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On Windows shards, the first child process to load a module graph in a batch or fixture took 10-45 s where later children took 2-5 s, and the red case moved to whichever timed assertion spawned it first (isolated settings children, native-main owner contender, Claude picker restart, web-search switch, sibling ocx ensure; runs 37360604391, 37447563941, 37455044893, 37457452698).

The cause is the test sandbox moving Bun's runtime transpiler cache. Bun keeps that cache under the home directory (checked with Bun 1.4.0: HOME=<dir> writes <dir>/Library/Caches/bun/@t@ on macOS). createIsolatedTestEnvironment points HOME and USERPROFILE at a fresh root for every batch, and many fixtures give their child its own HOME, so every batch and fixture started with an empty cache and its first child re-transpiled each large module. 73 src files are over Bun's 50 KB cache threshold.

The sandbox now pins BUN_RUNTIME_TRANSPILER_CACHE_PATH to one shared directory under the host temp dir, captured before HOME moves, the same way it already pins GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL. An explicit value, including one that disables the cache, is kept. The directory name stays outside the opencodex-test-* pattern that stale-root recovery reclaims. The cache holds transpiled source only, so sharing it keeps the sandbox.

An earlier commit on this branch added a CI step that read every source file once. It read 7551 files in under a second on a Windows shard (run 37460969003), which ruled out file first-read cost; that step is removed.

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  • scripts/test.ts is on the Windows path filter, so this PR's CI runs all nine Windows shards.
  • No local tests were run, per the owner's instruction. tsc --noEmit exit 0; structure:check passed.

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  • Targets dev
  • Test harness change only; no product behavior change
  • Docs/structure updated (structure/ops/cross-platform-ci.md)
  • No secrets or private data

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    • Test environments now reuse a shared transpiler cache when no custom cache setting is provided, reducing repeated setup work in CI.
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    • Updated cross-platform CI guidance to explain cache reuse and its impact on test startup times.

On a fresh Windows runner the first process to load a module graph pays a
first-read cost for every file it touches; later processes load the same
graph in 2-5 s. Dev dispatches showed proxy children taking 10-45 s when
they were first in their shard to read that graph, and the failure moved to
whichever timed assertion read it first (settings, native-main owner,
Claude picker restart, web-search switch and sibling ensure cases).

Read every src, tests, scripts and root node_modules source file once in a
step before the batches, outside any timed test. The step loads no module
and writes nothing, logs the file count and elapsed time, and only warns
if it fails.
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Test sandboxes now use a shared Bun transpiler cache path under the host temp directory when no value is provided. The cross-platform CI documentation describes the cache and the reported cold- and warm-cache timings.

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Test Sandbox Transpiler Cache

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Set and document the cache path
scripts/test.ts, structure/ops/cross-platform-ci.md
createIsolatedTestEnvironment preserves explicit cache-path values, including empty strings and "0". Otherwise, it sets the path to ocx-test-bun-transpiler-cache under the host temp directory. The documentation describes the shared cache and reports cold-cache transpilation times of 10–45 seconds versus 2–5 seconds with a warm cache on a busy Windows shard.

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Change: Bug fix

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The shared-cache change has a bounded documentation issue: its inline explanation gives the wrong cache threshold and omits cached sourcemaps. Correcting the explanation would help maintainers understand which files benefit.

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Bun keeps its runtime transpiler cache under the home directory (verified
with Bun 1.4.0: HOME=<dir> writes <dir>/Library/Caches/bun/@t@ on macOS).
createIsolatedTestEnvironment points HOME and USERPROFILE at a fresh root
per batch, and many fixtures give their children their own HOME, so the
first child in each batch or fixture re-transpiled every large module; 73
src files are over Bun's 50 KB cache threshold. On busy Windows shards that
first child took 10-45 s where later children took 2-5 s, and the failure
moved to whichever timed case spawned it.

Pin BUN_RUNTIME_TRANSPILER_CACHE_PATH to one shared directory under the
host temp dir, captured before HOME moves, as GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL already is.
An explicit value, including one that disables the cache, is kept. The name
stays outside the opencodex-test-* pattern stale-root recovery reclaims.

This replaces the source-file warm step from the previous commit: it read
7551 files in under a second on a Windows shard, so file first-read cost is
not where the time goes.
It read 7551 files in under a second on a Windows shard (run 37460969003),
so file first-read cost is not where the cold-start time goes; the
transpiler cache pin in the next-to-last commit addresses the actual cost.
@lidge-jun lidge-jun changed the title ci(windows): read the source tree once before the Windows shards test test(runner): share Bun's transpiler cache across sandboxed homes Oct 6, 2026

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- Line 94: Update the cache explanation in the test-script comments to
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// Pin Bun's runtime transpiler cache for the same reason. Bun keeps it under the home
// directory (macOS: ~/Library/Caches/bun/@t@), so a sandboxed HOME/USERPROFILE handed every
// batch, and every fixture that gives its child its own HOME, an empty cache: the first child
// re-transpiled each large module (73 src files are over the 50 KB cache threshold). On a busy

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

Correct the cache threshold and contents.

Bun 1.4.0 caches source files larger than 4 KB and also stores their source maps. The current comment presents 50 KB as the cache threshold and says the cache holds transpiled source only. Separate the 73-file measurement from Bun’s threshold, and describe the cached source maps. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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-      // re-transpiled each large module (73 src files are over the 50 KB cache threshold). On a busy
+      // re-transpiled each large module (Bun caches files over 4 KB; 73 src files exceed 50 KB). On a busy
...
-      // timed case happened to spawn it. The cache holds transpiled source only, so sharing it keeps
-      // the sandbox. An explicit value, including "" or "0" to disable it, is kept as given.
+      // timed case happened to spawn it. Bun caches transpiled output and source maps;
+      // HOME and test TEMP remain sandboxed. An explicit value, including "" or "0" to disable it, is kept as given.

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Review comment at @scripts/test.ts at line 94:
Update the cache explanation in the test-script comments to distinguish Bun’s 4
KB caching threshold from the measurement that 73 source files exceed 50 KB, and
clarify that Bun caches transpiled output and source maps. Preserve the existing
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Maintainer integration (admin squash) per the owner's instruction. Exact head 5d6d0848e4: Cross-platform CI run 37462551251 success, including all nine windows N/9 shards green on the first attempt. Test-harness change only. No local tests were run (owner instruction).

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