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Problem

• Under bun test --isolate or --parallel, a rewritten file still runs its old text after jest.resetModules() or vi.resetModules(): Expected: "v2-longer-text", Received: "v1".
• These modes share a cache of transpiled sources (IsolatedModuleCache). resetModules() (src/jsc/bindings/BunPlugin.cpp:4190) does not drop it. A maintainer asked for that in #35453.

Fix

• resetModules() now calls IsolatedModuleCache::dropForReset(), so the next load reads the file. The vi form keeps the sources of packages that stay loaded.
• A transpile that outlives its test file and loader is dropped. On main it breaks the next file: ReferenceError: jest is not defined.
• A transpile in flight at a reset is not cached.
• Verified: mock-module.test.ts, isolation.test.ts, twelve related suites. Self-reviewed: 19 concerns raised, 14 addressed, 5 are limits (Notes).

Background

• A thread pool transpiles each file (TranspilerJob). The JS thread caches the result later.
• Considered clear() alone: after vi.resetModules() the next file reads 881 package files again. A check per hit charges every run.

Downsides

• Reset before every test under --isolate: 392 to 1,720 ms on 2 cores (plain bun test: 1,524 ms). No reset: 0 added syscalls, .text +1,792 B.
• A later test file now runs the last text loaded, as plain bun test does. If a test restores a file with no second reset, a later file that passes on main fails here (Notes). No release has resetModules().
• vi.resetModules() differs from vitest run 5.0.3. An import() that a reset overtakes can give an empty namespace.

Notes

Repro

shared.ts holds export const v = "v1";.

import { test, expect, jest } from "bun:test";
import { writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
test("sees the rewritten file after resetModules", async () => {
  expect((await import("./shared.ts")).v).toBe("v1");
  writeFileSync(new URL("./shared.ts", import.meta.url), 'export const v = "v2-longer-text";\n');
  jest.resetModules();
  expect((await import("./shared.ts")).v).toBe("v2-longer-text");
});

command	main (2596ac5)	this PR
bun test	pass	pass
bun test --isolate	Received: "v1"	pass
bun test --isolate=modules	Received: "v1"	pass
bun test --parallel=2, on a worker that ran another file first	Received: "v1"	pass

The same test with require("./shared.cjs") gives the same eight results. Main is the canary build. This PR is a debug build of the branch with main merged.

What other runtimes do

• Node 26.3.0: after delete require.cache[path], require() reads the file.
• Jest 30.5.2: the CommonJS form of the repro passes. jest.resetModules() clears the file cache and the transform cache of the runtime.
• Vitest 3.2.7 and 5.0.3 (vitest run --no-file-parallelism): after vi.resetModules(), import() returns the old text. With 5.0.3, three rewrites (v2, v3, v4) with a reset after each return v2, v2, v2. Vitest transforms a file once for the run and evaluates that text again.

resetModules() is not in a release: bun-v1.4.4 has no such function. This PR sets its first released behaviour in these modes.

The three commits

1. Drop a transpile that a finished test file left in flight. The transpiler store's generation_number now goes up between test files (swap_global_for_test_isolation). The drain in RuntimeTranspilerStore::run_from_js_thread releases a job of an earlier generation, and does not fulfill it, when the loader that asked is gone (Bun__isModuleLoaderGone): bun test --isolate retired the realm, or the Bun.ModuleGraph is disposed, which under --isolate=modules is the graph of the finished file.
2. resetModules() drops the source cache. This is what the review comment on bun:test: implement jest.resetModules() and vi.resetModules() #35453 asked for ("IsolatedModuleCache::clear(vm) here, plus an --isolate case in the test"). The jest form evicts every source. The vi form keeps the sources of the node_modules packages that vi.resetModules() keeps loaded, and evicts the source of a package that failed to load, because the reset loads that package again.
3. Do not cache a transpile that was out at a resetModules(). A reset also increments generation_number. A job that completes in another generation than it was dispatched in marks its ResolvedSource (from_earlier_generation, one byte of padding at offset 49), and IsolatedModuleCache::insert() refuses it.

Commit 1 deletes the check of generation_number on the pool thread and its error, TranspilerJobGenerationMismatch. Nothing incremented that counter, so the check never fired. With a writer it would reject the import.

Commit 2 also updates docs/test/mocks.mdx and the two tooltips in packages/bun-types/test.d.ts. They say that a load after a reset reads the file, and they name the difference to vitest run.

