⚡️ Speed up method Anchor._link_annotate_element by 14%

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📄 14% (0.14x) speedup for Anchor._link_annotate_element in unstructured/partition/html/parser.py

⏱️ Runtime : 20.9 microseconds → 18.3 microseconds (best of 57 runs)

📝 Explanation and details

The optimization replaces expensive list concatenation operations with efficient in-place mutations.

Key Changes:

• Eliminated list concatenation: The original code used (element.metadata.link_texts or []) + [link_text] which creates a new list every time, requiring memory allocation and copying of existing elements.
• Added conditional in-place appending: The optimized version checks if the list exists and uses .append() to add elements directly, or creates a new single-element list only when necessary.

Why This Is Faster:

• Reduced memory allocations: List concatenation with + operator creates entirely new list objects, while .append() modifies existing lists in-place with O(1) amortized complexity.
• Eliminated unnecessary copying: The original approach copies all existing list elements during concatenation, while the optimized version only adds new elements.
• Better cache locality: In-place mutations keep data structures in the same memory location, improving CPU cache efficiency.

Performance Impact by Test Case:

• Best gains (42-58% faster): Large-scale scenarios with many existing links benefit most, as they avoid copying hundreds of elements repeatedly.
• Moderate gains (11-27% faster): Standard use cases with empty/None lists still benefit from avoiding unnecessary list creation.
• Consistent improvement: Even edge cases show 2-15% speedups, demonstrating the optimization's broad applicability.

The 13% overall speedup comes from eliminating the most expensive operations identified by the line profiler - the list concatenation lines that consumed 27.6% and 13.8% of total execution time.

✅ Correctness verification report:

Test	Status
⚙️ Existing Unit Tests	✅ 70 Passed
🌀 Generated Regression Tests	✅ 29 Passed
⏪ Replay Tests	🔘 None Found
🔎 Concolic Coverage Tests	✅ 2 Passed
📊 Tests Coverage	100.0%

⚙️ Existing Unit Tests and Runtime

🌀 Generated Regression Tests and Runtime

import pytest

from unstructured.partition.html.parser import Anchor


# Minimal stubs for dependencies, as we can't import the real ones
class Metadata:
    def __init__(self, link_texts=None, link_urls=None):
        self.link_texts = link_texts
        self.link_urls = link_urls


class Element:
    def __init__(self, text=None, metadata=None):
        self.text = text
        self.metadata = metadata if metadata is not None else Metadata()


# Minimal Phrasing base class
class Phrasing:
    def __init__(self, href=None):
        self.attrs = {}
        if href is not None:
            self.attrs["href"] = href

    def get(self, key):
        return self.attrs.get(key)


# ------------------------
# Unit tests for Anchor._link_annotate_element
# ------------------------

# Basic Test Cases


def test_basic_annotation():
    # Test normal annotation
    anchor = Anchor(href="https://example.com")
    elem = Element(text="Example", metadata=Metadata())
    codeflash_output = anchor._link_annotate_element(elem)
    result = codeflash_output  # 1.21μs -> 1.08μs (11.5% faster)


def test_existing_metadata_lists():
    # Test when link_texts and link_urls are already present
    anchor = Anchor(href="https://foo.com")
    elem = Element(
        text="Foo", metadata=Metadata(link_texts=["OldText"], link_urls=["https://old.com"])
    )
    codeflash_output = anchor._link_annotate_element(elem)
    result = codeflash_output  # 1.00μs -> 958ns (4.38% faster)


def test_none_metadata_lists():
    # Test when link_texts and link_urls are None
    anchor = Anchor(href="https://bar.com")
    elem = Element(text="Bar", metadata=Metadata(link_texts=None, link_urls=None))
    codeflash_output = anchor._link_annotate_element(elem)
    result = codeflash_output  # 916ns -> 792ns (15.7% faster)


def test_empty_metadata_lists():
    # Test when link_texts and link_urls are empty lists
    anchor = Anchor(href="https://baz.com")
    elem = Element(text="Baz", metadata=Metadata(link_texts=[], link_urls=[]))
    codeflash_output = anchor._link_annotate_element(elem)
    result = codeflash_output  # 875ns -> 750ns (16.7% faster)


