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Speeding up the HTF

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Description

The HybridTopologyFactory is now a lot faster thanks to @ijpulidos' recent changes https://github.com/OpenFreeEnergy/feflow/pull/61

However we still often face cases where it may take up to a minute to create a hybrid system.

There are likely similar performance improvements to thoses added in #61 and things like using more set operations which could speed things up a lot.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the HybridTopologyFactory and the performance changes in pull request #61. Profile hybrid-system creation to identify remaining bottlenecks, then compare the measured runtime before and after the changes; done means a documented, reproducible improvement in the slow cases.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
performance
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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