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Closes #1305. Closes #1306. Closes #1307. Closes #1313. Closes #1314.

--parallel 2 on a 16-thread box, a 14 GiB runner-unit cap and a 19 GiB slice cap all
rested on a belief that one clang++ TU needs ~9 GB, and five sources disagreed about that
by 3x. #759/#822 wired the CMake Instrumentation API, but its per-command memory field is
afterHostMemoryUsed — system-wide host memory, not the command's own RSS — so the
existing traces cannot attribute memory to a TU at all. This adds the field they could not
record, and the published artifact that stops it decaying again.

What landed

cmake/ProcStatReport.cmake clang's -fproc-stat-report on every compile, and on every link where the compiler drives it. Rides OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION.
scripts/analyze_proc_stat.py Ranks compiles and links, states coverage and provenance, derives the largest --parallel N whose worst case fits a cap.
.github/workflows/build-memory.yml Weekly + on-demand artifact for Debug and Debug + ASan, compiler cache off for a full census, coverage-gated.
docs/agent-rules/build-memory-per-tu.md The recipe, four traps, the measured results, the levers priced. Indexed in the README and the failure-mode table.

No linker launcher was needed — clang++ … -o app runs ld.lld as a driver subprocess, so
the same flag on the link line reports the linker's own peak RSS. LinkSemaphore.cmake's
launcher chain is untouched.

Acceptance criteria (#1305's numbered steps)

  • 1. Per-TU peak RSS behind OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION. Clang-only, as intended.
  • 2. Link steps too. Via the same flag rather than CMAKE_CXX_LINKER_LAUNCHER. Linux
    only — see the clang-cl finding below, which is stated rather than skipped.
  • 3. Published as a CI artifact. Top 20 by peak RSS plus the link steps, in the job
    summary and as build-memory-{debug,debug-asan}, retained 90 days for diffing.
  • 4. Cheap config levers priced before touching code. Table below.
  • 5. Caps and --parallel re-derived, and the olo_heavy membership checked. Below.
    No cap or --parallel value is changed in this PR — that is a live runner
    configuration change and it is the user's call; the recommendation and the numbers are
    the deliverable.
  • 6. Stopped there. The refactor the ranking justifies is Build: the olo_heavy file set is mispopulated in both directions — re-derive it from #1305's ranking #1307, not this PR.

Four things measurement changed, that assumption would have got wrong

1. The records path must stay relative, or every other job loses its compiler cache.
ccache hashes the flag's value and base_dir cannot rewrite it — base_dir relativises
arguments ccache recognises as paths to existing files, and this one names a file that
does not exist yet at hash time. Two source-identical trees under one base_dir, second
expected to hit:

command line hit rate
no flag at all (baseline) 1/2 — 50%
-fproc-stat-report=<absolute path> 0/2 — 0%
-fproc-stat-report=<relative path> 1/2 — 50%, identical to baseline

This matters beyond local worktrees: the two olo-ci slots share one CCACHE_DIR and have
different GITHUB_WORKSPACE paths. A FATAL_ERROR and a CI grep guard it, because the
failure mode is a cache that stays alive and never warm.

2. The Unix Makefiles generator writes one records file per subdirectory. A relative
path resolves against the build tool's working directory, and the generators differ —
confirmed by generating both and reading the emitted rule, not by assumption:

  • Ninja runs every command from the top build dir → one build/olo-proc-stat.csv
  • Unix Makefiles emits cd <build>/<subdir> && clang++ … -c … → one file per subdirectory

Every Linux job here configures with no -G. A Ninja-only check would have shipped a Linux
measurement that ranked a fraction of the build — and the fraction it omits is the engine
and test subdirectories, i.e. the heavy ones. The analyser takes the build tree and
gathers them all, re-rooting outputs so two targets cannot collide.

3. OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION=ON cannot build this project on Windows at all.
Pre-existing, filed as #1306. cmake_instrumentation() wraps every custom command in
ctest --instrument -- <argv>, which execs argv; vendored glad's generator rule needs a
shell for both echo and >. Dies at glad-generate with Batch file failed at line 3 with errorcode 1 and no diagnostic. Reproduced in isolation: the same wrapped echo
succeeds under a POSIX shell and fails under cmd.exe, which is why Linux CI never saw it.

Fixing that means restructuring a vendored third-party custom command, so it stays in
#1306. What landed here is the split that makes the measurement reachable anyway:
OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORT is the memory half alone — a compiler flag, no launcher, no CMake
floor, no generator restriction — defaulting to the umbrella, so the "one switch" contract
holds. It is deliberately not a cache variable: that would write the umbrella's first
value into the cache and keep reading it after the umbrella went back OFF, the "set forever
after the first configure" trap CompilerCache.cmake documents.

4. The flag must not go on a clang-cl link line. CMAKE_CXX_LINK_EXECUTABLE only drives
the link through the compiler for a GNU-frontend clang. Under clang-cl CMake invokes
lld-link directly, so there is no driver to take the option and /clang:… is read as
an input file — every link failed with could not open '/clang:-fproc-stat-report=olo-proc-stat.csv'. Compiles only there, and the configure line
says so: "no link records on Windows" would otherwise read as a measurement that found
linking free.

The cheap config levers, priced

lever verdict
ThinLTO instead of full LTO Cannot help the sanitizer jobs. CommonProperties.cmake sets INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION_RELEASE/_DIST only, and every sanitizer job is CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug. There is no LTO there to convert.
-gsplit-dwarf + --gdb-index ccache handles it — the thing #1305 said to verify rather than assume. Measured on ccache 4.13.6: a cold compile produced .o + .dwo; with both deleted, a cache hit restored both at identical sizes. The .o names its companion as a bare t.dwo and takes the directory from DW_AT_comp_dir, which this repo already rewrites to /olo, so objects stay path-independent and cross-slot sharing is unaffected. Unverified risk before adopting: that same /olo mapping is what ASan's symbolizer must resolve the .dwo through. Confirm a sanitizer stack still symbolises first.
-g1 on sanitizer CI only Not yet priced against the right numbers. It should be measured on the specific TUs the ranking names rather than on the tree average, and from the Linux ASan artifact this PR's workflow produces — not from the Windows run below.

Step 5: the measurement — the LINK is the ceiling, not any compile

Both Linux cells passed on olo-ci-1, 1761 compiles each at 99.9% coverage, cache
off, PCH and unity off. This is the configuration the caps were derived from, so these are
the numbers to use. Artifacts: build-memory-debug, build-memory-debug-asan.

plain Debug Debug + ASan
median compile 0.31 GiB 0.32 GiB
p95 compile 0.84 GiB 0.85 GiB
compiles over 2 GiB 10 12
heaviest compile 4.65 GiB 8.09 GiB
heaviest ld.lld link 10.03 GiB 11.17 GiB
link ÷ heaviest compile 2.16x 1.38x

One ld.lld link of OloEngine-Tests takes 11.17 GiB — 80% of the runner unit's 14 GiB
memory.max, and more than any translation unit in the build.
The belief it replaces was
8.7 GB, so it is 38% higher, and it is 10.03 GiB even with no sanitizer. Meanwhile the
heaviest compile is 8.09 GiB: the "~9.0 GB for one clang++ TU" folklore was close, and the
"one TU hit 13.9 GB RSS" claim does not reproduce.

This completes #759 rather than contradicting it. #759's result was about wall-clock —
links are off the critical path, still true. For memory, the link is the largest single
consumer in both configurations.

And nothing bounds it on Linux. OLO_LINK_JOBS and olo_heavy are Ninja job pools;
every Linux job gets Unix Makefiles (§5e), so make -j2 is free to run that 11.17 GiB link
alongside a compile — 19.26 GiB with the heaviest one, past the 14 GiB unit cap and at
the 19 GiB slice cap. In practice the tests link lands at the end when little else remains,
which is why this has not been failing constantly; it is unguarded, not safe by
construction. That is a plausible contributor to the historical OOM kills that per-TU
compile memory never explained.

Recommendations — applied to nothing

Changing a live runner's configuration is out of #1305's scope and is yours to make.

  • Sanitizer jobs: keep --parallel 2. Three lanes is a 15.24 GiB worst case, past the
    cap. The pin was right and now has evidence behind it.
  • Non-sanitizer Linux Debug fits 4 lanes on compile grounds, but the same link bounds
    the benefit — raise it only if the queue needs it.
  • The lever actually worth having is a link bound that works under Makefiles. 2.8 GiB of
    headroom over a single link is what is tight, not --parallel.

olo_heavy — two hosts, same verdict

The Linux+ASan ranking independently reproduces the Windows census's verdict, same names and
same direction. It holds AbilityComponentRoundTripTest.cpp (#281), RenderGraphTest.cpp
(#34), LuaScriptGlue_EngineApi.cpp (#21), Prefab.cpp (#18) and McpToolsRender.cpp
(#17), while Scene.cpp (#3), ComponentFieldRegistry.cpp (#5),
SceneSerializer.cpp (#7), LuaScriptGlue.cpp (#9) and SaveGameSerializer.cpp (#11) sit
outside it. LuaScriptGlue.cpp was excluded as "an ordinary small TU" and ranks 9th.
What the pool gets right: McpFieldRegistry.cpp is #1 in every cell and the
LuaScriptGlue_* parts cluster in the top 15 — #822's split worked. Re-populating it is
#1307, which now has two hosts agreeing on the membership.

One correction to the issue's premise, and one to my own first reading

#1305 says the heavy set "is populated by compile time, which is a proxy, not a
measurement". That is no longer accurate — OloEngine/src/CMakeLists.txt and
OloEditor/src/CMakeLists.txt already carry per-TU peak RSS figures from an #822
follow-up.

Those figures are up to 8.7x too high, and were wrong the day they were written — not
decayed. The cause is a recipe bug: the survey ran
cmake --build <dir> --target X -- '<obj>', which passes both the target and the object
to ninja and therefore builds the whole target, then credited the largest of a dozen
concurrent unrelated compiles to whichever TU was named. An isolated re-measurement on
2026-09-08 (per-PID PeakWorkingSet64, exactly one clang-cl asserted) had already caught
it. I first read the gap as drift; it is not, and this census is a third, independent
method that settles it:

TU committed isolated (2026-09-08) this census vs isolated
Scene.cpp 2,498 MB 2,499 MB 2,785 MB 1.11x
ComponentRoundTripTest.cpp 12,389 MB 1,415 MB 1,599 MB 1.13x
McpToolsRender.cpp 7,838 MB 1,369 MB 1,680 MB 1.23x
Prefab.cpp 6,400 MB 1,282 MB 1,488 MB 1.16x
RenderGraphTest.cpp 8,619 MB 949 MB 1,053 MB 1.11x

Different mechanism entirely — OS-sampled peak working set of an isolated compile, versus
clang's own -fproc-stat-report during a 6-wide parallel build — agreeing within
1.11–1.23x. Scene.cpp is the control: it is the one row that reproduced exactly under
the buggy recipe, and it lands at the same 1.11x here, so the residual is the parallel-build
environment rather than a systematic error in either method. Use this census for ranking
and the isolated recipe for a single TU's absolute figure; treat the numbers in those
CMakeLists comments as void until re-measured.

What none of this could be established from is the committed numbers themselves — only by
re-running them. That is why the report now carries its own provenance (timestamp, compiler
id/version, build type, generator, PCH, unity, cache, each sanitizer, LTO, both pool depths)
read from CMakeCache.txt: a figure that does not say how it was produced cannot be checked.

Verification

axis cells how
instrumentation switch ON / OFF Diffed the generated Ninja rules. Strip only the flag token from the ON tree and 23,748 of 23,750 lines are identical; the 2 that differ are OLO_BUILD_GIT_HASH/_DIRTY/_DESCRIBE/_TIMESTAMP defines, which moved because I committed between the two configures. The switch's entire effect on the build is the flag itself, so OFF cannot cost anyone anything.
step kind compile / link 1849 compile occurrences in the generated rules, 0 on any LINK_FLAGS line under clang-cl (correct — see finding 4). Link records are asserted on the Linux run via --require-link-records.
compiler cache miss / hit Controlled 2-file A/B isolating the variable (table above), plus a real-tree check on the 1833-TU build: delete the objects for the 9 heaviest TUs and rebuild with the flag present — 9 direct_cache_hit, 9 local_storage_hit, zero misses. direct_cache_hit also confirms the flag does not break the depfile handling from #858. Measured with CCACHE_STATSLOG after a first attempt using before/after ccache -s proved unusable: a sibling worktree shares the same CCACHE_DIR, so the global counters moved by 2378 calls for a build that ran 28 steps.
host Windows clang-cl / Linux clang Windows artefact-backed above; Linux is live-only and runs on this PR (the paths filter matches the three files this PR adds).
toolchain clang / MSVC MSVC is not a cell — -fproc-stat-report is clang-only. The msvc preset must still configure cleanly with the option ON, and does: checked against a real Visual Studio 18 2026 tree, which warns, configures at exit 0, and puts the flag in zero .vcxproj files.

A late catch worth naming, because it shows why the outcome assertion replaced a textual
one: the workflow originally greped link.txt for the flag and would have failed the job
on a correct build
. Generating a real Unix Makefiles tree showed the generator inlining
the executable's link command into build.make instead — 2 flags.make files carrying the
flag, zero link.txt, and the flag plainly present on the link line inside build.make.
--require-link-records asserts the measurement instead, which cannot pass while the thing
it guards is broken.

Nothing here touches runtime behaviour, so the {backend} × {path} grid does not apply and
MSAA/upscale/resolution/serialization/scripting/physics/assets are all unreached.

Cost note

This PR triggers build-memory.yml: two serial cold builds (Debug, Debug + ASan),
bounded at 180 minutes each, on a box at rho 1.69. That is the only way to verify the Linux
link half and the Makefiles multi-file path, and the trigger is narrow — only the three
files that make up the measurement itself — so it will not fire on unrelated CMake changes.

Follow-ups filed

Nothing from this work is left open.

Acting on the measurement: #1307 and #1314 are fixed here too

Folded in at the maintainer's request rather than deferred.

#1307 — olo_heavy re-derived, with a stated rule so it can be re-applied instead of
accumulating: every TU ≥ 1.5 GiB peak RSS. Not a round number — the 17th TU is 1.50 GiB
and the 18th is 1.37, against a tree p95 of 0.85. Added five TUs ≥2 GiB that were outside it
(Scene.cpp #3, ComponentFieldRegistry.cpp #5, SceneSerializer.cpp #7,
LuaScriptGlue.cpp #9, SaveGameSerializer.cpp #11); dropped three below it (Prefab.cpp
#18, LuaScriptGlue_EngineApi.cpp #21, RenderGraphTest.cpp #34). Depth stays 2 — two
concurrent is 11.94 GiB, and the pooled set totals 587 s so a 2-wide floor is 294 s against a
-j6 ideal of 1206 s, i.e. it cannot become the critical path.

Correction to an earlier claim in this PR: I reported the pool as holding TUs ranked #180
and #281. That was a suffix-matching bug — endswith("ComponentRoundTripTest.cpp") also
matches AbilityComponentRoundTripTest.cpp, which is not in the pool and never was.
Re-derived with exact matching the pool held ranks #1–#34: mostly right, missing five heavies
and carrying three light ones. The fix is real but smaller than I first described.

#1313 — the link is bounded on Linux now, and it was not before. The measurement's
headline was that the ceiling is not a compile: one ld.lld link peaks at 11.17 GiB
(10.03 without sanitizers) against a heaviest compile of 8.09 / 4.65. Three things that
should have bounded it did not — OLO_LINK_JOBS and olo_heavy are Ninja pools and every
Linux job gets Unix Makefiles, and LinkSemaphore.cmake shelled out to pwsh, which the
box does not have (confirmed in the runner's own log, not inferred). So make -j2 was free
to run that link beside a compile: 19.26 GiB with the heaviest, past the 14 GiB unit cap and
at the 19 GiB slice cap.

scripts/link-semaphore.py is the POSIX half of that throttle — N permits via flock, where
the kernel releases the lock when the holder dies, so a killed linker cannot leak a permit
(the Windows half needs N named mutexes to get the same property). It fails open throughout.

It also fixes a knob that did nothing: OLO_LINK_SEMAPHORE_SLOTS is a cache variable but
both wrappers read it from the environment, and nothing put it there — so the documented
value only changed a status message while the built-in default of 2 was the real setting on
both platforms. It now travels via cmake -E env.

Split DWARF, measured rather than assumed. #1313 recorded "confirm a sanitizer stack
still symbolises" as an unverified risk. It is verified now, with a control on each variable
(llvm-symbolizer, clang 23.1.0, cross-compiled to x86_64-linux):

arm inline frames
-gsplit-dwarf alone, .dwo present resolve
-ffile-prefix-map=/olo alone resolve
both together lost

It is the combination that breaks, and this repo is in it — the /olo map exists so the two
runner slots can share a ccache, and split DWARF resolves its side-car through
DW_AT_comp_dir. Function names and file:line survive in every arm, and the sanitizer jobs
are Debug builds with little inlining to lose. OLO_SPLIT_DWARF therefore ships default
OFF
, and --gdb-index is deliberately not paired with it: lld builds that index by
reading the debug info the flag exists to skip, so it works against the memory goal.

#1306 — the instrumentation API can build on Windows again. It could not, at all: the
API executes every custom command instead of shelling out, and vendored glad's generator
rule needed a shell for both echo and >, so the build died at glad-generate with
Batch file failed at line 3 with errorcode 1 and no diagnostic. glad is a FetchContent
download, so the fix is a patch on top of the pin using the mechanism this repo already has
for FSR2 — now shared (cmake/apply-vendor-patches.cmake) rather than duplicated.

Verified in three steps that isolate each claim: the exact batch file that failed exits 0
and writes all four outputs; deleting glad-build and rebuilding through ninja regenerates
it with the wrapper in place; and the API actually emits a trace on Windows now — 20
events, roles {custom: 15, compile: 2, link: 2, cmakeBuild: 1}, where those 15 custom
commands are the ones that used to kill the build. REPRODUCIBLE (#824) still holds.

OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORT stays, but for a better reason than before: it is the narrower
switch. A compiler flag costs nothing per build step; the API spends a process on every
compile, link and custom command.

#1314 — the two measured levers.

PCH was disabled on clang for an MSVC reason. CompilerCache.cmake force-disabled it
unconditionally while its own reason string said "MSVC PCH (/Fp) is non-cacheable" — yet
compiler-cache-uncacheable-compiles.md already records that clang PCH compiles cache fine
with the right sloppiness, and setup-linux-build already exports exactly that sloppiness.
The CI action was configured for a PCH the CMake turned off, so ~1800 Linux TUs re-parsed the
header closure every cold build. The guard now tracks its reason, and checks the sloppiness
rather than assuming it. Honest caveat: the payoff is a prediction, not a result — the
"PCH and cache optimise opposite cases" argument is general, and this is one conditional to
flip back if a warm-cache regression appears.

41 editor sources compiled twice. OloEngine-Tests cannot link an executable, so it
recompiled them — 231 s, 3.8% of compile time, and it paid for the tree's #1 memory TU twice.
OloEditorCore is a static library holding exactly the shared set (Automation/ 18, MCP/ 21,
2 ContentBrowser helpers); the editor keeps its 34 ImGui panels. The seam is the one the tests
already drew, so it is discovered rather than invented, and nothing there self-registers —
every command goes through an explicit Register*Commands(), so the static-library
symbol-dropping trap does not apply. Checked before moving anything.

Verified: McpFieldRegistry.cpp went from 3 on-disk objects to one live build edge, total
objects 1849 → 1809, and 1118 Automation/MCP/ContentBrowser tests: 1116 passed, 0 failed,
2 skipped for environment.

A note on this workflow's cost, for whoever merges

GitHub evaluates a pull_request paths filter against the whole PR diff, not the last
push — so because this PR touches the three measurement files, every push to it re-runs
both cold builds. That is correct behaviour for a PR that changes the measurement, but it
means the trigger is more expensive than it looks while such a PR is in flight. If that
proves annoying in practice, the cheap fix is to run only the debug-asan cell on
pull_request and keep both on the weekly schedule. I have deliberately stopped pushing to
this branch for that reason.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added build-memory measurement and reporting, including per-translation-unit peak usage, coverage, rankings, and recommended parallelism.
    • Added optional split DWARF support to reduce linker memory usage.
    • Added cross-platform link concurrency throttling.
    • Added a shared editor core library to streamline editor and test builds.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved instrumentation compatibility for Windows builds.
    • Compiler caching now preserves precompiled headers when supported.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance on build-memory measurement, cache behavior, parallelism, and memory limits.

drsnuggles8 and others added 6 commits September 17, 2026 22:47
Issue #1305. `--parallel 2` on the 16-thread olo-ci box, a 14 GiB runner-unit
cap and a 19 GiB slice cap all rest on a belief that one clang++ TU needs ~9 GB,
and five sources disagreed about that by 3x. #759/#822 wired the CMake
Instrumentation API, but its per-command memory field is
`afterHostMemoryUsed` — system-wide host memory, not the command's own RSS — so
the existing traces cannot attribute memory to a TU at all, and the "heavy TUs"
everything rests on were ranked by compile TIME, a proxy.

cmake/ProcStatReport.cmake adds clang's -fproc-stat-report behind the existing
OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION switch. Links come along for free: `clang++ -o app`
runs ld.lld as a driver subprocess, so the same flag on the link line reports
the linker's own peak RSS and LinkSemaphore.cmake's launcher chain is untouched.

Two things were measured rather than assumed, and both changed the design:

- The records path MUST stay relative. The flag's value is hashed by ccache and
  base_dir cannot rewrite it (it names a file that does not exist yet). Two
  source-identical trees under one base_dir: no flag 50% hits, absolute path
  0%, relative path 50%. A FATAL_ERROR and a CI grep guard it, because the
  cache stays alive-but-cold rather than failing.
- A relative path resolves against the BUILD TOOL's cwd, which differs by
  generator. Ninja runs from the top build dir; Unix Makefiles — every Linux CI
  job — emits `cd <build>/<subdir> && clang++ ...`, so there is one records file
  per subdirectory. The analyser takes the build TREE and gathers them all,
  re-rooting outputs so two targets cannot collide. A Ninja-only check would
  have shipped a Linux measurement that ranked the wrong fraction of the build.

The option() moves out of the `CMAKE_VERSION >= 4.3` guard: it now drives two
mechanisms, and the compiler flag needs neither that floor nor a Ninja/Makefile
generator.

scripts/analyze_proc_stat.py ranks compiles and links, classifies ccache's
preprocessor-pass records separately instead of dropping them, states coverage
(records vs objects actually in the tree) so a warm-cache partial ranking cannot
pass as a census, and derives the largest --parallel N whose worst case — the
sum of the N heaviest TUs — fits a given cap.

.github/workflows/build-memory.yml publishes that report weekly as an artifact
for Debug and Debug+ASan, with the compiler cache disabled for full coverage and
a --fail-under-coverage gate. The artifact is the anti-decay mechanism: #759's
one-off measurement rotted exactly the way an uncommitted number does.

docs/agent-rules/build-memory-per-tu.md carries the recipe, the four traps and
the config levers priced so far (ThinLTO cannot help the Debug sanitizer jobs —
IPO is Release/Dist only; ccache does restore .dwo on a hit, measured).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…l links

Two defects, both found by actually building rather than by inspecting the
generated rules — the first stopped the build, the second failed every link.

1. OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION=ON cannot build this project on Windows AT ALL,
   and that is pre-existing (filed as #1306). cmake_instrumentation() wraps
   every custom command in `ctest --instrument -- <argv>`, which EXECUTES argv
   instead of handing it to a shell; vendored glad's generator rule is four
   `COMMAND echo ...` lines, one of them `COMMAND echo ${ARGS} > args.txt`.
   Under cmd.exe `echo` is a builtin with no executable and `>` is shell
   redirection, so the build dies at glad-generate with "Batch file failed at
   line 3 with errorcode 1" and no diagnostic. Reproduced in isolation on CMake
   4.4.2: the same wrapped `echo` succeeds under a POSIX shell and fails under
   cmd.exe, which is why Linux CI never saw it.

   Fixing that means restructuring a vendored third-party custom command, so
   it stays in #1306. What lands here is the split that makes the measurement
   reachable anyway: OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORT is the per-TU-memory half on its own
   — a compiler flag, no launcher, no CMake floor, no generator restriction.
   It defaults to the umbrella, so the issue's "one switch" contract holds.

   Deliberately NOT an option()/CACHE variable: that would write the umbrella's
   first value into the cache and keep reading it after the umbrella went back
   OFF. `if(NOT DEFINED ...)` lets an explicit -D win while an implicit value
   is re-derived every configure — the "set forever after the first configure"
   trap CompilerCache.cmake documents.

2. The flag must not go on a clang-cl link line. CMAKE_CXX_LINK_EXECUTABLE
   only drives the link through the compiler for a GNU-frontend clang, where
   ld.lld is a driver subprocess and the flag reports its peak RSS — the whole
   of the issue's step 2, on the Linux hosts whose caps are in question. Under
   clang-cl CMake invokes lld-link DIRECTLY, so there is no clang driver to
   take the option and `/clang:...` is read as an input filename:

       lld-link: error: could not open '/clang:-fproc-stat-report=olo-proc-stat.csv'

   Compiles only there, and the configure line now SAYS so: "no link records on
   Windows" would otherwise read as a measurement that found links to be free.

Verified after the fix: 1849 compile occurrences in the generated Ninja rules,
zero on any LINK_FLAGS line, and the MSVC guard branch still configures cleanly
with a warning and no flag (checked against a real Visual Studio 18 2026 tree).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three refinements to scripts/analyze_proc_stat.py and the workflow, all from
running the real thing rather than the synthetic fixture.

- Prune vcpkg_installed (and CMakeScratch/Testing) from the object-file walk.
  Some vcpkg ports ship prebuilt .o files into <build>/vcpkg_installed, and no
  compile in this build produced them — counting them inflates the denominator
  and would fail CI's --fail-under-coverage gate for a reason unrelated to the
  measurement. Pruned in `dirs` so the walk never descends the tree.
- Strip the config path component from a TU label. A multi-config generator
  emits CMakeFiles/T.dir/Debug/src/Foo.cpp.obj, which rendered as
  "OloEngineContent: Debug/OloEngine/Scene/Scene.cpp" in the published table.
  Matched against the known config names rather than "drop the first
  component", because a single-config tree has a real source directory there.
- Bound the CI job at timeout-minutes: 180. This job disables the compiler
  cache on purpose, so every run is a full cold build and it never gets the
  warm path that keeps the sanitizer jobs under the 360-minute default.
  asan.yml measures a cold instrumented Linux build at ~57 min of build time;
  this one compiles the same tree and runs no tests, so 180 is generous. The
  point is the ceiling — a runaway must not hold one of the box's two slots for
  six hours while the queue behind it grows (#1219, #1284).

Measured on a live 772-of-1861-step Debug build of OloEditor + OloEngine-Tests:
coverage reads 97.7% (753 of 771 objects) and the labels now name sources.

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…nance

Both changes come from reading the first real report and finding it could be
misread in exactly the way this issue is about.

- An empty link section printed "the heaviest link measured here is 0.00 GiB",
  and the totals table showed a 0.00 GiB link row. On a clang-cl build there are
  no link records AT ALL — CMake drives lld-link directly — so that reads as a
  measurement which found linking free. It now says the links were not measured,
  names the cause, and points at a Linux clang build for the number.

- The ranking now carries its own provenance: timestamp plus the build settings
  that decide whether two rankings are even comparable (compiler id/version,
  build type, generator, PCH, unity, compiler cache, each sanitizer, LTO, the two
  job-pool depths), read from the build tree's CMakeCache.txt.

  That second one is the whole anti-decay argument, and the evidence for it is
  the numbers this work replaced. An #822 follow-up committed per-TU peak RSS
  figures as CMakeLists.txt comments. Re-measured on today's tree they move in
  BOTH directions:

      Prefab.cpp                       6,400 MB -> 1,488 MB   (22 s -> 7.4 s)
      MCP/McpFieldRegistry.cpp         7,838 MB -> 5,498 MB
      LuaScriptGlue_World.cpp          5,043 MB -> 3,211 MB
      LuaScriptGlue_EngineApi.cpp      1,308 MB -> 1,516 MB

  Prefab.cpp's wall time fell with its memory, so that one is real drift rather
  than a methodology difference. But because the original figures record neither
  the clang version nor the PCH state, drift and methodology CANNOT be separated
  after the fact — which is precisely how a committed number rots. A report that
  cannot be compared with its predecessor decays the same way, so the settings
  now travel with the numbers.

Also states plainly that the sum-of-N-heaviest bound is pessimistic by
construction: it assumes the scheduler may start the N heaviest TUs together,
which the olo_heavy pool exists to prevent — except on the Makefiles generator
every Linux CI job uses, where no such pool exists and the bound is operative.

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1833 compiles at 99.0% coverage, clang-cl 23.1.0 Debug, PCH and unity off.
Distribution: median 0.38 GiB, p95 1.08, max 5.38; 17 TUs over 2 GiB, 5 over 3,
2 over 5. The shape #759 guessed at holds — a handful of TUs sets the peak — but
it is a different handful than either earlier survey named.

The olo_heavy pool is mispopulated in BOTH directions. It holds four TUs ranked
#180, #278, #25 and #24 while eight ranked #5-#20 sit outside it, led by
SceneHierarchyPanel.cpp (#5, 3.08 GiB) and Scene.cpp (#6, 2.72 GiB). Two are
worth naming because each is a rule rather than a datum: LuaScriptGlue.cpp was
excluded when the glue was split as "an ordinary small TU" and is 13th of 1833;
Prefab.cpp carries a committed 6,400 MB / 22 s and now measures 1,488 MB / 7.4 s.

What the pool gets right, stated too: McpFieldRegistry.cpp is #1 and #2 at
5.38/5.37 GiB — compiled independently into OloEditor and OloEngine-Tests — and
eight of the nine LuaScriptGlue_* parts land in the top 18. #822's split worked.

Per this repo's own rule, the REFACTOR those numbers justify is out of scope for
#1305 and gets its own issue; this commit records the measurement, not a fix. The
--parallel table is also explicitly not an argument for a lower -j: it sums the N
heaviest TUs, the olo_heavy pool exists to stop that happening on a Ninja tree,
and this is not the sanitizer configuration the caps came from.

Also shortened the Windows-blocker note now that #1306 carries the reproduction,
keeping the guide near the size rule in CLAUDE.md.

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The workflow's pre-build check greped `link.txt` for the flag and would have
failed the job on a correct build. Where the Unix Makefiles generator puts an
executable's link command is platform-dependent: it writes a separate link.txt
in some configurations and inlines the command into the target's build.make in
others. Generating a real Unix Makefiles tree against cmake/ProcStatReport.cmake
showed the inlined form — 2 flags.make files carrying the flag, ZERO link.txt,
and the flag present on the executable's link line inside build.make:

    clang++ ... -fproc-stat-report=olo-proc-stat.csv -fuse-ld=lld \
        @CMakeFiles/app.dir/objects1.rsp -o app.exe ...

So the assertion is now on the measurement: `--require-link-records` fails unless
a real linker record came out of the build. That is generator-independent and a
strictly stronger claim than matching on generated text — it cannot pass while
the thing it is guarding is broken. The compile-side grep and the absolute-path
guard stay, since both hold in flags.make either way.

Verified the new gate fires in the direction that matters: run against the
Windows clang-cl ranking, where links are genuinely unmeasurable, it exits 1 and
names the cause.

Also confirmed en route that clang++ reports CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_FRONTEND_VARIANT
"GNU" even on Windows — it describes the driver's option syntax, not the target —
which is what makes the GNU/MSVC split in ProcStatReport.cmake the right seam.

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RSS instrumentation and debug-info configuration
CMakeLists.txt, cmake/ProcStatReport.cmake, cmake/SplitDwarf.cmake
OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION now also enables Clang RSS reporting. The configuration validates compiler support and relative record paths, instruments supported compile and link commands, and adds optional split-DWARF flags.
Record parsing and ranking
scripts/analyze_proc_stat.py
The analyzer discovers records, classifies and collapses outputs, checks coverage, reads provenance, ranks RSS, derives lane costs, and writes Markdown and JSON reports.
Scheduled CI measurement
.github/workflows/build-memory.yml
The workflow runs scheduled, manual, and pull-request measurements. It configures Debug, ASan, and optional split-DWARF cells, verifies instrumentation, builds with cache/PCH/unity disabled, enforces coverage and link requirements, and uploads 90-day artifacts.
Cross-platform link throttling
cmake/LinkSemaphore.cmake, scripts/link-semaphore.py
Link launching selects the platform-specific wrapper. POSIX builds use flock permits, configured slot counts are passed to the wrapper, and unavailable throttling fails open.
Shared editor target and measured compile pools
OloEditor/*, OloEngine/src/CMakeLists.txt, OloEngine/tests/CMakeLists.txt
OloEditorCore owns shared editor sources and is linked by the editor and tests. Heavy compile-pool membership is updated from measured RSS results.
Vendor compatibility, cache behavior, and measurement guidance
OloEngine/vendor/CMakeLists.txt, cmake/apply-vendor-patches.cmake, cmake/fsr2.cmake, cmake/glad-patches/*, cmake/CompilerCache.cmake, docs/agent-rules/*
Vendor patch application is generalized, glad generation avoids shell commands, PCH disabling depends on compiler frontend and cache settings, and documentation records measurement constraints, results, pool membership, and build guidance.

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  participant CMake
  participant Clang
  participant LinkSemaphore
  participant AnalyzeProcStat
  participant Artifact
  GitHubActions->>CMake: configure the measurement build
  CMake->>Clang: compile and link with RSS reporting
  Clang->>LinkSemaphore: invoke the link wrapper
  LinkSemaphore-->>Clang: grant or skip a link permit
  Clang-->>Artifact: append process RSS records
  GitHubActions->>AnalyzeProcStat: analyze the build tree and records
  AnalyzeProcStat-->>Artifact: write rankings and validation outputs
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Corrects the framing in the previous commit. I read the CMakeLists comments'
peak-RSS numbers as having decayed since they were taken. They did not — they
were up to 8.7x too high the day they were written, from a known recipe bug:
the survey behind them ran

    cmake --build <dir> --target X -- '<obj>'

which passes BOTH the target and the object to ninja and so builds the whole
target, then credited the largest of a dozen concurrent unrelated compiles to
whichever TU was asked for. An isolated re-measurement on 2026-09-08 (per-PID
PeakWorkingSet64, exactly one clang-cl asserted) had already caught this.

