CI: full validation matrix with sanitizers and native-ARM benchmarking

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+# EdgeVector CI: the full validation matrix on every push/PR.
+#
+# Six jobs: Linux gcc, Linux clang, native arm64 (real ARM silicon - also
+# runs the clustered benchmark so ARM performance numbers are measured, not
+# emulated), Windows MinGW, ASan+UBSan, and TSan on the concurrency suite.
+# Every suite runs in both the assert-enabled and -DNDEBUG configurations.
+name: CI
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+  pull_request:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  linux-gcc:
+    name: Linux x86-64 (gcc)
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    timeout-minutes: 30
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Test (debug)
+        run: make -C tests run
+      - name: Test (release, -DNDEBUG)
+        run: make -C tests run-release
+
+  linux-clang:
+    name: Linux x86-64 (clang)
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    timeout-minutes: 30
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Test (debug)
+        run: make -C tests run CXX=clang++
+      - name: Test (release, -DNDEBUG)
+        run: make -C tests run-release CXX=clang++
+
+  linux-arm64:
+    name: Linux arm64 (native silicon)
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-arm
+    timeout-minutes: 45
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Test (debug)
+        run: make -C tests run
+      - name: Test (release, -DNDEBUG)
+        run: make -C tests run-release
+      - name: Benchmark on real ARM silicon (clustered scenario)
+        run: |
+          make -C tests benchmark_100k
+          cd tests && ./benchmark_100k clustered | tee bench_arm64.md
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: bench-arm64
+          path: tests/bench_arm64.md
+
+  windows-mingw:
+    name: Windows (MinGW-w64)
+    runs-on: windows-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 40
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: msys2 {0}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: msys2/setup-msys2@v2
+        with:
+          msystem: UCRT64
+          update: false
+          install: mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gcc make
+      - name: Test (debug)
+        run: make -C tests run
+      - name: Test (release, -DNDEBUG)
+        run: make -C tests run-release
+
+  asan-ubsan:
+    name: ASan + UBSan
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    timeout-minutes: 40
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Test under AddressSanitizer + UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer
+        run: >
+          make -C tests run
+          CXXFLAGS="-std=c++17 -O1 -g -march=native
+          -fsanitize=address,undefined -fno-sanitize-recover=all
+          -Wall -Wextra -Werror"
+
+  tsan:
+    name: ThreadSanitizer (concurrent build + queries)
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    timeout-minutes: 40
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Lower ASLR entropy (TSan is incompatible with 32-bit mmap_rnd_bits)
+        run: sudo sysctl vm.mmap_rnd_bits=28
+      - name: HNSW suite under ThreadSanitizer
+        run: |
+          cd tests
+          g++ -std=c++17 -O1 -g -march=native -fsanitize=thread \
+              -Wall -Wextra -Werror -I../include \
+              test_hnsw_graph.cpp -o test_hnsw_graph_tsan
+          ./test_hnsw_graph_tsan

README.md

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 # EdgeVector
 
+[![CI](https://github.com/JonathanKash/EdgeVector/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/JonathanKash/EdgeVector/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
+
 A header-only C++17 vector search library for edge devices: **binary
 quantization + HNSW + memory-mapped storage** in three headers, ~2,000 lines,
 zero dependencies — with a two-stage retrieval pipeline that reaches
@@ -34,10 +36,11 @@ zero dependencies — with a two-stage retrieval pipeline that reaches
 - **Learned ITQ rotation** for anisotropic (real-embedding-shaped) data:
   +21 recall points at the same beam width, or the same accuracy at a
   fraction of the compute — while preserving cosine exactly
-- **Validated on Linux (POSIX mmap), Windows (MinGW-w64), and AArch64**
-  (all suites pass under QEMU emulation with native arm64 g++; the Hamming
-  kernel compiles to NEON `cnt`), debug and `-DNDEBUG` release, always under
-  `-O3 -Wall -Wextra -Werror`
+- **CI-validated on every push** across Linux gcc + clang, Windows
+  (MinGW-w64), and **native arm64 silicon** — where the benchmark runs on
+  real ARM hardware: 0.995 float-recall at 166 µs/query (~6,000 QPS,
+  1 thread) — plus ASan/UBSan on all suites and **ThreadSanitizer on the
+  concurrent build**, debug and `-DNDEBUG`, always `-Wall -Wextra -Werror`
 
