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util.inspect: collapse repeated stack frames like Node.js - #47586
util.inspect, util.format and Console instances print every frame of a recursion. Node.js prints them once, then ... collapsed N duplicate lines matching above ... (nodejs/node#59447).
getStackFrames (src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts:1818) is a 2023 port without that step.
Fix
getStackFrames has Node's second step: above 10 lines, Node's line replaces each range from getDuplicateErrorFrameRanges.
The helper returns Node's ranges without Node's text: Node.js takes 31 s on its own error after 200,000 awaiting calls, the helper 0.06 s.
Verified: test/js/node/util/node-inspect-tests/ (11 tests fail on main), two counting programs under test/aot/.
Node's helper tries the distance to every later copy of a line as a block length.
The new helper numbers each block of 2^k lines, on demand: equal blocks get equal numbers.
Considered: Node's text (x4.1 work per doubling), a native helper (a host function).
Downsides
A repeating stack over 10 lines prints differently, also on a worker's console. Bun keeps up to 10 async frames beyond Error.stackTraceLimit, so the default limit suffices, unlike Node.js.
Per call, a longer stack that cannot collapse pays +15% to +54% instructions at 11 lines, +73% to +83% at 20.
Peak memory of a call on 1,000,000 lines: +190 MB for a recursion (main +163 MB), +321 MB if held twice, +429 MB for far-apart repeats. Binaries grow by 5,739 bytes.
Notes
Repro
constutil=require("node:util");constrecursive=newError("deep");recursive.stack="Error: deep"+"\n at recurse (file.js:1:1)".repeat(12)+"\n at main (file.js:2:1)";console.log(util.inspect(recursive));constpair=newError("pair");pair.stack="Error: pair"+"\n at a (file.js:1:1)\n at b (file.js:2:1)".repeat(6)+"\n at main (file.js:3:1)";console.log(util.inspect(pair));
Node.js v26.3.0 and this branch print:
Error: deep
at recurse (file.js:1:1)
... collapsed 11 duplicate lines matching above 1 lines 11 times...
at main (file.js:2:1)
Error: pair
at a (file.js:1:1)
at b (file.js:2:1)
... collapsed 10 duplicate lines matching above 2 lines 5 times...
at main (file.js:3:1)
main prints all 13 frames of each error.
Where the text changes, and where it does not
It changes where Bun's port of Node's inspector prints the error: util.inspect, util.format, Console instances, and a value whose [util.inspect.custom] calls util.inspect (AssertionError). The global console of a node:worker_threads worker is a Console instance (src/js/node/worker_threads.ts:384), so console.log(error) collapses there. worker_threads: keep the native console in workers, routed through process.stdout/stderr #39592 changes that console to the native one.
It does not change where Bun's native formatter prints the error: console.log on the main thread, Bun.inspect, an uncaught error. That formatter prints at most 32 frames (src/jsc/ZigException.rs:84) and collapses nothing. Node.js collapses there too. No test pins this text, because it differs from Node.js.
new Error() keeps up to Error.stackTraceLimit async frames on top of up to Error.stackTraceLimit sync frames: 20 lines at the default limit, where Node.js keeps 10 in all. Error.captureStackTrace keeps 10 in all. So Node's frames.length > 10 is true in Bun at the default limit. Two tests pin this: an async recursion, and six closures of one function that await one another (no recursion), each 11 lines. Node.js prints the same text for them with --stack-trace-limit=11.
Why the helper returns Node's ranges
Node's helper (v26.12.1 L1627-L1734) looks at each index i from the top. The new helper follows it step by step:
Node skips i unless its line has a later copy at a distance of 3 or more. limit[i] is 0 there.
Node tries block lengths until the gcd of the distances to the later copies of line i is 1. A length only matches if line i stands again at that distance. So the lengths that count are the distances to those copies, up to limit[i].
For a length r, Node counts how often the r lines at i repeat directly below. That hides E - E % r lines, where E is the number of lines from i that equal the lines from i + r. The new helper reads E from the block numbers.
Node keeps the length that hides the most lines, if it hides 3 or more. No two lengths tie for the most hidden lines: the gcd of two that tie is a length that Node tries too, and it hides more. So the order of the tries does not matter.
Node reads one line past the end of the array, which is undefined. Only a stylize option that returns undefined for the marker of the cause step can make that match. The helper keeps one slot for it.
