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…out double re-descent The engine_comparison bench becomes a ladder of suites (env, get, scan, seek, put, del, commit, mixed, concurrent, maint) whose adjacent rungs differ by one mechanism; docs/BENCH-MAP.md maps each rung to the PERF-GAP item it isolates, scripts/bench-report.py prints the ratio table. B8a: RwCursor::del_current leaves the cursor positioned instead of re-descending twice per entry (cursor_delete_position oracle test).
…ench-server run - scripts/bench-ab.sh + bench-ab.py: ZeroDB at BASE vs the working tree, interleaved rounds, LMDB as drift control, three-column table + verdict.json. Base and candidate build into separate target dirs (a shared one let cargo reuse one tree's artifact for the other). - scripts/bench-profile.sh: one rung under samply / macOS sample / perf. - scripts/perf-ledger.py + benches/results/perf-ledger.jsonl: every attempt, kept or not; seeded with B3, the disproved remove_cell loop, B8 (ADR-gated). - bench-report.py --json; .claude/commands/perf-iterate.md drives one cycle. - benches/results/2026-09-25-bench-server-linux-x86.md: first Linux x86-64 run (4 KiB pages): ladder long tier, B8a A/B (cursor/drain 0.805x), Meilisearch 1.08x indexing / 0.96x search, hannoy 1.11-1.14x, and the per-release futex_wake diagnosis for rw_empty_commit.
Step 2 now reads the matching mdb.c path (clean-room, rule 4) and step 3's hypothesis states what LMDB avoids and how; a lever with no LMDB counterpart must say why.
…iding the rung LMDB's code is identical in both binaries, but rebuilding zerodb-core changes the bench binary's layout, which moves ~100 ns/op LMDB rungs by up to ~13 % (env/txn/ro_begin_abort: 1230 vs 1073 us in all 3 order-alternated rounds). When LMDB's offset is same-signed in every one of >=3 rounds and spreads less than MAX_DRIFT, it is layout, not the machine: the rung is kept and the offset is ADDED to its threshold (stricter). Inconsistent drift stays unreliable.
…rite txn)
WriterGuard::drop called Condvar::notify_one() unconditionally. On Linux
std's futex Condvar makes each notify a futex_wake syscall even with no
waiter: one syscall per write txn. LMDB's Linux writer lock is a pthread
mutex, kernel-free when uncontended; this does the same: a waiter count
under the flag mutex (incremented before wait, decremented after), and the
release notifies only when it is non-zero. SPEC 04 TXN-6 amended.
Bench server (Xeon E3-1230v2, x86-64, 4 KiB pages, turbo off).
perf trace -s, 3 s of env/txn/rw_empty_commit:
ZeroDB futex calls 1,401,099 -> 31 (LMDB in the same binary: 31)
bench-ab, 5 interleaved rounds (verdict "invalid": LMDB drift 1.032 > 0.03;
kept on Quentin's approval given the deterministic count above):
| rung | LMDB | ZeroDB before | ZeroDB after | vs LMDB before -> after | after / before | LMDB drift |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| env/txn/rw_empty_commit | 76.853 us | 455.973 us | 167.952 us | 5.93x -> 2.19x | 0.380 (+-0.030) | 1.032 |
Breadth, 3 rounds: commit/batch/{n1,n100,n10k} flat (0.973-0.998),
env/txn/ro_begin_abort flat (layout offset).
Gate on the server: fmt, clippy -D warnings, cargo test --workspace (95
binaries), just stress (180 s), miri zerodb-core (84), fuzz-quick
(diff_ops 131,544 runs, fuzz_image_open 2,871,071 runs): all green.
record_for took the named_memo Mutex and scanned a Vec on every read of a
named database. LMDB indexes a per-txn array (txn->mt_dbs[dbi], sized
me_maxdbs, refreshed lazily via DB_STALE). RoTxn now keeps a dbi-indexed
table of write-once OnceLock<DBRecord> slots, allocated on the first named
access and sized min(max_dbs, 256): a hit is an index plus one Acquire load,
no lock, so rayon workers sharing one RoTxn (milli) do not contend. dbis past
256 keep the old locked path, bounding the per-txn allocation for huge
max_dbs. EnvInner gains a lock-free max_dbs field for the sizing.
Bench server (Xeon E3-1230v2, x86-64, 4 KiB pages, turbo off).
bench-ab, 3 interleaved rounds (verdict: improved):
| rung | LMDB | ZeroDB before | ZeroDB after | vs LMDB before -> after | after / before | LMDB drift |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| scan/edge/first_last | 1.406 ms | 3.351 ms | 3.119 ms | 2.38x -> 2.22x | 0.904 (+-0.077) | 0.985 |
| get/access/miss | 1.288 ms | 2.265 ms | 2.100 ms | 1.76x -> 1.63x | 0.927 (+-0.071) | 0.959 |
| get/access/hot | 1.774 ms | 2.346 ms | 2.375 ms | 1.32x -> 1.34x | 1.012 (+-0.067) | 0.966 |
get/db/* and get/access/{rand,seq}: flat.
Breadth, 1 round over scan/* and seek/*: no regression;
| scan/meta/len | 90.301 us | 222.111 us | 91.507 us | 2.46x -> 1.01x | 0.412 | 1.117 |
| scan/edge/first_last | 1.420 ms | 3.382 ms | 3.018 ms | 2.38x -> 2.13x | 0.892 | 1.006 |
all other scan/seek rungs within +-3 %.
Gate on the server: fmt, clippy -D warnings, cargo test --workspace (95
binaries), just stress (180 s), miri zerodb-core, fuzz-quick (diff_ops
122,899 runs, fuzz_image_open 2,761,940 runs): all green.
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Bench-harness fixes (no engine change):
- concurrent/writer/rN times only the writer loop (iter_custom on the
writer's own elapsed time); readers poll the stop flag every 1024 entries
instead of once per 50k-entry scan; new same-shape base rung r0.
- commit/batch/* and commit/sync/* no longer time the fixture drop
(the routine returns the fixture; criterion drops it after the clock).
- get/val/{v8,v4k,v2page}_touch read the first and last value byte, so
overflow rungs measure real work; the original rungs are unchanged.
- bench-profile.sh: perf --call-graph dwarf (frame-pointer unwinding was
broken). BENCH-MAP notes that pre-fix concurrent/commit numbers are not
comparable.
examples/commit_census.rs: N single-put commits on a fresh named DB with the
rung's settings and nothing else in the process, optionally phase-timed, for
strace/perf stat/perf record. Bench server (x86-64, 4 KiB), 20k commits:
LMDB 7.6 us/commit (begin 0.12, put 1.1, commit 6.4), ZeroDB 16.0 us (0.17,
4.45, 11.35); ZeroDB makes fewer write syscalls (4.3 vs 5.5) but runs 2.5x
the instructions (57.5k vs 22.9k). ~89 % of the +8.4 us attributed in
PERF-GAP B12: whole-page COW copy into a fresh Box (+2.3 us), first-touch
validation in the descent (+1.5 us), free-list save + allocate (+3.1 us),
one extra page written (+1.1 us).
Every existing rung starts with an empty or tiny free list, so the cost of drawing reused pages (which scales with the entry's length) was invisible. Setup loads 300k keys, deletes the lower half in one txn and ages the entry one commit (so LMDB's stricter F < oldest gate admits it too); the timed txn overwrites 20k random keys of the surviving half. Bench server (x86-64, 4 KiB): LMDB 30.97 ms, ZeroDB 68.78 ms (2.22x; put/over/same_size is 1.11x).
wr_fresh, wr_loaded (every put/* and del/* rung built on them), del/range/half, mixed/rw/8dbs and maint/copy/* dropped their fixture (env unmap, temp-dir removal, the copied file) inside the timed closure. They now return it; criterion's iter_batched drops routine outputs after stopping the clock. Same fix as commit/* and concurrent/* (b735da0). BENCH-MAP logs that pre-2026-09-26 put/del/mixed/maint numbers include teardown and are not comparable.
