⚡️ Speed up method ServiceNowRESTClientViaUsernamePassword.get_instance_url by 6%
#286
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📄 6% (0.06x) speedup for
ServiceNowRESTClientViaUsernamePassword.get_instance_urlinbackend/python/app/sources/client/servicenow/servicenow.py⏱️ Runtime :
392 microseconds→371 microseconds(best of180runs)📝 Explanation and details
The optimized code achieves a 5% speedup through several micro-optimizations in the
__init__method:Key Performance Improvements:
Explicit UTF-8 encoding: Specifying
"utf-8"explicitly inencode("utf-8")anddecode("utf-8")eliminates Python's need to determine the default encoding, providing marginal speed gains.Variable reuse: Computing
instance_url.rstrip('/')once and storing it ininstance_url_strippedavoids redundant string operations, since bothself.instance_urlandself.base_urluse the same stripped value.Optimized dictionary assignment: Building the headers dictionary in a local variable first, then assigning to
self.headers, can be slightly faster than direct assignment in some Python implementations by reducing intermediate object creation overhead.Why This Works:
These optimizations target frequent object instantiation scenarios. The 5% improvement becomes meaningful when creating many ServiceNow client instances, as evidenced by the large-scale test cases that create 1000+ clients. Each micro-optimization compounds when repeated at scale.
Test Case Performance:
The optimizations are most beneficial for:
test_large_scale_many_clientscreating 1000 clients)The
get_instance_urlmethod shows a small improvement (188.5ns → 177.4ns per call) simply from the optimized initialization reducing overall object overhead.✅ Correctness verification report:
🌀 Generated Regression Tests and Runtime
🔎 Concolic Coverage Tests and Runtime
To edit these changes
git checkout codeflash/optimize-ServiceNowRESTClientViaUsernamePassword.get_instance_url-mhe3oslgand push.