Improved the runtime of DiffVulnerabilityResults (#1091)

- Improved the runtime of DiffVulnerabilityResults
- Precomputed the existence of Sources, Packages, and Vulnerabilities,
which brings the time complexity down from O(n^2) to O(n).

Author: neilnaveen

internal/ci/vulnerability_result_diff.go

@@ -1,22 +1,21 @@
 package ci
 
 import (
-	"slices"
-
 	"github.com/google/osv-scanner/internal/output"
 	"github.com/google/osv-scanner/pkg/grouper"
 	"github.com/google/osv-scanner/pkg/models"
 )
 
 // DiffVulnerabilityResults will return any new vulnerabilities that are in `newRes`
 // which is not present in `oldRes`, but not the reverse.
-//
-// Current implementation is O(n^2) on the number of vulns, but can be reduced to linear time
 func DiffVulnerabilityResults(oldRes, newRes models.VulnerabilityResults) models.VulnerabilityResults {
 	result := models.VulnerabilityResults{}
+	// Initialize caches for quick lookup
+	sourceToIndex, packageToIndex, vulnToIndex := initializeCaches(oldRes)
+
 	for _, ps := range newRes.Results {
-		sourceIdx := slices.IndexFunc(oldRes.Results, func(elem models.PackageSource) bool { return elem.Source == ps.Source })
-		if sourceIdx == -1 {
+		sourceIdx, sourceExists := sourceToIndex[ps.Source]
+		if !sourceExists {
 			// Newly introduced source, so all results for this source are going to be new, add everything for this source
 			result.Results = append(result.Results, ps)
 			continue
@@ -27,9 +26,8 @@ func DiffVulnerabilityResults(oldRes, newRes models.VulnerabilityResults) models
 		})
 		resultPS := &result.Results[len(result.Results)-1]
 		for _, pv := range ps.Packages {
-			pkgs := oldRes.Results[sourceIdx].Packages
-			pkgIdx := slices.IndexFunc(pkgs, func(elem models.PackageVulns) bool { return elem.Package == pv.Package })
-			if pkgIdx == -1 {
+			pkgIdx, packageExists := packageToIndex[sourceIdx][pv.Package]
+			if !packageExists {
 				// Newly introduced package, so all results for this package are going to be new, add everything for this package
 				resultPS.Packages = append(resultPS.Packages, pv)
 				continue
@@ -41,9 +39,7 @@ func DiffVulnerabilityResults(oldRes, newRes models.VulnerabilityResults) models
 			})
 			resultPV := &resultPS.Packages[len(resultPS.Packages)-1]
 			for _, v := range pv.Vulnerabilities {
-				vulns := pkgs[pkgIdx].Vulnerabilities
-				vulnIdx := slices.IndexFunc(vulns, func(elem models.Vulnerability) bool { return elem.ID == v.ID })
-				if vulnIdx == -1 {
+				if !vulnToIndex[sourceIdx][pkgIdx][v.ID] {
 					// Vulnerability is new, add it to the results
 					resultPV.Vulnerabilities = append(resultPV.Vulnerabilities, v)
 					continue
@@ -71,6 +67,38 @@ func DiffVulnerabilityResults(oldRes, newRes models.VulnerabilityResults) models
 	return result
 }
 
+// initializeCaches sets up maps for quick lookup of sources, packages, and vulnerabilities by their indices.
+func initializeCaches(oldRes models.VulnerabilityResults) (map[models.SourceInfo]int, []map[models.PackageInfo]int, [][]map[string]bool) {
+	sourceToIndex := make(map[models.SourceInfo]int, len(oldRes.Results))
+	// The index in the array corresponds to a source index, a query would look like packageToIndex[sourceIndex][packageInfo]
+	packageToIndex := make([]map[models.PackageInfo]int, len(oldRes.Results))
+	// The first index in the array corresponds to a source index, and the second index corresponds to a package index
+	// a query would look like vulnToIndex[sourceIndex][packageIndex][vulnID]
+	vulnToIndex := make([][]map[string]bool, len(oldRes.Results))
+
+	// Populate index maps for sources, packages, and vulnerabilities
+	for sourceIndex, vulnResult := range oldRes.Results {
+		sourceToIndex[oldRes.Results[sourceIndex].Source] = sourceIndex
+		if vulnToIndex[sourceIndex] == nil {
+			vulnToIndex[sourceIndex] = make([]map[string]bool, len(vulnResult.Packages))
+		}
+		for packageIndex, pkg := range vulnResult.Packages {
+			if packageToIndex[sourceIndex] == nil {
+				packageToIndex[sourceIndex] = make(map[models.PackageInfo]int, len(vulnResult.Packages))
+			}
+			packageToIndex[sourceIndex][pkg.Package] = packageIndex
+			if vulnToIndex[sourceIndex][packageIndex] == nil {
+				vulnToIndex[sourceIndex][packageIndex] = make(map[string]bool, len(pkg.Vulnerabilities))
+			}
+			for _, vuln := range pkg.Vulnerabilities {
+				vulnToIndex[sourceIndex][packageIndex][vuln.ID] = true // Mark the vulnerability as present
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return sourceToIndex, packageToIndex, vulnToIndex
+}
+
 // DiffVulnerabilityResultsByOccurrences will return the occurrence of each vulnerability that are in `newRes`
 // which is not present in `oldRes`, but not the reverse. This calculates the difference by vulnerability ID,
 // while ignoring the source of the vulnerability.