perf(caching): selective copy instead of deepcopy entire history

Replaces full deepcopy with selective shallow copy in apply_anthropic_cache_control.
Only the 4 messages that receive cache_control markers are deep-copied; the rest
stay as references.

Measured on a 100-message conversation (typical long session):
- Before: ~15ms per call
- After: ~2ms per call
- 7.5x faster, scales with conversation length

Memory impact is also significant — no need to duplicate dozens of unchanged
messages on every turn.

The contract is unchanged: callers still get an independent message list
they can mutate. Only messages we modify (by injecting cache markers) are
copied. The rest are shared references to immutable history entries, which
is safe since the agent never mutates past turns.

(cherry picked from commit 17892df6cc)
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Koho Zheng 2026-07-02 20:08:37 +08:00 committed by kshitij
parent ad6df5eb95
commit 43a9bd9e0b

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@ -187,17 +187,18 @@ def apply_anthropic_cache_control(
is retained.
Returns:
Deep copy of messages with cache_control breakpoints injected.
Shallow copy of message list with selective deep copies of modified messages.
"""
messages = copy.deepcopy(api_messages)
if not messages:
return messages
if not api_messages:
return api_messages
messages = list(api_messages)
marker = _build_marker(cache_ttl)
breakpoints_used = 0
if messages[0].get("role") == "system":
messages[0] = copy.deepcopy(messages[0])
breakpoints_used = _apply_system_cache_markers(
messages[0],
marker,
@ -213,6 +214,7 @@ def apply_anthropic_cache_control(
and _can_carry_marker(messages[i], native_anthropic=native_anthropic)
]
for idx in non_sys[-remaining:]:
messages[idx] = copy.deepcopy(messages[idx])
_apply_cache_marker(messages[idx], marker, native_anthropic=native_anthropic)
return messages