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Summary

terser's collapse keeps the state of its scan in function-scoped vars that its inner functions share across candidates. Ported as is, collapseFrom built those 25 closures, its two transformers, a walker for each candidate's left values and a transformer for each fold on every call: 37,201 calls per minify of typescript.js, the largest allocation site of the compressor at 86 MB.

The state now lives in a CollapseState, one per nesting depth (optimizing a value the fold moves can tighten a body of its own), and every helper is a module-level function handed it. The two scanners, the left-value walker, the remover and the left-value map are built once per state and reused; a run allocates only the candidate paths it finds.

This is the first of the per-call allocation sites named in the plan (collapseFrom, inlineIntoCall, tightenBody); each goes in its own PR.

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Measure main This PR
Allocated, one minify of typescript.js (V8 heap sampling) 1,452 MB 1,338 MB (−7.9%)
Allocated, one minify of lodash.js 52.7 MB 49.0 MB (−7.0%)
CPU, lodash passes:2 (callgrind, CodSpeed flags, warm) 8,009.2 M 8,028.1 M (+0.2%)
CPU, lodash passes:2 (callgrind, CodSpeed flags, cold) 8,608.2 M 8,599.6 M (−0.1%)

Output is byte-identical to main: lodash, acorn and typescript.js under three option sets (default, passes:2 + toplevel + unsafe, unused: "keep_assign"), and the terser, swc and oxc corpora (467,874 comparisons, 0 mismatches).

What kind of change does this PR introduce?

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Output does not change, and the corpora cover every helper moved. Seven compress cases are added to the unit tests, held to terser's output, for the paths the unit and integration suites did not reach before: a variable copying another replaced at every read, a scan into a switch, an immediately invoked function's rest parameter and this argument, a scan stopping in a conditional branch, and an assignment read once in each place the scan may stop.

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No.

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The collapse pass now uses per-nesting-depth CollapseState instances. State-based helpers handle candidate extraction, scanning, replacement, and removal. tightenBody passes scope and control-flow context to collapse and repeats statement optimizations for up to 10 passes.

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Collapse state and pass integration
lib/javascript/syntax-printer.js
collapse initializes and releases per-nesting-depth state, processes candidates, and reports whether it changed statements. tightenBody passes its scope and control-flow context to collapse.
Candidate extraction and scanning
lib/javascript/syntax-printer.js
State-based helpers extract candidates, select scan boundaries, scan for eligible reads, and replace matching symbol reads.
Candidate validation and removal
lib/javascript/syntax-printer.js, test/unitCases/syntax-printer.unittest.js
Helpers analyze reads, modifications, side effects, and shadowing before candidate changes. Reusable transformers remove candidates while preserving required expression behavior. Six compressor comparison cases cover variable copies, switches, IIFEs, conditional branches, and single-read assignments.

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terser's `collapse` keeps its scan in function-scoped `var`s that its
closures share across candidates, and `collapseFrom` built those 25
closures, two transformers, a walker per candidate and a transformer
per fold on every call: 37,201 calls and 86 MB per minify of
typescript.js. The state now lives in a `CollapseState` held per
nesting depth, the helpers are module-level functions handed it, and
the scanners, the left-value walker, the remover and the left-value
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