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Reduces the work done during sync (AddRangeFromSyncSnapshotWorker.UpdateSnapshotsCrdtRepository.AddSnapshots) and adds a benchmark suite to measure it. On the CreateWords workload at 10k changes this branch takes sync from ~1.96 s / 976 MB allocated down to ~0.99 s / 538 MB — roughly 2× faster and ~45% less memory.

What changed

Snapshot pre-load (SnapshotWorker / DataModel)

  • UpdateSnapshots now bulk-loads the relevant current snapshots (with their Commit) into a cache keyed by entity id, and SnapshotWorker reads full snapshots straight from that cache instead of issuing a FindSnapshot DB round-trip per cache hit.

Fast raw-SQL projection (FastProjection, new)

  • Snapshot rows are still inserted through EF unchanged, but the projected tables are now populated with hand-written raw SQL INSERT ... ON CONFLICT(pk) DO UPDATE (one upsert per entity row) instead of going through EF's change tracker (FindAsync / SetValues / graph tracking).
  • Everything the SQL needs — table/column names (correctly delimited), primary key, the SnapshotId shadow FK, value converters — is derived from the EF model, so there is no per-entity code.
  • It dedups to the latest snapshot per entity, runs deletes before upserts (children-first) then upserts (parents-first) for FK/unique-constraint safety, and reuses the caller's transaction.
  • FastProjection is an injectable singleton; its per-type SQL metadata cache lives on an internal ConcurrentDictionary on CrdtConfig, shared across repositories/contexts. This replaces the previous EF change-tracker projection path in CrdtRepository.AddSnapshots, which is removed.

Benchmarks (new SIL.Harmony.Benchmarks project)

  • BenchmarkDotNet suite with a DataModelSyncBenchmarks (7 sync workloads) and an AddSnapshotsBenchmarks that isolates the persist step, [MemoryDiagnoser] enabled. Run with dotnet run -c Release --project src/SIL.Harmony.Benchmarks.

Testing

  • Full test suite passes: 241 passing. The only failures are the 6 DataModelPerformanceBenchmarks timing-threshold tests, which also fail on main (environmental, not caused by this change).

Notes for reviewers

  • The projection is SQLite-specific in a couple of spots that matter for FK correctness (GUIDs stored as uppercase TEXT; ON CONFLICT after a SELECT needs the SQLite WHERE true disambiguator in the code history — the current per-query path uses VALUES). If other providers are ever targeted, FastProjection would need revisiting.
  • Known limitation: an intra-batch self-reference (e.g. Word.AntonymId pointing at another new Word in the same batch) is not ordered; it's a nullable SET NULL FK and not exercised by current workloads.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added batched projected-entity notifications for upserts and deletions.
    • Applications can handle these changes through configuration callbacks or registered interceptors.
    • Notifications include change details and are suppressed when projected tables are disabled.
  • Performance

    • Improved synchronization and snapshot projection efficiency for larger commit batches.
    • Added benchmark coverage for synchronization and snapshot-processing workloads.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected snapshot handling when referenced snapshots are unavailable.
    • Preserved dependency order for projected entities with self-references.
    • Ensured projected-table metadata remains correct across different data models.

hahn-kev and others added 11 commits July 21, 2026 10:42
Previously AddSnapshots projected each snapshot by calling FindAsync per
entity, which issued one database query per snapshot (and, on an initial
sync of new data, every query returned null after a round-trip).

Pre-load the projected rows that already exist for the batch with a single
tracked query per object type. ProjectSnapshot then resolves existing
entities from the change tracker and skips the lookup entirely for entities
that have no projected row yet, collapsing N queries down to roughly one
per distinct object type.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019zEmz7jPRPF6Lv8h6YAWBW
Adds a BenchmarkDotNet suite that measures CrdtRepository.AddSnapshots on
its own, across 7 workloads mirroring DataModelSyncBenchmarks. Expensive DB
seeding runs once in a template DB; each iteration forks the DB and recomputes
the snapshot batch so no EF-tracked state leaks across iterations.

- SnapshotWorker.ComputeSnapshotsToPersist: returns the exact snapshot list
  UpdateSnapshots would persist, without writing it.
- DataModelTestBase: internal CreateRepository() and CrdtConfig accessors.
- BenchmarkWorkloadBuilders: shared commit builders extracted from
  DataModelSyncBenchmarks (+ BuildUpdateExisting).
- Program.cs: run both suites via BenchmarkSwitcher (handles --filter/args).
- Remove leftover Console.WriteLine debug lines from AddSnapshots.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two experimental fast AddSnapshots implementations that keep the EF snapshot
insert unchanged but populate projected tables with raw INSERT ... ON CONFLICT
upserts instead of going through EF's change tracker:

- FAST: one upsert command per entity row
- FAST_JSON: one command per entity type, rows passed as a single JSON array
  expanded with SQLite json_each/json_extract

FastProjection derives table/column names, primary key, the SnapshotId shadow
FK, and value converters from the EF model (no per-entity code). It dedups to
the latest snapshot per entity, runs deletes before upserts (children-first)
then upserts (parents-first) for FK/unique-constraint safety, and reuses the
caller's transaction.

