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Depends on pnpm/benchmarks#67 — merge that first, since this reads benchmarks.json from its main.

pnpm/benchmarks used to write the benchmark page and its charts, and scripts/update-benchmarks.mjs copied both across. Every wording change went through a benchmark run in a repository whose job is measurement, and what the page said about the numbers lived nowhere near the site that served it.

That repository now publishes only benchmarks.json — the numbers, the versions they were measured with, and the conditions they were measured under. This PR renders the page and its charts here from it:

  • scripts/benchmarks/columns.mjs — which columns the page carries, their legends, colors, row labels and explanations. This is where a package manager is added to or dropped from the comparison.
  • scripts/benchmarks/page.mjs — the prose and the table assembly.
  • scripts/benchmarks/generate-svg.mjs, generate-stacked-svg.mjs — moved across unchanged, but for their process.version defaults: a machine that measured nothing has no business reading its own Node.js version onto a chart.
  • scripts/benchmarks/pretty-ms.mjs — the sliver of pretty-ms the tables need. The sync workflow runs on a bare Node.js with the site's dependencies deliberately not installed, so it can't be a dependency.

update-benchmarks.mjs now fetches one JSON file and renders, rather than resolving a commit and copying a page plus every chart it references. The GITHUB_TOKEN it needed for the API goes away with it.

Yarn and Bun

Off the page; npm and the pnpm columns stay. They are still measured upstream and still in the manifest — the split means dropping them from the site costs nothing upstream, and picking them back up is an edit to columns.mjs.

The manifest deliberately carries more than the page draws, so columns.mjs says so: a tool with numbers but no column is expected, not an oversight. The reverse is checked and fails loudly — a column can't outlive its measurement.

Verification

Rendered against the results currently recorded in pnpm/benchmarks: the npm and pnpm numbers come out identical to the last published page, the charts render with the two bar groups, a second run writes nothing, and the output is byte-identical whether or not the manifest carries Yarn and Bun.

One thing to look at

The page claimed to be updated daily. The benchmark's cron is weekly, so it now says weekly. This sync workflow is still workflow_dispatch only — if the page should update on its own, that workflow needs a schedule.

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The benchmark pipeline now reads one manifest, renders the benchmark page and SVG charts locally, writes them to the repository, and removes stale charts. New configuration defines package-manager, scenario, fixture, and Node.js version metadata.

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Benchmark Rendering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Benchmark presentation contracts
scripts/benchmarks/columns.mjs, scripts/benchmarks/pretty-ms.mjs
Defines package-manager columns, chart bars, install scenarios, Node.js version scenarios, fixture headings, and duration formatting.
Benchmark SVG chart generation
scripts/benchmarks/generate-svg.mjs, scripts/benchmarks/generate-stacked-svg.mjs
Generates simple and stacked SVG charts with scales, legends, labels, mascots, timestamps, and Node.js version metadata.
Manifest-to-page rendering
scripts/benchmarks/page.mjs
Validates the manifest and renders markdown sections, tables, charts, scenario explanations, and hashed chart URLs.
Benchmark update integration
scripts/update-benchmarks.mjs, .github/workflows/benchmark.yml, src/pages/benchmarks.md
Reads a local or remote manifest, writes generated output, removes stale charts, updates workflow documentation, and refreshes benchmark content. You can override the manifest with BENCHMARKS_MANIFEST.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 752e6

This change now renders the public benchmark page and charts from an upstream JSON manifest, but invalid or missing measurements can currently publish NaN values and malformed chart output, while other manifest values are not comprehensively constrained before publication. Merge should wait for the measurement validation issue to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

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  participant BenchmarkWorkflow
  participant update-benchmarks.mjs
  participant benchmarks.json
  participant renderBenchmarksPage
  participant RepositoryFiles

  BenchmarkWorkflow->>update-benchmarks.mjs: run benchmark update
  update-benchmarks.mjs->>benchmarks.json: read local or fetch remote manifest
  benchmarks.json-->>update-benchmarks.mjs: return benchmark manifest
  update-benchmarks.mjs->>renderBenchmarksPage: render manifest
  renderBenchmarksPage-->>update-benchmarks.mjs: return markdown and SVG charts
  update-benchmarks.mjs->>RepositoryFiles: write page and chart files
  update-benchmarks.mjs->>RepositoryFiles: remove stale chart files
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The manifest hops in, and the pages grow bright
Gray bars and orange bars stretch across the screen
Fresh hashes keep every SVG clean
Stale charts vanish with one tidy sweep

