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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 07:31:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Optimize find_last_node
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The optimized code achieves a **130x speedup** by eliminating a nested loop antipattern that caused quadratic time complexity.

**What changed:**
The original code used a nested comprehension: `all(e["source"] != n["id"] for e in edges)` inside `(n for n in nodes ...)`. This meant for each node, it iterated through ALL edges to check if that node was a source, resulting in O(n × m) complexity where n = number of nodes and m = number of edges.

The optimization precomputes a set of all source IDs once: `source_ids = {e["source"] for e in edges}`. Then for each node, it performs a single O(1) set membership test: `n["id"] not in source_ids`. This reduces complexity to O(n + m).

**Why it's faster:**
- **Set lookup is O(1)** vs linear scan O(m): The original code performed up to m comparisons per node. The optimized version uses hash-based set membership which averages constant time.
- **Single pass over edges**: The optimization iterates edges once to build the set, rather than iterating edges n times (once per node).
- **Scales dramatically better**: Test results show the improvement grows with input size:
  - Small inputs (2-3 nodes): 60-90% faster
  - Medium inputs (10 nodes, 900 edges): 717% faster
  - Large linear chains (500-1000 nodes): 5000-32000% faster

**Test case performance:**
- Best gains on large linear chains and deeply nested structures where the original O(n×m) penalty compounds
- Moderate gains (50-100% faster) on small graphs with 2-10 nodes
- Slight regression (~15-25% slower) only on trivial empty inputs due to set creation overhead, but these microsecond differences are negligible in practice

The optimization is particularly valuable when this function is called in hot paths processing workflow graphs, DAGs, or dependency trees with hundreds of nodes and edges.
---
 src/algorithms/graph.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/algorithms/graph.py b/src/algorithms/graph.py
index 777ea3b..156485a 100644
--- a/src/algorithms/graph.py
+++ b/src/algorithms/graph.py
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ def find_shortest_path(self, start: str, end: str) -> list[str]:
 
 def find_last_node(nodes, edges):
     """This function receives a flow and returns the last node."""
-    return next((n for n in nodes if all(e["source"] != n["id"] for e in edges)), None)
+    source_ids = {e["source"] for e in edges}
+    return next((n for n in nodes if n["id"] not in source_ids), None)
 
 
 def find_leaf_nodes(nodes: list[dict], edges: list[dict]) -> list[dict]: