diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-full-build.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-full-build.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..677d6bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-full-build.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+# Full KiCad WASM build (all 6 tools) + e2e on an ephemeral Hetzner ccx53.
+# This is the main-branch CI — the ONLY push-triggered Hetzner workflow; the
+# bench (wasm-opt-bench.yml) and feature-branch (ci.yml) workflows are
+# workflow_dispatch-only to keep paid VM spend deliberate. Validated at ~1h15m
+# (run 27280051992, was 4h05m): lifted docker CPU caps, pipelined host-side
+# wasm-opt (KICAD_PIPELINE=1), self-built Binaryen v130. History and
+# measurements in docs/ci-build-slowness-findings.md.
+
+name: CI full build + e2e (Hetzner)
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: ["main"]
+    # docs-only commits must not burn a ~1h15m Hetzner slot
+    paths-ignore: ["docs/**", "**.md"]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      binaryen_version: { description: "Binaryen version for the host asyncify+-O2 step", required: false, default: "130" }
+
+concurrency:
+  group: wasm-opt-bench          # share the one-Hetzner-slot lock with the sweeps
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  create-runner:
+    name: Create Hetzner runner
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      label: ${{ steps.create.outputs.label }}
+      server_id: ${{ steps.create.outputs.server_id }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: Cyclenerd/hcloud-github-runner@v1
+        id: create
+        with:
+          mode: create
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_RUNNER_PAT }}
+          hcloud_token: ${{ secrets.HCLOUD_TOKEN }}
+          server_type: ccx53
+          location: nbg1
+          image: ubuntu-24.04
+
+  validate:
+    name: Build all tools + KiCad e2e
+    needs: create-runner
+    runs-on: ${{ needs.create-runner.outputs.label }}
+    timeout-minutes: 300
+    env:
+      KICAD_LOG_NESTED: "1"
+      BINARYEN_VERSION: ${{ inputs.binaryen_version || '130' }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Install system deps (Docker, git)
+        run: |
+          export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl git libjemalloc2
+          sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
+          curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
+          sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
+          echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] \
+            https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(. /etc/os-release && echo $VERSION_CODENAME) stable" \
+            | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list >/dev/null
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin
+          # toolchain for BINARYEN_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE (get-wasm-opt.sh)
+          sudo apt-get install -y cmake ninja-build g++
+
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with: { submodules: recursive }
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with: { node-version: 20 }
+
+      # Full KiCad WASM build of ALL 6 tools, but the host-side asyncify + -O2 use
+      # Binaryen v130 (BINARYEN_VERSION in env → get-wasm-opt.sh forces that
+      # standalone release). 'all' = pcbnew eeschema calculator pl_editor
+      # symbol_editor gerbview, built in sequence.
+      - name: Build all KiCad tools WASM with Binaryen ${{ env.BINARYEN_VERSION }}
+        run: |
+          # Lift the docker-compose dev-Mac caps (10 CPUs / 32G): run 27226030304
+          # compiled on 10 of 32 cores with -j 32. Pipeline the host-side
+          # asyncify+-O2 with the next tool's container compile (KICAD_PIPELINE=1;
+          # wasm-opt only reaches ~350% CPU, the container is idle meanwhile).
+          # BINARYEN_CORES=16: -O2 is Amdahl-capped ~4 effective cores, and up to
+          # two postprocesses run concurrently next to the compile.
+          export KICAD_DOCKER_CPUS="$(nproc)" KICAD_DOCKER_MEM=110G
+          export KICAD_PIPELINE=1 BINARYEN_CORES=16
+          # Self-built wasm-opt: the official x86_64-linux tarball runs asyncify
+          # 4x slower than a stock gcc -O3+LTO build, identical output
+          # (A/B on this runner, run 27276830256). ~5 min build, instantly repaid.
