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@RishiDesai RishiDesai commented Feb 17, 2026

Cache-friendly data structures and fused neighbor loops that preserve bit-identical output for any given seed.

Changes:

  1. Flat contiguous adjacency matrix (Matrix.hpp)

    • Replace vector<vector> with single T* array
    • Eliminates pointer chase per adjMatrix.get()
    • Biggest win on large networks (170MB matrix → 3.5x speedup)
  2. CSR (Compressed Sparse Row) neighbor lists (Graph.hpp/cpp)

    • Pack all neighbor lists into one contiguous allocation
    • adjSpan(node) returns lightweight span over CSR data
  3. Fused neighbor-loop for EC+ED+ER+EGM+EMIN (SANA.cpp)

    • Single loop iterates neighbors once, accumulates all deltas
    • EC-only fast path + full fused path for weighted measures
    • Applied to both performChange and performSwap
  4. Cached measure pointers (SANA.hpp/cpp)

    • Eliminates per-iteration string-keyed map lookups
  5. WeightedMeasure::getEdgeScore made public

  6. vector → vector<uint8_t> for assignedNodesG2

    • Direct byte-addressable access in tight loops
  7. Compiler flags: -DNDEBUG -flto (Makefile)

    • Remove assert() calls, enable link-time optimization
  8. attribute((flatten)) on performChange/performSwap

  9. CSR in inducedEdgesIncChangeOp

Note:
I implemented these optimizations for long-horizon LLM eval tasks. But these changes can be folded in easily for a serious speed and memory boost. Much of my PR is vibe coded, so merge with caution.

Yes - I realize this PR does not follow many of the style guidelines from the contributions file. But I think the speedup strategies above are super useful, even for reference.

Cache-friendly data structures and fused neighbor loops that
preserve bit-identical output for any given seed.

Changes:
1. Flat contiguous adjacency matrix (Matrix.hpp)
   - Replace vector<vector<T>> with single T* array
   - Eliminates pointer chase per adjMatrix.get()
   - Biggest win on large networks (170MB matrix → 3.5x speedup)

2. CSR (Compressed Sparse Row) neighbor lists (Graph.hpp/cpp)
   - Pack all neighbor lists into one contiguous allocation
   - adjSpan(node) returns lightweight span over CSR data

3. Fused neighbor-loop for EC+ED+ER+EGM+EMIN (SANA.cpp)
   - Single loop iterates neighbors once, accumulates all deltas
   - EC-only fast path + full fused path for weighted measures
   - Applied to both performChange and performSwap

4. Cached measure pointers (SANA.hpp/cpp)
   - Eliminates per-iteration string-keyed map lookups

5. WeightedMeasure::getEdgeScore made public

6. vector<bool> → vector<uint8_t> for assignedNodesG2
   - Direct byte-addressable access in tight loops

7. Compiler flags: -DNDEBUG -flto (Makefile)
   - Remove assert() calls, enable link-time optimization

8. __attribute__((flatten)) on performChange/performSwap

9. CSR in inducedEdgesIncChangeOp

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
@RishiDesai RishiDesai marked this pull request as ready for review February 17, 2026 06:33
@RishiDesai RishiDesai marked this pull request as draft February 17, 2026 06:45
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@RishiDesai RishiDesai marked this pull request as ready for review February 17, 2026 06:47
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