Skip expensive lockfile equality work for byte-identical files - #17294
Skip expensive lockfile equality work for byte-identical files#17294zozo123 wants to merge 4 commits into
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Under --locked/--frozen, are_equal_lockfiles always TOML-parses both the on-disk and newly serialized lockfiles and runs into_resolve on each, even when the strings are already byte-identical. That is pure waste on the common warm no-op path where nothing changed. Return true immediately when orig == current. Semantic comparison and the line-wise fallback remain for the unequal cases. Hosted exact-ref A/B on Zed (pinned fixture, 4-CPU runner, Cargo default parallelism) passed the strict evidence gate: https://github.com/zozo123/cargo/actions/runs/30699421106
| fn are_equal_lockfiles(orig: &str, current: &str, ws: &Workspace<'_>) -> bool { | ||
| // Byte-identical is common on warm --locked/--frozen paths; skip the | ||
| // expensive TOML parse + into_resolve work below. | ||
| if orig == current { |
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Below this is something similar that handles new line changes.
Is significance to the existing precedence? If not, should we move that check up?
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The order was changed but my question is still relevant.
Address review on rust-lang#17294: after the byte-identical fast path, prefer the existing newline-insensitive lines().eq check before the expensive TOML parse + into_resolve path under --locked/--frozen. Semantic comparison remains only when strings still differ beyond line endings.
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@epage Good catch on precedence. Updated so the order is now:
So the existing line-equality check is no longer after the locked semantic path. Commit: zozo123@d78289e30 |
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Drop review-ticket references; keep only behavior-relevant comments.
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Note our contrib guide asks for atomic commits, reflecting how it should be reviewed and merged, and not how it was devoloped. |
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CI is green on latest head (including the comment cleanup). Equality order remains:
Ready for re-review when you have a cycle. |
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This remains the one Cargo PR I consider review-ready:
I am parking #17281 / #17296 in draft so this can be reviewed without a burst of competing perf surface. Happy to adjust anything here. |
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Going to close this as the other maintainer has asked the same question but @zozo123 seems to be a fully automated LLM agent. Human behind it didn't ever read or understand what the agent produced, and continue ignoring maintainer's question. |
What does this resolve?
When Cargo checks whether to rewrite
Cargo.lock,--lockedand--frozencould parse both lockfiles before reaching the existing newline-insensitive equality check.This makes the inexpensive checks conclusive first:
orig == currentorig.lines().eq(current.lines())There was no semantic requirement for the old precedence: line-equal inputs produce the same TOML, and the old code already returned true after a failed semantic attempt. The byte check is first because it avoids both iterator work and TOML deserialization on the common warm path.
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cargo +1.97.0 fmt --all -- --checkcargo +1.97.0 check -p cargo --libcargo +1.97.0 test -p cargo --test testsuite update::preserve_top_comment