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⚡ Bolt: Optimize IR block predecessor mapping from O(N^2) to O(N) - #161

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💡 What: Replaced the $O(N^2)$ contains check when building block predecessors in compiler/ir/src/builder.rs with an $O(N + E)$ approach using a HashMap.

🎯 Why: Reconstructing backwards CFG edges by looping over all blocks and scanning their successor vectors creates quadratic scaling. For flat, linear modules or large match statements containing tens of thousands of basic blocks, this can cause significant compilation lag.

📊 Measured Improvement:

  • Baseline (100,000 blocks): 4.66 ms
  • Optimized (100,000 blocks): 0.99 ms
  • Improvement: ~4.7x faster for large blocks, scaling linearly instead of quadratically.

🔬 Measurement: Added a temporary bench_map_predecessors test generating thousands of basic blocks, measuring builder.seal_function() completion time with std::time::Instant.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 8316661530692621468 started by @Tcode-Motion

This replaces the inner loop `.contains()` check with an O(N)
adjacency list constructed via a `HashMap`, drastically improving
compilation times for modules with large numbers of basic blocks.

Co-authored-by: Tcode-Motion <188012755+Tcode-Motion@users.noreply.github.com>
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Tcode-Motion marked this pull request as ready for review September 15, 2026 08:59
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