…gate) Same commit built four ways on the bench server (x86-64, 4 KiB, two passes, 0.3-1.3 % pass-to-pass spread): CGU16 default, CGU1 (Meilisearch's release profile), CGU1 + -inline-threshold=1000, and that plus fat LTO. With no code change, the raised threshold makes ZeroDB 8-38 % faster on every hot path while LMDB's C core does not move: get/access/hot 1.22x -> 1.08x, get/db/named 1.45x -> 1.26x, scan/edge/first_last 2.15x -> 1.41x, put/order/seq 1.16x -> 1.05x. CGU1 is ZeroDB's worst case (get/access/hot 1.40x). The lever is source-level: move cold arms out of the hot bodies. perf-iterate now A/Bs each lever at both CGU16 and CGU1.
…ult threshold PERF-GAP B13's codegen gate showed that raising LLVM's inlining threshold makes ZeroDB 8-38 % faster with no code change. An nm diff of those builds names what LLVM inlines only at the raised threshold; this marks exactly those #[inline(always)]: Source::bytes_from_classified, ValidatedPages::contains, node_view, Cursor::leaf_at, BranchRef::child_index_with, leaf_cell_len, read_and_check_bounds, OverflowRef::new (+ #[inline] on heed-zerodb Database::get). Attributes only, no logic change. LMDB's analogue: its page lookup and node search are small static functions that the C compiler inlines into the descent. Bench server (Xeon E3-1230v2, x86-64, 4 KiB, turbo off), bench-ab 3 rounds: | rung | LMDB | ZeroDB before | ZeroDB after | vs LMDB before -> after | after / before | CGU1 (Meilisearch's release profile) - improved 37, regressed 0: | get/access/hot | 1.746 ms | 2.391 ms | 1.941 ms | 1.37x -> 1.11x | 0.808 | | get/db/named | 3.502 ms | 5.472 ms | 4.668 ms | 1.56x -> 1.33x | 0.850 | | scan/edge/first_last | 1.342 ms | 2.972 ms | 2.099 ms | 2.22x -> 1.56x | 0.706 | | seek/ge/rand | 3.729 ms | 5.431 ms | 4.753 ms | 1.46x -> 1.27x | 0.875 | | put/order/seq | 27.542 ms | 33.957 ms | 30.168 ms | 1.23x -> 1.10x | 0.887 | | put/api/reserved | 27.602 ms | 36.649 ms | 32.531 ms | 1.33x -> 1.18x | 0.888 | CGU16 (default; hannoy) - improved 31, regressed 0: | get/access/hot | 1.778 ms | 2.185 ms | 1.986 ms | 1.23x -> 1.12x | 0.912 | | get/db/named | 3.529 ms | 5.311 ms | 4.706 ms | 1.50x -> 1.33x | 0.886 | | scan/edge/first_last | 1.419 ms | 3.016 ms | 2.235 ms | 2.13x -> 1.57x | 0.742 | | seek/ge/rand | 3.824 ms | 5.296 ms | 4.796 ms | 1.38x -> 1.25x | 0.904 | Breadth, CGU1, 1 round (del/commit/mixed/env): no regression; del/* 0.88-0.95, commit/batch/n100 0.909, n10k 0.892, mixed/rw/8dbs 0.915. Gate on the server: fmt, clippy -D warnings, cargo test --workspace, fuzz-quick (diff_ops 73,207 runs, fuzz_image_open 2,826,203): green.
Every single-page GC draw takes the entry's smallest id (GC-19), and Vec::drain(0..1) memmoved the whole remainder each time: O(L^2) to consume an entry of L ids. A drain entry is now the decoded ids plus a consumed-prefix offset. A front draw advances the offset; a mid-entry run removal (rare) still memmoves. The value rewritten at commit (GC-20) is exactly the live remainder, so the on-disk result is byte-identical. LMDB avoids the same cost by keeping its reclaimed list reverse-sorted and cutting from the tail. gc_reclaim, save_pool_draw and loose_run are kept #[inline(never)] so allocate's hot shape (the loose pop) does not move. The first try without that re-laid-out neighbouring write code and was reverted. Bench server (x86-64, 4 KiB pages), bench-ab, 3 interleaved rounds: | build | rung | LMDB | ZeroDB before | ZeroDB after | vs LMDB | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---| | CGU16 | put/gc/drain_big | 30.856 ms | 68.155 ms | 51.955 ms | 2.21x -> 1.68x (0.755) | | CGU1 | put/gc/drain_big | 30.412 ms | 67.914 ms | 51.763 ms | 2.23x -> 1.70x (0.762) | The other 17 put/* and del/* rungs are flat in both builds. Breadth at CGU1 (commit/batch, mixed, env/txn, get, scan; 1 round) flagged five read rungs; their machine code is identical in both builds (only the alignment moved), and 3 rounds on them were flat (0.999-1.010). Gate (bench server): fmt, clippy, cargo test, miri, crash-test-quick, stress, fuzz-quick all green.
