{
  "_philosophy": [
    "Floor throughputs for the PERF[...] lines printed by PerformanceBaselineTests.",
    "Floors catch algorithmic regressions (O(n) -> O(n^2), accidental sync I/O,",
    "quadratic re-scans), NOT tuning noise: each floor is deliberately set at",
    "~25% of the throughput measured on a local dev machine (2026-06, Apple",
    "Silicon), leaving ~4x headroom for CI runner variance so the gate never",
    "flakes on a slow runner while still failing loudly on order-of-magnitude",
    "regressions.",
    "Raise floors deliberately after intentional performance improvements;",
    "lower them only with a written justification in the PR. If a benchmark is",
    "renamed or removed, update this file in the same change - the gate fails",
    "when a floored benchmark stops reporting.",
    "Checked by scripts/check-perf-floors.sh against captured swift-test output."
  ],
  "_units": "operations per second, matching each benchmark's PERF line",
  "_reference_local_numbers_2026_06": {
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    "nostrInbound.duplicate": 2558907,
    "bleInbound.roundTripAndDedup": 38063,
    "gcs.buildAndDecode": 776,
    "delivery.incrementalUpdate": 172615,
    "delivery.storeUpdate": 158862,
    "formatting.formatMessage": 12261,
    "pipeline.privateIngest": 24848,
    "pipeline.publicIngest": 13102,
    "store.append": 213201,
    "store.audit": 362
  },
  "floors": {
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    "nostrInbound.duplicate": 600000,
    "bleInbound.roundTripAndDedup": 9500,
    "gcs.buildAndDecode": 190,
    "delivery.incrementalUpdate": 43000,
    "delivery.storeUpdate": 39000,
    "formatting.formatMessage": 3000,
    "pipeline.privateIngest": 6000,
    "pipeline.publicIngest": 3200,
    "store.append": 53000,
    "store.audit": 90
  }
}