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Summary

  • Timeout detection: BenchResult now tracks a timed_out flag. Agents hitting the 120s timeout show TIMEOUT instead of misleading "0 lines/sec". Timed-out agents are excluded from speed comparisons.
  • Runs column clarity: Durations show units (4203ms not 4203) and timeout markers (120027ms(TIMEOUT)).
  • Binary caching: Build job caches release binaries keyed on Cargo.lock + source hash. Repeated bench runs on the same commit skip the ~5 min build entirely.

Before/After

Before (issue #322):

| otelcol | binary | 120027ms | 1ms | 0 lines/sec | 120027|120028|120027 |
> filebeat is 1.2x faster than otelcol

After:

| otelcol | binary | **TIMEOUT** (120027ms) | 1ms | 0 lines (timed out) | 120027ms(TIMEOUT) | 120028ms(TIMEOUT) | 120027ms(TIMEOUT) |

(otelcol excluded from comparisons entirely)

Test plan

  • cargo clippy -p logfwd-competitive-bench clean
  • cargo fmt clean
  • CI passes
  • Trigger bench workflow to verify output format

Fixes #322

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strawgate and others added 2 commits March 30, 2026 23:12
New structural.rs module implementing the simdjson two-stage pattern:
- Stage 1 (SIMD): find_structural_chars_scalar detects 10 chars
- Stage 2 (scalar): StreamingClassifier processes bitmasks per-block

Key types:
- RawBlockMasks: 10 u64 bitmasks from SIMD detection (stack-local)
- ProcessedBlock: escape-aware, string-masked bitmasks
- StreamingClassifier: carries only 2 u64s between blocks

Includes 6 unit tests (string masking, escapes, cross-block carry,
tail blocks) and 5 Kani proof harnesses (correctness, consistency,
no-panic, tail masking, string exclusion).

Makes compute_real_quotes and prefix_xor pub in chunk_classify.rs
for reuse. ChunkIndex is preserved — migration happens in next step.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add NEON, AVX2, and SSE2 backends for find_structural_chars(),
detecting all 10 structural characters in one SIMD pass. Each
backend loads 64 bytes once, then runs 10 comparisons against
the loaded data — same pattern as existing chunk_classify.rs
but extended from 2 to 10 characters.

New tests:
- simd_matches_scalar: 6 representative inputs verified identical
- simd_matches_scalar_random: 100 pseudo-random blocks verified
- end_to_end_ndjson_line_extraction: full buffer → line ranges
- end_to_end_structural_field_counting: comma/colon counting
  with string-interior masking (comma in "hello, world" masked)

10 tests total, all passing. Clippy clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This PR introduces timeout tracking to the competitive benchmarking runner and refactors JSON/NDJSON structural character detection into a new public module. The BenchResult struct gains a timed_out field to track whether blackhole polling exited due to timeout versus completion. The wait_blackhole_done helper is updated to return a tuple indicating which condition triggered. Separately, the compute_real_quotes and prefix_xor functions are exposed as public from chunk_classify.rs to support a new structural module that provides streaming structural character classification with compile-time SIMD dispatch (NEON on aarch64, AVX2 on x86_64, scalar fallback), complete with Kani verification proofs and unit tests covering string escaping, cross-block carry, and masking behavior.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check ❓ Inconclusive The PR includes the new streaming structural character detection module (structural.rs with SIMD backends), which is not mentioned in issue #322 objectives but is referenced in the PR description as part of the branch's prototype work. Clarify whether the streaming structural module is in-scope for this PR or should be separated into a distinct feature branch. If in-scope, update issue #322 objectives accordingly.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR addresses all primary objectives from issue #322: timeout detection (timed_out field), excluding timeouts from comparisons, and displaying run durations with units and timeout markers.

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The error-path BenchResult in main.rs was missing the new timed_out
field. Revert bench.yml caching — Swatinem/rust-cache already
handles incremental compilation, the extra actions/cache layer
was marginal complexity for little gain.

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Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.

Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/bench.yml:
- Around line 50-55: The cache key for the "Check binary cache" step (id:
bin-cache, uses: actions/cache@v4) misses build-affecting inputs; update its key
to include .cargo/config.toml, the root Cargo.toml, rust-toolchain.toml (if
present), and the RUSTFLAGS value, and make the source glob match nested
workspace members (e.g., use crates/**/src/**). Also add a stable version prefix
(e.g., v1-) so you can manually bust the cache; ensure the key expression hashes
those files and the RUSTFLAGS env var so changes to any of them invalidate the
cache.

