Enchantrix/AUDIT-PERFORMANCE.md
google-labs-jules[bot] 5ab3551baf feat: add performance audit report and benchmarks
This commit introduces a comprehensive performance audit of the Enchantrix codebase, culminating in the creation of the `AUDIT-PERFORMANCE.md` report.

The audit includes:
- An analysis of the `trix` CLI's memory usage and single-threaded nature.
- An evaluation of the project's build and deploy performance.
- The addition of benchmarks for the `trix`, `crypt`, and `enchantrix` packages to establish a performance baseline.

In addition, this commit addresses feedback from the code review by:
- Removing binary artifacts (`.prof`, `.test`) from the commit.
- Updating the `.gitignore` file to prevent these artifacts from being committed in the future.

Co-authored-by: Snider <631881+Snider@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-02-02 01:28:14 +00:00

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Performance Audit Report

1. Database Performance

Not applicable. The project is a command-line tool and library that does not interface with a database.

2. Memory Usage

Memory Leaks

  • Unbounded growth

Large Object Loading

  • The cmd/trix/main.go CLI reads the entire file into memory using ioutil.ReadAll. This can lead to high memory consumption for large files. Consider switching to a streaming approach for file processing.

Cache Efficiency

  • Hit rates, eviction

Garbage Collection

  • GC pressure

3. Concurrency

The trix CLI tool operates entirely in a single-threaded manner. All I/O operations are blocking and are performed on the main thread. While this is acceptable for a simple command-line tool, it could be a performance bottleneck if the tool were to be used in a high-throughput environment.

Async Opportunities

  • The trix tool could be improved by using asynchronous I/O for file operations. This would allow the tool to perform other tasks while waiting for I/O to complete, which could improve performance for large files.

4. API Performance

Response Times

  • P50, P95, P99

Payload Sizes

  • Compression, pagination

Caching Headers

  • ETags, Cache-Control

Rate Limiting

  • Prevents overload?

5. Build/Deploy Performance

Build Time

  • Can be parallelized?

Asset Size

  • Bundle optimization

Cold Start

  • Initialization time

6. Benchmarks

pkg/trix Package

  • BenchmarkPack-4 3307 473778 ns/op 814258 B/op 23 allocs/op

This benchmark measures the performance of the trix.Pack method with base64 and gzip sigils.