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Problem

• After lockdown() of ses@2.3.0, console.log({ err: new TypeError("bad") }) prints { err: {} }. Node.js prints { err: [TypeError: bad] }.
• lockdown() makes constructor an accessor. Node.js then takes the name from wellKnownPrototypes, 20 rows. Bun's copy (src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts:1085) has 6.
• Without the %TypedArray%.prototype row, util.inspect(Float32Array.prototype, { showHidden: true }) lists [buffer]: [Getter] and four more accessors. A throwing Symbol.hasInstance on Array makes util.inspect([1]) throw.

Fix

• createWellKnownPrototypes (src/jsc/bindings/UtilInspect.cpp) builds the 20 rows from the prototypes that the global object holds.
• A walk up the prototype chain tests a hit. The Error and Object tests are instanceof against two private functions with the realm's prototypes, so no program code runs.
• Verified: test/js/node/util/node-inspect-tests/ (7 tests fail on main). Also test/js/node/util and the suites in Notes.
• Self-reviewed: 20 concerns raised, 17 addressed. Notes name the 3 rejected.

Background

• util.inspect names a value by the first listed prototype above it. For an unlisted prototype it reads constructor.
• Node.js fills the table at startup. Bun loads internal/util/inspect later, after the program can replace globalThis.Date. Only the engine still has the first Date.prototype.
• Considered one row (errors still print {}) and 20 rows read from globals (a mocked Date gets the name Date).

Downsides

• No Bun user reported this. After lockdown(), new PassThrough().end("x") still throws Error.isError is not a function (src/js/internal/streams/writable.ts:635).
• With the JIT, Object.create({}) takes 27 more instructions per call (+3.1%). A loop over only new (class {})() takes 164 more (+14.6%).
• Binary: +9,340 B. First object of a realm: +40 cells, 407 B.

Notes

Repro

import "ses"; // 2.3.0
lockdown();
console.log({ err: new TypeError("bad") });
console.log([Promise.resolve(1)]);

main prints { err: {} } and [ Object [Promise] {} ]. Node.js v26.12.1 and this branch print { err: [TypeError: bad] } and [ Promise { 1 } ].

const util = require("node:util");
console.log(util.inspect(Float32Array.prototype, { showHidden: true }));
console.log(util.format("%o", { T: Uint8Array }).split("\n").length);

Node.js v26.3.0 and v26.12.1 print 10 lines and 18. main prints 15 lines and 23. This branch prints 10 lines and 18.

The table

• Node's table has 20 rows (inspect.js#L882-L904). util: harden more built-in classes against prototype pollution nodejs/node#56225 made it with 7 rows. assert,util: fix constructor lookup in deep equal comparison nodejs/node#57876 and util: add remaining errors to wellKnownPrototypes nodejs/node#59456 added 13.
• Bun copied the first 7 without %TypedArray%.prototype, because TypedArray is not a global.
• For a prototype that is not in the table, getConstructorName reads the own constructor. The name TypedArray is not in builtInObjects, so addPrototypeProperties listed the accessors.
• lockdown() of ses@2.3.0 makes constructor an accessor on the prototypes of Function, %TypedArray%, Error, TypeError and Promise. The rows for the last three are among the 14 that Bun did not have.
• [BYTES_PER_ELEMENT] stays before [constructor] in the output. That is JavaScriptCore's own key order.

