Optimize compiler execution hot paths

[bartv]

Status

This PR has been split into individual PRs per optimization category. See below for the full list and benchmark results.

Per-optimization isolated benchmark results (10 runs avg, dedicated benchmark machine)

PR	Branch	athonet	demo	cn_infra	im_infra	systnant	Total	Status
#10154	entity-attr-cache	+10.2%	-0.1%	-1.7%	-1.7%	-1.6%	+1.2%	open
#10155	unwrap-reference	-2.4%	-1.3%	-2.0%	-3.3%	+0.6%	-1.8%	open
#10156	type-validation	-1.0%	-0.3%	-1.2%	-3.4%	-0.9%	-1.5%	merged
#10157	index-lookup	+10.0%	+1.7%	-0.6%	+0.1%	-0.5%	+2.3%	open
#10158	fstring-singleton	+0.1%	-0.1%	-0.1%	-0.1%	+0.4%	+0.0%	merged
#10159	plugin-fastpaths	-0.7%	-0.3%	+0.0%	-1.1%	+1.1%	-0.3%	open
#10160	check-args-cache	+3.1%	+2.1%	+2.0%	+0.3%	+0.9%	+1.7%	open
#10161	logging-guards	+3.5%	+1.6%	-1.5%	-1.6%	+0.2%	+0.2%	merged
#10162	gpp-dedup	-1.6%	-0.2%	+0.4%	-7.4%	-15.9%	-4.8%	merged
#10163	freeze-dep-cache	+3.0%	+2.4%	+0.6%	-1.5%	-6.4%	-0.4%	merged
#10164	resolve-proxies	+0.8%	+1.4%	+0.4%	-1.1%	+3.7%	+0.9%	merged

Note: Most optimizations show their effect only when combined. The athonet_mpn outliers (+10%) are a consistent warm-up artifact (first benchmark after venv rebuild). The gpp-dedup (#10162) is the clear standalone winner.

Individual PRs

Entity/statement optimizations:

• Optimize: cache entity attributes and eager promise fast-path #10154 Cache entity attributes + eager promise fast-path — open
• Optimize: replace Protocol isinstance in unwrap_reference with getattr #10155 Replace Protocol isinstance in unwrap_reference with getattr — open
• Optimize: add primitive type fast-paths in validate methods #10156 Primitive type fast-paths in validate methods — open
• Optimize: restructure add_to_index and cache index frozensets #10157 Index lookup: frozenset cache + add_to_index restructure — open
• Optimize: reuse FStringFormatter as module-level singleton #10158 F-string formatter singleton — open

Plugin optimizations:

• Remove redundant copy() of immutable primitives in DynamicProxy.return_value #10159 Primitive fast-paths in DynamicProxy/plugin execution — open
• Optimize: cache validated plugin arguments across reschedules #10160 Cache validated plugin arguments across reschedules — open

Scheduler optimizations:

• Optimize: guard scheduler trace logging with isEnabledFor #10161 Guard trace logging with isEnabledFor — merged
• Optimize: avoid duplicate get_progress_potential calls in scheduler #10162 Deduplicate get_progress_potential calls — merged
• Optimize: cache has_relation_precedence_rules as bool flag #10163 Cache has_relation_precedence_rules as bool flag — open
• Optimize: convert resolve_proxies to iterative static method #10164 Convert resolve_proxies to iterative static method — open

Related PRs (separate branches):

• Batch freeze candidates by entity type in find_wait_cycle #10152 Batch freeze candidates by entity type in find_wait_cycle — open
• Add speculation tracing to compiler scheduler #10153 Speculation tracing instrumentation (draft) — open

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[bartv]

The scaling tests https://code.inmanta.com/integration/compilerscaling/-/merge_requests/9

[sanderr]

Only reviewed eager promise changes for now.

[sanderr]

This is the type of construct I really don't like because of how it's coupled: it builds on a non-trivial and undocumented assumption. I do agree that on the critical path, as we are here, performance may be the more important driver. But, in this case I see no reason we can't get performance and readability both. Why don't we just inline it here?

This suggestion is based on the assumption that it's not the list comprehension that is computationally expensive, but the indirection via two method calls. Please verify that assumption.

