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⚡️ Speed up function
* Optimize function_is_a_property
The optimized version achieves a **60% speedup** by replacing Python's `any()` generator expression with a manual loop and making three key micro-optimizations:
**What was optimized:**
1. **Replaced `isinstance()` with `type() is`**: Direct type comparison (`type(node) is ast_Name`) is faster than `isinstance(node, ast.Name)` for AST nodes where subclassing is rare
2. **Eliminated repeated lookups**: Cached `"property"` as `property_id` and `ast.Name` as `ast_Name` in local variables to avoid global/attribute lookups in the loop
3. **Manual loop with early return**: Replaced `any()` generator with explicit `for` loop that returns `True` immediately upon finding a match, avoiding generator overhead
**Why it's faster:**
- The `any()` function creates generator machinery that adds overhead, especially for small decorator lists
- `isinstance()` performs multiple checks while `type() is` does a single identity comparison
- Local variable access is significantly faster than repeated global/attribute lookups in tight loops
**Performance characteristics from tests:**
- **Small decorator lists** (1-3 decorators): 50-80% faster due to reduced per-iteration overhead
- **Large decorator lists** (1000+ decorators): 55-60% consistent speedup, with early termination providing additional benefits when `@property` appears early
- **Empty decorator lists**: 77% faster due to avoiding `any()` generator setup entirely
**Impact on workloads:**
Based on the function references, this function is called during AST traversal in `visit_FunctionDef` and `visit_AsyncFunctionDef` methods - likely part of a code analysis pipeline that processes many functions. The 60% speedup will be particularly beneficial when analyzing codebases with many decorated functions, as this optimization reduces overhead in a hot path that's called once per function definition.
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Co-authored-by: Kevin Turcios <[email protected]>function_is_a_property by 60% (#974)1 parent e8fba39 commit 29bffe9
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