The test of a table hit

• Node.js calls FunctionPrototypeSymbolHasInstance(constructor, tmp) (inspect.js#L913). That function walks up from tmp until it finds constructor.prototype. hasInPrototypeChain is that walk.
• The walk and the loop of getConstructorName read a prototype with the op_get_prototype_of bytecode ($getPrototypeOf), not with the captured Object.getPrototypeOf. With Object.getPrototypeOf replaced before node:util loads, main calls the replacement 1 to 4 times for a value. This branch calls it 0 times. Only addPrototypeProperties, under showHidden, still calls it.
• Where the table prototype is the prototype that the loop has just read from tmp, the walk would read the same object and stop. A Proxy is asked again, because Node.js asks it again.
• The test obj !== tmp alone is not equal to Node.js. A Proxy can answer differently the second time. Without a Proxy, the program can give tmp another prototype between the two walks: the Symbol.hasInstance of an own constructor, a getter of Object.prototype.value, or the Proxy sandbox of a node:vm global object.
• The tests count the getPrototypeOf traps of a Proxy and cover the three cases without a Proxy. They pass on main too: instanceof was the same walk. They guard the new loop.
• A question for the reviewer: obj !== tmp would remove the walk. It changes the answer for the inputs above and nothing else that I found. I kept Node's answer.

instanceof against Error and Object

• Node.js uses FunctionPrototypeSymbolHasInstance at three more places of inspect.js: L1152 (Object, for isCrossContext) and isError at L1354 and L1768.
• Bun had context instanceof Object (inspect.ts:1314), value instanceof Error (:1495) and cause instanceof Error (:1829). Each reads the global at the time of the call and runs its Symbol.hasInstance.
• With a throwing Error[Symbol.hasInstance], main throws for util.inspect(Promise.resolve(1)). After globalThis.Error = class Error {}, main prints an object below the first Error.prototype as Error {}. Node.js prints [Error: m].
• IntrinsicObject and IntrinsicError are two functions of the module. The module defines their prototype when it loads: the prototype of an object literal, and the answer of errorPrototype (UtilInspect.cpp). An object literal is below the first Object.prototype. JavaScript has no such value for Error.
• The walk is not used here. These tests run for each class instance, Promise and boxed value, and instanceof costs them nothing.
• err instanceof RangeError (inspect.ts:1591, in a catch) is unchanged. Node.js tests the name and the message there, not the prototype chain.

Why the table is native

• globalThis.Date = class MockDate extends Date {} before the first formatted object is enough to make a table that reads globals wrong: new MockDate(0) gets the name Date. Node.js prints MockDate 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z.
• JavaScript has no literal or private name that leads to the first prototypes of Date, DataView, WeakMap and WeakSet.
• The table is one Map for each realm, made when the realm formats its first object (Pass more node tests in util and readline #16425 asked for no work at startup). A Worker builds its own.
• No constructor is in the table. The Function entry with constructor: undefined and the variable wellKnownFunction are gone.

Measurements

Release builds with LTO on linux-x64, main 9fe1cd6 against this branch. Instructions are user-mode counts from perf_event_open. A value per call is (I(n) - I(n/4)) / (3n/4), the median of four heap layouts, interleaved.

Instructions for each util.inspect call, main → branch:

