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Found while reproducing the numbers from meziantou's test framework benchmark, where TUnit's DataDriven scenario (one [Arguments] row per test) was ~50% slower than Bare.

[Arguments] implements ITestRegisteredEventReceiver, so EventReceiverOrchestrator.RegisterReceivers pushed every test's attribute through the _initializedObjects dedup set. That set used default equality, and System.Attribute.Equals/GetHashCode reflect over the attribute's fields. The [Arguments] hash codes collide, so each add compared against every earlier attribute: quadratic work, with a FieldInfo[] allocated per comparison. An allocation trace of 1,000 data-driven tests showed 32 MB of FieldInfo[] from Attribute.Equals under RegisterReceivers. On top of that, EventReceiverRegistry copy-on-write appended every receiver to a per-interface array, which is also quadratic, and it stored arrays for start/end/skipped/registered receivers that nothing ever reads.

Per-test receivers are dispatched from each test's own eligible objects (context.GetTestStartReceivers(...) etc.). The registry only uses their presence flags. So:

  • Objects that implement only per-test receiver interfaces now just set the registry's presence flags. They skip the dedup set and are not stored.
  • First/last scope receivers (the only ones enumerated from the registry) keep the existing value-equality dedup and storage, so their behaviour doesn't change. That dedup is load-bearing: ILast* receivers are invoked for every registered instance.
  • Side effect: test class instances that implement per-test receiver interfaces are no longer retained in the dedup set for the rest of the session.

Benchmark

This uses meziantou's published harness, pointed at locally packed builds of main (base) and this branch. It measures the wall clock of the MTP executable: 10 timed runs after 3 warm-ups, with the default HTML reporter on. Machine: Windows 11, .NET SDK 10.0.401.

Scenario Tests main (min / median) this PR (min / median)
DataDriven 1,000 535 / 552 ms 469 / 475 ms
DataDriven 10,000 3,798 / 3,920 ms 1,331 / 1,355 ms

For reference, Bare (no [Arguments]) with 10,000 tests is ~910 ms on the same machine. Before this change the data-driven cost grew superlinearly with test count.

Tests

  • New EventReceiverRegistrationTests.PerTestReceiversDoNotParticipateInReceiverDeduplication: a per-test receiver whose Equals/GetHashCode throw is still registered and invoked. It fails on main and passes here.
  • TUnit.UnitTests: 352/352 pass.
  • TUnit.Engine.Tests: FirstEventReceiversRegressionTest, DynamicSkipReasonTests and PartialInjectionFailure6554Tests pass.
  • TUnit.TestProject event-receiver classes (source-gen and --reflection): results match main. EventReceiverStageTests, EventReceiverTests and LastTestEventReceiverTests fail identically on main when run in isolation, so those failures aren't caused by this change.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved event receiver registration performance, especially when many per-test receivers are present.
    • Per-test event receivers are no longer compared or hashed during registration, while each receiver continues to receive applicable test events exactly once.
    • Scope-level event receivers continue to be registered and handled correctly.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage verifying receiver callbacks remain correct without invoking equality or hashing operations.
    • Added validation that start, end, and skipped events are delivered once per applicable receiver.

[Arguments] implements ITestRegisteredEventReceiver, so every data-driven test
pushed its attribute through the receiver dedup set. System.Attribute's
Equals/GetHashCode reflect over fields and the attributes' hash codes collide,
so registration was quadratic and allocated a FieldInfo[] per comparison. The
registry also copy-on-write appended every receiver to per-type arrays that are
never read for per-test receiver types.

Per-test receivers (start/end/skipped/registered) are dispatched from each
test's own objects, so they now only set the registry's presence flags.
First/last scope receivers keep the existing dedup and storage.
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The registry now records event presence for per-test receivers and stores only scope receivers. The orchestrator excludes per-test receivers from deduplication. Unit tests verify event delivery without hashing or equality calls.

