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json: copy the text between two escapes in bulk - #47720
The JSON parser decodes a string with an escape one code point at a time (decode_string_escapes, src/parsers/json_stage2.rs:1318): about 58 instructions per byte.
One printed error through a 4.26 MB source map costs 244.6 M instructions (13.4 ms). Bun 1.3.14 needed 122.0 M.
Fix
parse_string_slow searches for the next backslash and copies the text before it in one step. The same print: 21.6 M instructions (2.1 ms).
It copies only UTF-8 text, and only if no string so far has a control character. decode_string_escapes, unchanged, decodes the rest from the first bad byte or bad escape, so repairs and errors are as before.
Verified: test/js/bun/jsonc/, test/js/bun/resolve/jsonc.test.ts, test/bundler/bundler_loader.test.ts. 27 files pass under ASAN (Notes).
Self-reviewed: 10 concerns raised, 6 addressed, 3 no longer apply. Not taken: bun_parsers in the cargo test lane (Notes).
Background
Stage 1 marks each 64-byte block with a string backslash, and flags a control character in any string. parse_string_slow runs for each string of a marked block.
Callers: source map lookups, bun build JSON imports, package.json, tsconfig, registry manifests, Bun.JSONC.parse. A runtime .json import uses JavaScriptCore.
Considered a decoder that also repairs bad UTF-8 in bulk: slower on 11 of 15 documents.
Downsides
Text that is not UTF-8 gets no gain: same cost, within 0.1%.
The binary grows 5,888 bytes. A bun build --compile --aot executable maps 16,448 bytes more, or 4,160 with --trim.
Behaviour change: none
Notes
What the diff touches
src/parsers/json_stage2.rs only: +184 lines of production code, none removed. The diff has four hunks and each one only adds lines.
No hunk is inside decode_string_escapes, read_trail_surrogate_escape or push_codepoint. The old parse_string_slow keeps its body under the name parse_string_by_code_point. It runs when a string of the document has a control character.
No unsafe, no new public item, no change outside this crate.
How a string is decoded now
If stage 1 saw a control character in a string, the old function runs. Such a document is an error.
text_len finds the first backslash. A string with none is returned as it is, as before.
A row of escapes at the start of the string is decoded first. A string such as "\n" is done here.
utf8_len gives the length of the UTF-8 text at the start of the string. A string of 64 bytes or less is checked without a call to simdutf.
Up to that length, the text between two escapes is copied in one step.
From the first byte that is not UTF-8, or from the first bad escape, decode_string_escapes decodes the rest into the same buffer. It logs an error at the place of the string, not at a place inside it, so the message and its position do not change.
Measurements
Linux x64, EPYC with AVX-512, release builds of the merge base and of this branch. Instructions and cycles are user-space counts for the process. Cycles and milliseconds are from interleaved runs, with the range beside the median.
One printed error (Bun.inspect(error)) through a bundle built with bun build --target=bun --sourcemap=external:
map
unit
Bun 1.3.14
main
this PR
4.26 MB, one large source
instructions
122.0 M
244.6 M
21.6 M
cycles, median of 7 (range)
20.1 M (19.7 to 20.3)
44.6 M (43.3 to 45.4)
6.05 M (5.92 to 6.24)
ms, median of 7 (range)
6.30 (5.94 to 6.55)
13.42 (12.66 to 13.76)
2.08 (1.88 to 2.16)
14.8 MB, typescript + react-dom
instructions
295.8 M
602.5 M
72.8 M
cycles, median of 5 (range)
64.3 M (60.6 to 65.2)
119.9 M (117.2 to 122.9)
30.1 M (28.3 to 30.6)
ms, median of 5 (range)
19.0 (18.5 to 19.7)
35.4 (34.3 to 36.2)
9.6 (9.2 to 9.8)
bun bench/json-corpus/escaped-strings.mjs writes 26 documents. Instructions per Bun.JSONC.parse, in millions:
document
1.3.14
main
this PR
source-lines
30.92
61.62
5.95
long-run
27.73
61.69
3.23
pgp-signatures
36.21
50.82
12.03
tabs-crlf
69.60
58.25
20.45
json-in-json
52.18
38.55
18.28
accents
42.95
64.07
8.61
cjk
55.20
52.59
7.83
all-escaped
54.31
30.77
21.61
escape-only
64.40
24.28
14.92
one-byte-runs
64.33
27.66
19.45
one-accent-runs
43.21
30.72
20.08
one-cjk-runs
36.82
26.47
16.56
one-emoji-runs
34.40
23.24
16.09
short-strings
84.55
91.35
55.42
short-one-escape
117.54
134.49
85.56
short-accents
166.19
132.30
95.52
escaped-keys
52.16
46.89
42.02
neighbours-8
88.38
76.54
74.53
neighbours-16
88.45
77.65
75.51
neighbours-40
52.04
44.46
41.48
neighbours-72
34.48
31.71
28.40
neighbours-mixed
45.08
19.19
15.95
none (no escape)
47.42
38.09
38.12
The none document has no string that reaches this code. Its count moves by 0.7% from run to run on one build.
