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Scoring-side speedups for fuzzy_search, plus a criterion bench (make bench-search) that runs against synthetic 1K/10K/100K trees or a real repo via FFF_BENCH_PATH.

What changed

  • Frecency-only ranking (empty query, *.rs): rank_by_frecency ranks on a 16-byte (&FileItem, i32) pair and builds the 72-byte Score only for the page. Sequential below 32K files — Rayon scheduling dominated on small indexes.
  • Parallel match scoring: the per-match scoring closure is a pure function; it now runs on Rayon with per-thread ScoreBuffers when there are ≥8K matches. The sequential fallback-match cursor became a direct match_idx → fallback lookup table so order no longer matters.
  • Directory distance: DirectoryDistance pre-parses the current file's components once; the loop caches the penalty by parent_dir_index so sibling files never recompute it. match_and_score_in_arena is split on const WITH_CURRENT_FILE so the no-current-file path carries none of those branches.
  • Combo-boost compares against the arena directly (ChunkedString::equals) instead of writing every candidate path into a String.
  • Page highlights: one concatenated path buffer instead of a String per item; char_indices_to_byte_offsets walks chars lazily (shared with fuzzy grep via match_offsets.rs).
  • merge_byte_offsets merges in place; pagination uses skip/take; filename_cow borrows at any offset inside a chunk.
// before: 72-byte (file, Score) per file, then select_nth over 96K of them
// after:  rank on totals, materialize Score for the 50 that survive
let (items, _, total_matched) = sort_and_paginate(totals, context, |total| *total);
let scores = items.iter().map(|file| frecency_score(file, context, arena)).collect();
// scoring closure: same body, per-thread scratch, order-preserving collect
path_matches.par_iter().enumerate()
    .with_min_len((path_matches.len() / context.max_threads).max(4096))
    .map_init(ScoreBuffers::new, score_match)
    .collect()

Benchmarks

Median of fuzzy_search, limit: 50, max_threads: 4. Baseline is main with this PR's bench harness.

linux repo (95,929 files)

query before after Δ
empty / current_file 1.576 ms 0.346 ms -78%
empty / no_current_file 1.502 ms 0.356 ms -76%
mo / current_file 10.99 ms 3.85 ms -65%
mo / no_current_file 4.59 ms 3.62 ms -21%
drivers/net / current_file 8.47 ms 5.14 ms -39%
drivers/net / no_current_file 5.73 ms 5.16 ms -10%
sched core / current_file 14.02 ms 8.68 ms -38%
sched core / no_current_file 9.36 ms 8.54 ms -9%
controller / current_file 2.70 ms 2.30 ms -15%
controller / no_current_file 2.36 ms 2.26 ms -4%
*.rs 351 µs 323 µs -8%

synthetic

bench before after Δ
1K empty 124 µs 4 µs -97%
10K empty 412 µs 30 µs -93%
100K empty 1.77 ms 0.46 ms -74%
1K mo / current_file 185 µs 108 µs -42%
10K mo / current_file 1.71 ms 0.94 ms -45%
100K mo / current_file 11.68 ms 3.58 ms -69%
100K mo / no_current_file 4.12 ms 3.71 ms -10%
100K controller / current_file 7.00 ms 4.09 ms -42%
100K src/components / current_file 9.36 ms 6.47 ms -31%

Grep (make bench-grep, linux repo) is unchanged within noise; plain/regex grep don't touch any modified code.

What's left in a broad query is frizbee itself (~70% of cycles across workers); the serial post-match phase is now mostly the Vec<Match> flatten inside match_range_parallel_resolved.

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    • Added bench-search and bench-grep commands for running search and grep performance benchmarks.
    • Benchmarks can run against a selected repository or use synthetic datasets when no repository is configured. Search benchmarks cover multiple query types and current-file options; grep benchmarks include plain-text, regex, and fuzzy queries.
    • Search benchmarks include synthetic datasets of up to 100,000 files. Benchmark results also report repository file counts and a dataset fingerprint to help identify the data used.

