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Profile Slow Python: cProfile, timeit, tracemalloc, and Measured Wins from set Lookups and join

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Measured on Python 3.10: cProfile attributing 0.096 s of 0.113 s to one function, a generator version beating a loop slightly, list membership at 0.094 s versus set at 0.000008 s for 200 lookups, 5 MB traced for 5000 byte blocks versus 3.7 KB peak when streaming.

Measure before optimizing. Use cProfile to find hot functions, timeit for fair micro-benchmarks, and tracemalloc to find memory growth, then apply measured fixes like set membership, join and generators.

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