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bundler(splitting): print a shared chunk in the order its first loader evaluates it - #42695

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Fixes #42632. Supersedes #41386 (its four tests are included).

Problem

  • With --splitting, a chunk that several entry points share can print an import cycle importer-first. A hoisted var then reads as undefined: TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'a.name') in opencode built by bun 1.4.1+.
  • find_imported_parts_in_js_order walked each chunk from its files sorted by (distance_from_entry_point, stable_source_index). Neither key tracks evaluation order, so a walk could enter a cycle at the file that has to run first. That file prints last.

Fix

  • EntryWalk is the traversal of the old visitor, started from an entry point. The walks run in parallel, one per entry point. With --splitting, a chunk has one owner, the entry point that loads first among its entry points (LoadOrder), and only the owner's walk places its files. Without --splitting, each chunk is owned by its own entry point.
  • The walk records runs of parts. The layout is one linear pass. A build with one entry point prints the same bytes as on main (92 packages).
  • Deletes chunk::Order and File.distance_from_entry_point.
  • Verified: test/bundler/bundler_splitting.test.ts (26 new tests, 6 fail on main). Notes: bytes of 92 packages, 6,000 random graphs, wall time.

Background

  • A shared chunk holds files that several entry points load.
  • entry_bits[file] has one bit per entry point that loads the file.
  • A file runs after the files it imports. Inside an import cycle, the file entered first runs last.
  • A part is one top-level statement. An import of a wrapped file prints as a call in its part, so parts print between the files that the file imports.
Notes

Shape of the change

  • EntryWalk (findAllImportedPartsInJSOrder.rs) has the rules of the old FindImportedPartsVisitor: it follows every import statement of every part, also in files that tree shaking dropped, and the other records of parts that run. It differs in where it starts and in what it records.
  • There is one walk per entry point that owns a chunk, and the walks run on the worker pool (e702bec). With --splitting, the owner of a chunk is the entry point that loads first among the entry points of the chunk. Only the owner's walk places the files of the chunk, so no two walks write the same list. A walk goes through the files of other chunks. Without --splitting, each chunk is owned by its own entry point (bundler: give each entry point its own output and module order without --splitting #41263: each entry point keeps its own module order).
  • LoadOrder ranks the entry points in one pass before the walks: the user's entry points, then the chunks that load on demand (import(), a require() in a part that only declares) in the order evaluation comes to them, then the rest. A split require() in a part that runs at load loads its chunk in place, and a walk follows it in place, like a static import. A load counts only the calls in files that its entry point loads.
  • A placement is a PartRun: parts begin..end of a file. The parts ahead of the part that imports a file go before that file, the rest goes where the walk leaves the file. A wrapped file goes whole, where the walk leaves it. ChunkLayout::place turns the runs of a chunk into part ranges in one linear pass. It has the membership checks and the range merging of the old visitor.
  • Every claim happens when the frame pops, not when it is pushed (the class-name object of a CSS file, the rank of a split require() target, the on-demand list). An import pushed earlier can reach the same target first.
  • The class-name object of a CSS module goes into the chunk of its importer when that chunk loads the CSS file, whatever load reached the importer.
  • A part also leads to the files that declare the bindings it uses (part.dependencies), for a file that the import statements did not reach. The namespace export part is the exception: it comes ahead of the import statements and only holds getters, so what it names is walked after the other parts. With CommonJS output it names every export of the entry point, and it must not decide the order.
  • reached_chunks_in_order is a walk per chunk from the chunk's files in the order the pass entered them. It ranks the other chunks for the chunk's import statements. It does not order files.
  • mark_file_reachable_for_code_splitting keeps the BFS from main. Only the distance is gone.
  • Chunk folding rewrites entry_bits. A folded file can sit in a chunk whose entry points do not import it. It goes last in its chunk, as it did with the sorted roots on main.

Why the order is not part of the entry bits walk

The previous revision of this PR (f10ab25) gave out positions in mark_file_reachable_for_code_splitting. CI showed two regressions, and both come from that merge:

  • A file's parts interleave with its imports. import "./a.cjs"; import "./b.js" prints require_a() in a part of the importer, ahead of the code of b.js. One position per file puts all parts of the importer after all of its imports: b ran before a (react-compiler/BundledReactPreservesImportRefs, the happy-dom hash in bundler_bytecode_portable).
  • The load graph is not the import graph. The entry bits walk follows what loads. An import of a sideEffects: false file is no edge there, the walk reaches the file from the part that uses the binding, and it never visits a barrel that tree shaking dropped. A DFS over those edges prints such a file at its first use: import { x } from "pure"; import "./side.js" ran side first. In a build with one entry point and no --splitting, 20 of 92 packages printed different bytes than on main.

The order has to follow the import statements, and a walk may place a file only if its entry point loads it (the barrel and unused-import tests). Whether an entry point loads a file is known only when the bits are complete. So the order is its own pass, after the bits.

Shapes (stdout of the bundle, ok = same as the source)

shape main #41386 this PR
#42632: cycle, both files at the same import depth undefined ok ok
cycle, the file to run first is deeper undefined undefined ok
no cycle, import depth differs from evaluation order q p q p p q (ok)
lazy page listed before its importer enters the cycle from the other side ok undefined ok
earlier entry point reaches the cycle through a sideEffects: false barrel, or an unused import ok ok ok
top-level require() of a split chunk enters the cycle first (--target=bun) ok ok ok
two import() calls, the one in an imported file runs first undefined ok ok

Bytes against main

92 packages from test/node_modules, one entry point each (the module or main file of the package). On the current head, against main c6b7fcb:

  • --target=bun, without and with --splitting: all 92 print the same bytes as main. --format=cjs: all 92 the same.
  • Two entry points without --splitting (44 pairs): all the same.
  • Two entry points with --splitting (44 pairs): 42 the same. @grpc/grpc-js + @grpc/proto-loader and socket.io + socket.io-adapter differ in the order of the lazy __commonJS wrappers inside the shared chunk.

