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Improve performance by moving template compilation from #render_in to #render_template_for - #1302
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This is awesome 🤩
15% is not an everyday gain 🙌
Left a comment on how we can rely on inheritance in order to avoid the re-definition.
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Awesome, left a few nits
But pre-approving in the meantime 👍
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**Why**: 15% render performance bump, according to ViewComponent/view_component#1302 . changelog: Internal, Dependencies, Update dependencies to latest version
**Why**: 15% render performance bump, according to ViewComponent/view_component#1302 . changelog: Internal, Dependencies, Update dependencies to latest version
Summary
Currently, every call to
#render_incallsself.class.compile, which compiles the template and attaches a new#render_template_formethod to the component's class. If the template has already been compiled and cached, the compiler skips compilation and returns immediately.While calling
.compilemay at first appear innocuous, it requires four or five method calls that essentially do nothing every time (except the first) the component is rendered. These method calls are pure overhead.This PR moves the
.compilecall from#render_into a temporary#render_template_formethod. This temporary method invokes the compiler (which replaces#render_template_forwith the compiled version), then calls the compiled version. At first glance it looks like recursion 😜Because the code that invokes the compiler is replaced on first render, cache invalidation needs to work a little differently. Instead of simply clearing the cache, the old stub methods also must be added back into the component classes. I agree it's a little unorthodox, but thanks to Ruby's flexibility it works pretty well. To my knowledge, cache invalidation is only used in dev and test environments anyway, so all this additional dynamic method stuff shouldn't affect prod environments.
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The performance impact of the change is fairly significant.
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That's a 15% speedup 😄