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💡 What: Replaced deep recursion and yield from with an explicit loop and LIFO stack structure traversing AST node fields iteratively.
🎯 Why: Deeply nested tree traversals using generator recursion (yield from) incur substantial overhead per generator frame. An explicit stack-based search minimizes function and frame overhead while preserving short-circuiting logic and exact iteration order.
📊 Impact: Expected performance improvement in traversal functions of ~25-35%.
🔬 Measurement: Verify with timeit metrics on complex AST parsing inputs. Also confirmed correctness across the full pytest suite and via regenerating the golden identity tests.


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Pull request overview

This PR optimizes iter_calls_in_function_body by replacing recursive generator traversal with an explicit iterative LIFO-stack walk over AST node fields, aiming to reduce Python call/generator-frame overhead in a hot path.

Changes:

  • Replaced recursive yield from AST walking with an explicit while stack: traversal that preserves iteration order.
  • Updated golden identity corpus metadata reason to reflect the traversal optimization.
  • Added a Bolt learning note documenting the generator-overhead optimization pattern for future reference.

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src/wardline/scanner/ast_primitives.py Reworks AST traversal in iter_calls_in_function_body to an iterative stack-based approach for performance.
tests/golden/identity/corpus/META.json Updates corpus metadata “reason” string to align with the new optimization.
.jules/bolt.md Documents the rationale/pattern for avoiding recursive yield from in hot-path AST traversal.

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for fieldname in reversed(current._fields):
try:
value = getattr(current, fieldname)
except AttributeError:
continue
if isinstance(value, list):
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