On e9f9214, against main 7000dc1, also --bytecode, --target=node --format=cjs and --minify (all 92 the same), and --target=browser with and without --format=iife (the 55 that build are the same).

The webpack bundle differs from run to run on main itself, in how require.resolve("watchpack") prints. That is a separate bug and I did not count it. The first revision of the walk in this PR (f10ab25) differed from main on 20 of the 92 in the first mode.

Differential run (measured on e9f9214, before e702bec moved the walks to the worker pool)

The generator from test/bundler/splitting-fuzz.ts (#42442), 2,000 graphs per row, --splitting --target=bun --format=esm. The oracle is the unbundled source. A graph counts when a value that a module reads while it loads differs from the source run.

row main #41386 this PR
entry points load their chunks with import() 138 123 114
static entry points 147 133 122
static entry points, no require() 16 14 5
the same, graphs with one entry point (1,523) 8 7 0

Reads of a binding before its initializer ran: 71 / 55 / 44, 76 / 61 / 48, 12 / 12 / 4. Bundles that are byte for byte the same as on main: 1,933, 1,944 and 1,975 of 2,000. The graphs that stay wrong are wrong on main too (a require() cycle that the bundle cannot reproduce, a cycle that two chunks share), except four seeds where main is right and this PR is not: 146 and 1131 (two entry points need opposite orders), 655 and 1744 (below).

Wall time (measured on e9f9214, where the pass over all entry points was serial)

Release builds, main 7000dc1 against this PR, median wall time of bun build, runs interleaved. The machine had other load, so read differences under 5% as noise.

project main this PR runs
800 entry points x 13 modules over a 3,000-module core, --splitting 776 ms 754 ms 11
the same, no --splitting 1,987 ms 1,942 ms 9
800 entry points x 13 modules over one 200,000-export file (#42489), --splitting 1,336 ms 1,296 ms 9
300 entry points over the 3,000-module core, --splitting 259 ms 251 ms 11
the same, no --splitting 722 ms 708 ms 15
one entry point, 200 routes behind import(), all over the 3,000-module core, --splitting 276 ms 266 ms 11

Peak RSS is the same within 1% in every row.

Prior art

  • esbuild has the same sort key, from which bun's was ported (linker.go findImportedPartsInJSOrder), and the same bug: Incorrect import order with code splitting and multiple entry points evanw/esbuild#399, open since 2020.
  • Rollup (analyseModuleExecution, src/utils/executionOrder.ts) and Rolldown (sort_modules) number every module in one post-order DFS from the entry points and sort each chunk by that number. This PR does the same with the walk that bun already had, and keeps the placement per part.

opencode

opencode v1.18.30, its script/build.ts options without compile (355 outputs). Bundle from main: opencode run "say hi" fails, the log has TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'node.name'). Bundle from this PR: the same command starts the session and reaches the call to the model API.

Remaining limits

  • When two loaders evaluate the files of a shared chunk in opposite orders, the chunk follows the first. One printed order cannot serve both (seeds 146 and 1131).
  • A split require() counts as runs at load when its part has side effects. A function that holds the call and that its own file calls while it loads is on demand (seed 1744). A callback inside a top-level statement that never runs while loading counts as at load.
  • Seed 655: a top-level require() closes a cycle across two chunks. From source, require() returns the half-initialized module. In the bundle it runs the other chunk.
  • The class-name object of a CSS module prints ahead of the first file of the chunk that imports it. Main printed it where its walk first came to the file, also through a dropped file, and also in chunks that do not use it.

Suites

On a debug build of this commit:

  • test/bundler/bundler_splitting.test.ts: 151 pass on the current head. Main fails 6 of the 26 new tests: TreeShakenImporterPreservesCyclicChunkOrder, CyclicChunkPreservesDeepImporterOrderSplit, SharedChunkKeepsImportCycleOrder, SharedChunkCycleOrderIgnoresImportDepth, SharedChunkKeepsSideEffectOrder, SharedChunkFollowsTheImportCallThatRunsFirst. The other new tests guard the walk: earlier revisions of this PR fail WrappedImportKeepsImportOrder, SideEffectsFalseFileKeepsImportOrder, SharedChunkKeepsWrappedImportOrder NamespaceExportKeepsImportOrder, SharedChunkIgnoresImportCallInFileThatEntryDoesNotLoad and CssModuleObjectOfFileReachedThroughSplitRequire.
  • Pass (on e9f9214): the 13 files of test/bundler/esbuild/, the 5 of test/bundler/css/, bundler_{allow_unresolved,banner,barrel,browser,bun,cjs,cjs2esm,comments,compile,compile_autoload,compile_prelinked,compile_splitting,decorator_metadata,defer,drop,dynamic_import_dce,edgecase,env,feature_flag,files,footer,html,html_server,jsx,loader,merged_enum,minify,minify_symbol_for,naming,plugin,plugin_chain,promiseall_deadcode,regressions,string}, html-import-manifest, metafile, cli, standalone, transpiler/react-compiler, transpiler/react-compiler-fixtures, regression/issue/25628, regression/issue/5344, bun-serve-html-manifest, bake/dev-and-prod.
  • bun-build-api: 65 pass. 2 bytecode: tests time out at 5 s in a debug build here, the same on a debug build of main.
  • bundler_bytecode_portable times out in a debug build here. With --bytecode, the seven library bundles and libraries.js of its snapshot are byte for byte the same as on main.

