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jdx · 2026-10-14T18:16:12Z

https://entire.io/gh/jdx/usage/trails/95

Third pass on size, this time in completion and parse-error rendering (complete.rs, diagnostic.rs). Stacked on the help-rendering PR above it.

What changed

flag_meta and arg_meta walk the CLI's static metadata tree comparing addresses. The optimiser unrolled them into one compare per flag at every call site, so the cost grew with the number of flags. Keeping them out of line saves about 5.4 KB on oxlint and 2 KB on oxfmt, and more on larger CLIs.
split keeps its state in a struct with out-of-line transition functions; the jaro suggestion search and nearest avoid indexing and sorting; the usize-to-text conversion and name copying into errors are compiled once.
Fifteen more ideas were measured and reverted when they grew the binary.

Completion splitting was compared against the previous implementation on 18 million random cases (all six shells, quotes, escapes, non-ASCII whitespace, arbitrary cursors) with identical results, and 26 error and completion invocations of oxlint and oxfmt are byte-identical. Split::walked and Split::argv no longer panic when cword is out of range; they return the whole word list and an empty slice.

Measured

Section sums against the parent branch: oxlint 14,906,504 → 14,896,736 B (-9,768), oxfmt 9,243,420 → 9,237,348 B (-6,072). Interleaved min-of-300 wall times of startup, completion and error paths are flat (e.g. completion of flags 662 µs vs 653 µs).

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Touches shell completion splitting, parse-error suggestions, and core parser slicing on hot paths; behavior is intended to stay identical but the surface area is large enough that subtle completion or parse edge cases could regress.

Overview
Performance and codegen: Completion and diagnostics shrink duplicated machine code by marking tree walks (flag_meta, arg_meta) and small hot helpers #[inline(never)], refactoring shell split behind a Splitting state type, and replacing sort-based Jaro/nearest suggestion logic with in-place matching and insertion ordering. Candidate dedup uses dedup_by; several string paths move to byte-wise checks and shared offer_owned_like / owned / number helpers.

Safety and parser hot path: A new slice::before / slice::after module replaces panicking &s[n..] indexing across the parser, completion, and error rendering; Split::walked and Split::argv degrade gracefully when cword is out of range. Bash colon marking for completions is rewritten to track escapes explicitly.

Derive / static data: Generated entry points call __usage_process_args, __usage_borrow_words, and __usage_own_words so simple CLIs borrow argv[1..] instead of copying; flattened command groups reference __usage_subslice views into the parent’s joined flag/arg tables instead of embedding a second copy of flattened metadata.

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Bug Fixes
- Improved handling of incomplete or unusual command-line input, reducing unexpected failures during parsing, completion, and error reporting.
- Preserved escaped colons and cursor positions more accurately in shell completion, including PowerShell doubled quotes.
- Improved command suggestions with more consistent matching, ordering, and handling of negated flags.
- Corrected metadata associations for arguments and flags in flattened commands.

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This change updates runtime argument parsing, completion, and diagnostics. It adds shared argument and slice helpers, changes generated code to borrow process arguments where applicable, and tracks positional argument offsets when composing flattened command tables.

Changes: Argument handling and generated parser updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Runtime argument helpers and parsing `argv/src/lib.rs`, `argv/src/slice.rs`	Adds hidden process-argument and static-subslice helpers, plus bounds-aware slice helpers used in argument parsing and command traversal. Rewrites `is_number` to scan the mantissa and optional exponent.
Completion candidates and word splitting `argv/src/complete.rs`	Uses checked access and shared state for completion parsing and splitting. Updates shell-specific handling, file-type matching, candidate metadata merging, restart checks, and flag candidate construction. Marks `flag_meta` and `arg_meta` as non-inlined.
Diagnostic suggestions and rendering `argv/src/diagnostic.rs`	Uses checked slicing and root-command fallbacks. Adds negated flag names to suggestions, changes Jaro matching and candidate ordering, and updates selector parsing and string-formatting helpers.
Generated argument collection and borrowing `derive/src/codegen.rs`	Generated code collects process arguments through the new helpers and borrows words where applicable. View and multicall rewriting continues to use owned words. Embedded outcomes and completer setup also use the borrowing helper.
Flattened command metadata offsets `derive/src/codegen.rs`	Tracks positional argument offsets when composing flattened tables and builds flattened-group metadata from slices of the parent tables.

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greptile-apps · 2026-10-14T18:21:51Z

Confidence Score: 5/5

[Medium impact] The PR appears safe to merge; no new actionable defects were found.

Summary

This PR reduces repeated code in completion, error rendering, parsing, and generated entry points.

Shell completions split words and keep cursor positions bounded.
Completion candidates keep their labels while repeated lookup code stays shared.
Parse errors keep close-name suggestions in the same order.
The parser uses bounded slices while checking command-line words.
Generated CLIs borrow ordinary command-line words directly.
Flattened command metadata points into the parent’s joined tables.

No new actionable issues were found. The previous unnumbered finding about large suggestion lists was explicitly dismissed by jdx: realistic lists are small, and restoring a shared sort would undo the size savings. That thread is resolved.

The previous review commit failed the ancestry and merge-base checks, so this review covered the full PR diff. No tests were run.

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https://entire.io/gh/jdx/usage/trails/93  ### 📚 Documentation - replace V7.md with V8.md for pending breaking changes by [@jdx](https://github.com/jdx) in [#1550](#1550) ### ⚡ Performance - **(complete)** shrink completion splitting and error suggestions by [@jdx](https://github.com/jdx) in [#1554](#1554) - **(lib)** shrink the help, completion and error rendering code in usage-argv by [@jdx](https://github.com/jdx) in [#1551](#1551) - **(lib)** shrink the help renderer further by outlining wrapping, slicing and searching by [@jdx](https://github.com/jdx) in [#1553](#1553) ### 📦️ Dependency Updates - bump jactionlint to 2.2.0 and mbx to 1.24.0 by [@jdx](https://github.com/jdx) in [#1549](#1549)

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jdx added this pull request to stack #1556 October 14, 2026 18:39

Base automatically changed from perf/argv-help-size to main October 14, 2026 19:31

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perf(argv): check completion text by bytes where only ASCII matters

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perf(argv): push a negation onto the suggestion names directly

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