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[PATCHv7 6/9] gitweb: gravatar url cache

From
Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 27, 2009, 12:05 UTC
Message-ID
<1246104305-15191-7-git-send-email-giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<1246104305-15191-6-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 |   30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index ad9ae31..de4cc63 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -1515,6 +1515,27 @@ sub format_subject_html {
 	}
 }
 
+# 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 {
@@ -1524,15 +1545,18 @@ sub git_get_avatar {
 	my $size = $avatar_size{$opts{'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
 	# as needed. If no variant puts something in $url, we assume avatars
 	# are completely disabled/unavailable.
 	if ($url) {
-		return $pre_white . "<img width=\"$size\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"$url\" />" . $post_white;
+		return $pre_white .
+		       "<img width=\"$size\" " .
+		            "class=\"avatar\" " .
+		            "src=\"$url\" " .
+		       "/>" . $post_white;
 	} else {
 		return "";
 	}
-- 
1.6.3.rc1.192.gdbfcb
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  1. Giuseppe BilottaJun 27, 2009
  2. 1/9 gitweb: refactor author name insertionGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 27, 2009
  3. 2/9 gitweb: uniform author info for commit and commitdiffGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 27, 2009
  4. 3/9 gitweb: use git_print_authorship_rows in 'tag' view tooGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 27, 2009
  5. 4/9 gitweb: right-align date cell in shortlogGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 27, 2009
  6. 5/9 gitweb: (gr)avatar supportGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 27, 2009
  7. 6/9 gitweb: gravatar url cacheGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 27, 2009
  8. 7/9 gitweb: picon avatar providerGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 27, 2009
  9. 8/9 gitweb: use picon for gravatar fallbackGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 27, 2009
  10. 9/9 gitweb: add alt text to avatar imgGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 27, 2009
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