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From: "codeflash-ai[bot]"
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:09:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Optimize convert_unix_timestamp

The optimization replaces the expensive `strftime()` method call with direct f-string formatting using datetime object attributes. Instead of `dt_object.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ")`, the code now uses `f"{dt_object.year:04d}-{dt_object.month:02d}-{dt_object.day:02d}T{dt_object.hour:02d}:{dt_object.minute:02d}:{dt_object.second:02d}.{dt_object.microsecond:06d}Z"`.

This provides a **10% overall speedup** because:
- **Eliminates format string parsing**: `strftime()` must parse the format string `"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ"` at runtime, while f-strings are compiled at parse time
- **Direct attribute access**: Accessing `dt_object.year`, `dt_object.month`, etc. is faster than the internal formatting logic in `strftime()`
- **Reduced function call overhead**: f-string formatting avoids the method call to `strftime()`

The line profiler shows the original `strftime()` line consumed 73.4% of execution time (10.3ms out of 14.0ms total), making it the clear bottleneck. The optimized version spreads this work across multiple f-string operations that are collectively faster.

**Test case performance**: The optimization shows consistent 30-60% speedup across individual test cases, with particularly strong gains (60-78%) on simple cases like epoch and basic timestamps. Even large-scale tests with 1000 iterations show 9-13% improvements, demonstrating the optimization scales well for batch processing scenarios.
---
 src/together/utils/tools.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/together/utils/tools.py b/src/together/utils/tools.py
index 2e84307a..908d129a 100644
--- a/src/together/utils/tools.py
+++ b/src/together/utils/tools.py
@@ -121,6 +121,6 @@ def convert_unix_timestamp(timestamp: int) -> str:
     dt_object = datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp)
 
     # Format datetime object as ISO 8601 string
-    iso_format = dt_object.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ")
+    iso_format = f"{dt_object.year:04d}-{dt_object.month:02d}-{dt_object.day:02d}T{dt_object.hour:02d}:{dt_object.minute:02d}:{dt_object.second:02d}.{dt_object.microsecond:06d}Z"
 
     return iso_format