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Perf win of the day: Claude Code CLI now uses 2x less CPU at p99.

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Perf win of the day: Claude Code CLI now uses 2x less CPU at p99. Bun's garbage collector was running on a fixed timer, so it would kick in mid-turn and steal CPU right when Claude Code was busiest. Now it waits until the process is idle.

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Why it matters

Anyone running Claude Code in CI or on constrained machines gets the win by updating, and the timer-versus-idle GC diagnosis generalizes to other Bun-hosted runtimes.

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