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  • New Features
    • All-match results now identify incomplete scans with partial status and reasons in text and JSON output.
    • Profiling data now includes file identification, unpacking, and emulation stages.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved PDF decoding distinguishes valid empty streams from corrupted content.
    • Corrected instruction-cache address handling for more reliable emulation.
    • Compression-ratio checks now avoid rejecting small, high-ratio outputs while retaining safeguards for large decompressions.
  • Performance
    • Signature matching and emulation receive targeted optimizations for faster scanning.

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The PR adds signature-engine pruning and caching, centralizes profiling, changes unpack and PDF handling, reports incomplete scans, updates emulator lookups, and adjusts duration casts.

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Signature Engine Updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Anchor statistics and selection
crates/exav-core/src/engine/parse.rs, crates/exav-core/src/engine/mod.rs, crates/exav-core/Cargo.toml
Anchor selection can use whole-database gram popularity statistics.
Candidate walking and scan limits
crates/exav-core/src/engine/logic.rs, crates/exav-core/src/engine/mod.rs
Scans apply group-step limits, hit buffering, ldb gating, and shared candidate walking.
Occurrence caching in verification
crates/exav-core/src/engine/mod.rs
Verification caches literal occurrences and falls back to direct searches when needed.
Engine diagnostics
crates/exav-core/src/engine/mod.rs, crates/exav-core/examples/diag.rs
Diagnostics report anchor hits, gate pruning, hot anchors, and literal descriptions.

Profiling and Unpacking

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared profiling infrastructure
crates/exav-unpack/src/profile.rs, crates/exav-core/src/profile.rs, crates/exav-unpack/src/lib.rs, crates/exav-unpack/src/formats/pepack.rs, crates/exav-core/src/lib.rs
Profiling is implemented in exav-unpack and re-exported by exav-core. File-type, unpack, and emulator stages record timing data.
Unpack limits and PDF outcomes
crates/exav-unpack/src/lib.rs, crates/exav-unpack/src/formats/pdf.rs, crates/exav-unpack/src/formats/pepack.rs
Compression-ratio checks use a 4 MiB floor. PDF decoding distinguishes valid empty output from decode errors.

Scan Results and Metrics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scan status and hash boundaries
crates/exav-core/src/lib.rs, crates/exav/src/main.rs, crates/exav/tests/json_output.rs
All-match scans report incomplete results. Whole-file hash matching requires at least six bytes.
Profiling metric output
crates/exav/src/metrics.rs, crates/exav/src/perf.rs
Profile output includes unpack, emu, and filetype matcher stages.

Emulator and Compatibility Updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Emulator lookup and execution updates
crates/exav-pe-emu/Cargo.toml, crates/exav-pe-emu/src/*
The emulator uses FxHashMap, indexes the decode cache by the full address, and reorders equivalent checks.
Duration field cast updates
crates/exav/src/daemon.rs
nap and set_timer use inferred duration-field casts.

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The PR is mergeable with owner awareness, but small fixes would prevent avoidable emulator memory growth, slower infected scans, inaccurate profiling, and incorrect API documentation.

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🟡 Minor · Profile the non-streamable archive walk. · lib.rs:1839-1843

crates/exav-core/src/lib.rs:1839-1843
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Profile the non-streamable archive walk.

scan_container_stream calls this Archive::extract_next loop directly when the format is not streamable. No outer profile::timed("unpack", ...) scope includes it. Wrap the loop in one profile::timed("unpack", container_size, ...) call. This records one inclusive unpack duration, one call, and container_size bytes without adding per-member calls or duplicate timers.

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In `@crates/exav-core/src/lib.rs` around lines 1839 - 1843, Wrap the
non-streamable archive extraction loop containing Archive::extract_next in a
single profile::timed("unpack", container_size, ...) scope. Ensure the closure
includes the entire loop and preserves its existing break and report_for_hit
behavior, without adding per-member timers or overlapping duplicate unpack
profiling.

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In `@crates/exav-core/src/engine/mod.rs`:
- Around line 1850-1855: Move the sharding and max_build_mem documentation block
currently preceding for_each_candidate_literal so it immediately precedes pub fn
build_with_budget. Keep for_each_candidate_literal documented only by its
candidate-anchor description, and preserve the existing build_with_budget
documentation text unchanged.
- Around line 2894-2896: Update the fallback condition after the sweep handling
in the relevant scan method to return None when self.ldbs.is_empty() as well as
when the buffer exceeds u32::MAX. Preserve the existing LDB behavior, including
scans below GATE_MIN_HITS, without adding another full automaton sweep.

