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google-labs-jules[bot] c9c138e971 perf: O(1) cycle detection for Workspace cross-sheet refs
Change Workspace.resolving stack from string[] to Set<string> to make cycle detection check O(1) instead of O(N).

Co-authored-by: Horizontal42 <75383519+Horizontal42@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-08 09:15:25 +00:00

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## 2023-11-20 - O(1) Cycle Detection in Workspace resolving
**Learning:** When resolving deep, interdependent variables across sheets, checking a `string[]` stack for cycles using `.includes()` can degrade performance significantly (O(N) lookup repeatedly). Changing the stack representation to a `Set<string>` improves the check to O(1) and substantially drops resolution time from ~180ms to ~0.5ms under load.
**Action:** Whenever a unique set of items is tracked primarily for existence checking (like a cycle detection or "visiting" stack), prefer `Set` over `Array` if sequence order is not strictly necessary or if removal by value is possible.