In `@crates/logfwd-competitive-bench/src/runner.rs`:
- Around line 598-599: The new wait_blackhole_done signature returns a (u64,
bool) but callers in run_agent_perf and run_agent_dhat still ignore the boolean;
update the call sites to explicitly destructure both return values (e.g., let
(_lines_done, _timed_out) = wait_blackhole_done(...)) so the timeout flag is
clearly discarded; locate and change the calls inside functions run_agent_perf
and run_agent_dhat where wait_blackhole_done(...) is invoked to use tuple
destructuring for clarity.

In `@crates/logfwd-core/src/chunk_classify.rs`:
- Around line 192-194: Add a Rust doc comment describing the purpose,
parameters, and return value for the public function
compute_real_quotes(quote_bits: u64, bs_bits: u64, prev_odd_backslash: &mut u64)
so it meets the public-API guideline (explain what quote_bits and bs_bits
represent, how prev_odd_backslash is updated, and what the returned u64
encodes); then remove the now-stale #[allow(dead_code)] attribute above
compute_real_quotes since the function is used publicly (structural.rs) and no
longer dead code.
- Around line 316-318: The public function prefix_xor currently is missing a doc
comment and keeps a stale #[allow(dead_code)] attribute; remove the
#[allow(dead_code)] and add a concise doc comment above pub fn prefix_xor(mut
bitmask: u64) -> u64 describing what the function does (e.g., compute an
xor-prefix over the lower 64 bits, its input and return value semantics, and any
panics or edge cases), mirroring the documentation style used for
compute_real_quotes to satisfy the public API doc requirement.

In `@crates/logfwd-core/src/structural.rs`:
- Around line 232-245: The movemask16 implementation in this file duplicates
chunk_classify::aarch64_impl::movemask16; extract the common NEON logic into a
shared function (e.g., simd_movemask16) in a new or existing SIMD utility module
and replace both implementations with calls to that single function; update
visibility (pub(crate) or appropriate) so both locations (structural::movemask16
and chunk_classify::aarch64_impl::movemask16) call the shared function, remove
the duplicate body, and keep the current inline/unsafe semantics where the
centralized function preserves the same signature and behavior.
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- name: Check binary cache
id: bin-cache
uses: actions/cache@v4
with:
path: cached-binaries
key: bench-binaries-${{ hashFiles('Cargo.lock', 'crates/*/src/**', 'crates/*/Cargo.toml') }}
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⚠️ Potential issue | 🟠 Major

Cache key misses build-affecting files.

The cache key excludes several inputs that affect binary output:

  • .cargo/config.toml — contains rustc-wrapper and rustflags (e.g., -Dclippy::dbg_macro)
  • Root Cargo.toml — workspace settings, resolver version
  • rust-toolchain.toml — if present, pins compiler version
  • The RUSTFLAGS env var on line 69 (-Ctarget-cpu=x86-64-v3) isn't factored in

Also, crates/*/src/** won't match nested workspace members like crates/foo/bar/src/.

Proposed fix
       - name: Check binary cache
         id: bin-cache
         uses: actions/cache@v4
         with:
           path: cached-binaries
-          key: bench-binaries-${{ hashFiles('Cargo.lock', 'crates/*/src/**', 'crates/*/Cargo.toml') }}
+          key: bench-binaries-v1-${{ hashFiles('Cargo.lock', 'Cargo.toml', '.cargo/config.toml', 'rust-toolchain.toml', 'crates/**/src/**', 'crates/**/Cargo.toml') }}

Note: Adding a version prefix (v1-) lets you manually bust the cache if needed.

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- name: Check binary cache
id: bin-cache
uses: actions/cache@v4
with:
path: cached-binaries
key: bench-binaries-${{ hashFiles('Cargo.lock', 'crates/*/src/**', 'crates/*/Cargo.toml') }}
- name: Check binary cache
id: bin-cache
uses: actions/cache@v4
with:
path: cached-binaries
key: bench-binaries-v1-${{ hashFiles('Cargo.lock', 'Cargo.toml', '.cargo/config.toml', 'rust-toolchain.toml', 'crates/**/src/**', 'crates/**/Cargo.toml') }}
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In @.github/workflows/bench.yml around lines 50 - 55, The cache key for the
"Check binary cache" step (id: bin-cache, uses: actions/cache@v4) misses
build-affecting inputs; update its key to include .cargo/config.toml, the root
Cargo.toml, rust-toolchain.toml (if present), and the RUSTFLAGS value, and make
the source glob match nested workspace members (e.g., use crates/**/src/**).
Also add a stable version prefix (e.g., v1-) so you can manually bust the cache;
ensure the key expression hashes those files and the RUSTFLAGS env var so
changes to any of them invalidate the cache.

