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+//! Standalone encode-loop binary for clean perf-record profiles of the
+//! ENCODER hot path. Reads a raw corpus, then loops a `FrameCompressor`
+//! over a contiguous `&[u8]` source at the given level for N iters. No
+//! criterion, no FFI side — the perf samples land purely in our encoder
+//! (the `compare_ffi` compress bench runs the donor in the same process,
+//! so its flamegraph mixes `ZSTD_*` donor symbols with ours; this binary
+//! does not).
+//!
+//! The output buffer is allocated ONCE and `clear()`-reused every
+//! iteration, so steady-state iters do zero output-buffer allocation —
+//! the flamegraph stays on the encoder hot path instead of per-iter
+//! `Vec` growth + first-touch page faults. A fresh `FrameCompressor` per
+//! iter mirrors a real per-frame encode (there is no compressor-reset
+//! API; the matcher-table init is inherent encode cost, unlike the
+//! pure-noise output realloc).
+//!
+//! Build: cargo build --profile flamegraph -p structured-zstd \
+//!          --example encode_loop_z000033 --features dict_builder
+//! Run:   cargo flamegraph --example encode_loop_z000033 --features dict_builder \
+//!          --profile flamegraph -- <level> <iters> <corpus_path>
+
+use std::env;
+
+use structured_zstd::encoding::{CompressionLevel, FrameCompressor};
+
+fn main() {
+    let args: Vec<String> = env::args().collect();
+    let level: i32 = args.get(1).and_then(|s| s.parse().ok()).unwrap_or(-1);
+    let iters: u32 = args.get(2).and_then(|s| s.parse().ok()).unwrap_or(2000);
+    let corpus_path: Option<&str> = args.get(3).map(|s| s.as_str());
+
+    let src: Vec<u8> = if let Some(path) = corpus_path {
+        std::fs::read(path).expect("read corpus file")
+    } else {
+        // Deterministic 1 MiB LCG synthetic fallback.
+        let n = 1_048_576usize;
+        let mut src = Vec::with_capacity(n);
+        let mut state: u64 = 0x517cc1b727220a95;
+        while src.len() < n {
+            state = state
+                .wrapping_mul(6364136223846793005)
+                .wrapping_add(1442695040888963407);
+            src.push((state >> 56) as u8);
+        }
+        src
+    };
+
+    // Output buffer reused across iterations. Generous capacity
+    // (src + 1/8 + 4 KiB) exceeds any frame's compressed size — even the
+    // incompressible worst case (raw blocks + frame/block headers stays
+    // well under src * 1.125) — so no iteration ever reallocates. We
+    // can't call the crate-internal `compress_bound` from an example, so
+    // this closed-form bound stands in for it.
+    let cap = src.len() + (src.len() >> 3) + 4096;
+    let mut out: Vec<u8> = Vec::with_capacity(cap);
+
+    let mut sink: usize = 0;
+    for _ in 0..iters {
+        // Reuse the buffer: `clear()` resets len to 0 but keeps the
+        // capacity, so the drain writes into already-faulted-in pages.
+        // Drive the low-level `FrameCompressor` directly (the input is
+        // already a contiguous `&[u8]`) instead of `compress_to_vec`,
+        // which takes `impl Read` and re-buffers via `read_to_end` into
+        // a fresh `Vec` every iteration.
+        out.clear();
+        let mut frame_enc = FrameCompressor::new(CompressionLevel::Level(level));
+        frame_enc.set_source_size_hint(src.len() as u64);
+        frame_enc.set_source(src.as_slice());
+        frame_enc.set_drain(&mut out);
+        frame_enc.compress();
+        // Defeat dead-code elimination of the compress call.
+        sink = sink.wrapping_add(out.len());
+        core::hint::black_box(&out);
+    }
+
+    eprintln!(
+        "encoded {} bytes × {} iters at level {}; last-out-sum={}",
+        src.len(),
+        iters,
+        level,
+        sink
+    );
+}