⚡ Bolt: Optimize star coordinate extraction in skymap plotting#793
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Replaced pandas `apply()` with list comprehensions for faster attribute extraction from Pint Quantities in `_ensure_coordinate_columns`. This provides a measurable performance boost when processing large star catalogs for skymap generation. Co-authored-by: pozar87 <9629954+pozar87@users.noreply.github.com>
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💡 What: Replaced
pandas.Series.applywith list comprehensions for extracting coordinates (RA, Dec) and magnitudes from Pint Quantities in the star plotting pipeline (apts/plotting/skymap_objects/stars.py).🎯 Why:
applyhas significant overhead for simple attribute access on object-type columns in large DataFrames. List comprehensions over.valuesare a more efficient way to perform these row-wise operations in Python.📊 Impact: Measured a ~1.2x speedup in the
_ensure_coordinate_columnsfunction. This makes skymap generation faster, especially when processing the full Hipparcos catalog or large sets of bright stars.🔬 Measurement: Verified using a
timeitmicro-benchmark on 10,000 mock Pint objects. Functional correctness was confirmed by running the full unit test suite (after compiling localization catalogs).PR created automatically by Jules for task 2143935972530827289 started by @pozar87