[human-review] gate passed · iteration 2 · 7 files touched

fails on main (without fix)
ASAN without fix: 6 failed, 4 skipped
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/bundler/bundler_splitting.test.ts
bun test v1.4.3 (c6b7fcb5b)

test/bundler/bundler_splitting.test.ts:
(pass) bundler > splitting/DynamicImportCSSFile [1119.69ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DynamicImportMultipleCSSImports [758.58ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/StaticAndDynamicCSSImports [480.07ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/NestedDynamicImportWithCSS [621.16ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/SharedCSSBetweenChunks [613.19ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DynamicImportChainWithCSS [597.55ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/ConditionalDynamicImportWithCSS [580.61ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/MultipleEntryPointsWithSharedCSS [880.35ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DynamicImportWithOnlyCSSNoJS [554.17ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/CircularDynamicImportsWithCSS [532.18ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DeadDynamicImportTargetGetsNoChunk-cli [463.81ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DeadDynamicImportTargetGetsNoChunk-api [356.78ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DeadDynamicImportTargetNoSplittingReference [551.44ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DeadDynamicImportTar
... (truncated)

release without fix: 4 skipped
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (5435db863)

test/bundler/bundler_splitting.test.ts:
(pass) bundler > splitting/DynamicImportCSSFile [20.71ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DynamicImportMultipleCSSImports [12.29ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/StaticAndDynamicCSSImports [10.52ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/NestedDynamicImportWithCSS [11.94ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/SharedCSSBetweenChunks [14.78ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DynamicImportChainWithCSS [12.19ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/ConditionalDynamicImportWithCSS [11.19ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/MultipleEntryPointsWithSharedCSS [18.78ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DynamicImportWithOnlyCSSNoJS [11.22ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/CircularDynamicImportsWithCSS [11.93ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DeadDynamicImportTargetGetsNoChunk-cli [11.61ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DeadDynamicImportTargetGetsNoChunk-api [13.19ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DeadDynamicImportTargetNoSplittingReference [10.49ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DeadDynamicImportTargetKeptWithoutTreeShaking [10.29ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/LiveDynamicImportTargetStillGetsChunk [12.87ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DynamicImportChainLiveness [12.89ms]
(
... (truncated)
passes on PR (with fix)
ASAN with fix: 4 skipped
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/bundler/bundler_splitting.test.ts
bun test v1.4.3 (c6b7fcb5b)

test/bundler/bundler_splitting.test.ts:
(pass) bundler > splitting/DynamicImportCSSFile [816.60ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DynamicImportMultipleCSSImports [486.26ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/StaticAndDynamicCSSImports [644.78ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/NestedDynamicImportWithCSS [551.52ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/SharedCSSBetweenChunks [585.99ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DynamicImportChainWithCSS [544.72ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/ConditionalDynamicImportWithCSS [629.62ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/MultipleEntryPointsWithSharedCSS [748.73ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DynamicImportWithOnlyCSSNoJS [474.70ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/CircularDynamicImportsWithCSS [597.88ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DeadDynamicImportTargetGetsNoChunk-cli [543.99ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DeadDynamicImportTargetGetsNoChunk-api [357.83ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DeadDynamicImportTargetNoSplittingReference [455.25ms]
(pass) bundler > splitting/DeadDynamicImportTarg
... (truncated)

release with fix: 4 skipped
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 629ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[0/14] cargo bun_runtime → libbun_runtime.a
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   �[1m�[94m|�[0m
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diff hotspot
src/bundler/Chunk.rs                               |   28 -
 src/bundler/LinkerContext.rs                       |   31 +-
 src/bundler/LinkerGraph.rs                         |    8 -
 src/bundler/linker_context/README.md               |    9 +-
 .../findAllImportedPartsInJSOrder.rs               | 1040 ++++++++++++++------
 src/bundler/linker_context/mergeSmallChunks.rs     |    2 +-
 test/bundler/bundler_splitting.test.ts             |  730 ++++++++++++++
 7 files changed, 1489 insertions(+), 359 deletions(-)

gate history · 7 passed · 1 rejected · iteration 2

evidence per changed file
file                                                      reads  edits  tests
src/bundler/Chunk.rs                                          1      1     72
src/bundler/LinkerContext.rs                                  6      4     72
src/bundler/LinkerGraph.rs                                    2      1     72
src/bundler/linker_context/README.md                          2      2     72
…bundler/linker_context/findAllImportedPartsInJSOrder.rs     18      5     73
src/bundler/linker_context/mergeSmallChunks.rs                2      0     72
test/bundler/bundler_splitting.test.ts                       10     10     72

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❌ @Jarred-Sumner, your commit 98e90d7 has 1 failures in Build #116816 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 42695

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-42695 executable, so you can run:

bun-42695 --bun

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Reproduced #42632 two ways on 1.4.2, on canary b993710 and on debug and release builds of main:

  1. The 4-file program from the issue thread (export * as X from "./self" plus a real cycle, two entry points): bun build src/a.ts src/b.ts --splitting --target=bun --outdir out && bun out/a.js throws TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'd.name'). The shared chunk prints fs.ts before fs/search.ts. It is the test splitting/SharedChunkKeepsImportCycleOrder.
  2. opencode v1.18.30 built with Bun.build({ splitting: true }) and its own entry points, run with the models snapshot from its test fixtures (OPENCODE_MODELS_PATH): opencode run "Hi" fails with TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'node.name'). With the bundle from this branch the run reaches the model API call.

Fix: this PR (#42695). The walk that decides the order is the traversal of the old visitor, started from the entry points (EntryWalk). The walks run in parallel, one per entry point, and the entry point that loads a chunk first lays it out.

CI: the diff is green. The one red test on the last four builds (115845, 116804, 116806, 116816) is test/js/bun/s3/s3.test.ts: the R2 bucket answers ServiceUnavailable, times out or closes the connection. CI marks it as failing on main too, and this PR does not touch it. The bundler suites, bundler_bytecode_portable included, pass on every lane (build 116816 on 98e90d7: 179 jobs passed, the 2 red jobs are this test).

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Changes

The bundler replaces distance-based chunk ordering with evaluation-order traversal. Code-splitting reachability uses FIFO traversal. Chunk layout, documentation, and tests cover shared chunks, cycles, dynamic imports, and require().

Chunk splitting order

Layer / File(s) Summary
Remove distance-based state
src/bundler/Chunk.rs, src/bundler/LinkerContext.rs, src/bundler/LinkerGraph.rs
Removes distance-based ordering helpers and file state. Code-splitting reachability now queues source indices and marks each file once per entry point.
Compute evaluation order
src/bundler/linker_context/findAllImportedPartsInJSOrder.rs, src/bundler/linker_context/mergeSmallChunks.rs
Adds evaluation walks, entry ticks, part runs, dependency handling, and shared split-order state.
Apply order and validate output
src/bundler/linker_context/findAllImportedPartsInJSOrder.rs, src/bundler/linker_context/README.md, test/bundler/bundler_splitting.test.ts
Builds chunk layout from evaluation order, ranks reached chunks with post-order traversal, updates documentation, and adds regression coverage for import order, cycles, dynamic imports, and require().