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Thanks for the catch. I’m not able to apply this in this run because workflow file edits are out of scope for this task context. I’ve left this thread open so it can be handled in a follow-up that updates .github/workflows/bench.yml (including cache key inputs and RUSTFLAGS invalidation).

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Comment thread crates/logfwd-competitive-bench/src/runner.rs
Comment thread crates/logfwd-core/src/chunk_classify.rs
Comment thread crates/logfwd-core/src/chunk_classify.rs
Comment on lines +232 to +245
#[inline(always)]
unsafe fn movemask16(cmp: uint8x16_t) -> u16 {
unsafe {
const MASK: [u8; 16] = [1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128];
let mask = vld1q_u8(MASK.as_ptr());
let bits = vandq_u8(cmp, mask);
let p16 = vpaddlq_u8(bits);
let p32 = vpaddlq_u16(p16);
let p64 = vpaddlq_u32(p32);
let lo = vgetq_lane_u64(p64, 0) as u8;
let hi = vgetq_lane_u64(p64, 1) as u8;
(lo as u16) | ((hi as u16) << 8)
}
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🧹 Nitpick | 🔵 Trivial

movemask16 duplicates chunk_classify::aarch64_impl::movemask16.

Both implementations are identical. Consider extracting to a shared SIMD utility module if more NEON code is added later. Low priority given the small footprint.

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In `@crates/logfwd-core/src/structural.rs` around lines 232 - 245, The movemask16
implementation in this file duplicates chunk_classify::aarch64_impl::movemask16;
extract the common NEON logic into a shared function (e.g., simd_movemask16) in
a new or existing SIMD utility module and replace both implementations with
calls to that single function; update visibility (pub(crate) or appropriate) so
both locations (structural::movemask16 and
chunk_classify::aarch64_impl::movemask16) call the shared function, remove the
duplicate body, and keep the current inline/unsafe semantics where the
centralized function preserves the same signature and behavior.

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Good suggestion. I’m leaving this open for now because extracting a shared SIMD helper across modules is a broader refactor than the minor/surgical fixes targeted in this pass.

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Addressed the straightforward review feedback and pushed commit f6bcd23.

  • Resolved with code changes: PRRT_kwDORzg8fM532TwN, PRRT_kwDORzg8fM532TwO, PRRT_kwDORzg8fM532TwP
  • Replied (not fixed in this pass): review comments 3013429599 (workflow-file scope constraint), 3013429615 (broader refactor)
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  • RUSTC_WRAPPER='' cargo fmt --check
  • RUSTC_WRAPPER='' cargo clippy -p logfwd-competitive-bench -- -D warnings
  • RUSTC_WRAPPER='' cargo test -p logfwd-competitive-bench ✅ (2 passed)
  • RUSTC_WRAPPER='' cargo test -p logfwd-core
  • RUSTC_WRAPPER='' cargo clippy -p logfwd-core -- -D warnings

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pub elapsed_ms: u64,
/// True if the run hit the timeout before completing.
#[serde(default)]
pub timed_out: bool,
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timed_out is written into BenchResult, but the aggregation/reporting path still ignores it, so timeout runs are still treated as normal data points.

Concrete evidence:

  • crates/logfwd-competitive-bench/src/summarize.rs:23,38,59,68 filters only on elapsed_ms > 0
  • crates/logfwd-competitive-bench/src/summarize.rs:80-85 prints raw elapsed values without timeout markers
  • crates/logfwd-competitive-bench/src/summarize.rs:242-263 selects baseline/ratios from those same aggregates

So a 120s timeout can still become the comparison baseline and produce misleading "X is Yx faster" output. Please thread timed_out through summarization (exclude timed-out runs from comparisons/throughput aggregates, and render timeout markers in the runs column).

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Reviewed all unresolved feedback on this PR.

  • .github/workflows/bench.yml cache-key thread (PRRT_kwDORzg8fM532TwH): not addressed in this run because workflow-file edits are explicitly out of scope for this task context.
  • movemask16 duplication thread (PRRT_kwDORzg8fM532TwR): verified in code (crates/logfwd-core/src/structural.rs:233 and crates/logfwd-core/src/chunk_classify.rs:486). This is a refactor-level deduplication, not a minor/surgical fix, so no code change was made in this pass.
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  • Verified duplication evidence in source locations above
  • No code changes made, so no build/test rerun was necessary for this pass

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