Since the first review the branch also has:

• the merge of main (9eebbf3),
• the move of the drop below the --aot refusal check (2f59301),
• the test and the docs sentence for a reset after the last write to a file (28ca4c3),
• the names of two new tests in the --aot lists of test/aot (a9b0869, see Tests),
• the docs sentence and the assertion for an import() that is in progress at a reset (dc16505).

Why commit 1 is here

With the drop, a load after a reset is a cache miss, so it is a job on the thread pool. If the test file ends before the job comes back, main's code completes it under the next test file. The source enters the cache as made for that file's test globals, and under --isolate=modules the load is fulfilled into the finished file's graph.

Main has this defect for a first load. 20 runs per mode, release builds. The modes are --isolate, --isolate=modules, and --parallel=2 with one worker that takes both files:

fixture	main	this PR
A file that imports vitest ends with void import("./helper.ts"). The next file imports bun:test and calls the helper, which uses the injected jest.	7 of 60 pass (1, 0 and 6 of 20): ReferenceError: jest is not defined	60 of 60
The same with two bun:test files and a helper that is not used again.	41 of 60 pass. Under --isolate=modules 1 of 20: error: ModuleGraph has been disposed	60 of 60
Three fixtures where the file loads the helper, resets, and ends with void import("./helper.ts").	180 of 180	180 of 180
The first fixture with a 100 KB helper, so that the transpile is always out at the end of the file (the form in isolation.test.ts). 30 runs per mode.	0 of 90	90 of 90

The third row is the order that the drop alone breaks. On an earlier build of this branch without commit 1, two of those fixtures passed 0 of 60 runs.

A job is released only when its loader is gone. Under --isolate=modules the test files share the realm, and code of the global scope (new Function, indirect eval) loads through the realm's own loader. The next test file can wait for a module that a finished file started to load there. The first push released that job too, and a review found it: the next file's import() of the same module timed out after 5000 ms. The test "a load through the realm's own loader outlives its test file" pins this. With main's src/ it fails in another way: the source of the late module is cached as made for the next file (Received: "BunTranspiledModule", 20 of 20 runs).

Why commit 3 is here, and how to carve it out

No maintainer asked for commit 3. The request on #35453 covers commit 2.

Without it, a dependency whose transpile is out when a reset runs enters the emptied cache after the reset, with the text that was read before it. The next load then pairs an importer that was read again with that old dependency. On main both come from the cache and match. With the refusal in insert() removed, the test "a module that was being transpiled at the reset is read again" fails in the three modes.

The case is rare. A sample of 200 test files from 81 repositories that name resetModules has 490 call sites: 247 in a test body, 190 in a hook, 52 in a helper, 1 at the top level of a file. One file resets while imports are in flight, and it rewrites no module.

If the reviewer wants the drop alone, commit 3 can move to its own PR. Then the drop has that one known order. Commits 1 and 2 build and pass their tests without it.

What still runs old text, and why

• A later test file, with no reset. This is the purpose of the cache. docs/test/parallel.mdx documents it, and three tests in isolation.test.ts assert it ("delete require.cache evicts the SourceProvider cache", "SourceProvider cache covers CommonJS modules", "SourceProvider cache covers node_modules .mjs and type:commonjs packages").
• A later test file, after a test wrote to a file again. The load after a reset caches the text that it read. If the test then puts the old text back and does not reset again, a later test file runs the temporary text. On main that file runs the first text of the run. The next section has the table.
• Other calls that make a test file load a module again. They are not resets, and they keep the cache: vi.unmock, vi.doUnmock, jest.unmock, jest.dontMock, the vi.doMock() disposer, a second vi.doMock(), a Bun.plugin module() that is registered again, the CommonJS retry after a throw, require.cache[p] = undefined, a second Bun.ModuleGraph, and the first load of the host after the load of a graph. Only the reset has a maintainer request and a Jest precedent.
• After vi.resetModules(): a CommonJS package that threw in require(), and a package that failed to load only in an earlier test file. The rule for a failed package asks the ES module registry of the running test file. jest.resetModules() reads both.
• A transpile that is out at a delete require.cache[key]. The eviction comes first, and the source is cached when the job comes back. Main has the same order. Commit 3 covers the reset only.
• A module that the reset parked while it loaded. If its file read starts after the reset, the source is cached, and the load after the deferred eviction returns that text.
• An import() that is in progress at the reset. The reset does not start it again. The import completes, its module stays loaded, and the next import() of that module returns the same namespace. Plain bun test on main does the same. docs/test/mocks.mdx now tells the user to await such an import before the reset, and the test "a module that was being transpiled at the reset is read again" asserts the same namespace.