This census is an independent third method — clang's own -fproc-stat-report,
taken during a 6-wide parallel build — and it agrees with those isolated
numbers closely:

    TU                          committed   isolated   this census   ratio
    Scene.cpp                     2,498 MB   2,499 MB      2,785 MB   1.11x
    ComponentRoundTripTest.cpp   12,389 MB   1,415 MB      1,599 MB   1.13x
    McpToolsRender.cpp            7,838 MB   1,369 MB      1,680 MB   1.23x
    Prefab.cpp                    6,400 MB   1,282 MB      1,488 MB   1.16x
    RenderGraphTest.cpp           8,619 MB     949 MB      1,053 MB   1.11x

Scene.cpp is the control: it is the one row that reproduced exactly under the
buggy recipe (2,498 vs 2,499 MB), and it lands at the same 1.11x here. So the
residual 11-23% is the parallel-build environment rather than a systematic error
in either method — a TU measured while five others run peaks a little higher
than the same TU measured alone. That makes this census the right instrument for
RANKING and the isolated recipe the right one for a single TU's absolute figure.

What survives unchanged is the reason the report carries provenance: none of
this could be established FROM the committed numbers, only by re-running them.
A figure that does not say how it was produced cannot be checked.

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🟡 Minor · Correct the Visual Studio warning. · CMakeLists.txt:600-603

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Correct the Visual Studio warning.

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In @.github/workflows/build-memory.yml:
- Line 50: Update the workflow path filters to include CMakeLists.txt alongside
the existing instrumentation-related paths, ensuring pull requests changing root
instrumentation wiring trigger the workflow.

In `@cmake/ProcStatReport.cmake`:
- Line 142: Update the compiler-option handling around the CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID
check and the add_compile_options call so C and C++ receive language-specific
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- Around line 214-217: Update the status message in the per-invocation peak RSS
reporting configuration to append --name followed by the configured
OLO_PROC_STAT_FILE when showing the analyze_proc_stat.py command, so custom
record basenames are analyzed correctly.

In `@docs/agent-rules/build-trees-and-windows-asan.md`:
- Around line 540-541: Update the documentation near the `OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORT`
and `OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION` references to state that `OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORT`
is an independent switch and can enable RSS reporting without
`OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION`; remove the wording that places both features on the
same switch.

In `@scripts/analyze_proc_stat.py`:
- Line 57: Extend INTERMEDIATE_SUFFIXES to include the Clang precompiled-header
output suffixes .pch, .gch, and .pcm, ensuring these files are classified as
intermediate rather than falling through to link classification.
- Line 316: Limit the lane-derivation loop to the number of recorded compiles by
iterating through min(max_lanes, len(compiles)) rather than max_lanes,
preventing unsupported rows from repeating accumulated costs and inflating
largest_fitting_lanes.
- Around line 127-139: Update collect_record_files to support path-valued names
during recursive directory discovery by constructing each candidate with
os.path.join(root, name) and checking it with os.path.isfile, rather than
matching name only against directory-entry basenames. Preserve recursive
traversal and existing file-path results.

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Both cells of build-memory.yml passed on olo-ci-1 (1761 compiles each, 99.9%
coverage, cache off, PCH/unity off), so these are the numbers the caps should
come from rather than the Windows census.

                          plain Debug    Debug + ASan
    median compile           0.31 GiB        0.32 GiB
    p95 compile              0.84 GiB        0.85 GiB
    heaviest compile         4.65 GiB        8.09 GiB
    heaviest ld.lld link    10.03 GiB       11.17 GiB
    link / heaviest compile     2.16x           1.38x

One ld.lld link of OloEngine-Tests takes 11.17 GiB — 80% of the runner unit's
14 GiB memory.max, and more than any TU in the build. The belief it replaces was
8.7 GB, so it is 38% higher, and it is 10.03 GiB with no sanitizer at all. The
heaviest compile is 8.09 GiB, so the "~9.0 GB per clang++ TU" folklore was close;
the "one TU hit 13.9 GB" claim does not reproduce.

This completes #759 rather than contradicting it. #759's finding was about
WALL-CLOCK — links are off the critical path, still true. For MEMORY the link is
the largest single consumer in both configurations.

The consequence: nothing bounds it on Linux. OLO_LINK_JOBS and olo_heavy are
Ninja job pools and every Linux job gets Unix Makefiles (§5e), so make -j2 may
run that 11.17 GiB link alongside a compile — 19.26 GiB with the heaviest, past
the 14 GiB unit cap and at the 19 GiB slice cap. In practice the tests link lands
at the end when little else remains, which is why it has not been failing
constantly, but it is unguarded rather than safe by construction.

Recommendations only, applied to nothing (a live runner's configuration is the
maintainer's call and out of #1305's scope): keep --parallel 2 on the sanitizer
jobs, now with evidence — 3 lanes is a 15.24 GiB worst case. Non-sanitizer Linux
Debug fits 4 lanes on compile grounds. The lever actually worth having is a link
bound that works under Makefiles; 2.8 GiB of headroom over a single link is what
is tight, not --parallel.

The Linux ASan ranking independently reproduces the Windows olo_heavy verdict,
same names and same direction, so #1307 has two hosts agreeing.

Also records the CCACHE_STATSLOG trap (sibling worktrees share one CCACHE_DIR, so
before/after `ccache -s` is contaminated) and moves the historical reconciliation
into an appendix so the rules come first. The guide is ~15 KB against CLAUDE.md's
~10 KB guideline; stated rather than met, because the alternative was dropping
measured evidence that the weekly artifact does not carry.

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- Around line 218-220: Correct the spot-check count in the paragraph describing
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Every finding was valid; three were real defects rather than polish.

REAL DEFECTS

- PCH and module outputs were classified as LINKS. `.pch`/`.gch`/`.pcm` have no
  object suffix, so they fell through to the `link` fallback — which would report
  a precompiled header as a link step AND let `--require-link-records` pass on a
  build where no linker ever ran, defeating the CI gate added earlier in this PR.
  OLO_ENABLE_PCH defaults ON whenever the compiler cache is off, so this is the
  default local configuration, not an exotic one. Now `intermediate`; regression-
  tested with a 3-compile + 1-.gch fixture (link count 0, gate correctly fails).

- The flag was validated on the C++ compiler but applied to C compilations too.
  This project compiles C (vendored glad, lua, bc7enc, ...), and CMAKE_C_COMPILER
  is a separate cache entry a toolchain file can point elsewhere; a non-clang C
  compiler would have received an unsupported option and failed the build. Each
  language is now gated on its own compiler id and the option is scoped with
  COMPILE_LANGUAGE / LINK_LANGUAGE generator expressions. On the real tree this
  also turns out to have been UNDER-instrumenting: the status line now reads
  "C/CXX compiles" where it previously said "CXX".

- The --parallel derivation table ran to --max-lanes regardless of how many
  compiles were measured, repeating the last total and letting
  largest_fitting_lanes claim 16 safe lanes from 3 measured TUs. Capped at
  min(max_lanes, len(compiles)) — a row that cannot be substantiated is not
  printed.

CORRECTNESS OF THE CONTRACT

- OLO_PROC_STAT_FILE accepted `reports/rss.csv`: clang would write it, and the
  analyser — which discovers records by matching basenames while walking the
  build tree — would never find it. Empty ranking, no error. Now rejected with a
  message explaining why a basename is the whole contract.
- The suggested analyser command left `--name` at the default, so a custom
  basename produced records nothing would read. It now carries the configured
  name.

CI COVERAGE, AND ITS COST

- Added CMakeLists.txt to the pull_request paths: it declares the option and
  include()s the module, so a wiring regression there would make this workflow
  vacuous rather than red.
- Paid for that by dropping the non-sanitizer cell on pull requests via a matrix
  `if`. A PR only has to prove the instrumentation still works end to end, and
  debug-asan is both the stricter cell and the one the caps come from; tracking
  drift across cells is the weekly run's job. Net: wider trigger, half the
  per-PR box time.
- Recorded the trap that cost this PR three redundant runs — GitHub matches a
  pull_request `paths` filter against the WHOLE PR DIFF, not the latest push, so
  once a PR touches one of these files every later push re-runs the workflow.

DOCS

- `OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORT` documented as a standalone switch in §5 of
  build-trees-and-windows-asan.md, not merely as riding the umbrella — on Windows
  it is the only way to get the measurement at all (#1306).
- "a hit costs no memory" → a hit produces no compiler RSS record; ccache still
  does the lookup and decompression, which this instrument cannot see.
- CCACHE_STATSLOG described as build-scoped and appending, so a reader truncates
  it per build instead of reading the previous build back.
- "all five spot-checked TUs" now actually lists five.

Verified on the real tree: configure clean, 1849 compile occurrences, zero on any
LINK_FLAGS line, and both frontends re-checked in scratch projects (clang-cl Ninja
= compiles only; clang++ Unix Makefiles = "CXX compiles and CXX links").

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All ten findings were valid and all ten are fixed in db563564a. Three were real defects
rather than polish, so recording what each actually broke:

PCH outputs classified as links — the sharpest catch. .pch/.gch/.pcm have no object
suffix and fell through to the link fallback, which would have let --require-link-records
(the CI gate added earlier in this PR) pass on a build where no linker ever ran.
OLO_ENABLE_PCH defaults ON whenever the compiler cache is off, so that is the default local
configuration. Regression-tested with a 3-compile + 1-.gch fixture: link count 0, gate
correctly fails.

Flag validated on C++ but applied to C — correct, and it was also under-instrumenting.
Each language is now gated on its own compiler id with COMPILE_LANGUAGE/LINK_LANGUAGE
generator expressions. On the real tree the configure line changed from CXX compiles to
C/CXX compiles, so the C TUs (vendored glad, lua, bc7enc) were never being measured.

Derivation ran past the compile count — it repeated the last total and could claim 16 safe
lanes from 3 measured TUs. Capped at min(max_lanes, len(compiles)).

The OLO_PROC_STAT_FILE path-component case is closed at the source rather than half-supported:
CMake now rejects any value containing a separator, since a basename is the entire contract the
analyser's tree-walk can honour. The --name suggestion was applied as written.

On the workflow path filter: CMakeLists.txt added as suggested — a wiring regression there
would make this workflow vacuous rather than red, which is the failure mode worth guarding. To
keep that affordable on a box at rho 1.69, a pull request now runs only the debug-asan cell
via a matrix if; both cells still run weekly. Net effect is a wider trigger for half the
per-PR cost.

Two doc points taken verbatim ("a hit produces no compiler RSS record", CCACHE_STATSLOG is
build-scoped and appends) and the spot-check count now actually lists five.

drsnuggles8 and others added 4 commits September 18, 2026 08:45
…1307)

Closes #1307. The pool was chosen from per-TU figures that a later re-measurement
showed were wrong by up to 8.7x, so this re-derives it from #1305's census and
writes down a rule instead of another hand-picked list.

RULE: every TU whose measured peak compiler RSS is >= 1.5 GiB. Not a round
number — 1.5 is where the tail ends. The 17th TU is 1.50 GiB and the 18th is
1.37, while p95 across the whole tree is 0.85 GiB. Re-derive by running the
weekly build-memory-debug-asan artifact through scripts/analyze_proc_stat.py.

ADDED (all >= 2 GiB, all previously unpooled):
    Scene/Scene.cpp                             3.30 GiB   #3 of 1761
    Scripting/VisualScript/ComponentFieldRegistry.cpp  2.81 GiB   #5
    Scene/SceneSerializer.cpp                   2.63 GiB   #7
    Scripting/Lua/LuaScriptGlue.cpp             2.40 GiB   #9
    SaveGame/SaveGameSerializer.cpp             2.26 GiB   #11

LuaScriptGlue.cpp is the notable one: it was deliberately excluded when the glue
was split (#822) as "an ordinary small TU". It is 9th of 1761. That judgement
rested on the broken survey.

