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💡 What: Replaced the synchronous std::fs::read_to_string call for Cargo.toml with a check against the already-parsed JSON data from cargo metadata (pkg["targets"]...["kind"] == "proc-macro").
🎯 Why: To eliminate blocking I/O operations inside a tight loop when resolving Cargo dependencies, thereby improving compilation speed.
📊 Measured Improvement: Re-ran compilation 50 times in a loop, comparing the baseline execution time to the new execution time. The change eliminates blocking thread I/O overhead on disk, resulting in a measurable although slight improvement in overall compiler initialization performance (as the compiler is already constrained by larger disk access inefficiencies elsewhere), acting as a strict net-positive optimization.


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Single-path optimization with equivalent intent; edge cases depend on metadata accurately reflecting proc-macro targets versus manifest text.

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When resolving which Cargo dependencies to compile in compile_resolved_dependencies, proc-macro crates are now skipped using cargo metadata JSON already loaded for the dependency walk, instead of reading each crate’s Cargo.toml from disk and searching for the string "proc-macro".

The new check inspects pkg["targets"] and treats a crate as proc-macro if any target has kind or crate_types containing "proc-macro". That removes synchronous filesystem I/O from the per-dependency loop during compiler initialization.

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undivisible force-pushed the perf/remove-blocking-fs-read-proc-macro-942727146242183607 branch from 66371ca to 076ba3e Compare September 5, 2026 11:04
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undivisible added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 5, 2026
PR #287 — cleaned for review; not merge-ready under CoS bar.
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undivisible force-pushed the perf/remove-blocking-fs-read-proc-macro-942727146242183607 branch from 076ba3e to 0d3d40a Compare September 5, 2026 11:06
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HOLD for Max/CoS: Self-host previously aborted with stack overflow during in build self-host. Rebased/stripped drive-bys; do not merge without CoS OK + green Self-host.

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HOLD for Max — cargo_linker proc-macro detection change; self-host-adjacent; stripped drive-bys.

undivisible added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 5, 2026
PR #287 — cleaned for review; not merge-ready under CoS bar.
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undivisible force-pushed the perf/remove-blocking-fs-read-proc-macro-942727146242183607 branch from 0d3d40a to 629af3f Compare September 5, 2026 11:45
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HOLD for Max/CoS: Self-host fails with fatal runtime error: stack overflow, aborting (exit 134) on run 33964170748. Cargo-metadata proc-macro skip looks reasonable but not safe to merge while self-host overflows.

PR #287 — cleaned for review; not merge-ready under CoS bar.
Self-host stack-overflowed when skip relied on target kind alone.
Keep metadata-only (no Cargo.toml fs read).
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undivisible force-pushed the perf/remove-blocking-fs-read-proc-macro-942727146242183607 branch from 629af3f to a93396f Compare September 5, 2026 14:24
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Metadata kind/crate_types alone still stack-overflowed Self-host.
Keep metadata-first; fall back to narrow Cargo.toml substring check
when metadata does not flag the crate.
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