A file that a test restores

In this case a later test file passes on main and fails with this PR. shared.ts holds export const v = "original";. The first test file is:

import { test, expect, jest, afterAll } from "bun:test";
import { writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
const file = import.meta.dir + "/shared.ts";
afterAll(() => {
  writeFileSync(file, 'export const v = "original";\n');
});
test("loads a changed copy", async () => {
  await import("./shared.ts");
  writeFileSync(file, 'export const v = "changed";\n');
  jest.resetModules();
  expect(typeof (await import("./shared.ts")).v).toBe("string");
});

The second test file imports shared.ts and expects "original", which is the text on disk at that time. The table shows the text that it receives. The cache modes are --isolate, --isolate=modules and a --parallel=2 worker that takes both files. The three give the same text in every row. Main is the canary build of 2596ac5. This PR is a debug build.

first test file	main, plain	main, cache modes	this PR, plain	this PR, cache modes
1. The file above	changed	original	changed	changed
2. Reset in beforeEach, two tests that rewrite and load (changed-1, changed-2), restore in afterEach	changed-2	changed-1	changed-2	changed-2
3. Row 1 with delete require.cache[file] in place of the reset	changed	changed	changed	changed
4. Rewrite, then the first load of the run, then restore. No reset	changed	changed	changed	changed
5. Row 1 with a second jest.resetModules() after the restore	original	original	original	original

• On main, the cache modes give a later test file the first text that the run loaded. In row 1 a load comes before the rewrite, so that text equals the file. In row 2 it does not. There the second test of the first file also fails on main (Received: "changed-1"), which is the defect of this PR.
• With this PR, the cache modes give the text of the first load after the last reset or eviction. In every row that is the text that plain bun test gives.
• The rule for a test is now the same in every mode: reset after the last write to a file. Row 5 shows it. The test "a later test file reads a file that was written before the last reset" asserts it, and docs/test/mocks.mdx says it.
• With bun test --aot, the cache modes on main give changed in row 1 too, and also in row 5: main's reset keeps the cached source, so the second reset does not help. With this PR, row 5 gives original with --aot in every mode.

One option makes rows 1 and 2 read the file: a test file that has reset does not fill the cache for the rest of that file. Then each test file that follows a resetting file loads its modules cold. With this PR that holds only for the modules that the resetting file did not load again (+1,225 M main-thread instructions for one file of the 2,067-module graph, see Cost). The option is not built. It goes past the clear() that #35453 asked for, so it is a decision for a maintainer.

bun test --aot after #47942

#47942 merged after the first push of this PR and rewrote bun test --aot. After a reset, a compiled module now loads again from source, so that load passes through the source cache. This branch has main merged (9eebbf3).

• On main, --aot with a cache mode has the defect of this PR when an earlier test file loaded the module from source after a reset: Expected: "v2-longer-text", Received: "v1". With this PR it passes in the three cache modes.
• With --aot, resetModules() can refuse the call and throw (Cannot load '...' again after vi.resetModules()), and then it changes nothing. The drop comes after that check (2f59301), so a refused reset keeps the source cache. Checked by hand under --aot --isolate: the test writes a file, loads it, and calls a reset that the build did not see. isolatedModuleCacheSourceType of that file, before and after the refused call, gives BunTranspiledModule then null with the drop above the check (9eebbf3), and BunTranspiledModule both times on the head. No test asserts it, because most --aot runs of this fixture stop in the compile step on a debug (ASAN) build (see Tests).
• The sentence about --aot that this PR added to docs/test/mocks.mdx was wrong after AOT: front end, test runs and tests for the rewritten compiler #47942. It is gone.

The CommonJS order that gets worse

An earlier test file loaded own.cjs. A later file runs:

const early = import("./own.cjs"); // not awaited
jest.resetModules();
const own = await import("./own.cjs");

earlier file	mode	main	this PR
none	plain, --isolate, --isolate=modules	v1	v1
require("./own.cjs")	plain	v1	v1
require("./own.cjs")	--isolate, --isolate=modules, a --parallel worker	v1	undefined
import "./own.cjs"	plain	undefined	undefined
import "./own.cjs"	--isolate, --isolate=modules, a --parallel worker	v1	undefined

Both promises resolve to a namespace with no exports. require("./own.cjs") still returns the module.

The cause is in the loader, not in the cache. The first import() is a cache hit, and it puts the module in require.cache at once. The reset removes it. Later the record of that import() looks the key up in require.cache and finds nothing (src/jsc/bindings/JSCommonJSModule.cpp, "require map was cleared of the entry"). On main the second import() is also a cache hit and puts the key back in time. Plain bun test on main already shows the defect in the fourth row. This PR does not change the loader.