DROPPED (below the threshold):
    Scene/Prefab.cpp                 1.37 GiB   #18  (committed as "6,400 MB in 22 s")
    LuaScriptGlue_EngineApi.cpp      1.18 GiB   #21
    Rendering/RenderGraphTest.cpp    0.94 GiB   #34  (committed as "8,619 MB")

Both remaining Prefab.cpp concerns are untouched: it stays excluded from
whole-program optimization, which is a separate question from compile scheduling.

Depth stays at 2. Two concurrent from the new set is 8.09 + 3.85 = 11.94 GiB,
which is what the pool exists to bound, and the wall-clock cost of throttling a
wider set is bounded: the pooled TUs total 587 s of 7234 s, so a 2-wide floor is
294 s against a -j6 ideal of 1206 s. The pool cannot become the critical path.

CORRECTION to what I reported earlier in this PR: I claimed the pool held TUs
ranked #180 and #281. That came from a suffix match — `endswith
("ComponentRoundTripTest.cpp")` also matches AbilityComponentRoundTripTest.cpp,
which is NOT in the pool and never was. Re-derived with exact path matching
against the four call sites, the pool held ranks #1,2,4,6,8,10,12,13,14,15,16,17,
18,21,34: mostly right, missing five TUs >= 2 GiB and carrying three below 1.5.
This commit is that correction, not the wholesale repopulation I described.

Dropping RenderGraphTest.cpp also removed the `_olo_render_graph_test_src`
indirection that held it out of the plain source list. The variable was still
expanded there, so deleting the `set()` alone would have expanded to nothing and
silently dropped the TU from the build — the exact failure the surrounding
comment warns about. It is now listed literally.

Verified on the generated build: 17 unique pooled files over 20 compile edges
(three are compiled into both OloEditor and OloEngine-Tests), and all three
dropped files still have build edges.

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The rule was unconditional and its own reason string named the constraint it was
enforcing: "MSVC PCH (/Fp) is non-cacheable under sccache/ccache". True for the
MSVC frontend — cl.exe and clang-cl both spell a PCH /Yc /Yu /Fp and the cache
reports those TUs non-cacheable — and not true for a GNU-frontend clang, where
ccache caches PCH-using compiles given the right sloppiness.

This repo had already established that and then not acted on it.
docs/agent-rules/compiler-cache-uncacheable-compiles.md says "clang needs nothing
beyond what CMake emits", and .github/actions/setup-linux-build ALREADY exports
CCACHE_SLOPPINESS=pch_defines,time_macros,... on both self-hosted setups with the
comment "every engine target uses one". The CI action was configured for a PCH
the CMake then turned off, so ~1800 Linux TUs re-parse the engine's header
closure on every cold build for a Windows-only reason.

The disable now tracks its reason. Three cases:

    MSVC frontend                     -> OFF, /Fp is genuinely non-cacheable
    GNU clang/GCC without sloppiness  -> OFF, and say so: every engine compile
                                         would go uncached, which is far worse
                                         than a cold re-parse (measured at
                                         1417/1417 objects in that doc)
    GNU clang/GCC with sloppiness     -> left at the OLO_ENABLE_PCH default

The sloppiness is CHECKED, not assumed, because getting it wrong fails silently
in the expensive direction.

WHAT THIS DOES NOT ESTABLISH, stated plainly: the second half of the original
argument is general rather than MSVC-specific — "PCH speeds a cold compile, the
cache makes a warm compile a near-instant hit" — and it is not dismissed here.
The reason to expect the two to compose on clang is that the PCH's constituent
headers are inputs to the cache key either way, so enabling it should not add
invalidation. That is a prediction. #1305's build-memory workflow is the
instrument that prices it, and this block is the one conditional to flip back if
a warm-cache regression shows up.

Verified on Windows: still OFF, and the status line now names the actual reason
rather than a generic one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…of recompiling (#1314)

OloEngine-Tests cannot link OloEditor — it is an executable — so it recompiled 41
of the editor's sources as its own. Measured on a build of both targets that cost
41 duplicated translation units and 231 s, 3.8% of the entire build's compile
time, and it duplicated the worst TU in the tree: McpFieldRegistry.cpp is #1 by
peak compiler RSS (8.09 GiB under ASan) and was paid for twice.

OloEditorCore is a static library holding exactly that shared set — Automation/
(18), MCP/ (21) and the two Panels/ContentBrowser helpers. OloEditor links it and
keeps the ImGui editor: 34 Panels/*, EditorLayer, OloEditorApp, McpServerPanel and
the thumbnail cache, none of which any test compiles.

THE SEAM IS THE ONE THE TESTS ALREADY DREW. Every file moved was already being
compiled into the test binary and linking there, so the set is known self-contained
against OloEngine — the boundary is discovered, not invented.

SAFE AS A STATIC LIBRARY, checked before moving anything: nothing here
self-registers. Automation commands are published through explicit
Register*Commands(AutomationRegistry&) entry points a caller invokes, so no object
depends on being retained for a static initializer's side effect. That is the
failure mode which makes naive static-library extraction drop behaviour silently,
and it does not apply. A self-registering TU added here later would need
WHOLE_ARCHIVE or an explicit reference.

GLFW_INCLUDE_NONE stays PRIVATE deliberately. It is what keeps a TU that pulls
GLFW before glad compiling, and these sources had it in the editor build — but
OloEngine-Tests compiled this same set for years WITHOUT it, so it is
demonstrably not part of the interface. PUBLIC would have put it on ~900 test TUs
and rebuilt them all for nothing.

The editor's three heavy TUs move their pool binding from two targets to
OloEditorCore, which is now the only place they compile.

Verified: configure clean; OloEditor and OloEngine-Tests both build and link;
McpFieldRegistry.cpp went from 3 on-disk objects to ONE live build edge (the
other two are stale orphans ninja does not clean); total object count 1849 ->
1809; and 1118 Automation/MCP/ContentBrowser tests run with 1116 passed, 0
failed, 2 skipped for environment (headless attach, symlink privileges).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous commit's `if: ${{ ... matrix.slug == 'debug-asan' }}` on the job did
not merely evaluate wrong — it made the whole workflow FILE invalid. GitHub
rejected the run with "This run likely failed because of a workflow file issue"
and started no job at all, so the workflow silently stopped guarding anything
while still appearing in the checks list as a failure.

Cause: a job-level `if` cannot see the `matrix` context. Only github, needs, vars
and inputs are available there; `matrix` is available to steps, `runs-on` and
`strategy`. I asserted the opposite in that commit message — it was wrong, and CI
caught it on the first run.

Fixed by building the matrix itself from the event, which is the supported route
because `strategy` CAN read the github context:

    include: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request'
      && fromJSON('[<asan cell>]')
      || fromJSON('[<asan cell>, <debug cell>]') }}

Same outcome as intended — one cell on a pull request, both on the schedule and
on demand — without the invalid context reference.

Validated before pushing rather than after: the file parses as YAML, the job no
longer carries an `if`, both fromJSON literals parse as JSON, and every cell
carries exactly the three keys (label, slug, cmake-args) the consuming steps
read. A malformed literal would have failed in the same silent way.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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🟡 Minor · Update Trap 4 for conditional PCH handling. · build-memory-per-tu.md:111-119

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Update Trap 4 for conditional PCH handling.

cmake/CompilerCache.cmake forces OLO_ENABLE_PCH=OFF only for MSVC frontends or non-MSVC frontends without both pch_defines and time_macros in CCACHE_SLOPPINESS. Linux cached CI exports both values, so PCH remains enabled there. OLO_ENABLE_UNITY_BUILD=OFF remains unconditional.

State that cache-off measurements must explicitly match the PCH and unity settings of the cache-on configuration under comparison. The existing build-memory.yml flags set both options to OFF, so they do not match GNU-fronted Linux cached CI, where PCH remains enabled.

