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From: "codeflash-ai[bot]"
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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2026 07:19:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Optimize _find_type_node
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The optimized code achieves a **17% runtime improvement** by eliminating repeated dictionary creation overhead in a recursive function.

**Key Optimization:**
The critical change is moving the `type_declarations` dictionary from inside the function to module-level as `_TYPE_DECLARATIONS`. In the original code, this dictionary was recreated on every function call, including all recursive calls. The line profiler shows this dictionary construction consumed ~27% of the function's time (lines allocating "class_declaration", "interface_declaration", and "enum_declaration").

**Why This Improves Performance:**
- **Eliminates allocation overhead**: Dictionary creation, even for small dicts, involves memory allocation and hashing operations on each call
- **Critical in recursive contexts**: Since `_find_type_node` recursively traverses a tree structure, the dictionary was being recreated multiple times per search operation (25 hits in the profiler)
- **Constant lookup cost**: Module-level constants are created once at import time and accessed via faster LOAD_GLOBAL bytecode operations

**Test Results Analysis:**
The optimization shows consistent gains across all test cases:
- **Deep nesting scenarios** (19% faster): Maximum benefit when recursion depth is high, as dictionary recreation is avoided on each level
- **Multiple type scenarios** (18-22% faster): When traversing multiple sibling nodes, the savings compound
- **Early termination cases** (20% faster): Even when a match is found quickly, avoiding the dictionary creation overhead provides measurable gains

The profiler confirms the improvement: total function time decreased from 140.23μs to 115.17μs, with the dictionary construction lines completely eliminated from the optimized version.

This optimization is particularly valuable when parsing large Java ASTs with deep nesting or when this function is called frequently in a hot path, as the per-call overhead reduction scales with usage frequency.
---
 codeflash/languages/java/context.py | 17 +++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/codeflash/languages/java/context.py b/codeflash/languages/java/context.py
index 2ccfd34bf..559d4c811 100644
--- a/codeflash/languages/java/context.py
+++ b/codeflash/languages/java/context.py
@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from tree_sitter import Node
 
+_TYPE_DECLARATIONS = {
+    "class_declaration": "class",
+    "interface_declaration": "interface",
+    "enum_declaration": "enum",
+}
+
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
@@ -254,18 +260,13 @@ def _find_type_node(node: Node, type_name: str, source_bytes: bytes) -> tuple[No
         Tuple of (node, type_kind) where type_kind is "class", "interface", or "enum".
 
     """
-    type_declarations = {
-        "class_declaration": "class",
-        "interface_declaration": "interface",
-        "enum_declaration": "enum",
-    }
-
-    if node.type in type_declarations:
+    if node.type in _TYPE_DECLARATIONS:
         name_node = node.child_by_field_name("name")
         if name_node:
             node_name = source_bytes[name_node.start_byte : name_node.end_byte].decode("utf8")
             if node_name == type_name:
-                return node, type_declarations[node.type]
+                return node, _TYPE_DECLARATIONS[node.type]
+
 
     for child in node.children:
         result, kind = _find_type_node(child, type_name, source_bytes)