openhours

A high-performance, zero-allocation Go parser and interval-math evaluator for OpenStreetMap opening_hours specifications.

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⚡ Features & Performance

• $O(1)$ Hardware-Accelerated Bitmask Table: Evaluates IsOpen in ~4.5 nanoseconds (>220 Million ops/sec) via embedded [158]uint64 scalar bit tests.
• Zero-Allocation Interval Math: Zero heap allocations on query paths (IsOpen, TimeToOpen, TimeToOpenForDuration, WhenTime, NextDur, NextDate).
• Thread-Safe & Lock-Free Interning: Automatic lock-free interning and caching of parsed expressions.
• Overnight Shifts: Full support for shifts spanning midnight (e.g. Mo 22:00-04:00, Su 22:00-04:00).
• Overrides & Exclusions: Handles off / closed rules overriding previous rules (e.g. Mo-Su 00:00-24:00; Tu 12:00-13:00 off).
• Duration Availability: Find wait times for contiguous tasks of duration $D$ (GetTimeToOpenForDuration / When).
• Standard JSON Support: Native json.Marshaler and json.Unmarshaler implementations.
• Reflection-free JSON Decode: A dependency-free DecodeJSON([]byte) entry point that decodes a JSON string in ~26 ns with zero allocations (*OpeningHours is the shared interned instance) — no runtime reflection, no third-party modules.

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🧠 Optimizations & Engineering Architecture

The Go implementation leverages specialized low-level and compiler-aware optimizations to achieve sub-10ns evaluations and zero GC overhead:

1. Dual State Representation:

   • Disjoint Interval Table ([]TimeWindow): Minute intervals within the week [0, 10080) stored as {Start, End int}. Intervals are sorted and disjoint.
   • Hardware Bitmask Table ([158]uint64): A 10,080-bit packed bitmask where bit $i$ represents minute $i$ of the week. Point-in-time checks (IsOpen) execute in $O(1)$ via scalar bit tests: (bitmask[weekMin >> 6] & (1 << (weekMin & 63))) != 0.

2. $O(\log N)$ Binary Search with Small-Window Unrolling:

   • Interval-based lookups (GetTimeToOpen, When, NextDur) utilize binary search over the sorted windows array. For short schedules ($N \le 3$), branches are unrolled directly.
   • Includes compiler Bounds Check Elimination (BCE) hints (_ = windows[n-1]) to eliminate slice bounds checking inside hot search loops.

3. Two-Tier Lock-Free Caching Hierarchy:

   • L1 Atomic Slot: An atomic.Pointer[parseSlot] holds the most recently accessed expression. Consecutive lookups on the same expression bypass lock contention and hash table lookups completely.
   • L2 Concurrent Intern Pool: Backed by sync.RWMutex and map[string]*OpeningHours for deduplicating parsed expressions globally.

4. Reflection-Free JSON Fast Path:

   • DecodeJSON([]byte) directly scans quotes, validates escapes, and resolves directly to the interned *OpeningHours instance via stringEqualsBytes and unsafe.StringData, eliminating runtime reflection and allocations.

5. Zero-Allocation Stack Parsing:

   • Parsing uses stack-allocated buffers ([8]openingRule, [4]timeRange) and ASCII byte scanning, completely avoiding heap allocations during rule tokenization.

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🚀 Quick Start

Installation

go get github.com/chneau/openhours/v2

Usage Example

package main
import (
"fmt""time""github.com/chneau/openhours/v2"
)
funcmain() {
// 1. Parse an OSM opening_hours stringoh:=openhours.Parse("Mo-Fr 08:00-12:00, 13:00-17:00; Sa 08:00-12:00")
monday10am:=time.Date(2026, 5, 18, 10, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
// 2. Fast point-in-time check (4.5 ns/op)isOpen:=oh.IsOpen(monday10am) // truefmt.Println("Is open:", isOpen)
// 3. Current shift endifshiftEnd:=oh.GetCurrentShiftEnd(monday10am); shiftEnd!=nil {
fmt.Println("Current shift ends at:", *shiftEnd) // 2026-05-18 12:00:00 UTC
}
// 4. Time to next opentuesdayLunch:=time.Date(2026, 5, 19, 12, 30, 0, 0, time.UTC)
timeToOpen:=oh.GetTimeToOpen(tuesdayLunch) // 30m (opens at 13:00)fmt.Println("Opens in:", *timeToOpen)
// 5. Find when a 3-hour job can be servicedwaitFor3h:=oh.GetTimeToOpenForDuration(tuesdayLunch, 3*time.Hour)
whenCanStart:=oh.When(tuesdayLunch, 3*time.Hour) // 2026-05-19 13:00:00 UTCfmt.Println("Wait for 3h slot:", *waitFor3h, "Starts at:", *whenCanStart)
// 6. Next state transitionsisOpenNow, durationRemaining:=oh.NextDur(monday10am)
_, nextTransitionDate:=oh.NextDate(monday10am) // 2026-05-18 12:00:00 UTCfmt.Println("Open now:", isOpenNow, "Remaining:", durationRemaining, "Next date:", nextTransitionDate)
}

Fast, Reflection-free JSON Decode

OpeningHours serializes to a JSON string of the expression. Use DecodeJSON for a dependency-free, reflection-free decode that returns the shared interned *OpeningHours (~26 ns, zero allocations):

oh, err:=openhours.DecodeJSON([]byte(`"Mo-Fr 08:00-12:00, 13:00-17:00"`))
iferr!=nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Println(oh.IsOpen(monday10am))

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📊 Benchmark Suite (Go on AMD Ryzen 9)

#	Workload	Calls	Latency / Op	Throughput
1	IsOpen (Pure call)	1,000,000	4.5 ns	220,000,000 ops/sec
2	TimeToOpen (Zero-alloc)	10,000	9.5 ns	105,000,000 ops/sec
3	Parse (Interned / Cached)	1,000	14.5 ns	69,000,000 ops/sec
4	When	10,000	23.0 ns	43,000,000 ops/sec
5	NextDur	10,000	25.5 ns	39,000,000 ops/sec
6	TimeToOpenForDuration (Zero-alloc)	10,000	27.8 ns	36,000,000 ops/sec
7	GetTimeToOpen	10,000	35.3 ns	28,000,000 ops/sec
8	NextDate	10,000	39.8 ns	25,000,000 ops/sec
9	GetTimeToOpenForDuration	10,000	47.5 ns	21,000,000 ops/sec
10	Parse (Uncached)	1,000	345.5 ns	2,900,000 ops/sec

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🛠️ Development & Quality Commands

# Run all unit tests
go test ./...
# Run tests with race detector and verbose output
go test -v -race ./...
# Run tests with statement coverage report
go test -cover ./...
# Run benchmarks with memory allocation metrics
go test -benchmem -bench=. ./...
# Run linter
golangci-lint run ./...

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📄 License

MIT License. Copyright (c) 2026 chneau.