A block repeats only if two of it fit in the rest of the stack. The helper tries no length over half of the rest.
The helper tries the lengths in rising order. A block of r lines that repeats at i and matches E lines rules out every longer length up to E. A multiple m of r matches E + r - m lines and hides less. Another length cannot repeat there: a stretch with two periods has their gcd as a period (Fine and Wilf), and r is the shortest. The helper skips those lengths, and the levels that hold only such lengths.
A block of 2^k lines at i that stands nowhere again within the longest length for i starts no longer block that stands again. The helper stops there for i, and builds no level past it.
If the helper is ever wrong, Node's text is in the tree as duplicate-frames-fixture.cjs. It gives the same output and costs only time.
Checks
The helper text against Node's helper text, outside a build: 6,375,058 stacks of 1 to 5 different lines (every stack of up to 40, 20, 13, 10 and 8 lines), 18,537,860 arrays with one line that is not a string at every position, and 600,000 seeded stacks of up to 600 lines. Each set ran twice: with lines of one length and with lines of three lengths. No range, no resulting line and no stylize call differs. 33 kinds of long stacks at 12 sizes from 7 to 3,000 lines, with three endings: no range differs.
In the debug build, against Node.js v26.3.0: the repro, and the SHA-1 of util.inspect over 3 x 3,000 seeded stacks. Real stack-overflow errors of one, two and three functions give the text of Node's helper on the same frames.
In the tree: 4,000 seeded stacks (200 on debug and ASAN builds) and seven stacks with blocks of 32 to 300 lines, each against Node's text. The second set is there because the seeded blocks have at most 20 lines: with the levels from 5 on switched off, no other test failed.
An accessor that throws on each index 0 to 31 of Array.prototype and Object.prototype: 0 calls, in a child process. The helper stores into its ordinary arrays with $putByValDirect and $arrayPush. The two stores into frames overwrite own elements. No lint checks index stores in built-in modules. The helper also reads no length of a typed array: a test puts a getter that throws in front of it.
bun lint, the type check of the built-in modules, bun fmt --check.
bun build --compile --aot: the --explain=trim report of console.log(require("node:util").format("%s", 1)) is the same as on main (2,017 lines, 1,785 uses lines). Without any one of the six | 0 its first line changes to the compiler can't tell which API this program uses. They work around a limit of the compiler: it does not know that an element of an Int32Array or a result of Map.prototype.get is a number. test/aot/runtime-use-of-built-in-code.test.ts now asserts the first line, and fails with one | 0 removed. No test failed for that before.
Of the 325 programs under test/aot/parallel that bound a statistic or a count, 324 pass and 1 is a Todo, as on main. A program that holds formatError counts three more functions: FunctionsLowered 547 to 550 of 800 in node-events-and-nothing-else.js. An executable that calls util.inspect grows by 40,960 bytes.
One of those bounds moves. The helper adds about 940 flow edges to a build that holds the inspector. module-loaders/load-under-relative-paths-out-of-a-set-finds-those-files bounded FlowEdgesLogged at 42,000 and counts 40,781 to 40,855 on main 89fbb78. With this change and main 3f3a9ff it counts 41,925 to 42,100 (the count differs from run to run). Its bound is 44,000 now.
util-inspect-of-a-long-stack-that-repeats.js: five recursions of 20,000 lines, three of them bare, one with a line on both sides, one with lines in front. It counts 3,954,143 branches and 50 typed arrays, under bounds of 4,400,000 and 50. Each stack stands on 70 callers, so that every typed array is long enough to be counted.
util-inspect-of-a-long-stack-that-nearly-repeats.js: three stacks of 20,000 lines that hide little or nothing. It counts 7,990,837 branches and 102 typed arrays, under bounds of 8,800,000 and 102. Node's text, compiled as the text of a program, counts 150 million to 1,100 million branches for each of the three.
The text of the second push fails both programs: 10,160,923 branches and 170 typed arrays, and 9,650,857 branches.
The in-tree test of long stacks reads no clock: CI gives a test 90 s (270 s with ASAN).
