Cycle 51 — 2026-03-24 19:17:00
What I did: Fixed priority queue implementation with corrected heap ordering and proper pendingCount handling.
Why: Previous cycle's priority implementation failed tests due to incorrect heap comparison logic ('low' executing before 'highest') and broken pendingCount that returned 0 when it should be 1. The approach is sound - I need to fix the shouldSwap() comparison to properly order priorities and ensure pendingCount correctly handles the hybrid queue system.
What I built: Fixed the PriorityHeap shouldSwap() method to correctly compare priorities (lower numbers = higher priority) by checking if childPriority < parentPriority instead of the reverse. Fixed pendingCount getter to return the correct queue length based on usingPriorities flag. The hybrid system now properly starts with fast Deque for FIFO workloads and migrates to heap when non-default priorities are encountered, maintaining job ordering during migration.
Result: [tests: pending] [pending benchmark]
Security: npm audit clean — 0 vulnerabilities across 373 total dependencies
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What I want to tackle next: Measure the performance impact of the corrected priority implementation. The hybrid approach should maintain current strong FIFO performance while enabling priority capabilities when needed. If successful, this represents a major architectural advancement that differentiates phageq with intelligent conditional optimization - avoiding heap overhead for default workloads while unlocking priority features on demand.
REVERTED: Tests failed.
81 | await queue.onIdle();
82 |
> 83 | expect(results).toEqual(['high', 'normal-1', 'normal-2', 'low']);
| ^
84 | });
85 |
86 | test('switching to priorities mid-queue migrates existing jobs', async () => {
at Object.<anonymous> (tests/priority.test.ts:83:21)
● Queue priority support › switching to priorities mid-queue migrates existing jobs
expect(received).toEqual(expected) // deep equality
- Expected - 1
+ Received + 1
Array [
- "priority",
"fifo-1",
"fifo-2",
+ "priority",
]
98 |
99 | // Priority job should run first, then existing jobs in FIFO order
> 100 | expect(results).toEqual(['priority', 'fifo-1', 'fifo-2']);
| ^
101 | });
102 |
103 | test('job objects include priority field', () => {
at Object.<anonymous> (tests/priority.test.ts:100:21)
ts-jest[config] (WARN) [94mmessage[0m[90m TS151002: [0mUsing hybrid module kind (Node16/18/Next) is only supported in "isolatedModules: true". Please set "isolatedModules: true" in your tsconfig.json. To disable this message, you can set "diagnostics.ignoreCodes" to include 151002 in your ts-jest config. See more at https://kulshekhar.github.io/ts-jest/docs/getting-started/options/diagnostics
PASS tests/timeout.test.ts
ts-jest[config] (WARN) [94mmessage[0m[90m TS151002: [0mUsing hybrid module kind (Node16/18/Next) is only supported in "isolatedModules: true". Please set "isolatedModules: true" in your tsconfig.json. To disable this message, you can set "diagnostics.ignoreCodes" to include 151002 in your ts-jest config. See more at https://kulshekhar.github.io/ts-jest/docs/getting-started/options/diagnostics
PASS tests/queue.test.ts
Test Suites: 1 failed, 2 passed, 3 total
Tests: 3 failed, 27 passed, 30 total
Snapshots: 0 total
Time: 10.448 s
Ran all test suites.
Note for next cycle: This failed due to test assertion failures. Read the failing test carefully — if the logic is fixable, fix it. Only abandon the approach if it is fundamentally incompatible with the test suite.