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[PATCHv6 5/8] gitweb: gravatar url cache

From
Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 25, 2009, 10:43 UTC
Message-ID
<1245926587-25074-6-git-send-email-giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<1245926587-25074-5-git-send-email-giuseppe.bilotta@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 f2e0cfe..d3bc849 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -3257,6 +3257,27 @@ 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 {
@@ -3266,8 +3287,7 @@ sub git_get_avatar {
 	my $size = $avatar_size{$params{'size'}} || $avatar_size{'default'};
 	my $url = "";
 	if ($git_avatar eq 'gravatar') {
-		$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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  1. Giuseppe BilottaJun 25, 2009
  2. 1/8 gitweb: refactor author name insertionGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 25, 2009
  3. 2/8 gitweb: uniform author info for commit and commitdiffGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 25, 2009
  4. 3/8 gitweb: right-align date cell in shortlogGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 25, 2009
  5. 4/8 gitweb: (gr)avatar supportGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 25, 2009
  6. 5/8 gitweb: gravatar url cacheGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 25, 2009
  7. 6/8 gitweb: add 'alt' to avatar imagesGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 25, 2009
  8. 7/8 gitweb: recognize 'trivial' acksGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 25, 2009
  9. 8/8 gitweb: add avatar in signoff linesGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 25, 2009
  10. 9/8 gitweb: put signoff lines in a tableGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 25, 2009
  11. Jakub NarebskiJun 27, 2009
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  16. Giuseppe BilottaJun 27, 2009
  17. Jakub NarebskiJun 26, 2009
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  23. Giuseppe BilottaJun 26, 2009
  24. Jakub NarebskiJun 26, 2009
  25. Giuseppe BilottaJun 26, 2009
  26. Jakub NarebskiJun 26, 2009
  27. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2009
  28. Giuseppe BilottaJun 27, 2009
  29. Jakub NarebskiJun 26, 2009
  30. Giuseppe BilottaJun 26, 2009
  31. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2009
  32. Giuseppe BilottaJun 26, 2009
  33. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2009
  34. Jakub NarebskiJun 27, 2009
  35. Jakub NarebskiJun 27, 2009
  36. Jakub NarebskiJun 25, 2009
  37. Giuseppe BilottaJun 26, 2009
  38. Jakub NarebskiJun 25, 2009
  39. Jakub NarebskiJun 25, 2009
  40. Giuseppe BilottaJun 25, 2009
  41. Jakub NarebskiJun 25, 2009
  42. Giuseppe BilottaJun 25, 2009
  43. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2009
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