 bytes. Before, it put each
text together from strings, one character at a time, and encoded the text
at the end. The bytes of every case stay the same.

The two tests of nesting beyond the native stack nest 100,000 levels, and
20,000 in a debug or ASAN build, in place of 600,000. The native stack
holds about 12,000 levels in a release build, 2,000 in a debug build and
900 under AddressSanitizer.

The tests of nesting, of `read` and of shared bytes compare `values`,
`read`, `done` and `error` with exact values. The test of three-byte
sequences also compares with JSON.parse.
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Minor Encode each UTF-16 code unit in the escaped test names.

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- Line 86: Update the escaped test-name variant to iterate over UTF-16 code
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surrogate units. Replace the Array.from iteration in the escaped-name expression
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The JSONL UTF-8 byte tests now generate cases from pre-encoded byte pieces. They add comparisons with JSON.parse and checks of complete parseChunk results, expand nested-input coverage, and reduce or remove several test timeouts.

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UTF-8 JSONL byte tests

Layer / File(s) Summary
Generate and damage byte cases
test/js/bun/jsonl/json-from-utf8-bytes.test.ts
The tests assemble JSON cases from pre-encoded UTF-8 pieces. Byte damage and multiline case generation now operate on byte arrays.
Check UTF-8 parsing results
test/js/bun/jsonl/json-from-utf8-bytes.test.ts
The tests compare byte and decoded-text parsing with JSON.parse. They check values, byte counts, completion, and errors in parseChunk results. Several test timeouts are reduced or removed.
Check nested JSON inputs
test/js/bun/jsonl/json-from-utf8-bytes.test.ts
Nested-input tests check text and byte parsing at a build-dependent depth, including parsed depth, bytes read, completion, and errors.

Possibly related PRs

  • oven-sh/bun#46630: Changes how Bun.JSONL.parseChunk counts original bytes consumed for invalid UTF-8, which these tests assert.
  • oven-sh/bun#47143: Benchmarks the byte-input Bun.JSONL.parseChunk path that these tests exercise.

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The changes affect tests only. One escaped Unicode fixture generates the wrong key; fixing it restores the intended coverage. No production regression is established, so merging carries only bounded test-coverage risk.

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❌ @robobun, your commit 7b9cbf8 has 1 failures in Build #135783 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 47473

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-47473 executable, so you can run:

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  • How the time was measured: bun bd test test/js/bun/jsonl/json-from-utf8-bytes.test.ts on Linux x64 (debug build with ASAN). It takes 246 to 251 s before, and 1 of the 10 tests fails at its 120 s limit. It takes 18 to 21 s after, and the 10 tests pass.
  • An ASAN release build with the environment that scripts/runner.node.ts sets on the x64-asan lane takes 36 to 38 s before and 2.5 to 3.2 s after.
  • A release build (canary da867c60b) takes 5.8 to 7.5 s before and 1.9 to 2.3 s after.
  • In CI (build #135783) the file takes 2.6 s on the debian 13 x64-asan lane. It took 53 s there in build #135385.
  • On the other ten lanes of build #135783 it takes 1.7 s to 2.5 s: 2.5 s on the two Windows lanes, 1.8 s to 2.2 s on the six Linux lanes, 1.7 s and 2.3 s on the two darwin lanes. It took 4 s to 15 s on them in build #135385.
  • The diff is green: the file passes on the eleven lanes that run it. The one red test of build #135783 is test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts. This PR does not touch it. It fails the same way in build #135759 of test(aot): share one build and run the tests of entry-point-names.test.ts concurrently #47463.
  • The change is in this PR, test(jsonl): generate the cases of json-from-utf8-bytes.test.ts as bytes, nest 100,000 deep #47473.

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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 findings, I also traced the generator rewrite for draw-order drift: writeValue/writeName/writeString consume the seeded random in the same sequence as the old valueText/nameLiteral/stringLiteral (including the single space draw for empty collections and the astral-name escape form), lineOfCase's 0x0d replacement matches the old replaceAll("\r", " ") since 0x0d never appears inside a multi-byte UTF-8 sequence, and spliced() clamps at + removed so damage() cannot read past the buffer. The shared caseBytes buffer is reset at the start of every bytesOfCase/lineOfCase call and sliced to exact length, so no stale bytes leak between cases.

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The diff touches only test/js/bun/jsonl/json-from-utf8-bytes.test.ts, rewriting the seeded case generator to emit UTF-8 bytes directly, replacing the deep-nesting depths, tightening several assertions, and lowering per-test timeouts; no production code and no security-sensitive surface is involved. Inline findings already flag the pre-existing read semantics, the escaped astral-name table, .repeat() use, and the retained per-test timeouts, so this note only records the behavior-preservation checks of the generator refactor that were examined and found consistent.

… of the file test

The two tests of nesting build their texts with Buffer.alloc() in place
of String.prototype.repeat(), as test/CLAUDE.md asks. The Latin-1
encoding keeps each text a string of 8-bit characters, as repeat() made
it, so the text goes to the same parser as before.

The test of json() of a file takes 0.3 s in a debug build. It has no
limit of its own any more.
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Two of the four notes are in 7b9cbf8:

  • The deep tests build their texts with Buffer.alloc(), with Latin-1 both ways, so that each text keeps the width of its characters.
  • The test of json() of a file has no limit of its own.

The other five limits stay: those tests take 1.7 to 4.9 s in a debug build, and bun bd test allows 5 s. The escaped name and the value of read are not changed here: the first changes the cases, the second changes Bun.JSONL.parseChunk. The details are in the threads.

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Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

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  • Unresolved: 2 minor or pre-existing.

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