parse_object and parse_array have 1654 and 881 instructions in both builds. In each, only the addresses of ten constants differ.
Three documents hold bytes that are not UTF-8. A string from JavaScript cannot carry them, so they are measured through an import of a .jsonc file, three runs each:
document
main
this PR
invalid-sparse
62.85, 62.85, 62.89
62.77, 62.77, 62.76
invalid-cp1251
91.67, 91.67, 91.62
91.56, 91.56, 91.57
invalid-cjk
52.03, 52.07, 52.05
52.06, 52.01, 52.02
The first two are lower by 0.1%. The third cannot be told apart from main.
Other vector widths. The x64 binary holds kernels for 16, 32 and 64-byte vectors and selects one at run time. I measured copies of both binaries limited to AVX2 and to SSE4, with simdutf forced to haswell and westmere: 29 documents at each width. No document is above main by more than the 0.7% run-to-run noise. The three documents that are not UTF-8 are within 0.1% of main at both widths. No arm64 machine was available, so arm64 is not measured.
Instructions for one call of parse_string_slow, counted with a debugger in the steady state:
string
main
this PR
"\n"
224
201
"\\\\"
265
226
"\u00e9"
347
289
"a\nb"
346
307
"é\n"
359
358
"日\n"
384
370
"line 123 of the text\n"
1499
357
"café numéro 12\n"
1253
515
"plain", no escape, beside a string with one
62
54
"plain text 1234", the same
142
79
"é\n" is equal: one instruction is not a gain. So a string of one character that is not ASCII and one escape is not faster.
Other callers, instructions for the whole process:
command
main
this PR
cold bun install --lockfile-only, typescript@5.5.4
284.1 M
209.4 M
the same, react@19.0.0
131.6 M
81.9 M
the same, @types/node@18.0.0
97.7 M
44.0 M
the same, lodash@4.17.21
3.56 M
2.97 M
bun build of a module that imports 1 MB of JSON with source lines
71.5 M
16.0 M
the same with a JSON file that has no escape
129.0 M
128.9 M
bun build --compile --sourcemap, 4 MB source
289.7 M
66.6 M
The installs use a registry on localhost that serves the real abbreviated manifests, a fresh cache and no lockfile.
In those four manifests every backslash is inside a dist["npm-signature"] value: 47,696 of 47,696 for typescript. 1,630 of its 3,872 versions have that field. So the gain is for a resolve that fetches manifests with such versions.
Size and memory:
Text size: 140,286,972 to 140,292,860 bytes, +5,888.
test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts counts the bytes that a bun build --compile --aot executable of a hello world maps. At the merge base: 68,121,572, and 25,961,444 with --trim. With this PR: 68,138,020 and 25,965,604. The bound of that test for --trim is 25,880,000 and only goes down, so the test fails at the merge base too, and this PR adds 4,160 bytes to that.
Peak RSS of one parse: no change that the measurement can show. Over documents of 1,000 to 64,000 short strings the difference is between -0.5 MB and +0.4 MB, with no trend, and one measurement varies by 0.5 MB or more. For one 1 MB string it is about 1 MB lower (main 3.7 to 4.3 MB, this PR 2.7 to 3.2 MB over four runs), because the buffer is reserved once.
Why the search has three steps
text_len reads four bytes with a branch each, then words of 8 bytes, then calls the Highway kernel when 64 bytes or more are left.
The branches. I built a variant that reads words from the first byte. With one byte between two escapes it needs 4.90 M cycles per parse of one-byte-runs. Main needs 4.48 M and this PR 3.06 M (minimum of 7 interleaved runs). A word makes each step wait for the load of the step before it. The branches cost something too: with four to six bytes between escapes the variant is 6 to 8% lower in cycles, and on source-lines it is 11% lower in instructions. Both are far below main on those documents.
The words. index_of_char reads input of less than 16 bytes one byte at a time: 62 instructions for 9 bytes, measured. A word reads 8 bytes in one step.
