perf: document usage-rs parser tradeoffs

[jdx]

Summary

• report one stripped binary size each for usage-rs, clap, and bpaf from the mise-scale shadow benchmark
• remove the argh comparison and the extra vocabulary-limited usage shadows, generator dialects, benchmark binaries, and dependencies
• share the remaining generated UTF-8 error path
• document measured usage-rs, clap, and bpaf compile times, with a brief note that usage-rs users should expect slower compilation

Validation

• cargo test -p xtask
• cargo check -p xtask -p gate
• mise run gen-shadow
• prettier -w docs/rust/index.md docs/rust/performance.md

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Low Risk
Benchmark, docs, and generated error-path cleanup only; no change to successful parse behavior or public CLI.

Overview
Drops argh from the mise-scale parser comparison (shadow crate, gen-shadow dialect, gate binaries, and docs) so the remaining set is usage-rs, clap, and bpaf.

Documents that usage-rs’s parse speed comes with slower debug rebuilds (~10s vs ~4s clap / ~2s bpaf on the mise shadow) and reports stripped binary sizes in perf-shadow. Generated UTF-8 errors now go through a shared invalid_utf8_value helper instead of inlining the same InvalidValue construction per field.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added embedded CLI outcome handling for programmatic integrations.
  • Improved validation for computed default values.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved handling of invalid UTF-8 in external command arguments.
• Documentation
  • Updated performance metrics, binary size comparisons, and integration plans.
• Chores
  • Removed the Argh benchmark and shadow-generation support.
  • Streamlined Go testing, fixture generation, and benchmark reporting.

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Walkthrough

This change adds a generated embedded_outcome API for embedded CLI handling. It also removes argh from shadow generation, workspace and benchmark wiring, Go task generation, performance reporting, and related documentation.

Changes

Embedded outcome handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Embedded outcome entry point derive/src/codegen.rs	Generated CLI code now recognizes spec and completion requests in embedded mode, adds embedded_outcome(argv: &[OsString]), and uses the shared invalid_utf8_value helper for external subcommand UTF-8 failures.
Choice validation rules derive/src/codegen.rs	Choice validation now applies to explicitly supplied values and environment-derived values. Typed computed defaults no longer go through lexical choice checks.

Shadow generation and benchmark cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Argh dialect removal xtask/src/shadow.rs, xtask/src/main.rs	The shadow generator removes Dialect::Argh, deletes argh-specific code generation and reporting paths, keeps shared logic for the remaining dialects, and routes Go dialect generation through explicit cobra, urfave, and kong handling.
Benchmark and task wiring Cargo.toml, benches/gate/Cargo.toml, benches/gate/src/bin/time-sweep.rs, mise.toml, tasks/perf-shadow.sh	Workspace and gate benchmark config remove argh artifacts. Benchmark reporting now covers three parsers. Go tasks generate and validate fixtures in both Go modules, add urfave and kong, remove argh, and the performance script reports stripped sizes for usage, bpaf, and clap.
Documentation alignment docs/rust/index.md, docs/rust/performance.md, docs/spec/integrations.md	The docs update mise-scale counts, add compile-time measurements, switch binary-size reporting to exact byte counts with decimal MB values, clarify framework-specific filtering, and remove the planned argh integration entry.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2bd95

The PR removes the argh comparison, updates benchmark documentation, and consolidates generated UTF-8 error handling without a supplied runtime correctness concern. It is mergeable with owner awareness that the Rust documentation may understate mount’s parse-time dynamic-command support.

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One tunnel learned embedded_outcome.
One old argh trail faded out.
Bench clocks now count just three.
Go shadows hop in cleaner rows.
🐇 tidy code, tidy tracks.

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In `@docs/rust/performance.md`:
- Around line 9-10: Update the remaining hard-coded flag count in the
performance documentation from 711 to 722 so it matches the mise-scale fixture
description, or remove the redundant count.

In `@xtask/src/shadow.rs`:
- Around line 647-649: Update the root-level multicall handling around
run.multicall so UsageArgh records multicall as Skipped instead of silently
omitting it, while preserving declaration emission for supported dialects. Apply
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Record the dropped multicall property.

When multicall is true with UsageArgh, this branch emits no declaration and adds no Skipped entry. The generated CLI loses argv[0]-selected command routing, but the report can state that the whole specification was expressed.

Record multicall as dropped for UsageArgh. Update the equivalent argh path if skipped-vocabulary parity must remain exact. Add a multicall fixture that asserts both the generated output and the skipped report.

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In `@xtask/src/shadow.rs` around lines 647 - 649, Update the root-level multicall
handling around run.multicall so UsageArgh records multicall as Skipped instead
of silently omitting it, while preserving declaration emission for supported
dialects. Apply the same change to the equivalent argh path if needed for
skipped-vocabulary parity, and add a multicall fixture covering both generated
output and the skipped report.

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In `@docs/rust/index.md`:
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document mount parse-time behavior, not only completion discovery.

The current text presents mount only as a completion mechanism. However, corpus/13-mounts.json:1-18 shows parse-time discovery: an unknown command triggers a mount, and the discovered command is parsed successfully. State that mount can discover and parse dynamic commands at runtime, while clarifying that it does not extend the derive-generated typed parse tables or typed result.

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parsing when an unknown command is encountered, not only for completion; clarify
that this runtime behavior does not extend derive-generated typed parse tables
or the typed result.

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Instruction counts

benchmark	trend	instructions	Δ	wall (min)	Δ
markdown	▁▁▃▃█████	305,659,470 → 305,637,128	-0.01%	28.91 → 28.23ms	-2.33%
startup	▁▁██▂█▅▅▄	877,297 → 876,718	-0.07%	0.94 → 1.00ms	+6.70%

No instruction-count regression above 1%.

_{Only instruction counts gate. Wall clock is shown for context — on identical hardware it moves 4-20% run to run.}

_{Measured by tak — instruction-counted CLI benchmarks, stored in this repository's git notes.}

Shadow comparison

Parsing mise use -g node@20 against a shadow of mise's committed spec.
Reported, not gated: the shadow grows as the derive learns to express more, so
what to watch is the ratio rather than either column.

framework	stripped binary, bytes
usage	1319920
bpaf	2493280
clap	3101832

framework	instructions, cold parse	vs usage
usage	8300	—
clap	6315224	760x
bpaf	21909147	2639x

                                              min       p01       p10    median
usage-rs: argv -> struct                      439       445       453       464  ns
clap: build tree + parse -> struct         526810    529465    533117    552883  ns
bpaf: build parser + parse -> struct      1993683   1993683   2804960   3715710  ns

usage: argv -> struct                             930 ns      0.93 µs
clap: build tree + parse -> struct             552994 ns    552.99 µs
clap: parse -> struct, tree reused              24243 ns     24.24 µs
clap: build tree only                          347223 ns    347.22 µs

_{2bd95b2b8846 vs 2a30ed96083c · measured on the runner, not pushed to the history.}