RwTxn.open was a HashMap<u32, NamedTree> with the default SipHash hasher, probed several times per named put (ensure_open, record, record_mut). A put/val/v8 profile on the bench server put hash_one::<&u32> plus DefaultHasher::write at 7.5 % of ZeroDB's samples. LMDB keeps the same state in txn->mt_dbs[dbi], an array read by index in mdb_cursor_init. The table is now a Vec<Option<NamedTree>> indexed by dbi; dbi indices are small and append-only, so it grows only to the highest dbi the txn touched. Bench server (x86-64, 4 KiB pages), bench-ab, 3 interleaved rounds, ZeroDB before -> after (ratio vs LMDB): | build | rung | LMDB | ZeroDB before | ZeroDB after | vs LMDB | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---| | CGU16 | put/val/v8 | 2.561 ms | 3.281 ms | 2.801 ms | 1.28x -> 1.09x | | CGU16 | put/order/seq | 29.207 ms | 30.350 ms | 27.857 ms | 1.04x -> 0.95x | | CGU16 | put/api/plain | 28.714 ms | 30.388 ms | 27.818 ms | 1.06x -> 0.97x | | CGU16 | put/api/reserved | 28.873 ms | 33.472 ms | 30.930 ms | 1.16x -> 1.07x | | CGU1 | put/val/v8 | 2.493 ms | 3.198 ms | 2.733 ms | 1.28x -> 1.10x | | CGU1 | put/order/seq | 28.928 ms | 29.908 ms | 27.915 ms | 1.03x -> 0.96x | | CGU1 | put/api/plain | 28.462 ms | 29.892 ms | 27.642 ms | 1.05x -> 0.97x | | CGU1 | put/api/reserved | 28.575 ms | 32.997 ms | 29.590 ms | 1.15x -> 1.04x | put/*: CGU16 8 improved / 0 regressed, CGU1 9 improved / 0 regressed. Breadth at CGU1 (1 round): commit/batch/n10k 1.16x -> 1.02x, mixed/rw/8dbs 1.11x -> 1.05x, del/* 4-7 % faster; the one flag (del/clear/all) was flat over 3 rounds (0.984 +-0.097). Gate (bench server): fmt, clippy, cargo test, miri, fuzz-quick green.
search_path built a new Vec for every put and delete: an allocation, a growth and a free per op (~3 % of put/val/v8 samples on the bench server). LMDB's cursor stack is allocated once and reused. The write txn now keeps one path buffer, taken with mem::take for each put/delete and put back after, so only the first op allocates. A nested put (catalog write) just gets a fresh buffer, so behaviour cannot change. The first try, the read path's inline 32-frame PathStack, was reverted: zero-filling and returning a 520-byte struct per op cost more than the 2-3-frame Vec (put/val/v8 +8 % at CGU16). Bench server (x86-64, 4 KiB pages), bench-ab, 3 interleaved rounds: | build | rung | LMDB | ZeroDB before | ZeroDB after | vs LMDB | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---| | CGU16 | put/val/v8 | 2.548 ms | 2.745 ms | 2.545 ms | 1.08x -> 1.00x | | CGU16 | put/order/seq | 29.162 ms | 27.697 ms | 26.799 ms | 0.95x -> 0.92x | | CGU16 | put/api/plain | 28.788 ms | 27.727 ms | 26.856 ms | 0.96x -> 0.93x | | CGU16 | del/bulk/half | 10.999 ms | 24.775 ms | 22.928 ms | 2.25x -> 2.08x | | CGU1 | put/val/v8 | 2.528 ms | 2.800 ms | 2.434 ms | 1.11x -> 0.96x | | CGU1 | put/order/seq | 29.142 ms | 27.421 ms | 26.296 ms | 0.94x -> 0.90x | | CGU1 | put/api/plain | 28.489 ms | 27.383 ms | 26.264 ms | 0.96x -> 0.92x | put/* + del/*: CGU16 8 improved / 0 regressed, CGU1 4 / 0. Breadth at CGU1 (commit/batch, mixed, env/txn; 1 round): commit/batch/n10k 1.03x -> 0.99x, nothing slower. Gate (bench server): fmt, clippy, cargo test, miri, fuzz-quick green.
