feat: compile-check no longer makes dependents wait for each other when an assembly's public API changes

[hatayama]

Summary

• When an assembly's public API changes, compile-check no longer makes its dependents wait for each other before compiling. A dependent that has to compile starts as soon as the assemblies selected for their own sources have finished, assuming the other dependents it references keep Unity's public surface, and compiles again only if that assumption turns out wrong.
• Builds on feat: compile-check records whether a compile may still apply while its references are compiling #3343, which is merged.

User Impact

Before: on a project with 561 assemblies, adding a public member to an assembly that 67 others reference compiled all 68 in 35 to 43 seconds. The 67 dependents reference each other through 354 references up to ten levels deep, and each waited for its references to finish, although in every measured run only the edited assembly changed its reference assembly. The dependents' critical path, 31 to 37 seconds, was the wall time, and more --jobs did not shorten it.

After: a dependent that has to compile starts as soon as the edited assembly finishes. Simulating the measured unit times puts the critical path at 20 to 25 seconds; the floor is the edited assembly plus the largest dependent. Results are unchanged: every result reported is the compile against the right reference assemblies, after every reference finished.

A second run over the same inputs still replays every assembly instead of compiling it twice.

Changes

• A unit may start before every plan reference has a final state when it has to compile anyway (selected for its own sources, or a dependent one of whose finished references changed), every missing reference is a dependent rather than one selected for its own sources, and it is not blocked. The references still compiling are read from Unity's build (KeptSurfaceReferences), never from an output an earlier run left.
• A unit's final state is decided only once every reference has one:
  • every assumption held: the early compile is its result;
  • an assumed reference changed its surface: it compiles again against this run's output (at most twice per run);
  • an assumed reference failed or was blocked: it is blocked and its result dropped.
    The errors and the surface verdict of a dropped result release and block nothing.
• A unit whose record may still be replayed once those references finish (the predicate from feat: compile-check records whether a compile may still apply while its references are compiling #3343) waits instead, so a run over the same inputs replays it.
• Starting and settling alternate until neither moves, because a skip decided while starting units can settle a unit that already finished.
• A skipped dependent now counts as having kept Unity's surface explicitly. Its outputs and records are still removed as before.
• A plan that can never finish (references waiting on each other) is an error naming the units left, instead of an empty success.
• Every final state goes through one place that returns an error if a reference is still unfinished. A unit queued early and then blocked while it waits for a job is only taken out of the queue; the last of its references to finish offers it again, and it is decided then.
• UnitResult gains AssumedReferences, CompiledAgainAfter, DiscardedDuration and WaitedForRecord. The VibeLog units entries carry them as assumed_kept, compiled_again_after, discarded_ms and waited_for_record, each only when it applies. A unit replayed after waiting is left out of units like every replayed unit, so waited_for_record marks a wait for a record that then did not apply.
• The JSON output is unchanged.
• docs/compile-check.md step 5 and docs/vibe-logs.md describe this; ADR 0016 records the decision.

Verification

• 22 new tests: 21 scheduler tests in scheduler_optimistic_test.go, and one VibeLog test.

  • The first 20 were written before the implementation. On the base (with only the four UnitResult fields added), 17 of them failed and the three guard tests passed, as they should:
    • a dependent waits for a reference selected for its own sources;
    • a dependent with no changed reference does not start early;
    • a blocked dependent does not start early.
  • The last two were added after review:
    • a blocked unit queued early is decided only once its references finish;
    • a unit queued early is queued once when its last reference finishes while it waits for a job.
  • Every existing test passes unchanged.

• The tests that need a dependent to start while a reference still compiles no longer rely on a 60 ms hold. The fake compile of that reference finishes only once the dependent has begun, or after 10 seconds, leaving the test's assertions to fail. Tests that check a unit does not start keep the hold, which a slow machine can only make pass.

• Repeated runs:

  • go test -race -count=10 -run TestCompileUnits ./internal/compilecheck/ passes;
  • 24 concurrent runs of the race-built test binary with -test.cpu=1 -test.count=10 pass: 240 runs, no failure. With the hold, 2 of 240 failed.

• Mutations, each restored afterwards:

  Mutation	Fails
  Settle a finished unit before all its references are final	13 tests, through the error of the final-state check; with that check removed too, 9 tests, including the discarded verdict and discarded errors tests
  Never mark a unit stale	compiled again (dependent and edited assembly), stale only once more, discarded verdict and errors, the record tests
  Ignore references selected for their own sources	waits for a reference whose own sources changed, and 6 others
  Start dependents that have no changed reference	does not start before a reference is known to have changed; skips the whole chain below an unchanged surface
  Leave assumed references out of KeptSurfaceReferences	starts a dependent before the dependents it references finish (it read the stale output), and 2 others
  Keep the results of blocked units	blocks a dependent that started before its reference failed; blocks one whose assumed reference was blocked
  Drop the error for a plan that cannot finish	reports a plan it cannot finish
  Never wait for a record	waits for an assumed reference when its record may still apply
  Settle only after collecting a completion	settles a dependent whose assumed reference was skipped; blocks one whose assumed reference was blocked
  Decide a blocked unit queued early while a reference still compiles	decides a blocked unit queued early only once its references finish (the final-state check reports it)
  Drop the guard against queuing a unit twice	queues a unit once when its last reference finishes while it waits for a job (D compiled twice)

  Dropping the blocked condition from the early start is not a mutation here: the blocked check when a unit is taken from the queue stops the same unit, so nothing observable changes. The guard test pins that this check works on the early path.