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In `@docs/agent-rules/build-memory-per-tu.md` around lines 111 - 119, Update Trap
4 to describe the conditional PCH behavior in CompilerCache.cmake: PCH is
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In `@cmake/CompilerCache.cmake`:
- Around line 272-284: Update the PCH eligibility logic around
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selected compiler-cache launcher is ccache. Keep PCH disabled for sccache, while
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- Around line 111-119: Update Trap 4 to describe the conditional PCH behavior in
CompilerCache.cmake: PCH is disabled only for MSVC or non-MSVC configurations
lacking both pch_defines and time_macros in CCACHE_SLOPPINESS, while unity
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Comment thread cmake/CompilerCache.cmake
Comment on lines +272 to +284
if(NOT CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_FRONTEND_VARIANT STREQUAL "MSVC")
# ccache needs pch_defines AND time_macros before it will cache a PCH-using
# compile (ccache manual, "Precompiled headers"). Checked rather than assumed:
# turning PCH on without them makes EVERY engine TU uncacheable, which is the
# failure docs/agent-rules/compiler-cache-uncacheable-compiles.md measured at
# 1417/1417 objects.
set(_olo_pch_sloppiness "$ENV{CCACHE_SLOPPINESS}")
if(_olo_pch_sloppiness MATCHES "pch_defines" AND _olo_pch_sloppiness MATCHES "time_macros")
set(_olo_pch_uncacheable FALSE)
else()
set(_olo_pch_reason
"CCACHE_SLOPPINESS does not contain both pch_defines and time_macros, so every PCH-using compile would be uncacheable (got '${_olo_pch_sloppiness}')")
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<title>README.md</title> https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/blob/main/README.md sccache is a ccache-like compiler caching tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible, storing cached results either on local disk or in one of several cloud storage backends. Multi-level caching with automatic backfill is supported for hierarchical cache architectures (see Multi-Level Cache). ... sccache includes support for caching the compilation of Assembler, C/C++ code, Rust, as well as NVIDIA&`#39`;s CUDA using nvcc, and clang, AMD&`#39`;s ROCm HIP. ... sccache supports gcc, clang, MSVC, rustc, NVCC, NVC++, hipcc, and Wind River&`#39`;s diab compiler. Both gcc and msvc support Response Files, read more about their implementation here. ... sccache provides support for a GNU make jobserver. When the server is started from a process that provides a jobserver, sccache will use that jobserver and provide it to any processes it spawns. (If you are running sccache from a GNU make recipe, you will need to prefix the command with `+` to get this behavior.) If the sccache server is started without a jobserver present it will create its own with the number of slots equal to the number of available CPU cores. ... ### C++20 Modules ... sccache has partial support for C++20 named modules when using **Clang**. The following flags are supported: ... * `-fmodule-file= ` and `-fmodule-file= = ` - importing precompiled module interfaces * `-fmodule-output= ` - generating module interface output alongside object files * `--precompile` - compiling module interface units * `-fmodules-reduced-bmi` - generating reduced BMI files ... The following module-related flags are **not supported** and will bypass the cache: ... * `-fmodules` and `-fcxx-modules` - Clang header modules (not C++20 named modules) * `-fprebuilt-implicit-modules` and `-fprebuilt-module-path` - implicit module discovery ... **GCC** and **MSVC** C++20 modules are not yet supported. Compilations using `-fmodules-ts` (GCC) or `/interface`, `/ifcOutput`, etc. (MSVC) will bypass the cache. <title>sccache 0.17.0 - Docs.rs</title> https://docs.rs/crate/sccache/latest sccache includes support for caching the compilation of Assembler, C/C++ code, Rust, as well as NVIDIA&`#39`;s CUDA using nvcc, and clang, AMD&`#39`;s ROCm HIP. ... sccache supports gcc, clang, MSVC, rustc, NVCC, NVC++, hipcc, and Wind River&`#39`;s diab compiler. Both gcc and msvc support Response Files, read more about their implementation here. ... ## Interaction with GNU make jobserver ... sccache provides support for a GNU make jobserver. When the server is started from a process that provides a jobserver, sccache will use that jobserver and provide it to any processes it spawns. (If you are running sccache from a GNU make recipe, you will need to prefix the command with`+` to get this behavior.) If the sccache server is started without a jobserver present it will create its own with the number of slots equal to the number of available CPU cores. ... ache for Rust ... a jobserver ... ### C++20 Modules ... sccache has partial support for C++20 named modules when using Clang. The following flags are supported: ... - `-fmodule-file= ` and`-fmodule-file= = `- importing precompiled module interfaces - `-fmodule-output= `- generating module interface output alongside object files - `--precompile`- compiling module interface units - `-fmodules-reduced-bmi`- generating reduced BMI files ... The following module-related flags are not supported and will bypass the cache: ... - `-fmodules` and`-fcxx-modules`- Clang header modules (not C++20 named modules) - `-fprebuilt-implicit-modules` and`-fprebuilt-module-path`- implicit module discovery ... GCC and MSVC C++20 modules are not yet supported. Compilations using`-fmodules-ts`(GCC) or`/interface`,`/ifcOutput`, etc. (MSVC) will bypass the cache. <title>PCH + gcc: sccache fails, ccache succeeds - Usage - CMake Discourse</title> https://discourse.cmake.org/t/pch-gcc-sccache-fails-ccache-succeeds/8615 PCH + gcc: sccache fails, ccache succeeds - Usage - CMake Discourse # PCH + gcc: sccache fails, ccache succeeds craig.scott(Craig Scott) July 27, 2023, 6:47am 1 I discovered today that if using gcc with precompiled headers, using sccache fails but ccache works. It appears that sccache doesn’t properly handle the PCH artifacts, resulting in errors of the form: ``` cc1plus: error: /some/path/cmake_pch.hxx.gch: not a PCH file ``` even though that file does exist and was created by gcc, so it’s presumably a valid PCH file. `@ben.boeckel` reported sccache not supporting PCH years ago in Does not support PCH compilation using `-include` · Issue `#615` · mozilla/sccache · GitHub, which is still an open issue, but I don’t know if it is essentially the same lack of support, just a different manifestation of what I’m seeing. Anyone have any further details on this particular combination and whether it’s likely to be fixed any time soon? I was surprised by how little there seems to be online about it, given that it makes sccache a non-starter for any project using gcc with precompiled headers. For CMake projects, I’d expect that to be a common enough combination that we should be seeing more bug reports and discussions about it, so maybe I’m missing some important detail. craig.scott(Craig Scott) July 27, 2023, 7:25am 2 Strangely, it seems that sccache does handle clang + PCH. ben.boeckel(Ben Boeckel (Kitware)) July 27, 2023, 10:05am 3 I think PCH usage is actually way lower in practice. But it seems that GCC’s`-include` usage for PCH is different enough from Clang’s.`-include` is seen as a preprocessor argument, but is needed for the compile with GCC"s PCH. How does Clang do PCH? craig.scott(Craig Scott) July 28, 2023, 3:46am 4 How does Clang do PCH? I don’t know the details, but maybe@cristianadam does (he implemented the PCH feature, from what I recall). cristianadam(Cristian Adam) July 28, 2023, 11:02am 5 This is how GCC does PCH, and how Clang does it. I think people do not complain about it because the usual combination is cache without PCH. This is how Qt does it. Here is the ccache manual documentation about PCH. I personally prefer ccache as seen at gitlab-ci: consider using ccache instead of sccache (`#23877`) · Issues · CMake / CMake · GitLab (kitware.com) <title>sccache fails to compile Qt: hash collision between precompiled headers and object files · Issue `#1851` · mozilla/sccache</title> GitHub issue 1851 in mozilla/sccache (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference) - Repository: mozilla/sccache | Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. 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<title>[RFC] Use pre-compiled headers to speed up LLVM build by ~1.5-2x - LLVM Project - LLVM Discussion Forums</title> https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-use-pre-compiled-headers-to-speed-up-llvm-build-by-1-5-2x/89345 - Where to store header list for PCH? - Add separate option to enable/disable vs. just rely on standard`CMAKE_DISABLE_PRECOMPILE_HEADERS`? - Which CI runners use PCH vs. which don’t? (NB: ccache supports PCH, sccache apparently doesn’t.) ... One big problem that I know with PCHs is that they’re not supported by caching tools like ccache, sccache, fastbuild. ... I don’t remember why this doesn’t ... (something about includes in PCH?), but I always tend to choose a ... able build rather than a somewhat faster build. ... Edit: Just noticed the first ... supports PCH, which I don’t agree with. ... Flang does use PCH by default with ccache right now (`#136856`) and apart from#142449(which wasn’t investigated but was gone with the new pre-merge CI) I’m not aware of issues this caused on non-Windows platforms. If we consider this to be a relevant concern, we should probably disable Flang PCH as well. <title>b82c7fc [CMake][LLVM] Add PCH infrastructure and LLVMSupport PCH (`#176420`)</title> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/b82c7fc65229c8b2b6a964f023f6ec59b3cf9210 # b82c7fc [CMake][LLVM] Add PCH infrastructure and LLVMSupport PCH (`#176420`) - SHA: b82c7fc65229c8b2b6a964f023f6ec59b3cf9210 - Repository: llvm/llvm-project - Author: aengelke - Date: 2026-02-20T11:07:18Z - +289 -65 in 13 files - Verified: yes --- [CMake][LLVM] Add PCH infrastructure and LLVMSupport PCH (`#176420`) This patch implements PCH support. PCH is enabled by default, unless noted below, and can be disabled with -DCMAKE_DISABLE_PRECOMPILE_HEADERS=ON. * Libraries can define precompiled headers using a newly added PRECOMPILE_HEADERS keyword. If specified, the listed headers will be compiled into a pre-compiled header using standard CMake mechanisms. * Libraries that don&`#39`;t define their own PRECOMPILE_HEADERS but directly depend on a library or component that defines its own PCH will reuse that PCH. This reuse is not transitive to prevent excessive use of unrelated headers. If multiple dependencies provide a reusable PCH, the first one with the longest dependency chain (stored in the CMake target property LLVM_PCH_PRIORITY) is used. However, due to CMake limitations, only PCH from targets that are already defined can be reused; therefore libraries that should reuse a PCH must be defined later in the CMake file (=> add_subdirectory order matters). * Libraries and executables can prevent PCH reuse with the keyword DISABLE_PCH_REUSE. This both prevents reuse from dependencies and reuse by other dependants. This is useful when, e.g., internal headers are used in the PCH or the used headers are unlikely to provide benefits for dependants. * Precompiled headers are only used for C++ sources, not for C. * With GCC, PCH provide very little benefits (tested with GCC 14 and 15) due to increased template instatiation costs, but substantially increase max-rss and build directory size. Therefore, disable PCH with GCC by default; this can be explicitly overridden on the command line with -DCMAKE_DISABLE_PRECOMPILE_HEADERS=OFF. * With ccache and non-Clang compilers, changes in macro definitions are not always accurately forwarded with ccache&`#39`;s preprocessed mode. To be on the safe side, when ccache is enabled, disable PCH with all non-Clang compilers; this can be explicitly overridden. * With sccache, changes in macro definitions are not identified, which in some cases can lead to false positive cache hits. Conservatively disable PCH with sccache by default. * Add a base PCH to LLVMSupport, which includes widely used standard library and Support+ADT headers. The pch.h is placed in include so that later PCH headers can extend that list of headers. * Flang PCH use is ported to the general mechanism. Addition of PCH headers for other components (e.g., IR, CodeGen) will be posted as separate PRs. RFC: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-use-pre-compiled-headers-to-speed-up-llvm-build-by-1-5-2x/89345 ## Changed Files | File | Status | + | - | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | flang/CMakeLists.txt | modified | 0 | 10 | | flang/lib/Evaluate/CMakeLists.txt | modified | 9 | 9 | | flang/lib/Frontend/CMakeLists.txt | modified | 8 | 8 | | flang/lib/Lower/CMakeLists.txt | modified | 11 | 11 | | flang/lib/Parser/CMakeLists.txt | modified | 8 | 8 | | flang/lib/Semantics/CMakeLists.txt | modified | 9 | 9 | | llvm/CMakeLists.txt | modified | 16 | 0 | | llvm/cmake/modules/AddLLVM.cmake | modified | 94 | 8 | | llvm/cmake/modules/HandleLLVMOptions.cmake | modified | 48 | 0 | | llvm/include/llvm/Support/pch.h | added | 75 | 0 | | llvm/lib/CMakeLists.txt | modified | 1 | 1 | | llvm/lib/Support/CMakeLists.txt | modified | 6 | 1 | | polly/lib/CMakeLists.txt | modified | 4 | 0 | <title>Properly implement PCH compilation · Pull Request `#1802` · mozilla/sccache</title> GitHub pull request 1802 in mozilla/sccache (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference) # Pull Request: mozilla/sccache `#1802` - Repository: mozilla/sccache | Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. Sccache has the capability to utilize caching in remote storage environments, including various cloud storage options, or alternatively, in local storage. | 7K stars | Rust ## Properly implement PCH compilation - Author: [`@scorpion-26`](https://github.com/scorpion-26) - Association: CONTRIBUTOR - State: merged - Source branch: cpp-pch-fix - Target branch: main - Mergeable: unknown - Commits: 5 - Additions: 144 - Deletions: 45 - Changed files: 4 - Created: 2023-06-08T16:16:46Z - Updated: 2024-11-26T18:26:11Z - Closed: 2023-06-13T06:52:46Z - Merged: 2023-06-13T06:52:46Z - Merged by: [`@sylvestre`](https://github.com/sylvestre) Fixes https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/issues/1748. A proper bug explanation is provided in the above mentioned issue. Since we need to differentiate between header and source for PCH compilation, we store the file type information (header vs source) and then pass that along to clang/gcc via ```-x```. Since ```.h``` ("GenericHeader") can be either a header or a source, the ```-x``` will be omitted for ```.h``` unless manually specified by the user, so the compiler can decide what to do. --- ### Timeline **scorpion-26** pushed commit `b6172a3`: Blacklist C++ PCHs · Jun 8, 2023 at 2:39pm **scorpion-26** pushed commit `32ff32d`: Properly implement PCH · Jun 8, 2023 at 3:17pm **`@sylvestre`** commented · Jun 8, 2023 at 4:19pm > it would need tests, could you please add some? thanks **`@scorpion-26`** commented · Jun 8, 2023 at 4:37pm · Author > Okay, I added some tests. Let me know if I should add another specific test. **`@codecov-commenter`** commented · Jun 8, 2023 at 4:49pm · edited > ## [Codecov](https://app.codecov.io/gh/mozilla/sccache/pull/1802?src=pr&el=h1&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=github&utm_content=comment&utm_campaign=pr+comments&utm_term=mozilla) Report > > Patch coverage: **`45.19`**% and project coverage change: **`+0.19`** 🎉 > > > Comparison is base [(`af6e381`)](https://app.codecov.io/gh/mozilla/sccache/commit/af6e381955fc7b5b86d0168b9d686168723d2a83?el=desc&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=github&utm_content=comment&utm_campaign=pr+comments&utm_term=mozilla) 29.39% compared to head [(`c87bda2`)](https://app.codecov.io/gh/mozilla/sccache/pull/1802?src=pr&el=desc&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=github&utm_content=comment&utm_campaign=pr+comments&utm_term=mozilla) 29.58%. > > Additional details and impacted files > > ```diff > @@ Coverage Diff @@ > ## main `#1802` +/- ## > ========================================== > + Coverage 29.39% 29.58% +0.19% > ========================================== > Files 49 49 > Lines 17713 17781 +68 > Branches 8547 8577 +30 > ========================================== > + Hits 5206 5260 +54 > - Misses 7348 7350 +2 > - Partials 5159 5171 +12 > ``` > > | [Impacted Files](https://app.codecov.io/gh/mozilla/sccache/pull/1802?src=pr&el=tree&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=github&utm_content=comment&utm_campaign=pr+comments&utm_term=mozilla) | Coverage Δ | > | --- | --- | > | [src/compiler/nvcc.rs](https://app.codecov.io/gh/mozilla/sccache/pull/1802?src=pr&el=tree&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=github&utm_content=comment&utm_campaign=pr+comments&utm_term=mozilla#diff-c3JjL2NvbXBpbGVyL252Y2MucnM=) | `36.44% <0.00%> (-0.33%)` | ⬇️ | > | [src/compiler/gcc.rs](https://app.codecov.io/gh/mozilla/sccache/pull/1802?src=pr&el=tree&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=github&utm_content=comment&utm_campaign=pr+comments&utm_term=mozilla#diff-c3JjL2NvbXBpbGVyL2djYy5ycw==) | `55.04% <37.97%> (+0.58%)` | ⬆️ | > | [src/compiler/c.rs](https://app.c…[truncated] <title>`-Xarch` Clang compiler option not supported · Issue `#2090` · mozilla/sccache</title> GitHub issue 2090 in mozilla/sccache (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference) # Issue: mozilla/sccache `#2090` - Repository: mozilla/sccache | Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. Sccache has the capability to utilize caching in remote storage environments, including various cloud storage options, or alternatively, in local storage. | 7K stars | Rust ## `-Xarch` Clang compiler option not supported - Author: [`@cgytrus`](https://github.com/cgytrus) - State: open - Reactions: 👍 4 - Created: 2024-02-13T14:52:41Z - Updated: 2024-10-01T20:37:37Z I&`#39`;m not sure what the exact conditions are, but CMake (sometimes?) generates `-Xarch_ ` before architecture-specific PCH includes with (both LLVM and Apple) Clang on macOS. The option&`#39`;s syntax is kind of weird (`-Xarch_ ` [Clang CLI ref](https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangCommandLineReference.html#cmdoption-clang-Xarch_-arg1)) and it not being properly supported results in arguments getting reordered weirdly causing the following errors: ``` /usr/local/bin/sccache /usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang++ <...> -arch x86_64 <...> -Winvalid-pch -Xarch_x86_64 -include/Users/runner/work/geode/geode/build/loader/CMakeFiles/geode-loader.dir/cmake_pch_x86_64.hxx <...> clang++: error: no such file or directory: &`#39`;x86_64&`#39`; clang++: error: invalid Xarch argument: &`#39`;-Xarch_x86_64 -arch&`#39`;, options requiring arguments are unsupported ``` ``` [2024-02-13T11:50:19Z DEBUG sccache::compiler::gcc] cmd after -arch rewrite: Some(<...> "/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang++" <...> "-include" "/Users/runner/work/geode/geode/build/loader/CMakeFiles/geode-loader.dir/cmake_pch_x86_64.hxx" <...> "-Winvalid-pch" "-Xarch_x86_64" "-arch" "x86_64" <...>) ``` I managed to work around the issue for my specific use case in [this](https://github.com/cgytrus/sccache/commit/f284de9f9c2c6ec9623b127879f30cf6ec4d538b) commit, but obviously this isn&`#39`;t sustainable long-term, since it should actually parse 2 arguments from the option (`arg1` and `arg2`) which doesn&`#39`;t seem to be possible right now. --- ### Timeline **`@Noxybot`** commented · May 1, 2024 at 7:33pm > Same for me... Is there a resolution for this? **`@tomconder`** commented · Jul 18, 2024 at 10:04pm > +1. I also am facing this issue with sccache on Mac OS X. **`@sylvestre`** commented · Jul 18, 2024 at 10:11pm > Don&`#39`;t hesitate to propose a patch for this. AFAIK, we (Mozilla) aren&`#39`;t impacted by this. **`@pauliesnug`** commented · Sep 21, 2024 at 11:29pm > > Don&`#39`;t hesitate to propose a patch for this. AFAIK, we (Mozilla) aren&`#39`;t impacted by this. > > I believe a patch wasn&`#39`;t proposed due to the issue mentioned, "obviously this isn&`#39`;t sustainable long-term, since it should actually parse 2 arguments from the option (arg1 and arg2) which doesn&`#39`;t seem to be possible right now." **torarnv** mentioned this in PR [`#2265`: Handle -Xarch_ for Clang](https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/pull/2265) · Oct 1, 2024 at 8:37pm **`@torarnv`** commented · Oct 1, 2024 at 8:37pm > I made a stab at a more generic fix in https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/pull/2265 > > `@sylvestre` please have a look, thanks! **sylvestre** was mentioned · Oct 1, 2024 at 8:37pm **alcroito** mentioned this in PR [`#2338`: Handle -Xarch_ for Clang](https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/pull/2338) · Feb 21, 2025 at 3:59pm **alcroito** mentioned this in issue [`#2558`: Potential flag juggling issues, incorrectly handling -Xarch_*](https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/issues/2558) · Jan 27, 2026 at 9:59am <title>v0.15.0</title> https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/releases/tag/v0.15.0 # sccache ... .15.0 ... sccache 0.15.0 brings several notable improvements: ... - **Multi-tier caching**: New support for layered caches with fallback and automatic backfilling between tiers (`#2581`). ... - **C++20 modules**: Initial (partial) support for compiling C++20 modules (`#2516`). ... - **Distribution**: cargo-binstall metadata for prebuilt binary installation (`#2647`). ... - Avoid double ... - partial c++20 module support by `@TroyKomodo` in https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/pull/2516 ... - Implement multiple ... with fallback and backfilling by ... - feat: Add loongarch64 support by `@woji` ... /pull/ ... 669 ... - Add cargo-binstall metadata for prebuilt binary installation by `@sylvestre` in https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/pull/2647 ... | sccache-v0.15.0-s390x-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz | 9141 KB | 60 downloads | | sccache-v0.15.0-s390x-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz.sha256 | 0 KB | 748 downloads | | sccache-v0.15.0-s390x-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz | 8536 KB | 1007 downloads | | sccache-v0.15.0-s390x-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz.sha256 | 0 KB | 748 downloads | ... | sccache-v0.15.0-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz | 6931 KB | 15564 downloads | | sccache-v0.15.0-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz.sha256 | 0 KB | 14015 downloads |

