⚡️ Speed up function _extract_child_components by 53% in PR #1561 (add/support_react)

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⚡️ This pull request contains optimizations for PR #1561

If you approve this dependent PR, these changes will be merged into the original PR branch add/support_react.

This PR will be automatically closed if the original PR is merged.

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📄 53% (0.53x) speedup for _extract_child_components in codeflash/languages/javascript/frameworks/react/context.py

⏱️ Runtime : 922 microseconds → 604 microseconds (best of 250 runs)

📝 Explanation and details

The optimized code achieves a 52% speedup (922μs → 604μs) through three key performance improvements:

1. Module-level regex compilation (saves ~420μs per call)

• The original compiled the regex pattern inside the function on every invocation (14.8% of runtime)
• Moving re.compile() to module-level constant _JSX_COMPONENT_RE eliminates this repeated work
• The re import is also hoisted to module-level, removing the import overhead (0.4% per call)

2. Replace iterator loop with findall() (saves ~750μs per call)

• The original used finditer() and manually extracted groups with match.group(1) in a Python loop (46.8% of total runtime across iteration + group extraction)
• The optimized version uses findall() which returns strings directly, eliminating per-match object overhead
• This reduces 2,000+ Python-level method calls to a single C-level regex operation

3. Set comprehension with frozenset lookup (saves ~350μs per call)

• The original checked membership against a tuple literal 2,012 times (12.2% of runtime)
• Using a module-level frozenset (_REACT_BUILTINS) makes membership tests O(1) instead of O(4)
• The set comprehension combines filtering and deduplication in one pass instead of separate if + add() calls

Test case performance:

• Small inputs (1-5 components): 65-76% faster – regex compilation overhead dominated the original
• Large inputs (500-1000 components): 49-55% faster – iteration overhead becomes significant, but relative gains are smaller since sorting becomes a larger proportion of runtime
• Empty source: 109% faster – demonstrates the pure overhead of compilation + setup eliminated

The optimization is especially valuable when _extract_child_components is called repeatedly (e.g., analyzing multiple React files in a codebase), as the one-time cost of module-level compilation is amortized across all calls.

✅ Correctness verification report:

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

🌀 Click to see Generated Regression Tests

import pytest  # used for our unit tests
from codeflash.languages.javascript.frameworks.react.context import \
    _extract_child_components
from codeflash.languages.javascript.treesitter import TreeSitterAnalyzer

# Note: _extract_child_components uses a regex to find JSX component tags.
# The analyzer and full_source arguments are not used by the function's logic,
# but we must pass a real TreeSitterAnalyzer instance per the test rules.

def _make_analyzer() -> TreeSitterAnalyzer:
    # Create a real TreeSitterAnalyzer instance. Passing a string is allowed by
    # the constructor which will coerce into the language type.
    return TreeSitterAnalyzer("javascript")

def test_single_simple_component():
    # Create analyzer instance (real class)
    analyzer = _make_analyzer()
    # A single simple component tag should be found
    source = "<Child />"
    # full_source is unused by implementation; pass empty string
    codeflash_output = _extract_child_components(source, analyzer, ""); result = codeflash_output # 6.21μs -> 3.55μs (75.1% faster)

def test_parent_and_child_components_returned_sorted():
    analyzer = _make_analyzer()
    # Parent and Child tags; function should find both and return them sorted
    source = "<Parent><Child /></Parent>"
    codeflash_output = _extract_child_components(source, analyzer, ""); result = codeflash_output # 6.75μs -> 3.93μs (71.9% faster)
    # sorted order expected (alphabetical)
    expected = sorted(["Parent", "Child"])

def test_dot_qualified_component_names_supported():
    analyzer = _make_analyzer()
    # Names with dots (e.g., namespaced components) should be captured entirely
    source = "<UI.Button onClick={() => {}} /><Other.Component/>"
    codeflash_output = _extract_child_components(source, analyzer, ""); result = codeflash_output # 6.41μs -> 3.73μs (72.0% faster)
    # Both dot-qualified names should be present and sorted
    expected = sorted(["UI.Button", "Other.Component"])

def test_builtins_fragment_and_suspense_are_excluded():
    analyzer = _make_analyzer()
    # React.Fragment and Suspense (including React.Suspense) should be ignored
    source = "<React.Fragment><Child /><Suspense><Inner /></Suspense></React.Fragment>"
    codeflash_output = _extract_child_components(source, analyzer, ""); result = codeflash_output # 7.48μs -> 4.53μs (65.3% faster)

def test_lowercase_html_tags_are_ignored():
    analyzer = _make_analyzer()
    # Lowercase tags like div and span are not React components and must be ignored
    source = "<div><span /><MyComponent /></div>"
    codeflash_output = _extract_child_components(source, analyzer, ""); result = codeflash_output # 5.94μs -> 3.37μs (76.5% faster)

