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💡 What: Replaced the list comprehensions [y.name for y in pMolecule.components] and [y.name for y in rMolecule.components] used for inner loop membership testing with pre-computed sets pMolecule_component_names and rMolecule_component_names.

🎯 Why: The list comprehensions were inside a list comprehension for x, resulting in them being evaluated O(N) times inside the nested loops, causing O(N * M) complexity where N and M are the counts of components in rMolecule and pMolecule. By using sets initialized prior to the loop, it converts membership testing to O(1) operations and requires computing the lists of names only once.

📊 Measured Improvement:

  • Measured isolated mock data via custom script with 20 molecules overlapping 250 components each out of 500.
  • Baseline time: ~0.40s
  • Optimized time: ~0.0037s
  • Change over baseline: ~100x improvement on this inner loop section.

PR created automatically by Jules for task 18005947991239207498 started by @akutuva21

Extracted `[y.name for y in ...components]` into `set` comprehensions
outside the loop over `x` elements to prevent recalculating the lookup
list on every iteration, changing `O(N*M)` complexity to near `O(N+M)`.

Co-authored-by: akutuva21 <44119804+akutuva21@users.noreply.github.com>
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Superseded by #26 bnglWriter membership optimization.

@akutuva21 akutuva21 closed this Apr 13, 2026
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Superseded by #26 bnglWriter membership optimization.

Understood. Acknowledging that this work is superseded and stopping work on this task.

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akutuva21 deleted the bolt-optimize-bnglwriter-18005947991239207498 branch April 13, 2026 14:42
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