// resource when considering pod alignment.
	// In terms of hints, this is equal to: TopologyHints[NUMANodeAffinity: nil, Preferred: true].
	if requested == 0 {
		return nil
	}

	// Short circuit to regenerate the same hints if there are already
	// guaranteed CPUs allocated to the Container. This might happen after a
	// kubelet restart, for example.

	}
	return slices.Filter(cfgs, func(c config.Config) bool {
		return c.Namespace == namespace
	})
}

// hasResources determines if there are any gateway-api resources created at all.
// If not, we can short circuit all processing to avoid excessive work.
func (kr GatewayResources) hasResources() bool {
	return len(kr.GatewayClass) > 0 ||
		len(kr.Gateway) > 0 ||
		len(kr.HTTPRoute) > 0 ||
		len(kr.GRPCRoute) > 0 ||

		}
	}

	// TODO(dmitshur,gri): A relatively high level call to ast.NewPackage with a simpleImporter
	// ast.Importer implementation is made below. It might be possible to short-circuit and simplify.

	// Compute package documentation.
	pkg, _ := ast.NewPackage(fset, goFiles, simpleImporter, nil) // Ignore errors that can happen due to unresolved identifiers.
	p := New(pkg, importPath, mode)

func OldestMatchingHost(needle host.Name, specific map[host.Name]config.Config, wildcard map[host.Name]config.Config) (host.Name, config.Config, bool) {
	// The algorithm is a bit different than MostSpecificHostMatch. We can't short-circuit on the first
	// match, regardless of whether it's specific or wildcarded. This is because we have to check the timestamp
	// of all configs to make sure there's not an older matching one that we should use instead.

func (n *networkManager) extractGatewaysInner(svc *model.Service) bool {
	n.Lock()
	defer n.Unlock()
	previousGateways := n.networkGatewaysBySvc[svc.Hostname]
	gateways := n.getGatewayDetails(svc)
	// short circuit for most services.
	if len(previousGateways) == 0 && len(gateways) == 0 {
		return false
	}

	newGateways := make(model.NetworkGatewaySet)
	// check if we have node port mappings

		return nil
	}

	for _, ctn := range append(pod.Spec.InitContainers, pod.Spec.Containers...) {
		containerBlocks := s.GetMemoryBlocks(string(pod.UID), ctn.Name)
		// Short circuit to regenerate the same hints if there are already
		// memory allocated for the container. This might happen after a
		// kubelet restart, for example.
		if containerBlocks != nil {

      remove(range);
      entriesByLowerBound.put(range.lowerBound, new RangeMapEntry<K, V>(range, value));
    }
  }

  @Override
  public void putCoalescing(Range<K> range, V value) {
    // don't short-circuit if the range is empty - it may be between two ranges we can coalesce.
    if (entriesByLowerBound.isEmpty()) {
      put(range, value);
      return;
    }

	// However, if the os.Stderr (or os.Stdout) file descriptors are
	// passed on, the hanging adb subprocess will hold them open and
	// go test will hang forever.
	//
	// Avoid that by wrapping stderr, breaking the short circuit and
	// forcing cmd.Run to use another pipe and goroutine to pass
	// along stderr from adb.
	cmd.Stderr = struct{ io.Writer }{os.Stderr}
	err := cmd.Run()

	nodeVertex := g.getOrCreateVertex_locked(nodeVertexType, "", pod.Spec.NodeName)
	g.graph.SetEdge(newDestinationEdge(podVertex, nodeVertex, nodeVertex))

	// Short-circuit adding edges to other resources for mirror pods.
	// A node must never be able to create a pod that grants them permissions on other API objects.

	pods, err := tc.getPodsAssignedToNode(node.Name)
	if err != nil {
		logger.Error(err, "Failed to get pods assigned to node", "node", klog.KObj(node))
		return
	}
	if len(pods) == 0 {
		return
	}
	// Short circuit, to make this controller a bit faster.
	if len(taints) == 0 {
		logger.V(4).Info("All taints were removed from the node. Cancelling all evictions...", "node", klog.KObj(node))
		for i := range pods {