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: ⬆️ High

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e9f92

Function-scoped require calls can still produce incorrect shared-chunk initialization order. This should be corrected before merge.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR addresses issue #42632. It replaces distance-based shared-chunk ordering with EvaluationWalk evaluation-order traversal. It handles cyclic imports, wrapped imports, side-effect-free files, CS…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within issue #42632. The implementation changes shared-chunk evaluation ordering, removes obsolete distance and sort logic, updates related documentation, and adds bundler regression …
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: shared chunks now follow the evaluation order of their first loader.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the problem, implementation, scope, limitations, and verification results. It does not use the exact template headings, but it provides the required information in equivalent …

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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it replaces the shared-chunk root ordering algorithm (BFS distance → first-loader DFS) and changes bundle output for splitting builds — with a few fuzz seeds acknowledged to move the other way — a human familiar with the linker should sign off on the tradeoff.

What was reviewed:

  • first_loader_order: DFS stack reversal for import-statement order, entry_bits gate so only a real loader assigns a position, import() targets queued after user entry points, split require() continuing the walk with the target's own entry id.
  • Checked that walking through a sideEffects:false intermediate whose entry_bits lack the current loader can't misassign order to files behind it — the gate is re-checked per file, and entered_from is per-root so later loaders still visit.
  • Dead-code removal is complete: chunk::Order, File.distance_from_entry_point, the SoA column, and the BFS distance plumbing have no remaining readers.
  • New itBundled tests follow the harness conventions (no network, no timing waits, describe.each for the split/unsplit and require variants) and assert exact stdout.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR reworks how the bundler orders the root files of a code-split chunk before the per-chunk DFS prints them. It removes the (distance_from_entry_point, stable_source_index) sort key inherited from esbuild and replaces it with a first_loader_order computed by a single pre-pass that walks the import graph the way a program actually evaluates: static import statements depth-first, split require() edges inline with their caller, and import() targets after the user's entry points. The Order struct, the distance_from_entry_point column on LinkerGraph::File, and the distance bookkeeping in mark_file_reachable_for_code_splitting are deleted. Ten new itBundled cases in test/bundler/bundler_splitting.test.ts cover the opencode-shaped cycle, depth-vs-DFS ordering, side-effect ordering without cycles, static-before-dynamic, tree-shaken/unused earlier entry points, and split require() under --target=bun.

Security risks

None. This is a pure ordering change inside the linker; it does not touch parsing of untrusted input, filesystem paths, network, credentials, or any FFI/C++ boundary. No new unsafe blocks are introduced, and the one unsafe block touched in LinkerContext.rs only shrinks (one fewer disjoint-column pointer). The new walk allocates a handful of Vec<u32>/Vec<bool> sized by files.len() and entry_points.len() — bounded by inputs the bundler already sizes everything else against.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is an algorithmic replacement in a hot, correctness-critical path: the order in which a shared chunk's files print determines whether cyclic modules see initialized bindings at runtime. The PR description itself documents that the differential fuzz found three seeds where this PR reads as uninitialized where main did not (two-entry-points-entering-a-cycle-from-opposite-sides, and a cross-chunk require() cycle). That is a deliberate tradeoff — following the first loader is what Rollup/Rolldown do and what fixes the far more common opencode shape — but it is exactly the kind of "which loader wins when they disagree" design call a maintainer should ratify rather than an automated review approving.

Other factors

The change is well-supported: it lands in the existing test file, uses itBundled and describe.each per the repo conventions, cites a real issue (#42632), and deletes the code it makes dead in the same PR as REVIEW.md requires. The entry_bits gate on order assignment was checked against the "walk enters a sideEffects:false intermediate the loader doesn't evaluate" case — the gate is applied at every node and entered_from is keyed per-root, so a later loader that does carry the bit can still assign the position. No CODEOWNERS entry covers src/bundler/ or test/bundler/. The exit reason was dry_streak, so the hunt ran to completion without open leads.

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The direction is right. (distance, stable index) does not track evaluation order, and Rollup and Rolldown both fix this with one global execution-order pass. Removing Order and distance_from_entry_point is good. The shape needs one change, and a perf number.

Two walks with two sets of rules

  • first_loader_order only selects where FindImportedPartsVisitor::visit starts. The visitor then does its own DFS to get the real order.
  • The two walks follow edges with different rules. They can disagree.
  • "A file prints after its imports" lives in the visitor. "Which file comes first" lives in a new function. Every later order bug must be checked against both.
  • Rollup computes one global post-order execIndex. Each chunk sorts its files by it. That is one source of truth.
  • Give post-order numbers in the global walk and sort the files of the chunk by that number. The visitor then only collects parts, and its order of visits does not matter. The rotate-the-entry-point step goes away too.

Merge it into mark_file_reachable_for_code_splitting

  • Both walks start from each entry point. Both need entry_bits.
  • That walk is a BFS only because distance needed a BFS. With distance gone, make it a DFS in load order and give out positions in the same pass.
  • That removes the new pass fully.
  • "A file takes its position only from a loader whose bit it carries" is then free. That walk is the one that sets the bit.

Perf

  • entered_from[file] == root resets for each root. The cost is roots x (V+E), serial, before the per-chunk tasks. It loops over every part's import_record_indices again for each root.
  • "Same bound as mark_file_reachable_for_code_splitting" is not a measurement.
  • Measure wall time against main on a build with many entry points over a large shared core. The repro from bundler: a chunk's renamer holds rows for its own files only #42489 (800 entry points) is that case.

Seed 655

  • Seeds 146 and 1131 are the documented limit. 655 is a top-level require() that closes a cycle across two chunks. Say in one sentence why that one is acceptable.

