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Brummel 416d763b73 bench: 21'c — compile-time regression bench (check.py + compile_check.py)
Closes the second axis the user named: every typechecker / codegen
perf change was previously invisible to the tidy-iter gate. With
Family 21 typeclasses (queued) and 21'b's poly-ADT additions both
pushing on the typechecker, naive substitution loops would have
landed silently and decayed the compile path.

bench/compile_check.py is a separate script from bench/check.py
because the methodology differs: sub-process spawn timing on small
workloads (1ms scale for `ail check`, 65ms for `ail build`) vs.
allocator-stress on large ones (multi-second). Tolerances differ
by an order of magnitude (25% / 20% here vs. 5-15% there).

Empirically: ail check is sub-ms across the corpus, dominated by
subprocess spawn (~5-10ms on Linux); ail build is 63-69ms,
dominated by clang's link step. The bench is a catastrophe
detector (10x slowdowns visible) — finer regressions need a
profiler. CLAUDE.md updated to list both scripts as co-equal
tidy-iter gates alongside the architect drift report; exit 0/1/2
semantics are uniform across both.

JOURNAL queue: 21'd (pure-compute fixtures) and 21'e (cross-
language reference / hand-C ratio) remain to land the LLVM-
linkable performance claim.
2026-05-09 00:59:00 +02:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
# Compile-time regression check.
#
# Times `ail check FILE` and `ail build --opt=-O0 FILE` over a curated
# corpus, drops the slowest run, takes the median of the rest, diffs
# against bench/baseline_compile.json. Exits 0 if every metric is within
# tolerance, 1 on any regression, 2 on infrastructure failure (missing
# fixture, ail spawn error).
#
# Methodology caveats this bench cannot work around:
# - Wall time of `ail check` is dominated by subprocess spawn (~5-10ms
# on Linux); typechecker work below that scale is invisible.
# - Wall time of `ail build` is dominated by clang's link step
# (~100ms+); the AILang IR-emit + codegen contribution is a
# small slice of the total.
# Both are still useful as catastrophe detectors (10x slowdowns visible)
# even if subtler regressions need a profiler. The right tool for finer-
# grained codegen perf is the runtime bench (bench/run.sh), not this one.
#
# Usage:
# bench/compile_check.py # run bench, exit 0/1/2
# bench/compile_check.py -n 10 # more runs, tighter median
# bench/compile_check.py --update-baseline
# bench/compile_check.py --baseline path # alternate baseline file
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import subprocess
import sys
import tempfile
import time
from pathlib import Path
ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
DEFAULT_BASELINE = ROOT / "bench" / "baseline_compile.json"
AIL = ROOT / "target" / "release" / "ail"
EXAMPLES = ROOT / "examples"
# Curated corpus. Pinned by name so the baseline keys are stable across
# example-directory churn. Each entry must have a corresponding
# `<name>.ail.json` under examples/.
CORPUS = [
# Surface coverage: each fixture exercises a different feature set.
"hello", # IO baseline
"list_map_poly", # polymorphism + HOF
"local_rec_capture", # let-rec capture, closure path
"borrow_own_demo", # explicit modes
"nested_pat", # nested pattern matching
# Bench fixtures (correlation with bench/check.py runtime baseline).
"bench_list_sum",
"bench_tree_walk",
"bench_closure_chain",
"bench_hof_pipeline",
]
def time_one(args: list[str]) -> float:
"""Run a command, return wall-time in milliseconds. Raises if exit != 0."""
t0 = time.monotonic()
proc = subprocess.run(args, capture_output=True)
t1 = time.monotonic()
if proc.returncode != 0:
raise RuntimeError(
f"command failed (exit {proc.returncode}): {' '.join(args)}\n"
f"stderr: {proc.stderr.decode(errors='replace')}"
)
return (t1 - t0) * 1000.0
def median_drop_slowest(runs: list[float]) -> float:
"""Drop the slowest run, return median of the rest."""
if len(runs) < 2:
return runs[0] if runs else 0.0
kept = sorted(runs)[:-1]
n = len(kept)
if n % 2 == 1:
return kept[n // 2]
return 0.5 * (kept[n // 2 - 1] + kept[n // 2])
def measure(num_runs: int) -> dict[str, dict[str, float]]:
"""Return {section: {fixture: ms}}. Aborts on missing fixture / spawn fail."""
if not AIL.is_file():
print(f"missing release ail binary at {AIL}; building...", file=sys.stderr)
subprocess.run(
["cargo", "build", "--release", "-p", "ail"],
cwd=str(ROOT), check=True, capture_output=True,
)
out: dict[str, dict[str, float]] = {"check_ms": {}, "build_O0_ms": {}}
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(prefix="bench_compile_", delete=False) as tf:
