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Summary

  • Pre-compile regex patterns at package level instead of per-call recompilation in parsers (~100μs saved per histogram parse × 67 tools)
  • Pre-allocate slices with capacity hints across all parsers (eliminate ~670K unnecessary copies per collection)
  • Replace fmt.Sprintf("%v") with type-switch formatKey() in aggregation (20ns vs ~500ns per key, zero allocs for common types)
  • Singleton defaultThresholds — avoid 37 closure + struct allocations on every DetectAnomalies() call (0.3ns access vs ~100ns)
  • sync.Pool for bytes.Buffer reuse across 67+ BCC tool executions
  • Streaming json.NewDecoder in diff.LoadReport() — halves peak memory for large reports
  • Single-pass category scan in AI prompt generation (3 separate loops → 1)
  • Manual binary.LittleEndian parsing in eBPF tcpretrans collector (avoid reflection-heavy binary.Read)
  • --pprof flag for CPU profiling melisai itself (go tool pprof melisai_cpu.prof)
  • 11 benchmark tests for parsers, aggregation, and anomaly detection

Benchmark Results (Apple M2 Pro)

Benchmark ns/op allocs/op B/op
ParseHistogram 6,524 28 4,583
ParseTabularEvents (1000) 296,086 8,008 577K
ParseFoldedStacks (500) 16,736 5 28K
AggregateByField (1000) 35,111 19 8,344
DetectAnomalies (37 rules) 17,005 188 10,710
DefaultThresholds access 0.3 0 0
FormatKey (type switch) 21 0 3

Test plan

  • All 11 packages pass go test ./...
  • All 11 benchmarks pass go test -bench=. -benchmem
  • No API changes — fully backward compatible
  • Run on target Linux system with melisai collect --pprof melisai_cpu.prof to verify real-world profile

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dmitriimaksimovdevelop and others added 2 commits April 7, 2026 10:32
Apply HFT-inspired low-latency best practices to reduce observer effect
and improve melisai's own performance during system profiling.

Hot path optimizations:
- Pre-compile regex patterns at package level (parsers.go)
- Pre-allocate slices with capacity hints in all parsers
- Pre-lowercase headers once instead of per-event in ParseTabularEvents
- Replace fmt.Sprintf("%v") with type-switch formatKey() in aggregation
- Make DefaultThresholds a package-level singleton (avoid 37 closure allocs)

Memory/IO optimizations:
- Add sync.Pool for bytes.Buffer reuse across 67+ BCC tool executions
- Switch diff.LoadReport to streaming json.NewDecoder (halve peak memory)
- Single-pass category scan in AI prompt generation (3 loops → 1)
- Manual binary.LittleEndian parsing in eBPF tcpretrans (avoid reflection)

Observability:
- Add --pprof flag for CPU profiling of melisai itself
- Add 11 benchmark tests for parsers, aggregation, and anomaly detection

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- NATIVE_EBPF_MIGRATION.md — full plan with phases, patterns, validation
- PROMPT_NATIVE_EBPF.md — reusable prompt template for AI-assisted porting

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
dmitriimaksimovdevelop added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 15, 2026
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release: issue #23 tcpretrans fix + low-latency perf (PR #21)
@dmitriimaksimovdevelop dmitriimaksimovdevelop merged commit 9b10ed1 into master Apr 15, 2026
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