⚡️ Speed up function make_index by 9%
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📄 9% (0.09x) speedup for
make_indexinpanel/io/convert.py⏱️ Runtime :
4.39 milliseconds→4.04 milliseconds(best of167runs)📝 Explanation and details
The optimized version achieves an 8% speedup through two key optimizations:
1. Avoiding tuple creation during sorting: The original code uses
sorted(files.items())which creates a temporary list of (label, filepath) tuples, then iterates through them. The optimized version usessorted(files)to sort just the keys, then accessesfiles[label]directly. This eliminates the overhead of creating and unpacking tuples.2. Local variable caching: The optimized code assigns
os.path.basenameto the local variablebasenamebefore the dictionary comprehension. This avoids repeated attribute lookups during iteration, as accessing local variables is faster than module attribute access in Python.Performance characteristics: The optimization is most effective for larger dictionaries, as shown in the test results where cases with 500-1000 files see 10-13% improvements, while smaller cases show minimal or slightly negative impact due to the overhead of the local variable assignment. This explains why small test cases are slightly slower (1-6%) but larger workloads benefit significantly.
The changes preserve all functionality while reducing both memory allocation (no tuple creation) and lookup overhead (cached basename function).
✅ Correctness verification report:
🌀 Generated Regression Tests and Runtime
To edit these changes
git checkout codeflash/optimize-make_index-mhb2leajand push.