The APPEND check copied the tree's last key into a fresh Vec to compare it once, and built a fresh path Vec. It now compares in place in the leaf under the tree's ordering, as LMDB's APPEND check does, and reuses the write txn's path buffer (as put and delete already do). Bench server (x86-64, 4 KiB pages), bench-ab, 3 interleaved rounds: | build | rung | LMDB | ZeroDB before | ZeroDB after | vs LMDB | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---| | CGU16 | put/order/append | 20.464 ms | 27.035 ms | 24.385 ms | 1.32x -> 1.19x | | CGU1 | put/order/append | 20.199 ms | 26.183 ms | 23.419 ms | 1.30x -> 1.16x | The other 11 put/* rungs are flat in both builds. Gate (bench server): fmt, clippy, cargo test, miri, fuzz-quick green.
…SS (indexing parity, search +6 %/+3 % trusted, all in the facet-sort query)
…(scan/full/fwd +5 %)
…al/* flat); third revert in a row, loop stopped
…he catalog), SPEC GC-23/24 amended: env/stat/non_free 467x -> 0.41x LMDB, and correct under WRITE_MAP (was reporting the whole map)
…ull walk on second sight; read txns and leaf pages first
…ng the run header, as mdb_node_read does (trusted get/val/v4k 1.29x -> 0.91x, v4k_touch 1.14x -> 0.94x; default flat)
…s (1M-key tree -23 %, random -4..7 %, but seq/miss +11..23 %); not adopted
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…ked superseded by B24; env/stat/non_free docs describe the per-DB computation
…ase D: without it a random-read workload larger than memory thrashed, ~10 GB read in 60 s for a 1.5 GB DB)
…, 2 GB cap): NO_READ_AHEAD fix cuts disk reads 7-11x; ZeroDB at 57 % / 31 % of LMDB on A / B; add short_txn_census example
…y-page memory after commit (glibc retention); malloc_trim experiment +35 %
…s the load's memory; the real difference is the dirty-page peak during a big write txn (1.7 GB vs LMDB's ~540 MiB)
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…nt (seqlock) cache entries
Read txns share a cache keyed by (pgno, page kind, header txnid stamp): a page version fully validated by one txn is served with the zero-check view to the next. A reused page carries a newer stamp and misses; the cache starts empty at open, so a hostile file is still validated on first view. Each slot is a seqlock (loom model, mutation-checked). Slots are indexed by pgno and allocated in 32 KiB chunks; the cache is borrowed from the env, so opening a txn touches no refcount. Write txns and static_read_txn do not use it. Bench server, codegen-units=1, 3 rounds, full ladder: 24 faster, 0 slower. get/* 1.15x -> 0.94-0.96x LMDB, seek/ge/* -> 0.95x, get/size/n1m 1.48x -> 1.08x, scan/range/* 1.70x -> 1.33x, scan/full 1.71x -> 1.49x; writes, memo-hit and per-txn rungs flat (codegen-units=16 likewise). One-get read txn over 1M keys: 1,984 -> 1,008 ns (LMDB 649 ns). Pins: zerodb/tests/page_version_identity.rs (no (pgno, stamp) pair ever has two byte images; fails if COW restamping is disabled).