value	interpreter	Baseline	DFG and FTL
{ a: 1 }	29,130 → 28,567 (-1.9%)	11,756 → 11,580 (-1.5%)	3,472 → 3,439 (-0.9%)
[1, 2, 3]	40,287 → 39,725 (-1.4%)	16,740 → 16,571 (-1.0%)	5,891 → 5,873 (-0.3%)
function () {}	21,541 → 20,904 (-3.0%)	9,257 → 9,076 (-1.9%)	3,335 → 3,312 (-0.7%)
new Map()	18,451 → 17,892 (-3.0%)	7,585 → 7,400 (-2.4%)	1,468 → 1,451 (-1.2%)
new Set()	18,220 → 17,674 (-3.0%)	7,513 → 7,336 (-2.3%)	1,425 → 1,404 (-1.4%)
new (class A {})()	18,499 → 18,262 (-1.3%)	6,963 → 6,911 (-0.7%)	1,747 → 1,744 (-0.2%)
new (class MyError extends Error {})("x")	30,398 → 30,186 (-0.7%)	15,917 → 15,829 (-0.6%)	8,748 → 8,727 (-0.2%)
Buffer.from("abc")	13,986 → 13,977 (-0.1%)	6,631 → 6,613 (-0.3%)	2,993 → 2,994 (+0.0%)
new Uint8Array(4)	41,663 → 41,450 (-0.5%)	17,688 → 17,598 (-0.5%)	5,530 → 5,585 (+1.0%)
Object.create(null) with one property	36,955 → 36,806 (-0.4%)	15,176 → 15,076 (-0.7%)	5,326 → 5,306 (-0.4%)
{ a: [1, { b: new Map([[1, { c: 1 }]]) }], d: new Date(0) }	111,846 → 105,337 (-5.8%)	46,940 → 45,322 (-3.4%)	18,338 → 17,695 (-3.5%)
new Date(0)	17,787 → 16,037 (-9.8%)	7,035 → 6,237 (-11.3%)	2,059 → 1,739 (-15.6%)
/a/	19,343 → 17,530 (-9.4%)	8,840 → 8,000 (-9.5%)	4,371 → 3,893 (-10.9%)
new Error("x")	28,675 → 26,981 (-5.9%)	14,422 → 13,612 (-5.6%)	7,866 → 7,382 (-6.2%)
Promise.resolve(1)	31,406 → 29,683 (-5.5%)	12,738 → 11,931 (-6.3%)	3,497 → 3,111 (-11.1%)
new Boolean(true)	20,752 → 19,013 (-8.4%)	7,896 → 7,113 (-9.9%)	2,069 → 1,579 (-23.7%)
Object.create({})	14,961 → 14,642 (-2.1%)	5,553 → 5,461 (-1.6%)	872 → 899 (+3.1%)
new F() after F.prototype = { method() {} }	30,283 → 29,988 (-1.0%)	12,224 → 12,153 (-0.6%)	3,711 → 3,690 (-0.6%)
new (class {})()	15,392 → 15,047 (-2.2%)	5,897 → 5,791 (-1.8%)	1,120 → 1,284 (+14.6%)
class B extends A {}	23,560 → 23,191 (-1.6%)	10,648 → 10,519 (-1.2%)	4,001 → 3,992 (-0.2%)
Map.prototype	24,930 → 23,422 (-6.1%)	10,406 → 10,207 (-1.9%)	4,524 → 3,394 (-25.0%)
Object.create(Object.create(null))	68,235 → 67,458 (-1.1%)	23,124 → 22,839 (-1.2%)	7,604 → 7,690 (+1.1%)
eight of these in turn in one loop	22,717 → 21,582 (-5.0%)	9,003 → 8,754 (-2.8%)	2,913 → 2,800 (-3.9%)

• Interpreter and Baseline: no row is slower. The 14 new rows make 1 call of Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor where main made 2.
• With the JIT, the walk costs Object.create({}) 27 instructions. new Uint8Array(4) is between -28 and +71 for the four heap layouts.
• With the JIT, two rows move for another reason: new (class {})() and Object.create(Object.create(null)). FTL inlines a callee only if 1.9 times its node count is at most 170. For new (class {})(), formatRaw has 38 nodes on main and FTL inlines it into the loop. Here it has 97, with getConstructorName inside it, and the loop calls it. With BUN_JSC_maximumFunctionForCallInlineCandidateBytecodeCostForFTL=210 on both builds the two rows are +26 (+2.4%) and -23 (-0.3%).
• bun build --compile --aot of the same loop: each row takes 1.0% to 24.0% fewer instructions, but a Buffer (4,326 → 4,397, +1.6%).
• 700,000 calls leave at most 47 cells in both builds: no call keeps a cell.
• Once for each realm: the first formatted object takes 157,136 instructions less (2,813,031 → 2,655,895). Module evaluation is 6,640,501 → 6,637,197, with 31,000 to 37,000 between runs of one build. After the first object the heap holds 40 cells and 407 B more (the most frequent of 9 runs: the count of Structure cells moves by 17 between runs of one build).
• Binary: text 138,087,639 → 138,096,979 B. Bun::createWellKnownPrototypes is 8,478 B and Bun::errorPrototype 102 B. The text of internal/util/inspect.js is 76,286 → 75,860 B.
• bun build --compile --aot of console.log(require("node:util").inspect({ a: 1 })): 470 → 463 functions, executable 139,553,248 → 139,561,440 B, unseenCode is [] in both.
• Native calls 311 → 313. Table of built-ins 6,463 → 6,465 entries.

