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On PRs the run isn't finished until the slowest benchmark shard is: it ends ~66 min after the run starts, while every other job is done by ~38 min. The 6 simulation shards are dealt round-robin, so they range from 25 to 59 min.

The shards are now split by measured time: test/benchmarkTimings.json holds each task's seconds, taken from the logs of the last two green runs. Tasks go longest first, each to the shard with the least time so far. Every shard computes the same split independently. A task missing from the file counts as the median, so a new benchmark still runs. Memory mode keeps round-robin, since its two shards are already even (12–13 min).

Measured work per shard (minutes):

1/6 2/6 3/6 4/6 5/6 6/6
Before (two runs) 26 / 27 51 / 52 52 / 41 40 / 39 40 / 40 40 / 59
After (same timings) 42.0 42.0 42.1 42.1 42.1 42.1

Real runs vary per task by up to ±25%, so I expect the slowest shard at ~45–48 min instead of 52–59.

It also carries the one-line ParserOptions typedef from #22875, without which lint fails on main. It no-ops once #22875 lands.

What kind of change does this PR introduce?

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Did you add tests for your changes?

No. I checked the split locally against the timings: each of the 226 tasks lands on exactly one shard, and an unknown task gets a shard. The benchmark jobs on this PR are the real check.

Does this PR introduce a breaking change?

No.

If relevant, what needs to be documented once your changes are merged or what have you already documented?

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Claude Code measured the shard times from CI logs and wrote the change on my request.


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  • Improvements
    • Benchmark simulation now distributes longer-running scenarios across shards first, using recorded durations to create a more balanced workload.
    • Scenarios remain in their original order in the resulting assignment. Other benchmark modes retain their existing sharding behavior.
    • Timing data read or parsing errors are reported rather than silently ignored.

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Benchmark simulation now assigns tasks to shards using recorded durations. A parser unit test also adds a typedef for the parser options type.

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The benchmark runner loads timing data in simulation mode and assigns tasks to the shard with the lowest accumulated duration. Tasks without recorded durations use the median duration, or one second when no timings exist. Other modes keep their existing assignment behavior.

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Parser options typedef
test/unitCases/javascript/parser.unittest.js
The unit test adds a ParserOptions typedef that refers to the parser module’s exported type.

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Merging this PR will improve performance by 40.48%

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