+          export BINARYEN_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE=1
+          echo "Building ALL tools with BINARYEN_VERSION=${BINARYEN_VERSION}, compile -j $(nproc) on ${KICAD_DOCKER_CPUS} CPUs, pipelined wasm-opt"
+          ./docker/build.sh all --build-deps -j "$(nproc)"
+          echo "wasm-opt used:"; ./scripts/common/get-wasm-opt.sh --version 2>/dev/null || true
+          ls -lh output/*.wasm
+
+      - name: Install test deps
+        working-directory: tests
+        run: npm ci
+
+      - name: Install Playwright browsers
+        working-directory: tests
+        run: npx playwright install --with-deps firefox chromium
+
+      - name: Stage KiCad WASM for tests
+        working-directory: tests
+        run: npm run setup:kicad
+
+      - name: KiCad e2e (npm run test:kicad)
+        working-directory: tests
+        run: npm run test:kicad
+
+      - name: Upload test logs & screenshots
+        if: always()
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: full-build-e2e-${{ github.run_id }}
+          path: |
+            tests/logs/**
+            tests/test-results/**
+            tests/playwright-report/**
+          if-no-files-found: ignore
+
+  delete-runner:
+    name: Delete Hetzner runner
+    needs: [create-runner, validate]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: always()
+    steps:
+      - uses: Cyclenerd/hcloud-github-runner@v1
+        with:
+          mode: delete
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_RUNNER_PAT }}
+          hcloud_token: ${{ secrets.HCLOUD_TOKEN }}
+          name: ${{ needs.create-runner.outputs.label }}
+          server_id: ${{ needs.create-runner.outputs.server_id }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 6209afe..4ed4152 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -1,43 +1,99 @@
-# Cold build of all KiCad WASM apps (with deps) + full e2e suites, on Ubicloud.
+# Ephemeral Hetzner Cloud CI: a fresh ccx53 VM is created per run, the full
+# build + e2e suites run on it, then it is destroyed. No persistent infra.
 #
-# Runs on Ubicloud's managed GitHub Actions runners. Premium runners (AMD Ryzen 9
-# 7950X3D, ~2x faster) are enabled at the ACCOUNT level in the Ubicloud Console
-# (GitHub Runners -> Settings -> Enable Premium Runners); jobs on the
-# `ubicloud-standard-*` labels below are then auto-routed to the premium fleet with
-# no change needed here.
+# Lifecycle (Cyclenerd/hcloud-github-runner): create-runner spins up a Hetzner
+# VM registered as an ephemeral self-hosted runner -> build-and-test runs on it
+# -> delete-runner tears it down (always, even on failure -> no lingering cost).
 #
-# One-time setup required:
-#   The kicad/wxwidgets submodules are private SSH repos in the VV-EE org, which the
-#   default GITHUB_TOKEN cannot read. Add a repo secret `SUBMODULES_TOKEN` (a PAT with
-#   read access to VV-EE/kicad-source-mirror and VV-EE/wxWidgets); actions/checkout
-#   rewrites the SSH submodule URLs to token-authenticated HTTPS.
+# Required repo secrets (emergence-engineering/pcbjam -> Settings -> Secrets):
+#   HCLOUD_TOKEN        Hetzner Cloud API token, Read & Write
+#   HETZNER_RUNNER_PAT  GitHub PAT with Administration: read & write (registers
+#                       and unregisters the self-hosted runner)
+#
+# Submodules: kicad/wxwidgets use SSH URLs (.gitmodules) but point at PUBLIC repos,
+# so actions/checkout rewrites them to HTTPS and the default GITHUB_TOKEN reads them.
 
-name: CI
+name: CI (Hetzner)
 
+# Manual-only (workflow_dispatch): every run costs a paid ephemeral Hetzner VM.
+# Main-branch CI is ci-full-build.yml.
 on:
-  push:
-    branches: [main]
   workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      binaryen_cores:
+        description: "BINARYEN_CORES for the wasm-opt/asyncify step (blank = all cores / nproc). Use to A/B core counts."