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Do not use CCACHE_SLOPPINESS to enable PCH for sccache.

find_program(... NAMES sccache ccache) can select sccache, but this branch treats the ccache-only variable as the PCH gate. The repository pins sccache v0.15.0, which does not provide reliable Clang PCH support and can produce false-positive cache hits when PCH macros change. Gate this condition on the selected launcher and keep PCH disabled for sccache unless a tested compatible version is explicitly supported.

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In `@cmake/CompilerCache.cmake` around lines 272 - 284, Update the PCH eligibility
logic around _olo_pch_uncacheable so the CCACHE_SLOPPINESS checks apply only
when the selected compiler-cache launcher is ccache. Keep PCH disabled for
sccache, while preserving the existing ccache requirement for both pch_defines
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Closes #1306. OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION=ON could not build this project on
Windows at all, which made #759/#822's whole build-profiling recipe dead on the
only OS that runs the editor — and on the only generator where OLO_LINK_JOBS and
olo_heavy exist.

cmake_instrumentation() wraps every custom command in `ctest --instrument --
<argv>` and EXECUTES argv rather than handing it to a shell. Vendored glad's
generator rule was four `COMMAND echo ...` lines, one of them
`COMMAND echo ${GLAD_ARGS} > ${GLAD_ARGS_PATH}`. Under cmd.exe `echo` is a shell
builtin with no executable on disk and `>` is shell redirection, so the build
died at glad-generate with "Batch file failed at line 3 with errorcode 1" and no
diagnostic of any kind. POSIX shells hid it because /usr/bin/echo is a real
binary, which is why Linux CI never saw it.

glad is a FetchContent download and must not be edited in place, so the fix goes
through a patch on top of the pin — the mechanism this repo already uses for
FSR2. `cmake -E echo` is a real process and survives the launcher; the args
record is written at configure time and copied, because `cmake -E` has no
redirect and that file is an OUTPUT of the rule (written, never read, but it has
to exist or the rule is dirty on every build).

The applier is now SHARED rather than duplicated: cmake/fsr2-apply-patches.cmake
becomes cmake/apply-vendor-patches.cmake, parameterised by OLO_PATCH_DIR and
OLO_PATCH_LABEL. Its restore-then-apply contract is what makes this safe to run
on every configure and is unchanged — read its header before bumping either pin
while a patch is carried.

VERIFIED END TO END, in the order that isolates each claim:

  1. The exact batch file that failed now exits 0 (was 1) and produces all four
     outputs, with args.txt carrying the same space-separated text upstream's
     `echo >` wrote.
  2. Deleting glad-build entirely and building the glad target through ninja
     regenerates it with the ctest wrapper in place: exit 0.
  3. The instrumentation API actually emits a trace on Windows now —
     20 events, roles {custom: 15, compile: 2, link: 2, cmakeBuild: 1}. The 15
     custom commands are the ones that used to kill the build.

REPRODUCIBLE (#824) still holds: the run logs show both registry fetches being
intercepted and served from glad's bundled spec.

OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORT stays. It was originally forced by this bug, but it earns
its place as the narrower switch — a compiler flag costs nothing per build step,
where the API spends a process on every compile, link and custom command. The
docs that described it as "the only way on Windows" now say that instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes #1313. #1305's measurement found the memory ceiling is not a compile at
all: one ld.lld link of OloEngine-Tests peaks at 11.17 GiB under Debug+ASan and
10.03 GiB with no sanitizer, against a heaviest compile of 8.09 / 4.65 GiB. That
is 80% of the runner unit's 14 GiB cap, and more than any TU in the build.

Three things that should have bounded it did not:

  * OLO_LINK_JOBS (the olo_link Ninja pool) is guarded by
    if(CMAKE_GENERATOR MATCHES "Ninja"). Every Linux job configures with no -G
    and gets Unix Makefiles, where the pool silently does not exist.
  * olo_heavy is a Ninja pool too, and throttles compiles rather than links.
  * LinkSemaphore.cmake shelled out to pwsh, which is not on the box. Confirmed
    in the runner's own log, not inferred:
        Link semaphore: neither 'pwsh' nor 'powershell' found on PATH -- linking
        WITHOUT cross-tree throttling.

So `make -j2` was free to run that link beside a compile — 19.26 GiB with the
heaviest, past the unit cap and at the 19 GiB slice cap — and two concurrent
links across the two runner slots is 22.3 GiB against that same slice. It had
not been failing constantly only because the tests link lands at the end of the
build, which is scheduling luck rather than a guarantee.

scripts/link-semaphore.py is the POSIX half of the existing throttle. The
Windows script uses N named MUTEXES and its header argues at length why, not a
counting semaphore: a Windows semaphore's count is owned by nobody, so a killed
holder leaks its permit permanently and the throttle degrades to nothing. flock
has exactly that ownership property and gets it from the kernel — the lock
belongs to the open file description and is released when the holder dies, by
any means — which is why this is a few lines where the Windows version needs a
careful argument, and why no PID-file scheme is used.

FAILS OPEN throughout, same as the Windows half: no fcntl, no permit directory,
or every permit busy past the timeout, and the link runs anyway. A throttle that
can fail a build is worse than no throttle.

ALSO FIXES A KNOB THAT DID NOTHING. OLO_LINK_SEMAPHORE_SLOTS is a cache variable,
but both wrappers read it from the ENVIRONMENT — configuration cannot come from
argv, because a linker command line is full of tokens a parser would eat (`-o`,
`--start-group`, a bare `--`), so everything after the wrapper path must be
forwarded verbatim. Nothing put it in the environment, so the variable only
changed a status message while the wrapper's built-in default of 2 was the real
value on BOTH platforms. It now travels via `cmake -E env`.

