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+"""Benchmarks for the listener duplicate-packet suppression hot path.
+
+These pin the cost of ``AsyncListener._process_datagram_at_time`` under
+three packet-stream shapes that exercise the dedup branch differently:
+
+- ``test_dedup_hit_same_payload`` — N copies of one payload (steady-state
+  dedup hit).
+- ``test_alternating_payloads`` — A, B, A, B, ... The single-slot
+  remembered-last-packet dedup misses on every packet because each one
+  differs from its immediate predecessor; a bounded recency window
+  dedups after the second packet. This is the flood shape from
+  issue #1724.
+- ``test_unique_payloads`` — N distinct payloads (no dedup hit possible
+  on either implementation). Measures the store/evict overhead on the
+  miss path.
+
+Downstream work is held constant across implementations by overriding
+``handle_query_or_defer`` on a subclass with a no-op, so the only
+remaining variable is the dedup decision itself.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import pytest
+from pytest_codspeed import BenchmarkFixture
+
+from zeroconf import DNSOutgoing, DNSQuestion, const
+from zeroconf._listener import AsyncListener
+from zeroconf._utils.time import current_time_millis
+from zeroconf.asyncio import AsyncZeroconf
+
+
+class _InertListener(AsyncListener):
+    """AsyncListener that skips response generation.
+
+    The dedup branch is the only piece that diverges between the
+    single-slot and bounded-window implementations. Stubbing query
+    handling keeps the per-packet cost outside the dedup branch
+    constant so the benchmark isolates the change under test.
+    """
+
+    def handle_query_or_defer(self, *args: object, **kwargs: object) -> None:  # type: ignore[override]
+        return None
+
+
+def _make_query_packet(name: str) -> bytes:
+    out = DNSOutgoing(const._FLAGS_QR_QUERY, multicast=True)
+    out.add_question(DNSQuestion(name, const._TYPE_PTR, const._CLASS_IN))
+    return out.packets()[0]
+
+
+_ITERATIONS = 200
+_ADDRS: tuple[str, int] = ("192.0.2.1", 5353)
+
+
+def _build_listener(aiozc: AsyncZeroconf) -> _InertListener:
+    zc = aiozc.zeroconf
+    # A non-empty registry keeps the realistic code path live (the early
+    # ``has_entries`` exit would otherwise bypass the per-packet work we
+    # want to measure). Toggling the flag directly avoids the event-loop
+    # round-trip that ``async_register_service`` would impose.
+    zc.registry.has_entries = True
+    listener = _InertListener(zc)
+    listener.transport = object()  # type: ignore[assignment]
+    return listener
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_dedup_hit_same_payload(benchmark: BenchmarkFixture) -> None:
+    """Steady-state dedup hit: same payload repeated."""
+    aiozc = AsyncZeroconf(interfaces=["127.0.0.1"])
+    await aiozc.zeroconf.async_wait_for_start()
+    listener = _build_listener(aiozc)
+    packet = _make_query_packet("a._http._tcp.local.")
+    data_len = len(packet)
+    # Prime the dedup state so the first iteration is already a hit.
+    listener._process_datagram_at_time(False, data_len, current_time_millis(), packet, _ADDRS)
+
+    @benchmark
+    def _run() -> None:
+        # Single fresh timestamp keeps every call inside the
+        # suppression interval so each one is a dedup hit.
+        t = current_time_millis()
+        for _ in range(_ITERATIONS):
+            listener._process_datagram_at_time(False, data_len, t, packet, _ADDRS)
+
+    await aiozc.async_close()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_alternating_payloads(benchmark: BenchmarkFixture) -> None:
+    """Flood shape from issue #1724: A, B, A, B, ..."""
+    aiozc = AsyncZeroconf(interfaces=["127.0.0.1"])
+    await aiozc.zeroconf.async_wait_for_start()
+    listener = _build_listener(aiozc)
+    packet_a = _make_query_packet("a._http._tcp.local.")
+    packet_b = _make_query_packet("b._http._tcp.local.")
+    len_a = len(packet_a)
+    len_b = len(packet_b)
+
+    @benchmark
+    def _run() -> None:
+        t = current_time_millis()
+        for i in range(_ITERATIONS):
+            if i & 1:
+                listener._process_datagram_at_time(False, len_b, t, packet_b, _ADDRS)
+            else:
+                listener._process_datagram_at_time(False, len_a, t, packet_a, _ADDRS)
+
+    await aiozc.async_close()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_unique_payloads(benchmark: BenchmarkFixture) -> None:
+    """Stream of distinct payloads — no dedup hit on either implementation."""
+    aiozc = AsyncZeroconf(interfaces=["127.0.0.1"])
+    await aiozc.zeroconf.async_wait_for_start()
+    listener = _build_listener(aiozc)
+    packets = [_make_query_packet(f"x{i}._http._tcp.local.") for i in range(_ITERATIONS)]
+    lengths = [len(p) for p in packets]
+
+    @benchmark
+    def _run() -> None:
+        t = current_time_millis()
+        for packet, data_len in zip(packets, lengths, strict=True):
+            listener._process_datagram_at_time(False, data_len, t, packet, _ADDRS)
+
+    await aiozc.async_close()