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Receiver registration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Registry presence tracking
src/TUnit.Engine/Events/EventReceiverRegistry.cs
Adds scope event classification and RegisterPresence. The registry records per-test event flags, stores only scope receivers, and requires presence registration before storage.
Orchestrator receiver routing
src/TUnit.Engine/Services/EventReceiverOrchestrator.cs
Routes per-test receivers to RegisterPresence. Scope receivers continue through _initializedObjects deduplication and normal registration.
Registration behavior validation
tests/TUnit.UnitTests/EventReceiverRegistrationTests.cs
Verifies event delivery without invoking receiver hashing or equality methods.

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The refactor preserves receiver delivery while removing unnecessary hashing and storage overhead, with no identified merge-blocking risk.

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Summary

This PR avoids hashing, equality comparison, and central storage for per-test event receivers while retaining central registration for first/last scope receivers.

  • Adds allocation-free receiver classification and presence flags.
  • Keeps scope receivers in the registry for first/last session, assembly, and class dispatch.
  • Adds coverage proving per-test receiver registration and invocation do not call custom equality or hashing.
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%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
    A[Test receiver object] --> B[RegisterPresence and classify interfaces]
    B --> C{Implements a first/last scope interface?}
    C -- No --> D[Record presence flags only]
    D --> E[Dispatch from TestContext eligible objects]
    C -- Yes --> F[Apply existing deduplication]
    F --> G[Store in EventReceiverRegistry]
    G --> H[Enumerate for first/last scope events]
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This PR optimizes EventReceiverRegistry/EventReceiverOrchestrator registration by no longer running per-test receivers (start/end/skipped/registered) through the dedup set (_initializedObjects), since System.Attribute's reflection-based Equals/GetHashCode made that path quadratic for attributes like [Arguments]. Scope receivers (first/last-in-session/assembly/class) still go through the existing dedup + storage path. I traced every call site of GetReceiversOfType, RegisterReceivers, and RegisterClassInstanceReceiver, plus the independent per-test dispatch path (TestContextExtensions.GetTestStartReceivers etc.), and confirmed the per-test dispatch never reads from the registry's stored arrays — so bypassing dedup for non-scope receivers doesn't change invocation counts, and the new RegisterPresence/UpdateEventFlags writes are idempotent under concurrent/duplicate registration. The new unit test (EventReceiverRegistrationTests.cs) directly asserts that per-test receivers are invoked without their Equals/GetHashCode being called, which is a good regression guard for the exact bug being fixed. No correctness issues found.

One micro-optimization opportunity on the hot path this PR targets:

EventReceiverOrchestrator.cs:64 / EventReceiverRegistry.cs:65,223 — IsScopeReceiver re-checks six of the same interfaces (IFirstTestInTestSessionEventReceiver, ILastTestInTestSessionEventReceiver, etc.) that UpdateEventFlags immediately re-checks via separate is tests when RegisterPresence is called for every non-scope object. For the benchmark scenario this PR is aimed at (e.g. 10,000 [Arguments] attributes), that's two full interface-check passes per object instead of one. Since UpdateEventFlags already computes a superset of the information IsScopeReceiver needs, it would be cheaper and more maintainable to have UpdateEventFlags return the computed EventTypes flags and derive "is scope receiver" from a bitmask (e.g. (flags & ScopeMask) != 0) rather than duplicating the six is checks in a separate method. That collapses two type-check passes into one and keeps the "which interfaces count as scope receivers" list in a single place instead of two.

This is a minor efficiency note, not a correctness blocker — the PR is otherwise a solid, well-documented, and well-tested fix for the reflection-hashing hot path.

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tests/TUnit.UnitTests/EventReceiverRegistrationTests.cs (1)

49-67: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the non-start callbacks in this registration test.

The test currently exercises and asserts only ITestStartEventReceiver. If RegisterPresence stops setting the end or skipped presence flag, InvokeTestEndEventReceiversAsync or InvokeTestSkippedEventReceiversAsync can return without invoking the receiver, and this test still passes. Add both interfaces and assert both receiver instances after each dispatch.

