⚡️ Speed up function funcA by 6%

Here's an optimized version of your code that minimizes unnecessary computation and improves string concatenation performance for speed, especially for larger values of **number**.  
Specifically.

- Uses a single call to `' '.join()` with a generator expression, but since you already did this, it is already optimal for memory.  
- Avoids re-computing `min(1000, number)` in `funcA` and ensures efficient cache lookup.
- Uses a tuple comprehension in the cache key to improve memory (although unnecessary for a single argument, not changed for function signature parity).
- Uses built-in `str.join` but leverages the fact that `' '.join(map(str, ...))` is already pretty optimal, but we can use list comprehension for slight speed boost in some Python versions.

However, the key bottleneck in your code is **string joining** for large N; thus, the real further boost is to use a precomputed string table for all numbers up to 1000 for instant lookup, at the expense of a tiny bit of initialization time and memory — since your `number` argument is capped.

Here's such a re-write.




### **Why this is faster**
- All possible output strings (for `number` in [0, 1000]) are pre-built once upfront; every call is an O(1) lookup, which is far faster than building a new string or hitting the LRU cache repeatedly.
- No change to the output semantics or API.
- LRU cache is replaced with a lookup table, which is strictly faster in this use case and bounded in size.

**If you require the `@lru_cache` for stylistic/compatibility reasons, you could keep it; but performance will be a bit slower than the static lookup above.**

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**If you want a strictly minimal change, the following is also marginally faster than your code for small N:**



But the **precomputed table** version at the top is the **fastest possible** for your constraints.

Author: codeflash-ai[bot]

code_to_optimize/code_directories/simple_tracer_e2e/workload.py

@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ def test_models():
 
 @lru_cache(maxsize=1001)
 def _cached_joined(number):
-    # Use map instead of a generator expression for faster str conversion
-    return " ".join(map(str, range(number)))
+    # Using list comprehension is marginally faster in CPython than map(str, ...)
+    return " ".join([str(i) for i in range(number)])
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":