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Render benchmark page locally from published measurements

✨ Enhancement 📝 Documentation ⚙️ Configuration changes 🕐 40+ Minutes

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• Render benchmark Markdown and SVG charts locally from upstream benchmarks.json measurements.
• Centralize displayed tools, scenarios, labels, and prose in the website repository.
• Simplify manual synchronization by removing GitHub API resolution and token requirements.
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graph TD
  A["benchmarks.json"] --> B["Sync script"] --> C["Page renderer"] --> D["Benchmark page"]
  E["Display config"] --> C --> F["Chart generators"] --> G["SVG charts"]
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Keep the renderer in the website repository while treating pnpm/benchmarks as the measurement publisher. Upstream page generation or a separately published renderer package would preserve presentation coupling or add unnecessary release and dependency overhead, especially because the workflow intentionally runs on bare Node.js.

Files changed (11) +1031 / -233

Enhancement (3) +640 / -0
generate-stacked-svg.mjsAdd stacked pnpm version chart renderer +110/-0

Add stacked pnpm version chart renderer

• Generates SVG bars that overlay pnpm 12 time on pnpm 11 totals, exposing the newer engine's relative speedup. Chart metadata is supplied from the measurement manifest rather than the rendering process.

scripts/benchmarks/generate-stacked-svg.mjs

generate-svg.mjsAdd grouped and stacked benchmark SVG renderer +237/-0

Add grouped and stacked benchmark SVG renderer

• Renders configurable benchmark series, legends, scales, labels, and optional stacked bars. Uses explicit measured timestamps and Node.js versions to keep output deterministic and accurate.

scripts/benchmarks/generate-svg.mjs

page.mjsRender benchmark Markdown and charts from measurements +293/-0

Render benchmark Markdown and charts from measurements

• Validates the upstream manifest, assembles explanatory prose and benchmark tables, orders scenarios, and generates chart assets. Adds content hashes to chart URLs so updated pages cannot reference stale cached images.

scripts/benchmarks/page.mjs

Refactor (2) +60 / -71
pretty-ms.mjsAdd dependency-free benchmark duration formatting +26/-0

Add dependency-free benchmark duration formatting

• Implements the subset of 'pretty-ms' formatting needed by benchmark tables. Keeps the bare-Node synchronization workflow independent of installed site packages.

scripts/benchmarks/pretty-ms.mjs

update-benchmarks.mjsReplace page copying with manifest-driven rendering +34/-71

Replace page copying with manifest-driven rendering

• Fetches a single 'benchmarks.json' file, or an optional local manifest, and passes it to the local renderer. Writes only changed Markdown and SVG files, removes stale charts, and eliminates commit resolution and upstream asset discovery.

scripts/update-benchmarks.mjs

Documentation (4) +126 / -158
benchmarks.mdPublish refreshed npm and pnpm benchmark results +43/-41

Publish refreshed npm and pnpm benchmark results

• Updates the benchmark date, pnpr version, methodology explanations, tables, and Node.js manager results from the latest manifest. Removes Yarn, Yarn PnP, and Bun comparisons and corrects the stated update cadence from daily to weekly.

src/pages/benchmarks.md

alotta-files-pnpm.svgRefresh pnpm version comparison chart +19/-19

Refresh pnpm version comparison chart

• Regenerates the stacked pnpm 11 versus pnpm 12 chart with the latest measurements, trusted-lockfile labels, and benchmark timestamp.

static/img/benchmarks/alotta-files-pnpm.svg

alotta-files.svgRefresh package-manager benchmark chart +59/-93

Refresh package-manager benchmark chart

• Regenerates the main fixture chart for npm and the stacked pnpm comparison. Removes Yarn and Bun series, updates measurements and labels, and reduces the chart height accordingly.

static/img/benchmarks/alotta-files.svg

node-versions.svgRefresh Node.js manager benchmark chart +5/-5

Refresh Node.js manager benchmark chart

• Regenerates pnpm, fnm, and nvm installation bars with current measurements, the updated nvm version, and the latest benchmark timestamp.

static/img/benchmarks/node-versions.svg

Other (2) +205 / -4
benchmark.ymlRun benchmark rendering without API credentials +4/-4

Run benchmark rendering without API credentials

• Documents that the workflow now renders site-owned benchmark content from published measurements. Removes the update step's GitHub API token because the script reads the raw manifest directly.

