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transform_formal_parameter first builds an owned pattern (a deep clone_in of the source binding pattern) and mutates it in place:

let mut pattern = if let BindingPattern::AssignmentPattern(pattern) = &param.pattern {
    pattern.left.clone_in(self.allocator())
} else {
    param.pattern.clone_in(self.allocator())
};
FormalParameterBindingPattern::remove_assignments_from_kind(self, &mut pattern);

In the inferred-type / optional branch it then cloned that already-owned pattern a second time into the arena and returned, dropping the original:

return Some(FormalParameter::new(
    param.span,
    ArenaVec::new_in(self),
    pattern.clone_in(self.allocator()), // <- redundant: `pattern` is owned and dropped right after
    ...
));

The sibling branch just below already moves pattern directly into the identical FormalParameter::new, so the second clone is redundant. This PR moves the owned pattern in instead.

Behaviour

Unchanged. The output is a freshly-built AST that is codegen'd to a .d.ts string (no symbol identity involved), so moving the already-cloned, already-mutated pattern is equivalent to cloning it again. cargo test -p oxc_isolated_declarations passes with no .d.ts snapshot changes.

Evidence

Removing the redundant clone is a deterministic reduction in arena allocation. Measured over vue-id.ts (the bench_isolated_declarations corpus), the output Allocator::used_bytes() after IsolatedDeclarations::build drops:

19,594,584 -> 19,530,256 bytes  (-64,328)

This is reproducible (it depends only on the code path taken, not on machine state). It removes genuine work — fewer arena allocations, node copies and drops — rather than reordering existing work. CodSpeed cycle counts may read flat, as this is a small fraction (~0.3%) of the build.


Disclosure: this change was prepared with AI assistance (Claude). I reviewed, tested and verified it myself — behaviour is byte-identical (insta snapshots unchanged) and the used_bytes reduction above was measured locally before/after.

…er pattern

`transform_formal_parameter` builds an owned `pattern` (a deep clone of the
source binding pattern) and mutates it in place. In the inferred-type /
optional branch it then cloned that already-owned `pattern` a *second* time
into the arena and returned, dropping the original. The sibling branch below
already moves `pattern` directly into the identical `FormalParameter::new`,
so the second clone is redundant — just move the owned pattern in.

Behaviour is unchanged (the output is a freshly-built AST codegen'd to a
`.d.ts` string; no symbol identity involved). This removes a deterministic
amount of redundant arena allocation.
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Merging this PR will not alter performance

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Thank you!

@Dunqing Dunqing merged commit b4f5b4b into oxc-project:main Jun 29, 2026
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camc314 added a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 29, 2026
### 💥 BREAKING CHANGES

- 94fbacb ast: [**BREAKING**] Only export `AstBuilder` and `NONE` in
`builder` module (#23876) (overlookmotel)
- 8de5122 ecmascript: [**BREAKING**] Switch to new `AstBuilder` (#23834)
(overlookmotel)
- dc0ef38 transformer: [**BREAKING**] Switch to new `AstBuilder`
(#23831) (overlookmotel)
- 88f4455 str: [**BREAKING**] `Str` and `Ident` methods take
`&GetAllocator` (#23781) (overlookmotel)
- 36009dd allocator: [**BREAKING**] `GetAllocator::allocator` take
`&self` (#23676) (overlookmotel)
- bd74f9d allocator: [**BREAKING**] Rename `AllocatorAccessor` trait to
`GetAllocator` (#23675) (overlookmotel)

### 🚀 Features

- 326fe25 transformer_plugins: Support `typeof` `define` keys (#23605)
(Alexander Lichter)
- f2091b3 ast: Unify old and new `AstBuilder`s (#23875) (overlookmotel)
- cd1fd12 codegen: Expose `Codegen::print_string` API (#23785) (camc314)
- 785461b ast: Add custom builder methods to AST types (#23651)
(overlookmotel)
- 05d1357 ast: Add AST creation methods to AST types (#23650)
(overlookmotel)
- 2580eda str: Add `Str::from_str_in` and `Ident::from_str_in` methods
(#23767) (overlookmotel)
- 6883fcf minifier: Fold write-once falsy var to false in boolean
context (#23540) (Dunqing)
- fcbf993 allocator: Add `Vec::from_value_in` method (#23718)
(overlookmotel)
- 989ddb7 allocator: Add `Vec::from_box_in` method (#23717)
(overlookmotel)
- 9d1aa7f allocator: Improve `PartialEq` for `Vec` (#23716)
(overlookmotel)

