Beejs v1.16.0

v1.16.0 is a runtime release, not a marketing reset. The binary is still bee. The capability map is still Current Scope. Node.js Conformance 5.0 is still 55/55.

What changed:

Wasm Engine 2.0

WebAssembly.Memory and V8 ArrayBuffer can share a backing store (new_backing_store_from_ptr). Large modules can be mmap'd. require('bee:wasm') exposes host pointers. This is Preview. V8 still compiles Wasm; Beejs does not ship a custom JIT.

bee bundle and bee compile

Both Preview.

• bee bundle walks static local imports with oxc, wraps modules in __beejs_require__, optional minify.
• bee compile copies the host bee binary and appends a payload plus a BEE_STANDALONE trailer.

Neither is webpack, esbuild, or pkg.

URL / fetch / ReadableStream

The previous JS wrappers were the bottleneck. v1.16.0 puts URL parsing, HTTP/1.1 keep-alive GET, and the ReadableStream queue on a JIT-friendly path.

On Apple M2 Max, 2026-09-16, vs Node v22.22.3:

Workload	Beejs	Node
URL + URLSearchParams (20k)	7.28 ms	12.54 ms
fetch 100 sequential GETs	6.51 ms	17.00 ms
ReadableStream 5k chunks	0.92 ms	1.16 ms

Bun still wins several microbenches and cold start. Numbers live in benchmarks/.

What did not change

Beejs is not a Node.js clone. Coverage is per-API. Package management, N-API, and several CLI extras stay Experimental.

Install:

curl -fsSL https://bee.zhanghe.dev/install.sh | BEEJS_VERSION=v1.16.0 sh