synor/docs/PLAN/PHASE6-QualityAssurance/01-Milestone-01-Benchmarks.md

Phase 6, Milestone 1: Benchmarks

Comprehensive performance benchmarking

Status: ✅ Complete Priority: Medium Crates: All crates

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Overview

Create comprehensive benchmarks for all performance-critical components to establish baselines and identify optimization opportunities.

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Tasks

Task 1.1: Cryptography Benchmarks

• Ed25519 sign/verify
• Dilithium3 sign/verify
• Hybrid signature operations
• Blake3 hashing
• Key derivation

Files:

• crates/synor-crypto/benches/crypto_bench.rs

Results:

Operation	Time	Throughput
Ed25519 sign	13µs	77K/s
Ed25519 verify	32.8µs	30K/s
Dilithium3 sign	135µs	7.4K/s
Dilithium3 verify	44.4µs	22K/s
Hybrid verify	82µs	12K/s
Blake3 1KB	0.6µs	1.7 GB/s

Run:

cargo bench -p synor-crypto

Task 1.2: GHOSTDAG Benchmarks

• Block insertion (linear)
• Block insertion (wide DAG)
• Blue score lookup
• Anticone calculation
• Selected parent chain

Files:

• crates/synor-dag/benches/ghostdag_bench.rs

Results:

Operation	Time	Throughput
Insert (linear)	6.7µs	148K/s
Insert (wide, k=16)	38µs	26K/s
Blue score lookup	9.9ns	101M/s
Anticone (10 blocks)	890ns	1.1M/s

Run:

cargo bench -p synor-dag

Task 1.3: Consensus Benchmarks

• Transaction validation
• Block header validation
• PoW validation
• UTXO lookup
• Difficulty adjustment

Files:

• crates/synor-consensus/benches/consensus_bench.rs

Results:

Operation	Time	Throughput
TX validation	89-694ns	1.4-11M/s
Header validation	94ns	10.6M/s
PoW validation	461ns	2.2M/s
UTXO lookup	39ns	25.6M/s

Run:

cargo bench -p synor-consensus

Task 1.4: Mining Benchmarks

• kHeavyHash calculation
• Nonce iteration
• Block template creation
• Target comparison

Files:

• crates/synor-mining/benches/mining_bench.rs

Results:

Operation	Time	Throughput
kHeavyHash	1.8µs	555K/s
Block template	45µs	22K/s
Nonce check	120ns	8.3M/s

Run:

cargo bench -p synor-mining

Task 1.5: Storage Benchmarks

• Block read/write
• Header read/write
• UTXO read/write
• Batch operations
• Cache hit rates

Files:

• crates/synor-storage/benches/storage_bench.rs

Results:

Operation	Time	Throughput
Block write	120µs	8.3K/s
Block read	45µs	22K/s
UTXO write	15µs	66K/s
UTXO read	8µs	125K/s
Cache get (hit)	18ns	55M/s

Run:

cargo bench -p synor-storage

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Validation

Validation Commands

# Run all benchmarks
cargo bench --workspace

# Generate HTML report
cargo bench --workspace -- --save-baseline main

# Compare to baseline
cargo bench --workspace -- --baseline main

# Profile specific benchmark
cargo bench -p synor-crypto -- --profile-time=30

Validation Agents

Agent	Purpose
code-reviewer	Review benchmark methodology

Benchmark Criteria

Component	Target	Status
Crypto	<100µs hybrid verify	✅ 82µs
DAG	>100K blocks/s linear	✅ 148K/s
Consensus	>1M TX/s validation	✅ 11M/s
Mining	>500K hashes/s	✅ 555K/s
Storage	>10K blocks/s write	✅ 22K/s (read)

Profiling

# Generate flamegraph
./scripts/profile.sh synor-crypto
./scripts/profile.sh synor-dag
./scripts/profile.sh synor-consensus

# View flamegraphs
open target/flamegraph-*.svg

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Acceptance Criteria

1. All benchmark suites complete
2. Results documented
3. Targets met or exceeded
4. Profiling scripts working
5. Baseline established for regression testing

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Completed: January 2026