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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:17:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Optimize Memory.set_messages
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The optimization replaces the call to `encoded_tokens_len(message["content"])` with an inlined approximation `len(message["content"]) // 4` in the `get_total_tokens()` method.

**What changed:**
- Instead of calling `encoded_tokens_len()` for each message (which multiplies `len(s)` by 0.25 and converts to int), the code now directly computes `len(message["content"]) // 4` inline.

**Why it's faster:**
1. **Eliminates function call overhead**: Each call to `encoded_tokens_len()` incurs Python function call overhead (argument passing, stack frame creation, return). With hundreds of messages, these microseconds accumulate significantly. The line profiler shows `get_total_tokens()` dropping from 5.06ms to 2.32ms—a 54% reduction.

2. **Avoids floating-point arithmetic**: The original code multiplies by 0.25 (float) then converts to int. The optimized version uses integer division (`// 4`), which is faster as it stays in integer arithmetic throughout.

3. **Better CPU cache locality**: Inlining keeps the hot loop tighter, improving instruction cache utilization during the list comprehension.

**Impact on workloads:**
The annotated tests show consistent speedups across all scenarios:
- Small workloads (single message): ~25-30% faster
- Medium workloads (100 messages): ~85-93% faster
- Large workloads (1000 messages): ~106-110% faster

The speedup scales linearly with message count because the optimization eliminates per-message overhead. Functions that process many messages (batch operations, conversation histories) benefit most. Since `set_messages()` calls `get_total_tokens()` to check against `max_tokens`, any code path that validates message lists sees this improvement.

**Test case performance:**
- Best for large-scale scenarios (500-1000 messages): 85-110% speedup
- Good for typical workloads (10-100 messages): 30-93% speedup
- Minimal but positive impact on edge cases (empty lists, single messages): 2-34% speedup

The optimization maintains identical behavior—both `int(len(s) * 0.25)` and `len(s) // 4` produce the same token approximation for all string lengths.
---
 codeflash/agent/memory.py | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/codeflash/agent/memory.py b/codeflash/agent/memory.py
index 84d0a4933..b8bf1f441 100644
--- a/codeflash/agent/memory.py
+++ b/codeflash/agent/memory.py
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any
 
-from codeflash.code_utils.code_utils import encoded_tokens_len
-
 json_primitive_types = (str, float, int, bool)
 
 
@@ -44,4 +42,4 @@ def get_messages(self) -> list[dict[str, str]]:
         return self._messages
 
     def get_total_tokens(self) -> int:
-        return sum(encoded_tokens_len(message["content"]) for message in self._messages)
+        return sum(len(message["content"]) // 4 for message in self._messages)