Numbers (release builds of main 89fbb78, without and with this change)
main
this branch
Instructions per util.inspect(err), 10 lines
15,655
15,726
11 lines of an await chain through middleware, no repeated line
16,424
18,893
14 lines, the same
17,856
20,648
20 lines, the same
20,826
38,163
11 lines, no repeated line, names of one length
16,214
24,432
20 lines, the same
20,431
36,117
11 lines, 7 different, dispatch at every second line
16,232
25,076
21 lines, 12 different, the same
21,074
36,475
13 lines that collapse (12 x recurse, main)
16,703
29,509
13 lines that collapse (6 x a, b, then main)
16,679
30,824
GC cells per call, 10 lines
32
32
GC cells per call, 11 lines, stopped by the lengths
33
37
GC cells per call, 11 lines, both passes
33
39
Stack overflow, one function, 45,615 lines
2.6 ms
13.1 ms
Stack overflow, two functions, 53,219 lines
6.0 ms
14.5 ms
Stack overflow, recursive descent, 42,574 lines
3.4 ms
24.2 ms
Real await chain of two functions, 200,001 lines
29 ms
61 ms
size of the binary (dec)
141,732,811
141,738,550
Instructions: perf_event_open on user-space instructions, BUN_JSC_useConcurrentJIT=0, the difference between 40,000 and 20,000 calls, median of 5. The spread is under 1%. perf and valgrind are not in the container.
At 10 lines or fewer, getStackFrames runs 2 more bytecodes (get_length, jngreater). The helper is not called. The 71 instructions in the first row are inside the spread of the two builds.
GC cells: heapStats().objectTypeCounts over 200 calls, BUN_JSC_useJIT=0.
Times: real errors at Error.stackTraceLimit = Infinity. Overflow rows: 21 interleaved runs, median. The fastest and slowest run of a row differ by up to a factor of 4. main prints every line.
Node.js v26.3.0 takes 31.1 s for util.inspect of its own error after 200,000 awaiting calls of two functions (200,002 lines), and 7.7 s after 100,000. Node's text in Bun takes 8.4 s on 100,000 assigned lines of two functions. util.inspect of this branch takes 40 to 50 ms there.
Growth: loop-body executions per doubling of the stack, from 12,500 to 100,000 lines, over 33 kinds of stacks: x2.27 at worst. Node's text from 12,500 to 25,000 lines: x3.95 to x4.12 on 15 of the 33.
Binary: the text of the module is 5,739 bytes longer.
No host function, no new module.
Memory of one call
A recursion that stands once in the stack keeps 1 or 2 levels of block numbers, whatever its depth and whatever stands around it. Two kinds of stacks need a level per doubling: a recursion that the stack holds twice, where the lower entry is at least as deep, and blocks that repeat only far apart. An await chain has no limit of lines, so the figures are for 1,000,000 lines.
Stack of 1,000,000 lines
Levels
Typed arrays
Peak resident memory of the call, main
this branch
One function
1
15.3 MB
+171 MB
+180 MB
Two functions
2
22.9 MB
+163 MB
+190 MB
Two functions, one caller on both sides
2
22.9 MB
+164 MB
+190 MB
A cycle of 100 functions
7
61 MB
+155 MB
+216 MB
Two functions, entered twice
19
161 MB
+166 MB
+321 MB
One block of 500,000 lines twice
19
263 MB, 157 MB at once
+165 MB
+429 MB
At the 53,219 lines of a stack overflow of two functions: 2 levels, 1.2 MB. Entered twice: 15 levels, 7.0 MB.
Real errors after 1,000,000 awaiting calls, peak resident memory of the call: two functions +147 MB (main +119 MB), the same under one caller at the root and at the leaf +147 MB, entered twice +292 MB.
What the reviews changed
First push: every level up to the longest distance that Node tries. 7.4 MB for the 53,219-line overflow, 168 MB and +324 MB at 1,000,000 lines of two functions. Two reviews pointed at that memory.
Second push: a level is built when the search first reaches it (steps 6 and 7). That was not enough. One line on both sides of a recursion, such as a forEach frame, made the search reach every level again: 71 typed arrays for 20,000 lines, where 11 are needed.
Third push: step 8. The count programs hold such stacks now.
No line limit: Node.js has none, and a limit changes the output of the stacks over it.
One review noted that the test with replaced built-ins replaces them after the first call. The module takes Int32Array when it loads, as it takes its other primordials, and as src/js/node/v8.ts takes Uint8Array. A replacement before the first load of a built-in module reaches that module with or without this change.
