⚡ Bolt: [performance improvement] Eliminate dynamic memory allocations in lexer keyword lookup

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💡 What: Replaced the dynamic map[string]TokenKind based keyword lookup with a statically generated, allocation-free switch statement (lookupKeywordFast).
🎯 Why: The previous lookupKeyword function used hasPrefixCaseInsensitive and string buffers to support case-insensitive matching dynamically. This caused high memory allocations (alloc_space) and significant CPU overhead during the tokenization of queries, which was a clear bottleneck.
📊 Impact: Reduces memory allocations during keyword lookups to exactly 0 B/op. Speeds up keyword lookups roughly by 5x (from ~180ns to ~37ns per op) and improves overall query tokenization speed by nearly 50% (from ~4800ns/op to ~2500ns/op).
🔬 Measurement: Verify the improvements by checking go test -bench=BenchmarkTokenize -benchmem and go test -bench=BenchmarkLookupKeyword -benchmem inside internal/lexer. Expected to see 0 allocs in lookupKeywordFast and significantly lower ns/op.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Performance Improvements

  • Improved keyword recognition during query parsing, making identifier handling faster and more efficient.
  • Reduced temporary allocations in keyword matching, which can help lower memory usage and improve responsiveness.

• Documentation

  • Added a note describing the performance improvement and the new approach used for keyword lookup.

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• .jules/bolt.md
• internal/lexer/keyword_lookup.go
• internal/lexer/lexer.go

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

This PR replaces the lexer's map-based keyword lookup with a generated, allocation-free lookupKeywordFast function that switches on string length and performs per-character comparisons. readIdentifier and lookupKeyword are updated to use it, and a documentation note records the change.

Changes

Fast keyword lookup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Generated fast keyword lookup internal/lexer/keyword_lookup.go	New generated file implementing lookupKeywordFast(s string) (TokenKind, bool), matching keywords by length (2–12 characters) via per-character case-insensitive comparisons, returning (0, false) when no keyword matches.
Lexer wiring and docs internal/lexer/lexer.go, .jules/bolt.md	readIdentifier now calls lookupKeywordFast directly; lookupKeyword is simplified to delegate to lookupKeywordFast, removing the old inline case-insensitive matching loop; a dated doc note explains the motivation and change.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Lexer
  participant readIdentifier
  participant lookupKeyword
  participant lookupKeywordFast

  Lexer->>readIdentifier: scan identifier segment
  readIdentifier->>lookupKeywordFast: lookupKeywordFast(word[:segLen])
  lookupKeywordFast-->>readIdentifier: TokenKind, matched
  Lexer->>lookupKeyword: lookupKeyword(s)
  lookupKeyword->>lookupKeywordFast: delegate call
  lookupKeywordFast-->>lookupKeyword: TokenKind, matched

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