[kixelated]

Finishes Nightly bench timeouts: Nightly's "Rust bench targets" and "JS benchmarks" legs fit their hour again, and a leg that overruns now fails instead of getting cancelled.

What was wrong

Rust bench targets. In run 43601796176, the paired base did not build cold. Its moq-net build had 623 hits and 0 misses, but it still took 7 minutes, because mbx skips all 32 bench executables (unsupported-crate-type) and each one is a fat-LTO link. The head build had the same cost (10 min). The leg's timeline:

• 1 min setup
• 17 min building moq-net twice
• 26 min moq-net screen and confirmation
• 2 min net-cpu (its base rebuilt and relinked in a fresh worktree)
• 4 min kio
• 7 min for moq-gst's head (321 units "not looked up", since earlier nights hung before reaching it)

The job was cancelled while it was building the gst base. Earlier nights were cancelled by moq-net benches that hung (11-09, 11-12, 11-13), which moq-dev/moq#8650 now bounds.

JS benchmarks. This leg never ran out of time. It hung: subscribe-drop hung through 11-09 (fixed by moq-dev/moq#8520), then e2ee-bench hung from 11-13 on. It also never published, because one failing bench drops the whole report: requests had failed every night since 11-03, and since today the three json-* benches fail to typecheck.

Changes

• Base reuse. Paired Rust groups now measure the previous scheduled Nightly's own bench executables as the base, so the base is no longer rebuilt every night.
  • bench/run.sh copies each run's executables to BENCH_KEEP_BUILDS, together with the commit they were built from.
  • It measures BENCH_BASE_BUILDS as the base when that commit is the base and the kept executables cover every current target. Otherwise it builds the base as before and logs why.
  • sh/gh/nightly.sh downloads the previous run's builds-<artifact> artifact. previous-nightly.sh --run now also prints the run ID.
  • nightly.yml uploads the artifact from scheduled runs, kept for 3 days.
  • This removes about 9 min from rust-bench (7 for moq-net, about 2 for net-cpu), plus each other paired leg's base build. Projected rust-bench: about 47 to 51 min.
• Overruns fail instead of cancelling. "Run workload" has timeout-minutes: 55, inside the job's 60. A workload that overruns now fails its step: the job is red, which the failure-based triage counts, and Preserve results and Keep bench executables still run. The Nightly README now tells the triage to count a cancelled job as failed.
• JS bench fixes.
  • crypto/bench/pump.ts reads groups that later ones superseded, so its track now sets maxAge: null, as the e2ee tests do.
  • net/bench/requests.ts matches a follower to its route by instance, since a follower holds its own consumer. Each failover request is pinned to its instance; otherwise the path's first instance answered it and the claim never heard it.
  • json/bench/stream.ts writes records at a scale-less key, as Timed now requires. Its check requires each record's timestamp to be scale-less at that key, since isBefore does not order scaled against unscaled timestamps.

Validation

• just gh nightly js ran locally in 402 s, with every bench passing after the json fix. json-stream, json-codec and json-parse were then rerun on their own and pass.
• The e2ee pump finishes in 5 s; before the fix it hung on its second group.
• requests runs to the end.
• A/A run of just gh criterion -p kio --bench channel with BENCH_BASE=HEAD:
  • With BENCH_KEEP_BUILDS, it built the base and kept the executable.
  • With BENCH_BASE_BUILDS pointing at that copy (exec bit removed, as an artifact download leaves it), it skipped the base build, logged Base executables kept by an earlier run, and listed all 7 cases as identical.
  • After one byte was appended to the kept executable, it ran criterion-base from the kept copy in the base worktree.
• A kept executable that can't load on the runner (its interpreter patched to a missing store path) logged has no loader here and the base was built instead. This is the review's finding about a library bump between nights.
• sh/gh/nightly.test.py covers each label keeping its builds, the previous run's artifact feeding each label's base, and a run that kept none building the base. All 22 tests pass. just check passes.
• Not run: a full hosted Nightly leg. The README says never to dispatch Nightly, so the first scheduled run after merge is the check.
• Bisects: the e2ee hang starts at moq-dev/moq#7729, and the requests identity failure at moq-dev/moq#7489.

Public API: none. Wire: none.

Decisions

Taken while the maintainer was AFK. Each can be revisited in review.

• Reuse the previous night's executables rather than rebuild the base. The base now carries that night's toolchain and nightly.sh arguments, so a toolchain bump counts as part of the night's change. Rejected: a thin-LTO [profile.bench], which would change what every bench measures; and moving moq-gst to another leg, which saves less and would still leave base relinks on every paired leg.
• 55-minute step timeout. Setup takes about 1 min and post steps about 20 s on every leg, so this leaves roughly 4 min of margin. CodeRabbit asked to derive it from the setup budget; kept 55, since setup over the last three scheduled Nightlies peaked at 77 s ("Rust bench targets") and the other legs took 30 to 36 s.
• 3-day artifact retention. Only the next scheduled run reads the artifact.
• Fall back to building the base when no kept executables match. This happens the first night after merge, or after a leg ended before its head build. The fallback is decided at setup and logged.