### 🐛 Bug Fixes

- da0e5bf minifier: Don't reorder a closed-over TDZ read when inlining a
var (#23771) (Dunqing)
- 0b3021f allocator: Remove `Vec::from_box_in` (#23873) (overlookmotel)
- 0ab64ec ast: Silence deprecation warnings within files defining
deprecated `AstBuilder` methods (#23889) (overlookmotel)
- 8c07cad all: Enable `disable_old_builder` Cargo feature for `oxc_ast`
crate in tests (#23888) (overlookmotel)
- 3800f01 ast: Legacy `AstBuilder` methods take `self` not `&self`
(#23891) (overlookmotel)
- 869ac20 semantic/cfg: Connect for update exit to loop test (#23791)
(camc314)
- d3e92d5 semantic/cfg: Connect while branches from condition exit
(#23790) (camc314)
- 025045d ast: `ExportNamedDeclaration` plain builder methods return
boxed nodes (#23783) (overlookmotel)
- 7537c58 ast: Fix name of `AstBuilder` method for
`Expression::V8IntrinsicExpression` (#23766) (overlookmotel)
- 3f574f5 traverse: Fix unsoundness in `Traverse` walk functions
(#23745) (overlookmotel)
- 585760f parser: String in AST reference arena (#23721) (overlookmotel)
- 7231d55 allocator: Fix unsound lifetime extension in `Box::new_in`
(#23685) (overlookmotel)

### ⚡ Performance

- d5c916a semantic: Flatten hoisting_variables to avoid per-scope map
allocation (#23927) (Lawrence Lin)
- e71609d minifier: Bail member-expr folding before the side-effect walk
(#23924) (Lawrence Lin)
- e1f89ab minifier: Reduce string allocations folding addition (#23846)
(overlookmotel)
- 9f6ee3b isolated-declarations: Pool scope maps to avoid per-scope
alloc/rehash (#23761) (Boshen)
- 0b07c4c semantic: Avoid heap alloc for catch-clause binding ids
(#23911) (Lawrence Lin)
- c5eef8b regular_expression: Skip capturing-group pre-parse when
pattern has no `(` (#23908) (Lawrence Lin)
- b4f5b4b isolated_declarations: Remove redundant clone of formal
parameter pattern (#23912) (Lawrence Lin)
- 53d083f isolated_declarations: Use `TakeIn` not `CloneIn` (#23847)
(overlookmotel)
- 3ea9304 react_compiler: Use faster API to arena allocate strings
(#23849) (overlookmotel)
- a6d8e45 parser: Avoid span lookup for arrow expression body (#23788)
(camc314)
- e1886a0 transformer, minifier: Use `static_ident!` macro to create
static `Ident`s (#23727) (overlookmotel)
- 5527bef transformer/object-rest-spread: Reduce iteration (#23720)
(overlookmotel)
- 680ffbc transformer: Allocate AST nodes in arena directly (#23711)
(overlookmotel)
- 1c63c66 parser: Allocate AST nodes in arena directly (#23712)
(overlookmotel)
- 3855f0c minifier: Allocate AST nodes in arena directly (#23710)
(overlookmotel)
- d025887 isolated_declarations: Allocate AST nodes in arena directly
(#23709) (overlookmotel)
- 10b96c6 parser: Remove string search from parsing JSX element name
(#23713) (overlookmotel)

### 📚 Documentation

- 3d61dea all: Correct capitalization in comments (#23887)
(overlookmotel)
- aa1ad74 ast: Add `#[deprecated]` to legacy `AstBuilder` methods
(#23877) (overlookmotel)
- a4676db ast: Correct doc comment for `NONE` (#23765) (overlookmotel)
- 419ec80 syntax: Fix typo in doc comment (#23674) (overlookmotel)

