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fix(waterfall): bound tick generation at large timestamp offsets - #750

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Fixes #749.

Final evidence audit also reproduced pre-existing invalid geometry when finite inputs overflow their derived end or axis scale. This candidate now reports a typed timing failure before writing an artifact, and formats finite huge labels without overflowing the rounding intermediate.

A finite Waterfall input can hang the renderer when its absolute timestamp is too large for t += tickStep to advance. Replace repeated floating-point addition with a bounded index loop and omit adjacent duplicate rounded ticks. The recorded timing and bar geometry remain authoritative.

Stability impact

  • Local Waterfall tick-generation behavior. Normal zero-offset traces retain their tick positions and labels.
  • Does not change schemas, units, parenting, span order, duration computation, or explicit layout width.
  • Input with start 1e16 and end 1e16 + 2 now terminates and retains a two-unit bar.

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  • Final Waterfall regression suite: 9/9 passed, including start-plus-duration overflow, subnormal scale rejection, finite huge labels, and the original large-offset hang. Full golden/schema checks also pass with unchanged normal example bytes.

  • Base 61425f56; the synthetic base probe times out after 3000 ms.

  • node --test test/waterfall-rendering.test.mjs: final 9/9 passed, including both public examples through the showcase artifact checker, bounded large-offset rendering, numeric range rejection, and actionable public CLI diagnostics. An independent read-only audit repeated 9/9 with no skips on c8d58414.

  • Required final-head CI remains required. Browser/perceptual acceptance is not claimed; this fixes nontermination, and existing showcase geometry checks cover ordinary examples.

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archify.zip rebuilt using official Node 22 with the deterministic ZIP writer. The two bundled Waterfall examples are checked by the focused suite; no authoritative example input changed.

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Reviewed 61425f56..c8d58414 (head c8d58414). Waterfall now uses bounded, index-based tick generation, skips adjacent duplicate rounded ticks, rejects timing that produces non-finite values, and avoids overflow when formatting very large finite values. This targets the large-timestamp hang while preserving ordinary output; compatibility is author-reported, not independently verified. The reviewed changes also include workflow compiler and documentation updates.

The author reports 9/9 Waterfall regression tests and passing golden/schema checks. The base probe reportedly timed out after 3000 ms. These results were not independently verified. CI status at the reviewed head was not supplied. Browser or perceptual acceptance is not established.

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Waterfall rendering now rejects timing whose derived end or axis scale is non-finite. Number formatting avoids overflow for very large values. Tick generation uses an indexed count and skips duplicate timestamps. Tests cover large timestamps, invalid timing, and finite output. Renderer subprocesses now have a 10-second timeout.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium


Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c8d58

Ordinary waterfall rendering remains mergeable, but an exceptionally wide valid layout can still hang. Bound the tick count before relying on the new indexed loop.

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Validation Evidence ⚠️ Warning Validation evidence has a concrete stale claim. The evaluated range is base 70a6dfa1299423a26d98ccf768c5ab29d3fff33e to head c8d58414c7e44cb5323758faec30477973efa513. The head test file contains 9… Run node --test test/waterfall-rendering.test.mjs at head c8d58414c7e44cb5323758faec30477973efa513 and record the observed result with that revision. Replace the stale 7/7 statement with the final observed count, or identify it explic…
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Contribution Scope ✅ Passed The PR meets the contribution-scope requirements. It gives a concrete current-base reproduction (1e16 timestamps that can hang), the intended bounded-rendering outcome, and the linked issue. The cha…

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Validation evidence has a concrete stale claim. The evaluated range is base 70a6dfa1299423a26d98ccf768c5ab29d3fff33e to head c8d58414c7e44cb5323758faec30477973efa513. The head test file contains 9 tests, while the base contained 6. The history shows the large-offset test raised the count to 7, and later commits added the unrepresentable-timing and large-label tests. Therefore the PR body’s node --test test/waterfall-rendering.test.mjs: 7/7 passed result is from an earlier revision, not the evaluated head. The body separately reports a final 9/9 run, but it provides no revision-pinned receipt to support that claim. Source inspection shows good coverage for the changed cases: bounded large-offset ticks and finite bar geometry, derived-end and scale rejection through validate, finite huge labels, normal example artifact checks, and unchanged golden inputs. The archive contains the head waterfall source byte-for-byte, and no authoritative examples changed. No browser or perceptual acceptance is claimed, which is consistent with the delivery contract’s optional perceptual review; the focused artifact checks are automated evidence only. No CI result is available in the supplied context.

