Bun v0.6.2

This is a couple bugfixes to the minifier and bundler, and performance improvements to JavaScript thanks to JavaScriptCore team members @Constellation and @shvaikalesh.

Be sure to check out the Bun v0.6.0 release notes if you haven't.

curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash

npm install -g bun

brew tap oven-sh/bun

brew install bun

docker pull oven/bun

docker run --rm --init --ulimit memlock=-1:-1 oven/bun

To upgrade Bun:

bun upgrade

toLocaleString() gets 79x faster

Thanks to @Constellation, toLocaleString() on numbers gets 79x faster.

toLocaleString converts the number into how a string is expected to be read by the current locale.

This impacts code like this:

const myNumber = 123;

myNumber.toLocaleString();

• https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/13860

Up to 20% faster JSON.parse & 15% faster JSON.stringify

Thanks to @Constellation, JSON.parse gets 20% faster on objects on objects without many nested objects and JSON.stringify gets 15% faster in the same scenario.

Before:

cpu: Apple M1 Max
runtime: bun 0.6.1 (arm64-darwin)

benchmark                time (avg)             (min … max)       p75       p99      p995
----------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------
JSON.parse(obj)        1.45 µs/iter     (1.32 µs … 2.99 µs)   1.38 µs   2.99 µs   2.99 µs
JSON.stringify(obj)  612.71 ns/iter   (556.91 ns … 1.35 µs) 586.41 ns   1.35 µs   1.35 µs

After (lower is better):

cpu: Apple M1 Max
runtime: bun 0.6.2 (arm64-darwin)

benchmark                time (avg)             (min … max)       p75       p99      p995
----------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------
JSON.parse(obj)         1.1 µs/iter   (999.92 ns … 2.08 µs)   1.04 µs   2.08 µs   2.08 µs
JSON.stringify(obj)  546.45 ns/iter   (489.78 ns … 1.68 µs) 518.86 ns  979.2 ns   1.68 µs

Node.js, for comparison:

cpu: Apple M1 Max
runtime: node v20.1.0 (arm64-darwin)

benchmark                time (avg)             (min … max)       p75       p99      p995
----------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------
JSON.parse(obj)        2.44 µs/iter     (2.34 µs … 2.59 µs)   2.51 µs   2.59 µs   2.59 µs
JSON.stringify(obj)    1.38 µs/iter     (1.33 µs … 1.47 µs)   1.42 µs   1.47 µs   1.47 µs

View microbenchmark

• https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/13898
• https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/13480 (note that benchmarks listed there are for entire apps, not JSON.parse microbenchmarks specifically)
• https://github.com/oven-sh/WebKit/commit/3fa658700239c8e7cbe8fa20793a6314274560cd

Proxy gets faster

Thanks to a series of PRs by @shvaikalesh, Proxy gets 2x faster or more when getting or setting properties through it.

• https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/13349
• https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/13408
• https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/13660

Object.assign with empty objects gets faster

Thanks to @Constellation, Object.assign() with empty objects as the 2nd argument gets 2x faster.

function test(options) {
  var options = Object.assign({ defaultParam: 32 }, options);
  return options;
}

// empty object as the 2nd arguemnt to object assign
test({});

• https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/13220/files

Returning arguments gets 2x faster

Also thanks to @Constellation, returning arguments in a function this gets 2x faster

function test(a, b, c) {
  return arguments;
}

for (var i = 0; i < 1e6; ++i) test(0, 1, 2);

• https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/13304

Minifier bug involving template strings

Due to incorrect logic involving rope strings inside template literals in bun's parser, code like this would sometimes produce incorrect strings:

const foo = ".*";
const regex1 = new RegExp(foo); // Invalid regular expression: unmatched parentheses
const regex2 = new RegExp(`(${foo})`);

This has been fixed, thanks to @dylan-conway.

Asset names rewriting bug

When running

bun build ./foo.js

If foo.js looked something like:

import MyAsset from './asset.svg';

bun build would report the following:

  foo.js                        0.00 KB

  asset-bcd3157c264ff68c.svg    0.00 KB

[6ms] bundle 2 modules

...and then never actually copy asset-bcd3157c264ff68c.svg to the output directory.

This has been fixed (and test coverage improved), thanks to @dylan-conway.

Warning messages would fail the build

Bun has different log levels for build-related errors. Only error log level messages are supposed to fail the build, but a bug caused any message at all to fail the build.

This would mean that, for example, code like this:

const Foo = <Bar key="123" {...props} />;

Would cause a build failure because it warns on using key and a spread operator together.

That was a bug and has been fixed, thanks to @paperdave.