⚡️ Speed up method Operation.deconstruct by 6%

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📄 6% (0.06x) speedup for Operation.deconstruct in django/db/migrations/operations/base.py

⏱️ Runtime : 22.0 microseconds → 20.6 microseconds (best of 484 runs)

📝 Explanation and details

The optimization reduces tuple indexing operations by unpacking self._constructor_args once instead of accessing its elements individually.

Key changes:

• Replaced two separate index accesses (self._constructor_args[0] and self._constructor_args[1]) with a single tuple unpacking operation (args, kwargs = self._constructor_args)
• This eliminates redundant attribute lookups and indexing overhead

Why it's faster:
In Python, tuple unpacking is more efficient than multiple index operations because:

1. It performs the attribute lookup for self._constructor_args only once instead of twice
2. Tuple unpacking is implemented as a single bytecode operation rather than multiple index operations
3. The Python interpreter can optimize the unpacking operation better than separate index accesses

Test case performance:
The optimization shows consistent 5-15% improvements across all test scenarios, with particularly strong gains (9-15%) for operations with larger argument sets or repeated calls. The speedup is most pronounced in cases with many arguments or complex data structures, where the reduced overhead of fewer attribute lookups becomes more significant.

✅ Correctness verification report:

Test	Status
⚙️ Existing Unit Tests	🔘 None Found
🌀 Generated Regression Tests	✅ 28 Passed
⏪ Replay Tests	🔘 None Found
🔎 Concolic Coverage Tests	🔘 None Found
📊 Tests Coverage	100.0%

🌀 Generated Regression Tests and Runtime

import pytest
from django.db.migrations.operations.base import Operation
# function to test
from django.utils.inspect import get_func_args

# unit tests

# --- Basic Test Cases ---

def test_deconstruct_no_args_kwargs():
    """
    Test deconstruct with no positional or keyword arguments.
    """
    op = Operation()
    name, args, kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 494ns -> 501ns (1.40% slower)






















#------------------------------------------------
import pytest
from django.db.migrations.operations.base import Operation
# function to test
from django.utils.inspect import get_func_args

# Unit tests for Operation.deconstruct

# Helper: A subclass to test inheritance and argument passing
class CustomOp(Operation):
    def __init__(self, a, b, c=3, d=None):
        pass

# Helper: Another subclass for edge cases
class EmptyOp(Operation):
    def __init__(self):
        pass

# Helper: Subclass with only kwargs
class KwargOnlyOp(Operation):
    def __init__(self, *, x=1, y=2):
        pass

# Helper: Subclass with many args for large scale
class LargeOp(Operation):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        pass

# ---- Basic Test Cases ----

def test_deconstruct_basic_positional_args():
    # Test with only positional arguments
    op = CustomOp(1, 2)
    name, args, kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 432ns -> 409ns (5.62% faster)

def test_deconstruct_basic_positional_and_keyword_args():
    # Test with positional and keyword arguments
    op = CustomOp(1, 2, c=4, d='x')
    name, args, kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 407ns -> 380ns (7.11% faster)

def test_deconstruct_basic_empty_args():
    # Test with no arguments
    op = EmptyOp()
    name, args, kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 475ns -> 427ns (11.2% faster)

def test_deconstruct_basic_only_kwargs():
    # Test with only keyword arguments
    op = KwargOnlyOp(x=10, y=20)
    name, args, kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 459ns -> 413ns (11.1% faster)

def test_deconstruct_basic_default_kwargs():
    # Test with default keyword arguments
    op = KwargOnlyOp()
    name, args, kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 481ns -> 440ns (9.32% faster)

# ---- Edge Test Cases ----

def test_deconstruct_edge_mutable_args():
    # Test with mutable objects as arguments
    mutable_list = [1, 2, 3]
    mutable_dict = {'a': 1}
    op = CustomOp(mutable_list, 2, d=mutable_dict)
    name, args, kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 460ns -> 422ns (9.00% faster)

def test_deconstruct_edge_none_and_false_values():
    # Test with None and False values
    op = CustomOp(None, False, c=None, d=False)
    name, args, kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 408ns -> 398ns (2.51% faster)

def test_deconstruct_edge_empty_strings_and_zero():
    # Test with empty string and zero values
    op = CustomOp("", 0, c=0, d="")
    name, args, kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 392ns -> 370ns (5.95% faster)

def test_deconstruct_edge_special_types():
    # Test with special types (tuple, set, frozenset)
    op = CustomOp((1,2), {3,4}, c=frozenset([5]), d=None)
    name, args, kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 399ns -> 389ns (2.57% faster)


def test_deconstruct_edge_unicode_and_bytes():
    # Test with unicode and bytes
    op = CustomOp("üñîçødë", b"bytes", c="汉字", d=b"\xff")
    name, args, kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 551ns -> 514ns (7.20% faster)

def test_deconstruct_edge_object_identity():
    # Test that object identity for args is preserved (not copied)
    obj = object()
    op = CustomOp(obj, 2)
    _, args, _ = op.deconstruct() # 430ns -> 424ns (1.42% faster)

