Fix quadratic let hoisting when converting deep terms - #442
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`typed_expr_to_egg(expr, expr_to_let=True)` searches the whole term for shared subexpressions and hoists them into let bindings. Since 14.0.0, `_expr_to_egg` converts every argument with `expr_to_let=True` as well, so the search reran on every subterm and converting a term became quadratic in its depth. A search at the top of a term already hoists every shared subexpression below it, so the arguments now skip it (`lets_hoisted=True`) and only use the let cache. Let bodies are still searched as before, so the emitted program, including synthetic let names and order, is unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BnJo4ywpA3FufMmo79Av6f
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WalkthroughExpression lowering now propagates whether shared subexpressions have already been scanned. A regression test checks that scan counts stay equal for terms of different depths and verifies the generated let binding references. ChangesShared-expression lowering
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- Line 1326: Update _exprs_multiple_parents to traverse GetCostDecl.args so
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| return self._expr_to_egg(typed_expr_decl.expr, expr_to_let=expr_to_let, lets_hoisted=expr_to_let) |
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Traverse GetCostDecl.args before marking arguments as hoisted.
get_cost creates a GetCostDecl. During lowering, _expr_to_egg passes lets_hoisted=True to its arguments. Because _exprs_multiple_parents does not traverse GetCostDecl.args, shared constructor terms can bypass _transform_let. The separate let cache then has no entry, so each occurrence can be expanded inline.
Add a regression case with shared constructor terms inside a cost argument.
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- case CallDecl(args=args) | PartialCallDecl(CallDecl(args=args)):
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Review comment at @python/egglog/egraph_state.py at line 1326:
Update _exprs_multiple_parents to traverse GetCostDecl.args so shared
constructor terms are identified before _expr_to_egg marks them hoisted; add a
regression case with shared constructor terms inside a cost argument.
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@yuvallu would you be able to look into this and confirm if this is in fact a regression?
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@saulshanabrook Yes, it's a real regression from this PR, thanks for flagging it. It affects sharing only, not the result. _exprs_multiple_parents never looked inside a GetCostDecl, which didn't matter before because each cost-lookup argument was scanned again when it was converted. With lets_hoisted=True passed to those arguments, a subexpression shared inside a get_cost(...) argument of a scanned expression was written out twice instead of being let-bound. For example, in CostBox(get_cost(CostRoot(CostPair(shared, shared)))) the shared leaf gets one let on main but is inlined twice on 463f2bc.
Fixed in b0fcdc0 with the suggested change. Both traversals that walk an expression's children now treat GetCostDecl like CallDecl: the scan, and _contains_unbound_var, which decides what may be hoisted (so an unbound variable inside a cost lookup still keeps its subexpression out of a top-level let). The scan now visits every child that is converted with lets_hoisted, and no other case of _expr_to_egg recurses into children. The new test_shared_subexpression_inside_cost_lookup_is_hoisted fails on 463f2bc (no let) and passes on main and with the fix.
I also logged every command the whole test suite sends to egglog, with main's egraph_state.py and with this branch (155k commands). They are identical, except that in the new test the one let is emitted two commands earlier (before the unrelated CostBox declarations), with the same name and body. Full suite: 956 passed, ruff and mypy clean.
Unrelated, noticed while writing the test: get_cost(x) + i64(1) raises KeyError: Ident(name='i64', module='egglog.builtins'), also on main, because the returned expression only carries x's declarations. Happy to open a separate issue if that's useful.
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Unrelated, noticed while writing the test: get_cost(x) + i64(1) raises KeyError: Ident(name='i64', module='egglog.builtins'), also on main, because the returned expression only carries x's declarations. Happy to open a separate issue if that's useful.
Sure open another issue for that, thanks for finding that bug!
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`_expr_to_egg` converts a cost lookup's arguments with `lets_hoisted`, but `_exprs_multiple_parents` never looked inside a `GetCostDecl`. Since the previous commit, a subexpression shared inside a `get_cost(...)` argument of a scanned expression was therefore written out inline instead of being hoisted into a let (14.0.0 found it by scanning the argument again). The scan now traverses `GetCostDecl.args` like `CallDecl.args`, so it visits every child that is converted with `lets_hoisted`. Found by CodeRabbit's review of egraphs-good#442. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BnJo4ywpA3FufMmo79Av6f
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Fixes #441
Problem
Since 14.0.0, adding a deep term that contains shared subexpressions (via
EGraph.let,register, etc.) takes time quadratic in the depth of the term. 13.2.0 took linear time. Repro (a cons list ofncells that all share one leaf):(Linux x86-64, Python 3.12. Each number is the mean of 3 runs.)
Cause
typed_expr_to_egg(expr, expr_to_let=True)runs_exprs_multiple_parentson the whole term and hoists the shared subexpressions into lets._expr_to_eggthen converts each argument withtyped_expr_to_egg(arg, expr_to_let), which isexpr_to_let=Truein 14.0.0. 13.2.0 passedFalsehere. So the scan (plus_contains_unbound_varfor each shared node it finds) runs again at every subterm, even when the argument is already bound to a let.Fix
A scan at the top of a term already hoists every shared subexpression below it. Any node shared within a subterm is also shared within the whole term, so rescanning an argument can never add a let.
typed_expr_to_egggets a keyword-onlylets_hoistedflag._expr_to_eggpasses it down to the arguments, so a converted term's arguments skip the scan and use only the let cache. Callers that enter through_expr_to_egg(..., expr_to_let=True)directly (the lhs and rhs ofunion/set/eq) still scan each argument once, as before. The recursivetyped_expr_to_egg(..., True)call inside_transform_letalso still scans each let body, so let names and order are unchanged.Test
test_shared_subexpression_scan_runs_once_per_letcounts the calls to_exprs_multiple_parentsforEGraph.leton lists of length 5 and 100, and asserts that the two counts are equal. On main the counts are 23 and 403. With this PR both are 2 (one scan for the term, one for the single let body). The test also checks that exactly one synthetic let is emitted and used by every cell.To check that the output is unchanged, I logged every command sent through
EGraphState.run_programacross the whole test suite (about 155k commands, 893 synthetic lets), before and after this change. The two logs are identical apart from temp paths, UUIDs andid()-based names.