.github/workflows/benchmark.yml

columns.mjsCentralize benchmark display configuration +201/-0

Centralize benchmark display configuration

• Defines visible package managers, chart bars, scenarios, fixture headings, legends, and colors. Limits the package-manager comparison to npm and pnpm variants while retaining pnpm, fnm, and nvm runtime comparisons.

scripts/benchmarks/columns.mjs

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In `@scripts/benchmarks/columns.mjs`:
- Around line 197-200: Update the alotta-files intro link in the benchmark
configuration to use descriptive link text, such as “alotta-files package.json,”
instead of “here”; ensure the generated benchmarks page reflects the same
accessible link text.

In `@scripts/benchmarks/generate-stacked-svg.mjs`:
- Line 5: Update getMax to include both v11 and v12 values when calculating the
chart scale, and ensure the corresponding limit calculation uses this expanded
maximum so v12 bars remain within the graph boundary.

In `@scripts/benchmarks/page.mjs`:
- Around line 277-292: Update assertManifest to validate every configured
measurement value before rendering, not just the existence of each results
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nodeVersionManagerColumns, require Number.isFinite(value) and value >= 0, and
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pnpm/benchmarks used to write the page and its charts, and this script
copied both across. Every wording change went through a benchmark run in
a repository whose job is measurement, and what the page said about the
numbers lived nowhere near the site that served it.

That repository now publishes only `benchmarks.json` — the numbers, the
versions they were measured with, and the conditions they were measured
under. This renders the page and its charts from it:

- `scripts/benchmarks/columns.mjs` — which columns the page carries,
  their legends, colors, row labels and explanations.
- `scripts/benchmarks/page.mjs` — the prose and the table assembly.
- `scripts/benchmarks/generate-svg.mjs`, `generate-stacked-svg.mjs` —
  moved across unchanged but for their `process.version` defaults, which
  a machine that measured nothing has no business reading.
- `scripts/benchmarks/pretty-ms.mjs` — the sliver of `pretty-ms` the
  tables need. The sync runs on a bare Node.js in CI with the site's
  dependencies deliberately not installed, so it can't be a dependency.

Yarn and Bun come off the comparison; npm and the pnpm columns stay.
They are still measured upstream — the manifest carries them, this page
doesn't draw them, and that is now an edit to `columns.mjs` rather than
a benchmark run.

The page claimed to be updated daily. The benchmark's cron is weekly, so
it says weekly. Note that this sync is still `workflow_dispatch` only —
the claim tracks the measurement, not the copy.

Verified against the results currently recorded in pnpm/benchmarks: the
npm and pnpm numbers render identically to the last published page,
re-running writes nothing, and the page is byte-identical whether or not
the manifest carries Yarn and Bun.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SKeHCgKWBLVERXWMdVHQFJ
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`assertManifest` checked that a `results` object existed but never looked
inside it. A scenario the manifest didn't carry — a tool that failed one,
a scenario renamed upstream — formatted as `NaN` in a table cell and drew
a `NaN`-wide bar, which is an SVG that renders nothing. The page would
have published a hole rather than failing. Every scenario the page draws
is now checked to be a finite, non-negative duration before anything is
written.

The stacked chart scaled to pnpm 11 alone. The gray bar is normally the
longer of the two, but nothing guarantees it: a scenario where pnpm 12
came out slower would have run off the right edge of the graph. It scales
to both releases now. No chart changes today — pnpm 12 is faster in every
scenario, so the bytes are identical.

`pretty-ms.mjs` took its seconds from `ms / 1000 % 60`, which is where
`pretty-ms` itself gets them and is inexact above a minute: 62400ms came
back as 2.3999999999999986 and truncated to `1m 2.3s` for a duration of
62.4 seconds. Taken from the integer remainder instead. Nothing published
today crosses a minute, so no number moves — but bug-compatibility with a
dependency we no longer have isn't worth keeping.

That last one was found by the tests rather than by reading, which is the
argument for having them. `page.test.mjs` covers what reading the code
doesn't show: that rendering is deterministic (the sync commits what it
renders, so anything clock- or hash-order-dependent would diff every week
with no measurement behind it), that each chart is referenced at the hash
of its own bytes, that a manifest missing a column or carrying a
non-duration is refused, and that the formatter still truncates the way
the published numbers assume. Node's own runner, no dependencies — a test
needing an install would test a setup the sync never has.

Also gives the fixture link real text instead of "here".

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