Small

  • is_queued.iter().position(...) runs again each time the roots are used up. Use a cursor.

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Agreed on all points. I am reworking the PR to this shape:

  • mark_file_reachable_for_code_splitting becomes a DFS in load order and gives out post-order positions while it sets the bits. first_loader_order and its pass go away. A live split require() starts the walk of its target at that point, and an import() target is walked after the user's entry points, in the order the walks meet it. So the walk order of the entry points is load order, and the bit index stays the entry point id.
  • Each chunk sorts its files by that position. The visitor only collects the parts of each file, and the rotate step goes away. reached_chunks_in_order also comes from the positions, so nothing depends on the order of visits.
  • One wrinkle: without --splitting a file is in several chunks, and each entry point has to keep its own module order (bundler: give each entry point its own output and module order without --splitting #41263). There the walk keeps the post-order per entry point, and a chunk reads the order of its own entry point. It is still the same walk.
  • Perf: wall time against main with release builds, on 800 entry points over a large shared core, with and without --splitting. I will put the numbers in the PR body.
  • Seed 655 and the cursor: will do.

I will push when the differential run and the suites pass again.

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CI on f10ab25 failed on react-compiler/BundledReactPreservesImportRefs and on the happy-dom hash in bundler_bytecode_portable. Both failures are real, and they show that the merged walk cannot work. I reworked the PR again and force-pushed 399d0ba. The body is rewritten.

What the failures showed

  1. A file's parts interleave with its imports. import "./a.cjs"; import "./b.js" prints require_a() in a part of the importer, and the visitor put that part ahead of the code of b.js. With one post-order number per file, all parts of the importer print after all of its imports, so b.js ran before a.cjs. The order has to be per part.
  2. The load graph is not the import graph. mark_file_reachable_for_code_splitting follows what loads. An import of a sideEffects: false file is no edge there. The walk reaches that file from the part that uses the binding, and it never visits a barrel that tree shaking dropped. A DFS over those edges prints such a file at its first use, not at its import statement: import { x } from "pure"; import "./side.js" ran side before pure. With f10ab25, 20 of 92 packages in test/node_modules bundled to different bytes than on main, in a build with one entry point and no --splitting.

So the order has to follow the import statements, also through files that tree shaking dropped, as the visitor did. It also needs the entry bits as input: a walk may place a file only if its entry point loads it (the barrel and unused-import tests). That is known only when the bits are complete, so I found no way to do both in one pass. This undoes the merge you asked for in (b). I am sorry for the churn.

The shape now

  • mark_file_reachable_for_code_splitting is the BFS from main again, minus the distance. chunk::Order and File.distance_from_entry_point stay deleted.
  • EvaluationWalk in findAllImportedPartsInJSOrder.rs is the traversal of the old visitor, with its rules for which records to follow. It differs in where it starts. With --splitting, one pass walks from every entry point in load order and appends to one list per chunk. The first walk whose entry point loads a file places it. A walk stops at a file that an earlier walk placed. Without --splitting, each chunk task walks from its own entry point, so the rotate step is still gone.
  • The walk records runs of parts (PartRun): the parts ahead of the part that imports a file go before that file. The layout is one linear pass over the runs of the chunk. No sort, no ticks, no per-chunk visitor that decides order.
  • The cursor from (e) is still there. reached_chunks_in_order is as in the last revision.

Checks

  • Bytes: 92 packages from test/node_modules, one entry point each, with and without --splitting: all the same as main 7000dc1. Two entry points with --splitting (44 pairs): 2 pairs differ, each in the order of lazy __commonJS wrappers inside the shared chunk.
  • The 6,000 graphs: a read differs in 138 / 147 / 16 on main, 114 / 122 / 5 here (the last revision: 115 / 123 / 5). One entry point, no require(): 8 on main, 0 here. The same four seeds are worse than main.
  • Wall time, main against this PR, medians: 800 entry points over the 3,000-module core 777 / 768 ms with --splitting and 2,060 / 2,034 ms without. The bundler: a chunk's renamer holds rows for its own files only #42489 project 1,435 / 1,362 ms. One entry point with 200 import() routes over the core 266 / 265 ms. RSS within 1%. The table is in the notes.
  • A self-review of this revision found three ordering bugs before the push, all of the same kind: a claim made when a frame is pushed instead of when it pops (the class-name object of a CSS module, a split require() reached from two files, the order of two import() calls). Each has a test now. It also found the serial pass walking back into placed files (356 ms in the routes row). It stops there now.
  • New tests for the two regressions: WrappedImportKeepsImportOrder, SideEffectsFalseFileKeepsImportOrder (each with and without --splitting) and SharedChunkKeepsWrappedImportOrder. f10ab25 fails them, main passes them.

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…r evaluates it

With --splitting, a chunk that several entry points share could print an
import cycle importer-first, so a hoisted var read as undefined
(TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'a.name')).

find_imported_parts_in_js_order ran one walk per chunk, from the chunk's
files sorted by (distance_from_entry_point, stable_source_index). Neither
key tracks evaluation order.

EvaluationWalk is the traversal of that visitor, started from entry
points. With code splitting, one pass walks from every entry point in
load order and gives each chunk its files in that order: the first walk
whose entry point loads a file places it. Without code splitting, each
chunk walks from its own entry point. The walk records runs of parts, so
a part still prints between the files that the file imports, and the
layout is one linear pass.

Removes chunk::Order and File.distance_from_entry_point.

Fixes #42632

Co-authored-by: Cliff <zylintw@gmail.com>
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CI on 399d0ba failed bundler_bytecode_portable again (happy-dom and libraries.js with --bytecode). The cause was one more way for the fallback edges to get ahead of the import statements, and e9f9214 fixes it.

