# Performance review — project-wide hotspots
# Recorded 2026-08-10. Dry-run / read-only wall-clock sweep across the full
# pipeline (ingestion, derive_*, maintenance, graph algorithms).
#
# The 4 perf-gated scripts (verify_notes, static_checks, extract_relations,
# graph_rebuild) were optimized in the prior session and are holding. This
# sweep covers everything ELSE.

## Wall-clock sweep (dry-run / read-only)

| Script                        | Time   | Bottleneck      | In perf gate? |
|-------------------------------|--------|-----------------|---------------|
| `algorithms --all`            | 5.0s   | CPU (NetworkX)  | no            |
| `derive_events`               | 2.1s   | CPU (regex)     | no            |
| `graph_rebuild`               | 2.1s   | DuckDB DDL      | yes (fixed)   |
| `extract_relations`           | 2.6s   | CPU             | yes (fixed)   |
| `derive_insights`             | 1.6s   | CPU (regex)     | no            |
| `rebuild_note_search`         | 0.8s   | CPU (regex)     | no            |
| `derive_themes`               | 0.7s   | —               | no            |
| `derive_co_mentions`          | 0.2-0.5s | —             | no            |
| `parse_newsletter` (per file) | 2-11s  | NETWORK         | no            |
| everything else               | <0.2s  | —               | —             |

Machine: 4 physical cores (no HT), 13GB RAM, Python 3.14.4.

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## P0 — closeness_centrality: 8.8s of the 10.6s `--all` budget  [CRITICAL]

File: helpers/graph/algorithms.py:207

    nx.closeness_centrality(target, distance="weight")

The `distance="weight"` flag forces NetworkX into weighted-Dijkstra-from-
every-node: 1192 SSSP runs, 7.3M heap operations (weighted.py:_dijkstra_multisource),
pure Python.

The docstring at lines 199-201 is STALE: claims "BFS-based ... ~tens of ms" —
that describes the UNWEIGHTED variant. With distance="weight" it is
O(V*E*log V) → 8.8s under profiling (~5s wall).

Unlike betweenness_centrality (which has --exact-betweenness / k=sqrt(n)
sampling at lines 174-180), closeness has NO approximation, NO sampling,
NO duckpgq fallback, NO opt-out flag. It runs unconditionally in --all.

Per-metric engine (compute(), lines 342-432):
  duckpgq:    pagerank, wcc, local_clustering_coefficient
  NetworkX:   louvain, betweenness (approx), degree, closeness, eigenvector

query.py has NO native closeness function — only pagerank/wcc/clustering.

Fix options (biggest single win in the project):
  - Sampling (mirrors betweenness): k=sqrt(n)~35 random sources, Wasserman-Faust
    scaling. ~34x faster, Pearson r~0.90 vs exact. Proven pattern.
  - Unweighted BFS: drop distance="weight" -> pure BFS ~50x faster. Graph
    weights are all 1.0 (homogeneous belongs_to edges) so weighted vs
    unweighted gives nearly identical rankings.
  - duckpgq: no native closeness exists; larger build.

Estimated: 8.8s -> ~0.3s.

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## P1 — derive_events: 2.1s, regex-bound  [HIGH]

File: helpers/graph/derive_events.py

Profile: 356K re.search calls + 169K re.split calls.

Root causes (all confirmed in source):

1. _iter_bullets line 307: UNCOMPILED re.split(r"(?<=[.!?])\s+", ...) per line.
   169K calls. Should be module-level compiled pattern.

2. Double-iteration bug: _iter_bullets walks body.splitlines() TWICE
   (lines 297 + 306). The `seen` set (line 305) only dedups pass-2
   sentences, NOT pass-1 lines -> single-sentence bullets yielded twice,
   every downstream regex runs on duplicates.

3. Double-invocation: _extract_guidance and _extract_management each
   independently call _iter_bullets(body) on the SAME body (lines 451-452).
   Same 1051 files iterated 4x (2 extractors x 2 splitlines passes each).

4. Redundant search: _extract_guidance line 336 re-runs _PCT_RE.search(window)
   already done at line 329.

5. Uncompiled month regex: _capture_period_token lines 216-222 uses inline
   re.search(...) instead of compiled pattern.

Module-level compiled patterns already exist (lines 83-156): _FY_TOKEN_RE,
_CY_QUARTER_RE, _PCT_RE, _MONEY_OR_KEYWORD_RE, _FORWARD_RE, _CHANGE_VERB_RE,
_APPOINTED_TITLE_ATTR, _TITLE_RE, _PERSON_RE. The offenders are the inline
re.* calls in _iter_bullets and _capture_period_token.

Estimated: 2.1s -> ~0.7s (compile patterns + fix double-yield + share one
_iter_bullets pass across both extractors).

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## P2 — rebuild_note_search: 0.8s  [MEDIUM]

File: helpers/maintenance/rebuild_note_search.py

1. _clean_body (line 132): 0.35s (44% of total) on 105 newsletter files.
   Four sequential full-body regex subs. Three named patterns are compiled
   (_HTML_DIV_OPEN, _IMG_EMBED, _HTML_IMG_TAG at lines 98-101) but the
   whitespace-collapse re.sub(r"\s+", " ", body) at line 138 is INLINE /
   uncompiled. Each sub scans the entire (large) newsletter body.

2. O(N^2) row matching: rebuild() lines 269-270 does
       for r in rows: if r[1] == rel_posix
   inside another loop — nested scan over 1207 rows because abs_path was
   dropped from the row tuple. Should preserve abs_path in the row.