+        required: false
+        default: ""
 
 concurrency:
-  group: ci-${{ github.ref }}
+  group: ci-hetzner-${{ github.ref }}
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 jobs:
+  create-runner:
+    name: Create Hetzner runner
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest # or ubicloud-standard-2 if GitHub-hosted is disabled
+    outputs:
+      label: ${{ steps.create.outputs.label }}
+      server_id: ${{ steps.create.outputs.server_id }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Create ephemeral ccx53 runner
+        id: create
+        uses: Cyclenerd/hcloud-github-runner@v1
+        with:
+          mode: create
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_RUNNER_PAT }}
+          hcloud_token: ${{ secrets.HCLOUD_TOKEN }}
+          server_type: ccx53
+          location: nbg1
+          image: ubuntu-24.04
+
   build-and-test:
-    runs-on: ubicloud-standard-16
-    timeout-minutes: 240          # cold --build-deps dominates; + wx build + both suites
+    name: Build & test (Hetzner ccx53)
+    needs: create-runner
+    runs-on: ${{ needs.create-runner.outputs.label }}
+    timeout-minutes: 160 # cold --build-deps dominates; + wx build + both suites
     env:
-      # Stream build-script output straight to the Actions log instead of redirecting
-      # it to logs/<script>/<ts>.log (see scripts/common/logging.sh). Nothing consumes
+      # Stream build-script output straight to the Actions log instead of
+      # redirecting it to logs/<script>/<ts>.log (see scripts/common/logging.sh,
+      # which returns early when KICAD_LOG_NESTED=1). Nothing consumes
       # KICAD_LOG_FILE, so this is safe and gives live, greppable CI output.
       KICAD_LOG_NESTED: "1"
     steps:
+      # Hetzner's ubuntu-24.04 cloud image ships neither Docker nor git (Ubicloud
+      # preinstalled both). Install Docker CE + git before the Docker-based build.
+      - name: Install system deps (Docker, git)
+        run: |
+          export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+          sudo apt-get update
+          # libjemalloc2: scalable allocator preloaded into the host-side wasm-opt
+          # passes (scripts/common/apply-asyncify.sh) to avoid glibc malloc
+          # arena-lock contention, which otherwise burns ~half of wasm-opt's CPU
+          # in futex lock-spin under many threads.
+          # autoconf/automake: build-wxuniversal-wasm.sh regenerates wxWidgets'
+          # ./configure from configure.in on a fresh checkout (git doesn't
+          # preserve mtimes, so configure.in looks newer). make: the host-side
+          # wxWidgets + wasm-test builds drive emconfigure/emmake/make directly.
+          # All of this runs on the bare host (not in Docker), and the Hetzner
+          # ubuntu-24.04 cloud image is minimal, so these must be installed here.
+          sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl git libjemalloc2 autoconf automake make
+          # toolchain for BINARYEN_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE (get-wasm-opt.sh)
+          sudo apt-get install -y cmake ninja-build g++
+          sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
+          curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg \
+            | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
+          sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
+          echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] \
+            https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(. /etc/os-release && echo $VERSION_CODENAME) stable" \
+            | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list >/dev/null
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io \
+            docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin
+
       - name: Checkout (with submodules)
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: recursive
-          token: ${{ secrets.SUBMODULES_TOKEN }}
 
       - name: Show disk space
         run: df -h
@@ -47,13 +103,28 @@ jobs:
         with:
           node-version: 20
 
-      # 1) Cold build every KiCad WASM app + all dependencies (Docker; longest step).
-      #    Output lands in ./output/.
+      # 1) Cold build KiCad WASM app + all dependencies (Docker; longest step).
+      #    ccx53 has 32 vCPU / 128 GB RAM, so use every core: -j $(nproc) for the
+      #    C++ compile and, by default, for the host-side wasm-opt/asyncify
+      #    (apply-asyncify.sh runs on the host and reads BINARYEN_CORES). The
+      #    workflow_dispatch input overrides BINARYEN_CORES so we can A/B core
+      #    counts (e.g. 8 vs 32) without editing the workflow; blank = nproc.