The kernel from 64 bytes. On SSE4 and AVX2 the kernel scans what is left after its last whole vector one byte at a time (HWY_MEM_OPS_MIGHT_FAULT in vendor/highway). With 64 bytes or more it reads whole vectors first on every x64 target.
This is a deviation from a rule. src/CLAUDE.md says that a byte search must go through bun_core::strings, and the branches and the words do not. The source lint does not match their form, so it does not show this.
I measured the form that follows the rule: text_len as one call to strings::index_of_char_usize at every length. Its unit tests pass. In instructions it is below main on the 19 documents that I measured. In cycles it is above main on two (minimum of 7 interleaved runs). With one byte between two escapes it needs 7.60 M per parse, main 4.43 M and this PR 3.19 M. With two bytes it needs 5.76 M, main 4.78 M and this PR 3.07 M. For long text it equals this PR: source-lines takes 1.99 M against 2.13 M.
Two other ways to reduce the deviation are not measured: the four branches followed by the helper with no word loop, and the handling of short input inside strings::index_of_char_usize for all of its callers. The second is a change to shared code with its own measurements. A maintainer can choose.
Tests
test/js/bun/jsonc/jsonc.test.ts: three tests. The first compares Bun.JSONC.parse with JSON.parse for 7,920 strings: six kinds of text at 24 lengths around 4, 12, 64 and 76 bytes, with 11 escapes in five places, and strings of 4095, 4096 and 9000 characters. The second checks the exact message of 2,676 documents that must be rejected. Some have the escape in another string, after a comment or a single quote. Those pin the flag that stage 1 sets for a control character, in both of its indexers. The third reads 199 escapes through both decoders: alone, where the bulk decoder runs, and before a string with a line break, where the code point decoder runs. Both must take the same escapes, so a change to one of the two tables alone fails in CI. It checks the decoded value for the bulk decoder. For the other one it can only see if the escape was taken.
json-differential-fuzz.test.ts: a chunk of 7 to 150 equal characters, so the seeded fuzz reaches text longer than a word.
test/js/bun/resolve/jsonc.test.ts and test/bundler/bundler_loader.test.ts: bytes that are not UTF-8 in strings with an escape, through a .jsonc import and through the JSON loader of bun build. They pin the repair that the old loop makes.
All of these pass on main too. They pin what must not change.
I changed results by hand to check that the two new tests can fail: one wrong character in a batch of 330 strings, a long string one character short, a missing value, a wrong key, a valid document in the rejection table, a wrong message. Each one fails the test and names the string.
Under the debug build with ASAN the two large tests take 0.7 to 1.0 s each over ten runs, and the third about 0.14 s. The strings are built with Buffer.alloc, as test/CLAUDE.md asks. For these lengths it is not faster than repeat: four interleaved runs of each form overlap.
27 test files pass under the debug build with ASAN: the five above with json-test-suite, then json5 (2 files), inspect-error, the source map tests of test/js/bun/sourcemap (5), test/js/node/module (3), inspect-inline-sourcemap, bun-build-compile-sourcemap, bundler_env, bundler_bun, bundler_edgecase, bun-pm-pkg, coverage, cli/run/env, regression 22003 and the two source map tests of test/bake/dev.
The source lints pass with a release build: 195 of 195. Under the debug build two of them that scan the whole tree reach the 5 s limit.
Six unit tests in json_stage2.rs compare the new path with decode_string_escapes for about 700,000 generated string bodies, through the parser and directly. CI type-checks the unit tests of bun_parsers and no lane runs them. scripts/bench-json-rust.sh --test does not link on main. I ran them with bench-json-rust.sh: link the real Highway kernels, compiled as C++23 #46070 applied: 45 of 45 pass.
Bun.JSONC.parse gives the same value or the same error as main for 14,456 JSON files (440 M characters): every .json, .jsonc and .map file of the repository, the manifests above and the corpus.
The review of my first version
I first wrote a decoder that also repaired text that is not UTF-8 in bulk. A review of it raised ten points.
Addressed (6): three kinds of text were above main. A measured alternative was smaller, and lower on 11 of the 15 documents I had then. This PR builds on it. The comments. The rejection tests, their messages and the long strings. The test through the bundler.
No longer apply (3): a buffer of its own for a long string raised peak RSS, and left a dead function and a new unsafe block. This PR has no such buffer and does not touch src/ast/e.rs. Tests for --define values: that decoder is not changed.
