[robobun]

Problem

• test/aot/builtins/unused-calls.test.ts takes 46 s on debian 13 x64-asan (build 135385). Ten --aot builds use 95% of its CPU time.
• Five of the ten build a small module loader, one for each program. Plain Bun runs a program before its build starts.

Fix

• One loader program imports all 252 modules, two for each of 126 errors: six builds in place of ten.
• Plain Bun runs a program while the program is built.
• New assertions: each run reports exactly its expressions, each with three outcomes. The loader's executable prints on stderr what plain Bun prints.
• Verified: bun bd test test/aot/builtins/unused-calls.test.ts takes 169 to 184 s, was 244 to 246 s. Release-asan: 34 to 40 s, was 44 to 48 s. Release: Notes.

Background

• The file makes 5900 expressions from the table of built-ins. A program holds 1200, and its executable must do what plain Bun does.
• The first expression of each error is also the one statement of a module of its own. A loader program imports those modules.
• Considered larger programs, --aot-threads=1 and --aot-separate-programs. Each changes what the compiler does with a program or saves no time (Notes).

Downsides

• The compiler sees the 252 modules in one program, not 24 to 84 at a time. 58 of them get one more operation that way (InitializeBuiltin or NewClosure).
• The expression that stands for an error no longer differs between runs.
• The five large builds remain. A machine with no idle CPU saves about 9% of the CPU time.

Notes

Times, before and after. Local runs on Linux x64 with 12 vCPUs, main's file and this PR's in turns. Every run is listed. Each run of main's file has 6 pass and 52 expect() calls. Each run of this PR's file has 7 pass and 49.

Build	Setting	Before	After
debug (bun bd test)	12 CPUs	243.5, 245.7 s	168.9, 177.4, 183.7 s
release-asan (bun run build:asan, without debug information as in CI), the variables of the ASAN lane	8 CPUs, --max-concurrency=2	44.1, 46.3, 47.6 s	33.9, 38.6, 40.3 s
release	12 CPUs	4.8, 4.6, 4.9, 4.7, 4.4, 4.4, 4.7 s	3.7, 4.0, 3.9, 3.7, 3.8, 3.8, 3.9 s
release	4 CPUs, --max-concurrency=2	9.3, 9.8, 9.5, 9.2, 9.9, 9.9, 10.1 s	7.7, 8.0, 7.6, 7.8, 8.0, 8.1, 7.7 s
release	the same, beside 4 busy threads on the 4 CPUs	19.7, 19.2, 20.3, 18.8, 18.4 s	16.3, 16.2, 15.5, 15.6, 16.3 s

The CPU time of all processes with the release build on 4 CPUs: 24.7 to 26.6 s before, 23.1 to 24.4 s after.

On main a bucket of CI runs this file with --max-concurrency=2, beside other files (runParallelBucket in scripts/runner.node.ts). The rows with that flag repeat it. The runner puts the test files that a PR changes in front and runs each alone (modifiedSerialTests). So the times of this PR's own build say little about the bucket. In builds 135793 and 135806 the file ran that way: 7.5 and 7.0 s on alpine 3.23 aarch64, 11.7 and 11.0 s on alpine 3.23 x64, 30.0 and 28.4 s on debian 13 x64-asan, with 7 pass and 49 expect() calls each time.

Assertions that are new or stronger.

• Plain Bun and the executable must each report the expressions of the program, in their order, each with its three outcomes. Before, the two lists had to be equal and plain Bun's had to have the right length.
• The executable of the loader must print on stderr what plain Bun prints there. Before, only its exit code and its signal were checked.
• What plain Bun prints for the loader is checked line by line. Before, it was read by index.
• A run of plain Bun that fails shows its stderr in the failed expect.
• When all expressions are asked, at least one must throw in plain Bun. Before, the step of the modules was left out in silence when none did.
• The expression that stands for an error is the first in the order of the programs. Before, it was the first of the program whose executable ended first.

Where the time goes. CPU time of the child processes, release build, one process at a time, with the variables that the runner sets:

Step	Before	After
Builds of the five programs	27.1 s	the same builds
Builds of the loaders	five, 3.1 s	one, 1.5 to 1.8 s
Runs of the five programs, in plain Bun and as executables	1.3 s	the same runs
Runs of the loaders	ten, 0.25 s	two, 0.14 s

• Making the cases takes 0.2 s in the test process, 0.7 s with the release-asan build and 12 s with a debug build.
• With the release-asan build the five loader builds take 12.8 s one after the other, and the one takes 5.0 s. A build of a program of one line takes 1.4 s there.
• Plain Bun takes 0.7 to 1.0 s for a program with the release-asan build, and 8.6 s for the third (38 s with a debug build). That program holds Object.entries("x".repeat(70000)) and five more of its kind.

