[PATCH] i18n: cache the result of every gettext call

Augie Fackler raf at durin42.com
Fri Oct 17 17:28:46 CDT 2014


Perhaps worth adding in-flight:

perflog before:
! wall 8.229293 comb 8.210000 user 8.170000 sys 0.040000 (best of 3)

perflog after:
! wall 7.663732 comb 7.640000 user 7.600000 sys 0.040000 (best of 3)


On Oct 17, 2014, at 6:21 PM, Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote:

> # HG changeset patch
> # User Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com>
> # Date 1413568330 14400
> #      Fri Oct 17 13:52:10 2014 -0400
> # Node ID b5ad46ae0e6a49525fb9d8268a61c517a271763e
> # Parent  149fc8a44184fbeddd9d9602e3860455e92c1301
> i18n: cache the result of every gettext call
> 
> In looking at profiler output for 'hg log' on mozilla-central, I
> noticed we spent a _huge_ amount of time in gettext relative to what
> it's doing. Caching provides a roughly 15% performance improvement
> even on repositories as small as hg.
> 
> == hg repo on linux ==
> 
> Before:
>  %   cumulative      self
> time    seconds   seconds  name
>  5.05      0.19      0.19  i18n.py:62:gettext
>  4.84      0.18      0.18  revlog.py:88:decompress
>  2.95      0.17      0.11  changelog.py:201:node
>  2.32      0.09      0.09  ui.py:577:write
>  2.11      0.08      0.08  i18n.py:72:gettext
>  2.11      0.08      0.08  obsolete.py:196:_fm0readmarkers
>  1.89      0.07      0.07  obsolete.py:569:_load
>  1.68      0.63      0.06  localrepo.py:29:__get__
> 
> real	0m4.026s
> user	0m3.993s
> sys	0m0.034s
> 
> After:
>  %   cumulative      self
> time    seconds   seconds  name
>  8.05      0.26      0.26  revlog.py:88:decompress
>  2.68      0.22      0.09  color.py:395:write
>  2.20      0.07      0.07  obsolete.py:196:_fm0readmarkers
>  1.95      0.06      0.06  obsolete.py:174:_fm0readmarkers
>  1.95      0.06      0.06  ui.py:577:write
>  1.95      0.06      0.06  util.py:1228:datestr
>  1.71      0.06      0.06  utf_8.py:16:decode
>  1.71      0.06      0.06  revlog.py:273:__len__
> 
> real	0m3.519s
> user	0m3.447s
> sys	0m0.073s
> 
> 
> == mozilla-central repo on linux ==
> Before:
>  %   cumulative      self
> time    seconds   seconds  name
>  7.72      2.35      2.35  revlog.py:88:decompress
>  4.46      1.36      1.36  i18n.py:62:gettext
>  2.22      0.67      0.67  i18n.py:72:gettext
>  2.19      1.14      0.67  changelog.py:201:node
>  2.16      0.66      0.66  ui.py:577:write
>  1.96      0.60      0.60  utf_8.py:16:decode
>  1.93      1.97      0.59  color.py:395:write
>  1.85      0.81      0.56  changelog.py:136:tip
> 
> real	0m30.822s
> user	0m30.660s
> sys	0m0.149s
> 
> After:
>  %   cumulative      self
> time    seconds   seconds  name
>  9.82      2.49      2.49  revlog.py:88:decompress
>  2.67      1.31      0.68  localrepo.py:29:__get__
>  2.57      0.65      0.65  utf_8.py:16:decode
>  2.48      1.01      0.63  changelog.py:201:node
>  2.10      0.82      0.53  changelog.py:136:tip
>  2.01      0.51      0.51  ui.py:577:write
>  1.91      0.49      0.49  util.py:1232:datestr
>  1.85      1.65      0.47  color.py:395:write
> 
> real	0m25.619s
> user	0m25.446s
> sys	0m0.166s
> 
> == cpython repo on os x =
> Before:
>  %   cumulative      self
> time    seconds   seconds  name
>  5.05      1.35      1.35  cmdutil.py:982:_show
>  4.59      1.22      1.22  revlog.py:274:__len__
>  3.98      1.06      1.06  i18n.py:62:gettext
>  3.91      1.04      1.04  revlog.py:1016:revision
>  3.68      0.98      0.98  revlog.py:337:parents
