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Autoresearch: syncer benchmark execution overhead
Objective
Optimize the rewrite branch's end-to-end sync execution overhead as measured by the in-process internal/syncer benchmarks. The target workload is the trio of execution-path benchmarks that exercise bootstrap relay, incremental relay, and materialized fallback. We care about lowering aggregate benchmark time without breaking behavior or widening the product surface.
Metrics
- Primary:
total_ms(ms, lower is better) — median of repeated benchmark runs, summing the threeinternal/syncerbenchmarkns/opvalues and converting to milliseconds - Secondary:
bootstrap_ms,incremental_ms,materialized_ms,bootstrap_alloc_b,incremental_alloc_b,materialized_alloc_b,go_test_elapsed_s— to detect path-specific regressions and allocation tradeoffs
How to Run
./autoresearch.sh — outputs structured METRIC name=value lines.
Files in Scope
internal/syncer/— top-level orchestration on the hot benchmarked pathinternal/strategy/bootstrap/— bootstrap relay path used by benchmark coverageinternal/strategy/incremental/— incremental relay path used by benchmark coverageinternal/strategy/materialized/— fallback path if shared orchestration changes affect itinternal/gitproto/— fetch/push helpers and pack wrappers used by the strategiesinternal/planner/— planning helpers if they materially affect sync benchmarksinternal/convert/— conversion helpers on the execution pathcmd/git-sync-bench/— instrumentation only if needed for diagnosis
Off Limits
- Public CLI behavior and JSON output contracts unless strictly performance-neutral
- New third-party dependencies
- Unrelated rewrite cleanup not justified by benchmark wins
- Default branch comparison work; this session targets the rewrite branch only
Constraints
- Keep user-visible behavior intact
- Prefer simpler code when benchmark results are equal
- Run
go test ./...manually before keeping non-trivial changes; the autoresearch checks hook appears unreliable in this repo and was timing out despite fast local completion - Benchmark noise is expected; confirm marginal wins before keeping them
What's Been Tried
- Two initial baseline attempts produced valid benchmark metrics but
autoresearch.checks.shtimed out underrun_experimenteven thoughgo test ./...completed quickly when run directly. Treat the hook as unreliable here and run tests manually before keeping meaningful code changes. - Initial code reading suggests avoidable map/slice conversion churn on the relay paths (
planner.DesiredSubset->convert.DesiredRefs->gitproto.ToPushCommands) may be one of the few low-risk hot-path opportunities worth testing first. - The benchmarked execution paths are already fairly small, so broad architectural rewrites are less likely to pay off than removing repeated tiny allocations or duplicated work on the strategy path.
# Autoresearch script for running benchmarks
#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
# Fast pre-check: compile the benchmarked package before spending time running benches.
go test -run '^$' ./internal/syncer >/dev/null
runs=5
pattern='BenchmarkRun(BootstrapEmptyTarget|IncrementalRelay|MaterializedFallback)$'
parse_metrics() {
awk '
function sort_num(a, n, i, j, tmp) {
for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
for (j = i + 1; j <= n; j++) {
if (a[j] < a[i]) {
tmp = a[i]
a[i] = a[j]
a[j] = tmp
}
}
}
}
function median(a, n, mid) {
sort_num(a, n)
mid = int((n + 1) / 2)
if (n % 2 == 1) return a[mid]
return (a[mid] + a[mid + 1]) / 2
}
/BenchmarkRunBootstrapEmptyTarget-[0-9]+/ {
bootstrap_ns = $3 + 0
bootstrap_alloc_b = $5 + 0
}
/BenchmarkRunIncrementalRelay-[0-9]+/ {
incremental_ns = $3 + 0
incremental_alloc_b = $5 + 0
}
/BenchmarkRunMaterializedFallback-[0-9]+/ {
materialized_ns = $3 + 0
materialized_alloc_b = $5 + 0
}
/^ok[[:space:]]+github.com\/soph\/git-sync\/internal\/syncer[[:space:]]+[0-9.]+s$/ {
if (bootstrap_ns > 0 && incremental_ns > 0 && materialized_ns > 0) {
run_count++
total_ns[run_count] = bootstrap_ns + incremental_ns + materialized_ns
wall_s[run_count] = substr($3, 1, length($3) - 1) + 0
run_bootstrap_ns[run_count] = bootstrap_ns
run_incremental_ns[run_count] = incremental_ns
run_materialized_ns[run_count] = materialized_ns
run_bootstrap_alloc_b[run_count] = bootstrap_alloc_b
run_incremental_alloc_b[run_count] = incremental_alloc_b
run_materialized_alloc_b[run_count] = materialized_alloc_b
}
bootstrap_ns = incremental_ns = materialized_ns = 0
bootstrap_alloc_b = incremental_alloc_b = materialized_alloc_b = 0
}
END {
if (run_count == 0) {
print "failed_to_parse=1" > "/dev/stderr"
exit 2
}
median_total_ns = median(total_ns, run_count)
for (i = 1; i <= run_count; i++) {
if (total_ns[i] == median_total_ns) {
median_idx = i
break
}
}
if (median_idx == 0) median_idx = int((run_count + 1) / 2)
printf "total_ms=%.3f\n", median_total_ns / 1000000
printf "bootstrap_ms=%.3f\n", run_bootstrap_ns[median_idx] / 1000000
printf "incremental_ms=%.3f\n", run_incremental_ns[median_idx] / 1000000
printf "materialized_ms=%.3f\n", run_materialized_ns[median_idx] / 1000000
printf "bootstrap_alloc_b=%d\n", run_bootstrap_alloc_b[median_idx]
printf "incremental_alloc_b=%d\n", run_incremental_alloc_b[median_idx]
printf "materialized_alloc_b=%d\n", run_materialized_alloc_b[median_idx]
printf "go_test_elapsed_s=%.3f\n", median(wall_s, run_count)
}
' "$1"
}
tmp=$(mktemp)
trap 'rm -f "$tmp"' EXIT
for _ in $(seq 1 "$runs"); do
go test -run '^$' -bench "$pattern" -benchmem ./internal/syncer >>"$tmp"
done
metrics=$(parse_metrics "$tmp")
while IFS= read -r line; do
key=${line%%=*}
value=${line#*=}
printf 'METRIC %s=%s\n' "$key" "$value"
done <<< "$metrics"
Batch-planning sensitivity experiment for #14:
env GOCACHE=/tmp/go-build GITSYNC_E2E_GIT_HTTP_BACKEND=1 go test ./internal/syncer -run TestBootstrap_GitHTTPBackendBatchedPlanningTracksBatchLimit -v
That test uses a real git-http-backend source/target pair and checks that a smaller --batch-max-pack-bytes planning limit produces at least as many planned checkpoints as a larger one, while still planning to the branch tip.
Live Linux Smokes
Optional live Linux bootstrap smoke: