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⚡ Bolt: [performance improvement] eliminate redundant PathBuf allocations in tarjan dfs#166
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💡 What: Optimized the tarjan_dfs graph traversal function inside InvaldationDetector to stop redundantly allocating PathBuf equivalents when conducting map lookups.
🎯 Why: Creating an owned instance (like .to_path_buf()) purely to use in hash map query contexts triggers expensive heap memory operations on every iteration. Since standard library Map/Set configurations using RapidHash implement standard Borrow<Path>, it's natively supported to traverse graphs using borrowed &Path values.
📊 Impact: Exponential reduction in total memory allocated over heap boundaries on large directed graphs, reducing typical evaluation overhead on scale.
🔬 Measurement: Verify changes mathematically through O(V) allocation constraint over historical O(E), and logically passing through checking test behavior (e.g., cargo test -p thread-flow --test invalidation_tests).


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Enhancements:

  • Reuse a single owned PathBuf per node in Tarjan DFS and rely on borrowed Path lookups to reduce allocation overhead in the invalidation detector.

… redundant PathBuf allocations

By switching to owned PathBuf instances purely for insertion, and utilizing &Path for all subsequent read/write `HashMap` interactions, we prevent repeated heap allocations taking place during every node evaluation within O(V+E) traversal.

Co-authored-by: bashandbone <89049923+bashandbone@users.noreply.github.com>
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Refactors the Tarjan DFS implementation in InvalidationDetector to avoid repeated PathBuf allocations by reusing a single owned PathBuf for the current node and using borrowed &Path for map lookups, improving performance and memory usage during graph traversal.

Class diagram for InvalidationDetector.tarjan_dfs PathBuf allocation refactor

classDiagram
    class InvalidationDetector {
        +tarjan_dfs(v: &Path, state: &mut TarjanState, sccs: &mut Vec~Vec_PathBuf~~)
    }

    class TarjanState {
        +index_counter: usize
        +indices: HashMap~PathBuf, usize~
        +lowlinks: HashMap~PathBuf, usize~
        +stack: Vec~PathBuf~
        +on_stack: HashSet~PathBuf~
    }

    InvalidationDetector --> TarjanState : uses
    InvalidationDetector --> Path : traverses
    TarjanState --> PathBuf : owns_keys
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Avoid repeated PathBuf allocations for the current node in tarjan_dfs by reusing a single owned PathBuf and using borrowed &Path for hashmap access.
  • Introduce a single v_owned PathBuf derived from the input &Path at the start of tarjan_dfs.
  • Insert v_owned (and clones where needed) into indices, lowlinks, stack, and on_stack instead of repeatedly calling to_path_buf().
  • Change hashmap lookups in indices and lowlinks from using newly allocated PathBuf keys to using the borrowed &Path v, relying on Borrow support.
crates/flow/src/incremental/invalidation.rs

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Pull request overview

This PR optimizes Tarjan’s SCC DFS in InvalidationDetector by removing per-edge PathBuf allocations during RapidMap lookups, leveraging borrowed &Path queries against RapidMap<PathBuf, _>.

Changes:

  • Avoid repeated v.to_path_buf() allocations in tarjan_dfs when updating/reading indices and lowlinks.
  • Introduce a single v_owned allocation per visited vertex for initial insertions/pushes while keeping subsequent lookups borrowed.

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