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Summary

  • add macOS and Windows A/B workflows for mbx and Swatinem/rust-cache
  • run equivalent non-incremental builds and publish per-platform build timings
  • keep the benchmark off release and tag workflows

Method

The first main-branch run seeds the dedicated rust-cache keys. Warm comparisons should use later workflow_dispatch runs. Build timing excludes checkout and cache setup; those remain visible as separate step durations.

The Windows mbx path exercises the native-search-directory fix in jdx/mr-boxington#120 once that fix is released and the pinned mbx version is updated.

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  • actionlint -shellcheck= .github/workflows/cache-benchmark.yml
  • mise x zizmor@1.29.0 -- zizmor .github/workflows/cache-benchmark.yml

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Low Risk
CI-only workflow addition with read permissions and restricted rust-cache writes; no application or runtime behavior changes.

Overview
Adds a new cache-benchmark GitHub Actions workflow that A/B tests mbx (via ./.github/actions/mbx with the GitHub backend) against Swatinem/rust-cache on macOS and Windows.

Each platform runs parallel jobs that time only the build step (mbx build vs cargo build, with vendored git2/openssl features on Windows), set CARGO_INCREMENTAL: 0, and pass build seconds to lightweight comparison jobs that write a markdown table and mbx delta % to GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY. The rust-cache arms use dedicated shared-key values and save-if limited to main pushes so PRs don’t poison benchmark caches.

Triggers are scoped: PRs only when the workflow or mbx action change; pushes to main also when Rust sources or lockfiles change; plus workflow_dispatch for warm runs after cache seeding.

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  • New Features
    • Added automated cache benchmarking for macOS and Windows builds.
    • Benchmarks compare cache performance, build times, and timing differences across platforms.
    • Results are summarized with formatted comparisons and practical interpretation guidance.
    • Added support for running benchmarks on pull requests, main-branch updates, and on demand.

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Walkthrough

The workflow benchmarks mbx and Swatinem’s Rust cache on macOS and Windows. It records build times and cache statistics, calculates timing deltas, and publishes results to the GitHub step summary.

Changes

Cache Benchmark Workflow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Benchmark workflow and platform build jobs
.github/workflows/cache-benchmark.yml
The workflow adds pull request, main-branch push, and manual triggers. It configures permissions, concurrency, Cargo settings, platform-specific cache keys, restricted cache writes, and timed builds for both cache backends on macOS and Windows.
Platform timing comparisons
.github/workflows/cache-benchmark.yml
The macOS and Windows comparison jobs wait for their platform builds, calculate relative timing differences with zero-duration handling, and append formatted results and guidance to the GitHub step summary.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d94d0

The new Windows cache benchmark can fail before publishing build timings because its build commands do not enable the vendored OpenSSL features used by Windows CI. This is a bounded CI correctness issue, but the pull request is not merge-ready until both benchmark commands are updated.

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A rabbit times each cache trail
macOS hops and Windows sails
mbx builds beside Rust’s store
Stopwatch numbers cross the floor
The summary records the score

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding CI comparisons between mbx and rust-cache.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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Greptile Summary

Adds a standalone GitHub Actions workflow comparing mbx and Swatinem/rust-cache build timings on macOS and Windows.

  • Runs equivalent non-incremental builds on both cache backends.
  • Restricts rust-cache writes to main-branch pushes.
  • Publishes per-platform timing comparisons in the workflow summary.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge.

No blocking failure remains.

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.github/workflows/cache-benchmark.yml Adds the cross-platform cache benchmark, timing collection, cache-seeding restrictions, and summary jobs without an eligible blocking defect.

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In @.github/workflows/cache-benchmark.yml:
- Around line 47-50: Update both build timing steps in the workflow to measure
durations with millisecond or fractional-second precision instead of the
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Instruction counts

benchmark trend instructions Δ wall (min) Δ
builtins ▆▅▅▃▃▅▂▇▁▂▂▅▅▅███ 1,989,871 → 1,989,676 -0.01% 2.92 → 3.35ms +14.84%
check 21.50 → 23.28ms +8.27%
usage ▆▆▆▄▄▆▂█▁▁▁▅▅▅███ 4,650,086 → 4,650,316 +0.00% 3.16 → 3.50ms +10.78%
validate 5.48 → 5.45ms -0.49%

No instruction-count regression above 1%.

Only instruction counts gate. Wall clock is shown for context — on identical hardware it moves 4-20% run to run.

Measured by tak — instruction-counted CLI benchmarks, stored in this repository's git notes.

61a83bd6825d vs a15fcdfb197f · measured on the runner, not pushed to the history.

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In @.github/workflows/cache-benchmark.yml:
- Around line 136-137: Update both Windows benchmark build commands around mbx
build to include the established git2/vendored-libgit2 and git2/vendored-openssl
feature flags, matching the Windows CI configuration while preserving the
existing PowerShell exit-code handling.
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