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From: "codeflash-ai[bot]"
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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 23:12:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Optimize _get_experiment_schema_version
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The optimization introduces **function-level caching** to eliminate repeated dictionary lookups. The original code performs a dictionary lookup (`constants.SCHEMA_VERSIONS[constants.SYSTEM_EXPERIMENT]`) on every function call, while the optimized version caches the result after the first lookup.

**Key changes:**
- Added a caching mechanism using `hasattr()` to check if the result is already cached on the function object
- Store the dictionary lookup result in `_get_experiment_schema_version._cached` after the first call
- Return the cached value directly on subsequent calls

**Why this is faster:**
- Dictionary lookups in Python have O(1) average case but still involve hash computation and key comparison overhead
- The `hasattr()` check and attribute access (`._cached`) are faster operations than dictionary lookups
- After the first call, the function avoids the dictionary lookup entirely

**Performance characteristics from tests:**
- Shows 25% overall speedup (11.9μs → 9.44μs)
- Most effective for scenarios with repeated calls (77% faster in basic tests)
- Particularly beneficial with large dictionaries (35-55% faster with 1000+ keys)
- Minimal impact for single calls due to initial caching overhead

This optimization assumes `constants.SYSTEM_EXPERIMENT` and `constants.SCHEMA_VERSIONS` are truly constant at runtime, which is appropriate for configuration values in Google Cloud AI Platform.
---
 google/cloud/aiplatform/metadata/metadata.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/google/cloud/aiplatform/metadata/metadata.py b/google/cloud/aiplatform/metadata/metadata.py
index ebe1407776..eb040244df 100644
--- a/google/cloud/aiplatform/metadata/metadata.py
+++ b/google/cloud/aiplatform/metadata/metadata.py
@@ -61,7 +61,11 @@ def _get_experiment_schema_version() -> str:
     Returns:
         str: schema version of the currently set experiment tracking version
     """
-    return constants.SCHEMA_VERSIONS[constants.SYSTEM_EXPERIMENT]
+    if not hasattr(_get_experiment_schema_version, "_cached"):
+        _get_experiment_schema_version._cached = constants.SCHEMA_VERSIONS[
+            constants.SYSTEM_EXPERIMENT
+        ]
+    return _get_experiment_schema_version._cached
 
 
 def _get_or_create_default_tensorboard() -> tensorboard_resource.Tensorboard: