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perf(javascript): print a simple function's call as its value in the one pass - #22956
Stacked on #22949. This is a step toward the one-pass minifier (modules.onePass) replacing the object compressor. It adds terser's inline of simple functions. A function whose body only returns an expression prints as that expression where it is called once, if the call passes nothing, or, for each parameter, a name that is never written. The function can be written in place or moved to its single read.
Yes: three rows in the one-pass case table in test/unitCases/javascript/printer.unittest.js, covering the reduced shapes and those that stay calls (a written argument, a nested function, this, a self-reference, async, extra arguments, ?.).
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JavaScript minification can simplify eligible function calls by emitting the returned expression with matching argument names. This applies to supported synchronous functions with a single returned value and matching arguments. Calls involving comments or reference-sensitive values such as this, arguments, or eval are not simplified. Output retains any syntax needed to preserve behavior.
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The one-pass JavaScript printer identifies eligible calls to synchronous functions and arrows. It prints their returned expressions in place of the calls and substitutes parameter names with argument identifiers. Unit tests and a patch changeset cover the updated output.
Changes: One-pass function-call reduction
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Identify and record reducible calls lib/javascript/syntax-printer.js
The printer checks function and argument eligibility, tracks parameter substitutions and moved reads, and records qualifying calls during dropped-code analysis.
Print reduced expressions and validate output lib/javascript/syntax-printer.js, test/unitCases/javascript/printer.unittest.js, .changeset/069-one-pass-inline-calls.md
The printer emits recorded return expressions in place of eligible calls. Tests cover returned values, effects, eval, this, arguments, comments, and a closure case involving this. The changeset records a patch release.
Possibly related PRs
webpack/webpack#22958: Updates the same one-pass analysis for parameter writes observable through arguments.
webpack/webpack#22949: Adds shared side-effect analysis and expands the one-pass compressor used by this change.
webpack/webpack#22928: Introduces the one-pass tree printer and moved-function records extended here.
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Change: Feature
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 12103
The one-pass minifier can change program behavior or emit invalid JavaScript in the identified cases. Fix those paths before merging.
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- Line 5: Shorten the changeset description “Fold conditionals, returns and
values further in the one-pass JavaScript minifier.” to a capitalized imperative
sentence of no more than 80 characters, ending with a period, while preserving
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Review comments at @.changeset/069-one-pass-inline-calls.md:
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Review comments at @lib/javascript/side-effects.js:
- Around line 552-558: Update the conversion check in the side-effect analysis
to run for every operator except strict equality (`===` and `!==`), rather than
excluding all operators in `RELATION_OPERATORS`. Keep the `pureConversions`
guard and `binaryConverts` call intact, and update the `binaryConverts` JSDoc to
describe its strict-equality exclusion.
Review comments at @lib/javascript/syntax-printer.js:
- Around line 65420-65435: Update the double-negation fold guarded by
readsTruth(node) to skip folding when argument’s own argument is also a unary
“!” expression, allowing the innermost fold to run without producing invalid
empty output. Add if(!!!x) to the one-pass printer cases.
- Around line 63383-63398: Update noteWrite to exclude writes to function
parameters aliased through arguments when the function uses arguments, so a pure
assignment is not removed if doing so would change arguments values. Keep the
existing isMinifierVariable and isUnusedBinding behavior, including configured
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For if (!!!x), the inner fold can reduce !!x to x. The outer fold then removes the first character from x and prints an empty expression, producing invalid output such as if().
Skip a fold when its inner ! also has a ! argument. The innermost fold can then run without producing empty output.
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Update the double-negation fold guarded by readsTruth(node) to skip folding when
argument’s own argument is also a unary “!” expression, allowing the innermost
fold to run without producing invalid empty output. Add if(!!!x) to the one-pass
printer cases.
Minor · Shorten the changeset description. · 068-one-pass-minify-folding.md:5
This sentence exceeds the 80-character limit. Shorten it before the text enters the changelog. As per path instructions, a changeset needs a “single imperative sentence <= 80 chars, capitalized, trailing period.”
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Shorten the changeset description “Fold conditionals, returns and values further
in the one-pass JavaScript minifier.” to a capitalized imperative sentence of no
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Minor · Run the conversion check for every operator except === and !==. · side-effects.js:552-558
Run the conversion check for every operator except === and !==.
!RELATION_OPERATORS.has(operator) skips binaryConverts for ==, !=, <, >, <= and >=. All six operators apply ToPrimitive to an object operand. That call runs valueOf or toString. A symbol operand of < throws a TypeError. Arithmetic operators already get this check. For ({ valueOf() { log(); } }) - 1, convertedKind returns undefined, so the expression keeps its side effect. For ({ valueOf() { log(); } }) < 1, the method value is inert and the conversion check is skipped. hasSideEffects therefore returns false, and the printer (pureConversions !== true) can remove a statement that runs user code. This conflicts with the documented contract: "call, write, throw or run a getter". Only === and !== compare without conversion. binaryConverts already returns false when both operands convert to a number or a string, so known primitive comparisons stay pure. JavascriptParser sets pureConversions: true, so the parser is not affected.
