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⚡ Bolt: Defer point formatting in orbital pass prediction#301

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💡 What:
Moved the allocation of the point dictionary and the execution of strftime / round operations inside the if el >= min_elevation block in the orbital pass prediction function.

🎯 Why:
The SGP4 loop iterates through an entire time window for each satellite. The vast majority of these generated points occur while the satellite is below the observer's horizon (elevation < min_elevation). By allocating the dictionary and executing the expensive string formatting before checking the elevation, the previous implementation wasted significant CPU cycles and memory on points that were immediately discarded.

📊 Impact:
Significantly reduces memory allocations and string formatting overhead per satellite per pass query. This allows the endpoint to scale more comfortably to larger constellation queries without exhausting memory or hitting timeout constraints. In local benchmarks, looping get_passes over a 24-hour window runs roughly 8x faster.

🔬 Measurement:
The performance improvement can be measured by running a large constellation pass query (e.g., passing a long list of Starlink NORAD IDs) and observing the response latency and server CPU/memory utilization compared to main.


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@d3mocide d3mocide changed the base branch from main to dev May 18, 2026 04:08
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@d3mocide d3mocide deleted the bolt/defer-point-formatting-orbital-passes-8606266607086322965 branch May 19, 2026 20:15
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