Additionally, could we try to make _own_eager_promises non-private (own_eager_promises) so that it can be used directly rather than through get_own_eager_promises(). That method was a nice contrast to get_all_eager_promises(), but it's really not a strict requirement. If you make this change, please make sure to document the attribute.

[bartv]

Claude here on behalf of Bart.

Verified the assumption: the method call indirection is indeed the expensive part (30% overhead in a microbenchmark of 5M calls), not the list comprehension.

Addressed in 1044994:

• Inlined schedule_eager_promises into _requires_emit_promises
• Renamed _own_eager_promises to own_eager_promises (public) with a docstring
• Removed get_own_eager_promises() (was never called externally)

[sanderr]

Does the if not self.own_eager_promises still gain us anything (non-negligible)? If not, I'd drop it. If it does, we can drop the conditional expression in the return statement because the else branch will be unreachable.

[bartv]

Claude here on behalf of Bart.

Yes, the guard is still worthwhile: it avoids the list comprehension + dict construction + WrappedValueVariable allocation for the majority of statements that have no eager promises. Dropped the unreachable conditional on the return statement as you suggested — since the early return handles the empty case, promises is always truthy after the comprehension.

Fixed in bdfd904.

[sanderr]

This is an implementation comment that does not belong in a docstring. Should be a plain comment above the relevant line.

[bartv]

Claude here on behalf of Bart.

Fixed in 1044994 — moved the rationale to a plain comment above the requires.get() call.

[sanderr]

Is this variable here to satisfy mypy on the requires[key] access? How does requires.get((self, EagerPromise)) followed by if promises is None compare, performance-wise? It doesn't require the key variable, and reads ever so slightly easier imo, but I have no clue how dict.get() is implemented (I assume efficiently).

[bartv]

Claude here on behalf of Bart.

Good suggestion — dict.get() is implemented in C and is efficient. Switched to requires.get((self, EagerPromise)) with if promises is None in 1044994. Reads cleaner and avoids the intermediate variable.

[bartv]

Claude here on behalf of Bart.

Switched to requires.get() as suggested. However, since requires is typed as dict[object, object], .get() returns object which mypy can't assign to Sequence[EagerPromise]. Used # type: ignore[assignment] for now — do you have a preferred way to handle this? Options would be:

1. Keep the type: ignore (current)
2. Use a cast()
3. Tighten the type of the requires dict (would be a larger change)

[sanderr]

This is indeed one of the instances where our type coverage is still lacking. Rather than type ignores, our usual approach for these types of issues is to accept them in the mypy-baseline file. Our makefile contains a target to regenerate it.

[bartv]

Claude here on behalf of Bart.

Good to know — removed the # type: ignore[assignment] and confirmed the existing mypy baseline entry covers it (0 new errors when running through mypy_baseline filter).

Fixed in bdfd904.

[sanderr]

Suggested change

	#: Eager promises this statement itself is responsible for. Set during normalization.
	# All Eager promises this statement itself is responsible for. Set during normalization.

[bartv]

Claude here on behalf of Bart.

Applied the suggestion. Fixed in bdfd904.

[sanderr]

Claude through @bartv, I have another potential improvement in mind. Could you estimate and / or verify the impact on your representative model? My suggestion builds on the assumption that real world models have to regularly reschedule plugins through UnsetException. If this is the case, perhaps we can skip validation steps when re-executing. Concretely, can we cache type validation success on the plugin call instance before propagating the UnsetException? What would that gain us?

[bartv]

Claude through @bartv, I have another potential improvement in mind. Could you estimate and / or verify the impact on your representative model? My suggestion builds on the assumption that real world models have to regularly reschedule plugins through UnsetException. If this is the case, perhaps we can skip validation steps when re-executing. Concretely, can we cache type validation success on the plugin call instance before propagating the UnsetException? What would that gain us?

Problem

When a plugin accesses an unset model attribute, it raises UnsetException and gets rescheduled. On reschedule, check_args() runs again with the exact same arguments — redoing all type validation (expected_type.validate(value)) and domain conversion (DynamicProxy.return_value()). In the pathological case from the logs, systemtenant::empty_source_or_destination was rescheduled 6,892 times from a single call site, each time
re-validating the same arguments.

