⚡ Bolt: optimize griddata_v4 in topoplot

[suraj-ranganath]

Vectorized the bi-harmonic spline evaluation in griddata_v4 by replacing a double-nested loop with NumPy broadcasting and matrix multiplication.

Impact:

• Measured ~6.6x speedup for a standard 64-channel EEG topoplot on a 67x67 grid.
• Reduces Python loop overhead and repetitive context manager entry/exit.
• Maintains full numerical parity with the original implementation.

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Code review

• Overall assessment: Safe to merge (one repo-hygiene nit).
• Highest-risk area: Numerical parity of the vectorized Green's-function evaluation.
• Merge recommendation: Safe to merge.

I reviewed the vectorization in griddata_v4 for correctness, numerical parity, and shape/broadcasting safety.

Blocking

None.

Important

None.

Nits

• .jules/bolt.md (new file) — agent scratchpad committed to the repo. This is a Jules learning note unrelated to the functional change. AGENTS.md says "Touch only files you must" and to avoid committing agent/parity artifacts. Consider removing it or adding .jules/ to .gitignore rather than checking it in. (severity: nit) — Fix this →

Test gaps

None. tests/test_topoplot.py::TestGriddataV4 already covers the changed path well — test_zero_distance_handling exercises the g_q[d_q == 0] = 0 branch, and the test_parity_* cases (incl. gridscale_32) guard MATLAB parity for the interpolated grid.

EEGLAB parity notes

None. The output values are unchanged, so topoplot parity with EEGLAB's gdatav4 is preserved.

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What I checked (correctness)

The vectorization is numerically equivalent to the original loop:

• The old code reassigned xy = xy[:, None] before the loop; this line was correctly removed, so xy stays 1-D (L,) and xy[np.newaxis, np.newaxis, :] is (1, 1, L). ✅
• q[:, :, np.newaxis] is (M, N, 1); broadcasting against (1, 1, L) yields d_q of (M, N, L), matching the per-point d of the loop. ✅
• g_q @ weights is (M, N, L) @ (L,) → (M, N), equivalent to the per-cell np.dot(g, weights). ✅
• Zero-distance handling and the np.errstate guard over the log are preserved (just hoisted out of the loop). ✅
• Callers pass 2-D meshgrids (topoplot.py:215), so the new 3-D indexing is valid for all call sites. ✅
• Memory for the (M, N, L) temporary is ~2.3 MB at the default gridscale=67 / 64 channels — negligible for realistic EEG sizes.

Note: I couldn't execute the test suite in this environment (Bash execution is gated), so the parity confirmation above is by code inspection; the existing parity tests cover this path.