       - name: Build KiCad WASM (all, --build-deps)
-        run: ./docker/build.sh all --build-deps
+        env:
+          BINARYEN_CORES_INPUT: ${{ github.event.inputs.binaryen_cores }}
+        run: |
+          CORES="${BINARYEN_CORES_INPUT:-$(nproc)}"
+          # Lift the docker-compose dev-Mac resource caps (10 CPUs / 32G) so the
+          # container compile actually uses the ccx53's 32 cores / 128 GB.
+          export KICAD_DOCKER_CPUS="$(nproc)" KICAD_DOCKER_MEM=110G
+          # Self-built wasm-opt: official Linux tarball runs asyncify 4x slower
+          # (see get-wasm-opt.sh / run 27276830256). Identical output, sha256-verified.
+          export BINARYEN_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE=1
+          echo "Build parallelism: compile -j $(nproc) on ${KICAD_DOCKER_CPUS} CPUs, BINARYEN_CORES=${CORES}"
+          BINARYEN_CORES="${CORES}" ./docker/build.sh eeschema --build-deps -j "$(nproc)"
 
-      # 2) Host-side wxWidgets build that produces the wxWidgets test apps consumed by
-      #    `npm run test` (NOT produced by docker/build.sh). Auto-installs emsdk.
+      # 2) Host-side wxWidgets build that produces the wxWidgets test apps consumed
+      #    by `npm run test` (NOT produced by docker/build.sh). Auto-installs emsdk.
       - name: Build wxWidgets (wxUniversal WASM)
         run: ./scripts/build-wxuniversal-wasm.sh
 
@@ -96,3 +167,18 @@ jobs:
             tests/playwright-report/**
             logs/**
           if-no-files-found: ignore
+
+  delete-runner:
+    name: Delete Hetzner runner
+    needs: [create-runner, build-and-test]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest # match create-runner's choice
+    if: always() # tear down even if the build fails -> no lingering cost
+    steps:
+      - name: Delete ephemeral runner
+        uses: Cyclenerd/hcloud-github-runner@v1
+        with:
+          mode: delete
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_RUNNER_PAT }}
+          hcloud_token: ${{ secrets.HCLOUD_TOKEN }}
+          name: ${{ needs.create-runner.outputs.label }}
+          server_id: ${{ needs.create-runner.outputs.server_id }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/wasm-opt-bench.yml b/.github/workflows/wasm-opt-bench.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c3795e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/wasm-opt-bench.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+# Dedicated benchmark of the host-side `wasm-opt -O2` pass (the ~80-min CI
+# bottleneck). Same ephemeral Hetzner ccx53 as the main CI, but instead of the
+# full build+e2e it builds the asyncified `-O2` INPUT once, caches it as an
+# artifact, and replays scripts/bench/o2-config-sweep.sh over it under a matrix
+# of allocator/THP/thread configs. Goal: find the env that kills the kernel
+# page-management storm (see docs/ci-build-slowness-findings.md).
+#
+# Manual-only (workflow_dispatch): every run costs a paid ephemeral Hetzner VM,
+# so nothing here triggers on push. Dispatch from the Actions tab (the workflow
+# must exist on the default branch for that).
+#
+# Parameters live in scripts/bench/sweep.conf (committed) or the dispatch
+# inputs below. To reuse a prior run's fixture (skip the ~40-min build), set
+# fixture_run_id to that run's id.
+#
+# Reuses the main CI's secrets: HCLOUD_TOKEN, HETZNER_RUNNER_PAT.
+
+name: wasm-opt bench
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      configs:      { description: "space-separated config presets (override conf)", required: false, default: "" }
+      cores:        { description: "BINARYEN_CORES (override conf)",                  required: false, default: "" }
+      fixture_run_id: { description: "run id to pull the cached fixture from (blank = build it)", required: false, default: "" }
+      diagnostic:   { description: "1 = capture perf/vmstat/irq around first config", required: false, default: "" }
+      cap_seconds:  { description: "windowed-sample seconds per config (0 = run to completion)", required: false, default: "" }
+
+# One Hetzner bench VM at a time. (The main CI uses a different runner; still,
+# don't push the ci-hetzner branches while a bench runs — we only have one slot.)
