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What changed

  • Reuse the compiled NNTP multiline terminator matcher on the incremental framing path.
  • Add a feature-gated benchmark comparing rolling-tail incremental framing with a full-buffer rescan control.
  • Add differential coverage for every possible two-push split of a valid multiline response.
  • Update rustls to 0.23.45 to resolve the CI security advisory.

Benchmark results

Microbenchmark medians from the optimized benchmark profile:

  • 64 KiB response, 2-byte reads: 443 microseconds incremental versus 19.0 milliseconds rescanning.
  • 64 KiB response, 31-byte reads: 31.8 microseconds incremental versus 1.21 milliseconds rescanning.
  • 768 KiB response, 31-byte reads: 347 microseconds incremental versus 180 milliseconds rescanning.

Whole-read performance is effectively equal. Fragmented reads avoid repeated full-buffer scans.

End-to-end cache-miss benchmark

The benchmark used the full 112-cell article matrix:

  • 4 proxy thread counts: 1, 2, 4, 8
  • 7 backend connection counts: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64
  • 4 client counts: 1, 4, 8, 16
  • 10 GiB transferred per cell
  • Article-only traffic, pipeline depth 32, synthetic 728,320-byte articles
  • One measured run per cell; aggregate is the equal-weight mean of cell throughputs
Metric Branch Recorded main
Equal-weight mean 4,447.1 MiB/s 3,518.8 MiB/s
Single-client baseline (1/1/1) 3,548.8 MiB/s 3,476.6 MiB/s

The branch is +26.4% on the full-matrix mean and +2.1% on the single-client baseline. The aggregate gain is therefore configuration-sensitive rather than uniform.

Branch distribution:

  • Median: 4,594.6 MiB/s
  • Minimum: 2,806.3 MiB/s at 4 threads, 4 backend connections, 1 client
  • Maximum: 6,839.1 MiB/s at 4 threads, 4 backend connections, 16 clients

Mean by proxy thread count:

Threads MiB/s
1 3,841.8
2 4,637.8
4 4,657.9
8 4,650.9

Mean by client count:

Clients MiB/s
1 3,437.3
4 4,749.5
8 4,754.3
16 4,847.2

The recorded main numbers are from the existing release benchmark for main, not a same-minute rerun, so the comparison should be read as directional performance evidence rather than a controlled confidence interval.

Tests added

  • The differential test checks every two-push split against the completed boundary from a full rescan, covering all split positions in the response.
  • The benchmark covers 64 KiB and 768 KiB responses with fragmented and whole-read schedules, and reports incremental versus rescanning work.
  • The existing suite passes: 2,294 tests, with clippy warnings denied.

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The change caches multiline terminator scanning and adds feature-gated Divan benchmarks. The benchmarks compare incremental and stateless framing for 64 KiB and 768 KiB responses across multiple chunk sizes. A split-point test validates equivalent framing results.

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Multiline framing benchmarks

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cached framing and benchmark helpers
src/session/multiline_framing.rs
The framer caches its memchr terminator finder. Feature-gated helpers benchmark incremental and stateless framing. A test compares results for every two-push split.
Benchmark feature wiring
Cargo.toml, src/session/mod.rs
The crate adds the framing-bench feature, registers the benchmark target, and re-exports the benchmark helpers when the feature is enabled.
Divan benchmark cases
benches/multiline_framing.rs
The benchmark builds 64 KiB and 768 KiB responses and measures incremental and stateless framing for configured chunk sizes and sample counts.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Refactor

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The default benchmark workflow fails to build the new multiline framing benchmark. Gate the target on framing-bench before merging.

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In `@Cargo.toml`:
- Around line 144-146: Add required-features = ["framing-bench"] to the
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[[bench]]
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Gate the benchmark target with framing-bench.

Without required-features, cargo bench builds this target without framing-bench. The imports in benches/multiline_framing.rs then cannot resolve because src/session/mod.rs exports them only under that feature. Add required-features = ["framing-bench"].

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 [[bench]]
 name = "multiline_framing"
 harness = false
+required-features = ["framing-bench"]
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[[bench]]
name = "multiline_framing"
harness = false
[[bench]]
name = "multiline_framing"
harness = false
required-features = ["framing-bench"]
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In `@Cargo.toml` around lines 144 - 146, Add required-features = ["framing-bench"]
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