On a large Java/Kotlin Spring monorepo, reference resolution — not extraction —
dominated a full index (Spring Boot's ~9,650-file tree: extraction 62s,
resolution ~26min). The Spring framework resolver ran an uncached
getNodesByKind('constant') full scan + canonicalConfigKey() filter for EVERY
dotted `calls` ref (every list.add(), builder.build(), receiver.method()),
because the config-key branch gated only on "dotted java/kotlin", not on ref
kind. With ~1,100 constant nodes × ~200k dotted calls that is ~200M wasted
row-fetches/allocations.
Fixes, one theme — config-key constants bind config `references`, never `calls`:
- frameworks/java.ts: gate the Spring config-key branch on
referenceKind === 'references' (what @Value/@ConfigurationProperties emit) so
the `calls` flood skips the scan.
- name-matcher.ts: a `calls` ref no longer resolves to a yaml/properties config
node via matchByQualifiedName (service.process() vs the yaml key
service.process) — a wrong edge that also hid the real callee; it now falls
through to method resolution.
- resolution/index.ts: cache getNodesByKind in the resolver context (same
lifetime as nameCache). Fixes the same uncached-per-ref scan in the Drupal
hook_ resolver and is defense-in-depth for the Spring :prefix branch.
Measured (Spring Boot): resolution 269s→16.5s on a 4.3k-file module (16×) and
~26min→44.7s on the full 9.6k-file tree (~35×); graph byte-identical, full suite
passes. Adds a regression test (same key, two ref kinds, opposite outcomes).
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>