Fixtures

A fixture is a real project the suite installs and measures. There are seven. Each page below says what the project is, what installing it exercises, and which variations apply to it.

Fixture	Shape	Dependency load	Pages
next	Next.js starter	3 deps + 8 devDeps	the only fixture scheduled for build / build-cache today
astro	Astro starter	1 dep	smallest install
svelte	SvelteKit demo	9 devDeps	dev-dependency-dominated
vue	Vue starter	3 deps + 22 devDeps	heaviest of the framework starters
large	dependency pile, no app	109 deps + 1 devDep	resolution and install throughput
babylon	Babylon.js monorepo	45 devDeps over 86 workspaces	workspace resolution at scale
run	empty package, one script	0 deps + 2 devDeps	process spawn only

Every fixture directory carries its own vlt.json, which points installs at the benchmark registry mirror and makes the fixture its own vlt project root, so an install never resolves the surrounding repository instead.

Six fixtures take the install variations. run takes only the run variation — run-run is the only *-run.json pair anywhere in the archive. next is the only fixture currently scheduled for build and build-cache, but 10 dates between 2026-05-09 and 2026-08-03 ran those for all six install fixtures, so the archive holds astro-build.json and friends. Which pairs actually exist for a given day is discoverable from the data — see ../METHODOLOGY.md.