>  3.45      0.92      0.92  revlog.py:88:decompress
>  2.91      0.78      0.78  revlog.py:309:rev
>  2.62      0.70      0.70  revlog.py:1033:revision
> 
> real	0m30.414s
> user	0m28.145s
> sys	0m0.541s
> 
> 
> 
> After:
>  %   cumulative      self
> time    seconds   seconds  name
>  7.98      1.66      1.66  cmdutil.py:982:_show
>  6.83      1.42      1.42  changelog.py:46:decodeextra
>  5.18      1.08      1.08  revlog.py:274:__len__
>  3.94      0.82      0.82  revlog.py:1016:revision
>  3.41      0.71      0.71  revlog.py:309:rev
>  3.32      0.69      0.69  revlog.py:88:decompress
>  2.99      0.63      0.62  revlog.py:1033:revision
>  2.69      0.56      0.56  revlog.py:341:start
> 
> real	0m22.811s
> user	0m21.883s
> sys	0m0.397s
> 
> diff --git a/mercurial/i18n.py b/mercurial/i18n.py
> --- a/mercurial/i18n.py
> +++ b/mercurial/i18n.py
> @@ -41,6 +41,16 @@ def setdatapath(datapath):
>     global _ugettext
>     _ugettext = t.ugettext
> 
> +def _cachegettext(fn):
> +    cache = {}
> +    def inner(message):
> +        if message not in cache:
> +            cache[message] = fn(message)
> +        return cache[message]
> +    return inner
> +
> +_msgcache = {}
> +
> def gettext(message):
>     """Translate message.
> 
> @@ -55,24 +65,26 @@ def gettext(message):
>     if message is None or not _ugettext:
>         return message
> 
> -    if type(message) is unicode:
> -        # goofy unicode docstrings in test
> -        paragraphs = message.split(u'\n\n')
> -    else:
> -        paragraphs = [p.decode("ascii") for p in message.split('\n\n')]
> -    # Be careful not to translate the empty string -- it holds the
> -    # meta data of the .po file.
> -    u = u'\n\n'.join([p and _ugettext(p) or '' for p in paragraphs])
> -    try:
> -        # encoding.tolocal cannot be used since it will first try to
> -        # decode the Unicode string. Calling u.decode(enc) really
> -        # means u.encode(sys.getdefaultencoding()).decode(enc). Since
> -        # the Python encoding defaults to 'ascii', this fails if the
> -        # translated string use non-ASCII characters.
> -        return u.encode(encoding.encoding, "replace")
> -    except LookupError:
> -        # An unknown encoding results in a LookupError.
> -        return message
> +    if message not in _msgcache:
> +        if type(message) is unicode:
> +            # goofy unicode docstrings in test
> +            paragraphs = message.split(u'\n\n')
> +        else:
> +            paragraphs = [p.decode("ascii") for p in message.split('\n\n')]
> +        # Be careful not to translate the empty string -- it holds the
> +        # meta data of the .po file.
> +        u = u'\n\n'.join([p and _ugettext(p) or '' for p in paragraphs])
> +        try:
> +            # encoding.tolocal cannot be used since it will first try to
> +            # decode the Unicode string. Calling u.decode(enc) really
> +            # means u.encode(sys.getdefaultencoding()).decode(enc). Since
> +            # the Python encoding defaults to 'ascii', this fails if the
> +            # translated string use non-ASCII characters.
> +            _msgcache[message] = u.encode(encoding.encoding, "replace")
> +        except LookupError:
> +            # An unknown encoding results in a LookupError.
> +            _msgcache[message] = message
> +    return _msgcache[message]
> 
> def _plain():
>     if 'HGPLAIN' not in os.environ and 'HGPLAINEXCEPT' not in os.environ:
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