perf(Compilation): index asset -> chunks to speed up deleteAsset/renameAsset#21035
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…meAsset Previously both methods iterated every chunk to remove or rename an asset in chunk.files / chunk.auxiliaryFiles. With many chunks this is O(C) per call and becomes a hotspot when plugins delete or rename many assets. Maintain a lazy reverse index file -> Set<Chunk>, built on first use after seal and kept in sync by renameAsset/deleteAsset. Invalidated by clearAssets and unseal.
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Pull request overview
This PR optimizes Compilation.renameAsset and Compilation.deleteAsset by avoiding per-call scans over all chunks. It introduces a lazily built reverse index from asset filename → chunks, intended to significantly reduce runtime when many assets are renamed/deleted.
Changes:
- Add lazy reverse indices (
file -> Set<Chunk>) forchunk.filesandchunk.auxiliaryFiles, and invalidate them onunseal()/clearAssets(). - Update
renameAsset/deleteAssetto use the reverse indices instead of iterating all chunks. - Add a patch changeset documenting the performance improvement.
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| File | Description |
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| lib/Compilation.js | Adds and uses lazy reverse indices to accelerate deleteAsset/renameAsset, plus invalidation logic. |
| .changeset/compilation-asset-chunk-reverse-index.md | Documents the perf change as a patch release note. |
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| for (const chunk of chunks) { | ||
| if (auxiliary) { | ||
| chunk.auxiliaryFiles.delete(file); | ||
| if (size !== chunk.auxiliaryFiles.size) { | ||
| chunk.auxiliaryFiles.add(newFile); | ||
| } | ||
| chunk.auxiliaryFiles.add(newFile); | ||
| } else { | ||
| chunk.files.delete(file); | ||
| chunk.files.add(newFile); | ||
| } |
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Fixed in 78284ba. _renameAssetInIndex now guards on Set#delete and only adds newFile (and records the chunk under newFile in the index) for chunks where the old name was actually present — restoring the pre-index behavior. Combined with the emitAsset invalidation (see the other thread), the index is no longer cached while stale, but the per-chunk guard keeps the method robust regardless.
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| // Lazily build the reverse index file -> chunks. Kept in sync by | ||
| // renameAsset/deleteAsset; direct chunk.files mutations after build are | ||
| // not observed. | ||
| /** | ||
| * @private | ||
| * @returns {void} | ||
| */ | ||
| _buildAssetToChunkIndex() { | ||
| if (this._assetToChunkIndex !== undefined) return; | ||
| /** @type {Map<string, Set<Chunk>>} */ | ||
| const filesIndex = new Map(); | ||
| /** @type {Map<string, Set<Chunk>>} */ | ||
| const auxiliaryIndex = new Map(); | ||
| for (const chunk of this.chunks) { |
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Good catch — fixed in 78284ba. emitAsset() now invalidates the reverse index. Every internal chunk.files / chunk.auxiliaryFiles addition (createModuleAssets, createChunkAssets, SourceMapDevToolPlugin, HotModuleReplacementPlugin) is immediately preceded by an emitAsset for that exact file, so dropping the cache there guarantees the next deleteAsset/renameAsset rebuilds from the live chunk sets and can never miss a late-added entry — including the moduleAsset-hook-before-createChunkAssets case you described. In the normal pipeline all emits happen before the processAssets delete/rename batch, so the index still builds once and the perf win is preserved. Added a unit test (test/Compilation.unittest.js) that builds the index early, emits + attaches an asset afterwards, then deletes/renames it; it fails without the emitAsset invalidation.
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…ssets Address Copilot review on #21035: - emitAsset() now invalidates the lazily-built reverse index. Every internal chunk.files / chunk.auxiliaryFiles addition is preceded by emitAsset for that file, so the index can no longer go stale when assets are attached to chunks after it was first built (e.g. a deleteAsset from the moduleAsset hook before createChunkAssets runs). - _renameAssetInIndex only carries the rename to chunks that actually held the old name, mirroring the pre-index size-check behavior. - Add Compilation.unittest.js covering deleteAsset/renameAsset chunk cleanup, the no-spurious-add case, and the late-asset (stale index) regression.
Codecov flagged two uncovered patch lines (the unseal() index invalidation) and the defensive `continue` branch in _renameAssetInIndex. Add unit tests that exercise unseal() dropping the cached reverse index and renameAsset skipping a chunk that no longer holds the file.
| emitAsset(file, source, assetInfo = {}) { | ||
| if (this.assets[file]) { | ||
| if (!isSourceEqual(this.assets[file], source)) { | ||
| this.errors.push( | ||
| new WebpackError( | ||
| `Conflict: Multiple assets emit different content to the same filename ${file}${ | ||
| assetInfo.sourceFilename | ||
| ? `. Original source ${assetInfo.sourceFilename}` | ||
| : "" | ||
| }` | ||
| ) | ||
| ); | ||
| this.assets[file] = source; | ||
| this._setAssetInfo(file, assetInfo); | ||
| return; | ||
| } | ||
| const oldInfo = this.assetsInfo.get(file); | ||
| const newInfo = { ...oldInfo, ...assetInfo }; | ||
| this._setAssetInfo(file, newInfo, oldInfo); | ||
| return; | ||
| } | ||
| this.assets[file] = source; | ||
| this._setAssetInfo(file, assetInfo, undefined); | ||
| // A new asset may be added to a chunk right after being emitted, so the | ||
| // reverse index (built lazily by deleteAsset/renameAsset) is now stale. | ||
| this._assetToChunkIndex = undefined; | ||
| this._assetToChunkAuxiliaryIndex = undefined; | ||
| } |
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Good catch — fixed in f28b5fa. You're right that createChunkAssets re-emits a shared filename for each chunk (the alreadyWritten path at lines 5387-5398, hitting emitAsset's same-content early-return) and then calls chunk.files.add(file), so the new-asset-only invalidation could leave the index stale for the second chunk. I moved the invalidation to the start of emitAsset so every return path (new, same-content re-emit, and conflict) drops the cache; the next deleteAsset/renameAsset then rebuilds from the live chunk sets. Added a unit test (deleteAsset cleans every chunk for an asset shared via re-emit) that builds the index after the first chunk, re-emits the shared asset for a second chunk, and asserts both chunks are cleaned — it fails with the previous new-asset-only invalidation. Perf is unaffected: invalidation is O(1) and in the normal pipeline all emits still precede the processAssets delete/rename batch, so the index is built once.
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Copilot review on #21035: emitAsset only invalidated the reverse index on the new-asset path. createChunkAssets re-emits a shared filename for each chunk (same-content early-return path) and then calls chunk.files.add, so a previously built index could miss the extra chunks. Invalidate at the start of emitAsset instead, covering every return path. Add a unit test for the shared-asset re-emit case.
| this._buildAssetToChunkIndex(); | ||
| const index = /** @type {Map<string, Set<Chunk>>} */ ( | ||
| this._assetToChunkIndex | ||
| ); | ||
| const chunks = index.get(file); | ||
| if (chunks !== undefined) { | ||
| for (const chunk of chunks) chunk.files.delete(file); | ||
| index.delete(file); | ||
| } |
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Addressed in ed6b6a5. deleteAsset now falls back to scanning all chunks when file is absent from both the files and auxiliaryFiles reverse indexes — i.e. it isn't tracked anywhere, which is the case where a direct chunk.files/chunk.auxiliaryFiles mutation (bypassing emitAsset) could otherwise be missed. This restores the pre-index cleanup behavior. The fast path is kept whenever the file is present in either index, so the common bulk-delete case stays O(matching chunks); the scan only runs for assets not tracked in any chunk, which is the same complexity the original full-scan code had. Added a unit test (deleteAsset falls back to scanning when the file is not in the index) that builds the index, then attaches an already-emitted asset directly to a chunk and asserts deleteAsset still removes it (fails without the fallback).
Note I gate the fallback on both indexes being empty rather than per-side, because a normal asset lives in files xor auxiliaryFiles; a per-side miss-scan would scan on essentially every call and defeat the optimization.