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…_page_spill Past the dirty limit (LMDB's 131,072 pages; EnvOpenOptions::max_dirty_bytes to set it), a write txn writes its highest-numbered dirty pages to the file at the start of its next mutating call and releases their frames, keeping tree roots and finger pages. A touched spilled page is read back into a frame at the same pgno. Spilled pages resolve through the ordinary map path under a read bound raised past the highest spilled page, and every spill resets the writer's validated-pages memo, so the resolution hot path is unchanged. Spilling writes a subset of the pages commit would write (TXN-62), earlier; SPEC 04 §6.3a (TXN-68..72), SPEC 06 REC-6/REC-10 amended, D-021. rust-storage-bench, 10M items, 2 GB cap: YCSB C's unsorted load, killed by the cap before, completes at 0.87x LMDB with 539 MiB anonymous peak (LMDB 520 MiB); YCSB A 0.58x -> 0.76x, YCSB B 0.31x -> 0.69x (disk reads at LMDB's level). Engine ladder flat in both builds. Tests: zerodb/tests/dirty_spill.rs; a spilling-writer variant of the reader stress; crash harness cycles with tiny dirty limits and a bulk phase (10k cycles, 3,114 spilling txns under cuts, 0 violations).
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ZeroDB is a pure-Rust storage engine meant as a drop-in replacement for LMDB (through the heed API) inside Meilisearch and its vector index, hannoy. This PR adds tooling that measures exactly where ZeroDB is slower than LMDB and whether a change fixes it. It also includes the first three performance fixes made with that tooling.
What changed
1. A benchmark ladder: LMDB vs ZeroDB, one mechanism per step.
crates/zerodb-oracle/benches/engine_comparison/replaces the single bench file with suites for opening an environment, lookups, scans, seeks, inserts, deletes, commits, mixed workloads, concurrency and maintenance. Adjacent steps differ by exactly one mechanism, so a jump in the ZeroDB/LMDB ratio between two steps points at that mechanism's cost. Both engines run the same operation bodies, on the same seeded data, at the same page size.docs/BENCH-MAP.mdexplains how to read it. Run it withjust bench; read it withjust bench-report, which can also output JSON.2. A before/after comparison that separates real changes from noise.
just bench-ab '<regex>'builds ZeroDB at a base commit and in the working tree, in separate target dirs, then runs them in interleaved rounds. LMDB is measured in both builds. Since LMDB's code is identical in both, any movement in its numbers is measurement drift, and runs where LMDB drifts are rejected. The script prints a three-column table (LMDB, ZeroDB before, ZeroDB after) and writes averdict.json:improved,regressed,flatorinvalid.Two details a reviewer should check:
3. A profiler wrapper and an attempts ledger.
just bench-profile <rung> [lmdb]profiles one step on either engine, with samply, macOSsampleor Linuxperf.benches/results/perf-ledger.jsonl(just perf-ledger) records every optimization attempt, including disproved and abandoned ones, so they aren't retried..claude/commands/perf-iterate.mdchains all of this into a repeatable loop for Claude Code: profile, read how LMDB solves the same path, make one change, run the correctness checks, measure, keep or revert, log. The heavy runs happen on a separate, quiet benchmark machine; its scripts live outside this repo.4. Three performance fixes. Each copies the technique LMDB uses for the same path:
crates/zerodb-core/src/rwtxn.rs,btree.rs)crates/zerodb-core/src/env.rs)futexsystem calls on an empty-commit loop 1,401,099 → 31 (LMDB: 31); empty commit 5.93× → 2.19× LMDB's timecrates/zerodb-core/src/rotxn.rs)The writer-lock spec (
docs/SPEC/04-txn-mvcc.md) is amended to match: it still says the lock blocks and hands off exactly as before, and now says it only wakes a waiter when one is parked.What a reviewer should know
bench-abreturnedinvalidbecause LMDB itself moved 3.2 % between the two builds, just over the 3 % limit. The deterministic evidence was unambiguous, though: the system-call count dropped to LMDB's, and ZeroDB moved 62 % in every round. The ledger anddocs/PERF-GAP-VS-LMDB.mdboth record this.cargo fmt --check,cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -D warnings,cargo test --workspace, the 180-second reader/writer stress test, miri onzerodb-core, and the 10-minute differential fuzz run against LMDB. All passed; no test was changed to make them pass.benches/results/2026-09-25-bench-server-linux-x86.md). None of these numbers come from Graviton + EBS, the production target, and they settle nothing about durable-commit (fsync) latency.See also
docs/BENCH-MAP.md: what each benchmark step isolatesdocs/PERF-GAP-VS-LMDB.md: the inventory of known costs vs LMDB, updated for these fixesbenches/results/2026-09-25-bench-server-linux-x86.md: the full server run🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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