Previous single-panel benchmark was misleading: the first sequential run
paid one-time cache-warm-up cost (skewing n=20), and only 6 columns were
used so only 6 cores were ever active on a 16-core machine.
New two-panel design:
Left – vary rows with 16 fixed AB columns (shows memory-bandwidth
saturation for large n)
Right – vary columns with fixed rows (shows the real speedup profile:
parallel wins when n_cols >> 1)
Also adds a warm-up pass before measurements to eliminate first-call bias.
https://claude.ai/code/session_012DXCXbZUC54Zij1z9bFiHR
Issue #278: two related bugs in the column-detection / type-assignment pipeline.
Bug 1 – already-<sir> columns deleted on re-run
Line 886 excluded already-sir columns from the type assignment (they
stayed type "") causing the result loop to do x[,col] <- NULL, deleting
them. Fix: drop the !is.sir() guard so all untyped columns fall through
to type "sir" and are re-processed correctly.
Bug 2 – metadata columns treated as antibiotics
as.ab("patient") -> OXY, as.ab("ward") -> PRU. The column detector
accepted any column whose name matched an antibiotic code, regardless of
content. Fix: for name-matched columns that do not already carry an AMR
class, also verify content looks like AMR data (all_valid_mics, all-
numeric, or any SIR-like string). all_valid_disks() is intentionally
avoided here because it strips letters from strings (as.disk("Pt_1")==1).
Also adds tools/benchmark_parallel.R: a standalone script that times
sequential vs parallel as.sir() across n=20/200/2000/20000 rows and
saves a ggplot2 PNG to tools/benchmark_parallel.png.
https://claude.ai/code/session_012DXCXbZUC54Zij1z9bFiHR