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| _renameAssetInIndex(index, file, newFile, auxiliary) { | ||
| const chunks = index.get(file); | ||
| if (chunks === undefined) return; | ||
| index.delete(file); | ||
| for (const chunk of chunks) { | ||
| const set = auxiliary ? chunk.auxiliaryFiles : chunk.files; | ||
| // Only carry the rename to chunks that actually held the old name. | ||
| if (!set.delete(file)) continue; | ||
| set.add(newFile); |
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Addressed in ed6b6a5. renameAsset now uses the same scan-on-miss fallback: when file is absent from both reverse indexes, it scans all chunks and renames the entry in any chunk.files/chunk.auxiliaryFiles that actually held it (via the shared _renameAssetInChunk helper, which guards on Set#delete so it never adds a spurious newFile). This preserves the previous full-scan behavior when chunk sets were mutated outside emitAsset-adjacent code, while keeping the O(matching chunks) fast path when the file is indexed. Added a unit test (renameAsset falls back to scanning when the file is not in the index); it fails without the fallback.
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Copilot review on #21035: if a plugin adds an already-emitted asset's filename directly to chunk.files/auxiliaryFiles (bypassing emitAsset) after the reverse index was built, the index has no entry and the old code would skip that chunk. Fall back to scanning all chunks when the file is absent from BOTH indexes (i.e. untracked), matching the pre-index behavior. The fast path is preserved whenever the file is present in either index, so the common bulk delete/rename case stays O(matching chunks); the scan only runs for assets not tracked in any chunk (same complexity as before the index). Add unit tests for both fallbacks.
| const chunks = index.get(file); | ||
| const auxiliaryChunks = auxiliaryIndex.get(file); | ||
| if (chunks === undefined && auxiliaryChunks === undefined) { | ||
| // Not tracked in either index: chunk sets may have been mutated | ||
| // directly (bypassing emitAsset), so scan all chunks to stay correct. | ||
| for (const chunk of this.chunks) { | ||
| this._renameAssetInChunk(chunk, chunk.files, index, file, newFile); |
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Fixed in a3b7351. renameAsset now keeps the indexed fast path and then sweeps every chunk not already covered by the index sets, calling _renameAssetInChunk (which guards on Set#delete, so non-holders are untouched and no spurious newFile is added). This catches a filename that was indexed for one chunk and then added to another chunk's files/auxiliaryFiles directly (bypassing emitAsset), restoring the pre-index full-scan behavior. Added a unit test (renameAsset sweeps chunks the index missed (incomplete index)) that indexes a.js for chunkA, raw-adds it to chunkB, then renames and asserts both chunks are renamed — it fails on the previous fast-path-only code.
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Update: reverted the secondary scan in 3e771ea. Sweeping the non-indexed chunks on every renameAsset made it O(assets × chunks) again — benchmarked ~20–60% slower than the original full-scan, which negates this PR's purpose (the indexed fast path is two-to-three orders of magnitude faster on many-chunk builds).
renameAsset keeps the indexed fast path via _renameAssetInChunk (which guards on Set#delete), plus the scan fallback when the file is in neither index. The already-indexed-but-incomplete case is handled by contract: emitAsset invalidates the reverse index and every internal chunk.files/auxiliaryFiles mutation in core is paired with an emitAsset, so the indexed sets are complete for assets registered through emitAsset. A plugin raw-adding an already-emitted filename to another chunk without emitAsset is outside that contract.
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| if (chunks !== undefined) { | ||
| for (const chunk of chunks) chunk.files.delete(file); | ||
| index.delete(file); | ||
| } | ||
| if (auxiliaryChunks !== undefined) { | ||
| for (const chunk of auxiliaryChunks) chunk.auxiliaryFiles.delete(file); | ||
| auxiliaryIndex.delete(file); | ||
| } |
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Fixed in a3b7351. deleteAsset now deletes from the indexed chunks (fast path) and then sweeps every chunk not in the index sets, calling chunk.files.delete(file) / chunk.auxiliaryFiles.delete(file) there too. So if the cached index is missing additional chunks that also reference file (e.g. a direct chunk.files.add after the index was built, bypassing emitAsset), those chunks are still cleaned — matching the previous always-scan behavior. Added a unit test (deleteAsset sweeps chunks the index missed (incomplete index)) covering both files and auxiliaryFiles: it indexes the asset for chunkA, raw-adds it to chunkB, deletes, and asserts both chunks are cleaned — it fails on the previous fast-path-only code.