Compared with Node.js v26.12.1

• 121 cases (each of the 20 classes with an accessor constructor, a renamed constructor, and an own Symbol.hasInstance, typed-array values, Proxy chains): 92 identical on this branch, 39 on main. 106 and 41 when the lines are sorted, which removes JavaScriptCore's key order.
• 32 orders of load, tamper and first call, each in a process of its own: 21 equal on this branch, 4 on main.
• A throwing Symbol.hasInstance on each of the 20 constructors, then on Error and Object together: this branch calls none.
• The constructor getters of the fixture answer another class, so a name that came from a getter would show. Node.js prints the same strings. A count of the getter calls is not zero in Node.js: Array.prototype.splice in getBoxedBase reads Array.prototype.constructor for a boxed String.
• One test runs a fixture case under the installed Node.js, if that is v26.12.1 or later, and compares the name of an object below each prototype of the language. A row that only one of the two tables has fails it.

Still different from Node.js, outside this change

• Buffer.isBuffer in formatTypedArray runs a Symbol.hasInstance of the program.
• The module-level captures of inspect.ts and of internal/primordials are taken when the module loads, after the program can have replaced globals. 6 of the 32 orders differ for that.
• A chain of Proxies without an end never returns. Node.js throws a RangeError after 102,400 traps. main is the same.
• Float16Array is not in builtInObjects (util.inspect: print numbers, errors, tags and getters as Node.js v26.12.1 does #47303).
• util.inspect(Array.prototype) prints {}. Node.js prints Object(0) [].
• After lockdown({ consoleTaming: "unsafe" }), import("node:events") fails at src/js/node/events.ts:297 (node: $toClass installs the prototype of built-in constructors; EventEmitter reads it with $getPrototypeOf #46197).

Self-review: what I did not take

• A tracking issue for ses on Bun. This PR lists the two failures that remain after lockdown().
• A test through new console.Console(). The fixture case accessor-constructors formats the same values with the same function.
• One bounded walk shared with node:events, node:assert: throw the error itself when it inherits from Error.prototype #45255. The chain of Proxies without an end is the same on main, and instanceof is cheaper at the Error sites.

Suites

• Debug build with ASAN: test/js/node/util (622 pass), test/js/bun/util/inspect*.test.*, test/js/node/assert, test/js/bun/console and test/js/web/console (829 pass), and the 59 test-util*, test-console* and test-assert* files of test/js/node/test/parallel.
• Timeouts in this container, on main too: one parseArgs stress test, the 14 tests of inspect-with-overwritten-globals.test.ts (they pass with a longer limit) and inspect-error-leak.test.js.
• test/internal/builtins-table (133 pass), test/internal/source-lints (194 pass).
• test/aot/small-programs-stay-closed.test.ts, test/aot/runtime-use-of-util-inspect.test.ts, test/aot/the-table-of-built-ins-lists-the-own-names-of-what-its-rows-make.test.ts, and 261 programs of test/aot/parallel that use inspect or carry exact counts.
• The 1,599 IR tests of test/aot/engine-tests: 1,598 pass. pipeline/gc/custom-accessor-reached-computed-key.ir fails at line 220. It fails on main too (test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts in build 135376), and this PR does not change that file.
• bun run rust:test -p bun_aot: 2,893 unit tests and 87 IR tests pass. The 11 programs of test/aot/library-sweeps pass.
• bun src/codegen/check-types-of-modules.ts and tsc -p src/tsconfig.json report no error.
• bun test --debug-aot gives internal-inspect.test.js the same verdicts as bun test.

