⚡️ Speed up method Util.toBigIntegerArray by 8%

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📄 8% (0.08x) speedup for Util.toBigIntegerArray in client/src/com/aerospike/client/util/Util.java

⏱️ Runtime : 576 microseconds → 535 microseconds (best of 5 runs)

📝 Explanation and details

The optimized code achieves a 7% runtime improvement (from 576μs to 535μs) by making a single, targeted change: replacing replaceAll(":", "") with replace(":", "") in the colon-delimited hex parsing path.

Key optimization:

• replaceAll() treats its first argument as a regex pattern, requiring the Java regex engine to compile the pattern, even for a simple literal string like ":"
• replace() performs a literal string replacement without regex overhead, which is significantly faster when no regex features are needed

Why this matters:
Since the colon character ":" has no special regex meaning, using the regex-based replaceAll() is unnecessary overhead. The replace() method directly scans and replaces the literal substring, avoiding:

• Pattern compilation
• Regex matcher instantiation
• Additional string processing layers

Performance characteristics:
Based on the annotated tests, this optimization particularly benefits:

• Test cases with colon-delimited hex inputs (e.g., testColonDelimitedHex_parsedAsHex, testMixedInput_ReturnsParsedAll)
• Large-scale inputs where the colon path is hit repeatedly (e.g., testLargeScaleInput_PerformanceAndCorrectness if it included colon-delimited values)

The 7% overall speedup indicates that even though this optimization only affects one branch (the colon-delimited case), it provides measurable gains across typical workloads. For applications processing certificate serial numbers or similar colon-delimited hex strings, the improvement would be even more pronounced.

✅ Correctness verification report:

Test	Status
⚙️ Existing Unit Tests	🔘 None Found
🌀 Generated Regression Tests	✅ 42 Passed
⏪ Replay Tests	🔘 None Found
🔎 Concolic Coverage Tests	🔘 None Found
📊 Tests Coverage	No coverage data found for toBigIntegerArray

🌀 Click to see Generated Regression Tests

package com.aerospike.client.util;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.Before;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import java.math.BigInteger;

/**
 * Unit tests for com.aerospike.client.util.Util.toBigIntegerArray
 */
public class UtilTest {
    private Util instance;

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        // Util has a default public constructor. The method under test is static,
        // but the requirement asks to create an instance in @Before.
        instance = new Util();
    }

    @Test
    public void testDecimalStrings_parsedToBigInteger() {
        BigInteger[] result = Util.toBigIntegerArray("0,123,456789");
        assertEquals("Expected three elements", 3, result.length);
        assertEquals(new BigInteger("0"), result[0]);
        assertEquals(new BigInteger("123"), result[1]);
        assertEquals(new BigInteger("456789"), result[2]);
    }

    @Test
    public void testHexPrefix0x_parsedAsHex() {
        BigInteger[] result = Util.toBigIntegerArray("0xFF,0x10,0x1abcdef");
        assertEquals(new BigInteger("255"), result[0]);              // 0xFF -> 255
        assertEquals(new BigInteger("16"), result[1]);               // 0x10 -> 16
        assertEquals(new BigInteger("0x1abcdef".substring(2), 16), result[2]); // large hex
    }

    @Test
    public void testColonDelimitedHex_parsedAsHex() {
        // Typical certificate style serial: hex pairs separated by ':'
        BigInteger[] result = Util.toBigIntegerArray("01:02:0A,AA:BB:CC");
        assertEquals(new BigInteger("01020A", 16), result[0]);
        assertEquals(new BigInteger("AABBCC", 16), result[1]);
    }

    @Test
    public void testMixedInputs_parsedCorrectly() {
        BigInteger[] result = Util.toBigIntegerArray("123,0x10,0A:0B");
        assertEquals(3, result.length);
        assertEquals(new BigInteger("123"), result[0]);
        assertEquals(new BigInteger("16"), result[1]);
        assertEquals(new BigInteger("0A0B", 16), result[2]);
    }

    @Test
    public void testNegativeDecimalParsed() {
        BigInteger[] result = Util.toBigIntegerArray("-1,-999999999999999999");
        assertEquals(2, result.length);
        assertEquals(new BigInteger("-1"), result[0]);
        assertEquals(new BigInteger("-999999999999999999"), result[1]);
    }

    @Test
    public void testHugeHexValue_parsedCorrectly() {
        // A hex value larger than 64 bits
        String hex = "0x" + "F".repeat(40); // 160-bit number
        BigInteger[] result = Util.toBigIntegerArray(hex);
        assertEquals(1, result.length);
        assertEquals(new BigInteger(hex.substring(2), 16), result[0]);
    }

    @Test(expected = NullPointerException.class)
    public void testNullInput_throwsNullPointerException() {
        Util.toBigIntegerArray(null);
    }

    @Test(expected = NumberFormatException.class)
    public void testEmptyStringElement_throwsNumberFormatException() {
        // split(",") on empty string produces one empty element which is invalid for BigInteger
        Util.toBigIntegerArray("");
    }

