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⚡ Bolt: Replace entry.path().is_file() with entry.file_type() to eliminate stat syscall overhead#578

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💡 What: Replaced .path().is_file() with .file_type().is_some_and(|ft| ft.is_file()) across directory traversal operations in mill-services and mill-handlers.
🎯 Why: Calling .is_file() on the .path() triggers a completely new stat filesystem syscall for every entry when walking a directory. This is expensive on large directories. Using entry.file_type() utilizes the metadata that was already retrieved natively during the readdir operation by the underlying traversal library (ignore crate).
📊 Impact: Significantly faster file discovery and directory walking, preventing unnecessary O(N) system calls across the workspace during operations like project indexing, renaming, pruning, and checksums.
🔬 Measurement: Verify tests run successfully via cargo test -p mill-services -p mill-handlers. On larger codebases, system-level profiling via tools like strace will show a dramatic reduction in stat calls during rename and prune operations.


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for entry in walker.flatten() {
if entry.path().is_file() {
// OPTIMIZATION: Use entry.file_type() from readdir instead of entry.path().is_file() to avoid stat syscalls
if entry.file_type().is_some_and(|ft| ft.is_file()) {

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P2 Badge Preserve symlinked files in directory checksums

When the renamed directory contains a symlink that points to a regular file, this new predicate skips it because WalkBuilder is not configured with follow_links, so entry.file_type() reports the symlink itself rather than the target. The previous entry.path().is_file() followed the symlink and included that path in file_checksums; now those symlinked file entries are omitted from apply-time validation, so concurrent changes through those paths are no longer detected for directory renames. Consider falling back to entry.path().is_file() only for symlink entries if you want to avoid the extra stat for normal files.

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