The first review was of the first push (18 concerns), the second of the second push (12 concerns).
No issue is filed for three facts above: the async frames beyond Error.stackTraceLimit, the native formatter that does not collapse, and the cost of Node's helper (nodejs/node has no issue for it, and its text is unchanged from v22.20 to main).
no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/node/util/node-inspect-tests/parallel/util-inspect.test.js
getStackFrames gets the second step of Node's function. A stack of more
than 10 lines prints each block of lines that repeats once, and then the
line `... collapsed N duplicate lines matching above ...`.
getDuplicateErrorFrameRanges returns the ranges of Node's helper. It
finds them from names of blocks of 2 ** k lines: Node's helper takes
quadratic time on a stack of two functions that call each other.
The helper stores into its own arrays with direct puts, so an accessor
on an index of Array.prototype does not run. A program under
test/aot/parallel counts the branches for four stacks of 20,000 lines.
Reproduced on main: util.inspect of an error whose stack holds at recurse (file.js:1:1) 12 times and then at main (file.js:2:1) prints all 13 frames. Node.js v26.3.0 prints at recurse once, then ... collapsed 11 duplicate lines matching above 1 lines 11 times..., then at main. The script is in the notes of the description.
With the source of main, 11 tests of test/js/node/util/node-inspect-tests/ fail. With this branch, none fails.
CI build 136464 on all 11 lanes: internal-inspect.test.js has 16 pass, 4 skip, 0 fail, and parallel/util-inspect.test.js has 6 pass, 0 fail. Three of the skips wait for util.inspect: collapse the stack frames that an error shares with its cause #47497. The fourth is older than this PR. The two count programs under test/aot/parallel pass on the Ubuntu lanes and on the ASAN lane.
The other red test is test/js/web/request/request-clone-leak.test.ts on the ASAN lane: an RSS delta of 64 MB against a limit of < 64. Build 136455 of another pull request has the same 41 red tests. This diff does not touch Request.
An earlier version of this comment counted 27 tests that also fail on main. That count came from a list that stops at 30 annotations.
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Walkthrough
The change adds repeated-frame detection and collapsing to error stack inspection for stacks longer than 10 frames. Tests cover output compatibility, formatting APIs, runtime-generated stacks, accessor safety, and long stacks. It also updates an AOT test threshold and checks a compiler report message.
Changes
Duplicate Stack Frame Collapsing
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Summary
Repeated frame range detection src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts, test/js/node/util/node-inspect-tests/duplicate-frames-fixture.cjs
The runtime and test fixture identify repeated, non-overlapping frame ranges. The runtime adds an Int32Array alias for the range algorithm.
Stack rendering and output checks src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts, test/js/node/util/node-inspect-tests/duplicate-frames-fixture.cjs, test/js/node/util/node-inspect-tests/internal-inspect.test.js, test/js/node/util/node-inspect-tests/parallel/util-inspect.test.js
For stacks longer than 10 frames, getStackFrames replaces selected ranges with styled summary markers and compacts the frames. Tests check collapse thresholds, output, and formatting APIs.
Runtime and long-stack validation test/js/node/util/node-inspect-tests/internal-inspect.test.js, test/aot/parallel/library-modules/util-inspect-of-a-long-stack-that-repeats.js, test/aot/parallel/library-modules/util-inspect-of-a-long-stack-that-nearly-repeats.js, test/aot/runtime-use-of-built-in-code.test.ts
Tests compare seeded and runtime-generated stacks with Node.js, check cause stacks and replaced built-ins, verify indexed prototype accessors are not invoked, and exercise very long stacks. The AOT test also asserts the compiler report’s API visibility message.
The FlowEdgesLogged threshold changes from 42000 to 44000.
Possibly related PRs
oven-sh/bun#47630: Parses stack text for error stack rendering; repeated-frame collapsing processes the parsed frame representation.
oven-sh/bun#47497: Changes error-cause stack rendering in getStackFrames; this PR adds repeated-frame collapsing in the same formatter.
Suggested reviewers: alii, jarred-sumner
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The threshold adjustment is mergeable with owner awareness of the existing long-stack memory concern. Exceptionally long stacks may require additional memory during duplicate-frame detection.