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Run node --test test/waterfall-rendering.test.mjs at head c8d58414c7e44cb5323758faec30477973efa513 and record the observed result with that revision. Replace the stale 7/7 statement with the final observed count, or identify it explicitly as an intermediate-run result. Keep the required final-head CI and archive-freshness results associated with the same head.


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🟠 Major · Bound the tick loop. · render-waterfall.mjs:182-189

archify/renderers/waterfall/render-waterfall.mjs:182-189
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Bound the tick loop.

layout.width accepts values near 1e18 and axisWidth uses them without a maximum. With a one-unit wall, tickStep becomes about 1e-16, so tickCount becomes about 1e16. The loop then reaches Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER; index += 1 can stop changing and rendering can hang.

Use a practical tick bound, such as 10,000, and increase the stride when the calculated count is larger.

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 const tickCount = Math.max(0, Math.floor((t1 - firstTick) / tickStep + 1e-9) + 1);
-for (let index = 0; index < tickCount; index += 1) {
+const MAX_TICK_COUNT = 10_000;
+const tickStride = Math.max(1, Math.ceil(tickCount / MAX_TICK_COUNT));
+for (let index = 0; index < tickCount; index += tickStride) {
   const t = firstTick + index * tickStep;
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Bound tick generation in the firstTick/tickCount loop to a practical maximum so
extreme layout widths cannot cause an effectively unending render. Increase the
iteration stride when tickCount exceeds the bound, while preserving the existing
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- Around line 182-189: Bound tick generation in the firstTick/tickCount loop to
a practical maximum so extreme layout widths cannot cause an effectively
unending render. Increase the iteration stride when tickCount exceeds the bound,
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@tt-a1i This PR is ready for review at head b022316. All applicable CI checks pass, GitHub reports no merge conflicts, and there are no unresolved review threads. The review feedback received so far has been addressed. Could you review it when convenient? Thank you.

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@tt-a1i This PR has been synchronized with the latest dev (9ef0961). The refreshed GitHub Actions run is green, generated artifacts were rebuilt where applicable, and there are no unresolved review comments or merge conflicts. Could you please review it when convenient? Thank you.

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Independent review against dev 0c5550a6e5c7c3fc42ab6f2ed2c96d223461dbe3: the original large-timestamp nontermination is fixed; no blocking defect found within this repair's scope.

Official Node 22.23.2: exact head and latest-dev renderer/test integration each pass 10/10 Waterfall tests without skips. The original issue input now needs the required meta.evidence; adding only "measured" while retaining default width and 1e16 → 1e16 + 2 reproduces a 3000 ms timeout with no HTML on current dev. The candidate completes with wall=2, a 760-unit bar and two distinct finite ticks. Both public examples retain identical layout reports and, using the same current-dev Viewer, byte-identical SVG. Normal range probes preserve positions; index calculation also recovers an endpoint previously lost to repeated-addition error.

Two non-blocking boundaries remain separate from this fix:

  • The existing review's extreme layout.width resource-bound concern also occurs on base; this PR fixes the ordinary-width large-offset hang, not every legal-width resource budget. I am not duplicating that existing finding as a new blocker.
  • Browser inspection at 1280×900, Classic/light, motion paused shows the rightmost large absolute tick's unit clipped by the SVG edge (text right≈1247.75, SVG right=1233). A terminating base case 1e16 → 1e16 + 10 already clips the same edge (text right≈1240.76). The unit remains stated in the header, but axis-label padding/formatting deserves a separate visual follow-up. Thus renderer completion is verified; complete large-label visual acceptance is not claimed.

Integration with #756 conflicts in number(): preserve its small-value precision branch and this PR's large-value overflow guard. A temporary three-PR integration (#750/#752/#756) on current dev passes 21/21 Timeline/Waterfall tests without skips. The contributor branch and ZIP have not been updated; eventual integration must rebuild the final package. No approval or merge was performed.

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@tt-a1i 已同步当前 dev、解决发布包合并冲突并从受追踪源码重建 archify.zip;当前合并状态为 CLEAN,烦请复核。

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