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Builds were slow on every host but zbook. run-cargo-capped.sh gave 1 build job to any host not named zbook, so alvin (24 cores) built on one core. When the pinned nightly was missing, it also fell back to stable with no -Zthreads and printed only a note. The agent brief then told agents to build --release --bins after each edit, which takes about 70 s for a one-line edit.

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  • Jobs default: the core count, at most 16. zbook keeps 16. Evidence builds (candidate.sh, build-goport-tests.sh), buildbench and the testbox set TS_CARGO_JOBS themselves, so they do not change. The memory cap keeps its formula, and its comment now matches the code.
  • Missing nightly: an edit-loop build stops with the install command and the TS_CARGO_NIGHTLY=0 way out. The check runs before the cgroup scope and the slot locks, so it fails at once instead of after a slot wait. RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN, +toolchain, --profile goport and TS_CARGO_NIGHTLY=0 behave as before.
  • Edit loop docs: the agent brief now says to find compile errors with check (12 s) and to build release bins only to run them. --bin tsgo in place of --bins saves no wall time (the links run in parallel), so the brief does not ask for it. The README gets the measured edit-loop table and says which toolchain each build uses. AGENTS.md line 35 now matches the script.
  • buildbench: dev-profile cells (check, --bin tsgo, --bins, test --no-run), a one-line edit in ls/hover.rs as well as the checker, the peak memory of each whole build, and a toolchains session for the evidence toolchain question.

scripts/run-cargo-capped.sh and AGENTS.md are protected paths. Theo approved these changes in the build-time thread on 2026-10-10. Root records the approval note in the state.

Timings

alvin, 24 cores, sccache off, same source. The only difference is the script default.

dev build before (1 job) after (16 jobs)
check, cold 228 s 70 s
check, one-line edit 17 s 12 s
build --bin tsgo, cold 301 s 84 s
build --bin tsgo, one-line edit 29 s 21 s

The new defaults, run end to end with sccache on: cold check 77 s, one-line edit 13.6 s.

Edit loop with the new defaults (two runs each):

command clean touch one-line edit
check 67-70 s 9-10 s 12 s
build --bin tsgo 80-88 s 14-16 s 20-21 s
build --bins 84-87 s 14 s 18-19 s
test --no-run 83-91 s 16-17 s 21-22 s
build --release --bins 107-112 s 14-15 s 69-71 s
build --release --bin tsgo 119-130 s 16-19 s 71-78 s

Peak memory of a whole build is at most 6.1 GB, except test --no-run (10 to 11 GB clean).

Checks: shellcheck reports 0 warnings on the three changed scripts, before and after. The missing-nightly, TS_CARGO_NIGHTLY=0, RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN, --profile goport, non-edit-loop and core-count cases were each run by hand. tsgo output cannot change, because evidence builds already set every value that changed.

Linker: mold used about 25% less CPU per edit but took the same wall time as rust-lld (dev --bins and test --no-run, two runs each), so the README says so and the script keeps rust-lld.

Not in this PR: zbook slots (needs a peak-memory measurement on zbook), the evidence toolchain (#42) and the crate split (its own PR and revision).

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Fix build scripts to use all host cores and require the pinned nightly toolchain

  • Changes run-cargo-capped.sh to compute default job count from the host core count, capped at 16, replacing the hostname-based zbook/one-job split
  • Edit-loop commands now select the pinned nightly toolchain explicitly; if it is missing, the script exits with an installation error instead of silently falling back. Opt out with TS_CARGO_NIGHTLY=0
  • Extends buildbench.sh to benchmark configurable Cargo commands and the dev profile, record whole-build peak memory via a systemd scope, and support edits in both checker_p15.rs and ls/hover.rs
  • Adds devloop and toolchains sessions to buildbench-plan.sh and new command and peak-memory columns to the report in buildbench-report.py
  • Updates the agent and goport build docs (AGENTS.md, briefs, README) to match the new toolchain and job-count behavior
  • Behavioral Change: a missing pinned nightly now fails edit-loop builds with an error; check run-cargo-capped.sh nightly selection and the TS_CARGO_NIGHTLY=0 opt-out, plus result-file validation in buildbench.sh for files from older script versions

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  • Development Tools
    • Updated build guidance to use available CPU capacity and clarify toolchain selection.
    • Edit-loop builds now provide setup instructions when the required nightly toolchain is unavailable.
  • Benchmarking
    • Added development and toolchain comparison sessions, with clearer timing and memory reporting.

