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Preserve the realm of the promise returned by importModuleDynamically in vm:SourceTextModule #53575

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@lachrist

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What is the problem this feature will solve?

Dynamic imports in modules created by the vm:SourceTextModule currently return a promise created by the intrinsic Promise of the main realm and not the realm of the module. This can be a problem in practice because realms are commonly used to achieve test case isolation at a cheap performance cost. And these test cases might somehow rely on the identity of the constructor of promises returned by dynamic imports -- eg: https://github.com/tc39/test262/blob/c47b716e8d6bea0c4510d449fd22b7ed5f8b0151/test/language/expressions/dynamic-import/returns-promise.js

What is the feature you are proposing to solve the problem?

The problem comes from importModuleDynamicallyWrap which returns an async function:

function importModuleDynamicallyWrap(importModuleDynamically) {

If we want preserve the promise constructor provided by the user-defined importModuleDynamically , it should use explicit then chaining. NB: I'm not sure there is no other async jump downstream that could cause the same issue.

What alternatives have you considered?

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