Overlap with open PRs

• bun:test: implement jest.resetModules() and vi.resetModules() #35453 (open) is the earlier implementation of resetModules(). bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 replaced it. This PR brings its cache drop, which bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 did not take, and supersedes it.
• Map stack traces through a loaded file's own source map with --enable-source-maps #47713 and Key saved source maps by source provider, one map per source text #47842 (drafts) also put a field at ResolvedSource offset 49. The one that lands later takes byte 50 or 51 and edits both layout asserts.
• AOT: front end, test runs and tests for the rewritten compiler #47942 (merged, and merged into this branch) added Bun::willResetModules() to resetModules(). The section about bun test --aot above has the details.
• Module loading: remove unsafe from ModuleLoader, AsyncModule and RuntimeTranspilerStore #40383 documents generation_number with the error that commit 1 deletes.
• bun test --isolate: reset Module._extensions per file and ask it before the source cache answers a require() #47477 edits requireFromIsolatedModuleCache. This PR does not touch it.

Cost

Release builds of main (b1007f1) and of this PR, on a Linux x64 VM with 12 cores. Instruction counts are user-space instructions from perf_event_open. Syscalls are from a ptrace counter. "Cache off" means BUN_RUNTIME_TRANSPILER_CACHE_PATH=0. Windows and macOS are not measured. The numbers are from before the merge with main 2596ac5. Since then the code of this PR changed in one place: the drop moved a few lines down in resetModules().

A run that never resets (100 test files, each imports the same 300 modules, --isolate, cache off):

• IsolatedModuleCache::lookup(): 126 -> 126 instructions. insert(): 226 -> 226 (llvm-objdump).
• Module-file opens: 300 -> 300. Syscalls without futex, three runs each: 4,172 to 4,299 -> 4,179 to 4,227.
• Main-thread instructions, six runs each, median: 967.7 M -> 967.7 M.

Every async transpile, all modes (bun entry.ts with 2,000 imports, no test runner):

• Main-thread instructions, seven runs each, median: 129.862 M -> 129.909 M (+24 per import, +0.04 %). All threads: 260.277 M -> 260.240 M.

Sizes:

• ResolvedSource 136 -> 136 B. Zig::SourceProvider 232 -> 232 B (two new flags in padding). TranspilerJob 352 -> 352 B (no new field).
• .text 110,627,497 -> 110,629,289 B (+1,792). .rodata, .data and .bss do not change. The stripped binary is 140,478,752 B in both builds.

Plain bun test, one call with nothing loaded: jest.resetModules() 1,088 -> 1,150 instructions. vi.resetModules() 855 -> 1,035: the two host functions now share one body. 0 syscalls and 0 allocations per call.

vi.resetModules() with sources to keep, main-thread instructions per call under --isolate: 215.5k -> 222.7k with 112 kept package sources, 2,186.7k -> 2,242.4k with 1,125 (about 50 to 65 per kept source). 0 allocations in dropForReset (lldb on the ASAN build).

Reset in beforeEach, then import() of 300 small TypeScript modules (100 files, 3 tests each, cache off). Without pinning, under --isolate: module-file opens 300 -> 90,000, syscalls 17.7k -> 563k. Pinned to N cores, median wall ms of 7 interleaved runs, main -> PR:

	2 cores	4 cores	12 cores
--isolate	392 -> 1,720	402 -> 1,407	462 -> 1,240
--parallel=N	230 -> 1,105	163 -> 759	110 -> 328
plain bun test	1,395 -> 1,524	1,135 -> 1,199	1,344 -> 1,257

On 2 cores, CPU time goes from 398 to 2,315 ms under --isolate and from 457 to 2,141 ms under --parallel=2. Peak RSS of the largest process goes from 74 to 86 MB and from 61 to 72 MB. Plain bun test uses 127 MB. The 12-core column had other load on the machine in most runs.

