module SimpleCov::ResultMerger

def merge_results(*file_paths, ignore_timeout: false)
  # It is intentional here that files are only read in and parsed one at a time.
  #
  # In big CI setups you might deal with 100s of CI jobs and each one producing Megabytes
  # of data. Reading them all in easily produces Gigabytes of memory consumption which
  # we want to avoid.
  #
  # For similar reasons a SimpleCov::Result is only created in the end as that'd create
  # even more data especially when it also reads in all source files.
  initial_memo = valid_results(file_paths.shift, ignore_timeout: ignore_timeout)
  command_names, coverage = file_paths.reduce(initial_memo) do |memo, file_path|
    merge_coverage(memo, valid_results(file_path, ignore_timeout: ignore_timeout))
  end
  create_result(command_names, coverage)
end