 ## The accuracy architecture
 
@@ -356,12 +359,13 @@ hostile-file rejection, end-to-end recall gain), concurrent construction
 the full referential-integrity sweep and the recall gate), and the
 zero-allocation proof for all three search modes.
 
-**AArch64:** `tests/arm64.Dockerfile` reproduces the ARM validation — all
-five suites compiled by native arm64 g++ 13 at `-march=armv8-a -Werror` and
-executed under QEMU user-mode emulation, with the Hamming kernel confirmed to
-compile to NEON `cnt` (vector popcount) instructions. Emulated timings are
-meaningless, so ARM *performance* claims wait for real silicon; correctness —
-including bit-identical ITQ training results vs x86-64 — is validated.
+**AArch64:** validated on **real arm64 silicon** in CI on every push (the
+Hamming kernel compiles to NEON `cnt`), with the clustered benchmark run on
+hardware and uploaded as an artifact. Measured there (4-core runner, single-
+thread queries): 0.995 float-exact recall@10 at 166 µs/query, 4-thread build
+of 100k vectors in 9.5 s, slot reclaim 1.8 ms, graph load 0.018 s — and every
+recall figure bit-identical to x86-64. `tests/arm64.Dockerfile` reproduces
+the ARM run locally under QEMU when no ARM hardware is at hand.
 
 ## Status and roadmap
 
@@ -375,13 +379,7 @@ v0.8. Known limitations, in priority order:
    an mmap'ed block means writing and remapping a larger file
 2. **Highly selective filters degrade** toward a scan of the reachable graph
    (true of every filtered-HNSW implementation; documented, not hidden)
-3. **ARM validated for correctness, not yet for performance** — all suites
-   pass on aarch64 under QEMU emulation (including the 4-thread build and
-   query tests) with NEON popcount codegen confirmed, but latency/QPS
-   numbers on real ARM silicon are still pending; QEMU on an x86 host also
-   only partially exercises ARM's weaker memory model (the build's
-   correctness rests on mutex ordering, not x86 TSO, by design)
-4. **Parallel builds are nondeterministic** in link structure (insertion
+3. **Parallel builds are nondeterministic** in link structure (insertion
    order interleaves); use serial `insert()` or `insert_batch(..., 1)` when
    bit-reproducible graphs matter
 

tests/test_hnsw_graph.cpp

@@ -29,9 +29,11 @@
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Global allocation counter. Every path into the C++ free store goes through
 // these replacements, so a zero delta across search() calls is hard evidence
-// of a zero-allocation query path, not a code-reading claim.
+// of a zero-allocation query path, not a code-reading claim. Atomic because
+// worker threads allocate (their contexts) during concurrent-build tests.
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-static std::size_t g_new_calls = 0;
+#include <atomic>
+static std::atomic<std::size_t> g_new_calls{0};
 
 // The malloc/free pairing below is the canonical way to replace the global
 // allocator; GCC 13+'s -Wmismatched-new-delete cannot see that these are the

tests/test_integration.cpp

@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@
 
 // Counting operator new (same shim as test_hnsw_graph.cpp): proves the search
 // path stays allocation-free when reading vectors straight out of the mapping.
-static std::size_t g_new_calls = 0;
+#include <atomic>
+static std::atomic<std::size_t> g_new_calls{0};
 
 // See test_hnsw_graph.cpp: GCC 13+'s -Wmismatched-new-delete misfires on the
 // canonical malloc/free allocator replacement; silenced for the shim only.