Reset in beforeEach, then require() of express, lodash and axios (20 files, 5 tests each). Median wall ms of 5 interleaved runs, main -> PR:

	2 cores	4 cores	12 cores
--isolate, cache off	1,360 -> 3,699	1,529 -> 4,092	1,464 -> 3,635
--parallel=N, cache off	916 -> 2,272	625 -> 1,243	331 -> 568
plain bun test, cache off	3,760 -> 3,897	3,663 -> 3,737	3,126 -> 3,080
--isolate, disk transpiler cache warm	1,192 -> 2,122	1,204 -> 1,784	1,200 -> 1,976
--parallel=N, disk transpiler cache warm	893 -> 1,251	444 -> 630	261 -> 327

A reset in a hook, with nothing loaded again in that file. This is the worst case: the reset of one file makes the next file transpile again. The suite is bench/test/isolate (30 files import one 2.5 MB module) with this preload:

import { beforeEach, jest } from "bun:test";
beforeEach(() => {
  jest.resetModules();
});

	2 cores	4 cores	12 cores
--isolate, cache off	110 -> 1,697	107 -> 1,734	108 -> 1,757
--parallel=N, cache off	113 -> 1,040	132 -> 595	182 -> 284
--isolate, disk transpiler cache warm	45 -> 110	43 -> 102	45 -> 123
--parallel=N, disk transpiler cache warm	54 -> 103	51 -> 103	68 -> 88

Peak RSS under --isolate goes from 86 to 172 MB with the cache off and from 46 to 102 MB with it warm. It does not grow with the number of files: 162, 184, 187 and 190 MB for 30, 60, 120 and 240 files, against 86, 92, 91 and 87 MB on main.

A later test file that never resets, after one reset in the first file (2,067 modules: jsdom, react, react-dom, @testing-library/react and 1,180 TypeScript modules). Main-thread instructions per later file, six runs each:

	main	this PR
--isolate, no reset	270.7 M	269.4 M
--isolate, after jest.resetModules()	271.6 M	278.5 M (+2.5 %)
--isolate, after vi.resetModules()	272.3 M	272.6 M
--isolate=modules, no reset	156.0 M	153.8 M
--isolate=modules, after jest.resetModules()	155.3 M	165.2 M (+6.4 %)
--isolate=modules, after vi.resetModules()	153.5 M	158.1 M (+3.0 %)

The run-to-run spread of these figures is about 3 M.

The file right after the jest.resetModules() loads the graph cold: +1,225 M main-thread instructions once, 1,180 own files and 881 package files read again. After vi.resetModules() it reads the 1,180 own files again and 0 package files. That is the difference to a plain clear().

A transpile that was out at a reset is read once more by the next load: opens of that file over a two-file run, 1 -> 2.

Self-review

The review raised 19 concerns. 14 are addressed in code, tests, docs or this text. 5 are stated limits, in four groups:

• The empty CommonJS namespace above (2 concerns: the order, and the loader defect behind it). The repair belongs in the loader and needs its own change.
• The later-file cost after a jest.resetModules(). A reset could keep a dropped source and take it back when the text that is read again is the same. Main has the same cost after delete require.cache[key], so this is a separate change.
• A CommonJS package that threw in require(), after vi.resetModules(). An eviction at the throw also changes a require() retry with no reset, which is outside this PR. The test names ES module packages only.
• The other calls that load a module again. They are listed above and not changed.

One recommendation is done in another form: the reset preload for bench/test/isolate is in this text and not in the repository.

Alternatives that the design pass weighed:

• IsolatedModuleCache::clear() in the reset, as first asked. It also drops the sources of the packages that vi.resetModules() keeps loaded, and it has the in-flight order of commit 3.
• A compare of the file against the cached source on each hit after a reset. It keeps an unchanged file as a hit, and it adds a hash pass to every transpile in runs that never reset.
• A rule at the fetch: do not answer from the cache for a module that this test file already loaded. It costs a lookup per load and does not cover an entry that an earlier test file cached.
• Only jest.resetModules() drops the cache. Then vi.resetModules() matches vitest run and keeps a result that depends on the flag. If the reviewer prefers that, the change is one condition in resetModules().

Tests

26 new test rows: 19 in test/js/bun/test/mock/mock-module.test.ts and 7 in test/cli/test/isolation.test.ts. On main (canary 2596ac5), 19 of them fail (15 and 4). The 7 that pass on main are the 4 plain bun test rows and the 3 "load after vi.resetModules()" rows, which pin the order that the drop alone breaks.

The runner suites of test/aot run mock-module.test.ts with --aot on every child run (test/aot/runner-suites/mock-module-*.test.ts). Two of the new tests fail there on every lane: "a module that was being transpiled at the reset is read again" (4 rows) and "vi.resetModules() keeps the sources of the packages that stay loaded" (3 rows). They ask what the cache of transpiled sources holds, or they reset while a file loads, and a compiled file never gets into that cache. a9b0869 names them in test/aot/runner-suites.known.txt (7 lines) and test/aot/runner-suites.runs.txt (4 lines), as those lists ask. The other 12 new rows of mock-module.test.ts pass with compiled child runs on the three lanes. They include the four rows for a reset after the last write to a file.

