{
  "_philosophy": [
    "Floor throughputs for the PERF[...] lines printed by PerformanceBaselineTests.",
    "Floors catch algorithmic regressions (O(n) -> O(n^2), accidental sync I/O,",
    "quadratic re-scans), NOT tuning noise. Basis: ~50% of the SLOWEST observed",
    "CI run (GitHub macos-latest), not local numbers - CI slowdown is",
    "benchmark-dependent (sub-millisecond passes amplify runner overhead, e.g.",
    "nostrInbound.duplicate runs at ~20% of local speed on CI while most",
    "benchmarks run at ~40-60%). Every floor remains 10-200x above known",
    "regression values (the pre-optimization duplicate path measured 2.2k/sec",
    "against a 250k floor), so the gate still fails loudly on order-of-",
    "magnitude regressions while never flaking on a slow runner.",
    "Raise floors deliberately after intentional performance improvements;",
    "lower them only with a written justification in the PR. If a benchmark is",
    "renamed or removed, update this file in the same change - the gate fails",
    "when a floored benchmark stops reporting.",
    "Checked by scripts/check-perf-floors.sh against captured swift-test output."
  ],
  "_units": "operations per second, matching each benchmark's PERF line",
  "_reference_local_numbers_2026_06": {
    "nostrInbound.fresh": 2132,
    "nostrInbound.duplicate": 2558907,
    "bleInbound.roundTripAndDedup": 38063,
    "gcs.buildAndDecode": 776,
    "delivery.incrementalUpdate": 172615,
    "delivery.storeUpdate": 158862,
    "formatting.formatMessage": 12261,
    "pipeline.privateIngest": 24848,
    "pipeline.publicIngest": 13102,
    "store.append": 213201,
    "store.audit": 362
  },
  "floors": {
    "nostrInbound.fresh": 450,
    "nostrInbound.duplicate": 250000,
    "bleInbound.roundTripAndDedup": 9500,
    "gcs.buildAndDecode": 190,
    "delivery.incrementalUpdate": 43000,
    "delivery.storeUpdate": 39000,
    "formatting.formatMessage": 2200,
    "pipeline.privateIngest": 3000,
    "pipeline.publicIngest": 2400,
    "store.append": 48000,
    "store.audit": 70
  },
  "_slowest_observed_ci_numbers_2026_06": {
    "nostrInbound.fresh": 918,
    "nostrInbound.duplicate": 524924,
    "bleInbound.roundTripAndDedup": 20489,
    "gcs.buildAndDecode": 504,
    "delivery.incrementalUpdate": 110892,
    "delivery.storeUpdate": 96531,
    "formatting.formatMessage": 4575,
    "pipeline.privateIngest": 6388,
    "pipeline.publicIngest": 5006,
    "store.append": 97423,
    "store.audit": 140
  }
}