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Summary

Several constant-factor wins on per-module / per-dependency / per-export hot paths used by harmony and commonjs code generation, all output-identical (no change to emitted bundles):

  • processExportInfo: allocate the alreadyVisited Set lazily (only when recursing) instead of via a default arg on every call, and drop the redundant add/delete on the terminal path.
  • util/chainedImports trimIdsToThoseImported: drop the eager empty array that was always discarded.
  • HarmonyExportInitFragment.getContent: skip the entries spread + sort when there are no exports, and skip sorting a single entry.
  • HarmonyImportDependencyParserPlugin: share one (never-mutated) empty idRanges array for plain specifier references instead of allocating per dependency.
  • Template.toComment/toNormalComment: skip the comment-terminator regex replace when the string contains no */.
  • util/property propertyAccess: only run the Number() round-trip for properties whose first char can start a canonical number/NaN/Infinity, avoiding a Number() call and string allocation for ordinary identifiers.
  • ExportInfo.getUsedName: replace [...runtime].every(...) with a short-circuiting loop to avoid allocating an array from the runtime set per export.

Micro-benchmarks of the affected functions show ~1.25x–10x speedups on their common paths; aggregate build-time impact is within run-to-run noise but allocation/GC pressure is reduced.

What kind of change does this PR introduce?

perf

Did you add tests for your changes?

No new tests — these are behavior-preserving optimizations with byte-identical output, covered by the existing StatsTestCases snapshots and TestCases/ConfigTestCases (verified passing, incl. tree-shaking, mangle, runtime, concatenation, split-chunks). propertyAccess and the comment helpers were additionally diffed against the previous implementations over edge cases.

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

Use of AI

AI (Claude) was used to survey the dependency/codegen hot paths, propose candidate optimizations, and draft the changes; every change was human-reviewed and verified for output-equivalence against existing tests and direct old-vs-new comparisons before inclusion.


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- processExportInfo: allocate the visited Set lazily (only on recursion)
  instead of on every call via a default parameter, and drop the redundant
  add/delete on the terminal path.
- chainedImports trimIdsToThoseImported: avoid the eager empty-array that
  was always discarded.
- HarmonyExportInitFragment.getContent: skip the entries spread + sort when
  there are no exports, and skip sorting a single entry.
- HarmonyImportDependencyParserPlugin: share one empty idRanges array for
  plain specifier references instead of allocating per dependency.
- Template.toComment/toNormalComment: skip the COMMENT_END regex replace
  when the string contains no occurrence of the comment terminator.
- util/property propertyAccess: only run the Number() round-trip for
  properties whose first char can start a canonical number/NaN/Infinity,
  avoiding a Number() call and string allocation for ordinary identifiers.
- ExportInfo.getUsedName: replace the spread+every() over the runtime set
  with a short-circuiting loop to avoid an array allocation per export.
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Merging this PR will degrade performance by 61.87%

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❌ 4 regressed benchmarks
✅ 104 untouched benchmarks
⏩ 36 skipped benchmarks1

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Performance Changes

Mode Benchmark BASE HEAD Efficiency
Memory benchmark "lodash", scenario '{"name":"mode-development-rebuild","mode":"development","watch":true}' 126.1 KB 859.4 KB -85.33%
Memory benchmark "asset-modules-inline", scenario '{"name":"mode-development-rebuild","mode":"development","watch":true}' 317.3 KB 1,299.8 KB -75.59%
Memory benchmark "css-modules", scenario '{"name":"mode-production","mode":"production"}' 7.2 MB 9.4 MB -23.24%
Memory benchmark "asset-modules-bytes", scenario '{"name":"mode-development-rebuild","mode":"development","watch":true}' 247.2 KB 321.6 KB -23.13%

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