Fix FastAPI benchmark: match baseline routing to fastapi-startkit#11
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The fastapi_startkit config pinned language.version: 3.13 while every other Python framework (fastapi, django, flask, ...) uses the repo-wide default of 3.14. That runtime mismatch made head-to-head comparisons unfair: benchmarking against fastapi was really comparing Python 3.13 vs 3.14 (and older Starlette), not the framework itself. Removing the override lets fastapi_startkit inherit the shared 3.14 default, so it runs on the same interpreter as fastapi and the rest. QA evidence: - Correctness: real .spec/route_spec.rb rspec suite -> 6/6 pass on 3.14. - Builds cleanly on python:3.14-slim (fastapi-startkit 0.46.0 from PyPI). - Matched-Python (both 3.14) throughput delta vs fastapi collapses to +/-noise around zero, confirming the wrapper adds no meaningful overhead; the earlier apparent advantage was solely the 3.13-vs-3.14 skew. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
fastapi already inherited the repo-wide 3.14 default, but declaring it explicitly makes the fastapi vs fastapi_startkit comparison unambiguous: both configs now state Python 3.14, so any benchmark delta reflects the frameworks, not the runtime. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pin the exact known-good release so rebuilds resolve a reproducible dependency instead of drifting within the 0.46.x range.
Stop local Claude Code config (.claude/, .mcp.json) from cluttering git status. Also ignore the per-run cid-<engine>.txt / ip-<engine>.txt files the docker harness generates (the existing rules only covered the older cid.txt / ip.txt names).
Pin fastapi_startkit benchmark to fastapi-startkit==0.46.0
…files Ignore Claude Code config and per-run container id/ip files
Align fastapi_startkit to Python 3.14 (match other Python frameworks)
The previous range resolved fastapi-startkit to 0.46.x -> FastAPI 0.124.4, while the fastapi baseline entry runs FastAPI 0.139. Pin to 0.47.0 so both Python entries benchmark on the same FastAPI/Starlette (0.139.0 / 1.3.1), making the comparison apples-to-apples. Idiomatic include_router registration is kept unchanged. route_spec.rb passes 6/6 on the 0.139 Docker build.
Keep the benchmark's reported version label in sync with the 0.47.0 pin.
…-0470 fastapi_startkit: pin to 0.47.0 (FastAPI 0.139) to match baseline
README: fastapi vs fastapi-startkit comparison
The raw-FastAPI baseline registered routes with direct @app.get/@app.post decorators while the fastapi-startkit app registers the same routes via APIRouter + include_router. That mismatch meant the benchmark was measuring include_router's per-request routing cost, not framework overhead. Register the baseline's routes on an APIRouter mounted with app.include_router(router) so both sides use the identical routing mechanism, isolating the comparison to actual framework overhead.
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Post-merge review note (agent code-reviewer, task the-benchmarker#1036):
This PR was already merged (merge commit f75a843, merged_at 2026-07-15T19:27:04Z by @tmgbedu) before this review could be submitted — 0 reviews and 0 CI checks (statusCheckRollup) recorded prior to merge, despite .github/workflows/ci.yml being configured to run on pull_request.
Technical assessment performed post-hoc against the merged content on fastapi-starkit:
- python/fastapi/server.py: routes now registered on
APIRouter()and mounted viaapp.include_router(router). All 3 routes (GET /,GET /user/{id},POST /user) preserved with identical handlers/behavior. Correct and matches the stated goal (match fastapi_startkit's include_router usage). - Diff scope: the PR's file list (vs its stale merge-base) also touched .gitignore, python/fastapi/config.yaml, python/fastapi_startkit/config.yaml, python/fastapi_startkit/pyproject.toml — but diffing PR head against the branch tip at merge time shows these were already identical (applied via earlier merged PRs #4/#9/etc.), so the actual merged delta was server.py only. No unrelated/corrupted content (no README changes).
- Base branch: confirmed
fastapi-starkitis this fork's actual default branch (fastapi-startkit/web-frameworks), not upstream the-benchmarker/web-frameworks. isCrossRepository=false. - Benchmark numbers in the PR description (avg delta -8.9% -> +1.1%) are self-reported/manual (no CI benchmark job ran); methodology is documented but unverified by automation.
No functional objections to the code change itself. Flagging the merge-without-review/CI as a process gap for the team, not a defect in the diff.
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Problem
The raw-FastAPI baseline (
python/fastapi/server.py) registered routes withdirect
@app.get/@app.postdecorators, while thefastapi-startkitappregisters the same three routes via
APIRouter+app.include_router(...).On FastAPI 0.139,
include_routerkeeps a nested_IncludedRouternode onapp.router.routes, adding a per-request resolution layer that flatadd_api_routeregistration doesn't pay. So the benchmark was measuringinclude_router's routing cost, notfastapi-startkit's framework overhead.Fix
Register the baseline's three routes on an
APIRouter, mounted viaapp.include_router(router)— the only remaining difference between the twoapps is now the framework itself.
Route behavior is unchanged and verified:
GET /→200, empty bodyGET /user/123→200, body123POST /user→200, empty bodyBenchmark: before vs after
Method: Docker
python:3.14-slim, uvicorn--workers=$(nproc)(11 workers),oha1.14 with keepalive +--latency-correction, 8s duration × 4 reps,concurrency 64 and 256 — run twice per cell (once target-sequential, once
target-interleaved per rep, to average out host-load drift), 8 reps/cell
total. Matched stack both sides: FastAPI 0.139.0 / Starlette 1.3.1
(fastapi-startkit pinned to 0.47.0).
Relative delta (fastapi-startkit vs fastapi baseline; negative = startkit slower):
GET /GET /user/0POST /userAverage delta across all 6 cells: −8.9% before → +1.1% after. The
framework-level overhead collapses to noise once both sides register routes
identically — confirming the prior gap was routing-mechanism cost
(
include_router), notfastapi-startkitoverhead.Caveat: same-host macOS/OrbStack comparison, not official/authoritative
numbers (those require the Linux
run.shharness); host was under mixedbackground load during measurement, hence the double run per cell.