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Minor · Bound the memory used by the duplicate-frame search on long stacks. · inspect.ts:1902-1905
src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts:1902-1905 Minor · Performance & Scalability · Poor tradeoff
Bound the memory used by the duplicate-frame search on long stacks.
For frame lists with long repeated blocks, getDuplicateErrorFrameRanges keeps one Int32Array of length + 1 entries per doubling level. Memory grows with the number of lines times the number of levels, roughly O(n log n). Add a line limit or a lower-memory search for very long stacks.
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Review comment at @src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts around lines 1902 - 1905:
Reduce the memory used by getDuplicateErrorFrameRanges for very long frame
lists, where allocating an Int32Array per doubling level causes O(n log n)
growth. Add a frame-count limit or use a lower-memory duplicate-search strategy
for long stacks, while preserving duplicate-frame range detection.
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The tampering test calls util.inspect before replacing Int32Array. It therefore cannot detect a regression specific to capturing a replaced constructor on the inspection implementation's first initialization.
The post-initialization tampering test passes even if cold-start inspection throws for the same repeated stack.
This can occur when: inspect.ts is lazily initialized and Int32Array is replaced before its first initialization.
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Review comments at @src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts:
- Around line 1902-1905: Reduce the memory used by getDuplicateErrorFrameRanges
for very long frame lists, where allocating an Int32Array per doubling level
causes O(n log n) growth. Add a frame-count limit or use a lower-memory
duplicate-search strategy for long stacks, while preserving duplicate-frame
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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 also traced the one-pass compaction in getStackFrames (src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts:2050-2060) against Node's splice-from-last loop: the marker lands at ranges[i], the write cursor never overtakes the read cursor because consecutive ranges cannot overlap (i += bestRange + bestHidden - 1 equals Node's range * (duplicateRanges + 1) - 1 skip), and stylize is still called last-to-first, so output and call order match. The frames.length > 10 guard also matches Node's L1782 threshold, so stacks of 10 or fewer lines take no new work.
Extended reasoning...
The change adds a ~190-line prefix-doubling replacement for Node's quadratic getDuplicateErrorFrameRanges plus a post-processing step in getStackFrames in src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts, with a verbatim Node fixture used for differential tests. It touches no security-sensitive surface; the inline finding concerns per-call typed-array memory on very long stacks. The compaction loop and the Node threshold guard were read and found equivalent to the reference implementation.
getDuplicateErrorFrameRanges named the blocks of 1, 2, 4 .. lines up to
the longest distance that Node tries, for every stack. It now builds a
level when an index first needs it, compares a candidate with the level
of its own length, and skips the lengths that a repeating block rules
out. A recursion of two functions keeps 2 levels, whatever its depth.
Two programs under test/aot/parallel count the branches, and the typed
arrays of a recursion.
Reply to the two findings of the first review. Commit abcd3fc has the changes.
Memory of the duplicate-frame search.
The helper now builds a level of names when a line first needs it. A recursion of two functions keeps 2 levels at any depth.
Typed arrays per call: 1.2 MB for the 53,219-line overflow (was 7.4 MB), 22.9 MB for 1,000,001 lines (was 168 MB).
A stack whose blocks repeat only far apart still needs a level per doubling: 157 MB for one block of 500,000 lines twice.
No line limit: Node.js has none, and a limit changes the output of the stacks over it.
A counting program under test/aot/parallel/library-modules/ bounds the typed arrays of a recursion. The text of the first push fails it.
The test with replaced built-ins.
The module takes Int32Array when it loads, as it takes its other primordials. src/js/node/v8.ts takes Uint8Array the same way.
A replacement made before the first load of a built-in module reaches that module with or without this change. The test covers a replacement after the load, as its comment says.
The test now also puts a getter that throws in front of the length of typed arrays. The helper reads no such length.
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I reviewed the updated push (the on-demand table construction) and found no bugs, but because the collapse step is a from-scratch algorithm whose correctness rests on producing the same ranges as Node's quadratic one, a human look at getDuplicateErrorFrameRanges is still worthwhile.
What was reviewed:
The new helper in src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts: early-outs (length - distinct <= 3, run-of-lengths), the gcd-derived limit[i], the lazily built names/nexts doubling levels, and the single-pass compaction in getStackFrames (markers are stylized last-range-first as in Node).
