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Port of OpenINF/.github#913, where the full reasoning and measurements are
written out. This repository's commit queue is the one in daily use, so the
exposure here is real rather than theoretical.

One correction to #1883: measured as one call to a process, which is how
the queue does it, the reading is linear at every size — not super-linear. The
blow-up in the issue's table is heap pressure from repeated in-process calls,
and the kill at 800,000 lines is memory rather than exponent. The fix is the
same either way, but it changes what a test has to look for.

What was paying for it

Four costs, all per line of the message:

  • Every line segmented into graphemes to measure its width. No grapheme is
    fewer than one code unit, so a line of ≤72 code units is within the limit
    whatever it holds. This was the bulk of it — and the allocation behind the
    out-of-memory kill.
  • Seven regexes compiled per line of the last paragraph, which a message
    can make the whole message. Built once now.
  • The message rebuilt and re-split to find the trailer block, with the
    paragraphs already in hand.
  • paragraphsOf joined and re-split the lines twice over. It walks them.

Reading 200,000 lines now costs 2–6× looking at every line once, against
33–124× before. 800,000 lines fit in 183 MB rather than 674 MB.

The tests

The two that claimed to guard this asserted a wall-clock budget at a single
size — which cannot separate linear from quadratic, and which went red on a
loaded runner over code that was fine. Each is now a ratio between two
measurements taken moments apart on the same machine, one of them work known
to be linear, so a slow or busy machine raises both and leaves the ratio
alone. The floor is written out in the test rather than borrowed from the
module, since sharing linesOf would let a change that made splitting
quadratic raise the floor by as much as the measurement and hide in it.

Checked against the code they must reject — the previous reading fails 3 of 4,
a regex-based strip of the trailing newlines fails 2 at over 1,200× the floor,
and dropping the ^ from the Assisted-by pattern fails the fourth at 3,063×
its control. The fixed code sits at 2–6× and 1.05×, with no failures in ten
runs on a machine carrying four times as many spinning processes as cores.

Both files are byte-identical to the ones in OpenINF/.github but for the
package the test imports from.

Fixes: #1883
Refs: OpenINF/.github#913

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  • Performance

    • Improved efficiency when processing commit messages, especially those with multiple paragraphs, trailers, or extensive content.
    • Reduced processing overhead during message validation, including width checks for long lines.
  • Tests

    • Updated performance measurements to provide more consistent results across environments.
    • Expanded performance coverage for varied commit-message layouts and content sizes.

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The commit-message validator now processes paragraphs and trailers without repeated message reconstruction. It precomputes trailer patterns, avoids unnecessary grapheme segmentation, and uses ratio-based tests to detect super-linear behavior.

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Commit message performance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Message parsing and trailer reuse
build/shared/commit-message.mts
paragraphsOf scans lines directly. trailerBlockOf centralizes trailer detection. checkTrailers reuses parsed paragraphs.
Validation hot-path optimizations
build/shared/commit-message.mts
Trailer regexes are precomputed. The body-width check uses code-unit length before grapheme segmentation.
Ratio-based performance tests
build/shared/commit-message.test.mts
Timing tests compare validation cost with linear baselines across body, blank-line, trailing-newline, and Assisted-by inputs.

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Commit-message validation now avoids repeated parsing and unnecessary grapheme segmentation while retaining width and trailer validation behavior. The updated scaling tests alternate timing order, leaving no concrete merge-blocking risk.

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- Around line 389-395: Rename the block-scoped constants RUNS, ROUNDS, LINES,
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The port of OpenINF/.github#913, where the reasoning is written out.
This repository's commit queue is the one in daily use, so the
exposure here is real rather than theoretical: the queue reads a
message assembled from whatever a pull request's commits say, while
holding a token that can merge.

Reading cost 25 to 30 times what it needed to, and allocated enough
that a large message could get the process killed -- 800,000 lines
took 674 MB. Four costs, all of them per line: every line segmented
into graphemes to measure its width, seven regexes compiled for each
line of the last paragraph, the message rebuilt and re-split to find
the trailers with the paragraphs already in hand, and a paragraph
split that joined the lines and split the result twice more.

Reading 200,000 lines now costs 2 to 6 times looking at every line
once, against 33 to 124 before, and 800,000 lines fit in 183 MB.

The two tests that claimed to guard this asserted a wall-clock budget
at a single size, which cannot tell linear from quadratic and which
went red on a loaded runner over code that was fine. Each is now a
ratio between two measurements taken moments apart on the same
machine, one of them work known to be linear.

Both files are byte-identical to the ones in OpenINF/.github but for
the package the test imports from.

Signed-off-by: Derek Lewis <DerekNonGeneric@inf.is>
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-opus-5
Fixes: #1883
Refs: OpenINF/.github#913
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