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make gate takes a while even in parallel: splitting it across fork Actions jobs (corpus in TEST_SHARD slices, one job per rubyspec-gate suite, props, bench, optcarrot) gets it down to about 11-14 minutes, except for one leg. rubyspec-gate's language suite has no way to split: it runs every expected-PASS example (1,025 today) in one job, and stays the longest leg even with 4 workers.

RUBYSPEC_SHARD=k/n keeps only every n-th expected-PASS example per suite (0-indexed offset k-1), so a CI fork can run language (or any suite) as two or more parallel jobs instead of one. Each shard still runs the gate's own checks per suite ("every listed example ran", "no regression"); running every k from 1 to n covers the full expected-PASS list exactly once, so the shards' combined result is the same gate the unsharded target runs. Without the variable, make rubyspec-gate is unchanged.

Verified locally on core/range (200 expected-PASS examples): a 1/2+2/2 split and a 1/3+2/3+3/3 split each reproduce the full example set with no overlap and no gaps, every shard passes with 0 regressions, and a run without RUBYSPEC_SHARD is byte-for-byte identical to the one before this change. The same partition math checked against language's actual expectations file (1,025 -> 513 + 512, union equal to the full list).

Related: matz#6762 proposes widening what the gate covers; the bigger the gate gets, the more useful being able to split a suite becomes. No overlap: that issue is about which examples the gate defends, not about splitting execution of an already-enrolled suite.

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    • Added optional sharding for expected-pass examples, allowing runs to select a subset of examples while retaining existing count and regression checks. Without sharding, the full list runs as before.

make gate's slowest leg is rubyspec-gate's language suite, which runs
every expected-PASS example in one pass with no way to split it
across CI jobs. RUBYSPEC_SHARD=k/n keeps only every n-th expected-PASS
example per suite (0-indexed offset k-1), so a fork running the gate's
legs as parallel jobs can split language's 1,025 examples into two (or
more) jobs instead of one. Each shard still runs its own "every listed
example ran" and "no regression" check; running k=1..n covers the full
expected-PASS list exactly once, so the shards' combined result is the
same gate the unsharded target runs. Without the variable, the target
is unchanged.

Verified locally on core/range: a 1/2+2/2 and a 1/3+2/3+3/3 split each
reproduce the full 200-example expected-PASS set with no overlap and
no gaps, every shard passes with 0 regressions, and an unsharded run
is byte-for-byte identical to the one before this change. The same
partitioning math checked against language's actual expectations file
(1,025 examples -> 513 + 512, union equal to the unsharded list).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The RubySpec gate supports optional RUBYSPEC_SHARD=k/n selection. It filters each suite’s expected-PASS examples by index before running the existing gate and checks. When the variable is unset, the full expected-PASS list runs.

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RubySpec gate sharding

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Document and apply shard selection
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The Makefile documents RUBYSPEC_SHARD=k/n and selects expected-PASS examples whose zero-based index modulo n equals k-1. The existing gate run and checks then run on the selected list.

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- Line 3279: Validate RUBYSPEC_SHARD in the rubyspec-gate recipe before
extracting k and n or filtering with awk: require the k/n format, positive
integers, and k ≤ n. On invalid input, report an error and prevent the gate from
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Fixed in 5738b3b: validates RUBYSPEC_SHARD is k/n with positive integers and k <= n before using it, erroring instead of silently producing an empty (vacuously-passing) shard. Reproduced the failure first: RUBYSPEC_SHARD=0/2 and =5/2 each gave an empty shard with no error under the unguarded version; now both fail loudly. Re-verified the shard partitioning itself is unaffected (core/range full/2-way/3-way splits still match, unsharded run still byte-identical).

An out-of-range RUBYSPEC_SHARD (k=0, k>n, or n=0) made the awk filter
match no line, and a non-numeric one crashed awk outright -- in both
cases the recipe kept going with an empty expected-PASS list, and the
gate's own "ran == want, no non-PASS" check passed vacuously: "all 0
expected-PASS examples still pass" reads as a real pass.

Reject the variable up front unless it is k/n with k and n both
positive integers and k <= n, before it ever reaches the awk filter.

Found by CodeRabbit on the fork PR; verified the vacuous-pass failure
mode by hand before fixing it (RUBYSPEC_SHARD=0/2 and =5/2 each gave
an empty shard with no error from the unguarded version).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Gate: green tree 196d316 master 9c7ea3c (linux-x86_64 gcc-13.3.0) tests 6421/0
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Opened upstream: matz#8012

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