# Cycle 07 — no-std Final Benchmark

**Task:** `no-std-final-benchmark`
**Date:** 2026-05-28
**Branch:** 07-no-std
**Commit:** post-reeval (219bff3 — no src changes since 40089f4)
**Toolchain:** stable (Rust 1.77+)
**Target:** x86-64 Linux, optimised (`--release`)
**CPU:** 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900K (Alder Lake), 24 logical cores
**Bench command:** `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/work/cargo-target-ralph cargo bench`

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## Acceptance Verification

All commands run against the final state of branch `07-no-std`.

| Command | Result |
|---------|--------|
| `cargo build` | PASS — 0 warnings |
| `cargo build --no-default-features` | PASS |
| `cargo build --no-default-features --features alloc` | PASS |
| `cargo build --no-default-features --features alloc,serde` | PASS |
| `cargo test` | PASS — 144 passed, 0 failed, 1 doc-test passed |
| `cargo test --no-default-features --features alloc` | PASS — 133 passed, 0 failed, 1 doc-test passed |
| `cargo bench --no-run` | PASS — 4 bench executables compiled |

All 7 acceptance criteria from `docs/no-std-design.md` §11 are met.

---

## Full Criterion Output

### benches/arithmetic.rs

```
arithmetic/decimal64_add        time:   [306.37 ps 307.71 ps 309.21 ps]
arithmetic/udecimal64_add       time:   [310.79 ps 311.90 ps 313.01 ps]
arithmetic/i64_add              time:   [277.74 ps 280.04 ps 282.27 ps]
arithmetic/decimal64_mul        time:   [587.68 ps 589.67 ps 591.83 ps]
arithmetic/udecimal64_mul       time:   [465.43 ps 466.75 ps 468.28 ps]
arithmetic/i64_mul              time:   [299.95 ps 303.45 ps 307.18 ps]
arithmetic/decimal64_div        time:   [1.9483 ns 1.9539 ns 1.9598 ns]
arithmetic/udecimal64_div       time:   [1.9476 ns 1.9519 ns 1.9569 ns]
arithmetic/i64_div              time:   [1.1675 ns 1.1711 ns 1.1753 ns]
arithmetic/decimal64_mul_s2     time:   [585.41 ps 587.33 ps 589.40 ps]
arithmetic/udecimal64_mul_s2    time:   [474.46 ps 476.38 ps 478.39 ps]
arithmetic/decimal64_div_s2     time:   [1.1671 ns 1.1698 ns 1.1730 ns]
arithmetic/udecimal64_div_s2    time:   [1.1744 ns 1.1776 ns 1.1811 ns]
arithmetic/decimal64_mul_s9     time:   [2.9351 ns 2.9442 ns 2.9540 ns]
arithmetic/udecimal64_mul_s9    time:   [468.93 ps 470.39 ps 471.94 ps]
arithmetic/decimal64_div_s9     time:   [1.9409 ns 1.9447 ns 1.9488 ns]
arithmetic/udecimal64_div_s9    time:   [1.9466 ns 1.9521 ns 1.9580 ns]
arithmetic/decimal64_mul_large  time:   [2.9400 ns 2.9496 ns 2.9597 ns]
arithmetic/udecimal64_mul_large time:   [464.56 ps 466.02 ps 467.61 ps]
arithmetic/decimal64_div_large  time:   [3.1358 ns 3.1498 ns 3.1683 ns]
arithmetic/udecimal64_div_large time:   [1.9416 ns 1.9462 ns 1.9517 ns]
```

### benches/parse.rs

```
parse_decimal64/0               time:   [4.6588 ns 4.6686 ns 4.6803 ns]
parse_decimal64/1.23            time:   [5.2654 ns 5.2787 ns 5.2943 ns]
parse_decimal64/123.4567        time:   [6.4503 ns 6.4694 ns 6.4888 ns]
parse_decimal64/9999999999.9999 time:   [8.8464 ns 8.8890 ns 8.9301 ns]
parse_decimal64/99.9999         time:   [6.0435 ns 6.0598 ns 6.0771 ns]

parse_udecimal64/0              time:   [4.5173 ns 4.5323 ns 4.5491 ns]
parse_udecimal64/1.23           time:   [5.2749 ns 5.2924 ns 5.3134 ns]
parse_udecimal64/123.4567       time:   [6.2655 ns 6.2849 ns 6.3060 ns]
parse_udecimal64/9999999999.9999 time:  [8.3547 ns 8.3866 ns 8.4204 ns]
parse_udecimal64/99.9999        time:   [5.8538 ns 5.8751 ns 5.9018 ns]

parse_f64/0                     time:   [6.2884 ns 6.3207 ns 6.3577 ns]
parse_f64/1.23                  time:   [7.6592 ns 7.6965 ns 7.7410 ns]
parse_f64/123.4567              time:   [8.6257 ns 8.6607 ns 8.7021 ns]
parse_f64/9999999999.9999       time:   [8.7633 ns 8.7922 ns 8.8256 ns]
parse_f64/99.9999               time:   [8.2215 ns 8.2480 ns 8.2762 ns]

parse_rust_decimal/0            time:   [9.8589 ns 9.9349 ns 10.017 ns]
parse_rust_decimal/1.23         time:   [11.024 ns 11.087 ns 11.154 ns]
parse_rust_decimal/123.4567     time:   [12.481 ns 12.547 ns 12.615 ns]
parse_rust_decimal/9999999999.9999 time: [13.666 ns 13.754 ns 13.853 ns]
parse_rust_decimal/99.9999      time:   [12.058 ns 12.158 ns 12.266 ns]

parse_bigdecimal/0              time:   [27.695 ns 27.848 ns 27.990 ns]
parse_bigdecimal/1.23           time:   [48.417 ns 48.578 ns 48.757 ns]
parse_bigdecimal/123.4567       time:   [55.318 ns 55.468 ns 55.613 ns]
parse_bigdecimal/9999999999.9999 time:  [62.464 ns 62.685 ns 62.923 ns]
parse_bigdecimal/99.9999        time:   [53.843 ns 53.992 ns 54.140 ns]
```