t3dotgg and others added 6 commits October 10, 2026 18:45
buildbench.sh takes BENCH_CMD (check, build --bin tsgo, test --no-run, ...) and the dev profile,
edits ls/hover.rs as well as the checker, and records the peak memory of the whole build's cgroup.
buildbench-plan.sh gets a devloop session: the edit-loop defaults in the dev profile for each
command, with a checker edit and an ls edit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
run-cargo-capped.sh fell back to the default toolchain with only a note when nightly-2026-06-17
was not installed. Builds then lost -Zthreads and ran slower with no error (alvin had no nightly).
Now an edit-loop build stops with the install command and the TS_CARGO_NIGHTLY=0 way out. The
check runs before the cgroup scope and the slot locks, so it does not wait for a slot first.
RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN, a +toolchain argument, --profile goport and TS_CARGO_NIGHTLY=0 are unchanged.
The header now says --profile goport keeps the default toolchain (build-release.sh sets 1.95.0).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
run-cargo-capped.sh gave 16 jobs on a host named zbook and 1 job everywhere else, so a build on
alvin (24 cores) or dbook-lan (32) used one core unless TS_CARGO_JOBS was set. The default is now
the core count (nproc), at most 16: zbook keeps 16. The memory cap keeps its formula (8 GiB for one
job, 4 GiB per job for more, at most three quarters of available memory); its comment now says so.
Evidence builds (candidate.sh, build-goport-tests.sh: 12), buildbench (16) and the testbox (32)
set TS_CARGO_JOBS, so they do not change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Release builds with the candidate.sh evidence settings (no nightly, no incremental) on 1.93.0,
1.95.0 and 1.99.0: clean, touch, a one-line edit and its revert, then bin-identity.sh of each
against 1.93.0.

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The agent brief told agents to build release --bins after each edit: about 70 s for a one-line
edit on alvin, most of it LLVM. check takes about 12 s. The brief now says to find compile errors
with check and build release bins only to run them. --bin tsgo in place of --bins saves no wall
time (the links run in parallel), so the brief does not ask for it.

The README Build toolchain section gets the alvin edit-loop table (devloop and defaults sessions)
and says which toolchain each build uses: the default one for --profile goport, fmt, clippy and the
evidence builds, 1.95.0 in build-release.sh and build-pgo.sh. The brief's 32 s edit and its
"--profile goport stays on 1.93.0" were out of date.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…cript

AGENTS.md line 35 said 16 jobs on zbook and 1 elsewhere, and that --profile goport stays on
1.93.0. run-cargo-capped.sh now defaults to the core count (at most 16), and --profile goport uses
the default toolchain (build-release.sh sets 1.95.0). AGENTS.md is a protected path: Theo approved
this one-line change in the build-time thread on 2026-10-10.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The Cargo runner now selects jobs from the host core count, up to 16, and applies stricter nightly selection for edit-loop builds. Benchmark scripts add configurable sessions, command and memory reporting, and updated toolchain and timing guidance.

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Cargo toolchains and benchmarking

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cargo job and toolchain policy
AGENTS.md, docs/goport-agent-brief.md, scripts/run-cargo-capped.sh, scripts/goport/README.md
The Cargo runner defaults to the host core count, capped at 16. Eligible edit-loop commands now stop with an install instruction if the configured nightly is unavailable. Guidance describes the toolchain choices and updated build checks and timings.
Benchmark sessions and reporting
scripts/goport/buildbench.sh, scripts/goport/buildbench-plan.sh, scripts/goport/buildbench-report.py, scripts/goport/README.md
Benchmark scripts add dev and toolchain sessions, configurable commands and edit targets, and cgroup peak-memory capture. Reports include command and peak-memory columns. The README adds benchmark guidance and measurements.

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Change: Bug fix · Unblocks: 1 PR

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Cargo builds follow the intended job and toolchain paths, but the README misstates the compiler-thread limit and buildbench lacks usable peak-memory data on systemd/cgroup-v1 hosts. These are bounded documentation and benchmark-data issues, so the PR is mergeable with owner awareness and follow-up.

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134-137: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Fix the stale -Zthreads description in the "Build toolchain" section.

Line 136 says -Zthreads=8 is "the job count, at most 8". The default job count is now the core count, capped at 16. The -Zthreads value is min(jobs, 8), as scripts/run-cargo-capped.sh Line 193 shows. The README text still reads as if the job count itself is at most 8. Reword the text to say that -Zthreads is the job count, at most 8. This change is outside the changed lines but depends on this PR's change to the job default.

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On alvin, mold used about 25% less CPU per edit, but dev --bins and test --no-run edits took the
same wall time as rust-lld (two runs each). The script keeps rust-lld.

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🟡 Minor · Preserve an unreadable peak as missing, not zero. · buildbench.sh:88

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Preserve an unreadable peak as missing, not zero.

On a supported systemd host without cgroup v2, /proc/self/cgroup has no 0:: entry, so this path cannot read memory.peak. The fallback writes 0 to results.tsv and prints peak=0KiB. The report then hides the failure as -, although the documented current output is the peak memory of each build.

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-peak_kib=$(( $(cat "$OUT/logs/$LABEL.peak" 2>/dev/null || echo 0) / 1024 ))
+peak_bytes=$(cat "$OUT/logs/$LABEL.peak" 2>/dev/null) || peak_bytes=
+if [[ -n $peak_bytes ]]; then
+  peak_kib=$((peak_bytes / 1024))
+else
+  peak_kib=
+fi
...
-echo "$LABEL rc=$rc wall=${wall}s user=${user}s sys=${sys}s maxrss=${rss}KiB peak=${peak_kib}KiB cpu=$cpu lib=${lib}s"
+echo "$LABEL rc=$rc wall=${wall}s user=${user}s sys=${sys}s maxrss=${rss}KiB peak=${peak_kib:-unavailable}KiB cpu=$cpu lib=${lib}s"
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