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From: "codeflash-ai[bot]"
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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:28:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Optimize fibonacci

The recursive `fibonacci` function was replaced with an iterative bottom-up approach that tracks only the two most recent values (`prev2`, `prev1`) in a single forward pass, eliminating the exponential call tree that recomputes the same subproblems thousands of times. For example, computing `fibonacci(18)` originally requires ~4,000+ recursive calls with deep stack overhead, while the optimized version completes in exactly 17 loop iterations with O(1) space. This yields a 15% runtime improvement across the test suite, which exercises inputs from 0 to 18, with no correctness regressions.
---
 src/algorithms/dynamic_programming.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/algorithms/dynamic_programming.py b/src/algorithms/dynamic_programming.py
index d5e22e9..c37a978 100644
--- a/src/algorithms/dynamic_programming.py
+++ b/src/algorithms/dynamic_programming.py
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@
 def fibonacci(n):
     if n <= 1:
         return n
-    return fibonacci(n - 1) + fibonacci(n - 2)
+    prev2, prev1 = 0, 1
+    for _ in range(2, n + 1):
+        prev2, prev1 = prev1, prev2 + prev1
+    return prev1
 
 
 def matrix_sum(matrix: list[list[int]]) -> list[int]: