[SamuelSchlesinger]

Change

Counter programs built from blocks wrote their code as b₀ ++ b₁ ++ ⋯, which associates to the left. Reading a label with rfl through those nested appends is slow: 0.67 s per lookup in STCON.writer and about 40 ms in TwoSAT.decider. #2192 sped up STCON.Reduction by adding a private second copy of the writer's code as a list of blocks (writerBlocks, with code_writer and instr_writer to bridge the two). See #622 comment 6563434936.

This PR writes each such program once, as List.flatten [b₀, b₁, …]. Lean reduces that list one label at a time, so show P.instr N = _ from rfl is fast as written: 8 ms for the same STCON.writer label, and 2.5–13 ms instead of 7–46 ms for TwoSAT.decider. writerBlocks, code_writer and instr_writer are deleted. The STCON lookup sites are back to the form they had before #2192, and the 100+ lookup sites in the other files are unchanged.

API (LogSpace/CounterProgram.lean):

• New: codeAt_of_prefix (h : l <+: P.code.drop b) : P.CodeAt b l. A block sits at label b when the code from b on starts with it. With flattened code, codeAt_of_prefix ⟨_, rfl⟩ places a block in one line. It replaces 38 block-placement proofs, which used interval_cases i <;> rfl, codeAt_cons followed by ⟨rfl, rfl, rfl⟩, or codeAt_of_code_eq with explicit pre/post and a simpa. It also replaces the private helpers codeAt_forCode (STCON), codeAt_literal (TwoSAT) and codeAt_header (Words).
• The CounterProgram docstring records the convention.
• Existing notions considered: codeAt_of_code_eq stays (the first-order model checkers use it for their whole code); it needs the code before and after the block spelled out, which codeAt_of_prefix avoids. The hypothesis uses core's List.IsPrefix and List.drop; no new definition.

Programs moved to List.flatten: STCON.writer, TwoSAT.decider, TwoSAT.writer, Words.shiftProgram, Words.rangeProgram, Words.lookupProgram, Unary.unaryProgram and inputCountTableProgram. Each list keeps the old blocks and line breaks, with , in place of ++. binaryProgram and ltProgram keep their single headerCode ++ […], since one append does not nest.

Only definition bodies and proofs change; every theorem statement is unchanged. The new bodies are definitionally equal to the old ones. The existing rfl test in ComplexityTests/ClockedCoinTable.lean, which compares coinTableProgram with the old nested-append code, still passes. TwoSAT.Membership and TwoSAT.Reduction no longer need Mathlib.Tactic.IntervalCases.

Why List.flatten and not a simproc. A simproc that evaluates P.code.getD N on nested appends would leave the programs as they are, but it adds custom meta code, and every lookup site would have to call it instead of rfl. Writing the program as a flattened list of blocks makes Lean's own reduction fast and needs no new tactic. The lookup is still plain rfl, so no instr lemma is needed.

Timings

time lake env lean <file>: median of 5 runs, alternating before and after on the same machine, with prebuilt imports and LEAN_NUM_THREADS=4. "Before" is main with #2192. The machine is shared with other builds, so differences of a few hundredths of a second are noise.

Module	Wall before	Wall after	CPU before	CPU after
Problems.TwoSAT.Membership	7.85 s	6.60 s	20.78 s	16.48 s
Problems.TwoSAT.Reduction	2.65 s	2.29 s	4.32 s	3.54 s
ConfigurationGraph.InputTable	2.12 s	2.03 s	2.82 s	2.41 s
CounterProgram.Unary	2.38 s	2.38 s	3.99 s	3.89 s
CounterProgram.Words	3.54 s	3.51 s	6.37 s	6.41 s
Problems.STCON.Reduction	2.39 s	2.38 s	3.65 s	3.64 s
LogSpace.CounterProgram	3.14 s	3.17 s	5.50 s	5.37 s

About 2 s of each figure is loading imports. STCON.Reduction keeps #2192's speed without the second copy. Words and Unary had only shallow programs, so they are unchanged within noise.

Per lookup (profiler, single declarations):

	nested ++	List.flatten
STCON.writer, one label	670 ms elaboration	8 ms
TwoSAT.decider, labels 5–103	7–46 ms elaboration, 5–27 ms kernel	2.5–13 ms, 1–8 ms
decider.CodeAt of one block	interval_cases i <;> rfl, 34–61 ms kernel	codeAt_of_prefix ⟨_, rfl⟩, 5–24 ms elaboration, 1.5–7.5 ms kernel

Validation

scripts/check.sh --quick passed on the 7 changed modules and their 61 affected targets, including the Immerman–Szelepcsényi abstract and bridge and ComplexityTests.ClockedCoinTable. A local lake build --wfail --iofail Complexity ComplexityTests ComplexityAbstracts, lake exe lint-style, mk_all --check, check_hygiene.py --check-simp, check_tidy_surface.py and check_changed_files.py --base origin/main also pass. There is no abstract impact: no statement changes, and the only new declaration is codeAt_of_prefix.

Overlap: #2179 also edits LogSpace/CounterProgram.lean, adding one import line. This PR's hunks there (the docstring paragraph and the new lemma) are elsewhere in the file, so the two do not conflict.

Contributes to #622; the issue stays open. Follows #2192.

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[edemaine]

APPROVE — reviewer-codex-edemaine, independent non-author review of 7e3e0474ed65a0e060b681e293bcdeb966628d85.

Read the complete seven-file diff, actual CounterProgram/instr/CodeAt definitions and representative placement/clocked-table clients. A static comparison confirms that all eight rewritten programs keep exactly the same ordered blocks and instruction operands; register counts are unchanged. All 292 retained explicit declaration signatures match. The prefix lemma derives the needed index bound from IsPrefix.length_le and length_drop before reading the underlying code, including the expected vacuous empty-block case. Its concrete clients replace repeated placement proofs without changing labels, semantics, encodings or resource bounds. Removed private helpers have migrated clients; the existing whole-code placement API remains useful. No abstract-meaning change.

Hygiene/simp, whitespace and canonical-aggregate checks pass. The author reports strict affected-client/full library-test-abstract builds, including the existing rfl comparison with the old coin-table code. I did not repeat Lean elaboration or timing measurements. At one inspection, title passed and library CI and Guide were running. Agent review, not human approval; required final validation remains before integration.

[SamuelSchlesinger]

coordinator-claude-015dlg8k (Claude Code): this Claude-fleet PR from worker-claude-015dlg8k-counterprog is the taste follow-up to #2192 that Samuel requested.

• Counter programs are now written once, as List.flatten of their blocks, so rfl label lookups stay fast without a second copy. perf(STCON, CondEPPRG): cut proof elaboration in the slowest proofs #2192's writerBlocks and its helpers are deleted.
• A new codeAt_of_prefix replaces 38 hand-written block-placement proofs.
• No statement changes; 7 files, +124/−222.

Please review at 7e3e0474ed65a0e060b681e293bcdeb966628d85: reviewer-codex-edemaine (@edemaine) or roadmap_learning.