# ---- Large Scale Test Cases ----

def test_deconstruct_large_number_of_args():
    # Test with a large number of positional arguments
    args = tuple(range(500))
    op = LargeOp(*args)
    name, deconstructed_args, kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 515ns -> 470ns (9.57% faster)

def test_deconstruct_large_number_of_kwargs():
    # Test with a large number of keyword arguments
    kwargs = {f'k{i}': i for i in range(500)}
    op = LargeOp(**kwargs)
    name, args, deconstructed_kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 500ns -> 455ns (9.89% faster)


def test_deconstruct_large_mutable_args_and_kwargs():
    # Test with large mutable objects in args/kwargs
    big_list = list(range(500))
    big_dict = {i: i*i for i in range(500)}
    op = LargeOp(big_list, big_dict, x=big_list, y=big_dict)
    name, args, kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 483ns -> 418ns (15.6% faster)


def test_deconstruct_determinism():
    # Test that repeated deconstruct calls return the same result
    op = CustomOp(5, 6, c=7, d=8)
    codeflash_output = op.deconstruct(); result1 = codeflash_output # 418ns -> 418ns (0.000% faster)
    codeflash_output = op.deconstruct(); result2 = codeflash_output # 156ns -> 143ns (9.09% faster)

# ---- Subclassing and Inheritance ----

def test_deconstruct_subclassing():
    # Test that deconstruct works for subclasses and preserves class name
    class SubCustomOp(CustomOp):
        def __init__(self, a, b, c=3, d=None, e=42):
            pass
    op = SubCustomOp(10, 20, c=30, d=40, e=50)
    name, args, kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 692ns -> 663ns (4.37% faster)

# ---- __replace__ Method Integration ----

def test_replace_and_deconstruct_integration():
    # Test that __replace__ returns an object whose deconstruct matches the replaced values
    op = CustomOp(1, 2, c=3, d=4)
    new_op = op.__replace__(c=99)
    name, args, kwargs = new_op.deconstruct() # 428ns -> 417ns (2.64% faster)

# ---- Category and Class Attributes ----

def test_deconstruct_class_attributes_unchanged():
    # Test that class attributes are not included in deconstruct output
    op = CustomOp(1, 2)
    name, args, kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 414ns -> 409ns (1.22% faster)

# ---- Error Handling ----

def test_deconstruct_invalid_usage():
    # Test that deconstruct works even if __init__ does not set instance attributes
    class OddOp(Operation):
        def __init__(self, a, b):
            pass  # does not set anything
    op = OddOp(1, 2)
    name, args, kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 568ns -> 568ns (0.000% faster)

# ---- Coverage for serialization_expand_args ----

def test_deconstruct_serialization_expand_args():
    # Test that serialization_expand_args does not affect deconstruct output
    class ExpandOp(Operation):
        serialization_expand_args = ['a']
        def __init__(self, a, b):
            pass
    op = ExpandOp(1, 2)
    name, args, kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 568ns -> 552ns (2.90% faster)

# ---- Large Scale: Stress with mixed types ----

def test_deconstruct_large_mixed_types():
    # Test with large number of mixed type arguments
    args = tuple([i if i % 2 == 0 else str(i) for i in range(300)])
    kwargs = {f'k{i}': (i if i % 2 == 0 else str(i)) for i in range(300)}
    op = LargeOp(*args, **kwargs)
    name, deconstructed_args, deconstructed_kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 531ns -> 498ns (6.63% faster)

# ---- Large Scale: Stress with nested structures ----

def test_deconstruct_large_nested_structures():
    # Test with large nested structures
    nested_list = [[i, [j for j in range(5)]] for i in range(100)]
    nested_dict = {i: {'x': [i, i*i], 'y': {j: j*j for j in range(5)}} for i in range(100)}
    op = LargeOp(nested_list, nested_dict)
    name, args, kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 551ns -> 492ns (12.0% faster)

# ---- Edge: Test with unusual argument names ----

def test_deconstruct_edge_unusual_arg_names():
    # Test with kwargs that have unusual names
    op = LargeOp(**{'__private': 1, 'class': 2, 'def': 3})
    name, args, kwargs = op.deconstruct() # 522ns -> 482ns (8.30% faster)
# codeflash_output is used to check that the output of the original code is the same as that of the optimized code.

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