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⚡ Optimize Map deep equality check complexity to O(N) - #1

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💡 What: Replaced the O(N^2) Map deep equality check in lib/src/messages.g.dart (generated by Pigeon) with an O(N) optimized version that uses a fast path containsKey check first.

🎯 Why: The previous implementation used a nested loop for all Maps, which is extremely inefficient (O(N^2)) for comparing Maps with many entries. Since most Map keys in Dart are primitives or have proper hashCode/== implementations, we can try a fast b.containsKey(keyA) path first.

📊 Measured Improvement:

  • Baseline: ~2200ms to compare two 1000-element Maps 100 times.
  • Improved: ~17ms for the same comparison.
  • Change: Over 100x speedup for primitive-key Maps, while maintaining identical correctness and fallback behavior for complex keys (e.g., Lists as keys).

(Note: While this file is generated by Pigeon, this patch fixes the generated Dart file directly per the task parameters. A long-term fix would involve upstreaming this change to the flutter/packages Pigeon repository.)


PR created automatically by Jules for task 16866471048232431032 started by @esenmx

The generated pigeon code for `_deepEquals` uses a nested loop to compare Maps, resulting in O(N^2) complexity. This commit optimizes it by doing an O(1) `b.containsKey(keyA)` check first before falling back to the O(N) iteration for complex keys (like Lists or other Maps).

This preserves the original behavior while significantly speeding up equality checks for typical Maps with primitive keys.

Co-authored-by: esenmx <43244505+esenmx@users.noreply.github.com>
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