What was not done.

Idea	Result
One program of all 5900 expressions	19 to 20 s of CPU time in place of 27 to 33 s. --aot-report then counts 14 closures in frames, and 2405 in a program of 1200: the compiler treats the expressions in another way
--aot-threads=1 for every build	Less CPU time and more wall time. This PR's file with the release build on 4 CPUs: 11.7 to 11.9 s, against 8.4 to 9.3 s without the flag. Beside 4 busy threads: 23.1 to 24.7 s, against 16.9 to 18.1 s. With the release-asan build: 55.1 and 60.6 s, against 37.1 and 45.9 s. The compiler then also does none of its work on several threads
One build for the five programs with --aot-separate-programs	9.7 s of wall time and 24.6 s of CPU time. Five builds at once take about 3 s. An executable then starts at BUN_AOT_START_AT, which only a canary build reads
No import of a module that a program does not name	The same 4009 functions are compiled. 5% less time for one program

Checks that the file finds what it found.

1. Faults put into what an executable prints, by a patch of both files that is not in this PR. "5 fail" means the five program tests.

Fault	main's file	This PR
An unused statement of a function returns where plain Bun throws	5 fail, 5 differences	5 fail, the same 5 differences
The same for a declaration that nothing reads, and for another error with the result kept	the same	the same
The bare statement of a module returns, or its declaration does	5 fail	the test of the modules fails
The last line is missing, or a line on stderr is added, or the exit code is 3	5 fail	5 fail, and the test of the modules
The executable of a loader alone adds a line on stderr	passes	the test of the modules fails
A line lacks an outcome, or the lines of a loader hold nothing	5 fail with a TypeError of the test's own code	fails at an expect that shows the line

2. The 71 sabotages that bun compile --aot-list=registry lists and that do not stop a build on purpose, each with AOT_BUILD_FLAGS=--aot-sabotage=<name>. 62 pass both files. The same 9 fail both: NoCallWrites (the same 1367 differences), WalkedLiteralsAreAsTheyWereMade and WalkedKeysStandInTheFirstOrder (the same 3), WrittenRecordsHaveTheirKeysInOneOrder, ProofsOutlastWritesToTheirSubject, RemovedTestsOutlastWrites, CallsThatThrowHaveNoSite, StoredValuesAreNeverRead and RemovedFieldsHaveUnknownReaders. Under the last two main's file stops at its loaders and does not print the 377 and the 17 differences of the programs. This PR's file prints them.

3. The code of the 252 modules, from BUN_JSC_aotMapFilePath, in five loaders (programs taken in order) and in one. 194 modules have the same operations. 56 have one more InitializeBuiltin in the one loader, and 2 have one more NewClosure. No other operation differs.

Also run. test/aot/every-test-runs-in-ci.test.ts and test/aot/test-files-self-skip.test.ts pass. The file passes in a bucket of three files (bun test --parallel=3 --max-concurrency=2), with -t for one test, and with AOT_UNUSED_CALLS=^Math. bun fmt --check passes.

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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/builtins/unused-calls.test.ts

[robobun]

Status: closed, not merged. #47942 rewrites the tests of the ahead-of-time compiler and removes test/aot/builtins/unused-calls.test.ts, so this change no longer applies. The text below is the state at the time of the close.

CI, build 135806 (b9534a0):

• test/aot/builtins/unused-calls.test.ts passes on the three lanes that run it, with 7 pass and 49 expect() calls on each: 7.0 s on alpine 3.23 aarch64, 11.0 s on alpine 3.23 x64 and 28.4 s on debian 13 x64-asan. The runner puts a changed test file in front and runs it alone, so these times do not compare with the 46 s that the file takes in a bucket on main.
• The build is red for one test, test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts. That test also fails on main, at the base of this PR (f7607a3) and in the latest build of main (135971, 34cbc70), and this PR does not touch it. The other failed tests passed on a retry.

How the time was measured, main's file and this PR's in turns on one machine (Linux x64, 12 vCPUs):

• Debug build, bun bd test test/aot/builtins/unused-calls.test.ts: 243.5 and 245.7 s on main. 168.9, 177.4 and 183.7 s with this PR.
• Release-asan build with the variables of the ASAN lane, on 8 CPUs with --max-concurrency=2 (a bucket of CI runs the file that way): 44.1, 46.3 and 47.6 s on main. 33.9, 38.6 and 40.3 s with this PR.
• Release build on 4 CPUs with --max-concurrency=2: 9.2 to 10.1 s on main. 7.6 to 8.1 s with this PR.

The Notes of the PR body list every run, where the time goes, and the checks that the file still finds what it found.