Open PRs in the same files

• util.inspect: print numbers, errors, tags and getters as Node.js v26.12.1 does #47303, util.inspect: name a value with a native port of V8's GetConstructorName #46111 and console, Bun.inspect, util.inspect: print a Map or Set iterator without running it #42359 conflict with this PR in internal-inspect.test.js (the import line and the place of the new tests). util.inspect: print numbers, errors, tags and getters as Node.js v26.12.1 does #47303 conflicts in parallel/util-inspect.test.js too, where both add blocks at the end of one test.
• The sources merge without a conflict with util.inspect: print numbers, errors, tags and getters as Node.js v26.12.1 does #47303, util.inspect: name a value with a native port of V8's GetConstructorName #46111, console, Bun.inspect, util.inspect: print a Map or Set iterator without running it #42359, console: do not call inspect.custom on a prototype object #41281, console: print the named properties of an empty array #45564, util.inspect: do not throw when an error's stack, name, message or errors getter throws #45254, node:events, node:assert: throw the error itself when it inherits from Error.prototype #45255, util.inspect: read Symbol.toStringTag in a try, as Node.js does #46414 and AOT: bun test --aot on large suites, module loading fixes, fuzzer fixes #47316.
• node: $toClass installs the prototype of built-in constructors; EventEmitter reads it with $getPrototypeOf #46197 declares $getPrototypeOf in builtins.d.ts with the same two lines.

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Reproduced on main (9fe1cd6) and on Bun 1.4.3, against Node.js v26.3.0 and v26.12.1:

const util = require("node:util");
console.log(util.inspect(Float32Array.prototype, { showHidden: true })); // Bun: 15 lines. Node.js: 10 lines.
console.log(util.format("%o", { T: Uint8Array }).split("\n").length); // Bun: 23. Node.js: 18.

After lockdown() of ses@2.3.0, console.log({ err: new TypeError("bad") }) prints { err: {} } on main. Node.js prints { err: [TypeError: bad] }.

PR: #47488

CI (build 135878, head 728e148)

The tests of this change pass on every lane. Two tests are red, and neither shows a fault of this change:

• test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts (alpine aarch64 and a Windows lane): pipeline/gc/custom-accessor-reached-computed-key.ir:220. It is red on main too (builds 135376 and 135526). This PR does not change that file.
• test/bundler/compile-trim-capabilities.test.ts (darwin aarch64 only): the scan in test/bundler/what-an-executable-can-call.ts reads all of __TEXT as instructions. The place that it reports is the word 91007c10 inside a record of the generated table of built-ins (db09010000000000 06010000001f0000 91007c10 ffffffffffffffff 0000). As an instruction that word is adr x17, .+0xf8010, and that address is the import of execve. The same record is in the Linux binary, where the test passes. This PR adds no call that starts a program. The lane stays red on this branch until the scan skips constant data or the layout of the binary changes.

Every other failure of the build passed on a retry.

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Walkthrough

util.inspect now uses native well-known prototype names and intrinsic prototype access to identify built-in values. The change adds native bindings and tests for modified constructors, globals, prototype chains, proxies, and realms.

Changes

Prototype-aware inspection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Native well-known prototype bindings src/jsc/bindings/UtilInspect.*, src/codegen/builtins/host/*	Adds native helpers for the built-in prototype-name map and the realm’s Error prototype. Codegen registers the helpers and their prototype inputs.
Intrinsic prototype-name detection src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts, src/js/builtins.d.ts, src/codegen/builtin-names.ts, src/codegen/builtins/host/bun-syntax.builtins.ts	getConstructorName uses the native prototype-name map and intrinsic prototype access. Context and error checks use intrinsic Object and Error constructors.
Prototype inspection regression coverage test/js/node/util/node-inspect-tests/*, test/aot/built-ins-alone/fresh-results-calls.ts	Adds tests for altered constructors, globals, prototype chains, proxies, workers, and VM realms. Updates AOT expectations for the native helper.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#46111: Replaces constructor-name discovery in internal/util/inspect; this PR continues the prototype-name detection work.
• oven-sh/bun#46197: Adds the $getPrototypeOf builtin contract that this PR uses in util.inspect.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, dylan-conway

