⚡️ Speed up method TreeSitterAnalyzer.is_function_exported by 866% in PR #1561 (add/support_react)#1614
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The optimized code achieves an **866% speedup** (115ms → 11.9ms) by introducing **memoization** for export parsing results. This single optimization dramatically reduces redundant work when the same source code is analyzed multiple times.
**Key Change: Export Result Caching**
The optimization adds `self._exports_cache: dict[str, list[ExportInfo]] = {}` and modifies `find_exports()` to check this cache before parsing. When a cache hit occurs, the expensive tree-sitter parsing (`self.parse()`) and tree walking (`self._walk_tree_for_exports()`) are completely skipped.
**Why This Delivers Such High Speedup**
From the line profiler data:
- **Original**: `find_exports()` took 232ms total, with 77.7% spent in `_walk_tree_for_exports()` and 22.2% in `parse()`
- **Optimized**: `find_exports()` took only 19.2ms total—a **92% reduction**
The optimization is particularly effective because:
1. **High cache hit rate**: In the test workload, 202 of 284 calls (71%) hit the cache
2. **Expensive operations eliminated**: Each cache hit avoids UTF-8 encoding, tree-sitter parsing, and recursive tree traversal
3. **Multiplier effect**: Since `is_function_exported()` calls `find_exports()`, the 90.5% time it spent waiting for exports drops to 44.8%
**Test Results Show Dramatic Improvements**
The annotated tests reveal extreme speedups in scenarios with repeated analysis:
- `test_repeated_calls_same_function`: **1887% faster** (1.50ms → 75.3μs)
- `test_alternating_exported_and_non_exported`: **4215-20051% faster** due to cache reuse across 100 function checks
- `test_multiple_named_exports_one_matches`: **3276-4258% faster** when checking multiple functions in the same source
Even single-call scenarios show 1-3% improvements from faster cache lookup overhead compared to the original's unconditional parsing.
**When This Optimization Matters**
This optimization is most beneficial when:
- Analyzing the same source file multiple times (common in IDE integrations, linters, or CI pipelines)
- Checking multiple functions within the same file
- Operating in long-lived processes where the analyzer instance persists across multiple queries
The cache uses the source string as the key, making it effective whenever identical source code is re-analyzed. The trade-off is increased memory usage proportional to the number of unique source files cached, which is acceptable for typical workloads.
PR Review SummaryPrek Checks✅ All checks pass ( Mypy✅ No new type errors introduced. 7 pre-existing mypy errors in Code Review✅ No critical issues found in the PR changes. This PR adds a simple memoization cache (
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⚡️ This pull request contains optimizations for PR #1561
If you approve this dependent PR, these changes will be merged into the original PR branch
add/support_react.📄 866% (8.66x) speedup for
TreeSitterAnalyzer.is_function_exportedincodeflash/languages/javascript/treesitter_utils.py⏱️ Runtime :
115 milliseconds→11.9 milliseconds(best of149runs)📝 Explanation and details
The optimized code achieves an 866% speedup (115ms → 11.9ms) by introducing memoization for export parsing results. This single optimization dramatically reduces redundant work when the same source code is analyzed multiple times.
Key Change: Export Result Caching
The optimization adds
self._exports_cache: dict[str, list[ExportInfo]] = {}and modifiesfind_exports()to check this cache before parsing. When a cache hit occurs, the expensive tree-sitter parsing (self.parse()) and tree walking (self._walk_tree_for_exports()) are completely skipped.Why This Delivers Such High Speedup
From the line profiler data:
find_exports()took 232ms total, with 77.7% spent in_walk_tree_for_exports()and 22.2% inparse()find_exports()took only 19.2ms total—a 92% reductionThe optimization is particularly effective because:
is_function_exported()callsfind_exports(), the 90.5% time it spent waiting for exports drops to 44.8%Test Results Show Dramatic Improvements
The annotated tests reveal extreme speedups in scenarios with repeated analysis:
test_repeated_calls_same_function: 1887% faster (1.50ms → 75.3μs)test_alternating_exported_and_non_exported: 4215-20051% faster due to cache reuse across 100 function checkstest_multiple_named_exports_one_matches: 3276-4258% faster when checking multiple functions in the same sourceEven single-call scenarios show 1-3% improvements from faster cache lookup overhead compared to the original's unconditional parsing.
When This Optimization Matters
This optimization is most beneficial when:
The cache uses the source string as the key, making it effective whenever identical source code is re-analyzed. The trade-off is increased memory usage proportional to the number of unique source files cached, which is acceptable for typical workloads.
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