### 🛡️ Security

- 3cdd18f deps: Update npm packages (#23690) (renovate[bot])

Co-authored-by: Boshen <1430279+Boshen@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Cameron <cameron.clark@hey.com>
camc314 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 3, 2026
…er pattern (#23912)

## What

`transform_formal_parameter` first builds an **owned** `pattern` (a deep
`clone_in` of the source binding pattern) and mutates it in place:

```rust
let mut pattern = if let BindingPattern::AssignmentPattern(pattern) = &param.pattern {
    pattern.left.clone_in(self.allocator())
} else {
    param.pattern.clone_in(self.allocator())
};
FormalParameterBindingPattern::remove_assignments_from_kind(self, &mut pattern);
```

In the inferred-type / optional branch it then cloned that already-owned
`pattern` a **second** time into the arena and returned, dropping the
original:

```rust
return Some(FormalParameter::new(
    param.span,
    ArenaVec::new_in(self),
    pattern.clone_in(self.allocator()), // <- redundant: `pattern` is owned and dropped right after
    ...
));
```

The sibling branch just below already moves `pattern` directly into the
identical `FormalParameter::new`, so the second clone is redundant. This
PR moves the owned `pattern` in instead.

## Behaviour

Unchanged. The output is a freshly-built AST that is codegen'd to a
`.d.ts` string (no symbol identity involved), so moving the
already-cloned, already-mutated pattern is equivalent to cloning it
again. `cargo test -p oxc_isolated_declarations` passes with no `.d.ts`
snapshot changes.

## Evidence

Removing the redundant clone is a deterministic reduction in arena
allocation. Measured over `vue-id.ts` (the `bench_isolated_declarations`
corpus), the output `Allocator::used_bytes()` after
`IsolatedDeclarations::build` drops:

```
19,594,584 -> 19,530,256 bytes  (-64,328)
```

This is reproducible (it depends only on the code path taken, not on
machine state). It removes genuine work — fewer arena allocations, node
copies and drops — rather than reordering existing work. CodSpeed cycle
counts may read flat, as this is a small fraction (~0.3%) of the build.

---

*Disclosure: this change was prepared with AI assistance (Claude). I
reviewed, tested and verified it myself — behaviour is byte-identical
(insta snapshots unchanged) and the `used_bytes` reduction above was
measured locally before/after.*
camc314 added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 3, 2026
### 💥 BREAKING CHANGES

- 94fbacb ast: [**BREAKING**] Only export `AstBuilder` and `NONE` in
`builder` module (#23876) (overlookmotel)
- 8de5122 ecmascript: [**BREAKING**] Switch to new `AstBuilder` (#23834)
(overlookmotel)
- dc0ef38 transformer: [**BREAKING**] Switch to new `AstBuilder`
(#23831) (overlookmotel)
- 88f4455 str: [**BREAKING**] `Str` and `Ident` methods take
`&GetAllocator` (#23781) (overlookmotel)
- 36009dd allocator: [**BREAKING**] `GetAllocator::allocator` take
`&self` (#23676) (overlookmotel)
- bd74f9d allocator: [**BREAKING**] Rename `AllocatorAccessor` trait to
`GetAllocator` (#23675) (overlookmotel)

### 🚀 Features

- 326fe25 transformer_plugins: Support `typeof` `define` keys (#23605)
(Alexander Lichter)
- f2091b3 ast: Unify old and new `AstBuilder`s (#23875) (overlookmotel)
- cd1fd12 codegen: Expose `Codegen::print_string` API (#23785) (camc314)
- 785461b ast: Add custom builder methods to AST types (#23651)
(overlookmotel)
- 05d1357 ast: Add AST creation methods to AST types (#23650)
(overlookmotel)
- 2580eda str: Add `Str::from_str_in` and `Ident::from_str_in` methods
(#23767) (overlookmotel)
- 6883fcf minifier: Fold write-once falsy var to false in boolean
context (#23540) (Dunqing)
- fcbf993 allocator: Add `Vec::from_value_in` method (#23718)
(overlookmotel)
- 989ddb7 allocator: Add `Vec::from_box_in` method (#23717)
(overlookmotel)
- 9d1aa7f allocator: Improve `PartialEq` for `Vec` (#23716)
(overlookmotel)