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Update the conversion check in the side-effect analysis to run for every
operator except strict equality (`===` and `!==`), rather than excluding all
operators in `RELATION_OPERATORS`. Keep the `pureConversions` guard and
`binaryConverts` call intact, and update the `binaryConverts` JSDoc to describe
its strict-equality exclusion.
Minor · Protect parameter writes aliased by arguments. · syntax-printer.js:63383-63398
In a sloppy function that reads arguments, a = 1 can be removed when its right side is pure. The assignment counts as the dropped read, but the noteWrite path does not check the parameter’s arguments alias. Removing it changes arguments[0].
The existing isUnusedBinding checks already reject undeclared names and preserve the configured dropsToplevel behavior for globals. Do not add an unconditional global guard.
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Update noteWrite to exclude writes to function parameters aliased through
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if doing so would change arguments values. Keep the existing isMinifierVariable
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sentence of no more than 80 characters, ending with a period, while preserving
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Review comments at @lib/javascript/side-effects.js:
- Around line 552-558: Update the conversion check in the side-effect analysis
to run for every operator except strict equality (`===` and `!==`), rather than
excluding all operators in `RELATION_OPERATORS`. Keep the `pureConversions`
guard and `binaryConverts` call intact, and update the `binaryConverts` JSDoc to
describe its strict-equality exclusion.
Review comments at @lib/javascript/syntax-printer.js:
- Around line 63383-63398: Update noteWrite to exclude writes to function
parameters aliased through arguments when the function uses arguments, so a pure
assignment is not removed if doing so would change arguments values. Keep the
existing isMinifierVariable and isUnusedBinding behavior, including configured
top-level global handling; do not add an unconditional global guard.
- Around line 65420-65435: Update the double-negation fold guarded by
readsTruth(node) to skip folding when argument’s own argument is also a unary
“!” expression, allowing the innermost fold to run without producing invalid
empty output. Add if(!!!x) to the one-pass printer cases.
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Review comments at @lib/javascript/syntax-printer.js:
- Around line 63336-63340: Update the substitution handling near
`substituted.set` so reduced values are preserved when printing shorthand
properties: emit both the explicit key and the substituted value, or exclude
shorthand properties from reduction. Ensure `printKeyValue` does not omit a
value recorded by `noteReduced`.
- Around line 63349-63352: Update passesNothing so calls with comments anywhere
in their arguments are not treated as empty; use the existing comment-detection
mechanism or preserve those comments in the reduced-call output so interior
argument comments remain printed.
- Around line 63278-63285: Update the reduction analysis containing this
`findNode` callback to detect direct `eval` calls anywhere in the return
expression and exclude those functions from reduction, preserving the original
function’s `arguments` scope.
- Around line 63262-63264: Update the reduction guard using isFixedName for
param and argument so it does not discard evaluation of an argument that may
throw when the parameter is unused. Reject the reduction when the argument may
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- Around line 65216-65224: Update the callee-reduction logic around the NodeType
checks so a reduced call preserves reference semantics when its result is
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Apply reference conversion to moved-function reductions.
A moved const f = () => obj.method can reduce f() to obj.method. For f()(), the current identity check skips readsReference, so the output can become obj.method(). This binds this to obj, but the original returned-function call is unbound. Emit (0,obj.method)() instead.
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Review comment at @lib/javascript/syntax-printer.js around lines 65256 - 65270:
Update the reduced-call handling around `reducedCalls` so `readsReference(value,
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Preserve the reference-conversion output path so a reduced member expression
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System calls cannot be simulated consistently and are left out of the measure. The reported value understates the real cost. Switch to the Walltime instrument to measure them.
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Review comments at @lib/javascript/syntax-printer.js:
- Around line 65242-65248: Update reducedParens for NodeType.VariableDeclarator
so it detects when the declarator is in a ForStatement initializer and its value
contains an `in` expression, returning true to preserve required parentheses.
Leave the existing behavior for other declarator contexts unchanged.
- Around line 64246-64247: Update the callReads entries and the reducedValue
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Summary
Stacked on #22949. This is a step toward the one-pass minifier (
modules.onePass) replacing the object compressor. It adds terser'sinlineof simple functions. A function whose body only returns an expression prints as that expression where it is called once, if the call passes nothing, or, for each parameter, a name that is never written. The function can be written in place or moved to its single read.What kind of change does this PR introduce?
perf
Did you add tests for your changes?
Yes: three rows in the one-pass case table in
test/unitCases/javascript/printer.unittest.js, covering the reduced shapes and those that stay calls (a written argument, a nested function,this, a self-reference,async, extra arguments,?.).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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this,arguments, orevalare not simplified. Output retains any syntax needed to preserve behavior.