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The prototype-naming changes have no established blocking defect. Merge with follow-up awareness that the accessor tests verify displayed names, not unwanted getter side effects.

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Count constructor reads in the accessor-constructor fixture cases.

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Count constructor reads in the accessor-constructor fixture cases.

The accessor-constructor rows assert only printed output. Each constructor getter returns the original constructor, has no counter, and never throws. A future change that reads constructor during util.inspect and still prints the mapped name would pass these rows. Make the getter count its reads and assert that the count stays at zero for the accessor-constructors and globals-replaced cases. Scope the counter to those cases so other rows keep their expected output.

Suggested fix

In well-known-prototypes-fixture.cjs:

+let constructorReads = 0;
+
 function replaceConstructorByAccessor(prototype) {
   const { value } = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(prototype, "constructor");
-  Object.defineProperty(prototype, "constructor", { get: () => value, set() {}, configurable: true });
+  Object.defineProperty(prototype, "constructor", {
+    get() {
+      constructorReads++;
+      return value;
+    },
+    set() {},
+    configurable: true,
+  });
 }

Record the count after the output is printed in each affected case:

   case "accessor-constructors": {
     for (const { prototype } of values.keys()) replaceConstructorByAccessor(prototype);
     const { inspect } = require("node:util");
     for (const [constructor, value] of values) printed[nameOf(constructor)] = onOneLine(inspect(value));
+    printed.constructorReads = constructorReads;
     break;
   }

     printed["an object made before below Error.prototype"] = inspect(madeBelowErrorPrototype);
+    printed.constructorReads = constructorReads;
     break;

In internal-inspect.test.js, give each affected row its own expected object so valuesOfBuiltInClasses and the own-has-instance row are unchanged:

-  ["every `constructor` is an accessor, as after lockdown() of ses", "accessor-constructors", valuesOfBuiltInClasses],
+  ["every `constructor` is an accessor, as after lockdown() of ses", "accessor-constructors", { ...valuesOfBuiltInClasses, constructorReads: 0 }],

Add constructorReads: 0 to the expected object for the globals-replaced row.

Apply the same counter to the object and array blocks in util-inspect.test.js at lines 3191-3276. Keep the Buffer.prototype block out of the zero-count assertion until its inspect path has been checked for constructor reads.

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• src/js/builtins.d.ts
• src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts
• src/jsc/bindings/UtilInspect.cpp
• src/jsc/bindings/UtilInspect.h
• test/aot/built-ins-alone/fresh-results-calls.ts
• test/js/node/util/node-inspect-tests/internal-inspect.test.js
• test/js/node/util/node-inspect-tests/parallel/util-inspect.test.js
• test/js/node/util/node-inspect-tests/well-known-prototypes-fixture.cjs

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[claude]

I reviewed this PR and did not find any bugs. Because it replaces the naming path of util.inspect with a new C++ binding plus a hand-rolled prototype walk ported bug-for-bug from Node, and src/js/builtins.d.ts is a CODEOWNERS-covered file, a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• createWellKnownPrototypes in UtilInspect.cpp: all 20 entries are read from the realm's global object (so Workers and vm contexts get their own table), the JSMap keeps the names alive, and each set is followed by RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION under the throw scope.
• getConstructorName's short-circuit firstProto === obj && !$isProxyObject(tmp): no program code runs between the loop's $getPrototypeOf(tmp) and the next table hit for a non-Proxy tmp, so skipping the second walk matches Node's answer; the Proxy and re-parenting cases are exercised by the new fixture.
• instanceof IntrinsicObject/IntrinsicError: builtin-source functions have no own prototype, so $putByValDirect adds one that OrdinaryHasInstance reads; a primitive cause yields false without throwing, and every getConstructorName caller passes an object (formatValue dispatches primitives earlier).
• Codegen: $cpp resolves Bun::createWellKnownPrototypes via using namespace Bun in the generated header, and the binding sits under the same NodeUtil feature as jsFunctionGetOwnNonIndexProperties that inspect already needs.

