New PerformanceBaselineTests measure the hot paths (Nostr inbound, BLE
packet pipeline, GCS filters, delivery index, message formatting) with
deterministic fixtures and logged PERF metrics - baselines, not
assertions, so they cannot flake CI.
The suite immediately exposed that every inbound handler ran Schnorr
verification before the dedup lookup, so duplicate events - which
dominate real multi-relay traffic - each paid ~0.5ms of main-actor
crypto for nothing. All five handlers now do cheap rejects (kind, dedup
lookup) first and only record an event as processed AFTER its signature
verifies, so a forged-signature copy can never poison the dedup set and
suppress the genuine event. Gift-wrap verification also moves entirely
off the main actor with an atomic main-actor check-and-record.
Measured: duplicate-event handling 2.2k -> 1.39M events/sec (~640x);
fresh events unchanged (crypto-bound).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
