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TL;DR

• Refresh only the twelve approved instruction counts from a main-push guard, keeping every other baseline value and setting unchanged.
• Leave the newly over-bar C32 count unchanged because its rise was not disclosed.

Background

The maintainer chose to accept the accumulated instruction costs behind twelve baseline failures. PR comparisons against their own bases had allowed smaller increases to accumulate. Refs #25.

What changes

CLI and library behavior do not change.

• Covered: startup and the eleven attributed instruction cases in the table below, from main 60c2d5775f44404c40d62d2a3a6e790bd5f159d3.
• Not covered: the 45 within-tolerance counts, code changes, cost recovery, new case registration, C19's unmeasured entry, C32's baseline, fixture digests, URL budgets, tool pins or tolerances.

After merging: inspect the main-push bench-guard result. C32 is expected to remain flagged; this PR does not claim to make the entire guard pass.

Decisions

• Use the existing scripts/bench_guard.py --write output from push run 42229391766, bench-guard job 127931219864, artifact bench-guard-counts, rather than measuring locally. Copy only the twelve approved counts in the table. Every other field stays unchanged. This narrower scope supersedes the initial plan's broader wording.
• Accept the twelve accumulated costs below at the maintainer's direction, rather than raise the tolerance or change product code. Counts are instructions, not latency. Media rows subtract the same run's startup; historical PR effects are not additive counterfactuals.
• Keep C32 at 1,384,387. Retained push counts rise from 1,451,618 before #440 to 1,465,846 at #440, +0.980%. The selected main count is 1,465,141 (+5.833% over the stored baseline). feat(ffmpeg): copy bounded input-seek audio #440 discloses C18's cost, but not C32's. Other intervening retained observations vary near those two levels; skipped observations are not treated as measurements.
• feat(ffprobe): read JSON probes from stdin #412's startup increase is predominantly loader symbol lookup and relocation. No cheap recovery has been established. perf(ffprobe): skip unusable AVC proof #442 subsequently avoids unusable AVC summary proof, so the new ffprobe count includes that recovery.
• Preserve historical measurement documentation: its numeric examples describe earlier runs, not a replacement current baseline.

The cause column records material historical rises and their paired-PR attribution, not an exact allocation of every net instruction. #285, #265 and #357 are the product causes in observation batches that also included documentation PRs. Earlier startup increases were partly recovered, so they are not summed into today's residual.

Case	Old baseline	New count	Change	Attributed cause PRs	Was the cost stated?
startup	486,964	515,155	+5.789%	#49, #53, #346, #371, #382, #387, #412	#346: startup +1.86%; others unstated
ffprobe-mp4	1,654,241	1,761,164	+6.464%	#59, #116, #285, #329, #394	#116: +2.52%; others unstated
ffmpeg-C01-remux	920,134	1,019,522	+10.801%	#285, #319, #329, #400, #394	#400: qualitative; others unstated
ffmpeg-C03-remux-map	927,990	1,026,887	+10.657%	#265, #285, #319, #329, #400, #394, #406	#400: qualitative; others unstated
ffmpeg-C05-clip	940,099	1,004,978	+6.901%	#285, #346, #329, #394	#346: startup only, no case cost; others unstated
ffmpeg-C13-extract-audio	684,143	742,649	+8.552%	#285, #346, #357, #329, #404, #394, #406	#346: startup only, no case cost; others unstated
ffmpeg-C15-clip-audio	513,714	546,850	+6.450%	#285, #346, #329, #404	#346: startup only, no case cost; others unstated
ffmpeg-C17-remux-video	486,261	531,885	+9.383%	#346, #357, #329, #404, #394	#346: startup only, no case cost; others unstated
ffmpeg-C20-extract-audio-map	687,544	745,734	+8.463%	#346, #329, #394	#346: startup only, no case cost; others unstated
ffmpeg-C23-remux-faststart	926,580	1,026,529	+10.787%	#319, #346, #329, #404, #400, #394, #406	#400: qualitative; others unstated
ffmpeg-C25-extract-audio-metadata	480,962	514,770	+7.029%	#285, #346, #329, #404	#346: startup only, no case cost; others unstated
ffmpeg-C26-remux-timestamps	946,915	1,050,116	+10.899%	#319, #346, #329, #404, #400, #394, #406	#400: qualitative; others unstated

