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What changes for the user

Changing a setting of upload-validation held the window for about 0.15 s, on the Presets screen and on every key typed into Several batches built on it. It now takes about 0.03 s. The sets the presets build are byte for byte the same.

Why it was slow

A profile of expanding a preset showed that most of the time went to asking questions whose answers were already known:

  • A format's smallest size is found by planning the format at growing sizes, which for a picture means encoding one. sampleFor asked it once for every file about a name, even though format.SmallestWithLabel already remembers exactly that answer. setFile.bytes, the boundary set (seed 1) and the encoding set asked it with settings or a seed, and nothing remembered those. bytes is also asked twice per file.
  • upload-validation plans one small picture under a dozen names. Each plan was a separate encoding.

What changed

  • sampleFor asks format.SmallestWithLabel.
  • format.SmallestRemembered keeps SmallestAccepted per format and request, at most 4096 answers, and starts again past that. SmallestWithLabel is SmallestRemembered with the label on.
  • format.RequestKey writes a request as text no other request shares. Every field is in it and the values are quoted, so a delimiter of | or a value holding = cannot join two settings. A request with contents has no key.
  • uploadSet.reachable skips a file whose question it has already asked. The same request gets the same refusal and the same need, and the deepest shortfall keeps the first file that reached it, so no answer moves.

The bytes, first

Only one case of one preset had its expansion pinned. The first commit widens TestEjectingAPresetGivesTheBytesItAlwaysGave to 19 cases across all five presets: other formats in allow, a narrow spread with JPG, and three refusals whose words carry a format's smallest size. It was measured on the tree before the change, and every case is unchanged after it.

Measured

In the real window (tools/probes/guilag, main and this branch interleaved, three runs each, per action):

main this branch
a new limit for upload-validation (Presets) 139-158 ms / 59 MB 28-44 ms / 12 MB
a key on Several batches, base upload-validation 134-173 ms / 58 MB 26-46 ms / 10-11 MB
switching the base to upload-validation 278-321 ms / 120 MB 62-73 ms / 25 MB
switching the base to tabular-import 73-99 ms / 171 MB 20-27 ms / 39 MB

In a single process, with the least allocation of five expansions at a value the process has not seen: upload-validation 56.9 MB -> 9.58 MB, tabular-import (300 rows) 38.6 MB -> 19.84 MB.

Guards

  • TestANewUploadLimitDoesNotAskTheSameQuestionsAgain puts the line at 13.5 MB. Measured: 9.58 MB here, 18.95 MB without the skip, 44.29 MB without the remembered floor. It first checks that the set still holds several files asking one question.
  • TestANewRowCountWorksTheSheetsSmallestSizeOutOnce puts the line at 27 MB. Measured: 19.84 MB here, 38.59 MB with the floor worked out twice.
  • TestEveryFieldOfARequestIsInItsKey sets every field of format.Request by reflection, so a new field goes red until the key carries it.

Six new mutation entries, all caught. One existing entry whose pattern moved was re-pointed and caught again.

The margins of the two allocation guards are about 1.4x each way. If one goes red after an unrelated change, the numbers should be measured again rather than the line moved.

Not in this PR

  • Switching the base preset on Several batches still expands it twice: the rebuild reads the form, and then the check reads it again. That goes in a separate PR.
  • The ceiling of 4096 remembered answers has no guard.

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  • Performance
    • Changing an upload-validation preset setting or typing on a Several batches screen using it now takes about 0.03 seconds, down from 0.15 seconds.
    • Switching that screen to upload-validation now takes about 0.07 seconds, down from 0.3 seconds.
  • Compatibility
    • Preset-generated sets remain byte-for-byte unchanged.

donislawdev and others added 5 commits September 24, 2026 08:15
TestEjectingAPresetGivesTheBytesItAlwaysGave pinned one case of one
preset. The next change is to how upload-validation, tabular-import,
text-encoding and empty-and-minimal work their sets out, and none of their
bytes had a guard. Nineteen cases now, measured on the tree before that
change: every preset, other formats in allow, and three refusals whose
words carry a format's smallest size.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
…one file once

Expanding upload-validation took 137-142 ms and 57 MB, tabular-import 16-31
ms and 39 MB, every time a value changed - in the window, on every key typed
into a preset's setting or into the batch screen with a base.

The profile named the cause. A format's smallest size is found by planning it
at growing sizes, which for a picture is encoding one, and the presets asked
it afresh: sampleFor once for every file about a name or an insides - the
same question format.SmallestWithLabel already remembers - and setFile.bytes,
the boundary set and the encoding set with settings or a seed, which nothing
remembered. And upload-validation plans the same small picture under a dozen
names, one encoding per name.

- sampleFor asks format.SmallestWithLabel.
- format.SmallestRemembered keeps SmallestAccepted by format and request, at
  most 4096 answers. SmallestWithLabel is that with the label on.
- format.RequestKey writes a request as text no other request shares, with
  the values quoted so that a delimiter of "|" cannot join two settings.
- uploadSet.reachable skips a file whose question it has already asked. The
  same request gets the same refusal and need, and the deepest shortfall
  keeps the first file that reached it, so no answer moves.

The bytes of all nineteen pinned expansions and the words of three refusals
are the same as before. A changed value now allocates 9.6 MB and takes 20-36
ms for upload-validation, 19.8 MB for tabular-import.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
…equest's key holds every field

TestANewUploadLimitDoesNotAskTheSameQuestionsAgain and
TestANewRowCountWorksTheSheetsSmallestSizeOutOnce hold the allocation of an
expansion at a value the process has not seen, least of five, with the line
between what was measured with the answers remembered and without. Each
first asks that the set still holds what it is about - files asking one
question under several names, a sheet at its floor.