Extended reasoning...

The change rewrites how util.inspect names built-in values: a new native table of 20 realm prototypes in src/jsc/bindings/UtilInspect.cpp, a new $getPrototypeOf intrinsic and $Object link-time constant in the codegen, and a manual prototype-chain walk plus two module-private constructor functions in src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts replacing instanceof against globals. It touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface, but it is hot-path builtin JS plus C++ JSC bindings whose Node-parity choices (second walk, Proxy re-ask) are subtle. The bug hunt ran dry with no findings and the new tests cover lockdown-style accessor constructors, throwing Symbol.hasInstance, replaced globals, Workers, and a Node reference comparison. Approval is withheld because the change is non-trivial and src/js/builtins.d.ts falls under the *.d.ts CODEOWNERS entry.

[robobun]

On the two findings of the review:

• constructor reads in the accessor rows. The getters of the fixture now answer another class (NotTheConstructor), so a name that came from a getter shows in the output. Node.js v26.12.1 prints the same strings. I did not assert a read count of zero: Node.js reads Array.prototype.constructor once for a boxed String, through Array.prototype.splice in getBoxedBase (node:internal/util/inspect:1516), and so does this branch. The block in parallel/util-inspect.test.js is a port of the upstream test and stays as upstream has it.
• return outside a function. The fixture has none now.

[claude]

I reviewed the current head (through 0e787d0) and found no bugs; since this replaces the getConstructorName hot path with a native table plus a hand-rolled prototype walk, a human look at the semantic-equivalence argument is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• The firstProto === obj && !$isProxyObject(tmp) short-circuit: no user code runs between the $getPrototypeOf(tmp) read at the loop tail and the next iteration's check, so skipping the rewalk is observably identical for non-Proxy values; Proxies and later iterations still take the full walk as Node does.
• createWellKnownPrototypes: every JSMap::set is followed by RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION; all 20 entries come from global-object accessors rather than JS globals, so a replaced globalThis.Date/Error cannot poison the table.
• $putByValDirect(IntrinsicError, "prototype", ...): the direct put goes through the reify-then-putDirect path for JSFunction, so the lazy prototype cannot later overwrite it; instanceof against these unreachable functions only consults the non-writable Function.prototype[Symbol.hasInstance].
• Dead code: ObjectGetPrototypeOf and SafeMap still have live callers (addPrototypeProperties, ctx.circular), so nothing is orphaned by removing initializeWellKnownPrototypes/wellKnownFunction.

Extended reasoning...

The change replaces the 6-entry JS SafeMap in src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts with a 20-entry native JSMap built in src/jsc/bindings/UtilInspect.cpp from global-object prototype accessors, adds a $getPrototypeOf intrinsic, and swaps three instanceof Object/Error sites for instanceof against two module-private functions whose prototype is set directly. It touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface, but it is hot-path builtin code in a tamper-hostile environment and includes C++ that I could not compile here (notably direct access to JSGlobalObject::m_typedArrayProto, whose visibility I could not confirm from the checkout). Tests are substantial: spawned fixture cases per global mutation, Proxy trap-count assertions, and a Node comparison gated on nodeExeAtLeast. The combination of a non-trivial equivalence argument for the Proxy-aware short-circuit and uncompiled native code is what decided defer over approve; a prior bot review exists on an earlier push, and two commits have landed since.