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Summary

Closes more of the gaps where swc and oxc write less than the minifier, in the improve phase:

  • A catch parameter's read keeps the outer binding of its name only where the clause declares that name again. terser keeps it always (a TODO in its own defun_catch tests).
  • typeof f compared against a string folds as soon as f is a function its scope declares and nothing writes, so the declaration can go once nothing else reads it.
  • let d = void 0 reads as nullish after its initializer is dropped, so d?.(…) folds as it already does for let d; (found while re-checking CodeRabbit's notes on feat(javascript): fold optional calls of a nullish const in the minifier #22653).
  • Every argument without effects past a constructor's parameters is dropped, not only the trailing ones.

Before/after (compress: {}, mangle: false, real runs on main and this branch):

// before
function f(){function a(){}try{throw 42}catch(a){return a}}
function g(){function x(){}return[!0,!1,typeof x]}
function f(g){let d;return d?.(g()),d}
function g(){return new function(v){this.v=v}(e(1),1,e(2))}
// after
function f(){try{throw 42}catch(a){return a}}
function g(){return[!0,!1,"function"]}
function f(g){let d;return d}
function g(){return new function(v){this.v=v}(e(1),e(2))}

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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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Improvements
    • JavaScript minification removes more unused functions and constructor arguments, including side-effect-free arguments between effectful ones. It also simplifies certain optional calls and handles shadowed functions more accurately. Expressions involving temporal dead zones and bindings that may be assigned later retain their runtime behavior while minified output is reduced.

… 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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The syntax printer now checks catch-scope declarations when analyzing enclosing bindings, removes side-effect-free extra constructor arguments, and recognizes eligible unassigned let bindings as undefined during nullish analysis. Regression tests and a webpack patch changeset cover these minification changes.

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Catch-reference analysis now checks for a matching declaration beyond the catch parameter. Nullish analysis treats an unexposed, unwritten let with fixed === null as undefined when improvements are enabled. Regression cases cover catch-shadowed functions and optional calls. The SWC comparison fixture list removes cases no longer listed, and the changeset describes the minification changes.
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lib/javascript/syntax-printer.js, test/unitCases/syntax-printer.unittest.js
The optimizer applies dropSideEffectFree to extra constructor arguments and compacts retained effects after known parameters. Tests cover argument removal and runtime behavior when an argument reads a let in its temporal dead zone.

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  • webpack/webpack#22405: Extends dropSideEffectFree for unused built-in reads and calls, which is also used here for extra constructor arguments.

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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
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alexander-akait added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 22, 2026
- 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
alexander-akait added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 22, 2026
- 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
alexander-akait added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 22, 2026
* 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

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Co-authored-by: alexander-akait <4567934+alexander-akait@users.noreply.github.com>
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- Reduce repeated scans when concatenating imported modules. (by [@&#8203;xiaoxiaojx](https://github.com/xiaoxiaojx) in [#&#8203;22865](webpack/webpack#22865))

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- Fix "Self-reference dependency has unused export name" for CommonJS namespace re-exports. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22791](webpack/webpack#22791))

- Fix `exportType: "style"` CSS modules throwing outside the runtime chunk. (by [@&#8203;lazerg](https://github.com/lazerg) in [#&#8203;22833](webpack/webpack#22833))

- Fix crash when a CSS module with `exportType: "style"` imports an ignored stylesheet. (by [@&#8203;codeXsidd](https://github.com/codeXsidd) in [#&#8203;22846](webpack/webpack#22846))

- Keep empty process environment variables that `.env` files don't define in `DotenvPlugin`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22794](webpack/webpack#22794))

- Rehash an ESM entry chunk when a chunk it imports by file name changes. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22804](webpack/webpack#22804))

- Handle a NUL inside an HTML CDATA section the way the parsing spec does. (by [@&#8203;dependabot](https://github.com/apps/dependabot) in [#&#8203;22811](webpack/webpack#22811))

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- Keep a resolve that ends after the compiler closed from throwing. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22795](webpack/webpack#22795))

- Preserve string names passed to SharedWorker constructors. (by [@&#8203;bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#&#8203;22770](webpack/webpack#22770))

- Preserve string contents when extracting source map comments. (by [@&#8203;bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#&#8203;22768](webpack/webpack#22768))

- Scope strict-mode, async and generator block function declarations to their block. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22800](webpack/webpack#22800))

- Preserve raw dotenv values when reusing cached environment files. (by [@&#8203;Eshiv-Pandey](https://github.com/Eshiv-Pandey) in [#&#8203;22787](webpack/webpack#22787))

- Preserve assigned or patched built-ins, conversions and pattern targets. (by [@&#8203;aryanraj45](https://github.com/aryanraj45) in [#&#8203;22761](webpack/webpack#22761))

- Keep globals a `globalThis` write replaces, and `slice` on a patched array. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22862](webpack/webpack#22862))

- Skip HTML script tags for shared chunks that emit no JavaScript. (by [@&#8203;bjohansebas](https://github.com/bjohansebas) in [#&#8203;22779](webpack/webpack#22779))

- Keep the digits Firefox lays out a minified CSS percentage with. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22718](webpack/webpack#22718))

- Reject a second `srcset` descriptor after a `0x` density descriptor. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22741](webpack/webpack#22741))

- Minify JavaScript faster, folding string methods on constants and `x -= 1`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22823](webpack/webpack#22823))

- Shorten minified JavaScript, and keep it running like its source. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22717](webpack/webpack#22717))

- Drop more unused functions, arguments, calls, global reads and variable copies when minifying JavaScript. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22789](webpack/webpack#22789))

- Minify JavaScript smaller where swc does, and fold a function's `length` right. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22826](webpack/webpack#22826))

- Reduce JavaScript output size where oxc or swc produce smaller output. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22829](webpack/webpack#22829))

- Update watchpack to 2.6.3 and rebuild on a `node_modules` created mid-build. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22743](webpack/webpack#22743))

- Support `concatenateModules` with `cacheUnaffected`. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22746](webpack/webpack#22746))

- Update schema-utils to 4.8.1. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22774](webpack/webpack#22774))

- Keep CSS fallbacks, vendor overrides, `oklch()` hues and HTML elements. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22753](webpack/webpack#22753))

- Validate `CleanPlugin` and `DotenvPlugin` options with a precompiled check, so valid options no longer compile their schema at startup. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22758](webpack/webpack#22758))

- Speed up startup and CSS minification, sharing the compile cache with workers. (by [@&#8203;xiaoxiaojx](https://github.com/xiaoxiaojx) in [#&#8203;22706](webpack/webpack#22706))

- Use precise, generic types for modules, parsers, generators, stats and loaders. (by [@&#8203;alexander-akait](https://github.com/alexander-akait) in [#&#8203;22731](webpack/webpack#22731))

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