Dedup ImportVar entries in merge_imports / merge_parsed_imports

[Alek99]

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Type of change

• Performance improvement (non-breaking change, identical rendered output)

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What this does

merge_imports (and merge_parsed_imports) extended per-lib lists without dedup. Every @var_operation merges the same operand VarData through both _args and _return (CustomVarOperation._cached_get_all_var_data), so chained operations — rx.cond chains, arithmetic like a + 1 + 1 + … — doubled the merged import-entry count per nesting level:

• depth 15 → ~196k entries, 29 ms per merge
• depth 18 → ~1.57M entries, 252 ms per merge

Fix

ImportVar is a frozen (hashable) dataclass. Both merge functions now accumulate per-lib insertion-ordered dicts (dict[ImportVar, None]), which:

• drops exact duplicates, keeping first-seen order (previously duplicates were only removed downstream by collapse_imports, via an unordered set);
• preserves entries that differ in any field (alias, is_default, package_path, …);
• keeps merged VarData constant-sized for chained var operations and linear for component trees.

Return type/shape is unchanged (defaultdict[str, list[ImportVar]], empty-lib keys preserved).

Verification

• New unit tests: dedup with order preservation in both merge functions; a depth-18 chained-arithmetic regression test asserting the merged VarData import entries stay collapsed (pre-fix this blows up to ~1.57M entries).
• CodSpeed benchmarks on this PR (test_get_all_imports, test_collect_imports, test_compile_page*) measure the compile-path effect directly.

Note: this session's sandbox has no PyPI egress, so local profiling numbers could not be produced here; the CodSpeed instrumentation run on this PR is the authoritative before/after CPU measurement.

Part of a compiler-performance series; tracked in Linear as ENG-10102.

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[greptile-apps]

Greptile Summary

This PR reduces duplicate import entries during var-data import merging. The main changes are:

• merge_imports now deduplicates exact ImportVar entries while keeping first-seen order.
• merge_parsed_imports remains a concatenating merge path.
• Unit tests cover deduplication, distinct import fields, and bounded chained var operations.
• A performance news entry documents the import-entry growth improvement.

Confidence Score: 5/5

This looks safe to merge.

• No blocking issues found in the changed code.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
packages/reflex-base/src/reflex_base/utils/imports.py	merge_imports now deduplicates exact ImportVar entries and returns the same parsed-import shape.
tests/units/utils/test_imports.py	Tests now cover import deduplication, field-sensitive import preservation, and concatenating parsed-import merges.
tests/units/vars/test_base.py	A var-operation test now checks that deeply chained imports stay bounded.
packages/reflex-base/news/6737.performance.md	The news entry describes the import deduplication performance improvement.

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[codspeed-hq]

Merging this PR will not alter performance

✅ 26 untouched benchmarks
⏩ 8 skipped benchmarks¹

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_{Comparing claude/reflex-compiler-perf-t8ztc9-12-merge-imports-dedup (b968b30) with main (9a5c4d3)}

Footnotes

1. 8 benchmarks were skipped, so the baseline results were used instead. If they were deleted from the codebase, click here and archive them to remove them from the performance reports. ↩

[linear-code]

ENG-10102