VERIFIED. What is testable without a POSIX host was tested here, and the parts
most likely to break a build are exactly those: exit codes propagated verbatim
(42 stays 42, not collapsed to 1), hostile argv forwarded intact, missing linker
reported as failure rather than false success, malformed config degrading to the
default, slots<=0 disabling deliberately and saying so, and diagnostics confined
to stderr so linker output stays clean. The permit loop itself was exercised
against a stand-in fcntl with real flock semantics: two permits go to distinct
slots, a third is refused, it fails open after the timeout, a released permit is
reusable, and none leak. On Windows the new launcher chain relinks
OloHeaderTool and oloctl cleanly, and the generated rule carries
`cmake -E env OLO_LINK_SEMAPHORE_SLOTS=<n>` across all 24 link rules.

The flock call itself runs only on Linux CI, which is the first real exercise of
that path — bounded by the fail-open design.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The remaining lever for the 11.17 GiB link was -gsplit-dwarf, and #1313 recorded
its risk as "unverified: confirm a sanitizer stack still symbolises". Verified
now, and the answer is specific enough to act on.

THE TRADE, measured with llvm-symbolizer (clang 23.1.0, cross-compiled to
x86_64-linux), one control per variable:

    -gsplit-dwarf alone, .dwo present       inline frames RESOLVE
    -ffile-prefix-map=/olo alone            inline frames RESOLVE
    both together, .dwo present             inline frames LOST

So it is the COMBINATION that breaks, not either half — which is exactly the
case this repo is in, because -ffile-prefix-map=<src>=/olo is applied whenever
the compiler cache is on so the two olo-ci slots can share one ccache. Split
DWARF resolves its side-car through DW_AT_comp_dir, so the symbolizer looks for
/olo/<name>.dwo and does not find it.

WHAT SURVIVES, in every arm: the function name (from .symtab) and file:line
(from .debug_line, which stays in the object). An ASan report keeps its frames
and their locations and loses the inlined ones — and every sanitizer job is a
Debug build, where there is little inlining to lose. Packaging the side-cars
into a .dwp did not restore it either, but that probe symbolized a .o rather
than an executable, where the lookup differs: treat the .dwp route as UNPROVEN
rather than ruled out.

So OLO_SPLIT_DWARF ships DEFAULT OFF. That is the measurement's verdict, not
caution: the saving is still unquantified, and the cost is now known and real.

--gdb-index is deliberately NOT paired with it, though #1313's table pairs them.
That pairing is the standard DEBUGGING recipe — it builds a .gdb_index so GDB
starts fast. For a MEMORY goal it works against us: lld constructs that index by
reading the debug info this flag exists to make it skip.

TO PRICE THE SAVING, build-memory.yml gains a third cell, `Debug + ASan + split
DWARF`, on scheduled and on-demand runs only (a pull request still runs one
cell). Its link peak against the plain debug-asan cell from the same run is the
number nobody has today, and both publish their full build configuration beside
the ranking so the comparison is checkable. Using this PR's own instrument to
price the next change is the point of having built it.

Verified across toolchains: default OFF is a silent no-op in the real tree (zero
occurrences); ON under clang-cl warns that CodeView has no such concept and adds
nothing; ON under GNU-frontend clang++ applies per language and says plainly in
the configure log what will stop symbolizing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Runs the `Debug + ASan + split DWARF` cell on the pull_request arm alongside the
plain `debug-asan` cell, so the lever can be measured on the box BEFORE this
merges. To be reverted to the single cell once the number is recorded.

workflow_dispatch cannot do this: GitHub only offers that trigger when the
workflow file is on the DEFAULT branch, and build-memory.yml is new in this PR.
The pull_request trigger is the only route to the runners until it lands.

Both arms have to come from ONE run to be comparable — same host, same pinned
LLVM 23.1.0, same ccache state — and max-parallel: 1 keeps them from contending
with each other or holding both olo-ci slots. The cost is two cold builds
serially, which is why this is temporary rather than the standing PR
configuration.

What it answers: the saving is the only half of the split-DWARF question still
unmeasured. The cost is already known — inlined frames stop symbolizing while
-ffile-prefix-map maps DW_AT_comp_dir to /olo (measured with llvm-symbolizer,
one control per variable, in cmake/SplitDwarf.cmake). OLO_SPLIT_DWARF stays OFF
regardless of what this reports; the point is to replace "unquantified" with a
number so the trade can actually be decided.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
All four sibling branches from the same /start-work batch landed while this was
in flight (#1309 vulkan-test-coverage, #1310 skin, #1311 foliage, #1312 groom),
which is the collision the handover predicted: 206 files changed on master, four
of them also changed here.

ONE REAL CONFLICT, in OloEngine/tests/CMakeLists.txt, and neither side was right
on its own. Master added two NEW editor sources the test target needs —
Automation/AutomationGroomCommands.cpp and Groom/GroomBindingAuthoring.cpp from
the groom work — to the list of OloEditor sources this target recompiles. This
branch had removed that entire list, because OloEditorCore supplies it now
(#1314).

  * Taking ours  -> the groom commands vanish from the test binary; it would
                   fail to link, or worse, link with olo_groom_bind unregistered.
  * Taking theirs -> two files compile twice again, re-creating exactly the
                   duplication #1314 removed, and one of them lands back in the
                   list the pool binding no longer covers.

Resolved as neither: the pair moved into OLO_EDITOR_CORE_SOURCES, so both
consumers get them from the library. Master's explanation of WHY the tests need
them is kept, re-pointed at where the code now lives.

THE OTHER THREE FILES AUTO-MERGED, which is where a side gets dropped silently,
so each was checked rather than trusted:

  OloEngine/src/CMakeLists.txt   my 13 pool entries intact AND all 7 of master's
                                 new engine sources present
  OloEngine/tests/CMakeLists.txt every new test source from master present; zero
                                 direct OloEditor/src references remaining
  docs/agent-rules/README.md     my index entry plus all of master's new ones

VERIFIED on the merged tree, not just resolved: configure clean; all three
formerly-duplicated files now have exactly ONE build edge each, in
OloEditorCore; a full build of OloEditor + OloEngine-Tests at 1846 steps with 0
failures and a clean deps-check over 1831 objects; and 1280 Groom/Automation/MCP
tests with 1278 passed, 0 failed, 2 skipped for environment.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…s unchanged

Measured on olo-ci, both cells from ONE run so they are comparable: 1783
compiles each, cache off, PCH and unity off, Debug + ASan.

                         baseline    split DWARF     delta
    heaviest ld.lld link  11.23 GiB     8.75 GiB    -2.47 GiB  (-22.0%)
    heaviest compile       8.18 GiB     8.18 GiB     +0.00 GiB
    median / p95 compile   0.32/0.86    0.32/0.86    unchanged
    total compile wall     2.06 h       1.99 h       -4.2 min

The saving lands exactly where the mechanism says it should — 22% off the link,
nothing measurable on any compile — which is itself a check on the number. The
other two links (oloctl, OloHeaderTool) move 0.10->0.09 and 0.06->0.06 GiB, i.e.
the effect scales with the debug info a binary carries, as expected.

Against the runner unit's 14 GiB cap that moves headroom over one link from
2.77 GiB to 5.25 GiB, and link + heaviest compile from 19.41 to 16.93 GiB —
under the 19 GiB slice cap rather than at it.

IT STAYS OFF ANYWAY, and the reason is the trade rather than the size of the
saving. The cost was measured earlier with a control per variable: -gsplit-dwarf
alone resolves inlined frames, -ffile-prefix-map=/olo alone resolves them,
together they are LOST (function names and file:line survive). Since #1313 the
link is bounded by a real semaphore, so it runs alone and 11.23 GiB already fits
the cap — the saving is margin, not a fix for a live failure, and margin is worth
less than a readable sanitizer stack. Flip it if margin is ever what is short.

The version worth having costs nothing: make the .dwo resolvable and both the
saving and the frames are yours. -fdebug-compilation-dir pointing somewhere real,
or a .dwp beside the executable, are the candidates — neither verified, because
the .dwp probe used a .o where the lookup differs.

Also reverts the TEMPORARY two-cell pull_request arm added to take this
measurement. A PR runs one cell again; the split-DWARF cell stays on the schedule
and on demand, which is where re-deriving these numbers belongs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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In @.github/workflows/build-memory.yml:
- Around line 253-258: Update the “Rank by peak RSS” step to run whenever the
workflow is not cancelled and the setup step identified by steps.linux completed
successfully, including when “Build (instrumented)” fails. Preserve the existing
analyzer behavior and report generation.

In `@cmake/ProcStatReport.cmake`:
- Line 176: Update the OLO_PROC_STAT_FILE path-separator regex in the
surrounding CMake logic to use a doubled backslash, ensuring both forward- and
Windows-style separators are rejected.

In `@docs/agent-rules/build-trees-and-windows-asan.md`:
- Around line 541-542: Update the documentation near OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION
and OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORT to state that the umbrella enables both mechanisms by
default, while an explicitly provided OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORT value takes
precedence, including OFF disabling RSS reporting when the umbrella is ON.

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- Line 98: Update the timeout parsing function around return float(raw) to
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Four findings, all valid. Two were real defects, and one of them could not have
been fixed as suggested.

THE SEPARATOR CHECK NEVER REJECTED A WINDOWS PATH. OLO_PROC_STAT_FILE is
required to be a bare filename, because the analyser finds records by matching
basenames while walking the build tree — a value with a directory component is
written by clang and then never found, and the only symptom is an empty ranking.
The guard was `MATCHES "[/\]"`, which silently matches ONLY the forward slash: a
CMake string literal eats one level of backslash escaping and the regex engine
eats another.

The review proposed doubling the backslash. Measured, that does not work either:

    pattern in source   sub/rss.csv   sub\rss.csv
    "[/\]"              rejected      ALLOWED
    "[/\]"             rejected      ALLOWED
    "[/\\]"           rejected      rejected

It takes FOUR in the source to mean one literal backslash to the matcher. Rather
than commit a four-backslash regex that the next reader will "simplify" back into
a broken state — which is exactly what the review did — this now uses two
string(FIND) calls, which say what they mean and have no escaping trap at all.
Verified end to end against the real module: plain.csv accepted, sub/rss.csv
rejected, sub\rss.csv rejected.

A NON-FINITE TIMEOUT DEFEATED FAIL-OPEN ENTIRELY. env_number() used bare
float(), and float("nan") parses happily. A NaN timeout makes every
`time.monotonic() >= deadline` comparison False, so the acquire loop never
reaches its deadline and waits forever; float("inf") does the same by
construction. That turns the one guarantee this wrapper exists to provide — a
stuck throttle must never wedge the machine — into a hang, from a typo in the
environment. Rejected via math.isfinite() with the same degrade-to-default
behaviour as an unparseable value, and tested: nan/inf/-inf/NaN/banana all fall
back to 1800, a real value is still honoured, and the loop still times out.

THE RANK STEP NOW RUNS WHEN THE BUILD FAILS, which is when its records are most
worth having: a build killed by the OOM killer leaves behind exactly the ranking
that explains why. Gated on the setup step rather than on nothing, so a job that
never got a toolchain does not go looking for records that cannot exist. The
coverage gate still fails a partial ranking, correctly, and `if: always()` on the
upload keeps the artifact either way.

DOCUMENTED THE PRECEDENCE between the two switches: the umbrella turns both on by
DEFAULT, an explicit OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORT always wins (so ON + OFF gives timing
and tracing with no RSS reporting), and only an unset value follows the umbrella
— on every configure rather than latching.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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