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The change updates fuzzy scoring, path utilities, and match-offset conversion. It also adds Criterion benchmarks for fuzzy search and grep, with repository-backed and synthetic picker modes.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Path and match-offset utilities
crates/fff-core/src/match_offsets.rs, crates/fff-core/src/grep/*, crates/fff-core/src/lib.rs, crates/fff-core/src/simd_path.rs, crates/fff-core/src/types.rs, crates/fff-core/src/path_utils.rs
Match-offset conversion moves to a private module. ChunkedString gains equality and append operations, and borrows more filenames within a chunk. DirectoryDistance provides a prepared directory-penalty scorer.
Fuzzy scoring and result paging
crates/fff-core/src/score.rs, crates/fff-core/src/sort_buffer.rs
Scoring reuses small-vector storage and path buffers. Current-file distance penalties can be cached. Frecency scoring uses sequential or parallel execution based on input size. Pagination uses skip and take; the unused sorting helper is removed.
Search and grep benchmarks
Makefile, crates/fff-core/Cargo.toml, crates/fff-core/benches/*
The Makefile adds benchmark targets. The benchmarks support repository-backed or synthetic pickers and cover fuzzy-search and grep query cases.
Spelling configuration
_typos.toml
The spelling exception list adds contrller.

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[Medium risk] Performance optimizations to search and grep operations.

The scoring changes appear safe to merge, but the repository’s utility-placement requirement must be satisfied first; the benchmark dataset restrictions are non-blocking.

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Diagram
%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
  Q[Search query] --> S[Score candidates]
  S --> D{Current file?}
  D -->|Yes| C[Cache directory penalty by parent]
  D -->|No| N[Skip distance scoring]
  C --> P[Sort and paginate]
  N --> P
  P --> H[Build page paths and byte highlights]
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let current_file =
std::env::var("FFF_BENCH_CURRENT_FILE").unwrap_or_else(|_| "README.md".into());
assert!(picker.base_path().join(&current_file).is_file());

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P2 Benchmark requires a root README

If FFF_BENCH_PATH points to a valid repository without a root README.md, the default current-file check panics before any query is measured. This unnecessarily prevents benchmarking that repository unless FFF_BENCH_CURRENT_FILE is set.

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Fixed in 27be137: when FFF_BENCH_CURRENT_FILE is unset the bench picks the first indexed file; the existence assert only runs for an explicit override.

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if name == "plain_no_matches" {
assert!(result.matches.is_empty());
} else {
assert!(!result.matches.is_empty(), "query {name} must match");
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P2 Unmatched queries abort benchmarks

If a valid repository lacks one of the fixed positive queries, such as Controller, this assertion panics before its benchmark is registered. Zero matches are a legitimate result, so the assertion prevents using the real-repository benchmark on such repositories.

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Fixed in 27be137: dropped the fixed match-count assertions, only regex_fallback_error is asserted; counts are printed.

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pub(crate) struct DirectoryDistance<'a> {
components: Components<'a>,
depth: usize,
}

impl<'a> DirectoryDistance<'a> {
pub(crate) fn new(current_file: &'a str) -> Self {

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P2 Utility placed before existing functions

The new DirectoryDistance utility and its methods appear at the beginning of path_utils.rs. The repository guide requires utility functions to go at the end of the file; this requirement must be satisfied before merging.

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Moved DirectoryDistance to the end of the file in 27be137.

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dmtrKovalenko merged commit 708d57b into main Sep 25, 2026
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dmtrKovalenko deleted the perf/fuzzy-search-scoring branch September 25, 2026 05:20
lucasdoell added a commit to luxdotdev/polaris that referenced this pull request Sep 29, 2026
fff 0.11.0 dropped bigram columns that appear in few files, so a selective
literal (needleBench on the 50k-file bench tree) still opened every file:
0.8 s per grep, all of it blocking the JS thread. Upstream 89c19270 (six
commits after v0.11.0: dmtrKovalenko/fff#887, #889, #891) keeps them and the
same grep takes ~2 ms. It also fixes the Bun SDK's decoding of scores. Move
to 0.11.1 once it is released.
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