CrdtRepository.AddSnapshots now selects via #if FAST_JSON / #elif FAST / #else.
Program.cs adds a third FAST_JSON benchmark job and DataModelSyncBenchmarks
enables [MemoryDiagnoser].

Benchmarks (CreateWords, 1000): both fast paths ~35% faster and ~32% fewer
allocations than baseline; per-query vs JSON-batch shows no measurable
difference against in-memory SQLite.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The JSON-batch projection benchmarked identically to the per-query path against
in-memory SQLite (same time and allocations), so remove it and keep only the
per-query raw-SQL upsert path. FastProjection loses the useJsonBatch parameter
and all json_each/json_extract code; CrdtRepository.AddSnapshots collapses to
#if FAST / #else; the benchmark drops the FAST_JSON job.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove the EF change-tracker slow path and the #if FAST conditional so
AddSnapshots always uses FastProjection. Deletes the now-dead slow-path helpers
(ProjectSnapshot, GetEntityEntry, LoadExistingEntityIds, LoadExistingEntities).
The benchmark collapses to a single job since FAST vs DEFAULT are now identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
FastProjection is now an injected singleton (registered in AddCrdtDataCore and
resolved into CrdtRepository via ActivatorUtilities) instead of a static class.
Its per-type projected-table SQL metadata cache moves from a static field onto
an internal ConcurrentDictionary on CrdtConfig, so it's shared across
repositories/contexts and tied to config lifetime.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds raw-SQL projected-table persistence, projected-entity notifications, snapshot computation support, model validation, and BenchmarkDotNet coverage for sync and snapshot insertion workloads.

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Projection and snapshot pipeline

Layer / File(s) Summary
Projection contracts and model wiring
src/SIL.Harmony/Config/HarmonyConfig.cs, src/SIL.Harmony/Db/IProjectedEntityInterceptor.cs, src/SIL.Harmony/Db/ICrdtDbContext.cs, src/SIL.Harmony/Db/CrdtDbContextFactory.cs, src/SIL.Harmony/CrdtKernel.cs
Adds projected-entity notification contracts, configuration callbacks, EF model access, model-specific metadata caching, and FastProjection registration.
Raw-SQL projection and repository integration
src/SIL.Harmony/Db/FastProjection.cs, src/SIL.Harmony/Db/CrdtRepository.cs
Validates SQLite models, orders self-referencing rows, converts provider values, persists projections, and dispatches batched notifications.
Snapshot computation and repository access
src/SIL.Harmony/SnapshotWorker.cs, src/SIL.Harmony/DataModel.cs, src/SIL.Harmony.Tests/DataModelTestBase.cs
Adds snapshot-only computation, caches complete snapshots, loads missing snapshot entries explicitly, and exposes benchmark helpers.

Interceptor and projection validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Projected-entity and model validation
src/SIL.Harmony.Tests/ProjectedEntityInterceptorTests.cs, src/SIL.Harmony.Tests/ProjectedTableInfoCacheTests.cs, src/SIL.Harmony.Tests/ProjectionUnsupportedModelTests.cs, src/SIL.Harmony.Tests/RepositoryTests.cs, src/SIL.Harmony.Tests/SIL.Harmony.Tests.csproj
Tests notification batches, callback ordering, rollback behavior, disabled projections, model-specific metadata, unsupported models, and self-reference ordering.

Benchmark harness

Layer / File(s) Summary
Benchmark workloads and runners
src/SIL.Harmony.Benchmarks/*, harmony.slnx, src/SIL.Harmony/SIL.Harmony.csproj
Adds reusable commit workload builders, sync and AddSnapshots benchmarks, BenchmarkDotNet execution, and project visibility wiring.

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The change improves snapshot synchronization and projection performance while retaining SQLite-only safeguards and regression coverage for projection behavior. No merge-blocking current-head risk is identified.