#116 quantified its ffprobe rise; #346 quantified startup only; #400 described per-packet scheduling and extra chunks without a numeric cost. The other attributed rises were unstated. A statement that the baseline stayed unchanged is not a cost disclosure.

Evidence

Verification: exact comparison confirms that only the twelve table values differ from main and all twelve match the retained JSON. The tolerance stays 0.05 and every other baseline field is unchanged. python3 -m unittest discover -s scripts/tests -p test_bench_guard.py: 10 tests pass. PR shape, public-text and diff checks pass. No local measurement, Rust build or media run was performed. Canonical similarity guard at 01db2df38d3464d2360bdc0c3f4bcc5e5df45689: 108 spans of 50+ tokens, 0 not allowlisted, 0 problems, 0 stale entries. Review the plan commit first.

Links: guard method, source job, #412, #440 and #442.

• Every commit is signed off (git commit -s, DCO).
• I copied nothing from other implementations.
• I did not read git history or the archive/m1-prototype tag, except paths named in a port request.

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Walkthrough

The benchmark baseline updates the startup instruction value and instruction counts for listed FFmpeg cases and ffprobe-mp4. Case names, fixtures, and hashes remain unchanged.

Changes: Benchmark instruction baseline

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Refresh benchmark instruction counts bench/guard/baseline.json	The startup baseline and instruction counts for listed FFmpeg cases and ffprobe-mp4 are updated. Case names, fixtures, and hashes remain unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 01db2

The updated instruction baselines match the retained guard measurements, and C32 remains flagged as expected. No material merge risk is evident from this change.

Architecture risk: Low · up to 01db2

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: bench

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — bench (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in bench/guard/baseline.json: The startup instruction baseline increases from 486964 to 515155, and ffmpeg-C01-remux increases from 920134 to 1019522.
• observed — Modified behavior in bench/guard/baseline.json: Instruction baselines increase for ffmpeg-C03-remux-map (927990 to 1026887), ffmpeg-C05-clip (940099 to 1004978), ffmpeg-C13-extract-audio (684143 to 742649), ffmpeg-C15-clip-audio (513714 to 546850), and ffmpeg-C17-remux-video (486261 to 531885).
• observed — Modified behavior in bench/guard/baseline.json: Instruction baselines increase for ffmpeg-C20-extract-audio-map (687544 to 745734), ffmpeg-C23-remux-faststart (926580 to 1026529), ffmpeg-C25-extract-audio-metadata (480962 to 514770), and ffmpeg-C26-remux-timestamps (946915 to 1050116).
• observed — Modified behavior in bench/guard/baseline.json: The ffprobe-mp4 instruction baseline increases from 1654241 to 1761164.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly describes the guard baseline refresh.
Description check		The description covers the background, scope, decisions, verification, and follow-up. It identifies exact-head verification as a pre-merge gate.
Docstring Coverage		No eligible functions found in the changed files. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Review: blocking

Reviewed head 9200b4952ec9337c04a3deacf2063c3b719aee48 (plan commit 7a4296e first, then 9200b49), against main 60c2d57 and the bench-guard-counts artifact of push run 42229391766 / job 127931219864.