# Edge Test Cases


def test_no_text():
    # Test when element.text is None
    anchor = Anchor(href="https://no-text.com")
    elem = Element(text=None, metadata=Metadata())
    codeflash_output = anchor._link_annotate_element(elem)
    result = codeflash_output  # 583ns -> 458ns (27.3% faster)


def test_empty_text():
    # Test when element.text is empty string
    anchor = Anchor(href="https://empty-text.com")
    elem = Element(text="", metadata=Metadata())
    codeflash_output = anchor._link_annotate_element(elem)
    result = codeflash_output  # 542ns -> 500ns (8.40% faster)


def test_empty_href():
    # Test when href is empty string
    anchor = Anchor(href="")
    elem = Element(text="Link", metadata=Metadata())
    codeflash_output = anchor._link_annotate_element(elem)
    result = codeflash_output  # 708ns -> 791ns (10.5% slower)


def test_metadata_object_missing_attributes():
    # Test when metadata object doesn't have link_texts or link_urls attributes
    class WeirdMetadata:
        pass

    anchor = Anchor(href="https://weird.com")
    elem = Element(text="Weird", metadata=WeirdMetadata())
    # Should raise AttributeError
    with pytest.raises(AttributeError):
        anchor._link_annotate_element(elem)  # 1.58μs -> 1.50μs (5.53% faster)


def test_text_is_non_string():
    # Test when text is not a string (e.g., integer)
    anchor = Anchor(href="https://int.com")
    elem = Element(text=123, metadata=Metadata())
    codeflash_output = anchor._link_annotate_element(elem)
    result = codeflash_output  # 1.08μs -> 1.00μs (8.30% faster)


def test_text_is_whitespace():
    # Test when text is whitespace only
    anchor = Anchor(href="https://white.com")
    elem = Element(text="   ", metadata=Metadata())
    codeflash_output = anchor._link_annotate_element(elem)
    result = codeflash_output  # 1.25μs -> 1.17μs (7.11% faster)


# Large Scale Test Cases


def test_large_number_of_existing_links():
    # Test performance and correctness with large lists
    anchor = Anchor(href="https://large.com")
    prev_texts = [f"text{i}" for i in range(500)]
    prev_urls = [f"https://url{i}.com" for i in range(500)]
    elem = Element(
        text="FinalText",
        metadata=Metadata(link_texts=prev_texts.copy(), link_urls=prev_urls.copy()),
    )
    codeflash_output = anchor._link_annotate_element(elem)
    result = codeflash_output  # 2.50μs -> 1.75μs (42.9% faster)


def test_large_number_of_new_links():
    # Test annotating many elements in sequence
    anchor = Anchor(href="https://batch.com")
    elem = Element(text="BatchText", metadata=Metadata())
    for i in range(500):  # Avoid >1000 as per instructions
        elem.metadata.link_texts = (elem.metadata.link_texts or []) + [f"text{i}"]
        elem.metadata.link_urls = (elem.metadata.link_urls or []) + [f"https://url{i}.com"]
    codeflash_output = anchor._link_annotate_element(elem)
    result = codeflash_output  # 2.04μs -> 1.29μs (58.1% faster)


def test_performance_with_large_text():
    # Test with a very large text string
    anchor = Anchor(href="https://bigtext.com")
    big_text = "a" * 10000
    elem = Element(text=big_text, metadata=Metadata())
    codeflash_output = anchor._link_annotate_element(elem)
    result = codeflash_output  # 958ns -> 833ns (15.0% faster)


def test_performance_with_large_href():
    # Test with a very large href string
    big_href = "https://example.com/" + "b" * 10000
    anchor = Anchor(href=big_href)
    elem = Element(text="BigHref", metadata=Metadata())
    codeflash_output = anchor._link_annotate_element(elem)
    result = codeflash_output  # 5.12μs -> 5.00μs (2.50% faster)


# codeflash_output is used to check that the output of the original code is the same as that of the optimized code.

from unstructured.documents.elements import Text
from unstructured.partition.html.parser import Anchor


def test_Anchor__link_annotate_element():
    Anchor._link_annotate_element(
        Anchor(),
        Text(
            "\x00",
            element_id="",
            coordinates=None,
            coordinate_system=None,
            metadata=None,
            detection_origin=None,
            embeddings=None,
        ),
    )

🔎 Concolic Coverage Tests and Runtime

Test File::Test Function	Original ⏱️	Optimized ⏱️	Speedup
codeflash_concolic_e8goshnj/tmpmkgxzb76/test_concolic_coverage.py::test_Anchor__link_annotate_element	500ns	458ns	9.17%✅

To edit these changes git checkout codeflash/optimize-Anchor._link_annotate_element-mjehlbfr and push.