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feat(minifier): drop catch-shadowed functions, pure extra constructor arguments and nullish let calls - #22789
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… arguments and nullish let calls - A catch parameter's read keeps the binding of its name around the clause only where the clause declares that name again; terser always keeps it. - `typeof f` compared against a string reads `"function"` where `f` is a function its scope declares and nothing writes. - `let d = void 0` reads as nullish once its initializer is dropped, so `d?.(…)` folds as for `let d;`. - Every argument without effects past a constructor's parameters goes, not only the trailing ones. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViD41i2KdwwGxrDk7yrjeD
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- Line 24910: Update the argument-pruning loop to use A.dropSideEffectFree
instead of A.hasSideEffects when deciding whether to remove extra arguments,
preserving reads that can throw, including temporal-dead-zone reads of let
bindings.
- Around line 43538-43544: Update the nullish shortcut near
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An extra argument is dropped only where `dropSideEffectFree` leaves nothing, so `new F(1, x)` before `let x` still throws. A `let` read as nullish once its initializer is dropped must also be one nothing writes. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViD41i2KdwwGxrDk7yrjeD
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- Around line 43537-43545: Update safeToRead to reject a syntax-node fixed value
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Terser already folds `typeof f` compared against a string where `f` is a function declaration nothing writes; the improve-phase fold only added the bare form, where `"function"` is longer than `typeof f`. Retire the swc entries the catch-shadowed function drop now beats. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViD41i2KdwwGxrDk7yrjeD
- an optional call folds on a value `fixedValue` gives only where the name is never written again (#22789) - a `case` label reading a `let` its own case declares keeps the switch, which throws in its dead zone (#22754) - improved cases snapshot their output instead of comparing a string (#22829), and the property-write test logs and snapshots what it writes (#22814) Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViD41i2KdwwGxrDk7yrjeD
- an optional call folds on a value `fixedValue` gives only where the name is never written again (#22789) - a `case` label reading a `let` its own case declares keeps the switch, which throws in its dead zone (#22754) - improved cases snapshot their output instead of comparing a string (#22829), and the property-write test logs and snapshots what it writes (#22814) Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViD41i2KdwwGxrDk7yrjeD
* fix(minify): preserve observable string conversions * fix(minify): keep pattern targets and patched array iteration; split the minify CI leg - `[[1][0]] = a` keeps its target: the flattened `[1] = a` does not parse (CodeRabbit on #22839) - a `new Set` or a built-in given an array literal stays where the program patches `Array.prototype`, whose iterator may run code (CodeRabbit on #22837) - the corpora and the fuzzer run as two CI legs, the corpora bounded at 90 min: together they took 37 of the 60 min on a fast runner and passed the limit on a slower one Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViD41i2KdwwGxrDk7yrjeD * fix(minify): address the open CodeRabbit findings on the minify PRs - an optional call folds on a value `fixedValue` gives only where the name is never written again (#22789) - a `case` label reading a `let` its own case declares keeps the switch, which throws in its dead zone (#22754) - improved cases snapshot their output instead of comparing a string (#22829), and the property-write test logs and snapshots what it writes (#22814) Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViD41i2KdwwGxrDk7yrjeD * fix(minify): keep what a patched Array.prototype runs, and conversions not pure - a spread array literal stays, kept for its effects, and an array literal is no constant to a built-in, a `+` or a template, where the program patches `Array.prototype` - `"a" + x` read for its truthiness keeps `x`'s conversion unless `pure_conversions` - the parser job's checkout keeps no credentials, and the changeset fits 80 characters Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViD41i2KdwwGxrDk7yrjeD * fix(minify): keep a dot access a pattern writes from folding Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViD41i2KdwwGxrDk7yrjeD * fix(minify): keep a spread that must run inside an array literal Dropped alone, `...[1]` printed as a statement does not parse. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViD41i2KdwwGxrDk7yrjeD * fix(minify): keep array method calls and `new` spreads a patched `Array.prototype` changes Also record `Array["prototype"]` writes as patches. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViD41i2KdwwGxrDk7yrjeD * fix(minify): keep calls to a built-in static the program writes `Math.max = f` or `Object.defineProperty(Math, ...)` before `Math.max(1)` no longer folds or drops the call. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViD41i2KdwwGxrDk7yrjeD * test(minify): observe the inherited `arguments[1]` getter Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViD41i2KdwwGxrDk7yrjeD * test(minify): check inherited holes in the printer's unit tests An indexed property on `Array.prototype` or `Object.prototype`, even once deleted, turns off V8's no-elements fast path for the whole process, which slowed every later config case past its timeout (`require/cjs-and-mjs`). Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViD41i2KdwwGxrDk7yrjeD * test(minify): update the snapshot main's fixed rules fold Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViD41i2KdwwGxrDk7yrjeD --------- Co-authored-by: alexander-akait <4567934+alexander-akait@users.noreply.github.com>
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Summary
Closes more of the gaps where swc and oxc write less than the minifier, in the improve phase:
defun_catchtests).typeof fcompared against a string folds as soon asfis a function its scope declares and nothing writes, so the declaration can go once nothing else reads it.let d = void 0reads as nullish after its initializer is dropped, sod?.(…)folds as it already does forlet d;(found while re-checking CodeRabbit's notes on feat(javascript): fold optional calls of a nullish const in the minifier #22653).Before/after (
compress: {},mangle: false, real runs on main and this branch):The 12 real-world bundles print byte-identical to main; the gains are in the corpora cases.
What kind of change does this PR introduce?
feat
Did you add tests for your changes?
Yes, four improve-phase cases in
test/unitCases/syntax-printer.unittest.js.Does this PR introduce a breaking change?
No.
If relevant, what needs to be documented once your changes are merged or what have you already documented?
n/a
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Written with Claude Code: it found the gaps by comparing outputs with swc and oxc, wrote the changes and tests, and checked them with the printer suite, the fuzzers and the bundle size comparison.
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