Not taken (1): the unit tests of bun_parsers in the cargo test lane. It needs a choice between the real kernels and stand-ins for that crate's tests. That is a change of its own.
Not in this PR
Lexer::decode_escape_sequences (src/js_parser/lexer.rs:422), scan_basic_string (src/parsers/toml.rs:1224) and scan_double_quoted_scalar (src/parsers/yaml.rs:5420) decode escapes in their own loops.
text_len stays private to this file. It has one caller.
The old loop calls memmove twice for each character of three bytes: 160 calls of length 3 for 80 CJK characters. One call is in push_codepoint. I did not find where the other is. I tried four forms of push_codepoint and each one made some text slower than main, so this PR leaves it as it is.
The parser decoded a string that has an escape one code point at a
time. `parse_string_slow` now finds the next backslash with a search
and copies the text before it in one step.
It does so for UTF-8 text, in a document where no string so far has a
control character: stage 1 sets a flag for that. From the first byte
that is not UTF-8, or from the first bad escape, `decode_string_escapes`
decodes the rest of the string into the same buffer. If the flag is
set, it decodes the whole string. That loop does not change, so it
still makes every error and every repair of text that is not UTF-8.
A string of escapes only, such as "\n", needs no check for UTF-8. A
string of 64 bytes or less is checked without a call to simdutf.
A printed error through a 4.26 MB source map costs 21.6 M instructions,
and 244.6 M before.
Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 3f3a9ff and c19c36d.
Files selected for processing: 6
bench/json-corpus/escaped-strings.mjs
src/parsers/json_stage2.rs
test/bundler/bundler_loader.test.ts
test/js/bun/jsonc/json-differential-fuzz.test.ts
test/js/bun/jsonc/jsonc.test.ts
test/js/bun/resolve/jsonc.test.ts
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Walkthrough
The JSON string slow path now decodes unescaped UTF-8 runs and escape sequences in batches, while retaining code-point decoding for strings with control characters. The change adds benchmark corpora and tests for escape handling, malformed UTF-8, long strings, and JSONC imports.
Changes
JSON string decoding
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Bulk decoder and internal tests src/parsers/json_stage2.rs
The string slow path uses a bulk decoder for strings without control characters. New helpers validate UTF-8 prefixes and decode escape sequences. Internal tests compare decoder and parser results with the code-point decoder.
Parser and import regression tests test/js/bun/jsonc/jsonc.test.ts, test/js/bun/jsonc/json-differential-fuzz.test.ts, test/bundler/bundler_loader.test.ts, test/js/bun/resolve/jsonc.test.ts
Tests cover escape handling across varied string lengths, malformed UTF-8 at varied offsets, and .jsonc imports. The fuzz generator adds repeated-text strings.
Escaped-string benchmark corpus bench/json-corpus/escaped-strings.mjs
A script generates escaped-string datasets and byte-oriented documents containing invalid UTF-8.
Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner
Merge Risk: Low · up to c19c3
The change is mergeable with bounded follow-up for unnecessary allocation on malformed strings and compliance with the repository’s byte-search requirement.
Pre-merge checks: 4
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Write the documents: bun bench/json-corpus/escaped-strings.mjs
Run the bench with a build of main and with a build of this branch: bun bench/json-corpus/jsonc-parse.mjs strings-
On my machine the median for strings-source-lines.json goes from about 3.3 ms to about 0.8 ms, and for strings-long-run.json from about 3.2 ms to about 0.4 ms. strings-none.json has no escape and does not move. Each document is 0.7 to 1.1 MB.
The printed error in the description is Bun.inspect(error) for an error thrown from a bundle that was built with bun build --target=bun --sourcemap=external. The bundle has one 4 MB source file and one small file that throws. Each print reads and parses the map again, so that parse is most of the time of a print.
The description has the counted numbers (instructions, cycles with their range) and the list of test files that I ran on the debug build.
The build has finished. Each of its failures also occurs without this PR.
41 test files fail on each retry: test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts and 40 files under test/aot/. An earlier version of this comment said 28. That count was wrong: I had read only the first 30 of the 45 annotations.
40 of the 41 also fail in the final build of ci: look up Linux images with an AWS role #47625, the merge base of this branch. Each fails on the same lanes in both builds. That build has no other failure.
The other one is test/aot/three-layers-agree.test.ts, on Debian x64 with ASAN only. In three of its four attempts a bun test --aot child exits with code 134. In the first attempt one line of the results differs. The log does not have the output of the child, so I do not know the cause.
