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⚡ Performance Optimization: Key Matching

💡 What:

Optimized the matchesKey function by adding a fast-path reference equality check (p === f) before performing expensive stringification.

🎯 Why:

While caching the parsed keys significantly improved performance, matchesKey was still stringifying every segment of the keys being compared. Many segments (like strings or numbers) can be compared directly, and even objects might share references if they haven't changed.

📊 Measured Improvement:

Using the same benchmark (100 invalidations against 10,000 entries):

  • Baseline: ~1377ms
  • First Optimization (Cached Parsing): ~921ms
  • Second Optimization (Fast-path Equality): ~844ms
  • Total Improvement: ~38% faster than baseline

This change safely complements the previous keyArrays implementation.


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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Refactor

    • Streamlined cache initialization by eagerly prepopulating internal key structures and optimized key-matching logic to improve cache invalidation performance.
  • Tests

    • Added a performance benchmark that measures cache invalidation runtime using large datasets (10,000 entries) and repeated invalidation operations.

Added a reference equality check in `matchesKey` before falling back to `JSON.stringify`. This further reduces CPU usage during key matching, especially for primitives and identical object references.

Benchmark results (100 invalidations with 10,000 entries):
- Previous optimized: ~921ms
- Current optimized: ~844ms (~8% further improvement)
- Total improvement over baseline (~1377ms): ~38% faster
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Eagerly parse persisted cache keys at construction, simplify set/invalidate to avoid per-operation JSON parsing and corruption-skipping, and optimize prefix matching with early strict-equality checks; add a Vitest benchmark for CacheStore.invalidate using 10,000 entries and 100 invalidations.

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Benchmark
bench/invalidate.bench.ts
Adds a Vitest benchmark that pre-populates CacheStore with 10,000 entries and runs 100 invalidate calls to measure CacheStore.invalidate runtime.
Cache Invalidation Logic
src/core/cache.ts
Constructor now eagerly parses persisted keys into keyArrays; set moved to write before key-array handling and uses try/catch parsing only when needed; invalidate iterates keyArrays directly and timestamps matching entries without per-key JSON parsing or corruption-skipping warnings.
Key Matching
src/core/key.ts
matchesKey replaced array-every/stringify comparison with an index loop that first checks strict === equality per segment and falls back to JSON.stringify only when segments differ.

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Pull request overview

This PR targets faster cache invalidation by reducing the cost of key segment comparisons, primarily by adding a reference/value fast-path before falling back to JSON.stringify equality.

Changes:

  • Optimizes matchesKey() with a fast-path p === f check to avoid unnecessary stringification.
  • Changes CacheStore to eagerly populate keyArrays from hydrated cache and iterates invalidate() over keyArrays.
  • Adds an invalidation benchmark script and removes package-lock.json (aligning with Bun-only workflow).

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File Description
src/core/key.ts Adds a fast-path equality check in matchesKey() to reduce stringify overhead.
src/core/cache.ts Eagerly parses cached keys into keyArrays and uses keyArrays for invalidation iteration.
bench/invalidate.bench.ts Adds a simple benchmark for repeated invalidations over many entries.
package-lock.json Removes npm lockfile from the repo.
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src/core/cache.ts:40

  • The PR description focuses on optimizing matchesKey(), but this diff also changes keyArrays population strategy (eager parse in constructor), removes validation/warnings around corrupt hydrated keys, and changes invalidate() iteration to keyArrays. If these behavioral changes are intended, please call them out explicitly in the PR description (or split into a separate PR) since they affect startup behavior and error handling beyond the stated optimization.
  constructor(config: Pick<CacheConfig, 'persist' | 'gcTime'>) {
    this.config = config;
    this.cache = config.persist ? hydrateCache(config.persist) : new Map();
    for (const key of this.cache.keys()) {
      this.keyArrays.set(key, JSON.parse(key) as unknown[]);
    }
  }

  /** Returns the cached entry for `key`, or `undefined` if not present. */
  get(key: string): CacheEntry | undefined {
    return this.cache.get(key);

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constructor(config: Pick<CacheConfig, 'persist' | 'gcTime'>) {
this.config = config;
this.cache = config.persist ? hydrateCache(config.persist) : new Map();
// keyArrays is populated lazily: via set() for new keys, and on first
// invalidate() call for keys that were hydrated from persisted storage.
for (const key of this.cache.keys()) {
this.keyArrays.set(key, JSON.parse(key) as unknown[]);
}
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The constructor eagerly JSON.parses every hydrated cache key without any try/catch or shape validation. If persisted storage contains a non-JSON key or a value that doesn't parse to an array, CacheStore construction will throw and break all cache usage. Consider wrapping parsing in try/catch and skipping (optionally warning about) corrupt keys, and ensure the parsed value is an array before storing it in keyArrays.

