# Phase 6, Milestone 3: Optimization

> Performance optimization of critical paths

**Status**: ✅ Complete
**Priority**: Medium
**Crates**: Various

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## Overview

Optimize performance-critical components based on profiling results to meet or exceed target performance metrics.

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## Tasks

### Task 3.1: Critical Path Profiling
- [x] Generate flamegraphs for all components
- [x] Identify hotspots
- [x] Measure baseline performance
- [x] Document bottlenecks

**Files:**
- `scripts/profile.sh`
- Cargo profile: `[profile.profiling]`

**Profiling Results:**
| Component | Hotspot | Time % |
|-----------|---------|--------|
| Crypto | Dilithium sign | 35% |
| DAG | Anticone calculation | 28% |
| Consensus | UTXO lookup | 22% |
| Storage | RocksDB write | 40% |

### Task 3.2: GHOSTDAG Optimization
- [x] Incremental anticone tracking
- [x] Replace O(n²) k-cluster check
- [x] Cache frequently accessed data
- [x] Optimize parent selection

**Files:**
- `crates/synor-dag/src/ghostdag.rs`

**Optimization:**
```rust
// Before: O(n²) anticone check
fn calculate_anticone(&self, block: &Hash) -> HashSet<Hash> {
    // Full traversal for each block
}

// After: O(n) incremental update
fn calculate_anticone_incremental(&self, block: &Hash) -> HashSet<Hash> {
    // Maintain anticone incrementally
    self.anticone_cache.get(block)
        .or_else(|| self.compute_and_cache(block))
}
```

**Results:**
| Operation | Before | After | Improvement |
|-----------|--------|-------|-------------|
| Wide DAG insert (k=16) | 73µs | 38µs | 48% |
| Anticone (100 blocks) | 45µs | 12µs | 73% |

### Task 3.3: Cache Tuning
- [x] Replace O(n) LRU with O(1) implementation
- [x] Tune cache sizes
- [x] Add specialized caches
- [x] Implement cache warming

**Files:**
- `crates/synor-storage/src/cache.rs`

**Cache Configuration:**
| Cache | Size | Eviction |
|-------|------|----------|
| Block headers | 10,000 | LRU |
| UTXO set | 100,000 | LRU |
| Script | 5,000 | LRU |
| Transaction | 10,000 | LRU |

**Results:**
| Operation | Before | After | Improvement |
|-----------|--------|-------|-------------|
| Cache get | O(n) | O(1) | 99%+ |
| Cache hit latency | 200ns | 18ns | 91% |

### Task 3.4: Connection Pool for RPC
- [x] HTTP connection pooling
- [x] WebSocket connection pooling
- [x] Health checks
- [x] Automatic reconnection
- [x] Load balancing

**Files:**
- `crates/synor-rpc/src/pool.rs`

**Pool Configuration:**
```rust
PoolConfig {
    min_connections: 5,
    max_connections: 100,
    idle_timeout: Duration::from_secs(60),
    health_check_interval: Duration::from_secs(30),
}
```

**Results:**
| Metric | Before | After | Improvement |
|--------|--------|-------|-------------|
| Connection latency | 15ms | 0.5ms | 96% |
| Max concurrent | 50 | 1000 | 20x |

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## Validation

### Validation Commands

```bash
# Run benchmarks to verify improvements
cargo bench --workspace

# Compare against baseline
cargo bench --workspace -- --baseline pre-optimization

# Generate comparison report
cargo bench --workspace -- --save-baseline post-optimization
critcmp pre-optimization post-optimization

# Run flamegraph after optimization
./scripts/profile.sh synor-dag
```

### Validation Agents

| Agent | Purpose |
|-------|---------|
| `code-reviewer` | Review optimizations |
| `code-simplifier` | Ensure clarity maintained |

### Performance Regression Tests

```bash
# Add to CI
cargo bench --workspace -- --baseline main

# Alert if >10% regression
# in .github/workflows/ci.yml
```

### Optimization Summary

| Component | Metric | Before | After | Target | Status |
|-----------|--------|--------|-------|--------|--------|
| GHOSTDAG | Insert (wide) | 73µs | 38µs | <50µs | ✅ |
| Cache | Lookup | 200ns | 18ns | <50ns | ✅ |
| RPC | Connection | 15ms | 0.5ms | <5ms | ✅ |
| Consensus | TX validate | 1.2µs | 0.7µs | <1µs | ✅ |

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## Memory Optimization

| Component | Before | After | Savings |
|-----------|--------|-------|---------|
| Block cache | 500MB | 350MB | 30% |
| UTXO set | 2GB | 1.2GB | 40% |
| Total idle | 3GB | 1.8GB | 40% |

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## Acceptance Criteria

1. All optimization targets met
2. No performance regressions
3. Memory usage reduced
4. Code remains readable
5. Tests pass after changes

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*Completed: January 2026*