• In cli/dispatcher:

  • gofmt -l is empty;
  • go vet ./... and golangci-lint run ./... (0 issues) pass;
  • go test -race passes on internal/compilecheck/... and internal/dispatcher/...;
  • statement coverage from go test -coverprofile ./... is 94.055%, against 94.066% on the base branch measured the same way. That is 0.011 points lower, within the 0.1-point tolerance. The uncovered error branch of the final-state check cannot be reached while the scheduler works correctly.

• scripts/check-code-complexity.sh and scripts/check-file-length.sh pass.

• Repository CI does not run on pull requests into this branch; the checks above were run locally. Wall-time measurements on a large project are not part of this PR.

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📝 Walkthrough

The compile-check scheduler can start eligible units before all referenced units finish, using Unity reference assemblies for pending references. It later adopts, blocks, or recompiles results based on final reference surfaces and records scheduling outcomes in VibeLog.

Changes: Optimistic Compile-Check Scheduling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Early-start eligibility and scheduling state cli/dispatcher/internal/compilecheck/compiler.go, cli/dispatcher/internal/compilecheck/plan.go, cli/dispatcher/internal/compilecheck/scheduler.go, cli/dispatcher/internal/compilecheck/scheduler_settle.go	The schedule tracks references selected for own-source compilation and records assumptions about unfinished reference surfaces. Eligible units can start before all references finish, except when a cached record may still apply.
Compile settlement and stale-result replay cli/dispatcher/internal/compilecheck/scheduler.go, cli/dispatcher/internal/compilecheck/scheduler_settle.go, cli/dispatcher/internal/compilecheck/scheduler_test.go, cli/dispatcher/internal/compilecheck/scheduler_optimistic_test.go	The scheduler adopts results after reference outcomes are known, discards and recompiles stale results, and blocks dependents when a reference fails. Tests cover early starts, settlement, cached records, fast checks, and cycle errors.
Scheduling results and documented behavior cli/dispatcher/internal/dispatcher/compile_check_vibe_log.go, cli/dispatcher/internal/dispatcher/compile_check_vibe_log_test.go, docs/adr/0016-compile-check-starts-dependents-before-the-dependents-they-reference-finish.md, docs/compile-check.md, docs/vibe-logs.md	VibeLog unit entries can include assumed references, recompilation cause, discarded duration, and record-wait status. The ADR and documentation describe the scheduling rules and these fields.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant compileUnits
  participant scheduler
  participant compiler
  compileUnits->>scheduler: offer plan units
  scheduler->>compiler: start eligible unit with assumed references
  compiler-->>scheduler: return result and reference-surface verdict
  scheduler->>scheduler: settle after reference outcomes are final
  scheduler->>compiler: recompile unit if an assumed surface changed

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 222c8

The scheduling change is mergeable with a bounded test-coverage follow-up: synchronize the test on completion so it reliably checks deferred blocking.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 222c8

The change makes result acceptance more complex, but stale work is retried and dependency failures still block dependent results. No introduced security vulnerability was established. The inspected behavior is bounded to a project's compile checks; interruption and recovery were assessed from source rather than live execution.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated propagation scope is the current project's planned assembly graph, compile-check outputs, cached records, and reported diagnostics. A wrong settlement decision could contaminate dependent results, but the inspected design gates publication and propagation on final reference states.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• inferred — Project sources, references, and analyzer configuration continue through the existing response-file and compiler execution path under the invoking environment. Speculation can repeat that compilation but does not introduce a new credential or identity transition in the inspected path. Unfinished references cannot redirect speculative compilation to leftover produced outputs because their Unity selection is explicit.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — On infrastructure failure, scheduling stops, cancellation is issued, running completions are drained, and the run returns an error. Interrupted compiler invocations are not recorded as complete results. Completed speculative records may remain, but subsequent reuse validates input identity and output hashes; manifest publication uses an atomic-write helper.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Passed checks: 5 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 36 functions across 8 files.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main scheduler change: dependents can compile without waiting for each other when an assembly's public API changes.
Description check		The description directly explains the scheduler behavior, result settlement, recompilation, blocking, VibeLog changes, documentation updates, and verification for the changeset.

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🧹 Nitpick comments: 1

cli/dispatcher/internal/compilecheck/scheduler_optimistic_test.go: 1

539-550: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Replace fixed timing with completion synchronization.

run.jobs = 2 allows R and B to run concurrently. If R is delayed, B can finish first and allow S to start. S can then finish before R reports its failure. The outcome.Blocked assertion still passes, but it does not prove that U waited for an unfinished S.

Add a recorder gate based on finished["R"] and use it to keep S unfinished until R fails. holdUntilBegun observes only begun, so it cannot enforce this completion ordering.

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Update TestCompileUnitsDecidesABlockedUnitQueuedEarlyOnlyOnceItsReferencesFinish
to synchronize completion rather than rely on fixed delays: add a recorder gate
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