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Performance Tests Optimization: Measure impact of changes #45175

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Note: DO NOT MERGE this is a long-running branch that needs to remain an open PR (and not a draft) so that it runs the normal CI test suite. It's purpose is for data-gathering to measure the impact of a sequence of changes to the performance test suite.

What

This branch is intended to follow trunk without the set of changes meant improve the runtime performance of the Performance Test CI workflow.

branch-compare-44907-45175

  • average time to run performance test workflow in trunk as of this test is 20.6min
  • average time to run performance test workflow without the changes is 53.3min
  • measured reduction in average runtime is therefore -32.7min ✅
  • measured against 181 test runs in trunk and 76 test runs in this branch (there are more in trunk because the tests finish faster and I'm able to get more data in the same amount of time)
  • standard deviation in trunk is 2.6min vs. without the changes at 7.5min, so not only has the average test time reduced but also the extrema for the test runs has also reduced and the runtimes are now more consistent.
  • there is overwhelming statistical reason to believe that the reduction is real. the chance that random sampling variation could account for these changes is almost zero (P-value is on the order of 2·10-16)

Results

Variant N Mean / Median Minimum StdDev Δ w/o changes Δ trunk
Without changes #45175 30 50m 43s / 49m 3s 42m 22s 6m 56s 0m 0s 100% 5m 33s 112%
Empty change #44907 30 45m 10s / 43m 24s 32m 19s 7m 33s -5m 33s 89.0% 0m 0s 100%
🚫 --runInBand #44905 30 48m 33s / 43m 52s 38m 16s 10m 14s -2m 10s 95.7% 3m 22s 107%
✅ --depth=2 at merge branch #45057 30 42m 47s / 42m 27s 31m 7s 5m 3s -7m 56s 84.3% -2m 22s 94.7%
✅ No-generate-types #45284 30 45m 54s / 45m 4s 37m 49s 5m 40s -4m 49s 90.5% 0m 44s 102%
🚫 Clone local checkout #45188 29 46m 50s / 45m 6s 38m 7s 6m 29s -3m 53s 92.3% 1m 40s 104%
Refactor use of ENV #45255 30 49m 56s / 50m 2s 38m 47s 7m 27s -0m 47s 98.4% 4m 45s 111%
✅ Reuse tests-branch build #45737
🚫 Single fetch with refspecs #45780

In order to eliminate some bias introduced by variations in test run durations over time these numbers reflect only the 30 most recent test runs.

Nov. 1

I'm rebasing all branches and am going to let them re-gather data to see if any clearer patterns emerge. Will be ignoring all test run data before Nov. 1 to see if there were effects due to getting too far behind trunk.

Why

By comparing the runtimes in this branch against those in trunk we can measure the impact of the overall optimization project while deploying improvements incrementally. Running this over time will not only eliminate sampling bias and noise, but it will more importantly help us to eliminate the impact of other changes on the performance test suite which might be conflated with changes we're making to the suite itself (e.g. if someone adds a new set of performance tests to the suite which would slow them down).

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Closing for now since active work on the performance tests performance is on hold.

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