⚡ Bolt: Use optimized switch statement for keyword lookup

[srimon12]

💡 What: Replaced the dynamic map-based keyword lookup in the lexer with a statically generated, length-based switch statement (lookupKeywordFast). Added internal/lexer/gen.go to generate this optimized file.

🎯 Why: Map lookups and runtime case conversions inside the hot loop of the lexer are relatively slow and can limit parsing throughput.

📊 Impact: Microbenchmarks show a ~4x performance improvement for keyword lookups (from ~51ns/op to ~13ns/op) while maintaining zero allocations.

🔬 Measurement:
Run cd internal/lexer && go test -bench=. -benchmem to verify the latency of BenchmarkLookupKeywordFast versus the older approach.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Refactor
  • Optimized keyword lookup performance in the QQL lexer.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Replaces the hand-written lexer keyword matcher with a code-generated approach. A new gen.go tool maps SQL/QQL keywords to TokenKind values, groups them by length, and emits lookupKeywordFast — a switch len(s) function with fixed-position, case-insensitive byte comparisons. lexer.go now calls this generated function and drops the old helpers.

Changes

Fast Keyword Lookup via Code Generation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Keyword lookup code generator internal/lexer/gen.go, .jules/bolt.md	gen.go builds the keyword-to-TokenKind map, groups entries by string length, sorts deterministically, emits a switch-on-length source file, formats it with go/format, and writes lookup_fast.go. The bolt.md note records the design decision.
Generated lookupKeywordFast implementation internal/lexer/lookup_fast.go	Generated file providing lookupKeywordFast(s string) (TokenKind, bool): dispatches on len(s) (2–12) and uses fixed-position, case-insensitive character checks to return the matching TokenKind or (0, false).
Lexer wiring internal/lexer/lexer.go	Adds //go:generate go run gen.go directive; readIdentifier is updated to call lookupKeywordFast; the old lookupKeyword and hasPrefixCaseInsensitive helpers are removed.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~10 minutes

Poem

🐇 Hoppity-hop through the keyword tree,
No more slow maps to slow down me!
A switch on length, byte-by-byte we go,
Case-insensitive checks, fast as a doe.
go generate runs, the file appears—
The lexer leaps forward, hooray for gears! 🎉

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately summarizes the main optimization: replacing the keyword lookup mechanism with an optimized switch statement. It is concise, clear, and directly reflects the primary change.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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✨ Finishing Touches

📝 Generate docstrings

• Create stacked PR
• Commit on current branch

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch bolt/fast-keyword-lookup-14697628291256546389

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

internal/lexer/lexer.go (1)

1-1: ⚡ Quick win

Add a CI guard to keep generated lexer code in sync.

Now that keyword matching is generated, add a CI step (go generate ./... + clean git diff check) so stale internal/lexer/lookup_fast.go can’t drift from internal/lexer/gen.go.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents

Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@internal/lexer/lexer.go` at line 1, Add a CI step that enforces generated
code synchronization by running go generate ./... followed by a git diff check
to ensure the working directory remains clean after generation. This prevents
lookup_fast.go from drifting out of sync with gen.go. Configure your CI pipeline
(GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.) to execute this validation step and fail the
build if any uncommitted changes are detected after code generation.

🤖 Prompt for all review comments with AI agents

Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/lexer/lexer.go`:
- Line 1: Add a CI step that enforces generated code synchronization by running
go generate ./... followed by a git diff check to ensure the working directory
remains clean after generation. This prevents lookup_fast.go from drifting out
of sync with gen.go. Configure your CI pipeline (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.)
to execute this validation step and fail the build if any uncommitted changes
are detected after code generation.

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📥 Commits

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📒 Files selected for processing (4)

• .jules/bolt.md
• internal/lexer/gen.go
• internal/lexer/lexer.go
• internal/lexer/lookup_fast.go