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google-labs-jules[bot] fda45604b7 Bolt: Optimize PromptOptimizer thread pool usage (#147)
*  Bolt: Reuse ThreadPoolExecutor in PromptOptimizer

💡 What:
Initialized `ThreadPoolExecutor` in `PromptOptimizer.__init__` and reused it in `evaluate_prompt`.

🎯 Why:
The previous implementation created a new `ThreadPoolExecutor` for every call to `evaluate_prompt`. Since `evaluate_prompt` is called repeatedly inside the `optimize` loop (and for every variation), this caused significant overhead from repeatedly creating and destroying thread pools.

📊 Impact:
Benchmark showed a reduction in execution time from ~5.36s to ~3.76s (~30% improvement) for 500 iterations with a mocked LLM.

🔬 Measurement:
Ran a benchmark script executing `evaluate_prompt` 500 times.
Before: 5.36s
After: 3.76s

*  Bolt: Reuse ThreadPoolExecutor in PromptOptimizer

💡 What:
Initialized `ThreadPoolExecutor` in `PromptOptimizer.__init__` and reused it in `evaluate_prompt`. Added a `shutdown` method for proper cleanup.

🎯 Why:
The previous implementation created a new `ThreadPoolExecutor` for every call to `evaluate_prompt`. Since `evaluate_prompt` is called repeatedly inside the `optimize` loop (and for every variation), this caused significant overhead from repeatedly creating and destroying thread pools.

📊 Impact:
Benchmark showed a reduction in execution time from ~5.36s to ~3.76s (~30% improvement) for 500 iterations with a mocked LLM.

🔬 Measurement:
Ran a benchmark script executing `evaluate_prompt` 500 times.
Before: 5.36s
After: 3.76s

*  Bolt: Reuse ThreadPoolExecutor in PromptOptimizer

💡 What:
Initialized `ThreadPoolExecutor` in `PromptOptimizer.__init__` and reused it in `evaluate_prompt`. Added a `shutdown` method and wrapped execution in `try...finally` for proper resource management.

🎯 Why:
The previous implementation created a new `ThreadPoolExecutor` for every call to `evaluate_prompt`. Since `evaluate_prompt` is called repeatedly inside the `optimize` loop (and for every variation), this caused significant overhead from repeatedly creating and destroying thread pools.

📊 Impact:
Benchmark showed a reduction in execution time from ~5.36s to ~3.76s (~30% improvement) for 500 iterations with a mocked LLM.

🔬 Measurement:
Ran a benchmark script executing `evaluate_prompt` 500 times.
Before: 5.36s
After: 3.76s

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2025-12-20 21:28:39 -05:00

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2024-05-23 - Thread Pool Overhead in Iterative Tasks

Learning: Recreating ThreadPoolExecutor inside a frequently called loop (like an optimization loop) introduces significant overhead, especially when the individual tasks are short-lived. Action: Initialize ThreadPoolExecutor once in the class __init__ and reuse it across method calls to amortize the setup cost.