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  participant SyncCaller
  participant CrdtRepository
  participant SnapshotWorker
  participant FastProjection
  participant ProjectedEntityInterceptor

  SyncCaller->>CrdtRepository: AddRangeFromSync
  CrdtRepository->>SnapshotWorker: Compute snapshots
  SnapshotWorker-->>CrdtRepository: Snapshot batch
  CrdtRepository->>FastProjection: AddSnapshotsRawAsync
  FastProjection-->>CrdtRepository: Projected entity changes
  CrdtRepository->>ProjectedEntityInterceptor: OnProjectedEntitiesChanged
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hahn-kev added 5 commits July 22, 2026 10:05
# Conflicts:
#	src/SIL.Harmony/Config/HarmonyConfig.cs
#	src/SIL.Harmony/SnapshotWorker.cs
Notify DI interceptors and HarmonyConfig.OnProjectedEntitiesChanged after projected SQL with the latest upsert or delete per entity.
Keep the slnx migration from main and include SIL.Harmony.Benchmarks in the solution.
Main now uses Microsoft.Testing.Platform, so solution-wide dotnet test was launching the Benchmarks exe and failing on unknown MTP flags.
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Comment thread src/SIL.Harmony/Db/FastProjection.cs
hahn-kev and others added 2 commits September 8, 2026 12:06
Addresses review feedback on the raw-SQL projection path:

- Scope ProjectedTableInfoCache by (IModel, Type) so a config shared
  across multiple EF models/providers can't reuse another model's
  metadata.
- Use the property's relational type-mapping converter instead of
  GetValueConverter(), and reject models FastProjection can't source
  (non-SnapshotId shadow properties, TPH discriminators) up front.
- Order same-type rows by their self-referencing FK so a referenced row
  is upserted before the row pointing at it (acyclic; cycles remain
  unsupported).

Each fix has a regression test verified to fail before the change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The projected-table upserts use SQLite's INSERT ... ON CONFLICT ...
excluded dialect, so fast projection only supports the SQLite provider.
Throw a clear NotSupportedException at the projection entry point when
projected tables are enabled on any other provider, pointing at
HarmonyConfig.EnableProjectedTables.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Benchmark result of this commit is worse than the previous benchmark result exceeding threshold 2.

Benchmark suite Current: 1334d81 Previous: 5e379ef Ratio
SIL.Harmony.Tests.DataModelPerformanceBenchmarks.AddSingleChangePerformance(StartingSnapshots: 0) 4105166.52 ns (± 667059.817775192) 1859056.6176470588 ns (± 58820.05785586715) 2.21

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Comment thread src/SIL.Harmony/Db/FastProjection.cs
await repo.DeleteStaleSnapshots(oldestAddedCommit);
Dictionary<Guid, Guid?> snapshotLookup = [];
Dictionary<Guid, ObjectSnapshot?> snapshotLookup = [];
if (commitsToApply.Count > 10)

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This would be a good time to tweak this:
I'm pretty sure this should consider the change count rather than commit count.

Or maybe we can just totally drop the if. Aren't we doing work that the snapshot-worker will almost definitely have to do anyway? So, even if we only preload 2 snapshots, is that somehow worse than letting the snapshot worker load them on demand?

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I think originally I had the if as a way to keep the normal path (one change) fast. Because it was just looking up the mapping between entity and snapshot then it was actually doing more work than was needed by the snapshot worker. But since it's actually just looking up the snapshot now, it's not doing more work. So yes, we could drop the if now.

@@ -60,6 +60,17 @@ await _crdtRepository.AddSnapshots([
]);

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How about we use ComputeSnapshotsToPersist() here

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WordSnapshot(referencingId, Time(1, 0), antonymId: referencedId),
WordSnapshot(referencedId, Time(1, 0)),

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We should potentially be testing these snapshots in both orders.

var fixture = new DataModelTestBase(configure: services =>
{
services.AddScoped<IProjectedEntityInterceptor>(_ =>
new OrderRecordingInterceptor(order, interceptor));

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"di" should probably be passed in here rather than hard coding it in the OrderRecordingInterceptor

var fixture = CreateWithInterceptor(interceptor);
var id = Guid.NewGuid();

await fixture.WriteNextChange(

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This is the only test that tests multiple changes in a single batch.
I think at least one more simple-case would make sense like "two updates notify only once"


[Params(
1000
// , 10_000

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Intentionally commented-out?

Comment on lines +84 to +86
var (seed, toSync) = BenchmarkWorkloadBuilders.BuildOutOfOrderInsert(remote, clientId, ChangeCount);
_syncCommitIds = toSync.Select(c => c.Id).ToHashSet();
commits = [.. seed, .. toSync];

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Looks to me like we intentionally keep them separate, then merge them, but keep a list of ids, so that we can separate them again. I think we could simplify this, by just having two collections of commits in the class.

CreateDeleteModify,
}

// Isolates CrdtRepository.AddSnapshots (the slow, non-FAST path) from the rest of the sync pipeline.

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I'm puzzled by this comment. Looks like me as though the non-FAST path is no longer in the codebase.


[Params(
1000
// , 10_000

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Intentionally commented-out?

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