Caused by

• moq-dev/moq#7729 - the zero default max age left the e2ee pump bench waiting on groups the track had already dropped (found by bisect).
• moq-dev/moq#7489 - requests.ts compared the follower's consumer with the route's producer by closed, which stopped matching (found by bisect).
• moq-dev/moq#8638 - Timed.at became required, but the json stream bench was not updated (found by check; JS benches typecheck only nightly).
• No single PR caused the Rust overrun: the bench set grew past the hour once the moq-net hangs stopped cancelling the leg first.

Models

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Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Head: b00711a

• Base: origin/main at ca88fc1

• Risk: high, it changes .github/workflows/nightly.yml, which is always high: workflows run with the repository's secrets and decide what merges and ships

• Classified: high by the always-high paths

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort

• Session: 01a1df17-5c89-7eb0-887f-16ede0edcebc, round 3

• Score: 10/10, The incremental change correctly checks that benchmark records retain their unscaled timestamp and introduces no new findings.

• Rounds: 3; first round 1 (medium 1); findings 1 (medium 1): fixed 1, refuted 0, open 0

• Findings: none

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Walkthrough

The changes add reusable Criterion executable caching for paired Nightly runs. The runner saves builds with commit and target metadata, then reuses matching builds when available and loadable; otherwise, it builds the base. Nightly scripts resolve prior-run details and retrieve artifacts, while the workflow uploads scheduled-run builds and sets a workload timeout. Several JavaScript benchmarks also change their track options, timestamp checks, broadcast handling, and failover request pinning.

Merge Risk: Low · up to abbaf

This change speeds up the nightly benchmark runs by reusing saved executables, and it adds timeouts so overruns fail visibly. Two small gaps remain: a slow setup could still cause a cancellation that skips result upload, and one JSON benchmark check is looser than intended. Neither is likely to cause serious harm, so the change is mergeable with follow-up.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Title check		The title names the main change: it fixes the Nightly CI benchmark legs so they finish within their one-hour limit. The title is short, specific, and matches the objectives and the changeset (timeouts…
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.
Description check		The description is specific and tied to the changeset. It explains the Nightly bench timeout problem and the fixes. It covers base-executable reuse in bench/run.sh, sh/gh/nightly.sh, and nightly.yml, …

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Explanation

The title names the main change: it fixes the Nightly CI benchmark legs so they finish within their one-hour limit. The title is short, specific, and matches the objectives and the changeset (timeouts, base executable reuse, and JS bench fixes).

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Explanation

The description is specific and tied to the changeset. It explains the Nightly bench timeout problem and the fixes. It covers base-executable reuse in bench/run.sh, sh/gh/nightly.sh, and nightly.yml, the 55-minute step timeout, and the JS bench fixes for pump.ts, requests.ts, and stream.ts. It also lists validation runs and the decisions taken.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @.github/workflows/nightly.yml:
- Line 258: Update the timeout-minutes setting for Run workload so it expires
before the job-level timeout and leaves time for the guarded result-saving steps
to run. Keep the 55-minute value only if setup reliably completes within the
remaining five-minute budget; otherwise, establish the setup-time budget and
derive the workload limit from the job timeout rather than guessing a
replacement number.

Review comments at @js/json/bench/stream.ts:
- Around line 27-28: Update the scale-less timestamp check around the two
isBefore comparisons to reject timestamps with a defined scale and require
record.at.value to equal at.value. Preserve the existing assertion flow while
ensuring scaled timestamps cannot pass.

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quest land watch: ended this pull request's pick, disarming its auto-merge, since its head abbaf85 is held by finding by coderabbitai[bot]: Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win (#8798 (comment)); finding by coderabbitai[bot]: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win (#8798 (comment)). Push a fix, or answer each by a thread reply or a comment linking its review or decision, then land it again.

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[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

This review covers the whole PR: Nightly's paired Rust legs reuse the previous night's bench executables as their base, overrunning workloads now fail instead of being cancelled, and three hung or broken JS benches are fixed.

• Kept base executables. keep_builds stores each label's executables with their commit and a targets.tsv. kept_base uses them only when the commit matches BASE, they cover every current key, and the loader can resolve each one. Otherwise criterion_build_base runs as before and the reason is logged.
• Artifact plumbing. nightly.sh downloads builds-<artifact> from the run that previous-nightly.sh --run names and passes each label its own BENCH_KEEP_BUILDS and BENCH_BASE_BUILDS. Only scheduled runs upload the artifact, and builds-bench-* does not match benchmark-site's bench-* download pattern.
• Step timeout. Run workload gets timeout-minutes: 55 inside the job's 60, so an overrun fails the job and the preserve and upload steps still run.
• JS bench fixes. pump.ts turns off the max age, requests.ts matches followers by instance and pins the held failover request, and stream.ts supplies the now-required at.
• Quest docs. The finished quest file is deleted, and the Nightly README now tells triage to count a cancelled job as failed.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

This review covers what changed since the prior Pullfrog review (abbaf85).

• Stricter json stream bench check. js/json/bench/stream.ts now requires record.at.scale === undefined and record.at.value === at.value, so a scaled or wrong-key timestamp can no longer pass. isBefore doesn't order scaled against unscaled timestamps, which is why the old check let one through. Both fields exist on Timestamp, and the key is 0, so the value comparison is exact.

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