    @Test(expected = NumberFormatException.class)
    public void testWhitespaceInElement_throwsNumberFormatException() {
        // The implementation does not trim elements; leading/trailing spaces will cause BigInteger to throw
        Util.toBigIntegerArray(" 123");
    }

    @Test(expected = NumberFormatException.class)
    public void testUppercase0X_notRecognizedAsHex_throwsNumberFormatException() {
        // startsWith("0x") is case-sensitive; "0XFF" will not be treated as hex and BigInteger will fail
        Util.toBigIntegerArray("0XFF");
    }

    @Test
    public void testLargeScaleInput_returnsCorrectLengthAndValues() {
        // Create a large comma-separated list of decimal integers to test scale behavior
        final int size = 10000;
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(size * 3);
        for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
            if (i > 0) sb.append(',');
            sb.append(i);
        }
        BigInteger[] result = Util.toBigIntegerArray(sb.toString());
        assertEquals(size, result.length);
        // Check a few representative values (keep a single assertion per test when reasonable)
        assertEquals(new BigInteger(String.valueOf(size - 1)), result[size - 1]);
    }
}

package com.aerospike.client.util;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.Before;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;

import java.math.BigInteger;

/**
 * Unit tests for com.aerospike.client.util.Util.toBigIntegerArray
 */
import com.aerospike.client.util.Util;

public class UtilTest {
    private Util instance;

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        // Util has a public default constructor; create an instance as requested.
        instance = new Util();
    }

    @Test
    public void testTypicalDecimalInput_ReturnsExpectedBigIntegers() {
        String input = "1,2,3";
        BigInteger[] expected = new BigInteger[] {
            new BigInteger("1"),
            new BigInteger("2"),
            new BigInteger("3")
        };
        BigInteger[] actual = Util.toBigIntegerArray(input);
        assertArrayEquals(expected, actual);
    }

    @Test
    public void testHexPrefix0xInput_ReturnsParsedHex() {
        String input = "0x10,0xFF,0x0a";
        BigInteger[] expected = new BigInteger[] {
            new BigInteger("10", 16),   // 16
            new BigInteger("FF", 16),   // 255
            new BigInteger("0a", 16)    // 10 (lowercase handled by BigInteger)
        };
        BigInteger[] actual = Util.toBigIntegerArray(input);
        assertArrayEquals(expected, actual);
    }

    @Test
    public void testColonDelimitedHexInput_ReturnsParsedHex() {
        // Example certificate-style serial: "AA:BB:CC" -> "AABBCC" in hex
        String input = "AA:BB:CC";
        BigInteger[] expected = new BigInteger[] {
            new BigInteger("AABBCC", 16)
        };
        BigInteger[] actual = Util.toBigIntegerArray(input);
        assertArrayEquals(expected, actual);
    }

    @Test
    public void testMixedInput_ReturnsParsedAll() {
        // Mix decimal, 0x hex and colon-delimited hex
        String input = "42,0x2A,0A:0B";
        BigInteger[] expected = new BigInteger[] {
            new BigInteger("42"),
            new BigInteger("2A", 16),
            new BigInteger("0A0B", 16)
        };
        BigInteger[] actual = Util.toBigIntegerArray(input);
        assertArrayEquals(expected, actual);
    }

    @Test(expected = NumberFormatException.class)
    public void testEmptyString_ThrowsNumberFormatException() {
        // "" will produce a single empty token from split and BigInteger("") throws NumberFormatException
        Util.toBigIntegerArray("");
    }

    @Test(expected = NullPointerException.class)
    public void testNullInput_ThrowsNullPointerException() {
        // Passing null should throw NullPointerException when split is attempted
        Util.toBigIntegerArray(null);
    }

    @Test(expected = NumberFormatException.class)
    public void testSpacesAroundTokens_ThrowsNumberFormatException() {
        // Leading/trailing spaces prevent "0x" prefix detection and BigInteger(" 0x10 ") is invalid
        Util.toBigIntegerArray(" 0x10 , 20 ");
    }

    @Test(expected = NumberFormatException.class)
    public void testMultipleCommas_EmptyToken_ThrowsNumberFormatException() {
        // "1,,2" results in an empty token which will cause NumberFormatException
        Util.toBigIntegerArray("1,,2");
    }

    @Test
    public void testVeryLargeDecimalNumber_ReturnsBigInteger() {
        // A decimal number larger than long to ensure arbitrary precision is preserved
        String huge = "1234567890123456789012345678901234567890";
        BigInteger[] actual = Util.toBigIntegerArray(huge);
        assertEquals(1, actual.length);
        assertEquals(new BigInteger(huge), actual[0]);
    }

    @Test
    public void testLargeScaleInput_PerformanceAndCorrectness() {
        // Build a large comma-separated string of identical small numbers to test scaling.
        final int N = 10000;
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
            if (i > 0) {
                sb.append(',');
            }
            sb.append('1');
        }
        BigInteger[] result = Util.toBigIntegerArray(sb.toString());
        // Verify size and a couple of values (first and last)
        assertEquals(N, result.length);
        assertEquals(BigInteger.ONE, result[0]);
        assertEquals(BigInteger.ONE, result[N - 1]);
    }
}

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