TestEveryFieldOfARequestIsInItsKey sets every field of format.Request in
turn by reflection and wants a key of its own, and wants a value holding a
space and an equals sign kept apart from two settings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
… own, so reachable stays two deep

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Preset expansion now caches minimum accepted sizes by format and request. Upload reachability skips repeated cacheable requests. Tests cover request-key behavior, allocation limits, and unchanged generated output.

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Preset size calculation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Request-keyed size cache
internal/format/registry.go, internal/guard/requestkey_test.go
RequestKey creates deterministic keys for cacheable requests. SmallestRemembered uses those keys to cache minimum accepted sizes and clears the cache at 4096 entries. Tests check request fields, formats, and property-separator collisions.
Preset integration and regression checks
internal/preset/*.go, internal/guard/presetcost_test.go, internal/guard/presetbytes_test.go, CHANGELOG.md
Preset size checks use the shared cache, and upload reachability skips repeated requests with valid keys. Tests measure allocation limits and pin output sizes, hashes, and refusal messages. The changelog reports timing changes and unchanged generated output.

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The preset changes appear mergeable with small wording corrections: narrow the performance claim to the measured preset and accurately describe which presets the byte guard covers.

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Clear User-Facing Text ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff changes caching and planning behavior, not user-facing controls, buttons, confirmations, or error-message text. The only added prose is a CHANGELOG performance entry, which d…
No Resource Leaks ✅ Passed No resource leak is introduced. The new global smallestKnown cache is protected by smallestMu and capped at 4096 entries; it replaces the map when the cap is reached. The per-expansion asked map…
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Comment on lines +497 to +502
- **Changing a setting of a preset is about four times faster.** With
`upload-validation`, changing one of its settings held the window for
about 0.15 seconds, and so did every key typed on `Several batches` built
on it. Both now take about 0.03 seconds. Switching the base preset on
`Several batches` to `upload-validation` went from about 0.3 to 0.07
seconds. The sets the presets build are byte for byte the same as before.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The heading claims a speedup for every preset, but the text measures only upload-validation.

The bold line says "Changing a setting of a preset is about four times faster." The body only gives numbers for upload-validation. The PR's own measurements show a smaller gain elsewhere. For tabular-import, internal/guard/presetcost_test.go records 38.59 MB going down to 19.84 MB, which is about two times. A user of tabular-import or text-encoding would read the heading as a promise the change does not keep. Name the preset in the heading.

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-- **Changing a setting of a preset is about four times faster.** With
-  `upload-validation`, changing one of its settings held the window for
+- **Changing a setting of `upload-validation` is about four times faster.**
+  Changing one of its settings held the window for

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// Every preset since 2026-09-24, and a refusal's words as well as a source's
// bytes. Until then only size-boundaries was pinned, and the change that day
// was to how the other four work their sets out: asking the format for its
// smallest size once rather than for every file, and planning a file the set
// holds twelve times once (docs/GUI-MEMORY-2026-09-23.md section 4j). Neither
// may move a byte, so the gate came first and was measured on the tree before
// the change. The cases are the ones that reach what changed - other formats
// in allow, which ask for other floors, a limit small enough that a refusal
// names the floor, and a spread narrow enough to reach it.

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This comment says the change skipped size-boundaries, but it did not.

The comment says the change that day affected only "the other four" presets. This PR also changes size-boundaries:

  • internal/preset/limitset.go Line 86 now gets its floor from format.SmallestRemembered.
  • SmallestWithLabel now goes through the new request-keyed cache. This also changes how empty-and-minimal gets its floor.

A later reader could decide that the pinned size-boundaries rows do not guard this change. They do guard it. Fix the comment so it describes all five presets.

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-// Every preset since 2026-09-24, and a refusal's words as well as a source's
-// bytes. Until then only size-boundaries was pinned, and the change that day
-// was to how the other four work their sets out: asking the format for its
-// smallest size once rather than for every file, and planning a file the set
-// holds twelve times once (docs/GUI-MEMORY-2026-09-23.md section 4j). Neither
+// Every preset since 2026-09-24, and a refusal's words as well as a source's
+// bytes. Until then only size-boundaries was pinned, and the change that day
+// was to how all five work their sets out: asking the format for its
+// smallest size once rather than for every file, and planning a file the set
+// holds twelve times once (docs/GUI-MEMORY-2026-09-23.md section 4j). Neither

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// Every preset since 2026-09-24, and a refusal's words as well as a source's
// bytes. Until then only size-boundaries was pinned, and the change that day
// was to how the other four work their sets out: asking the format for its
// smallest size once rather than for every file, and planning a file the set
// holds twelve times once (docs/GUI-MEMORY-2026-09-23.md section 4j). Neither
// may move a byte, so the gate came first and was measured on the tree before
// the change. The cases are the ones that reach what changed - other formats
// in allow, which ask for other floors, a limit small enough that a refusal
// names the floor, and a spread narrow enough to reach it.
// Every preset since 2026-09-24, and a refusal's words as well as a source's
// bytes. Until then only size-boundaries was pinned, and the change that day
// was to how all five work their sets out: asking the format for its
// smallest size once rather than for every file, and planning a file the set
// holds twelve times once (docs/GUI-MEMORY-2026-09-23.md section 4j). Neither
// may move a byte, so the gate came first and was measured on the tree before
// the change. The cases are the ones that reach what changed - other formats
// in allow, which ask for other floors, a limit small enough that a refusal
// names the floor, and a spread narrow enough to reach it.
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