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Maximilian Roos a7c4a7a120 refactor(wt-perf): place fixtures under target/wt-perf, not the cache dir (#3547)
## What

Move every `wt-perf` on-disk fixture out of the per-user cache dir and
under the cargo target dir at `<target>/wt-perf/`, resolved by a renamed
`wt_perf_fixture_dir()`:

- `setup <config>` fixtures → `<target>/wt-perf/<config>` (was
`~/.cache/wt-perf/<config>`).
- The rust-lang/rust clone and `prune-real` fixtures →
`<target>/wt-perf/bench-repos/` (was `~/.cache/wt-perf/bench-repos/`).
- `wt_perf_cache_dir()` → `wt_perf_fixture_dir()`. The target dir is
derived from the **running executable's own path** (it lives inside
whichever dir cargo built into — `<target>/debug/wt-perf`,
`<target>/release/deps/<bench>`), so it honors `CARGO_TARGET_DIR`, a
config-file `build.target-dir`, and cargo-llvm-cov's
`target/llvm-cov-target/` — none of which a bare `CARGO_TARGET_DIR` env
read covers. Falls back to `<workspace>/target` if the binary isn't
under a recognizable profile dir. The `etcetera` dependency is dropped.
- The `WT_PERF_CACHE_DIR` env override (and the empty-value guard it
required) is removed; the benchmarks workflow now caches the
deterministic `target/wt-perf/bench-repos` path directly.
- In-process throwaway fixtures (`create_repo`) are unchanged — they
keep using `tempfile::TempDir`.

This reverses the location decision from #3542, which had moved these
into `~/.cache/wt-perf`.

## Why

`target/` is the conventional home for build/test-generated artifacts —
gitignored, reaped by `cargo clean`, and already where criterion writes
(`target/criterion`). Keeping every wt-perf fixture there gives one
predictable location under the repo that `cargo clean` fully resets.
Deriving the target dir from the running binary (rather than assuming
`<workspace>/target`) keeps that property intact even when the target
dir is relocated.

## Tradeoff (accepted)

`target/` is **not** shared across git worktrees (worktrees don't share
it) and is wiped by `cargo clean`. So the ~15 GiB `prune-real` rust
clone re-clones per worktree and after every `cargo clean` — the cost
#3542 avoided by using the cache dir. This is deliberate and documented
on `wt_perf_fixture_dir`; it's cheap for the synthetic `setup` fixtures,
which rebuild in seconds.

## Testing

- `cargo build -p wt-perf --all-targets`, `cargo test -p wt-perf` —
clean.
- New unit test `target_dir_from_exe_finds_cargo_target` covers the
resolution logic (relocated `CARGO_TARGET_DIR`, bench binary under
`release/deps/`, cargo-llvm-cov's nested target, closest-profile-wins,
and the outside-any-target fallback).
- `pre-commit run --all-files` (fmt, clippy, yaml, typos, cargo-lock,
custom hooks) — clean.
- Smoke-tested end-to-end: `setup branches-2` lands at
`<worktree>/target/wt-perf/branches-2` and writes nothing to
`~/.cache/`; a copy of the binary run from a fake `<dir>/debug/wt-perf`
correctly resolves fixtures to `<dir>/wt-perf/`, proving a relocated
target dir is honored.

> _This was written by Claude Code on behalf of Maximilian_

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-22 13:44:50 -07:00
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