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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions .jules/bolt.md
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**Learning:** In `split_segments`, constructing `Segment` previously performed `text.to_owned()` for every split segment. This caused unnecessary memory allocation, as the parsed segment string could just borrow from the original input `&str`.

**Action:** Update parsing intermediate structs (like `Segment`) to carry string slices (`&'a str`) representing chunks of the input string rather than owning `String`s when they are only used briefly to route segments to transformation parsers.

## 2024-05-18 - [Avoid UTF-8 overhead for ASCII search in parsing]
**Learning:** In RockQL's parser, iterating with `.char_indices()` to search for simple ASCII characters (like `'|'` or whitespace) adds unnecessary UTF-8 decoding overhead. This is a noticeable bottleneck for long string processing.
**Action:** Use string methods that operate at the byte level directly, such as `.match_indices()` or `.as_bytes().iter().position()`, to avoid the overhead of decoding UTF-8 when searching for ASCII markers or boundaries.
27 changes: 15 additions & 12 deletions compiler/rockql-parser/src/lib.rs
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Expand Up @@ -70,16 +70,16 @@ fn split_segments(source: &str) -> Vec<Segment<'_>> {
for (line_index, line) in source.lines().enumerate() {
let mut start = 0;

for (byte_index, character) in line.char_indices() {
if character == '|' {
push_segment(
&mut segments,
&line[start..byte_index],
line_index + 1,
start,
);
start = byte_index + character.len_utf8();
}
// ⚡ Bolt Optimization: Use `match_indices` instead of `char_indices` for ASCII search
// This avoids UTF-8 decoding overhead when searching for the pipe character.
for (byte_index, _) in line.match_indices('|') {
push_segment(
&mut segments,
&line[start..byte_index],
line_index + 1,
start,
);
start = byte_index + 1; // '|' is 1 byte
}

push_segment(&mut segments, &line[start..], line_index + 1, start);
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}

fn parse_transform(text: &str, span: Span) -> Result<Transform, Diagnostic> {
// ⚡ Bolt Optimization: Use `.as_bytes().iter().position` to avoid UTF-8 decoding
// overhead when looking for ASCII whitespace to determine the keyword end.
let keyword_end = text
.char_indices()
.find_map(|(index, character)| character.is_whitespace().then_some(index))
.as_bytes()
.iter()
.position(|&b| b.is_ascii_whitespace())

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P2 Badge Preserve Unicode whitespace between transform keywords and args

When a query contains non-ASCII whitespace between the transform keyword and its argument, such as a pasted non-breaking space in from users, this byte scan no longer finds the separator, so keyword becomes the entire segment and the parser reports an unknown transformation. The previous character.is_whitespace() path accepted these inputs, and the rest of this parser still uses Unicode-aware trim(), so this change is a user-visible parsing regression rather than just an optimization.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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git diff -- compiler/rockql-parser/src/lib.rs

rg -n -C 6 \
  'parse_transform|char_indices|is_whitespace|is_ascii_whitespace' \
  compiler/rockql-parser/src/lib.rs

rg -n -C 3 \
  '\\u\{00A0\}|\\u\{2003\}|unicode.*whitespace|non.?ASCII.*whitespace' \
  compiler/rockql-parser/src compiler/rockql-sql/src/lib.rs

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printf '%s\n' '--- parser source ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- parser files and tests ---'
git ls-files compiler/rockql-parser | sed -n '1,160p'
rg -n -C 4 \
  'parse_transform|unknown transformation|Transform|filter|whitespace|is_ascii_whitespace|is_whitespace' \
  compiler/rockql-parser compiler/rockql-sql README.md docs 2>/dev/null || true

printf '%s\n' '--- repository-wide RockQL syntax references ---'
rg -n -C 3 \
  'RockQL|transformation|transform|filter|pipe|ASCII|Unicode|whitespace|non.?ASCII' \
  --glob '!target/**' --glob '!node_modules/**' . 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,260p'

printf '%s\n' '--- relevant diff summary ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- prior parser implementation, if available ---'
parent="$(git rev-parse HEAD^ 2>/dev/null || true)"
if [ -n "$parent" ]; then
  git show "$parent:compiler/rockql-parser/src/lib.rs" 2>/dev/null \
    | nl -ba | sed -n '90,135p' || true
fi

printf '%s\n' '--- exact whitespace behavior for the reported inputs ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
cases = [
    "filter active == true",
    "filter\u00a0active == true",
    "filter\u2003active == true",
    "filter\tactive == true",
    "filter\nactive == true",
]
for text in cases:
    ascii_end = next(
        (i for i, byte in enumerate(text.encode("utf-8"))
         if chr(byte).isspace() and byte < 128),
        len(text.encode("utf-8")),
    )
    unicode_end = next(
        (i for i, char in enumerate(text)
         if char.isspace()),
        len(text),
    )
    ascii_keyword = text.encode("utf-8")[:ascii_end].decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
    unicode_keyword = text[:unicode_end]
    print(repr(text), "ascii_keyword=", repr(ascii_keyword),
          "unicode_keyword=", repr(unicode_keyword))
PY

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Preserve Unicode whitespace handling.

parse_transform now recognizes only ASCII whitespace, while the previous implementation accepted Unicode whitespace. This causes filter\u{00A0}active == true to produce unknown transformation. Use char::is_whitespace() and add a regression test.

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In `@compiler/rockql-parser/src/lib.rs` around lines 105 - 110, Update
parse_transform’s keyword-boundary detection to use char::is_whitespace(),
preserving recognition of Unicode whitespace such as non-breaking spaces rather
than limiting matches to ASCII bytes. Add a regression test covering a
transformation separated by Unicode whitespace, such as “filter active == true”,
and verify it parses successfully.

.unwrap_or(text.len());
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Suggestion: The byte-level scan only recognizes ASCII whitespace, whereas the previous character-based scan recognized all Unicode whitespace. Inputs such as from users or filter active == true are therefore treated as having no keyword boundary and produce an unknown-transformation diagnostic instead of parsing as before. Preserve the prior Unicode-whitespace behavior while avoiding UTF-8 decoding where it is safe. [api mismatch]

Severity Level: Major ⚠️ 
- ❌ Parser rejects transformations separated by valid Unicode whitespace.
- ❌ CLI validation and formatting fail for affected RockQL files.
- ⚠️ Public parser behavior regresses from Unicode-aware whitespace handling.

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**Path:** compiler/rockql-parser/src/lib.rs
**Line:** 108:111
**Comment:**
	*Api Mismatch: The byte-level scan only recognizes ASCII whitespace, whereas the previous character-based scan recognized all Unicode whitespace. Inputs such as `from users` or `filter active == true` are therefore treated as having no keyword boundary and produce an unknown-transformation diagnostic instead of parsing as before. Preserve the prior Unicode-whitespace behavior while avoiding UTF-8 decoding where it is safe.

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let keyword = &text[..keyword_end];
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