### benches/scientific.rs

```
scientific_parse/noexp          time:   [12.628 ns 12.662 ns 12.703 ns]
scientific_parse/pos_exp        time:   [14.378 ns 14.457 ns 14.538 ns]
scientific_parse/neg_exp        time:   [ 8.8548 ns  8.9306 ns  9.0094 ns]
scientific_parse/zero           time:   [ 6.6481 ns  6.6744 ns  6.7031 ns]

scientific_display/decimal64_s4 time:   [62.862 ns 63.276 ns 63.654 ns]

decimal64_parse/9999999999.9999 time:   [ 8.7214 ns  8.7708 ns  8.8150 ns]
```

Times: low / **median** / high across 100 samples.

---

## Comparison: Cycle 07 Baseline vs Final

Baseline is from `docs/no-std-bench-results.md` (commit 40089f4, task `no-std-benchmark-and-profile`).
Final is this run. All times are median ns/op (ps where noted). ±10% is the accepted noise band.

### Parse — Decimal64

| Benchmark | Baseline (ns) | Final (ns) | Delta | Within ±10%? |
|-----------|:-------------:|:----------:|:-----:|:------------:|
| `parse_decimal64/0` | 4.695 | 4.669 | −0.6% | Yes |
| `parse_decimal64/1.23` | 5.462 | 5.279 | −3.3% | Yes (improved) |
| `parse_decimal64/123.4567` | 6.691 | 6.469 | −3.3% | Yes (improved) |
| `parse_decimal64/9999999999.9999` | 9.285 | 8.889 | −4.3% | Yes (improved) |
| `parse_decimal64/99.9999` | 6.108 | 6.060 | −0.8% | Yes |

### Parse — UDecimal64

| Benchmark | Baseline (ns) | Final (ns) | Delta | Within ±10%? |
|-----------|:-------------:|:----------:|:-----:|:------------:|
| `parse_udecimal64/0` | 4.511 | 4.532 | +0.5% | Yes |
| `parse_udecimal64/1.23` | 5.347 | 5.292 | −1.0% | Yes |
| `parse_udecimal64/123.4567` | 6.384 | 6.285 | −1.6% | Yes |
| `parse_udecimal64/9999999999.9999` | 8.359 | 8.387 | +0.3% | Yes |
| `parse_udecimal64/99.9999` | 5.867 | 5.875 | +0.1% | Yes |

### Arithmetic — Decimal64

| Benchmark | Baseline (ps) | Final (ps) | Delta | Within ±10%? |
|-----------|:-------------:|:----------:|:-----:|:------------:|
| `decimal64_add` | 308.2 | 307.7 | −0.2% | Yes |
| `decimal64_mul` | 584.3 | 589.7 | +0.9% | Yes |
| `decimal64_div` | 1941.3 | 1953.9 | +0.6% | Yes |
| `decimal64_mul_large` | 2991.6 | 2949.6 | −1.4% | Yes |
| `decimal64_div_large` | 3239.4 | 3149.8 | −2.8% | Yes |

### Scientific Parse

| Benchmark | Baseline (ns) | Final (ns) | Delta | Within ±10%? |
|-----------|:-------------:|:----------:|:-----:|:------------:|
| `scientific_parse/noexp` | 12.582 | 12.662 | +0.6% | Yes |
| `scientific_parse/pos_exp` | 14.040 | 14.457 | +3.0% | Yes |
| `scientific_parse/neg_exp` | 8.951 | 8.931 | −0.2% | Yes |
| `scientific_parse/zero` | 6.750 | 6.674 | −1.1% | Yes |
| `scientific_display/decimal64_s4` | 61.661 | 63.276 | +2.6% | Yes |

---

## Summary

**No regression introduced by cycle 07.**

All benchmarks finish within ±10% of the pre-reeval baseline (which was itself
within ±10% of the cycle 05 `scientific-notation` baseline). The deltas are
indistinguishable from normal run-to-run CPU variation on the Alder Lake host.

Several parse benchmarks improved 1–4% between the baseline and final runs;
these are measurement noise, not structural gains — no code changed between
the two runs.

The Criterion "Performance has regressed" labels in the raw output compare
against the *previous stored Criterion run* in `/work/cargo-target-ralph`
(the baseline run from task 3). They are noise-level deltas (≤5%) and do not
indicate any structural change.

**`no_std` compatibility is achieved with zero performance impact.**

The implementation is a purely mechanical transformation: `std::` imports
replaced with `core::`, and alloc-dependent code gated behind
`cfg(any(feature = "std", feature = "alloc"))`. No hot-path logic was altered.
The `#[inline(always)]` annotations from cycle 05 remain intact.

### Acceptance Criteria (§11 of `docs/no-std-design.md`)

| Criterion | Status |
|-----------|--------|
| 1. `cargo build` succeeds, no warnings | PASS |
| 2. `cargo build --no-default-features` succeeds | PASS |
| 3. `cargo build --no-default-features --features alloc` succeeds | PASS |
| 4. `cargo test` passes with no regressions | PASS — 144/144 |
| 5. `cargo test --no-default-features --features alloc` passes | PASS — 133/133 |
| 6. `cargo bench --no-run` succeeds | PASS |
| 7. No public API removed | PASS |