That test fails without this PR too. It is red on the same lane, with the same exit code, in Buildkite builds 136778, 136807, 136814 and 136817. They are builds of four other branches.
No test file of this PR is in the list of failures. None is in the list of tests that passed on a retry.
I read the logs of the failed jobs and of the macOS x64 jobs. In them the test files of this PR pass:
test/js/bun/jsonc/jsonc.test.ts (53 tests): Debian x64, Debian aarch64, Debian x64 with ASAN, Windows 11 aarch64, macOS x64.
compile-aot-size is not independent of this PR. Its bound for --trim is 25,880,000 bytes. The merge base measures 25,961,444, and this PR 25,965,604: 4,160 bytes more.
The other checks pass: cargo clippy with cargo check --all-targets, source lints, format, JavaScript lint, cargo miri test and comment-cop.
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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 checked the FLAG_HAS_CTRL_IN_STRING gate in parse_string_slow: string_body_at forces the structural index through the closing quote before the body is read, and both the Highway kernel and the scalar indexer set that flag from the same byte class that marks a block dirty, so a control character in the current string is already reflected when the gate runs.
I also checked that decode_escapes_at only ever consumes ASCII bytes (the escape letter and hex digits), so copied cannot pass the utf8_len cut and the body[copied..end] slices cannot panic; the syntax-error position is unchanged because both decoders log through the parser's own token start rather than an offset inside the body.
Extended reasoning...
The only production change is src/parsers/json_stage2.rs (+184 lines of logic plus a cfg(test) module): a new bulk path in parse_string_slow that finds backslashes with a hand-rolled 4-byte/SWAR/Highway scan, validates UTF-8 up front, copies plain runs, decodes escape rows in a second hand-written escape table, and falls back to the existing per-code-point decoder from the first bad byte or escape. It touches no auth, crypto or injection surface, but it is a hot path for package.json, registry manifests, tsconfig and source maps, and correctness rests on the stage-1 control-character flag and on the UTF-8 cut never being overshot, both of which I traced and found sound. The change is large and non-trivial, the inline findings include the new Rust differential tests not running in CI, and the JS tests only sample the new boundaries, so a human look remains warranted.
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🟡 (optional) Maintainers get ~370 lines of differential tests that certify text_len, utf8_len and decode_plain_text but never execute anywhere in CI, so a regression in the new bulk decoder is caught only by the handful of JS cases. The #[cfg(test)] module at src/parsers/json_stage2.rs:1618 lives in bun_parsers, which is absent from the crate list at scripts/rust-test.ts:33-62; the rust-lints workflow only cargo checks test targets. The PR relies on these tests for its 'behaviour change: none' claim (500k random bodies, 4096/8192 boundary bodies). Fix: add bun_parsers to the rust-test lane (or move the differential cases to a crate that runs), or delete the module and port the boundary cases to the JS suite so the only tests that exist are tests that run.
Why this was flagged
Trigger: any future edit to text_len (:1324), utf8_len (:1359), decode_escapes_at (:1390) or decode_plain_text (:1437), or a simdutf/Highway bump that changes error-position or scan semantics. The tests at json_stage2.rs:1618-1986 are the only exhaustive cross-check of the bulk path against decode_string_escapes, but bun_parsers is not in scripts/rust-test.ts:33-62 and .github/workflows/rust-lints.yml:69-76 only type-checks #[cfg(test)] code. The base branch had no bulk decoder whose correctness depended on these tests; the PR adds both the new production path and the dead assurance for it in one change. The JS tests in test/js/bun/jsonc/jsonc.test.ts and test/js/bun/resolve/jsonc.test.ts exercise a few scan widths and one 0xFF byte, not the surrogate, overlong and truncated-sequence matrix in PIECES (:1716-1766). Remedy: wire bun_parsers into the cargo test lane, or drop the module.
Verification: The new #[cfg(test)] mod tests at src/parsers/json_stage2.rs:1618-1986 lives in crate bun_parsers (src/parsers/Cargo.toml:2). The only CI lane that runs Rust unit tests is bun run rust:test (.buildkite/ci.ts:907-925), whose explicit crate list at scripts/rust-test.ts:33-62 omits bun_parsers. .github/workflows/rust-lints.yml:69-76 runs cargo check --workspace --all-targets, which only type-checks #[cfg(test)] code.
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Not changed in this PR. The facts are as you say: CI type-checks this module, and no lane runs it.
I ran it with #46070 applied, because scripts/bench-json-rust.sh --test does not link on main: 45 of 45 pass.