Blocking

1. bench/guard/baseline.json: 45 counts outside the flagged set are rewritten without a recorded cause or cost. The job flags start-up plus 11 cases (and C32, which stays frozen). The diff changes 57 instruction values: those 12, plus 45 cases that were inside the tolerance. 17 of the 45 rise and get absorbed silently, several close to the bar: ffprobe-packets-mkv +4.71%, ffprobe-ts +4.34%, ffprobe-packets-mp4 +4.32%, ffmpeg-C18-clip-input +3.42%, ffprobe-mkv +3.09%, join +2.88%, join-clips +2.55%, ffprobe-packets-ts +2.50%, join-fragmented +2.27%. The other 28 fall and tighten. The refresh was approved on the condition that each refreshed case records its cause and cost, and the Decisions table covers only the 12 flagged rows. Resetting near-bar cases with no record recreates the undisclosed accumulation this PR is meant to account for. Failure scenario: a later PR adds +1% to ffprobe-packets-mkv; against the old baseline that crosses 5% and must explain itself, against this one it passes with nothing on record about the +4.71% already spent. Fix: restore the 45 out-of-scope values to main's, so only start-up and the 11 flagged cases move. Alternatively, if the scope really is every case, add those rows to the table with cause and cost, and change TL;DR and Covered to say so.

Verified

• All 57 changed values equal the artifact exactly (structural JSON diff). I rechecked six against the job log text: start-up 515,155, ffprobe-mp4 1,761,164, C01 1,019,522, C13 742,649, C17 531,885, C26 1,050,116. The percentages in the table match.
• Nothing else in the file moved: no keys added or removed, tolerance stays 0.05, tools is unchanged, C19's entry is unchanged, and every url_cases field and sha256 is unchanged. C32 stays at 1,384,387 while the artifact has 1,465,141 (+5.83%), as the body states.
• For all 12 rows, the cause PRs and the cost-stated column match the per-case attribution: fix(ffprobe): follow pinned stream metadata #116 quantified ffprobe-mp4, feat(ffmpeg): stream registered raw audio #346 quantified start-up only, fix(copy): preserve interleaved packet order #400 is qualitative, and the rest are unstated.
• python3 -m unittest discover -s scripts/tests -p 'test_bench_guard*.py' at head: 10 tests, OK. The PR's own bench-guard check was still queued when I reviewed.

Non-blocking

• The plan commit 7a4296e is an empty commit (message only). Its text says "every guarded case", which is where the scope above came from.
• CodeRabbit had no inline findings at review time (its check was still running). Greptile is not reviewing.

CodeRabbit: 0 confirmed, 0 minor, 0 false positive

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Replying to #468 (comment)

Addressed in signed-off commit 01db2df38d3464d2360bdc0c3f4bcc5e5df45689: restored the 45 values outside the approved set. Exact JSON comparison verifies only startup and the eleven attributed case counts differ from main; all twelve match the source artifact. Ten guard tests, public-text checks and shape checks pass. The description supersedes the initial plan's broad wording.

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Review: no blocking issue

Delta review at head 01db2df38d3464d2360bdc0c3f4bcc5e5df45689. The new commit is 01db2df (on top of 9200b49, signed off), and the merge base is still main 60c2d57.

• The earlier blocking finding is resolved. A structural JSON diff against main shows exactly 12 changed values: startup plus ffprobe-mp4, C01, C03, C05, C13, C15, C17, C20, C23, C25 and C26. Each one equals the bench-guard-counts artifact of job 127931219864. No other key or value differs from main, including the 45 within-tolerance counts, tolerance 0.05, tools, C19, C32 (1,384,387), url_cases and every sha256.
• The body now matches the diff. TL;DR, Covered and Not covered describe 12 values, the Decisions bullet records that this supersedes the plan commit's broader wording, and the attribution table is unchanged and still consistent.
• python3 -m unittest discover -s scripts/tests -p 'test_bench_guard*.py' at this head: 10 tests, OK. CI was still queued at review time.

Non-blocking: CodeRabbit's inline thread on bench/guard/baseline.json (undocumented C02 and 44 other cases) is still open. It is confirmed at 9200b49, where it is the same defect as my earlier finding, and fixed at this head because those counts are no longer changed. Reply and resolve it so the thread gate clears.

CodeRabbit: 1 confirmed (fixed at this head), 0 minor, 0 false positive