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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:21:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Optimize fibonacci
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The optimized code applies **memoization** to eliminate redundant recursive calls, dramatically reducing time complexity from exponential O(φ^n) ≈ O(1.618^n) to linear O(n).

**Key Changes:**
- Added a `Map`-based cache to store previously computed Fibonacci values
- Each result is computed once and retrieved from cache on subsequent calls
- Cache lookups occur before recursion, short-circuiting expensive recomputation

**Why This Is Faster:**
The naive recursive implementation recomputes the same Fibonacci values exponentially many times. For example, `fibonacci(30)` triggers over 2.6 million recursive calls. With memoization, each value from 0 to n is computed exactly once, reducing 30 calls to just 31 cache operations—a fundamental algorithmic improvement that scales exponentially better.

**Performance Impact:**
- The **1,298x speedup** (8.55ms → 6.58μs) reflects this exponential → linear transformation
- For `fibonacci(30)`, the test completes well under the 2000ms threshold (vs. potentially minutes without caching)
- Sequential and repeated calls benefit immensely—once cached, lookups are O(1)
- The optimization shines for inputs ≥15 where naive recursion becomes noticeably slow

**Test Case Analysis:**
- **Small inputs (n ≤ 10)**: Minimal difference, but still faster due to cache hits on repeated calls
- **Medium inputs (n = 15-25)**: Major gains; tests that check recurrence relations (`fibonacci(n-1) + fibonacci(n-2)`) benefit from overlapping subproblems being cached
- **Large inputs (n = 30)**: Transforms impractical runtime into microseconds
- **Repeated calls**: Determinism tests see instant O(1) retrieval after first computation

The cache persists across function calls, making this optimization especially valuable in workloads with repeated or sequential Fibonacci queries.
---
 code_to_optimize_js/fibonacci.js | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/code_to_optimize_js/fibonacci.js b/code_to_optimize_js/fibonacci.js
index b0ab2b51c..05662900e 100644
--- a/code_to_optimize_js/fibonacci.js
+++ b/code_to_optimize_js/fibonacci.js
@@ -8,11 +8,19 @@
  * @param {number} n - The index of the Fibonacci number to calculate
  * @returns {number} - The nth Fibonacci number
  */
+const cache = new Map();
+
 function fibonacci(n) {
+    if (cache.has(n)) return cache.get(n);
     if (n <= 1) {
+        cache.set(n, n);
         return n;
     }
-    return fibonacci(n - 1) + fibonacci(n - 2);
+    const a = fibonacci(n - 1);
+    const b = fibonacci(n - 2);
+    const res = a + b;
+    cache.set(n, res);
+    return res;
 }
 
 /**