The --parallel rows run --parallel=2 with BUN_TEST_PARALLEL_SCALE_MS=60000, as the other tests of isolation.test.ts do, so one worker takes every file of the fixture. Each of these fixtures has two test files. With three, the one worker runs the third file before the second.

Debug (ASAN) build of this branch with main merged:

• test/js/bun/test/mock/mock-module.test.ts: 326 pass, 1 todo.
• test/cli/test/isolation.test.ts: 158 pass, 2 skip, 1 fail. "no other builtin module patches a global class when it loads" has an inner limit of 5 s, which my machine's debug build misses in a run of the whole file. It passes alone. It costs the same number of instructions with main's src/.
• isolation-one-module-fetched-twice.test.ts 11, vi-utils.test.ts 191, mock-hoist.test.ts 134: all pass.
• test/aot/reset-modules.test.ts 4 and test/aot/reset-after-require-esm.test.ts 1: all pass. test/aot/preload-back.test.ts: 21 pass in one run and 20 in another. test/aot/mock-package-import.test.ts: 67 of 68 pass. test/aot/mock-ends.test.ts: its one test fails in 3 of 3 runs. In each failed case the --aot run stops before a test runs. For mock-ends.test.ts, and for 2 of 25 runs of a two-file fixture and 7 of 9 runs of a one-file fixture of my own, the report is AddressSanitizer: SEGV in the compile step, in JSC::AOT::Typed::SetsOfFourInLinkFlow::numberOf (AOTLinkFlow.h:248). This PR does not touch that code. The canary build of main passes the five files.

Debug (ASAN) build of 6a0e134, before the merge with main:

• transpiler-cache.test.ts 34, debugger-buntranspiledmodule.test.ts 2, node-module-module.test.js 80, hot.test.ts 26, module-graph.test.ts 297, module-graph-isolation.test.ts 413, module-graph-gc.test.ts 38, module-graph-io.test.ts 28, module-graph-callbacks.test.ts 1: all pass.
• test/cli/test/parallel.test.ts: 55 pass, 1 fail. "each worker has a unique JEST_WORKER_ID and BUN_TEST_WORKER_ID" depends on how fast the workers start. On my machine's debug build it passes 2 of 8 runs, and 4 of 8 with main's src/.
• test/js/bun/plugin/plugins.test.ts: 269 pass, 1 fail. "keeps the object alive across a GC so require() can create the module again" times out at 5 s on the debug build, also with main's src/.
• test/integration/bun-types/bun-types.test.ts: 29 pass, 1 fail. "promises nothing that a schema of the bindgen breaks" needs the generator folder of the engine, which my checkout does not have. It does not read test.d.ts.
• cargo clippy -p bun_jsc --no-deps passes.

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^{Updated 4:05 AM PT - Nov 9th, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit dc16505 has some failures in Build #139201 (All Failures)

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Status

Reproduced on main (2596ac5) with the test in the description:

• bun test ./reset.test.ts passes.
• bun test --isolate ./reset.test.ts fails: Expected: "v2-longer-text", Received: "v1". --isolate=modules and a --parallel worker fail the same way.

The fix is in this PR: #48014.

Changes since the first review (head dc16505)

• The branch has main merged. AOT: front end, test runs and tests for the rewritten compiler #47942 rewrote bun test --aot, and its resetModules() can now refuse a call. The source cache is dropped after that check.
• The description states one result that differs from main: after a reset, a later test file runs the last text that was loaded. A test that puts the old text of a file back must reset again. A new test asserts that rule, and docs/test/mocks.mdx says it.
• Two tests that this PR adds cannot pass with --aot child runs, because a compiled file never gets into the cache of transpiled sources. a9b0869 names them in the two lists that test/aot/runner-suites reads.
• The docs now also say to await an import() before a reset, because a reset does not start an import() in progress again.

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• The nine files under test/aot/runner-suites/ that failed on build 139176 pass.
• Five tests failed once and passed on the retry. None of them is from this PR: bun-serve-html.test.ts, mock-module-runs-3.test.ts ("evicting modules stays fast while many loads are pending"), no-orphans.test.ts, webview-chrome.test.ts, test-docker-build-alpine.ts.
• cargo clippy, cargo miri test, Format, Source lints, TypeScript types, comment-cop and mordant pass.

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Walkthrough

Module resets advance transpilation generations and update isolated module-cache entries. Sources from earlier generations are not cached. Tests cover resets across isolation modes, modified files, retained packages, failures, and in-progress imports. Documentation describes file rereads and Jest and Vitest differences.