ITestRegisteredEventReceiver cannot be asserted through this orchestrator path. TestFilterService invokes it through a separate TestRegisteredContext path, so do not add an unconnected direct callback invocation here.

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-            await orchestrator.InvokeTestStartEventReceiversAsync(context, CancellationToken.None);
+            await orchestrator.InvokeTestStartEventReceiversAsync(context, CancellationToken.None);
             await Assert.That(attribute.Calls).IsEqualTo(1);
             await Assert.That(instance.Calls).IsEqualTo(1);
+
+            await orchestrator.InvokeTestEndEventReceiversAsync(context, CancellationToken.None);
+            await Assert.That(attribute.EndCalls).IsEqualTo(1);
+            await Assert.That(instance.EndCalls).IsEqualTo(1);
+
+            await orchestrator.InvokeTestSkippedEventReceiversAsync(context, CancellationToken.None);
+            await Assert.That(attribute.SkippedCalls).IsEqualTo(1);
+            await Assert.That(instance.SkippedCalls).IsEqualTo(1);
...
-    private sealed class HashingForbiddenReceiverAttribute : Attribute, ITestStartEventReceiver
+    private sealed class HashingForbiddenReceiverAttribute :
+        Attribute, ITestStartEventReceiver, ITestEndEventReceiver, ITestSkippedEventReceiver
     {
         public int Calls { get; private set; }
+        public int EndCalls { get; private set; }
+        public int SkippedCalls { get; private set; }
...
+        public ValueTask OnTestEnd(TestContext context)
+        {
+            EndCalls++;
+            return ValueTask.CompletedTask;
+        }
+
+        public ValueTask OnTestSkipped(TestContext context)
+        {
+            SkippedCalls++;
+            return ValueTask.CompletedTask;
+        }
     }
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Extends the dedup-bypass test so a regression in RegisterPresence flag-setting for ITestEndEventReceiver or ITestSkippedEventReceiver is caught.
RegisterPresence now computes the EventTypes flags once and reports whether the receiver is a scope receiver via a ScopeEvents bitmask, replacing the separate IsScopeReceiver interface pass. The scope-interface list now lives only in the flags classifier.

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Code Review: PR #6858

Reviewed the change: EventReceiverRegistry now only stores scope event receivers (IFirstTestInClassEventReceiver, ILastTestInClassEventReceiver, etc.); per-test receivers (ITestStartEventReceiver, ITestEndEventReceiver, ITestSkippedEventReceiver, ITestRegisteredEventReceiver) skip the dedup/storage path entirely and just record event-presence flags via the new RegisterPresence.

Verified correct:

  • The four dropped RegisterIfImplements<T> calls for per-test interfaces are never read back via GetReceiversOfType<T>() — per-test dispatch is built independently per-TestContext from GetEligibleEventObjects(), not from the registry's stored collections, so removing their storage doesn't change invocation behavior.
  • RegisterPresence/Classify/SetFlags are allocation-free, idempotent (atomic CAS OR), so calling them ahead of the dedup check for shared instances across many tests is safe.
  • Concurrency-sensitive state (_initializedObjects, _registeredFirstEventReceiverTypes) is untouched; the new guard is applied consistently in both RegisterReceivers and RegisterClassInstanceReceiver.
  • The new test PerTestReceiversDoNotParticipateInReceiverDeduplication correctly exercises the intended guarantee — it would fail if a per-test receiver's Equals/GetHashCode were still invoked.
  • No divergence between source-generator and reflection execution modes is introduced; this is purely execution-time registration behavior, which is shared per AGENTS.md.

Minor (non-blocking): RegisterReceiverInternal (EventReceiverRegistry.cs:92) calls UpdateEventFlags(receiver), which re-runs Classify + SetFlags, even though every current caller (EventReceiverOrchestrator.RegisterReceivers/RegisterClassInstanceReceiver) already calls RegisterPresence immediately beforehand, performing the identical classification. This is a harmless duplicate computation limited to the cold-path scope-receiver registrations (not the hot per-test path this PR optimizes), so it doesn't need to block merging — but if RegisterPresence returned its computed flags, RegisterReceiverInternal could reuse them and skip the second Classify call.