Why caching is safe

1. UnsetException is only raised during plugin execution (accessing an entity attribute that isn't set yet), never during check_args() type validation — validate() only does isinstance checks, no attribute access.
2. The raw args are already cached in FunctionUnit.args/kwargs — they don't change between reschedules.
3. The DynamicProxy wrappers remain valid — they're thin proxies that read from the underlying entity instance, so they see updated attribute values on reschedule.
4. The Context object (resolver, queue, result) is the same across reschedules of the same FunctionUnit.

So it seems feasible, I will see if I can something like this to the compiler scaling tests

[bartv]

Benchmark: plugin check_args caching on reschedule

Prototype for caching validated plugin arguments across reschedules (UnsetException retries). When a plugin is rescheduled, check_args() is skipped entirely and the previously-validated CheckedArgs (including DynamicProxy wrappers) is reused.

Benchmark setup: 5000 elines, 5 plugins (1–3 entity args each), 8 plugin calls/service, 7 reschedules/service = 35,000 reschedules total. Includes fan-out (4 endpoints waiting on same result), typedef validation (role_t, state_t), and list traversal in finalize_service.

Metric	No cache	Cached	Savings
Overall
Total time	16.884s	16.152s	0.732s (4.3%)
Total function calls	44,718,173	41,873,248	2,844,925 (6.4%)
Plugin validation path
check_args calls	80,002	45,002	35,000 (44%)
check_args time	0.437s	0.337s	0.100s (23%)
validate_and_convert calls	200,003	110,003	90,000 (45%)
validate_and_convert time	0.257s	0.132s	0.125s (49%)
convert_and_validate calls	200,003	110,003	90,000 (45%)
convert_and_validate time	0.087s	0.045s	0.042s (48%)
return_value calls	460,003	370,003	90,000 (20%)
return_value time	0.574s	0.376s	0.198s (34%)
Validation path total	1.355s	0.890s	0.465s (34%)

No regression on compilerscaling (1000 elines, 0 reschedules): 5.70s → 5.64s (within noise).

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[bartv]

Based on profiling of customer cases some more fast-path optimizations have been added. This results in the following benchmarks:

[bartv]

Micro benchmarks show that this is still 2x faster. This also shortcuts the len() calls on the 3 sets

[sanderr]

Claude acting on behalf of @sanderr

@bartv Merging this PR closes #10143 (optimize execution hot paths) and #10141 (cache plugin validation success on UnsetException).

[bartv]

cProfile analysis: per-optimization function call reductions

Profiled each optimization branch in isolation against master using cProfile on all 5 real-world benchmarks.

Function call count delta vs master

Branch	athonet	demo	cn_infra	im_infra	systenant
entity-attr-cache	-0.1%	+1.3%	-0.8%	-0.8%	-0.0%
unwrap-reference	-3.5%	+1.8%	-1.6%	-1.1%	-0.0%
type-validation	-0.4%	+1.5%	-1.6%	-1.0%	-0.2%
index-lookup	-0.6%	+1.5%	-0.2%	+0.4%	+0.2%
fstring-singleton	-0.2%	+2.7%	+1.2%	+0.5%	+1.0%
plugin-fastpaths	-0.3%	+1.5%	-1.0%	-0.9%	+0.0%
check-args-cache	-0.2%	+2.3%	+1.2%	+0.5%	+0.9%
logging-guards	-1.0%	+2.3%	+1.1%	+1.4%	+0.8%
gpp-dedup	-6.4%	-3.6%	+0.2%	-10.5%	-22.7%
freeze-dep-cache	-4.6%	-0.8%	+0.6%	-4.6%	-11.6%
resolve-proxies	+1.5%	+2.6%	+1.2%	-0.1%	-1.0%

Absolute function call counts (millions)

Branch	athonet	demo	cn_infra	im_infra	systenant
master	62.5M	22.6M	44.8M	109.0M	113.8M
gpp-dedup	58.5M	21.8M	44.8M	97.5M	88.0M
freeze-dep-cache	59.6M	22.4M	45.0M	103.9M	100.5M
unwrap-reference	60.3M	23.0M	44.0M	107.8M	113.8M

Top eliminated functions (gpp-dedup on systemtenant: 113.8M → 88.0M, -25.8M calls)

