⚡️ Speed up function create_channel_credentials by 13%

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📄 13% (0.13x) speedup for create_channel_credentials in src/xai_sdk/client.py

⏱️ Runtime : 746 microseconds → 657 microseconds (best of 204 runs)

📝 Explanation and details

The optimization achieves a 13% speedup by caching channel credentials to avoid repeated gRPC object creation. The key changes are:

What was optimized:

• Memoized grpc.ssl_channel_credentials() and grpc.local_channel_credentials() using function attributes as simple caches
• Reordered operations to check host type before creating the expensive _APIAuthPlugin

Why this is faster:

• Reduced gRPC object allocation overhead: The line profiler shows SSL credential creation dropped from 256,755ns to just 9,010ns on first call, then becomes nearly free (279ns) on subsequent calls
• Cache hits dominate: With 140 SSL calls in the profile, only 1 actually creates new credentials while 139 reuse the cached instance
• Lazy plugin creation: Moving the expensive _APIAuthPlugin instantiation (which still takes ~2.1ms) after host checking avoids unnecessary work in some code paths

Performance characteristics:

• Best for repeated calls: The optimization shines when create_channel_credentials is called multiple times, as seen in the test cases showing 3-6% improvements even on simple scenarios
• Minimal memory overhead: Uses function attributes as a lightweight caching mechanism
• Thread-safe: gRPC credentials are immutable and stateless, making this singleton pattern safe

The caching eliminates redundant gRPC internal setup while preserving exact behavior and error handling.

✅ Correctness verification report:

Test	Status
⚙️ Existing Unit Tests	🔘 None Found
🌀 Generated Regression Tests	✅ 6 Passed
⏪ Replay Tests	🔘 None Found
🔎 Concolic Coverage Tests	✅ 1 Passed
📊 Tests Coverage	100.0%

🌀 Generated Regression Tests and Runtime

from typing import Optional

import grpc
# imports
import pytest  # used for our unit tests
from xai_sdk.client import create_channel_credentials


# Helper class for testing: a minimal stub for _APIAuthPlugin
class _APIAuthPlugin(grpc.AuthMetadataPlugin):
    def __init__(self, api_key, metadata):
        self.api_key = api_key
        self.metadata = metadata

    def __call__(self, context, callback):
        # Simulate metadata injection
        md = [('authorization', self.api_key)]
        if self.metadata:
            md.extend(self.metadata)
        callback(md, None)
from xai_sdk.client import create_channel_credentials

# unit tests

# ----------- Basic Test Cases -----------





def test_empty_api_key_raises():
    # Edge case: empty API key should raise ValueError
    with pytest.raises(ValueError) as excinfo:
        create_channel_credentials("", "api.xai.com:443", None) # 937ns -> 902ns (3.88% faster)

def test_none_api_key_raises():
    # Edge case: None API key should raise ValueError
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        create_channel_credentials(None, "api.xai.com:443", None) # 857ns -> 833ns (2.88% faster)



















#------------------------------------------------
import grpc
# imports
import pytest
from xai_sdk.client import create_channel_credentials


# --- Function to test ---
# Simulate the _APIAuthPlugin class required by create_channel_credentials
class _APIAuthPlugin(grpc.AuthMetadataPlugin):
    """Minimal implementation for testing."""
    def __init__(self, api_key, metadata):
        self.api_key = api_key
        self.metadata = metadata

    def __call__(self, context, callback):
        # Add API key as 'authorization' header, plus any extra metadata
        md = [('authorization', self.api_key)]
        if self.metadata:
            md.extend(self.metadata)
        callback(md, None)
from xai_sdk.client import create_channel_credentials

# --- Unit Tests ---

# 1. Basic Test Cases






def test_empty_api_key_raises():
    # Should raise ValueError for empty api_key
    with pytest.raises(ValueError) as excinfo:
        create_channel_credentials("", "api.xai.com:443", ()) # 924ns -> 869ns (6.33% faster)

def test_none_api_key_raises():
    # Should raise ValueError for None api_key
    with pytest.raises(ValueError) as excinfo:
        create_channel_credentials(None, "api.xai.com:443", ()) # 854ns -> 810ns (5.43% faster)







def test_metadata_with_non_tuple_type():
    # Metadata with wrong type (not tuple)
    with pytest.raises(TypeError):
        create_channel_credentials("key123", "api.xai.com:443", ["foo", "bar"])

def test_metadata_with_tuple_of_wrong_length():
    # Metadata with tuple of wrong length
    with pytest.raises(TypeError):
        create_channel_credentials("key123", "api.xai.com:443", (("foo",),))

# 3. Large Scale Test Cases






#------------------------------------------------
from xai_sdk.client import create_channel_credentials
import pytest

def test_create_channel_credentials():
    create_channel_credentials('\x00', 'localhost:', None)

def test_create_channel_credentials_2():
    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match='Empty\\ xAI\\ API\\ key\\ provided\\.'):
        create_channel_credentials('', '', None)

def test_create_channel_credentials_3():
    create_channel_credentials('\x00', '', None)

🔎 Concolic Coverage Tests and Runtime

Test File::Test Function	Original ⏱️	Optimized ⏱️	Speedup
codeflash_concolic_199wl20e/tmpyq8830eu/test_concolic_coverage.py::test_create_channel_credentials	11.8μs	8.56μs	37.5%✅
codeflash_concolic_199wl20e/tmpyq8830eu/test_concolic_coverage.py::test_create_channel_credentials_2	957ns	911ns	5.05%✅
codeflash_concolic_199wl20e/tmpyq8830eu/test_concolic_coverage.py::test_create_channel_credentials_3	10.3μs	9.55μs	7.88%✅

To edit these changes git checkout codeflash/optimize-create_channel_credentials-mgu0orth and push.