carthage-software/mago 1.0.0-alpha.6

Mago 1.0.0-alpha.6

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This is a major performance-focused release, delivering significant improvements to both execution speed and memory usage. Through a series of targeted optimizations, Mago is now substantially faster on small-to-medium codebases and drastically leaner on large ones.

🚀 Performance Improvements

This release cycle has been dedicated to making Mago faster and more efficient. Benchmarks comparing this release (1.0.0-alpha.6) with 1.0.0-alpha.4 show the following results ( mago analyze ):

On the large WordPress codebase, these changes resulted in over 210 MB of RAM savings, making the analyzer more capable of handling massive projects.

Key optimizations include:

• Span Size Reduction: The core Span struct was reduced in size by 50% (from 32 to 16 bytes), dramatically lowering memory usage.
• Parallel File Loading: The database loader now uses rayon to discover and read files in parallel, providing a significant speedup on small projects.
• Efficient Data Structures: Core data structures in the codex and algebra crates were migrated from BTreeMap to IndexMap for faster lookups.
• Memory Sharing with Cow and Arc: The database was refactored to use Copy-on-Write strings and Arc to share file data cheaply across threads.

🐛 Fixes & Improvements

• CI & Tests: Corrected a build failure and fixed broken tests that affected the 1.0.0-alpha.5 release.
• Stubs: Added missing public properties to the DateInterval class stub for more accurate analysis. (by @Bleksak in #273)
• Analyzer: Improved template type inference when converting between list and keyed arrays.
• Formatter: Fixed an issue where the formatter would incorrectly add newlines for arguments that were already multi-line constructs. (Closes #244)
• Typos: Corrected various typos across multiple crates. (@szepeviktor in #276)

🛠️ Chores & Refactoring

• Docs: Improved the formatting of the main README.md file. (by @szepeviktor in #278)
• The rand dependency has been removed from the mago-algebra crate.
• Unnecessary #[repr(C)] attributes were removed from AST and span structs.
• Added new badges to the project README.

New Contributors

• @szepeviktor made their first contribution in #276
• @Bleksak made their first contribution in #273

Full Changelog: 1.0.0-alpha.4...1.0.0-alpha.6