Changes

Module reset behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track reset generations during transpilation src/jsc/ResolvedSource.rs, src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerStore.rs, src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs, src/jsc/bindings/ModuleLoader.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/headers-handwritten.h, src/jsc/error.rs	Transpiler jobs record reset generations. The JS-thread drain releases jobs whose loader is gone. Returned sources are marked when their dispatch generation differs from the current generation.
Evict and retain isolated-cache entries src/jsc/bindings/IsolatedModuleCache.*, src/jsc/bindings/ZigSourceProvider.h, src/jsc/bindings/BunPlugin.cpp	Module resets remove cache entries that do not meet the retention predicate. Vitest externalization checks identify entries that remain cached when factories are not rerun.
Test and document reset behavior test/cli/test/isolation.test.ts, test/js/bun/test/mock/mock-module.test.ts, docs/test/mocks.mdx, packages/bun-types/test.d.ts	Tests cover imports after resets, retained and failed package modules, and transpilation in progress. Documentation describes file rereads and Jest and Vitest differences.

Possibly related issues

• oven-sh/bun#31316: The changes update and document vi.resetModules() source reload behavior. The issue’s mock registry isolation request is not implemented here.
• oven-sh/bun#40056: The changes document vi.resetModules() behavior and its Vitest compatibility distinction.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Merge Risk: Low · up to 28ca4

The reset changes are mergeable with a bounded documentation correction: imports already pending during a reset can still return previously fetched contents. Clarify that exception; the additional direct-import assertion would improve regression coverage.

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Review comments at @src/jsc/bindings/BunPlugin.cpp:
- Around line 2399-2401: Update the module-reset eviction flow around
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[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked: the new generation-mismatch skip in run_from_js_thread leaves the job's KeepAlive balanced (reset_for_pool -> poll_ref.disable() unrefs an active ref, so the event loop is not pinned); every ResolvedSource constructor site picks up read_before_reset_modules = false (derived Default in Rust, {} zero-init of ErrorableResolvedSource in C++) and the 136-byte layout asserts agree on both sides; and the memoized m_isExternalizedByVitest keep decision only goes stale if a test rewrites a package's package.json type between resets, which is an edge case outside the documented contract.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the bun test --isolate/--parallel transpiled-source cache, the transpiler job pool drain, and an FFI-mirrored struct layout; three confirmed findings are posted inline, so a human review is needed regardless. This note records the adjacent resource-release and layout concerns that were examined and ruled out.

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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 finding, I checked two things in this push's native changes and ruled them out: the new release_unrun_job path in src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerStore.rs balances the job's event-loop keepalive (reset_for_pool -> poll_ref.disable() unrefs it) and store.put drops the parsed source and log, so a released late job neither pins the loop nor leaks; and Bun__isModuleLoaderGone in src/jsc/bindings/ModuleLoader.cpp returns false for a live realm's own loader (moduleGraphOfLoader yields null for globalObject->moduleLoader()), so a shared-realm job under --isolate=modules is still fulfilled, which the new "load through the realm's own loader" test exercises.

Extended reasoning...

The push adds a generation bump on test-file swap and on resetModules, a loader-gone check before fulfilling a stale transpile job, a from_earlier_generation byte on ResolvedSource that IsolatedModuleCache::insert honors, and a dropForReset that evicts cached sources on jest/vi resetModules; it touches no auth, crypto, or input-parsing surface. The one surviving finding is a pre-existing gap in the vi.resetModules re-read of failed CommonJS packages, and the concerns I raised on the earlier push (a shared-loader hang and mixed atomic orderings) are covered by the new loader-gone predicate, the SeqCst sites, and a pinning test. The change spans Rust/C++ FFI layout and module-loader lifecycle, so a human maintainer should still weigh it.

[robobun]

Changes since the first push, after the reviews:

• The drain now releases a transpile job of a finished test file only when the loader that asked is gone: the realm is retired, or the Bun.ModuleGraph is disposed. The first push released every such job. Under --isolate=modules that left a module of the realm's own loader pending, and a later test file that imported it timed out after 5000 ms. The test "a load through the realm's own loader outlives its test file" pins it.
• transpile does not read through vm any more, so cargo clippy passes. A job keeps the one stamp that it already had, and the swap between test files increments that counter. A TranspilerJob is 352 bytes, as on main.
• The tests for a load that a finished file left in flight use a 100 KB module, so the transpile is still out when the file ends. The next file waits for a transpile of the same size. With main's src/ these rows fail in 90 of 90 runs.
• Every comment that this PR adds in src/ is one line.

