ruff/crates/ruff_python_ast
Charlie Marsh 76148ddb76
Store call paths rather than stringified names (#6102)
## Summary

Historically, we've stored "qualified names" on our
`BindingKind::Import`, `BindingKind::SubmoduleImport`, and
`BindingKind::ImportFrom` structs. In Ruff, a "qualified name" is a
dot-separated path to a symbol. For example, given `import foo.bar`, the
"qualified name" would be `"foo.bar"`; and given `from foo.bar import
baz`, the "qualified name" would be `foo.bar.baz`.

This PR modifies the `BindingKind` structs to instead store _call paths_
rather than qualified names. So in the examples above, we'd store
`["foo", "bar"]` and `["foo", "bar", "baz"]`. It turns out that this
more efficient given our data access patterns. Namely, we frequently
need to convert the qualified name to a call path (whenever we call
`resolve_call_path`), and it turns out that we do this operation enough
that those conversations show up on benchmarks.

There are a few other advantages to using call paths, rather than
qualified names:

1. The size of `BindingKind` is reduced from 32 to 24 bytes, since we no
longer need to store a `String` (only a boxed slice).
2. All three import types are more consistent, since they now all store
a boxed slice, rather than some storing an `&str` and some storing a
`String` (for `BindingKind::ImportFrom`, we needed to allocate a
`String` to create the qualified name, but the call path is a slice of
static elements that don't require that allocation).
3. A lot of code gets simpler, in part because we now do call path
resolution "earlier". Most notably, for relative imports (`from .foo
import bar`), we store the _resolved_ call path rather than the relative
call path, so the semantic model doesn't have to deal with that
resolution. (See that `resolve_call_path` is simpler, fewer branches,
etc.)

In my testing, this change improves the all-rules benchmark by another
4-5% on top of the improvements mentioned in #6047.
2023-08-05 15:21:50 +00:00
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src Store call paths rather than stringified names (#6102) 2023-08-05 15:21:50 +00:00
tests Rename Arguments to Parameters in the AST (#6253) 2023-08-01 13:53:28 -04:00
Cargo.toml Add static assertions to nodes (#6228) 2023-08-01 11:54:49 +02:00