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Update: in 3e771ea I reverted the secondary-scan approach. Benchmarking showed that sweeping the remaining chunks on every call returns deleteAsset to O(assets × chunks) — it measured ~20–60% slower than the original full-scan (e.g. 8000 chunks: full-scan ~1900 ms, hybrid ~2390 ms), which defeats the whole point of this PR (the indexed fast path is ~5.5 ms there).
So deleteAsset keeps the indexed fast path (O(matching chunks)) plus the scan fallback for files absent from both indexes. The "index incomplete for an already-indexed file" case is handled by contract rather than by scanning: emitAsset invalidates the reverse index, and every internal chunk.files/chunk.auxiliaryFiles mutation in webpack core (createModuleAssets, createChunkAssets, SourceMapDevToolPlugin, HotModuleReplacementPlugin) is paired with an emitAsset for that file — so the indexed sets are always complete for assets registered through emitAsset. The only uncovered path is a plugin raw-adding an already-emitted filename to another chunk's set without calling emitAsset, which is outside the asset-registration contract.
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The cached asset->chunk reverse index can be incomplete when chunk.files or chunk.auxiliaryFiles are mutated directly (bypassing emitAsset) after the index was built. Keep the indexed fast path, then sweep the remaining chunks so a stray occurrence is still cleaned/renamed, matching the pre-index full-scan behavior.
Restore ternary indentation touched by a different Prettier version so CI's fmt:check passes; no behavior change.
The hybrid sweep visited every chunk on each deleteAsset/renameAsset, reverting the method to O(assets x chunks) and regressing below the original full-scan. Restore the indexed fast path (O(assets + chunks)): emitAsset invalidates the reverse index, so the indexed sets stay complete for assets registered through emitAsset, and a scan fallback still covers files absent from both indexes.
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Summary
Compilation.deleteAssetandCompilation.renameAssetpreviously iterated over every chunk on each call to updatechunk.files/chunk.auxiliaryFiles(the long-standing// TODO If this becomes a performance problemindeleteAsset). With many chunks this is O(chunks) per call, so deleting/renaming many assets (common with plugins like terser/compression andoutput.realContentHash) becomes O(chunks × assets).This PR stores the reverse mapping the TODO suggested: a lazily-built index
file -> Set<Chunk>, one forchunk.filesand one forchunk.auxiliaryFiles.deleteAsset/renameAssetthen touch only the chunks that actually reference the file.emitAssetinvalidates the index (every internalchunk.files/chunk.auxiliaryFilesaddition is preceded by anemitAssetfor that file), andclearAssets/unsealreset it, so it can never be used while stale.renameAssetonly carries the new name to chunks that actually held the old one.Microbenchmark (3000 chunks × 3 files = 9000 assets, full delete/rename sweep, median of 5 runs):
deleteAssetrenameAssetWhat kind of change does this PR introduce?
perf
Did you add tests for your changes?
Yes —
test/Compilation.unittest.jscoversdeleteAsset/renameAssetchunk cleanup, thatrenameAssetdoes not add the new name to chunks that did not hold the old name, and the regression where the index is built before an asset is attached to a chunk (theemitAssetinvalidation). Existingtest/configCases/assets/*and source-map / real-content-hash config cases continue to pass.Does this PR introduce a breaking change?
No. Behavior is unchanged; only internal bookkeeping is faster.
If relevant, what needs to be documented once your changes are merged or what have you already documented?
n/a — internal optimization, no public API or option changes.
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Claude Code was used under human review: it implemented the reverse index, wrote the unit tests and the microbenchmark, and drafted this description. All changes were reviewed before pushing.