To run bun_parsers in the cargo test lane, its tests need stand-ins for the native kernels, or the real ones. That is a choice about the test setup of the crate, and #46070 works in the same area, so I left it out of this PR.
The new escape test in c19c36d moves one part of this into CI. It does not replace the comparison of text, UTF-8 and escapes over about 700,000 string bodies.
A maintainer can decide between three options: keep the module as a local check, add the crate to the lane in a change of its own, or delete the module.
… Buffer.alloc
The parser has two decoders for a string with an escape, and each one
has its own table of escapes. A new test in jsonc.test.ts reads every
character after a backslash through both: alone, where the bulk decoder
runs, and before a string with a line break, where the code point
decoder runs. Both must take the same escapes.
The new tests build a run of equal characters with Buffer.alloc, as
test/CLAUDE.md asks. The strings do not change.
The doc comment of text_len says why it reads short text itself.
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Actionable comments posted: 1
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Minor · Reserve the output buffer after the first escape succeeds. · json_stage2.rs:1436
src/parsers/json_stage2.rs:1436 Minor · Performance & Scalability · Low value
Reserve the output buffer after the first escape succeeds.
decode_plain_text calls out.reserve(body.len()) before it checks any escape. A string that contains a malformed escape therefore reserves a buffer as large as the whole string body, even though decoding then fails. The previous decoder grew its buffer only as it decoded bytes. The reserve is freed when the parse returns the error, so the extra memory is transient and bounded by the size of the input that is already loaded.
Possible direction
Do not reserve the full body before the first escape is validated. Keep the reserve for valid strings, where it avoids reallocations. Any change must keep the valid-path allocation count close to the current behavior.
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Review comment at @src/parsers/json_stage2.rs at line 1436:
In decode_plain_text, defer reserving the full body capacity until the first
escape has been successfully validated, so malformed escapes fail before that
allocation. Preserve the reserve for valid strings to keep their allocation
behavior close to the current implementation.
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Review comments at @src/parsers/json_stage2.rs:
- Around line 1332-1349: Update text_len to route its short-text backslash
search through bun_core::strings::index_of_char_usize, preserving the existing
first-match behavior and long-text path; if measured short-text slowdown is
confirmed, document this helper as an exception in the byte-search lint’s ALLOW
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- Line 1436: In decode_plain_text, defer reserving the full body capacity until
the first escape has been successfully validated, so malformed escapes fail
before that allocation. Preserve the reserve for valid strings to keep their
allocation behavior close to the current implementation.
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I re-reviewed the follow-up commit and found no bugs; since this is a new bulk decoder on the JSON string hot path with hand-rolled word scanning and UTF-8 boundary handling, a human look is still worthwhile.
What was reviewed:
Checked that decode_plain_text can never re-slice past the UTF-8 prefix: every byte a successful decode_escapes_at consumes is ASCII and utf8_len only stops at a non-ASCII byte, so copied <= end holds on every loop iteration.
Checked error parity with the code-point decoder: a bad or truncated escape at the UTF-8 boundary returns its start and decode_string_escapes re-decodes from there, logging at the string's cursor as before.
Checked the FLAG_HAS_CTRL_IN_STRING gate: it relies on the same stage-1 property the existing raw-string path for clean blocks already depends on, and the index for a string's closing quote is only available after its chunk's flags are merged.
The follow-up commit switches the new tests to Buffer.alloc and adds a test that both escape tables accept the same set.
Extended reasoning...
The change adds a bulk fast path for JSON string literals with escapes in src/parsers/json_stage2.rs (text_len SWAR backslash search, utf8_len via std or simdutf, decode_escapes_at, decode_plain_text) plus a Rust differential test module, JS tests across jsonc, resolve and bundler, and a bench corpus. It parses untrusted input but touches no auth, crypto or permission surface; the bounds and escape-table behaviour were checked by hand and the bug hunt ran dry. The follow-up commit addressed the test-string construction nit and added an escape-table parity test; the Rust unit tests still live in a crate that is not in the cargo test lane, which the author declined with a stated reason. Deferring rather than approving because the production code is a non-trivial hot-path parser rewrite with hand-rolled byte scanning, not a mechanical change.
About the follow-up on decode_plain_text: out.reserve(body.len()) runs before the first escape is checked.
This is true. A string with a bad escape reserves the length of its body and then fails. On main the buffer grew only as far as the bad escape. The extra memory is about the length of that one string, which is in memory already, and it is released when the parse returns the error. It affects only a document that is rejected.
