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    "Draft with active profiling, but code is reviewable"
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    "Concept approval with trade-off discussion around target setup costs and coverage logging (jeanpablojp)"
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      "P3 because it meaningfully accelerates parallel CI fuzz testing on multi-core runners",
      "ASan and MSan CI jobs show 7 to 15 minute reductions, though storage overhead tempers the gain on macOS"
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  "summary": "This pull request updates the fuzz test runner to split target corpora into equal-sized shards according to the requested parallelism (`--par`). It also configures ramdisk on macOS and tmpfs container mounts in CI runner scripts to mitigate disk IO overhead during shard execution.",
  "problem": "Currently, the fuzz test runner only parallelizes across distinct targets. When a single target is run or when a slow target dominates the run time, multi-core parallelism is underutilized, bottlenecking CI and local developer fuzzing.",
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   "open_concerns": [
    "Sharding prevents aggregate target coverage reporting in test output",
    "Targets with heavy per-input setup (such as utxo_total_supply) experience higher cumulative overhead when split across processes",
    "Author indicated they may close the pull request if platform-specific storage trade-offs become too complex"
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   "resolved_concerns": [
    "Temporary directory collisions between jobs resolved by using per-job shard directories",
    "macOS disk IO slowdown investigated and partially addressed via ramdisk mounts"
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   "author_status": "active; last pushed CI tmpfs adjustments on 2026-09-01"
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   "reason": "The code and CI modifications are complete and ready for review, despite draft status and ongoing performance evaluation."
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     "login": "jeanpablojp",
     "stance": "objection",
     "note": "Concept ACK with rationale on tail-cutting for MSan/Windows, but raised several correctness and coverage issues which were addressed"
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     "reviewer": "jeanpablojp",
     "kind": "maintenance",
     "harm": "Fuzz coverage summaries are split across processes and cannot be aggregated per target to compare coverage across commits",
     "blocking": false,
     "author_replied": true,
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     "evidence": "2026-08-31: 'cov: becomes per process... you can't compare coverage across a change any more. Could the shards be folded back into one line per target?'",
     "resolution_evidence": "2026-09-01: maflcko replied 'I don't think it is possible to recover the coverage from the shards...'",
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     "reviewer": "jeanpablojp",
     "reason": "Concept ACK on improving fuzz run parallelism",
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   "summary": "Concept ACK from jeanpablojp; concerns around per-target setup overhead and coverage loss were addressed or acknowledged",
   "reason": "There is clear concept support from the sole reviewer, and objections regarding macOS runtime bottlenecks and shard directory management have been addressed with fixes and rationale.",
   "evidence": [
    "jeanpablojp: 'Concept ACK'",
    "maflcko: 'asan is 9 min faster (nice)... msan is 15 min faster... Windows is 7 min faster'"
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   "derivation": "substantive support, no open objection (jeanpablojp)",
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      "reviewer": "jeanpablojp",
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      "harm": "reporting coverage per shard rather than per target prevents comparing coverage across changes",
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      "status": "resolved",
      "evidence": "2026-08-31: \"Summary goes from 237 lines to 3754 on your asan run, and cov: becomes per process... So you can't compare coverage across a change any more. Could the shards be folded back into one line per target?\"",
      "resolution_evidence": "2026-09-01: \"I don't think it is possible to recover the coverage from the shards. I can only see compiling with coverage instrumentation and then using that.\""
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      "harm": "early exit on a failing shard removes the temp directory while other shards run, causing them to crash with read_file Assert instead of the actual failing input",
      "blocking": false,
      "author_replied": true,
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      "evidence": "2026-08-31: \"And with the sys.exit(1) in here, the dir disappears under the shards that are still running, so on the standalone builds they die on the read_file Assert instead of on the input that actually broke.\"",
      "resolution_evidence": "2026-09-01: \"The read_file assertions aren't great. I guess this is fixed by having per-job tmp dirs for the shards.\""
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      "reviewer": "jeanpablojp",
      "kind": "correctness",
      "harm": "mkdtemp is called unconditionally, failing if the parent directory is read-only even when sharding is disabled",
      "blocking": false,
      "author_replied": true,
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      "evidence": "2026-08-31: \"This gets created before we know whether there will be any sharding, so with a read-only parent the run dies in mkdtemp, and --corpus-shards 1 doesn't avoid it.\"",
      "resolution_evidence": "2026-09-01: \"read-only parent should be rare, but I think I fixed this in the latest push by having a temp dir for each job.\""
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    "summary": "Strong: jeanpablojp Concept ACKs for speedups on long targets; concerns regarding coverage reporting and temp dir handling were resolved",
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      "evidence": "2026-08-31: 'cov: becomes per process... you can't compare coverage across a change any more. Could the shards be folded back into one line per target?'",
      "resolution_evidence": "2026-09-01: maflcko replied 'I don't think it is possible to recover the coverage from the shards...'"
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      "reviewer": "jeanpablojp",
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      "harm": "Per-input target re-initialization and hardlink creation cause storage thrashing and runtime slowdowns on macOS",
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      "evidence": "2026-08-31: 'utxo_total_supply builds a ChainTestingSetup inside the target body... three shards of 680 take around 240s each against 200s for all 2040 in one process'",
      "resolution_evidence": "2026-09-01: author added ramdisk and tmpfs configuration in 633456aa8b, and reviewer noted variance in master runtimes"
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  "card": "PR #36121 enables corpus sharding within test/fuzz/test_runner.py to allow parallel execution of single fuzz targets and reduce the tail latency of slow targets. CI benchmark numbers show speedups of 7 to 15 minutes on ASan, MSan, and Windows jobs, alongside tmpfs adjustments in ci/test/02_run_container.py to reduce IO overhead. Feedback from jeanpablojp includes a Concept ACK with constructive feedback on target setup costs and coverage logging. The PR is reviewable and under active evaluation."
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