Not changed, and listed in the description under "What still runs old text, and why":

• a CommonJS package that threw in require() before vi.resetModules()
• a package that failed to load only in an earlier test file
• a transpile that is out at a delete require.cache[key]

The cost numbers in the description are measured again on the current head.

[claude]

I re-reviewed the latest push and found no new bugs; the earlier blocking concern about host-loader jobs under --isolate=modules is addressed by the Bun__isModuleLoaderGone gate. Because this reworks the transpiler job lifecycle across the Rust/C++ boundary and sets the first released resetModules() behaviour under --isolate/--parallel, a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• The drain skip in RuntimeTranspilerStore::run_from_js_thread releases a job only when its realm is retired or its Bun.ModuleGraph is disposed; an empty module_loader (host loader) is never treated as gone, and the new realm-loader test pins that.
• release_unrun_job reaches KeepAlive::disable via reset_for_pool, so a dropped job does not keep the event loop alive; every generation_number access is now SeqCst and documented as JS-thread only.
• ResolvedSource.from_earlier_generation lands in padding at offset 49 with matching layout asserts in Rust and C++; TranspilerJobGenerationMismatch has no remaining references.
• dropForReset only touches the RefPtr-held entries of isolationSourceProviderCache, and the keeps predicate (path check plus package-type lookup) does not enter JS.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the thread-pool transpiler job lifecycle (RuntimeTranspilerStore.rs), the FFI-mirrored ResolvedSource struct, IsolatedModuleCache eviction, and the resetModules() implementation in BunPlugin.cpp, plus docs, .d.ts and subprocess tests for --isolate, --isolate=modules and --parallel. It touches no auth, crypto or injection surface. The bug hunt ran dry with no findings, and the three new commits address the blocking inline finding and the ordering nit from the prior run. It is still a multi-file native change in module-loading and test-isolation internals with an unresolved third-party inline thread on the test file, so it does not meet the bar for automated approval.

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🟡 (optional) Suites that call jest.resetModules() before every test run much slower under --parallel or --isolate than on the base: the author measures 392 ms to 1,720 ms on 2 cores, slower than plain bun test. dropForReset at src/jsc/bindings/BunPlugin.cpp:4224 evicts every cached source, node_modules included, so each test re-reads and re-transpiles files that did not change. Fix: keep entries across a reset and revalidate each at its next lookup against the file (size and mtime, or a content hash taken at insert), re-transpiling only changed files, so a rewritten file is still read again as the new tests require. The PR notes this cost; it grows with tests times modules.

Why this was flagged

A suite under bun test --parallel or --isolate has beforeEach(() => jest.resetModules()). Every reset reaches resetModules at src/jsc/bindings/BunPlugin.cpp:4210, whose dropForReset call at BunPlugin.cpp:4224 passes a predicate that returns false for every key when evict.exceptPackages is false, so removeIf at src/jsc/bindings/IsolatedModuleCache.cpp:80 empties isolationSourceProviderCache, including the node_modules sources. The next test's imports all miss at src/jsc/bindings/ModuleLoader.cpp:812 and 1378 and go back to the thread pool. On the base the cache survives the reset and such a suite runs at 392 ms in the author's measurement; after merging it runs at 1,720 ms, slower than plain bun test at 1,524 ms, and the cost multiplies with the number of tests and loaded modules. The PR's Downsides section calls this known; nothing in the code bounds it, since no entry records a size, mtime or hash that a lookup could check instead of dropping it.

Verification: The keeps predicate at src/jsc/bindings/BunPlugin.cpp:4224-4226 returns false for every key on the jest form, so dropForReset at src/jsc/bindings/IsolatedModuleCache.cpp:80-82 empties isolationSourceProviderCache unconditionally on every reset; on the base resetModules never touches the cache, so the same suite re-evaluates from cached transpiled sources.

[robobun]

I agree, and I am changing the PR to this shape. A new design pass weighed the drop against a check at the next lookup, with this cost and with one case that the drop gets wrong (a test that puts the old text of a file back without a second reset: the next test file runs the temporary text).

The next push replaces the drop:

• A reset only increments a generation. No entry is dropped.
• lookup() checks an entry of an older generation against its file, once per generation: one stat for a file that is older than the process, and a hash of the bytes for a file that was written near the start of the process. Size and mtime alone are not safe there, because a test rewrites and loads inside one timestamp tick.
• The stamp or hash is taken on the thread that reads the file, and only after the first reset of the process. A run that never resets makes no new syscall and no hash pass.
• When a test file that has reset ends, the next test file checks each entry at its first use.

I will leave this thread open until that push is up, with the measured numbers in the description.