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@bashandbone bashandbone commented May 28, 2026

💡 What: Extracted multiple v.to_path_buf() calls into a single allocated PathBuf and leveraged borrowed lookups (.get(v)) where possible in tarjan_dfs.
🎯 Why: To remove redundant O(E) heap allocations in performance-critical dependency graph traversals.
📊 Impact: Substantially reduces memory allocation churn, preventing degraded performance on very large graphs.
🔬 Measurement: Run the thread-flow benchmarks (cargo bench -p thread-flow) to observe graph traversal speedup.


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Enhancements:

  • Reuse a single PathBuf per node and switch to borrowed map lookups in tarjan_dfs to lower heap allocation overhead during graph traversal.

… SCC algorithm

Co-authored-by: bashandbone <89049923+bashandbone@users.noreply.github.com>
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Refactors Tarjan's SCC DFS implementation to reuse a single PathBuf per node visit and rely on borrowed map lookups, reducing redundant heap allocations and improving performance in large graph traversals.

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Optimize Tarjan DFS to minimize PathBuf allocations and use borrowed map accessors where possible.
  • Introduce a single local PathBuf (v_buf) per DFS call and reuse it for all insertions into indices, lowlinks, stack, and on_stack
  • Replace repeated v.to_path_buf() calls for state updates with clones of the reused PathBuf
  • Switch lowlinks and indices map lookups from using owned PathBuf keys to borrowed &Path keys via get(v) / get_mut(v)
  • Keep stack and on_stack data structures operating on owned PathBuf while reducing the number of allocations feeding them
crates/flow/src/incremental/invalidation.rs

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Hey - I've left some high level feedback:

  • You still create multiple clones of v_buf (for indices, lowlinks, stack, and on_stack); if this path is truly hot it may be worth refactoring TarjanState to key by something cheaper than PathBuf (e.g., an interned ID or index) so you can avoid repeated allocations/clones entirely.
  • Now that indices/lowlinks lookups use borrowed &Path, consider auditing the rest of the SCC-related code to consistently use borrowed lookups where possible so you don’t regress to to_path_buf() in other paths.
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## Overall Comments
- You still create multiple clones of `v_buf` (for `indices`, `lowlinks`, `stack`, and `on_stack`); if this path is truly hot it may be worth refactoring `TarjanState` to key by something cheaper than `PathBuf` (e.g., an interned ID or index) so you can avoid repeated allocations/clones entirely.
- Now that `indices`/`lowlinks` lookups use borrowed `&Path`, consider auditing the rest of the SCC-related code to consistently use borrowed lookups where possible so you don’t regress to `to_path_buf()` in other paths.

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Pull request overview

This PR improves performance in incremental invalidation by reducing redundant PathBuf construction during Tarjan SCC traversal.

Changes:

  • Reuses a local PathBuf during node initialization in tarjan_dfs.
  • Switches repeated map lookups from temporary PathBuf keys to borrowed &Path lookups.

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