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Kpa-clawbot 02004c5912 perf: incremental distance index update on path changes (#576)
## Summary

Replace full `buildDistanceIndex()` rebuild with incremental
`removeTxFromDistanceIndex`/`addTxToDistanceIndex` for only the
transmissions whose paths actually changed during
`IngestNewObservations`.

## Problem

When any transmission's best path changed during observation ingestion,
the **entire distance index was rebuilt** — iterating all 30K+ packets,
resolving all hops, and computing haversine distances. This
`O(total_packets × avg_hops)` operation ran under a write lock, blocking
all API readers.

A 30-second debounce (`distRebuildInterval`) was added in #557 to
mitigate this, but it only delayed the pain — the full rebuild still
happened, just less frequently.

## Fix

- Added `removeTxFromDistanceIndex(tx)` — filters out all
`distHopRecord` and `distPathRecord` entries for a specific transmission
- Added `addTxToDistanceIndex(tx)` — computes and appends new distance
records for a single transmission
- In `IngestNewObservations`, changed path-change handling to call
remove+add for each affected tx instead of marking dirty and waiting for
a full rebuild
- Removed `distDirty`, `distLast`, and `distRebuildInterval` since
incremental updates are cheap enough to apply immediately

## Complexity

- **Before:** `O(total_packets × avg_hops)` per rebuild (30K+ packets)
- **After:** `O(changed_txs × avg_hops + total_dist_records)` — the
remove is a linear scan of the distance slices, but only for affected
txs; the add is `O(hops)` per changed tx

The remove scan over `distHops`/`distPaths` slices is linear in slice
length, but this is still far cheaper than the full rebuild which also
does JSON parsing, hop resolution, and haversine math for every packet.

## Tests

- Updated `TestDistanceRebuildDebounce` →
`TestDistanceIncrementalUpdate` to verify incremental behavior and check
for duplicate path records
- All existing tests pass (`go test ./...` in both `cmd/server` and
`cmd/ingestor`)

Fixes #365

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Co-authored-by: you <you@example.com>
2026-04-04 09:50:55 -07:00
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