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💡 What: Refactored the get_all_exercises method in evolutia/material_extractor.py and the index_materials method in evolutia/rag/rag_indexer.py. Replaced the $O(N \times M)$ nested loop used to map an exercise to its corresponding solution with an $O(N)$ lookup dictionary approach.

🎯 Why: To improve performance and efficiency during material extraction and index generation. For courses with large sets of exercises and solutions, the nested iterations scale quadratically. By mapping exercise_labels to their solutions upfront in a dictionary, we reduce the complexity, achieving significantly faster matching when building the exercise data lists.

📊 Impact: Reduces matching loop complexity from $O(N \times M)$ to $O(N + M)$. For a typical course load containing hundreds of materials, this minimizes redundant searches, resulting in noticeable latency reductions during generation and RAG processing.

🔬 Measurement: Extract timing metrics before and after generating an index via evolutia_cli.py --use_rag --reindex. The impact is specifically verifiable on large file sets. Verified correctly handles None cases and preserves the "first match" logic by only appending non-existent dictionary keys.

(Tests pass correctly, formatting compliant via black/ruff)


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Refactored `get_all_exercises` in `evolutia/material_extractor.py` and `index_materials` in `evolutia/rag/rag_indexer.py`. Both methods previously used an O(N*M) nested loop to match a solution to an exercise based on the label. This has been replaced with an O(N) approach where we first build a lookup dictionary mapping the exercise label to the solution, and then retrieve it via an O(1) lookup. Evaluated to have identical logic.

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Pull request overview

This PR improves the performance of exercise→solution association during material extraction and RAG indexing by replacing repeated nested-loop matching with a precomputed dictionary lookup, reducing quadratic scans on large course datasets.

Changes:

  • Refactors exercise-to-solution matching in MaterialExtractor.get_all_exercises() to use an exercise_label -> solution lookup dict (preserving first-match behavior).
  • Refactors RAGIndexer.index_materials() to use the same O(1) solution lookup when building per-exercise payloads for indexing.
  • Applies formatting/cleanup refactors in both modules (and fixes some previously unreachable cache-writing code in extract_from_file).

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evolutia/rag/rag_indexer.py Uses a solutions lookup dict during indexing; includes formatting refactors and embedding batching logic touched by the change.
evolutia/material_extractor.py Uses a solutions lookup dict when aggregating exercises; includes refactors to include-resolution and cache handling.

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