### 🐛 Bug Fixes

- da0e5bf minifier: Don't reorder a closed-over TDZ read when inlining a
var (#23771) (Dunqing)
- 0b3021f allocator: Remove `Vec::from_box_in` (#23873) (overlookmotel)
- 0ab64ec ast: Silence deprecation warnings within files defining
deprecated `AstBuilder` methods (#23889) (overlookmotel)
- 8c07cad all: Enable `disable_old_builder` Cargo feature for `oxc_ast`
crate in tests (#23888) (overlookmotel)
- 3800f01 ast: Legacy `AstBuilder` methods take `self` not `&self`
(#23891) (overlookmotel)
- 869ac20 semantic/cfg: Connect for update exit to loop test (#23791)
(camc314)
- d3e92d5 semantic/cfg: Connect while branches from condition exit
(#23790) (camc314)
- 025045d ast: `ExportNamedDeclaration` plain builder methods return
boxed nodes (#23783) (overlookmotel)
- 7537c58 ast: Fix name of `AstBuilder` method for
`Expression::V8IntrinsicExpression` (#23766) (overlookmotel)
- 3f574f5 traverse: Fix unsoundness in `Traverse` walk functions
(#23745) (overlookmotel)
- 585760f parser: String in AST reference arena (#23721) (overlookmotel)
- 7231d55 allocator: Fix unsound lifetime extension in `Box::new_in`
(#23685) (overlookmotel)

### ⚡ Performance

- d5c916a semantic: Flatten hoisting_variables to avoid per-scope map
allocation (#23927) (Lawrence Lin)
- e71609d minifier: Bail member-expr folding before the side-effect walk
(#23924) (Lawrence Lin)
- e1f89ab minifier: Reduce string allocations folding addition (#23846)
(overlookmotel)
- 9f6ee3b isolated-declarations: Pool scope maps to avoid per-scope
alloc/rehash (#23761) (Boshen)
- 0b07c4c semantic: Avoid heap alloc for catch-clause binding ids
(#23911) (Lawrence Lin)
- c5eef8b regular_expression: Skip capturing-group pre-parse when
pattern has no `(` (#23908) (Lawrence Lin)
- b4f5b4b isolated_declarations: Remove redundant clone of formal
parameter pattern (#23912) (Lawrence Lin)
- 53d083f isolated_declarations: Use `TakeIn` not `CloneIn` (#23847)
(overlookmotel)
- 3ea9304 react_compiler: Use faster API to arena allocate strings
(#23849) (overlookmotel)
- a6d8e45 parser: Avoid span lookup for arrow expression body (#23788)
(camc314)
- e1886a0 transformer, minifier: Use `static_ident!` macro to create
static `Ident`s (#23727) (overlookmotel)
- 5527bef transformer/object-rest-spread: Reduce iteration (#23720)
(overlookmotel)
- 680ffbc transformer: Allocate AST nodes in arena directly (#23711)
(overlookmotel)
- 1c63c66 parser: Allocate AST nodes in arena directly (#23712)
(overlookmotel)
- 3855f0c minifier: Allocate AST nodes in arena directly (#23710)
(overlookmotel)
- d025887 isolated_declarations: Allocate AST nodes in arena directly
(#23709) (overlookmotel)
- 10b96c6 parser: Remove string search from parsing JSX element name
(#23713) (overlookmotel)

### 📚 Documentation

- 3d61dea all: Correct capitalization in comments (#23887)
(overlookmotel)
- aa1ad74 ast: Add `#[deprecated]` to legacy `AstBuilder` methods
(#23877) (overlookmotel)
- a4676db ast: Correct doc comment for `NONE` (#23765) (overlookmotel)
- 419ec80 syntax: Fix typo in doc comment (#23674) (overlookmotel)

### 🛡️ Security

- 3cdd18f deps: Update npm packages (#23690) (renovate[bot])

Co-authored-by: Boshen <1430279+Boshen@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Cameron <cameron.clark@hey.com>
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