I did not change it. To check the first escape before the reserve, the function must validate an escape without writing its output. That adds a second path to a function whose short cases are within a few instructions of main ("é\n" takes 358 instructions, and 359 on main).
For a valid string the reserve is what avoids the growth of the buffer. Peak RSS for one string of 1 MB is about 1 MB lower than on main.
A partial change is small, if a maintainer wants it: the reserve can move below the block that decodes the escapes at the start of a string. Then a string that starts with a bad escape reserves nothing.
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Problem
decode_string_escapes,src/parsers/json_stage2.rs:1318): about 58 instructions per byte.Fix
parse_string_slowsearches for the next backslash and copies the text before it in one step. The same print: 21.6 M instructions (2.1 ms).decode_string_escapes, unchanged, decodes the rest from the first bad byte or bad escape, so repairs and errors are as before.test/js/bun/jsonc/,test/js/bun/resolve/jsonc.test.ts,test/bundler/bundler_loader.test.ts. 27 files pass under ASAN (Notes).bun_parsersin thecargo testlane (Notes).Background
parse_string_slowruns for each string of a marked block.bun buildJSON imports, package.json, tsconfig, registry manifests,Bun.JSONC.parse. A runtime.jsonimport uses JavaScriptCore.Downsides
bun build --compile --aotexecutable maps 16,448 bytes more, or 4,160 with--trim.Behaviour change: none
Notes
What the diff touches
src/parsers/json_stage2.rsonly: +184 lines of production code, none removed. The diff has four hunks and each one only adds lines.decode_string_escapes,read_trail_surrogate_escapeorpush_codepoint. The oldparse_string_slowkeeps its body under the nameparse_string_by_code_point. It runs when a string of the document has a control character.unsafe, no new public item, no change outside this crate.How a string is decoded now
text_lenfinds the first backslash. A string with none is returned as it is, as before."\n"is done here.utf8_lengives the length of the UTF-8 text at the start of the string. A string of 64 bytes or less is checked without a call to simdutf.decode_string_escapesdecodes the rest into the same buffer. It logs an error at the place of the string, not at a place inside it, so the message and its position do not change.Measurements
Linux x64, EPYC with AVX-512, release builds of the merge base and of this branch. Instructions and cycles are user-space counts for the process. Cycles and milliseconds are from interleaved runs, with the range beside the median.
One printed error (
Bun.inspect(error)) through a bundle built withbun build --target=bun --sourcemap=external:bun bench/json-corpus/escaped-strings.mjswrites 26 documents. Instructions perBun.JSONC.parse, in millions:nonedocument has no string that reaches this code. Its count moves by 0.7% from run to run on one build.parse_objectandparse_arrayhave 1654 and 881 instructions in both builds. In each, only the addresses of ten constants differ.Three documents hold bytes that are not UTF-8. A string from JavaScript cannot carry them, so they are measured through an import of a
.jsoncfile, three runs each:The first two are lower by 0.1%. The third cannot be told apart from main.
Other vector widths. The x64 binary holds kernels for 16, 32 and 64-byte vectors and selects one at run time. I measured copies of both binaries limited to AVX2 and to SSE4, with simdutf forced to
haswellandwestmere: 29 documents at each width. No document is above main by more than the 0.7% run-to-run noise. The three documents that are not UTF-8 are within 0.1% of main at both widths. No arm64 machine was available, so arm64 is not measured.Instructions for one call of
parse_string_slow, counted with a debugger in the steady state:"\n""\\\\""\u00e9""a\nb""é\n""日\n""line 123 of the text\n""café numéro 12\n""plain", no escape, beside a string with one"plain text 1234", the same"é\n"is equal: one instruction is not a gain. So a string of one character that is not ASCII and one escape is not faster.Other callers, instructions for the whole process:
bun install --lockfile-only, typescript@5.5.4bun buildof a module that imports 1 MB of JSON with source linesbun build --compile --sourcemap, 4 MB sourcedist["npm-signature"]value: 47,696 of 47,696 for typescript. 1,630 of its 3,872 versions have that field. So the gain is for a resolve that fetches manifests with such versions.Size and memory:
test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.tscounts the bytes that abun build --compile --aotexecutable of a hello world maps. At the merge base: 68,121,572, and 25,961,444 with--trim. With this PR: 68,138,020 and 25,965,604. The bound of that test for--trimis 25,880,000 and only goes down, so the test fails at the merge base too, and this PR adds 4,160 bytes to that.Why the search has three steps