  • The walk also leads from a part to the files that declare the bindings it uses (part.dependencies), so that a file the import statements did not reach still prints ahead of its user. Every import statement part sits ahead of the code parts, so this adds nothing in a normal file.
  • The namespace export part is part 0, ahead of the import statements. With CommonJS output (--bytecode) the entry point's namespace export part is live and names every export, so its edges put the files in export-name order. import * as ns of a file that re-exports imported bindings did the same.
  • That part only holds getters, so what it names is now walked after the other parts of the file. New test: NamespaceExportKeepsImportOrder (with and without --splitting, 399d0ba fails it).

I had only swept ESM output for byte equality. The sweep now also covers --format=cjs, --bytecode, --target=node --format=cjs, --minify, --target=browser, --format=iife and two entry points without --splitting: all the same bytes as main. The numbers in the body are from e9f9214 (differential unchanged, wall time re-measured).

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…r lays it out

The order of files in a chunk came from one serial pass over all entry
points. Now there is one walk per entry point, and the walks run on the
worker pool.

- A chunk has one owner: the entry point that loads first among the
  chunk's entry points. Only the owner's walk places the chunk's files,
  so no two walks write the same list.
- The load order of the entry points comes from one O(V+E) pass
  (`LoadOrder`).
- A split require() that runs at load is followed in place, like a
  static import.
- Without code splitting, each chunk is owned by its own entry point.

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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the new parallel entry-point walk in src/bundler/linker_context/findAllImportedPartsInJSOrder.rs (the worker_pool().each_ptr over ParentRef<LinkerContext>): each task writes only its own EntryWalk, the walks only read graph columns, and WalkOrder::collect merges on the calling thread, with each file entered by at most one walk under splitting, so the shared-context cast follows the same pattern as generateChunksInParallel.rs. Also checked the --target=bun top-level split require() ordering at the walk's placement site and did not find a divergence from the pre-PR visitor there.

Minor: the doc comment on find_imported_parts_in_js_order (line 118) still names EvaluationWalk, which no longer exists after e702bec; it is now EntryWalk/WalkOrder.

Extended reasoning...

This run produced confirmed inline findings on the new ordering walk, so approval is out and the inline comments already signal that a human look is needed. This note only records what else was examined and ruled out: the thread-safety of the new parallel per-entry-point walk (single writer per EntryWalk, read-only graph access, main-thread merge in WalkOrder::collect, and the entered tick being written by exactly one walk per file under splitting), plus the split require() placement path, and one stale doc reference left over from the last commit's rename. It is informational, not a guarantee of correctness for the rest of the ~1,000-line rewrite.

One verified lower-impact observation (a convention, logging or cleanup point) was not posted.

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…they load

Two fixes on the parallel walks.

- LoadOrder counted an import() or a split require() in any live file a
  load reached through import statements, also a file that the entry
  point does not load. Such a call could rank its target ahead of the
  import() that the entry point runs first, and the wrong entry point
  then owned the shared chunk. A load now counts only the calls of files
  that its entry point loads. It still goes through the other files, once
  per load.
- A file of an owned chunk that the walk first reached under a split
  require() lost its CSS module object when the required chunk does not
  load that CSS file. The object now follows the chunk of its importer.

Tests: SharedChunkIgnoresImportCallInFileThatEntryDoesNotLoad,
CssModuleObjectOfFileReachedThroughSplitRequire.
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I pushed two commits on top of e702bec (the parallel walks). Pull before you continue on this branch.

  • 6c4d6e2 merges main. The branch was on the LLVM 21 toolchain and no longer built after Upgrade LLVM 21.1.8 → 23.1.1 and Rust nightly to 2026-09-15 #42851.
  • 5435db8 fixes the two review findings against e702bec. I confirmed both with a deterministic run against main:
    • LoadOrder counted an import() in a live file that a load only goes through (a sideEffects: false barrel member that another chunk uses). That call ranked its target ahead of the import() the entry point runs first, so the wrong entry point owned the shared chunk: b b on main and from source, undefined undefined on e702bec. Frames now carry the loading entry point, and a load counts only the calls of files that entry point loads. It still goes through the other files, once per load.
    • A file of an owned chunk that the walk first reached under a split require() lost its CSS module object when the required chunk does not load that CSS file (ReferenceError at run time). The object now follows the chunk of its importer, the rule of the old visitor.
  • Each has a test (SharedChunkIgnoresImportCallInFileThatEntryDoesNotLoad, CssModuleObjectOfFileReachedThroughSplitRequire). bundler_splitting: 151 pass. Bytes against main c6b7fcb on the current head: 92 packages the same with one entry point (ESM, CJS, --splitting), and with two entry points without --splitting.

The body describes the parallel walks now. Its differential and wall time numbers are from e9f9214, before the walks moved to the worker pool, and it says so.

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… unhashed entry (#44023)

### What does this PR do?

Two `--splitting` fixes. A shared chunk could still print an import
cycle in the wrong order. A lazy chunk could import the entry file,
which runs the entry twice when its host loads it with a query string.

Fixes #42290. Follow-up to #42695.

**1. One rule for both order walks**

- `load_rank` picks the entry point that lays out a shared chunk.
`EntryWalk::walk` lays it out. Each had its own copy of the rules for
which imports to follow.
- The copies differed: only `walk` visited what a namespace export names
after the `import` statements. So the wrong entry point could own a
chunk that two `import()` targets share.
- Both now call `for_each_edge`.

**2. No fold into an entry without `[hash]` in its name**

- Chunk folding puts code that an entry and its `import()` targets share
into the entry chunk. The lazy chunk then has `import "./index.js"`.
- The host can load that file as `index.js?v=1`. Browsers, Bun and Node
key ES modules by the full URL, so the file runs twice.
- Such an entry is now left alone, for every target. The shared code
goes into one hashed chunk.
- Still folds: HTML entry points, and `[hash]` in `naming.entry`.

