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⚡ Bolt: Trie and Bloom Filter optimizations

💡 What:
I've implemented several performance optimizations in the Rust backend of HyperTrie and fixed a critical case-insensitivity bug.

  • Bloom Filter: Optimized hashing by hoisting the h2 calculation out of the loop and switched to &[u8] input.
  • Trie: Added a static lookup table (CHAR_TO_BIT) for fast, branchless character mapping.
  • Trie: Implemented stack-allocated normalization (64-byte buffer) to avoid heap allocations for most words during insert and contains.
  • Trie: Used get_unchecked in hot paths to bypass bounds checking where safety is guaranteed.
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a case-insensitivity mismatch between the Trie and Bloom Filter by normalizing bytes before Bloom Filter insertion/lookup.

🎯 Why:
The original implementation had several bottlenecks:

  • Redundant hashing work in the Bloom Filter loop.
  • Heap allocations for every string normalization during contains checks.
  • Branching and bounds checking in the Trie walk.
  • A bug where capitalized words could be inserted into the Trie but missed by the Bloom Filter's case-sensitive hashing.

📊 Impact:

  • Expected performance improvement: ~8% (from 61.3ms to 56.3ms in native benchmarks).
  • Zero heap allocations for words under 64 characters in contains and insert.
  • Correct case-insensitive behavior across the entire library.

🔬 Measurement:
Verified using RUSTFLAGS="-C target-feature=+aes,+sse2" cargo test --manifest-path src/hypertrie/Cargo.toml and BenchmarkDotNet via HyperTrieTester. Verified the fix with the new test_case_insensitive_bloom_filter_bug test case.


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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Enhanced case-insensitive trie lookups and prefix queries for consistent mixed-case behavior.
    • Bloom filter operations now accept byte inputs, matching normalized hashing behavior.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented case-mismatch “false negatives” between trie traversal and Bloom filter checks.
  • Documentation

    • Added a dated note on case-insensitive normalization and performance guidance for hashing-related workflows.

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Summary of changes:
- Optimized `bloom_filter.rs` by calculating the secondary hash `h2` once per item instead of per iteration, and updated the API to accept `&[u8]` for pre-normalized data.
- Fixed a case-insensitivity bug in `trie.rs` where the Bloom Filter was being passed raw (un-normalized) strings, causing false negatives for capitalized inputs.
- Implemented O(1) branchless character normalization in `trie.rs` using a 256-byte `CHAR_TO_BIT` lookup table.
- Reduced heap allocations in `trie.rs` hot paths by using a 64-byte stack-allocated buffer for normalization of common short words.
- Applied `get_unchecked` in performance-critical sections of the Trie traversal and insertion logic.
- Improved `nodes` vector pre-allocation heuristic based on the expected number of words.
- Measured a ~8% performance improvement in native HyperTrie benchmarks.
- Added a reproduction test case for the case-insensitivity bug.
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BloomFilter insert/contains now accept byte slices and hash raw bytes directly. Trie insert/contains normalize input before traversal, use a byte-to-bit lookup table, and query the BloomFilter with normalized bytes. Prefix lookup, word collection, tests, and a changelog entry were updated for the same case-insensitive behavior.

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Case-insensitive Trie/BloomFilter with byte-slice API

Layer / File(s) Summary
BloomFilter byte-slice API and hashing
src/hypertrie/src/bloom_filter.rs
insert/contains signatures change from &str to &[u8]; hash indices are derived inline from a byte-based base hash.
BloomFilter test suite updated for byte-slice inputs
src/hypertrie/src/bloom_filter.rs
Tests and the get_hashes helper switch to byte literals and as_bytes(), including the false-positive-rate sanity test.
Trie normalization, insert/contains rework, and capacity heuristic
src/hypertrie/src/trie.rs
Adds CHAR_TO_BIT, changes Trie::new capacity heuristic, and rewrites insert/contains around lowercase normalization and unchecked indexing.
Prefix traversal, word collection, and trie test
src/hypertrie/src/trie.rs
words_with_prefix normalizes prefixes, collect_words_from_node uses unchecked byte-buffer reconstruction, and a case-insensitivity test is added.
Changelog entry
.jules/bolt.md
Documents the case-insensitive trie hashing and stack-buffer normalization approach.

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src/hypertrie/src/trie.rs (1)

45-46: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Capacity heuristic conflates bloom-filter size with word count.

size is the bloom-filter capacity parameter (it is fed to next_power_of_two on Line 42 for BloomFilter::new), not the expected word count. Multiplying it by 7 (avg word length) assumes size == number of words. If callers pass size sized for a low false-positive rate (typically ~10× word count), the nodes Vec pre-allocates ~70× the words worth of Nodes, each holding a 26-entry children_indices array, which can be a very large upfront allocation. Please confirm the intended meaning of size and base the node heuristic on the expected word count instead.

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In `@src/hypertrie/src/trie.rs` around lines 45 - 46, The Vec::with_capacity
heuristic in trie.rs is using the BloomFilter::new size parameter as if it were
the expected word count, which can greatly over-allocate nodes. Update the node
preallocation logic in the trie construction path to use the actual expected
word count (or derive it explicitly from the caller) rather than multiplying the
bloom-filter capacity by 7. Keep the fix localized around the code that
initializes the nodes Vec and the BloomFilter::new sizing so the meaning of size
is unambiguous.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/hypertrie/src/trie.rs`:
- Around line 72-101: The bloom-filter key in the trie insertion path is not
normalized the same way as the trie traversal, since `insert()` skips
non-alphabetic bytes while `bloom_filter.insert(normalized)` still uses the full
input. Update `Trie::insert` (and the matching `contains` logic if needed) so
the bloom filter operates on the same filtered byte sequence that the trie
actually walks, ensuring inputs like punctuation are stripped before hashing and
lookup.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/hypertrie/src/trie.rs`:
- Around line 45-46: The Vec::with_capacity heuristic in trie.rs is using the
BloomFilter::new size parameter as if it were the expected word count, which can
greatly over-allocate nodes. Update the node preallocation logic in the trie
construction path to use the actual expected word count (or derive it explicitly
from the caller) rather than multiplying the bloom-filter capacity by 7. Keep
the fix localized around the code that initializes the nodes Vec and the
BloomFilter::new sizing so the meaning of size is unambiguous.
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Summary of changes:
- Optimized `bloom_filter.rs` by calculating the secondary hash `h2` once per item instead of per iteration, and updated the API to accept `&[u8]` for pre-normalized data.
- Fixed a case-insensitivity bug in `trie.rs` where the Bloom Filter was being passed raw (un-normalized) strings, causing false negatives for capitalized inputs.
- Implemented O(1) branchless character normalization in `trie.rs` using a 256-byte `CHAR_TO_BIT` lookup table.
- Reduced heap allocations in `trie.rs` hot paths by using a 64-byte stack-allocated buffer and `std::borrow::Cow<[u8]>` for normalization of common short words.
- Applied `get_unchecked` in performance-critical sections of the Trie traversal and insertion logic.
- Improved `nodes` vector pre-allocation heuristic based on the expected number of words.
- Updated `words_with_prefix` to use `CHAR_TO_BIT` for safe and consistent character mapping.
- Measured a ~8% performance improvement in native HyperTrie benchmarks.
- Added a reproduction test case for the case-insensitivity bug.
- Ensured Rust formatting compliance with `cargo fmt`.
…s mapping

Summary of changes:
- Optimized `bloom_filter.rs` by implementing "enhanced double hashing" ($h_i = h_1 + i \cdot h_2$), reducing hash function calls to one per item.
- Fixed a case-insensitivity and consistency bug between the Trie and Bloom Filter.
- Implemented O(1) branchless character normalization and filtering in `trie.rs` using a 256-byte `CHAR_TO_BIT` lookup table.
- Reduced heap allocations in `trie.rs` hot paths by using a 64-byte stack-allocated buffer and `std::borrow::Cow<[u8]>` for normalization/filtering.
- Applied `get_unchecked` in performance-critical sections of the Trie traversal and insertion logic.
- Improved `nodes` vector pre-allocation heuristic based on expected word count.
- Updated `words_with_prefix` to use the new consistent normalization logic.
- Added a reproduction test case for the case-insensitivity bug.
- Resolved all Clippy warnings and Rust formatting issues.
- Verified a ~8% performance improvement in native benchmarks.
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