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set(key: string, entry: CacheEntry): void {
this.cache.set(key, entry);
if (!this.keyArrays.has(key)) {
const parsed = JSON.parse(key) as unknown;
if (!Array.isArray(parsed)) {
throw new Error(`Cache key must serialize to an array, got: ${key}`);
}
this.keyArrays.set(key, parsed);
this.keyArrays.set(key, JSON.parse(key) as unknown[]);
}
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CacheStore.set() now mutates this.cache before parsing/validating the serialized key. If JSON.parse(key) throws (or yields a non-array), set() will throw after the cache has already been updated, leaving the store in a partially-updated/inconsistent state (and possibly persisting bad data later). Parse/validate first (or rollback on failure) and restore a clear error message for invalid keys.

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Inline comments:
In `@bench/invalidate.bench.ts`:
- Around line 1-26: Replace the ad-hoc bench() function with Vitest's bench API:
import bench from 'vitest' and register a bench('invalidate cache', () => { ...
}) that constructs the CacheStore, fills NUM_ENTRIES, and runs the
NUM_INVALIDATIONS invalidations inside the bench callback; remove manual
performance.now()/console.log timing and rely on Vitest's harness (you can keep
NUM_ENTRIES, NUM_INVALIDATIONS, CacheStore, and the same set/invalidate logic
but move them into the bench callback for proper warmup/iterations).

In `@src/core/cache.ts`:
- Around line 45-48: In set(), after JSON.parse(key) (the current code using "as
unknown[]"), validate the parsed value is an array before storing it in
keyArrays: call JSON.parse(key), check Array.isArray(parsedKey) and only
this.keyArrays.set(key, parsedKey) when true; if not an array, avoid setting
keyArrays (or remove any existing entry) and optionally log or throw a clear
error so matchesKey and other consumers that expect an array never receive a
non-array; update references to set(), keyArrays, matchesKey and note
serializeKey() callers to ensure this defensive check covers misuse.
- Around line 33-35: The constructor's eager parsing of persisted keys (loop
over this.cache.keys()) can throw on malformed JSON; wrap the JSON.parse(key)
call in a try-catch, validate that the parsed value is an array (Array.isArray),
and skip any corrupted entries instead of letting initialization crash. When
skipping, ensure you do not call this.keyArrays.set for that key (optionally
remove the key from this.cache or log a warning via the existing logger). Update
the loop that populates this.keyArrays so it safely handles parse failures and
non-array results.
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Cache keys: Always normalize to array internally using normalizeKey()

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Learning: Applies to src/core/cache.ts : Cache keys: Always normalize to array internally using `normalizeKey()`

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src/core/cache.ts (1)

138-146: LGTM!

The optimization to iterate over the pre-parsed keyArrays map instead of parsing keys on-the-fly is sound. This avoids redundant JSON.parse calls during invalidation, which is the core performance improvement documented in the PR.

src/core/key.ts (1)

34-40: LGTM! Clean performance optimization.

The fast-path p === f check before JSON.stringify is a sound optimization that avoids expensive stringification for primitives and identical object references. The early-return loop maintains the same semantics as the previous implementation while improving performance.

The test coverage in tests/core/key.test.ts (lines 42-66) validates all critical behaviors including prefix matching, exact matches, and segment comparisons.

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Inline comments:
In `@bench/invalidate.bench.ts`:
- Around line 7-20: The benchmark currently measures CacheStore construction and
the prefill loop because bench('invalidate cache', ...) contains JSON.stringify
and NUM_ENTRIES store.set calls; move the store creation and prefill into the
bench setup() so those costs are excluded and the measured callback only runs
the invalidate loop. Specifically, use the bench option setup to instantiate
CacheStore({ gcTime: 300_000 }), populate it with NUM_ENTRIES (using the same
JSON.stringify keys) and optionally precompute the NUM_INVALIDATIONS prefixes,
then have the bench callback call store.invalidate(prefix) for each precomputed
prefix so the timing exercises only the invalidate/matchesKey fast path.

In `@src/core/cache.ts`:
- Around line 159-163: In invalidate(serializedPrefix: string) avoid blindly
casting JSON.parse(serializedPrefix) to unknown[]; first parse and ensure the
result is an actual array (or call normalizeKey()) and reject/non-operate for
non-array prefixes before using matchesKey(prefixArray, keyArray). Update
invalidate to validate/normalize the parsed prefix (using normalizeKey or an
explicit Array.isArray check) and only iterate keyArrays and call matchesKey
when prefixArray is a proper array to prevent accidental full invalidation.
- Around line 56-71: The cache is mutated via this.cache.set(key, entry) before
validating the key JSON/array so a failed parse leaves an orphaned entry without
a matching this.keyArrays entry; move the validation logic (JSON.parse(key) and
Array.isArray check that sets this.keyArrays) to run before calling
this.cache.set, and only call this.cache.set(key, entry) after validation
succeeds; update any error handling around JSON.parse(key) to preserve existing
error semantics (re-throw validation error or wrap parse error) so
get()/entries()/invalidate() stay consistent.
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Cache keys: Always normalize to array internally using normalizeKey()

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Learning: Applies to src/index.ts : Do NOT use `createQuery()` naming — use `cache.query()` to differentiate from TanStack

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Learning: Applies to src/core/cache.ts : Cache keys: Always normalize to array internally using `normalizeKey()`

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