diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5fef759efb85..5663a7df1809 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+- Avoid an extra tracing collection when destroying Workers while preserving native-resource finalizers and the mandatory final heap sweep.
+
 - Release each Worker thread's event-name cache after VM teardown, preventing native memory growth during repeated Worker creation. Ports [oven-sh/bun#38164](https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/38164); thanks @robobun!
 
 - Release process stdio polling registrations between isolated test files so Linux parallel test runs can initialize stdout and stderr in each file. Adapts oven-sh/bun#38008 to the fork's borrowed stdio descriptors.
diff --git a/docs/runtime/nodejs-compat.mdx b/docs/runtime/nodejs-compat.mdx
index 5da618c79ea5..d5cfc5d363ad 100644
--- a/docs/runtime/nodejs-compat.mdx
+++ b/docs/runtime/nodejs-compat.mdx
@@ -326,6 +326,8 @@ Worker shutdown releases the thread's native event-name cache after destroying i
 
 Immediate engine GC timers wake idle workers when scheduled. These native wakeups do not keep a worker alive.
 
+Worker teardown avoids an extra full collection before final heap destruction. Native cleanup hooks and registered finalizers still run before the exit is acknowledged.
+
 Budgeted workers can use young-generation collections within their managed heap budgets; full collections still confirm heap-limit exhaustion. Synchronous GC wakes a passive collector even while another heap occupies the shared helpers.
 
 File workers select `--require` and `--import` preloads from their environment independently of `execArgv`. Explicit `env` or `execArgv` options re-read the worker's `NODE_OPTIONS` and `BUN_OPTIONS` before applying the selected CLI arguments. `execArgv: []` removes CLI preloads while environment preloads still apply. Require preloads run before import preloads.
diff --git a/src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.cpp b/src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.cpp
index 2e6aefc3c124..f870d63060e8 100644
--- a/src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.cpp
+++ b/src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.cpp
@@ -4777,7 +4777,6 @@ extern "C" void Bun__GlobalObject__clearExceptionsForExit(Zig::GlobalObject* glo
 
 static void destroyVM(JSC::VM& vm)
 {
-    vm.heap.collectNow(JSC::Sync, JSC::CollectionScope::Full);
     // Every JSLockHolder still on the native stack (process.exit() from inside a JS callback,
     // the worker thread's manual API lock) holds a RefPtr<VM> that will never destruct because
     // this path does not return through them; release on their behalf so ~VM — and with it
@@ -4835,6 +4834,7 @@ extern "C" void Zig__GlobalObject__destructOnExit(Zig::GlobalObject* globalObjec
     gcUnprotect(globalObject);
     globalObject = nullptr;
 
+    vm.heap.collectNow(JSC::Sync, JSC::CollectionScope::Full);
     destroyVM(vm);
     runLoop->threadWillExit();
     // `context` is released here, after ~VM: contextDestroyed() reaches observers at a defined
diff --git a/test/js/node/worker_threads/worker_destruction.test.ts b/test/js/node/worker_threads/worker_destruction.test.ts
index 3a54646ace91..faa7193aadca 100644
--- a/test/js/node/worker_threads/worker_destruction.test.ts
+++ b/test/js/node/worker_threads/worker_destruction.test.ts
@@ -70,4 +70,53 @@ describe("Worker destruction", () => {
     expect(stdout).toBe("worker exit 0\n");
     expect(exitCode).toBe(0);
   });
+
+  test.each(["terminate", "worker-exit"])("%s uses the final heap sweep without another tracing GC", async mode => {
+    await using proc = Bun.spawn({
+      cmd: [
+        bunExe(),
+        "-e",
+        `
+        const { Worker } = require("node:worker_threads");
+        const { writeSync } = require("node:fs");
+        (async () => {
+          const worker = new Worker(\`
+            const { parentPort } = require("node:worker_threads");
+            parentPort.on("message", () => process.exit(0));
+            Bun.gc(true);
+            parentPort.postMessage("ready");
+          \`, { eval: true });
+          const exited = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+            worker.once("exit", resolve);
+            worker.once("error", reject);
+          });
+          await Promise.race([
+            new Promise(resolve => worker.once("message", resolve)),
+            exited.then(code => { throw new Error("early exit " + code); }),
+          ]);
+          writeSync(2, "\\nWORKER_TEARDOWN_BEGIN\\n");
+          const code = ${JSON.stringify(mode)} === "terminate"
+            ? await worker.terminate()
+            : (worker.postMessage("exit"), await exited);
+          writeSync(2, "\\nWORKER_TEARDOWN_END\\n");
+          console.log(code);
+        })().catch(error => { console.error(error); process.exitCode = 1; });
+        `,
+      ],
+      env: { ...bunEnv, BUN_JSC_logGC: "1", BUN_JSC_useConcurrentGC: "false" },
+      stdout: "pipe",
+      stderr: "pipe",
+    });
+    const [stdout, stderr, exitCode] = await Promise.all([proc.stdout.text(), proc.stderr.text(), proc.exited]);
+    expect(exitCode).toBe(0);
+    expect(stdout.trim()).toBe(mode === "terminate" ? "1" : "0");
+    const parts = stderr.split("WORKER_TEARDOWN_BEGIN\n");
+    expect(parts).toHaveLength(2);
+    const teardown = parts[1].split("WORKER_TEARDOWN_END\n");
+    expect(teardown).toHaveLength(2);
+    const shutdowns = [...teardown[0].matchAll(/\[GC<([^>]+)>: shutdown [^\]]*ms\]/g)];
+    expect(shutdowns).toHaveLength(1);
+    const collections = [...teardown[0].matchAll(/\[GC<([^>]+)>: START [^\n]*=> FullCollection/g)];
+    expect(collections.filter(match => match[1] === shutdowns[0][1])).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
 });