⚡️ Speed up function discover_kinds_typing_hints by 66%

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📄 66% (0.66x) speedup for discover_kinds_typing_hints in inference/core/workflows/execution_engine/v1/introspection/types_discovery.py

⏱️ Runtime : 338 microseconds → 204 microseconds (best of 198 runs)

📝 Explanation and details

The optimization replaces inefficient set-based deduplication with dictionary-based deduplication in the load_all_defined_kinds() function.

Key Changes:

• Removed list(set(declared_kinds)): The original code converted the list to a set and back to remove duplicates, but this approach has several performance issues:

  • Set conversion requires hashing all Kind objects
  • Converting back to list loses original ordering
  • Hash-based deduplication may not preserve the first occurrence of duplicate items

• Added dictionary-based deduplication: Uses a dictionary keyed by kind.name to track unique kinds while preserving order and ensuring first occurrence is kept.

Why This Is Faster:

• Linear complexity: The new approach is O(n) with a single pass through the list, compared to the original's O(n) set conversion plus O(n) list conversion
• Reduced object hashing: Only strings (kind names) are used as dictionary keys instead of hashing entire Kind objects for the set
• Better memory locality: Single iteration pattern is more cache-friendly than the dual conversion approach

Performance Results:
The optimization shows consistent 62-70% speedup across all test cases, with particularly strong performance on:

• Mixed core/plugin kinds (69.4% faster)
• Empty input scenarios (70.7% faster)
• Cases with None serialized data types (70.8% faster)

This suggests the optimization is especially beneficial when dealing with diverse kind collections or edge cases that would cause more overhead in the original set-based approach.

✅ Correctness verification report:

Test	Status
⚙️ Existing Unit Tests	✅ 2 Passed
🌀 Generated Regression Tests	✅ 9 Passed
⏪ Replay Tests	🔘 None Found
🔎 Concolic Coverage Tests	🔘 None Found
📊 Tests Coverage	100.0%

⚙️ Existing Unit Tests and Runtime

Test File::Test Function	Original ⏱️	Optimized ⏱️	Speedup
workflows/unit_tests/execution_engine/introspection/test_types_discovery.py::test_discover_kinds_typing_hints	43.7μs	27.9μs	56.9%✅

🌀 Generated Regression Tests and Runtime

from typing import Dict, List, Set

# imports
import pytest
from inference.core.workflows.execution_engine.v1.introspection.types_discovery import \
    discover_kinds_typing_hints


# --- Minimal stubs for Kind and PluginLoadingError to make tests self-contained ---
class PluginLoadingError(Exception):
    def __init__(self, public_message, context):
        super().__init__(public_message)
        self.public_message = public_message
        self.context = context

class Kind:
    def __init__(self, name: str, serialised_data_type: str = None):
        self.name = name
        self.serialised_data_type = serialised_data_type

    def __eq__(self, other):
        return isinstance(other, Kind) and self.name == other.name and self.serialised_data_type == other.serialised_data_type

    def __hash__(self):
        return hash((self.name, self.serialised_data_type))
from inference.core.workflows.execution_engine.v1.introspection.types_discovery import \
    discover_kinds_typing_hints

# --- Unit Tests ---

# BASIC TEST CASES

def test_basic_single_kind_present():
    # Should return correct type for a single core kind
    codeflash_output = discover_kinds_typing_hints({"image"}); result = codeflash_output # 36.2μs -> 22.3μs (62.2% faster)

def test_basic_multiple_kinds_present():
    # Should return correct types for multiple core kinds
    codeflash_output = discover_kinds_typing_hints({"image", "float", "string"}); result = codeflash_output # 34.5μs -> 21.0μs (64.0% faster)

def test_basic_plugin_kinds():
    # Should return correct types for plugin kinds
    codeflash_output = discover_kinds_typing_hints({"plugin_image", "plugin_float", "plugin_string"}); result = codeflash_output # 33.0μs -> 19.7μs (67.1% faster)

def test_basic_mixed_core_and_plugin():
    # Should return correct types for both core and plugin kinds
    codeflash_output = discover_kinds_typing_hints({"image", "plugin_image", "plugin_boolean"}); result = codeflash_output # 32.9μs -> 19.4μs (69.4% faster)

def test_basic_nonexistent_kind():
    # Should ignore kinds not present in defined kinds
    codeflash_output = discover_kinds_typing_hints({"nonexistent", "image"}); result = codeflash_output # 31.8μs -> 19.2μs (65.9% faster)

def test_basic_none_serialised_data_type():
    # Should not include kinds with None as serialised_data_type
    codeflash_output = discover_kinds_typing_hints({"wildcard", "custom"}); result = codeflash_output # 31.8μs -> 18.6μs (70.8% faster)

def test_basic_empty_input():
    # Should return empty dict for empty input
    codeflash_output = discover_kinds_typing_hints(set()); result = codeflash_output # 31.5μs -> 18.4μs (70.7% faster)

# EDGE TEST CASES

def test_edge_kind_with_none_type_and_present():
    # Should not include kind with None type even if present in input
    codeflash_output = discover_kinds_typing_hints({"custom", "plugin_custom"}); result = codeflash_output # 31.4μs -> 18.7μs (67.7% faster)

def test_edge_kind_name_case_sensitivity():
    # Kind names are case sensitive
    codeflash_output = discover_kinds_typing_hints({"Image", "IMAGE", "image"}); result = codeflash_output # 31.3μs -> 18.4μs (69.8% faster)

To edit these changes git checkout codeflash/optimize-discover_kinds_typing_hints-mhbues8p and push.