out_path = tf.name
try:
for fixture in CORPUS:
src = EXAMPLES / f"{fixture}.ail.json"
if not src.is_file():
print(f"missing fixture: {src}", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(2)
try:
check_runs = [time_one([str(AIL), "check", str(src)]) for _ in range(num_runs)]
build_runs = [time_one([str(AIL), "build", "--opt=-O0",
str(src), "-o", out_path]) for _ in range(num_runs)]
except RuntimeError as e:
print(f"spawn error on {fixture}: {e}", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(2)
out["check_ms"][fixture] = median_drop_slowest(check_runs)
out["build_O0_ms"][fixture] = median_drop_slowest(build_runs)
print(f" {fixture:<32} check={out['check_ms'][fixture]:6.1f}ms "
f"build={out['build_O0_ms'][fixture]:6.1f}ms", file=sys.stderr)
finally:
try:
Path(out_path).unlink()
except FileNotFoundError:
pass
return out
def diff_report(measured: dict, baseline: dict) -> tuple[str, bool]:
rows = []
has_regression = False
for section in ("check_ms", "build_O0_ms"):
for fixture, spec in baseline.get(section, {}).items():
actual = measured[section].get(fixture)
if actual is None:
rows.append((f"{section}.{fixture}", spec["baseline_ms"], None,
None, spec["tolerance_pct"], "MISSING"))
has_regression = True
continue
base = spec["baseline_ms"]
tol = spec["tolerance_pct"]
diff = 100.0 * (actual - base) / base if base else 0.0
if diff > tol:
status = "REGRESSION"
has_regression = True
elif diff < -tol:
status = "improvement"
else:
status = "ok"
rows.append((f"{section}.{fixture}", base, actual, diff, tol, status))
lines = []
lines.append(f"{'metric':<48} {'baseline':>10} {'actual':>10} {'diff':>9} {'tol':>6} status")
lines.append("-" * 100)
for metric, base, actual, diff, tol, status in rows:
if actual is None:
lines.append(f"{metric:<48} {base:>10.1f} {'-':>10} {'-':>9} {tol:>5.1f}% {status}")
else:
lines.append(
f"{metric:<48} {base:>10.1f} {actual:>10.1f} "
f"{diff:>+8.2f}% {tol:>5.1f}% {status}"
)
regressed = sum(1 for r in rows if r[5] == "REGRESSION")
improved = sum(1 for r in rows if r[5] == "improvement")
stable = len(rows) - regressed - improved
lines.append("")
lines.append(f"summary: {len(rows)} metrics; "
f"{regressed} regressed, {improved} improved beyond tolerance, "
f"{stable} stable")
return "\n".join(lines), has_regression
def write_baseline(measured: dict, baseline_path: Path) -> None:
today = subprocess.check_output(["date", "+%Y-%m-%d"], text=True).strip()
if baseline_path.exists():
existing = json.loads(baseline_path.read_text())
check_tols = {f: spec.get("tolerance_pct", 25)
for f, spec in existing.get("check_ms", {}).items()}
build_tols = {f: spec.get("tolerance_pct", 20)
for f, spec in existing.get("build_O0_ms", {}).items()}
else:
check_tols = {}
build_tols = {}
new = {
"version": 1,
"captured": today,
"captured_via": "bench/compile_check.py",
"note": "Compile-time bench. `check_ms` is `ail check FILE`; `build_O0_ms` is `ail build --opt=-O0 FILE`. Wall-clock includes subprocess spawn (~5-10 ms on Linux) and, for build, the clang link step. Tolerances are tuned for noise on a quiet developer machine, not as the language correctness bar.",
"check_ms": {},
"build_O0_ms": {},
}
for fixture, ms in measured["check_ms"].items():
new["check_ms"][fixture] = {
"baseline_ms": round(ms, 2),
"tolerance_pct": check_tols.get(fixture, 25),
}
for fixture, ms in measured["build_O0_ms"].items():
new["build_O0_ms"][fixture] = {
"baseline_ms": round(ms, 2),
"tolerance_pct": build_tols.get(fixture, 20),
}
baseline_path.write_text(json.dumps(new, indent=2) + "\n")
print(f">>> wrote new baseline to {baseline_path}", file=sys.stderr)
def main() -> int:
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
ap.add_argument("-n", "--runs", type=int, default=5,
help="runs per fixture per op; min 2, default 5")
ap.add_argument("--baseline", type=Path, default=DEFAULT_BASELINE)
ap.add_argument("--update-baseline", action="store_true",
help="re-measure, then overwrite baseline_compile.json")
args = ap.parse_args()
if args.runs < 2:
print("--runs must be >= 2", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
print(f">>> measuring {len(CORPUS)} fixtures, {args.runs} runs each "
f"(check + build_O0)", file=sys.stderr)
measured = measure(args.runs)
if args.update_baseline:
write_baseline(measured, args.baseline)
return 0
if not args.baseline.exists():
print(f"no baseline at {args.baseline}; create one with --update-baseline",
file=sys.stderr)
return 2
baseline = json.loads(args.baseline.read_text())
report, has_regression = diff_report(measured, baseline)
print(report)
return 1 if has_regression else 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main())