In `@crates/exav-pe-emu/src/win.rs`:
- Line 726: Update the TLS management around the tls map, TlsAlloc, TlsSetValue,
and TlsFree to track indices returned by TlsAlloc, reject unallocated or
out-of-range indices, and enforce the emulator’s supported TLS entry limit
before insertion. Remove each index from the allocation tracking and tls map
when TlsFree succeeds; do not rely on changing the map hasher alone.

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In `@crates/exav-core/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 1839-1843: Wrap the non-streamable archive extraction loop
containing Archive::extract_next in a single profile::timed("unpack",
container_size, ...) scope. Ensure the closure includes the entire loop and
preserves its existing break and report_for_hit behavior, without adding
per-member timers or overlapping duplicate unpack profiling.

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  • crates/exav-unpack/src/formats/pdf.rs
  • crates/exav-unpack/src/formats/pepack.rs
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  • crates/exav/src/main.rs
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Comment on lines +1850 to +1855
/// Every candidate anchor literal in the database, handed to `f` once per
/// body that contains it. Bodies whose `elems` were dropped (a pure literal
/// whose anchor IS the whole pattern) still contribute: their literal is in
/// `anchor_buf`, and they are a large share of the set, so leaving them out
/// would understate how common the commonest literals are.
fn for_each_candidate_literal(

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Move the build_with_budget doc comment back onto its function.

for_each_candidate_literal was inserted between the build_with_budget doc comment (lines 1838-1849) and the function it documents. Rust attaches contiguous /// lines to the next item, so the sharding/max_build_mem documentation now describes for_each_candidate_literal, and build_with_budget at line 1938 has no doc comment. The generated docs and any editor hover are wrong.

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-    /// As [`EngineBuilder::build`], but bounds the per-shard automaton-build
-    /// transient to roughly `max_build_mem` bytes by sharding each large
-    /// `(target, case)` partition into multiple automatons. `None` builds one
-    /// automaton per partition (fastest, largest transient). Only the build-time
-    /// peak is affected — scan results are identical.
-    ///
-    /// Anchors are partitioned by `(target, case)`: a scan then runs only the
-    /// partitions whose `target` matches the file type (a PE file never
-    /// traverses the ELF/HTML/text automatons), so the per-body target check is
-    /// implied by which partition a body lives in. Within a partition, identical
-    /// anchors de-duplicate into one automaton pattern that fans out to every
-    /// body sharing it.
     /// Every candidate anchor literal in the database, handed to `f` once per

Then put the removed block immediately above pub fn build_with_budget at line 1938.

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In `@crates/exav-core/src/engine/mod.rs` around lines 1850 - 1855, Move the
sharding and max_build_mem documentation block currently preceding
for_each_candidate_literal so it immediately precedes pub fn build_with_budget.
Keep for_each_candidate_literal documented only by its candidate-anchor
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Comment thread crates/exav-core/src/engine/mod.rs Outdated
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match self.sweep_hits(ft, buf, lower) {
Some(sweep) => {
let alive = self.ldb_alive(&sweep);

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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printf '%s\n' '--- active and constants ---'
sed -n '430,490p' crates/exav-core/src/engine/mod.rs
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Keep the direct path for pure-NDB first-match scans. A successful sweep_hits call completes every active automaton before walk_candidates verifies a hit. scan_with_icons can stop on the first verified Owner::Ndb, but that stop cannot interrupt the completed sweep.

The current fallback only handles oversized buffers and hit-cap overflow. Add the pure-NDB case to that fallback:

Suggested change
-            if buf.len() > u32::MAX as usize {
+            if self.ldbs.is_empty() || buf.len() > u32::MAX as usize {
                 return None;
             }

This restores the previous early exit for pure-NDB scans. It does not cover LDB scans below GATE_MIN_HITS, where ldb_alive also returns None; avoid extending the condition in a way that requires a second full automaton sweep.

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In `@crates/exav-core/src/engine/mod.rs` around lines 2894 - 2896, Update the
fallback condition after the sweep handling in the relevant scan method to
return None when self.ldbs.is_empty() as well as when the buffer exceeds
u32::MAX. Preserve the existing LDB behavior, including scans below
GATE_MIN_HITS, without adding another full automaton sweep.

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squashed and merged in #7

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