[danielplohmann]

Sets __version__ to 5.0.2 and cuts ## [Unreleased] into ## [v5.0.2] - 2026-10-29 (empty Deprecated/Removed/Security dropped, fresh Unreleased opened, compare links updated), per RELEASING.md.

5.0.2 is the version ESCAPER_DOWNWARD_COMPATIBILITY already names (#416), so ARM reports from 5.0.1 and earlier compare as stale once this ships.

Contents: #414, #415, #416, #417, #418-#423, #424, #427, #428, plus #425/#426 dependency bumps.

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📊 SMDA Performance Evaluation Benchmark Results

Generated on: 2026-10-29 21:12:35

Summary

Metric	Result
Correctness	✅ PASS — 0 / 155 common file(s) differ
Determinism	✅ PASS — base 3 run(s), PR 3 run(s)
Verdict	inconclusive — within run-to-run noise (±2.6%)
Median paired speedup	-0.40% (95% CI [-0.84%, -0.09%])
Timing noise band	±2.6%

Per-side Timing Context (best of 3/3 runs per file)

Side	Files	Functions	Median best time/file (s)	Sum of best times (s)	Throughput estimate (func/s)
base	155	173540	0.2844	95.15	~1824
pr	155	173540	0.2808	95.57	~1816

These context rows sum each file's best observed time across repeated runs; they are normalized comparison estimates, not single-run CI wall-clock times.

Paired per-file timing (positive speedup = PR faster):

Statistic	Value
Files compared	155
Median paired speedup	-0.40% (95% CI [-0.84%, -0.09%])
Mean speedup	-0.84% (95% CI [-1.75%, +0.06%])
Std dev / IQR	5.62% / 5.66%
Wilcoxon signed-rank p	0.1225 (n=155)

ℹ️ base and PR are timed in the same job on the same runner, with their passes interleaved base/PR/PR/base/base/PR so that drift over the job cancels rather than landing on whichever side ran last. The noise band above is therefore run-to-run variation on one machine, which is what it is able to measure; a difference inside it is reported as inconclusive. Correctness and determinism are not timing-based and are unaffected either way.

Heaviest 10 samples by base time (median paired speedup -0.01%; a change whose cost grows with input size shows here first):

File	Functions	Base (s)	PR (s)	Speedup
elf.akira_1d3b5c650533d13c81e325972a912e3ff8776e36e18bca966dae50735f8ab296_unpacked.smda	13292	7.600	7.591	+0.11%
win.merlin_v0.6.4_59f3732d9629c37c11ca9e3cebdcd1f1db5b6223329670b10adb59b0980a880f_dump7_0x0000000000400000.smda	7332	7.530	7.491	+0.51%
win.merlin_v0.6.4_59f3732d9629c37c11ca9e3cebdcd1f1db5b6223329670b10adb59b0980a880f_unpacked.smda	7324	7.425	7.537	-1.51%
win.danabot_dc817fc49c1fa7615ebb5515e3f569a72db62ba4651a1d854ec206c96d7dd4ee_unpacked.smda	9056	4.964	4.971	-0.13%
elf.akira_vt-2024-03-16-rust_3298d203c2acb68c474e5fdad8379181890b4403d6491c523c13730129be3f75_unpacked.smda	2833	2.906	2.921	-0.51%
win.danabot_2021-10-21-loader_2a3acdcd76575762b18c18c644a745125f55ce121f742d2aad962521bc7f25fd_dump7_0x00ae0000.smda	7048	2.693	2.552	+5.22%
win.danabot_vt-2021-08-09-v4_c0419b07dd58f6b7e192bbf1072096d5e3ba10845d6f57d21a0627cbef92a5a7_unpacked.smda	7673	2.510	2.776	-10.62%
win.danabot_2020-03-30_b6cb8daec9e3e27dbb39e33d3dc55e7100673869754e8c8a158a0e655e1cbcce_dump7_0x00a40000.smda	6853	2.132	2.138	-0.30%
win.vidar_v39.4_f1e6ef95e8fb839899a496e6ce304bca0be925f2473d0f9ecf250ee6ba330233_unpacked.smda	2734	1.820	1.745	+4.13%
win.vidar_2018-12-05-v4.0_65287763245fdd8b56bb72298c78fea62405bd35794a06afbbe23cc5d38be90a_dump7_0x00400000.smda	3242	1.631	1.572	+3.66%

Determinism (self-check across repeated runs)

Side	Runs	Files	Deterministic	Median timing CV
base	3	155	✅	2.6%
pr	3	155	✅	2.4%

Pairwise run matrix (individual run medians, diagnostic)

Diagnostic only: each row compares one raw PR run against one raw base run. The headline verdict above uses paired per-file best-of-runs timings.

Comparison Run	PR Files	Base Files	Common	Function Set Matches	Med PR (s)	Med Base (s)	Med Diff (s)	Speedup %
pr_0 vs base_0	155	155	155	155/155	0.2864s	0.2844s	+0.0020s	-0.70%
pr_0 vs base_1	155	155	155	155/155	0.2864s	0.2871s	-0.0007s	+0.26%
pr_0 vs base_2	155	155	155	155/155	0.2864s	0.2917s	-0.0053s	+1.83%
pr_1 vs base_0	155	155	155	155/155	0.2887s	0.2844s	+0.0043s	-1.52%
pr_1 vs base_1	155	155	155	155/155	0.2887s	0.2871s	+0.0016s	-0.56%
pr_1 vs base_2	155	155	155	155/155	0.2887s	0.2917s	-0.0030s	+1.03%
pr_2 vs base_0	155	155	155	155/155	0.2930s	0.2844s	+0.0086s	-3.02%
pr_2 vs base_1	155	155	155	155/155	0.2930s	0.2871s	+0.0059s	-2.04%
pr_2 vs base_2	155	155	155	155/155	0.2930s	0.2917s	+0.0013s	-0.43%