**3.** `EntryWalk` keeps one vec of owned chunks, not two parallel vecs
(the `mordant` finding from #42695).

| case | main | this PR |
|---|---|---|
| `SharedChunkOwnerIgnoresNamespaceExportOrder` | `late_b yundefined` |
`late_b yx` |
| #42290: `route.js` imports from | `./index.js` | `./index-[hash].js` |
| #42290: `import("./out/index.js?v=1")` prints | `shared, index 1,
shared, index 1, route 1` | `shared, index 1, route 1` |
| `bun build index.html --splitting` | folds | folds, same bytes |

### How did you verify your code works?

- `bun bd test test/bundler/bundler_splitting.test.ts`: 172 pass.
`SharedChunkOwnerIgnoresNamespaceExportOrder` and
`NoChunkImportsEntryWithoutHash/{browser,bun,node}` fail on main.
- 14 fold tests now run twice on their original target (`itFolds`): with
a plain entry name they assert the new layout, with `[hash]` in the name
they keep their old fold assertions.
- Random graphs against the unbundled run, on the first commit (4,066
graphs, `--target=bun` and `browser`): 0 uninitialized reads on main and
here.
- Not run locally on the last commit: the other bundler suites,
`mordant`, the `--compile` suites, and `FoldChunksForTesting is ignored
without --expose-internals` (skipped in debug builds).
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…e used (#44508)

### What does this PR do?

Fixes a `bun build` regression from #42695 (not in a release; 1.4.2 is
fine). Inside an import cycle through a barrel, a bundle could run a
file before the file that ESM runs first.

```ts
// index.ts
export * from "./first.ts"; export * from "./second.ts";
// first.ts
import { two } from "./index.ts";
export function viaSecond() { return two(); }
const table = { a: 1 };
export function lookup(key) { return table[key]; }
// second.ts
import { lookup } from "./index.ts";
export function two() { return 2; }
export const atLoad = lookup("a");
```

ESM runs `first.ts` completely, then `second.ts`. The bundle printed
`second.ts` in the middle of `first.ts`: `TypeError: undefined is not an
object (evaluating 'table[key]')`. Same with and without `--splitting`.

**Cause.** `for_each_edge` turned every cross-file `part.dependencies`
entry into an `Edge::Import`, "for a file that the `import` statements
did not reach". Every such target is reachable along `import`
statements, so the edge only fires when the path goes through a file
that is mid-visit, that is in a cycle. There it pulls the file ahead of
the part that names it, also when that part only declares a function.
The second loop (what a namespace object names) had the same effect on
sibling order.

**Fix.**

- A file is placed by import records only. This holds for every file
that runs or holds a value: JavaScript, JSON, SQLite, `.node`.
- The dependency edges stay for CSS class names only. That is not about
order: with `--splitting` each chunk prints its own copy of the
class-name object, and a chunk that names it through a re-export in
another chunk has no import record for the CSS file.
- Namespace objects (`var exports_x = {}; __export(...)`) print ahead of
the files of the chunk, after the runtime and the wrappers. In ESM a
namespace object exists before any file runs. The old edges hid this by
moving the whole file. This also fixes shapes that 1.4.2 gets wrong.

| shape (stdout of the bundle; "ok" = same as the source) | 1.4.2 | main
| this PR |
|---|---|---|---|
| a function / default export / method of `first` names `second`;
`second` uses `first` at load | ok | `TypeError` / `ReferenceError` | ok
|
| the same, cycle in a chunk that two entry points share | `TypeError`
(method: ok) | `TypeError` / `ReferenceError` | ok |
| `first` calls a function, reads a `var`, or has a static initializer
that reads `second` at load | ok | sees `second` already initialized |
ok |
| a file between the two (`first`, `second`, `third`) | ok | `third
first second` | ok |
| the namespace object of `first` names `third` | ok | `first third
second` | ok |
| a function of `first` names a SQLite import that the barrel imports
later | ok | the database opens in the middle of `first` | ok |
| `first` holds the namespace object of `second` at load | `undefined` |
`second` runs first | ok |
| a function of `second` reads `third[key]`, `first` calls it at load |
`TypeError` | ok | ok |
| CSS module named through a re-export in a shared chunk | ok | ok | ok
|

**Difference from main that stays.** `first` reads a JSON / TOML / asset
import that the barrel imports later, at load, directly or through a
function of `second`: `undefined`, as in 1.4.2 and as Node prints from
source. Main gives the value, and so does Bun from source. Main gets it
by printing the file ahead of `first`, which is the bug for a file that
runs something.

**Output bytes.** They change for any bundle that has a namespace object
of a file that is not first in its chunk, not only for cycles: the
object moves up and gets its own `// path` line, so `[hash]` names of
such chunks move. `happy-dom` is one (its hashes in
`bundler_bytecode_portable` are updated: all 7 Linux lanes of the first
CI run reported the same three values, and apart from blank lines and
`// path` lines the bundle has the same lines as on main). How many real
packages change was not measured on this revision.

### How did you verify your code works?

- `bun bd test test/bundler/bundler_splitting.test.ts`: 200 pass. 28 new
tests, each graph with and without `--splitting`; most compare the
bundle with the unbundled run.
- `USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1` cannot be the "before" here, because no release has
the regression: 1.4.2 passes 17 of the 28. The "before" is a build of
main (369615c): 20 fail.
- The 8 that pass on main are guards for what an earlier revision of
this PR broke: the four CSS tests and one namespace graph (deleting the
edges outright), and `NamespaceExportKeepsImportOrderOfJSON` (handling
the namespace export part ahead of the `import` statements).
- On the first commit of this PR, debug build, all of
`test/bundler/*.test.ts`, `esbuild/`, `css/`,
`transpiler/react-compiler*` except `bundler_bytecode_portable`,
`bundler_compile`, `native-plugin` and `bun-build-api`: 6246 pass, 5
fail in `bun-build-compile`; a debug build of main fails the same 5
(timeouts and a `patchelf` test).
- On the first commit, random graphs against the unbundled run (barrels
with `export *` / `export {}` / `export * as`, `import * as`, cycles
through the barrel, functions that only name other files, values and
namespace objects read at load; JavaScript only), 150 graphs per row:

| row | graphs that differ from the source: before #42695 | main | this
PR |
|---|---|---|---|
| no `--splitting`, nothing wrapped | 11 | 98 | 0 |
| no `--splitting`, with `import()` and CommonJS | 31 | 65 | 27 |
| `--splitting`, 1 to 3 entry points | 117 | 121 | 73 |

