optimizing badger cache, won a 10-15% improvement in most benchmarks

cmd/benchmark/run-profile.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Run benchmark with profiling on ORLY only
+
+set -e
+
+# Determine docker-compose command
+if docker compose version &> /dev/null 2>&1; then
+    DOCKER_COMPOSE="docker compose"
+else
+    DOCKER_COMPOSE="docker-compose"
+fi
+
+# Clean up old data and profiles (may need sudo for Docker-created files)
+echo "Cleaning old data and profiles..."
+if [ -d "data/next-orly" ]; then
+    if ! rm -rf data/next-orly/* 2>/dev/null; then
+        echo "Need elevated permissions to clean data directories..."
+        sudo rm -rf data/next-orly/*
+    fi
+fi
+rm -rf profiles/* 2>/dev/null || sudo rm -rf profiles/* 2>/dev/null || true
+mkdir -p data/next-orly profiles
+chmod 777 data/next-orly 2>/dev/null || true
+
+echo "Starting profiled benchmark (ORLY only)..."
+echo "- 50,000 events"
+echo "- 24 workers"
+echo "- 90 second warmup delay"
+echo "- CPU profiling enabled"
+echo "- pprof HTTP on port 6060"
+echo ""
+
+# Run docker compose with profile config
+$DOCKER_COMPOSE -f docker-compose.profile.yml up \
+  --exit-code-from benchmark-runner \
+  --abort-on-container-exit
+
+echo ""
+echo "Benchmark complete. Profiles saved to ./profiles/"
+echo "Results saved to ./reports/"