+concurrency:
+  group: wasm-opt-bench
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  create-runner:
+    name: Create Hetzner runner
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      label: ${{ steps.create.outputs.label }}
+      server_id: ${{ steps.create.outputs.server_id }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Create ephemeral ccx53 runner
+        id: create
+        uses: Cyclenerd/hcloud-github-runner@v1
+        with:
+          mode: create
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_RUNNER_PAT }}
+          hcloud_token: ${{ secrets.HCLOUD_TOKEN }}
+          server_type: ccx53
+          location: nbg1
+          image: ubuntu-24.04
+
+  bench:
+    name: wasm-opt -O2 config sweep (Hetzner ccx53)
+    needs: create-runner
+    runs-on: ${{ needs.create-runner.outputs.label }}
+    timeout-minutes: 210
+    env:
+      KICAD_LOG_NESTED: "1"   # live build logs straight to the Actions console
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout (with submodules)
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
+
+      - name: Resolve sweep parameters
+        id: params
+        # Pass workflow_dispatch inputs via env (never interpolate ${{ }} into a
+        # shell body) so a value can't be parsed as shell. They override the
+        # committed conf when non-empty; the run id is validated numeric before
+        # it reaches download-artifact.
+        env:
+          IN_CONFIGS: ${{ inputs.configs }}
+          IN_CORES: ${{ inputs.cores }}
+          IN_FIXTURE_RUN_ID: ${{ inputs.fixture_run_id }}
+          IN_DIAGNOSTIC: ${{ inputs.diagnostic }}
+          IN_CAP: ${{ inputs.cap_seconds }}
+        run: |
+          set -e
+          CONF="scripts/bench/sweep.conf"
+          [ -f "$CONF" ] && . "$CONF" || true
+          CONFIGS="${IN_CONFIGS:-${CONFIGS_CONF:-baseline}}"
+          CORES="${IN_CORES:-${CORES_CONF:-}}"
+          FIXTURE_RUN_ID="${IN_FIXTURE_RUN_ID:-${FIXTURE_RUN_ID_CONF:-}}"
+          DIAGNOSTIC="${IN_DIAGNOSTIC:-${DIAGNOSTIC_CONF:-0}}"
+          CAP_SECONDS="${IN_CAP:-${CAP_SECONDS_CONF:-0}}"
+          if [ -n "$FIXTURE_RUN_ID" ] && ! printf '%s' "$FIXTURE_RUN_ID" | grep -qE '^[0-9]+$'; then
+            echo "::error::FIXTURE_RUN_ID must be numeric (got '$FIXTURE_RUN_ID')"; exit 1
+          fi
+          BUILD_FIXTURE=true; [ -n "$FIXTURE_RUN_ID" ] && BUILD_FIXTURE=false
+          {
+            echo "CONFIGS=$CONFIGS"
+            echo "CORES=$CORES"
+            echo "FIXTURE_RUN_ID=$FIXTURE_RUN_ID"
+            echo "DIAGNOSTIC=$DIAGNOSTIC"
+            echo "CAP_SECONDS=$CAP_SECONDS"
+            echo "BUILD_FIXTURE=$BUILD_FIXTURE"
+          } >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "build_fixture=$BUILD_FIXTURE" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "::notice::configs='$CONFIGS' cores='${CORES:-nproc}' cap=${CAP_SECONDS}s build_fixture=$BUILD_FIXTURE fixture_run_id='${FIXTURE_RUN_ID:-none}' diagnostic=$DIAGNOSTIC"
+
+      - name: Show machine
+        run: |
+          echo "nproc=$(nproc)"; free -h; df -h /
+          echo "THP: $(cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled)"; uname -a
+
+      # Allocators + measurement tools. mimalloc is the key data point (Binaryen
+      # #5561): prefer the distro package, source-build it if not packaged.