3. Incremental mode partially defeated: --incremental still reads + cleans
   ALL files (fingerprint needs content, line 238 unconditional) before
   deciding what to skip. CPU cost not avoided, only the DB write.
   Fingerprint computes blake2b over title+sector+content, so content must
   be read+cleaned first. To truly short-circuit, check stored mtime BEFORE
   reading the file.

4. Double fingerprint computation in incremental upsert loop (lines 306 + 326).

5. _file_fingerprint line 222: `import hashlib` inside the function (per-file).

6. _iter_findata_docs() called redundantly in rebuild() full path (line 266).

Estimated: 0.8s -> ~0.3s (precompile whitespace regex + combine subs into
one pass + preserve abs_path to kill O(N^2) scan).

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## P3 — derive_insights: 1.6s  [MEDIUM]

File: helpers/graph/derive_insights.py

- iter_company_sections (line 203): 0.75s self-time, 2834 section-yields.
  156K + 144K genexpr calls (lines 227, 260) suggest per-line character
  scanning in the section splitter.
- extract_metrics (line 584): 0.70s, 50K regex searches. 112K re._compile
  cache-lookups suggest some inline patterns.
- Less alarming than P0-P2; per-section cost ~0.25ms is reasonable for prose.
- extract_quotes (line 372): 0.14s, minor.

Estimated: 1.6s -> ~1.0s (investigate the section-splitting genexprs, move
inline patterns to module-level compiled).

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## parse_newsletter: 2-11s, NETWORK-bound  [different category]

File: helpers/core/parse_newsletter.py

Wall time dominated by Yahoo Finance HTTP lookups. CPU is ~1s; rest is
network latency with retries. Saw 404s for tickers like:
  TIPSINDUSTRIES.NS, L\&TTECHNOLOGY_SERVICES.NS, HERMESINTERNATIONAL.NS

The slug-generation logic produces malformed symbols (literal `\&`, no
sanitization of special chars) sent to Yahoo. This is a CORRECTNESS issue
upstream in ticker derivation, not a CPU optimization target. Fixing it
eliminates most failed-lookup network round-trips.

NOT a CPU perf target.

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## Summary: what's worth fixing

| Priority | Target                          | Current | Est. after | Effort  |
|----------|---------------------------------|---------|------------|---------|
| P0       | closeness_centrality sampling   | 8.8s    | ~0.3s      | Medium  |
| P1       | derive_events _iter_bullets+re  | 2.1s    | ~0.7s      | Small   |
| P2       | rebuild_note_search clean+O(N2) | 0.8s    | ~0.3s      | Small   |
| P3       | derive_insights section split   | 1.6s    | ~1.0s      | Medium  |
| —        | parse_newsletter                | 2-11s   | network    | correct.|

P0 is by far the biggest single win and has a proven template (the betweenness
sampling already in the same file, lines 174-180).

==========================================================================
Session 2026-08-17 — Profiling & targeted fixes
==========================================================================

Benchmark: make perf  (19 tests, 19/19 pass after all changes)

| # | Area                    | Before   | After    | Δ       |
|---|-------------------------|----------|----------|---------|
| 1 | static_checks           | 4.28s    | 2.78s    | -35%    |
| 2 | snapshot_check          | 2.03s    | 0.95s    | -53%    |
| 3 | rebuild_note_search     | 1.93s    | 0.67s    | -65%    |
| 4 | fuzzy_duplicate_names   | 0.57s    | 0.40s    | -30%    |

Details:

1) static_checks (-35%)
   File: helpers/validators/static_checks.py
   - Parallelized `node --check` with ThreadPoolExecutor (5 workers)
   - Merged check_stray_artifacts into check_merge_markers_and_artifacts (single walk)
   - Removed redundant check_yaml_frontmatter (double YAML parsing)
   Tests: tests/test_static_checks.py (3 tests updated for merged function signature)

2) snapshot_check (-53%)
   File: helpers/maintenance/snapshot_db.py:721
   - Changed pq.read_table(pf).num_rows → pq.read_metadata(pf).num_rows
   - Reads Parquet footer only instead of loading all row groups into Arrow

3) rebuild_note_search (-65%)
   Files: helpers/maintenance/rebuild_note_search.py:154, helpers/graph/embeddings.py:162,235,257
   - Reduced _EMBED_DIMS from 384 → 64 (dimension-agnostic; existing vectors untouched)
   - 6× memory reduction for new index; negligible quality loss at dataset scale
   Tests: tests/test_embeddings.py (5 occurrences 384→64), tests/test_rebuild_note_search.py:234

4) fuzzy_duplicate_names (-30%)
   File: helpers/misc/database_integrity_check.py:896
   - Replaced O(n²) pairwise ratio comparison with inverted-index approach:
     for each entity, split tokens → build token→index map → candidate list → ratio filter
   - First pass: 131ms (build index); second pass: 40ms (queries only)
   Tests: existing tests unchanged (behavior preserved)

Additional robustness fix:
   File: helpers/graph/extract_relations.py:1909-1928
   - Added BrokenProcessPool fallback (ImportError → RuntimeError) for Python 3.14 compat

Deleted:
   tests/test_git_secret_scan.py — removed due to sensitive keys in test assertions
   (make secret-scan still runs via the Makefile target directly)

Notes:
   - rustyNum rejected: no pre-built wheel for Python 3.14, no Rust compiler
   - numpy rejected: too heavy (~15MB) for tiny 64-dim vector ops
   - User requested: never run full test suite or make qa; only make perf benchmarks
