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[PATCHv8 5/7] gitweb: gravatar url cache

From
Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 29, 2009, 22:00 UTC
Message-ID
<1246312854-3365-6-git-send-email-giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<1246312854-3365-5-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 92695a3..4d7e4ff 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -1512,6 +1512,27 @@ 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/" .
+			Digest::MD5::md5_hex($email) . "?s=";
+	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 {
@@ -1522,8 +1543,7 @@ 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/" .
-			Digest::MD5::md5_hex(lc $email) . "?s=$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 29, 2009
  2. 1/7 gitweb: refactor author name insertionGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 29, 2009
  3. 2/7 gitweb: uniform author info for commit and commitdiffGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 29, 2009
  4. 3/7 gitweb: use git_print_authorship_rows in 'tag' view tooGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 29, 2009
  5. 4/7 gitweb: (gr)avatar supportGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 29, 2009
  6. 5/7 gitweb: gravatar url cacheGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 29, 2009
  7. 6/7 gitweb: picon avatar providerGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 29, 2009
  8. 7/7 gitweb: add empty alt text to avatar imgGiuseppe Bilotta, Jun 29, 2009
  9. Jakub NarebskiJun 30, 2009
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  11. Giuseppe BilottaJun 30, 2009
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  15. Jakub NarebskiJun 30, 2009
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  17. Jakub NarebskiJun 30, 2009
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