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💡 What: Refactored Context::value and Context::get to minimize redundant hash map lookups and early-release the mutex before function execution.
🎯 Why: Context::value performed two lookups against the HashMap and held a MutexGuard across the execution of user-supplied inner functions. This caused unnecessary overhead and high lock contention.
📊 Impact: Speeds up function calls and variable retrievals by reducing hash map accesses. Prevents potential deadlocks. Benchmarks show execute_expression has a measurable performance gain.
🔬 Measurement: cargo bench execute_expression verified the performance delta. Tests pass natively.

Included a bolt.md learning entry detailing this specific lock duration and hashmap bottleneck architecture.


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This pull request significantly enhances the performance and concurrency of the Context module by optimizing how values are retrieved and how mutexes are managed. It specifically addresses issues with redundant hash map lookups and prolonged mutex holding during function execution, leading to faster operations and improved system stability.

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  • Context value retrieval optimized: Refactored Context::value and Context::get to eliminate redundant hash map lookups, improving performance.
  • Reduced lock contention: The mutex guard is now released earlier in Context::value, before executing user-supplied functions, which prevents high lock contention and potential deadlocks.
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  • .jules/bolt.md
    • Added a new learning entry detailing the context optimization.
  • benches/display_expression.rs
    • Reordered use statements for consistency.
  • src/context.rs
    • Refactored get and value methods to reduce hash map lookups and release mutexes earlier.
  • src/parser.rs
    • Reformated write! macros for Binary and Ternary AST display for improved readability.
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This pull request aims to optimize Context value retrieval. The changes in Context::value and Context::get successfully reduce HashMap lookups and shorten mutex lock duration. However, as noted in my comment, the change to Context::get introduces a performance regression in other unmodified calling functions. Addressing this is important to fully achieve the PR's goals.

let binding = self.0.lock().unwrap();
let value = binding.get(name)?;
Some(value.clone())
self.0.lock().unwrap().get(name).cloned()

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This new implementation of get is more concise and correctly releases the mutex early. However, it introduces a performance issue with existing callers. By returning a cloned ContextValue, functions like get_variable (which also clones the value) now perform a double clone. This can be significantly slower for large values, which is contrary to the optimization goal of this PR.

To resolve this, all callers of get should be updated to move the value from the returned ContextValue instead of cloning it. For example, get_variable should be changed to:

pub fn get_variable(&self, name: &str) -> Option<Value> {
    match self.get(name)? {
        ContextValue::Variable(v) => Some(v),
        _ => None,
    }
}

Please update get_variable and get_func accordingly to prevent this performance regression.

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