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Use when planning, implementing, reviewing, or interpreting TSZ performance work, including benchmark regressions, cache/residency changes, timing claims, perf counters, hotspot investigations, OOM/timeout/stack-overflow blockers, or optimization PR evidence.

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TSZ Performance Engineering

Use for performance, cache/residency, OOM/timeout/stack-overflow, counters, benchmark regressions, and timing claims.

Rules

  • Read AGENTS.md, docs/plan/ROADMAP.md, and relevant PR/issues.
  • Correctness first. Timing claims matter only for green rows or explicit runtime/residency blockers.
  • Optimize the repeated operation, not a fixture spelling.
  • State invariant: cache key, invalidation/reset, request scope, fuel/cycle behavior, residency bound, or complexity change.
  • No checker-local semantic algorithms, display-string heuristics, source-text shortcuts, name allowlists, or cross-interner TypeId comparisons.
  • Read references/perf-mistakes.md before adding/widening caches, changing residency, or claiming speedups.

Evidence

Use narrow, reproducible commands; wrap heavy runs.

python3 scripts/perf/cache-visibility-report.py --json
python3 scripts/perf/visited-clone-report.py --json
python3 scripts/perf/debug-print-report.py --json
python3 scripts/perf/migration_callsite_counts.py --json
python3 scripts/perf/query-perf-counters.py --json <artifact> --baseline <baseline>
scripts/safe-run.sh ./scripts/bench/perf-hotspots.sh --quick --json-file /tmp/hotspots.json
scripts/safe-run.sh ./scripts/bench/bench-vs-tsgo.sh --filter '<row>' --json-file /tmp/bench.json
scripts/bench/measure-tsz.sh --timeout 420 --json-file /tmp/m.json -- --noEmit -p <tsconfig>

Use focused compile guard or cargo nextest run -E 'test(...)' when shortest. Do not run full conformance, emit, fourslash, or broad project suites locally.

For ad-hoc timing or perf bisects on shared boxes, use scripts/bench/measure-tsz.sh: it snapshots the binary to an immutable hash-verified copy (never time the live dist-fast/ path — sibling sessions overwrite it) and records process CPU time next to wall time, so wall-only timeouts under CPU contention are reported as unmeasured instead of slow. See references/perf-mistakes.md and issue #13174.

Cache Checklist

  • What semantic question is cached?
  • What stable identity is the key? Avoid cross-file NodeIndex and cross-interner TypeId.
  • Does the key include all behavior modes: relation, variance, freshness, contextual typing, inference source, any, target/module/options, request scope, cycle/fuel, file/session generation?
  • Where is reset/invalidation?
  • What happens cold/disabled/order-randomized?
  • Is size/residency bounded or observable?

PR/comment packet: goal (usually fast) and affected rows, invariant, exact commands/CI, green row timing only, RSS/failure-class evidence for runtime blockers, counter deltas, noise/caveats.