[robobun]

^{Updated 9:51 AM PT - Oct 30th, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit b9534a0 has 1 failures in Build #135806 (All Failures):

• test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 3.23 aarch64
• test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 13 x64-asan
• test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 3.23 x64
• test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts - code 1 on 🪟 11 aarch64
• test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts - code 1 on 🪟 2019 x64

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Remove the 600000 timeout from the new standalone test.

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- Line 171: Remove the explicit 600_000 timeout argument from the standalone
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The AOT unused-call test now compares plain Bun results with compiled executable results. It processes expressions in batches of up to 1,200 and checks selected throwing expressions as standalone modules. Temporary folders are cleaned up after the tests.

Changes

AOT unused-call comparisons

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parse and compare execution results test/aot/builtins/unused-calls.test.ts	The test parses and validates plain Bun output and compares it with compiled executable output.
Batch expressions and compare results test/aot/builtins/unused-calls.test.ts	The test runs expressions in batches of up to 1,200, reuses each batch’s plain Bun run, and checks compiled results against that baseline.
Compare standalone modules test/aot/builtins/unused-calls.test.ts	The test selects expressions with distinct plain Bun errors, compares selected cases as standalone modules, and registers batch and standalone tests.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#47468: Both PRs reduce repeated compiled-executable builds in parameterized AOT tests.
• oven-sh/bun#47466: Both PRs reuse compiled executables across parameterized compile tests.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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Merge Risk: Low · up to 68eef

The test-only change has a bounded guideline violation: the new standalone test sets an explicit timeout. Remove it and confirm the test completes within the configured default budget.

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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 finding, I also checked that dropping the per-test slot() wrapper cannot deadlock the semaphore in test/aot/harness/commands.ts: inPlainBun and the build closure each hold one slot and neither waits on another slot holder, so Promise.all(programs.map(...)) in findDifferencesAlone only queues. Also checked that a memoized program.plain always has a handler attached before it can settle (both callers pass it to Promise.all synchronously), and that using outside is disposed only after finally(allSettled) resolves, so the executable's folder never goes away under a running child.

Extended reasoning...

The change restructures one test file, test/aot/builtins/unused-calls.test.ts, to run plain Bun concurrently with each --aot build and to build a single module loader instead of five; it touches no security-sensitive surface. One confirmed finding (the synchronous tempDir failure path in inBothWays orphaning the loader's plain run) is posted inline; the concurrency and lifetime shapes listed above were traced through the harness and hold.

[robobun]

Review follow-up for commit b9534a0:

• Changed: a comparison started plain Bun before it made the folder of the executable. If that folder could not be made, nothing waited for the run. The run now starts after that step, and afterAll waits for every started run before it removes the folders of the programs. The file passes with a debug build (bun bd test, 172.5 s), with a release build, with one slot (AOT_PROGRAMS_JOBS=1) and with --max-concurrency=1.
• Not changed: the 600_000 of the new test. With a debug build the test takes up to 100 s, and the default limit of the file is 120 s. The numbers are in the review thread, and the finding was withdrawn there.

[claude]

I re-reviewed after b9534a0 and found no bugs; the folder-lifetime concern from my earlier inline comment is addressed there (the plain run now starts only after the executable's temp dir exists, and afterAll settles every plain run before disposing program folders). Since this is a non-trivial restructure of a multi-minute differential test whose timing claims can't be checked here, a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• Old vs new path: assertions are strictly stronger (per-run line/order check, plain stderr+exit, loader stderr compared to plain Bun); the diff logic for in-function and alone-in-module cases is unchanged.
• Concurrency and cleanup: Promise.all(runs).finally(allSettled) keeps both children ended before using outside/using dir dispose; no slot is held while waiting on another, so no deadlock with AOT_PROGRAMS_JOBS=1.
• Skipped-platform path: afterAll tolerates undefined folder/plain when supported skips every test.

Extended reasoning...

The PR touches only test/aot/builtins/unused-calls.test.ts, restructuring how the differential test builds and runs its programs: a module-scope programs[] with memoized folder and plain-Bun run, a shared inBothWays helper that runs plain Bun and the compile concurrently, and a separate test for the alone-in-a-module modules built once instead of per chunk. It touches no security-sensitive surface. The second commit resolves the only concern raised in the prior run, the bug hunt ran dry, and the path is not code-owned. It is still a 165-line rewrite of a concurrency- and timing-sensitive test with per-test 600 s timeouts and performance claims that cannot be verified in this environment, which is why a human look is suggested rather than an approval.

[Jarred-Sumner]

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.

[robobun]

Understood, thank you. I checked the branch of #47942: it removes test/aot/builtins/unused-calls.test.ts and test/aot/builtins/unused-calls/cases.ts. So this change has nothing left to apply to, and the time of that file goes with the file. I will not open a new pull request for it.