From c43fb6103bcc573eda0e57f8ce83304ae46ef5f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zanie Blue <contact@zanie.dev>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 09:49:07 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Speedup walltime benchmarks by splitting build and run jobs
 (#17393)

Copies astral-sh/ruff#22126

We can use a larger _and_ less expensive runner for the build step.

Total runtime went from 18m -> 15m and most of that time is no longer on
the benchmark runner.

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .github/workflows/bench.yml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/bench.yml b/.github/workflows/bench.yml
index 43066223b..998fccf0f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/bench.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/bench.yml
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ env:
   RUSTUP_MAX_RETRIES: 10
 
 jobs:
-  benchmarks-walltime:
-    name: "walltime on aarch64 linux"
-    runs-on: codspeed-macro
+  benchmarks-walltime-build:
+    name: "walltime build"
+    runs-on: depot-ubuntu-22.04-arm-4
     if: ${{ github.repository == 'astral-sh/uv' }}
-    timeout-minutes: 60
+    timeout-minutes: 20
     steps:
       - name: "Checkout Branch"
         uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v6.0.1
@@ -40,7 +40,44 @@ jobs:
           cargo run --bin uv -- pip compile test/requirements/airflow.in --universal --exclude-newer 2024-08-08 --cache-dir .cache
 
       - name: "Build benchmarks"
-        run: cargo codspeed build --profile profiling -p uv-bench
+        run: cargo codspeed build -m walltime --profile profiling -p uv-bench
+
+      - name: "Create artifact archive"
+        run: tar -cvf benchmarks-walltime.tar target/codspeed target/debug/uv .cache
+
+      - name: "Upload benchmark artifacts"
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@ea165f8d65b6e75b540449e92b4886f43607fa02 # v4.6.2
+        with:
+          name: benchmarks-walltime
+          path: benchmarks-walltime.tar
+          retention-days: 1
+
+  benchmarks-walltime-run:
+    name: "walltime on aarch64 linux"
+    runs-on: codspeed-macro
+    needs: benchmarks-walltime-build
+    timeout-minutes: 20
+    steps:
+      - name: "Checkout Branch"
+        uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v6.0.1
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: "Install codspeed"
+        uses: taiki-e/install-action@d850aa816998e5cf15f67a78c7b933f2a5033f8a # v2.63.3
+        with:
+          tool: cargo-codspeed
+
+      - name: "Download benchmark artifacts"
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@fa0a91b85d4f404e444e00e005971372dc801d16 # v4.1.8
+        with:
+          name: benchmarks-walltime
+
+      - name: "Extract artifact archive"
+        run: tar -xvf benchmarks-walltime.tar
+
+      - name: "Create venv"
+        run: ./target/debug/uv venv --cache-dir .cache
 
       - name: "Run benchmarks"
         uses: CodSpeedHQ/action@346a2d8a8d9d38909abd0bc3d23f773110f076ad # v4.4.1