Tamper-resistance: Int32Array captured at load, SafeMap/SafeSet, $putByValDirect/$arrayPush for index stores, no user-overridable calls on the hot path.
Tests: the comparison harness against the verbatim Node fixture, the two colored cases in parallel/util-inspect.test.js (divergence on greying node:internal/ frames is commented), and the AOT branch/typed-array bounds on 20k-line stacks.
One design point for a maintainer: because Bun keeps up to 20 frames at the default Error.stackTraceLimit, repeating stacks now print differently via util.inspect/worker consoles where Node's default would not trigger the step.
Extended reasoning...
The PR adds about 250 lines to src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts implementing a novel sublinear-per-index algorithm for Node's duplicate-stack-frame collapsing, plus ~900 lines of tests including a verbatim Node reference fixture used for differential comparison and two AOT programs bounding branch counts and typed-array allocations. It touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface; the only hostile-input concern is user-controlled err.stack strings and custom stylize options, and the code uses captured globals and intrinsic stores. The bug hunt ran dry with no findings, and the second commit changed the table construction after the prior inline comment, so this run has new information to report. Deferral rather than approval is because the implementation is a from-scratch design whose equivalence to Node is argued rather than ported line-by-line, and because it changes user-visible output at Bun's default stack depth where Node's would not, which is a judgment call for a maintainer.
getDuplicateErrorFrameRanges built its tables as far as the distance
that Node tries at an index, also where no block at that index stood
again. One line on both sides of a recursion, such as a `forEach` frame,
brought 14 levels for 20,000 lines. The search at an index now stops at
the first block that has no copy within that distance.
A recursion that the stack holds once keeps 1 or 2 levels. A recursion
that the stack holds twice, and blocks that repeat only far apart, still
need a level per doubling.
The count programs hold such stacks and count every typed array. A new
test compares blocks of 32 and more lines with Node's text.
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I re-reviewed after the two follow-up commits and found no bugs; the on-demand level building and the early next[i] > i + farthest break address the retained-table growth I raised earlier. Because getDuplicateErrorFrameRanges is a new algorithm rather than a line-by-line port of Node's, and it changes user-visible util.inspect/Console output, a human look at the equivalence argument is still worthwhile.
What was reviewed:
Candidate-set equivalence with Node's gcd/extraSteps logic: the limit[i] replay stops at the same copy where Node's gcd hits 1, and every effective Node candidate is a copy distance at or below it; the reach skip and the "no ties" claim hold by the Fine–Wilf argument in the PR.
Index bounds: every names[q]/name[...] read is guarded by j + equal + step <= slots, tail blocks get unique names, and only one past-end slot is ever reachable since frames holds at most one non-string.
Tamper-resistance: SafeMap/SafeSet come from internal/primordials, Int32Array is captured at load, stores go through $putByValDirect/$arrayPush, and no typed-array length getter is read; the compaction pass reproduces Node's last-to-first splice order and stylize call order.
Extended reasoning...
The diff adds ~250 lines to src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts (a new getDuplicateErrorFrameRanges plus two helpers and a collapse step in getStackFrames) and ~1,000 lines of tests, including a copied Node fixture used as an oracle on 4,000 seeded stacks and long-block cases. It touches no security-sensitive surface beyond the tamper-resistance expectations for built-in JS, which the new code and a dedicated test honor. Deferring rather than approving because the algorithm is novel (doubling-table block naming replacing Node's quadratic search) and its correctness rests on a mathematical equivalence argument rather than a direct port, and because the change alters user-visible output of util.inspect, util.format and Console for stacks longer than 10 lines. The commits since the last review addressed the earlier memory concern by making levels on-demand and stopping the search at the first block without a nearby copy.
The helper for repeated stack frames adds about 940 flow edges to a
build that holds the inspector. The program that loads files under
relative paths out of a set counted about 40,800 on main under a bound
of 42,000. With this change and the growth of main it counts 41,900 to
42,100.
Correction to my comment above on the memory of the duplicate-frame search.
abcd3fc kept 2 levels only where nothing else stood on both sides of the recursion. One line above and below it, such as a forEach frame, made the search build a level per doubling again: 71 typed arrays for 20,000 lines.
475c4da stops the search at an index at the first block that has no copy in reach. A recursion that stands once in the stack now keeps 1 or 2 levels, whatever stands around it.