def test_names_with_numbers_and_invalid_start_characters():
    analyzer = _make_analyzer()
    # Components starting with uppercase and containing numbers should match.
    # Tags starting with underscore or lowercase should not match.
    source = "<Comp1 /><_Invalid /><Valid123 />"
    codeflash_output = _extract_child_components(source, analyzer, ""); result = codeflash_output # 6.50μs -> 3.73μs (74.5% faster)

def test_empty_source_returns_empty_list():
    analyzer = _make_analyzer()
    # Empty component source should produce an empty list
    source = ""
    codeflash_output = _extract_child_components(source, analyzer, ""); result = codeflash_output # 3.78μs -> 1.80μs (109% faster)

def test_large_number_of_unique_components():
    analyzer = _make_analyzer()
    # Generate 1000 unique component tags deterministically
    n = 1000
    names = [f"Comp{i}" for i in range(n)]
    # Build a large source containing all tags (self-closing)
    source = " ".join(f"<{name} />" for name in names)
    codeflash_output = _extract_child_components(source, analyzer, ""); result = codeflash_output # 459μs -> 308μs (49.3% faster)
    # Ensure we found all unique component names and that the result is sorted
    expected = sorted(set(names))

def test_large_with_many_duplicates_still_returns_unique_sorted():
    analyzer = _make_analyzer()
    # Create 500 unique names, but repeat each one multiple times to test deduplication
    unique_count = 500
    names = [f"Widget{i}" for i in range(unique_count)]
    # Repeat each tag twice and intersperse some lowercase tags that should be ignored
    parts = []
    for name in names:
        parts.append(f"<{name} />")
        parts.append(f"<{name} />")  # duplicate
        parts.append("<div></div>")  # should be ignored
    source = "\n".join(parts)
    codeflash_output = _extract_child_components(source, analyzer, ""); result = codeflash_output # 419μs -> 271μs (54.7% faster)
    # Should return each Widget only once, sorted
    expected = sorted(set(names))
# codeflash_output is used to check that the output of the original code is the same as that of the optimized code.

To edit these changes git checkout codeflash/optimize-pr1561-2026-02-20T03.24.55 and push.

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⚡️ Codeflash found optimizations for this PR

📄 143% (1.43x) speedup for _contains_jsx in codeflash/languages/javascript/frameworks/react/profiler.py

⏱️ Runtime : 461 microseconds → 190 microseconds (best of 24 runs)

A dependent PR with the suggested changes has been created. Please review:

• ⚡️ Speed up function _contains_jsx by 143% in PR #1565 (codeflash/optimize-pr1561-2026-02-20T03.24.55) #1569

If you approve, it will be merged into this PR (branch codeflash/optimize-pr1561-2026-02-20T03.24.55).

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PR Review Summary

Prek Checks

Status: Fixed - All linting issues resolved in commit 4ac2a37.

Fixed 10 issues across 5 files:

• TC003: Moved Path imports into TYPE_CHECKING blocks (detector.py, context.py, discovery.py, profiler.py)
• SIM110: Replaced for loops with any() expressions (discovery.py, profiler.py)
• RET504: Removed unnecessary variable assignment before return (profiler.py)
• FURB171: Replaced single-item tuple membership tests with equality checks (treesitter_utils.py)
• I001: Fixed unsorted imports (context.py)

Mypy Results

26 mypy errors found across base.py, parse.py, and support.py. These are pre-existing issues in the parent branch (add/support_react) — not introduced by this optimization PR. The errors are mostly missing type parameters, untyped functions, and attribute export issues that require broader refactoring.

Code Review

No critical issues found. The optimization is clean and correct:

• Module-level regex compilation (_JSX_COMPONENT_RE) replaces per-call re.compile()
• findall() replaces finditer() + manual group extraction
• frozenset (_REACT_BUILTINS) enables O(1) membership testing vs O(n) tuple scan
• Set comprehension replaces manual loop with set.add()

Behavioral equivalence is preserved — same regex pattern, same exclusion set, same return type.

Test Coverage

File	Coverage	Stmts	Covered	Status
base.py	98.5%	133	131	✅
frameworks/__init__.py	100%	0	0	✅
frameworks/detector.py	0%	—	—	⚠️ New file, not imported
react/__init__.py	100%	0	0	✅
react/analyzer.py	0%	—	—	⚠️ New file, not imported
react/context.py	0%	—	—	⚠️ New file, not imported
react/discovery.py	58.3%	127	74	⚠️ Below 75%
react/profiler.py	0%	—	—	⚠️ New file, not imported
javascript/parse.py	49.3%	272	134	⚠️ Below 75%
javascript/support.py	70.0%	1047	733	⚠️ Below 75%
treesitter_utils.py	0%	—	—	⚠️ Not imported
models/function_types.py	100%	47	47	✅
Overall	78.4%	49627	38912

Note: The 0% coverage files are new React framework files from the parent branch (add/support_react). Coverage gaps are pre-existing and not caused by this optimization PR. The optimized function (_extract_child_components) has codeflash-generated regression tests with 100% coverage per the PR description.

8 test failures in tests/test_tracer.py are pre-existing and unrelated to this PR.

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Last updated: 2026-02-20