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[PATCHv5bis 3/3] gitweb: gravatar url cache

From
Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 24, 2009, 23:41 UTC
Message-ID
<1245886884-5730-1-git-send-email-giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<cb7bb73a0906241631h6ad03867i796b658abc425896@mail.gmail.com>

Views which contain many occurrences of the same email address (e.g. shortlog view) benefit from not having to recalculate the MD5 of the email address every time.

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
---
 gitweb/gitweb.perl |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 6e807fe..6771a9d 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -3249,6 +3249,27 @@ sub git_print_header_div {
 	      "\n</div>\n";
 }
 
+# Rather than recomputing the url for an email multiple times, we cache it
+# after the first hit. This gives a visible benefit in views where the avatar
+# for the same email is used repeatedly (e.g. shortlog).
+# The cache is shared by all avatar engines (currently gravatar only), which
+# are free to use it as preferred. Since only one avatar engine is used for any
+# given page, there's no risk for cache conflicts.
+our %avatar_cache = ();
+
+# Compute the gravatar url for a given email, if it's not in the cache already.
+# Gravatar stores only the part of the URL before the size, since that's the
+# one computationally more expensive. This also allows reuse of the cache for
+# different sizes (for this particular engine).
+sub gravatar_url {
+	my $email = lc shift;
+	my $size = shift;
+	$avatar_cache{$email} ||=
+		"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=" .
+			Digest::MD5::md5_hex($email) . "&amp;size=";
+	return $avatar_cache{$email} . $size;
+}
+
 # Insert an avatar for the given $email at the given $size if the feature
 # is enabled.
 sub git_get_avatar {
@@ -3258,8 +3279,7 @@ sub git_get_avatar {
 	my $size = $avatar_size{$params{'size'}} || $avatar_size{'default'};
 	my $url = "";
 	if ($git_gravatar_enabled) {
-		$url = "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=" .
-			Digest::MD5::md5_hex(lc $email) . "&amp;size=$size";
+		$url = gravatar_url($email, $size);
 	}
 	# Currently only gravatars are supported, but other forms such as
 	# picons can be added by putting an else up here and defining $url
-- 
1.6.3.rc1.192.gdbfcb
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Message 9 of 12 in “[PATCHv5 0/3] gitweb: gravatar support”
  1. Giuseppe BilottaJun 24, 2009
  2. 1/3 gitweb: refactor author name insertionGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 24, 2009
  3. 2/3 gitweb: gravatar supportGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 24, 2009
  4. 3/3 gitweb: gravatar url cacheGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 24, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoJun 24, 2009
  6. Giuseppe BilottaJun 24, 2009
  7. Jacob HelwigJun 24, 2009
  8. Giuseppe BilottaJun 24, 2009
  9. 3/3 gitweb: gravatar url cacheGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 24, 2009
  10. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2009
  11. Jakub NarebskiJun 25, 2009
  12. Giuseppe BilottaJun 25, 2009

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