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⚡ Performance Optimization: Eliminate Repeated Regex Compilation in TextUtils#59

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⚡ Performance Optimization: Eliminate Repeated Regex Compilation in TextUtils#59
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💡 What:
Moved all inline Regex instantiations in TextUtils.kt (including extractChapterLabel, removeCommonJunk, removeChapterMarkers, cleanSeparators, extractChapterLabelFromUrl, and cleanChapterTitle) to static private val constants. Also added a localized benchmark test TextUtilsBenchmarkTest to measure the overhead and verify the gains.

🎯 Why:
The previous implementation repeatedly compiled regular expressions during heavy loops and common formatting tasks, causing unnecessary overhead and memory allocations.

📊 Measured Improvement:
Baseline extractChapterLabel (for 700,000 invocations): ~1532ms
Optimized extractChapterLabel (for 700,000 invocations): ~752ms
Net Performance Improvement: ~50% faster string processing time in this specific codepath. All tests pass successfully and no regressions were introduced.


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Moved all inline Regex instantiations out of functions and into top-level constants in `TextUtils.kt` to eliminate the overhead of repeatedly compiling regular expressions on every function invocation. Also created `TextUtilsBenchmarkTest` to measure the baseline performance and to prove the improvement.

Co-authored-by: Aatricks <113598245+Aatricks@users.noreply.github.com>
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@Aatricks Aatricks merged commit 71902fd into main Mar 1, 2026
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