Blacksmith's GitHub Actions runners finished the same job 3 to 4 times faster than GitHub hosted Actions, across 10 trials
7.3 relevance
Score Breakdown
technical depth 8
novelty 7
actionability 8
community 4
strategic 6
personal 9
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Benchmark of Blacksmith vs GitHub Actions runners; highly actionable and relevant to CI/CD infrastructure.
Summary
I benchmarked Blacksmith against github-hosted ubuntu-latest with 10 repeated trials each on an identical GitHub Actions job. Blacksmith ran 3.17x to 3.77x faster with noticeably tighter variance, but it wouldn't even queue until I moved the repo into an organization.