text_lenreads four bytes with a branch each, then words of 8 bytes, then calls the Highway kernel when 64 bytes or more are left.one-byte-runs. Main needs 4.48 M and this PR 3.06 M (minimum of 7 interleaved runs). A word makes each step wait for the load of the step before it. The branches cost something too: with four to six bytes between escapes the variant is 6 to 8% lower in cycles, and onsource-linesit is 11% lower in instructions. Both are far below main on those documents.index_of_charreads input of less than 16 bytes one byte at a time: 62 instructions for 9 bytes, measured. A word reads 8 bytes in one step.HWY_MEM_OPS_MIGHT_FAULTinvendor/highway). With 64 bytes or more it reads whole vectors first on every x64 target.src/CLAUDE.mdsays that a byte search must go throughbun_core::strings, and the branches and the words do not. The source lint does not match their form, so it does not show this.text_lenas one call tostrings::index_of_char_usizeat every length. Its unit tests pass. In instructions it is below main on the 19 documents that I measured. In cycles it is above main on two (minimum of 7 interleaved runs). With one byte between two escapes it needs 7.60 M per parse, main 4.43 M and this PR 3.19 M. With two bytes it needs 5.76 M, main 4.78 M and this PR 3.07 M. For long text it equals this PR:source-linestakes 1.99 M against 2.13 M.strings::index_of_char_usizefor all of its callers. The second is a change to shared code with its own measurements. A maintainer can choose.Tests
test/js/bun/jsonc/jsonc.test.ts: three tests. The first comparesBun.JSONC.parsewithJSON.parsefor 7,920 strings: six kinds of text at 24 lengths around 4, 12, 64 and 76 bytes, with 11 escapes in five places, and strings of 4095, 4096 and 9000 characters. The second checks the exact message of 2,676 documents that must be rejected. Some have the escape in another string, after a comment or a single quote. Those pin the flag that stage 1 sets for a control character, in both of its indexers. The third reads 199 escapes through both decoders: alone, where the bulk decoder runs, and before a string with a line break, where the code point decoder runs. Both must take the same escapes, so a change to one of the two tables alone fails in CI. It checks the decoded value for the bulk decoder. For the other one it can only see if the escape was taken.json-differential-fuzz.test.ts: a chunk of 7 to 150 equal characters, so the seeded fuzz reaches text longer than a word.test/js/bun/resolve/jsonc.test.tsandtest/bundler/bundler_loader.test.ts: bytes that are not UTF-8 in strings with an escape, through a.jsoncimport and through the JSON loader ofbun build. They pin the repair that the old loop makes.Buffer.alloc, astest/CLAUDE.mdasks. For these lengths it is not faster thanrepeat: four interleaved runs of each form overlap.json-test-suite, then json5 (2 files),inspect-error, the source map tests oftest/js/bun/sourcemap(5),test/js/node/module(3),inspect-inline-sourcemap,bun-build-compile-sourcemap,bundler_env,bundler_bun,bundler_edgecase,bun-pm-pkg,coverage,cli/run/env, regression 22003 and the two source map tests oftest/bake/dev.json_stage2.rscompare the new path withdecode_string_escapesfor about 700,000 generated string bodies, through the parser and directly. CI type-checks the unit tests ofbun_parsersand no lane runs them.scripts/bench-json-rust.sh --testdoes not link on main. I ran them with bench-json-rust.sh: link the real Highway kernels, compiled as C++23 #46070 applied: 45 of 45 pass.Bun.JSONC.parsegives the same value or the same error as main for 14,456 JSON files (440 M characters): every.json,.jsoncand.mapfile of the repository, the manifests above and the corpus.The review of my first version
I first wrote a decoder that also repaired text that is not UTF-8 in bulk. A review of it raised ten points.
unsafeblock. This PR has no such buffer and does not touchsrc/ast/e.rs. Tests for--definevalues: that decoder is not changed.bun_parsersin thecargo testlane. It needs a choice between the real kernels and stand-ins for that crate's tests. That is a change of its own.Not in this PR
Lexer::decode_escape_sequences(src/js_parser/lexer.rs:422),scan_basic_string(src/parsers/toml.rs:1224) andscan_double_quoted_scalar(src/parsers/yaml.rs:5420) decode escapes in their own loops.text_lenstays private to this file. It has one caller.memmovetwice for each character of three bytes: 160 calls of length 3 for 80 CJK characters. One call is inpush_codepoint. I did not find where the other is. I tried four forms ofpush_codepointand each one made some text slower than main, so this PR leaves it as it is.