+      - name: Install bench deps (allocators, time, perf, strace)
+        run: |
+          export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y time strace libjemalloc2 cmake g++ git curl ca-certificates \
+            linux-tools-common linux-tools-generic "linux-tools-$(uname -r)" || \
+            sudo apt-get install -y time strace libjemalloc2 cmake g++ git curl ca-certificates linux-tools-common linux-tools-generic
+          sudo apt-get install -y libmimalloc2.0 || sudo apt-get install -y libmimalloc-dev || true
+          if ! ls /usr/lib/$(uname -m)-linux-gnu/libmimalloc.so* >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+            echo "mimalloc not packaged — building from source"
+            git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc /tmp/mimalloc
+            cmake -S /tmp/mimalloc -B /tmp/mimalloc/out -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release >/dev/null
+            cmake --build /tmp/mimalloc/out -j"$(nproc)" >/dev/null
+            sudo cp -av /tmp/mimalloc/out/libmimalloc.so* /usr/lib/$(uname -m)-linux-gnu/
+          fi
+          echo "allocators present:"; ls -l /usr/lib/$(uname -m)-linux-gnu/libjemalloc.so* /usr/lib/$(uname -m)-linux-gnu/libmimalloc.so* 2>/dev/null || true
+
+      # ---- Fixture: build once (asyncify, no -O2) and cache, or download it ----
+      - name: Install Docker (fixture build only)
+        if: steps.params.outputs.build_fixture == 'true'
+        run: |
+          export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+          sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl
+          sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
+          curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
+          sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
+          echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] \
+            https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(. /etc/os-release && echo $VERSION_CODENAME) stable" \
+            | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list >/dev/null
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin
+
+      - name: Build asyncified fixture (ASYNCIFY_ONLY, no -O2)
+        if: steps.params.outputs.build_fixture == 'true'
+        run: |
+          # Stop after the asyncify pass so the artifact is exactly the -O2 INPUT.
+          ASYNCIFY_ONLY=1 BINARYEN_CORES="$(nproc)" ./docker/build.sh eeschema --build-deps -j "$(nproc)"
+          ls -lh output/eeschema.wasm
+          cp output/eeschema.wasm output/eeschema.asyncified.wasm
+
+      - name: Upload fixture artifact
+        if: steps.params.outputs.build_fixture == 'true'
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: o2-fixture
+          path: output/eeschema.asyncified.wasm
+          retention-days: 7
+
+      - name: Download cached fixture
+        if: steps.params.outputs.build_fixture == 'false'
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: o2-fixture
+          path: output
+          run-id: ${{ env.FIXTURE_RUN_ID }}
+          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+      # ---- The sweep ----
+      - name: Run -O2 config sweep
+        run: |
+          FIX="output/eeschema.asyncified.wasm"
+          [ -f "$FIX" ] || FIX="output/eeschema.wasm"
+          ls -lh "$FIX"
+          CONFIGS="${CONFIGS}" CORES="${CORES}" DIAGNOSTIC="${DIAGNOSTIC}" CAP_SECONDS="${CAP_SECONDS}" \
+            ./scripts/bench/o2-config-sweep.sh "$FIX"
+
+      - name: Upload bench results
+        if: always()
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: o2-bench-results-${{ github.run_id }}
+          path: bench/o2-results/**
+          if-no-files-found: warn
+
+  delete-runner:
+    name: Delete Hetzner runner
+    needs: [create-runner, bench]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: always()
+    steps:
+      - name: Delete ephemeral runner
+        uses: Cyclenerd/hcloud-github-runner@v1
+        with:
+          mode: delete
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_RUNNER_PAT }}
+          hcloud_token: ${{ secrets.HCLOUD_TOKEN }}
+          name: ${{ needs.create-runner.outputs.label }}
+          server_id: ${{ needs.create-runner.outputs.server_id }}