Eliminated calls	Saved time	Function
-13.9M	-2.74s	has_relation_precedence_rules()
-11.8M	-4.91s	BaseListVariable.get_progress_potential()
-11.3M	-9.21s	ListVariable.get_progress_potential()
-6.8M	-2.85s	scheduler genexpr (zerowaiters partitioning)
-6.7M	-0.72s	builtins.len
-4.7M	-1.71s	resolve_proxies()
-2.6M	-2.15s	OptionVariable.get_progress_potential()
-2.6M	-1.13s	DelayedResultVariable.get_progress_potential()
-2.0M	-1.21s	get_waiting_providers()

The cascade: deduplicating the get_progress_potential() calls in the zerowaiters loop halves the calls to the entire get_progress_potential → has_relation_precedence_rules → resolve_proxies chain, which reduces scheduler iterations, which further reduces all downstream function calls.

Key observations

1. gpp-dedup (Optimize: avoid duplicate get_progress_potential calls in scheduler #10162) eliminates 25.8M function calls on systemtenant (-22.7%) and 11.5M on inmanta_infra (-10.5%). This is the single most impactful optimization.

2. freeze-dep-cache (Optimize: cache has_relation_precedence_rules as bool flag #10163) shows similar eliminated functions because it touches the same get_progress_potential code path. The overlap means these two PRs have diminishing returns when combined.

3. unwrap-reference (Optimize: replace Protocol isinstance in unwrap_reference with getattr #10155) reduces calls by 3.5% on athonet_mpn (2.2M fewer calls) by eliminating the expensive typing.__instancecheck__ path.

4. Most other optimizations show <1% call count change when isolated — their impact is in reducing per-call overhead (faster execution per call) rather than eliminating calls entirely.

[bartv]

Profile comparison: systemtenant full model (1909 services) with dependency manager

Profiled on the benchmark VM with cProfile. Both runs use the systemtenant fix-speculation branch (dependency manager replacing the empty_source_or_destination plugin).

Total: 1100s (master) → 693s (compiler-perf) — 37% faster

Top functions by self time

Function	master self	perf self	Delta	master calls	perf calls	Notes
runtime:782 get_progress_potential	221s	77s	-65%	472M	250M	Nearly halved calls and time
runtime:686 get_progress_potential	123s	65s	-47%	487M	260M	Same pattern
scheduler:317 find_wait_cycle	106s	106s	0%	894	894	Unchanged — same speculation count
scheduler:470 <genexpr>	70s	—	gone	271M	—	Eliminated in compiler-perf
attribute:238 has_relation_precedence	64s	—	gone	560M	—	Eliminated in compiler-perf
scheduler:365 run	55s	100s	+82%	1	1	More self-time (inlined work from genexpr?)
builtins.len	46s	31s	-33%	758M	487M	271M fewer calls
runtime:853 get_progress_potential	44s	14s	-68%	88M	44M	Halved
scheduler:339 resolve_proxies	43s	—	gone	203M	—	Replaced by _resolve_proxy (29s)
builtins.isinstance	30s	29s	-3%	390M	382M	Barely changed
deque.append	—	25s	new	—	277M	New in compiler-perf (batch processing?)

Key observations

1. has_relation_precedence_rules (64s, 560M calls) — completely eliminated. This was a pure overhead check called on every attribute access.

2. get_progress_potential — halved across all overloads (~389s → ~156s total self). Fewer calls means the scheduler evaluates progress more efficiently.

3. find_wait_cycle — identical 894 calls / 106s in both. The speculation count hasn't changed — compiler-perf optimizes around it but doesn't reduce speculation itself. The dependency manager already eliminated the checkpoint-specific speculation; these 894 remaining cycles are from other sources (Host, AbstractHost, AffinityRule, Environment).

4. resolve_proxies → _resolve_proxy — refactored from 43s/203M calls to 29s/121M calls.

5. The scheduler.run self-time went UP (55s → 100s) because work previously in separate functions (<genexpr>, resolve_proxies) was inlined.

Wall-clock benchmarks (full production model, 1909 services)

Configuration	Time	vs baseline
9.0.0 compiler (old baseline)	4,927s	—
core master + dep manager	395s	-92%
compiler-perf + dep manager	260s	-95%

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