No graph is right on main and wrong here. With `--splitting`, pairs of
files of one chunk in the wrong order with no other entry point asking
for that order: 284 on main, 0 here. What stays wrong is two entry
points that need opposite orders of one shared chunk, files in different
chunks, and wrapped files. Graphs without barrels (750): same bytes as
main.
- Not re-run after the last commit: the other bundler suites and the
random graphs. Not run locally: release builds, other platforms.
Jarred-Sumner pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 9, 2026
… breaks no load-time read (#44876)

### What does this PR do?

Fixes a `--splitting` bundle that throws at load from every entry point,
where the same build on 1.4.2 loads. A regression from #42695, which no
release has.

```js
// index.js
import("./m5.js").then(m => console.log("ok", m.w5));
// worker.js
import "./flag.js"; import "./m6.js"; console.log("worker");
// flag.js
globalThis.IS_WORKER = true;
// m2.js
export { v5 as x } from "./m5.js"; export function v2() { return 2 }
// m5.js
import { v2 } from "./m2.js"; import { v6 } from "./m6.js";
export function v5() { return v2 }
export const w5 = globalThis.IS_WORKER ? null : v6.toUpperCase();
// m6.js
import { v2 } from "./m2.js"; export const w6 = typeof v2; export let v6 = "six";
```

`bun build --splitting --outdir=out index.js worker.js`

| | `out/index.js` | `out/worker.js` |
|---|---|---|
| unbundled, 1.4.2 | `ok SIX` | `worker` |
| `main` | `TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating
'v6.toUpperCase')` | the same |
| this PR | `ok SIX` | `worker` |

### The cause

`m2.js`, `m5.js` and `m6.js` import each other and share a chunk. A
chunk prints its files in one order, that of its owner: the entry point
that loads first among the chunk's entry points. Here that is
`worker.js`. It enters the cycle at `m6.js`, so in its order `m5.js`
comes first, and `m5.js` reads `v6` when it runs.

### The change

When the owner's order puts a statement that evaluates code at load
ahead of a binding that it reads, the chunk follows the next entry point
by rank whose order does not. Here that is the `import("./m5.js")`, with
`m2.js`, `m6.js`, `m5.js`. With no such entry point, the chunk stays as
it is on `main`.

- A read counts when the statement names the binding itself, or through
the functions that it names (`part.dependencies`). `const f = () => x`
is a function to search through, not a read of `x`
(`Expr::can_be_moved`).
- Only a chunk that two or more entry points share, and in which the
walk comes back to a file that it has not left, is looked at. Every
other build takes the same path as before.
- The walk that passes the check lays the chunk out, so the order that
prints is the one that was checked. Every other chunk of the build keeps
the layout that it has on `main`.
- All of it is in `findAllImportedPartsInJSOrder.rs`. `run_walks` and
`create_walks` are moves, so that more walks can run.

### Not fixed

- A cycle that no one order serves stays as on `main`: `a.js` reads
`b.js` under one entry point, and `b.js` reads `a.js` under another.
- The read is judged by syntax, per statement. A closure inside an
object or a call (`{ get: () => store }`) counts as a read of what it
names, and so does a read that a condition skips at run time.
- The entry point that gives the chunk up no longer gets its own order
of side effects in that chunk. The one that takes it does. So a file
that needs what another file of the cycle sets on a shared object, not
through a binding, can run too early for the first entry point. That
takes an order of its own that breaks a read by the rule above.
- In the example, `flag.js` still runs after the shared chunk, so `w5`
is `"SIX"` under `worker.js`, where the source has `null`. 1.4.2 does
the same (#44028, #44495).

#44823 handles these with `__esm` wrappers, and changes much more.

### How did you verify your code works?

10 new tests. 9 fail on a build of `main`: the example, the entry points
in the other order, `--target=browser`, minified, `[hash]` in the entry
names, without `flag.js`, a read through a function, a function that is
only stored, and `--compile` with a `Worker`. The other one passes
there: an owner whose order breaks no read keeps its chunk, which the
first commit of this branch got wrong.

`bun bd test` on `bundler_splitting`, `esbuild/splitting`,
`bundler_html` and `css/*`: 442 pass, 0 fail. On the first commit, those
with `bundler_edgecase`, `bundler_cjs2esm` and `bundler_barrel`: 805
pass, 0 fail. No existing test or snapshot changes.

**Builds that must not change.** Two entry points that share `hono`,
`svelte` or `axios` (49, 105 and 87 modules): every output file is
identical to `main`. 900 random graphs without `--splitting`: all
identical.

**Random module graphs with many cycles**, each built by `main` and by
this branch and compared with the unbundled program. Every module logs
when it runs and what it reads at load. The script is not in the repo.

| | ES modules | wider syntax | up to 73 files | `"sideEffects": false`
package | HTML pages | package with top-level await |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| graphs | 1,000 | 600 | 150 | 800 | 400 | 500 |
| graphs whose output differs | 54 | 66 | 43 | 39 | 33 | 16 |
| values that the source reads and the bundle does not, `main` | 106 |
441 | 630 | 102 | 191 | 75 |
| the same, this branch | 75 | 352 | 503 | 49 | 146 | 48 |
| entry point runs that lose more values than on `main` | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
| 0 | 0 |
| pairs of effects in the wrong order, `main` | 520 | 2,859 | 10,025 |
654 | 2,232 | 354 |
| the same, this branch | 554 | 2,930 | 10,180 | 648 | 2,342 | 348 |

The values that are still lost are not traced one by one. These graphs
are dense with cycles, and the first two limits under "Not fixed" both
leave the owner as it is. The order of effects moves a little either
way, for the third.

What these graphs do not cover: none has a statement like `const f = ()
=> x`, so only the tests reach that rule. Every module logs, so
`--min-chunk-size` folds next to nothing: 1,550 graphs with it give the
same counts.

Not run: Windows and Linux locally, a timing comparison.
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