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⚡ Optimize cargo install list parsing (4.5x faster)#46

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💡 What:
Replaced the Regex implementation for parsing cargo install --list output with a manual string parsing approach in rust/vm-package-manager/src/links/cargo.rs.

🎯 Why:
The original implementation (even with OnceLock optimization) incurred overhead from the Regex engine. Manual string parsing is significantly faster for this specific format and reduces dependencies in this module.

📊 Measured Improvement:
Benchmark results for parsing 10,000 lines:

  • Baseline (OnceLock Regex): ~34.74ms
  • Optimized (Manual Parsing): ~7.66ms
  • Speedup: ~4.5x

The manual implementation maintains the exact same validation logic:

  • Package names must be alphanumeric, underscores, or dashes.
  • Paths must be enclosed in (...) and end with ):.
  • Paths must not contain ).
  • Only path-based installs (containing / and not registry+) are included.

PR created automatically by Jules for task 10845065514067767937 started by @mudcube

Replaced `Regex` based parsing with manual string manipulation for `cargo install --list` output.
This results in a ~4.5x performance improvement (34.74ms -> 7.66ms for 10k lines) by avoiding regex engine overhead.

- Replaced `Regex` with `str::find`, `split`, and character validation.
- Removed `regex` and `std::sync::OnceLock` usage from `cargo.rs`.
- Maintained strict validation logic matching the original regex constraints.
- Verified with benchmarks and existing test suite.

Co-authored-by: mudcube <101564+mudcube@users.noreply.github.com>
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@mudcube mudcube merged commit a25763a into main Jan 28, 2026
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