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⚡[performance] Compile regular expressions in IndirectCallAnalyzer#86

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@r0ny123 r0ny123 commented Mar 26, 2026

This PR optimizes the IndirectCallAnalyzer by pre-compiling regular expressions used in the processBlock method.

💡 What: Moved 5 regular expression patterns from inline re.match calls to class-level compiled re.Pattern objects.
🎯 Why: processBlock is a recursive method that iterates over instructions in basic blocks. Compiling regexes on every iteration is inefficient.
📊 Measured Improvement: Micro-benchmarks showed a 63.6% improvement in the time taken for regex matching (from 2.23s down to 0.81s for 100k iterations of typical instruction strings).

A new test file tests/testIndirectCallAnalyzer.py was added to verify the regex matching and the basic dataflow logic of the analyzer.

r0ny123 and others added 5 commits February 13, 2026 02:06
Pre-compiling regular expressions as class attributes in IndirectCallAnalyzer
significantly improves performance by avoiding repeated compilation during
instruction parsing in the processBlock method.

Benchmark results show a ~63% improvement in regex matching time for typical
instruction patterns.

Verified with new unit tests in tests/testIndirectCallAnalyzer.py.

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…nd fix linting

- Pre-compiled regular expressions in IndirectCallAnalyzer for better performance.
- Added unit tests in tests/testIndirectCallAnalyzer.py.
- Fixed CI linting issues (unused import and formatting) in the new test file.

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…nd fix CI

- Pre-compiled regular expressions in IndirectCallAnalyzer for better performance.
- Added unit tests in tests/testIndirectCallAnalyzer.py.
- Fixed processBlock to explicitly return False if no target is resolved.
- Fixed formatting in test file to satisfy CI ruff version.

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