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RegisterPresence already sets the presence flags for every receiver before
RegisterReceiver(s) stores it, so the store path no longer re-runs Classify.
The precondition is documented and checked with a Debug.Assert.
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Addressed review feedback:

  • Redundant classification (github-actions review): 8223505 removes UpdateEventFlags from RegisterReceiverInternal. RegisterPresence has always set the flags before RegisterReceiver(s) runs, so the store path no longer calls Classify a second time. The precondition is documented and checked with a Debug.Assert. I didn't return the flags from RegisterPresence: that would expose the private enum or push flags through the batch span.
  • End/skipped coverage (CodeRabbit nitpick): 52c2167 already covers this. PerTestReceiversDoNotParticipateInReceiverDeduplication now dispatches start, end and skipped, and asserts each fires exactly once for both the attribute and the class instance, with Equals/GetHashCode still forbidden.

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I traced the actual change set for this PR (src/TUnit.Engine/Events/EventReceiverRegistry.cs, src/TUnit.Engine/Services/EventReceiverOrchestrator.cs, tests/TUnit.UnitTests/EventReceiverRegistrationTests.cs, head commit 8223505) directly via gh pr diff and the checked-out source, rather than relying purely on the automated tool output.

Correctness — verified, no issues found.

  • RegisterPresence is only ever consulted for its return value to gate _initializedObjects dedup + storage; the actual per-test dispatch path (TestContextExtensions.GetTestStartReceivers/GetTestEndReceivers/GetTestSkippedReceivers/GetTestRegisteredReceivers) builds its receiver lists independently from context.GetEligibleEventObjects() and never reads from EventReceiverRegistry's stored arrays. So skipping storage/dedup for non-scope receivers is safe — confirmed by grepping every call site of GetReceiversOfType<T>, which is only ever invoked for the six First/Last scope interfaces.
  • RegisterPresence/Classify/SetFlags are allocation-free and idempotent (CAS-OR into a single bitmask), so calling them repeatedly for the same shared attribute instance across thousands of tests is cheap and doesn't reintroduce the reflection-hashing cost this PR removes.
  • The Debug.Assert in RegisterReceiverInternal replacing the old redundant UpdateEventFlags call correctly reflects the fix already applied in response to the prior automated review comment (removing the double-classification on the scope-receiver path) — that feedback has been addressed.
  • The new test PerTestReceiversDoNotParticipateInReceiverDeduplication is a solid regression guard: it uses an attribute whose Equals/GetHashCode throw and asserts start/end/skipped all still fire exactly once for both the attribute and a fresh class instance.
  • Per AGENTS.md, this is purely execution-time registration behavior after metadata collection, so no TUnit.Core.SourceGenerator counterpart is needed — confirmed there's no analogous registry there.

One architectural note for future maintainability (not a blocker):

The set of "which interfaces are event receivers" is now independently enumerated in two places: EventReceiverRegistry.Classify (10 interfaces) and TestContextExtensions.BuildEventReceiverCaches (5 per-test interfaces, unchanged by this PR). They're consistent today, but there's no shared source of truth tying them together — if a new event receiver interface is added later, it's easy to update one list and forget the other, producing a receiver whose presence flag is set but whose dispatch cache silently never includes it (or vice versa). Since this PR already introduces the ScopeEvents bitmask as a single source of truth for "which interfaces get stored," a natural follow-up would be extracting the full interface→flag mapping into one shared classification table both EventReceiverRegistry and TestContextExtensions consult, so adding a new receiver interface only requires one edit. Not something this PR needs to do — the current lists are correct and well-scoped to the described optimization — just worth tracking as the receiver interface surface grows.

Benchmarked numbers in the description (3,920ms → 1,355ms median at 10k data-driven tests) are consistent with the quadratic-to-linear change made here. Nice, well-documented fix.

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