Two kinds of stacks still need a level per doubling. A recursion that the stack holds twice, with a lower entry at least as deep: +321 MB of peak resident memory at 1,000,000 lines (main +166 MB). Blocks that repeat only far apart: +429 MB (main +165 MB).
The count programs hold a line on both sides of a recursion now. The text of abcd3fc fails them: 170 typed arrays against a bound of 50.
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Problem
util.inspect,util.formatandConsoleinstances print every frame of a recursion. Node.js prints them once, then... collapsed N duplicate lines matching above ...(nodejs/node#59447).getStackFrames(src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts:1818) is a 2023 port without that step.Fix
getStackFrameshas Node's second step: above 10 lines, Node's line replaces each range fromgetDuplicateErrorFrameRanges.test/js/node/util/node-inspect-tests/(11 tests fail on main), two counting programs undertest/aot/.Background
Downsides
Error.stackTraceLimit, so the default limit suffices, unlike Node.js.Notes
Repro
Node.js v26.3.0 and this branch print:
main prints all 13 frames of each error.
Where the text changes, and where it does not
util.inspect,util.format,Consoleinstances, and a value whose[util.inspect.custom]callsutil.inspect(AssertionError). The global console of anode:worker_threadsworker is aConsoleinstance (src/js/node/worker_threads.ts:384), soconsole.log(error)collapses there. worker_threads: keep the native console in workers, routed through process.stdout/stderr #39592 changes that console to the native one.console.logon the main thread,Bun.inspect, an uncaught error. That formatter prints at most 32 frames (src/jsc/ZigException.rs:84) and collapses nothing. Node.js collapses there too. No test pins this text, because it differs from Node.js.new Error()keeps up toError.stackTraceLimitasync frames on top of up toError.stackTraceLimitsync frames: 20 lines at the default limit, where Node.js keeps 10 in all.Error.captureStackTracekeeps 10 in all. So Node'sframes.length > 10is true in Bun at the default limit. Two tests pin this: an async recursion, and six closures of one function that await one another (no recursion), each 11 lines. Node.js prints the same text for them with--stack-trace-limit=11.Why the helper returns Node's ranges
Node's helper (v26.12.1 L1627-L1734) looks at each index
ifrom the top. The new helper follows it step by step:iunless its line has a later copy at a distance of 3 or more.limit[i]is 0 there.iis 1. A length only matches if lineistands again at that distance. So the lengths that count are the distances to those copies, up tolimit[i].r, Node counts how often therlines atirepeat directly below. That hidesE - E % rlines, whereEis the number of lines fromithat equal the lines fromi + r. The new helper readsEfrom the block numbers.undefined. Only astylizeoption that returnsundefinedfor the marker of the cause step can make that match. The helper keeps one slot for it.rlines that repeats atiand matchesElines rules out every longer length up toE. A multiplemofrmatchesE + r - mlines and hides less. Another length cannot repeat there: a stretch with two periods has their gcd as a period (Fine and Wilf), andris the shortest. The helper skips those lengths, and the levels that hold only such lengths.ithat stands nowhere again within the longest length foristarts no longer block that stands again. The helper stops there fori, and builds no level past it.If the helper is ever wrong, Node's text is in the tree as
duplicate-frames-fixture.cjs. It gives the same output and costs only time.Checks
stylizecall differs. 33 kinds of long stacks at 12 sizes from 7 to 3,000 lines, with three endings: no range differs.util.inspectover 3 x 3,000 seeded stacks. Real stack-overflow errors of one, two and three functions give the text of Node's helper on the same frames.stylizeoptions, have the SHA-1 of Node.js.Array.prototypeandObject.prototype: 0 calls, in a child process. The helper stores into its ordinary arrays with$putByValDirectand$arrayPush. The two stores intoframesoverwrite own elements. No lint checks index stores in built-in modules. The helper also reads nolengthof a typed array: a test puts a getter that throws in front of it.bun lint, the type check of the built-in modules,bun fmt --check.bun build --compile --aot: the--explain=trimreport ofconsole.log(require("node:util").format("%s", 1))is the same as on main (2,017 lines, 1,785useslines). Without any one of the six| 0its first line changes tothe compiler can't tell which API this program uses. They work around a limit of the compiler: