From a08f18e2a1b7e409d2d20d55749d378d4c21daa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 11:42:26 +0100
Subject: solver3: Cache straight pointers in candidate cache

This reduces its memory usage by half and turns it into a
fast map - no destructors needed (and 0 initialization).
---
 apt-pkg/solver3.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'apt-pkg/solver3.h')

diff --git a/apt-pkg/solver3.h b/apt-pkg/solver3.h
index fc2e90b7f..4390d589b 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/solver3.h
+++ b/apt-pkg/solver3.h
@@ -461,12 +461,12 @@ class DependencySolver final : public Solver
    }
 
    // GetCandidateVer() with caching
-   mutable ContiguousCacheMap<pkgCache::Package, pkgCache::VerIterator> candidates;
+   mutable FastContiguousCacheMap<pkgCache::Package, pkgCache::Version *> candidates;
    pkgCache::VerIterator GetCandidateVer(pkgCache::PkgIterator pkg) const
    {
-      if (candidates[pkg].end())
+      if (candidates[pkg] == 0)
 	 candidates[pkg] = policy.GetCandidateVer(pkg);
-      return candidates[pkg];
+      return pkgCache::VerIterator(cache, candidates[pkg]);
    }
 
    // \brief Discover variables
-- 
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