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Copilot AI commented Oct 29, 2025

Identified and eliminated performance bottlenecks in frequently-called utility functions during CSS processing.

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String operations

  • isColor(): Skip toLowerCase() when input contains no uppercase chars (most common case)
  • convertUnderscoresToWhitespace(): Early return when no underscores present
  • allVariablesAreUsed(): Replace RegExp creation in loop with string methods

Redundant checks

  • expandSequence(): Remove duplicate numeric validation (already guaranteed by parent regex)
  • hasMathFn(): Avoid template string creation, check all occurrences not just first

Data structure improvements

  • Replace equality chains with Set.has() in isGenericName(), isAbsoluteSize(), isLineWidth(), isBackgroundPosition()

Example optimization:

// Before: 13 equality checks
function isGenericName(value: string): boolean {
  return value === 'serif' || value === 'sans-serif' || /* ... 11 more */
}

// After: O(1) Set lookup
const GENERIC_NAMES = new Set(['serif', 'sans-serif', /* ... */])
function isGenericName(value: string): boolean {
  return GENERIC_NAMES.has(value)
}

Impact: 11 functions optimized across 7 files. Reduces allocations and unnecessary work in paths called millions of times during builds.

Original prompt

Identify and suggest improvements to slow or inefficient code

Copilot AI and others added 4 commits October 29, 2025 11:30
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Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Identify and suggest improvements for slow code perf: Optimize hot paths in utility functions Oct 29, 2025
Copilot AI requested a review from philipp-spiess October 29, 2025 11:47
Copilot finished work on behalf of philipp-spiess October 29, 2025 11:47
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(this is just me trying out githubs new agent features please ignore)

@philipp-spiess philipp-spiess deleted the copilot/identify-code-inefficiencies branch October 29, 2025 15:08
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