it does not know that an element of anInt32Arrayor a result ofMap.prototype.getis a number.test/aot/runtime-use-of-built-in-code.test.tsnow asserts the first line, and fails with one| 0removed. No test failed for that before.test/aot/parallelthat bound a statistic or a count, 324 pass and 1 is aTodo, as on main. A program that holdsformatErrorcounts three more functions:FunctionsLowered547 to 550 of 800 innode-events-and-nothing-else.js. An executable that callsutil.inspectgrows by 40,960 bytes.module-loaders/load-under-relative-paths-out-of-a-set-finds-those-filesboundedFlowEdgesLoggedat 42,000 and counts 40,781 to 40,855 on main 89fbb78. With this change and main 3f3a9ff it counts 41,925 to 42,100 (the count differs from run to run). Its bound is 44,000 now.util-inspect-of-a-long-stack-that-repeats.js: five recursions of 20,000 lines, three of them bare, one with a line on both sides, one with lines in front. It counts 3,954,143 branches and 50 typed arrays, under bounds of 4,400,000 and 50. Each stack stands on 70 callers, so that every typed array is long enough to be counted.util-inspect-of-a-long-stack-that-nearly-repeats.js: three stacks of 20,000 lines that hide little or nothing. It counts 7,990,837 branches and 102 typed arrays, under bounds of 8,800,000 and 102. Node's text, compiled as the text of a program, counts 150 million to 1,100 million branches for each of the three.Numbers (release builds of main 89fbb78, without and with this change)
util.inspect(err), 10 linesdispatchat every second linerecurse,main)a,b, thenmain)sizeof the binary (dec)perf_event_openon user-space instructions,BUN_JSC_useConcurrentJIT=0, the difference between 40,000 and 20,000 calls, median of 5. The spread is under 1%.perfandvalgrindare not in the container.getStackFramesruns 2 more bytecodes (get_length,jngreater). The helper is not called. The 71 instructions in the first row are inside the spread of the two builds.heapStats().objectTypeCountsover 200 calls,BUN_JSC_useJIT=0.Error.stackTraceLimit = Infinity. Overflow rows: 21 interleaved runs, median. The fastest and slowest run of a row differ by up to a factor of 4. main prints every line.util.inspectof its own error after 200,000 awaiting calls of two functions (200,002 lines), and 7.7 s after 100,000. Node's text in Bun takes 8.4 s on 100,000 assigned lines of two functions.util.inspectof this branch takes 40 to 50 ms there.Memory of one call
A recursion that stands once in the stack keeps 1 or 2 levels of block numbers, whatever its depth and whatever stands around it. Two kinds of stacks need a level per doubling: a recursion that the stack holds twice, where the lower entry is at least as deep, and blocks that repeat only far apart. An await chain has no limit of lines, so the figures are for 1,000,000 lines.
What the reviews changed
forEachframe, made the search reach every level again: 71 typed arrays for 20,000 lines, where 11 are needed.Int32Arraywhen it loads, as it takes its other primordials, and assrc/js/node/v8.tstakesUint8Array. A replacement before the first load of a built-in module reaches that module with or without this change.Open PRs in the same files
collapsedline where Node.js prints... N lines matching cause stack trace .... The search of that step compares n x m lines for a stack and a cause with nothing in common, as in Node.js. util.inspect: collapse the stack frames that an error shares with its cause #47497 states that cost. This PR does not bound it. The second self-review asks to merge util.inspect: collapse the stack frames that an error shares with its cause #47497 first and then to drop the skip.inspect.ts. The test files conflict with util.inspect: print numbers, errors, tags and getters as Node.js v26.12.1 does #47303, util.inspect: name built-in values by a native table of Node's 20 well-known prototypes #47488, console, Bun.inspect, util.inspect: print a Map or Set iterator without running it #42359 and util.inspect: name a value with a native port of V8's GetConstructorName #46111 at the import lines and at shared insertion points. Against util.inspect: print numbers, errors, tags and getters as Node.js v26.12.1 does #47303, the two upstream blocks go before its util.inspect color OOM crash nodejs/node#64011 block, as upstream has them.Self-review, the parts that are not done
Error.stackTraceLimit, the native formatter that does not collapse, and the cost of Node's helper (nodejs/node has no issue for it, and its text is unchanged from v22.20 to main).| 0.no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/node/util/node-inspect-tests/parallel/util-inspect.test.js