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Problem & Reproduction

tools/gen-catalogue-status.py executed stale_count() by running subprocess.run(["git", "log", "-1", ...]) sequentially for every published pattern entry (890+ files). Spawning 890 individual git subprocesses introduced ~3.3 seconds of unnecessary execution overhead every time make catalogue or make check was run.

Solution

Optimized stale_count() to run a single batched git log query (git log --format=TS:%ct --name-only -- patterns). The function streams through the log lines, captures the latest timestamp for each published pattern file, and exits early once all entries are resolved.

Evidence & Performance

  • Before: ~2.90s - 3.29s for stale_count() across 890 files.
  • After: ~0.006s for stale_count().
  • Speedup: ~500x.

Testing & Verification

  • Added unit test cases to tools/gen-catalogue-status-test.py testing stale_count() behavior when .git is missing and when computing stale vs fresh timestamps.
  • Verified all unit tests pass with make test.

PR created automatically by Jules for task 11583114675505867809 started by @mjmirza

Batch stale entry timestamp lookup into a single git log query
instead of spawning individual git log subprocesses for each file.
Add unit tests for stale_count in gen-catalogue-status-test.py.

Co-authored-by: mjmirza <34001140+mjmirza@users.noreply.github.com>
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Precompile module-level regular expressions, guard header checks with
line.startswith('#'), and eliminate setdefault dictionary overhead
during section parsing in extract_frontmatter_and_sections().

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