1 I've been profiling my IkiWiki to try to improve speed (with many pages makes speed even more important) and I've written a patch to improve the speed of match_glob. This matcher is a good one to improve the speed of, because it gets called so many times.
3 Here's my patch - please consider it! -- [[KathrynAndersen]]
5 > It seems to me as though changing `glob2re` to return qr/$re/, and calling
6 > `memoize(glob2re)` next to the other memoize calls, would be a less
7 > verbose way to do this? --[[smcv]]
9 >> I think so, yeah. Anyway, do you have any benchmark results handy,
10 >> Kathryn? --[[Joey]]
13 >>> Also, would it make more sense for glob2re to return qr/^$re$/i rather than qr/$re/? Everything that uses glob2re seems to use
15 >>> rather than /$re/ so I think that would make sense.
16 >>> -- [[KathrynAndersen]]
18 >>>> Git branch `smcv/ka-glob-cache` has Kathryn's patch. Git
19 >>>> branch `smcv/memoize-glob2re` does as I suggested, which
20 >>>> is less verbose than Kathryn's patch but also not as
21 >>>> fast; I'm not sure why, tbh. --[[smcv]]
23 >>>>> I think it's because my patch focuses on match_glob while the memoize patch focuses on `glob2re`, and `glob2re` is called in `filecheck`, `meta` and `po` as well as in `match_glob` and `match_user`; thus the memoized `glob2re` is dealing with a bigger set of globs to look up, and thus could be just that little bit slower. -- [[KathrynAndersen]]
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26 Benchmarks done with Devel::Profile on the same testbed IkiWiki setup. I'm just showing the start of the profile output, since that's what's relevant.
30 time elapsed (wall): 27.4173
31 time running program: 22.5909 (82.40%)
32 time profiling (est.): 4.8264 (17.60%)
33 number of calls: 1314729
34 number of exceptions: 65
36 %Time Sec. #calls sec/call F name
37 11.05 2.4969 62333 0.000040 IkiWiki::PageSpec::match_glob
38 4.10 0.9261 679 0.001364 Text::Balanced::_match_tagged
39 2.72 0.6139 59812 0.000010 IkiWiki::SuccessReason::merge_influences
44 time elapsed (wall): 26.1843
45 time running program: 21.5673 (82.37%)
46 time profiling (est.): 4.6170 (17.63%)
47 number of calls: 1252433
48 number of exceptions: 65
50 %Time Sec. #calls sec/call F name
51 7.66 1.6521 62333 0.000027 IkiWiki::PageSpec::match_glob
52 4.33 0.9336 679 0.001375 Text::Balanced::_match_tagged
53 2.81 0.6057 59812 0.000010 IkiWiki::SuccessReason::merge_influences
56 Note that the seconds per call for match_glob in the "after" case has gone down by about a third.
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62 A second set of benchmarks, done by rebuilding the docwiki at commit f942c2db05e4
65 perl -Iblib/lib -d:Profile ikiwiki.in -setup docwiki.setup --no-verbose
67 The docwiki appears to use fewer glob matches than Kathryn's wiki.
71 time elapsed (wall): 29.6970
72 time running program: 24.6930 (83.15%)
73 time profiling (est.): 5.0041 (16.85%)
74 number of calls: 1359180
75 number of exceptions: 13
77 %Time Sec. #calls sec/call F name
78 13.62 3.3629 3406 0.000987 Text::Balanced::_match_tagged
79 10.84 2.6773 79442 0.000034 IkiWiki::PageSpec::match_glob
80 3.08 0.7598 59454 0.000013 <anon>:IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm:223
81 3.07 0.7593 29830 0.000025 IkiWiki::bestlink
82 2.99 0.7378 10231 0.000072 IkiWiki::PageSpec::match_link
84 With my `smcv/memoize-glob2re` branch:
86 time elapsed (wall): 30.4931
87 time running program: 25.1248 (82.39%)
88 time profiling (est.): 5.3683 (17.61%)
89 number of calls: 1439943
90 number of exceptions: 13
92 %Time Sec. #calls sec/call F name
93 13.19 3.3146 3406 0.000973 Text::Balanced::_match_tagged
94 8.41 2.1123 79442 0.000027 IkiWiki::PageSpec::match_glob
95 3.97 0.9979 86905 0.000011 Memoize::_memoizer
96 3.05 0.7654 59454 0.000013 <anon>:IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm:223
97 3.02 0.7576 29830 0.000025 IkiWiki::bestlink
99 and in a repeated run:
101 8.40 2.0905 79442 0.000026 IkiWiki::PageSpec::match_glob
103 With Kathryn's patch as seen in my `smcv/ka-glob-cache` branch:
105 time elapsed (wall): 27.7567
106 time running program: 22.9941 (82.84%)
107 time profiling (est.): 4.7627 (17.16%)
108 number of calls: 1279946
109 number of exceptions: 13
111 %Time Sec. #calls sec/call F name
112 14.29 3.2867 3406 0.000965 Text::Balanced::_match_tagged
113 7.89 1.8136 79442 0.000023 IkiWiki::PageSpec::match_glob
114 3.30 0.7577 59454 0.000013 <anon>:IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm:223
115 3.24 0.7461 29830 0.000025 IkiWiki::bestlink
116 3.19 0.7332 143 0.005127 ? IkiWiki::pagespec_match_list
118 and in a repeated run:
120 7.84 1.8253 79442 0.000023 IkiWiki::PageSpec::match_glob
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128 diff --git a/IkiWiki.pm b/IkiWiki.pm
129 index 08a3d78..c187b98 100644
132 @@ -2482,6 +2482,8 @@ sub derel ($$) {
138 sub match_glob ($$;@) {
141 @@ -2489,8 +2491,15 @@ sub match_glob ($$;@) {
143 $glob=derel($glob, $params{location});
145 - my $regexp=IkiWiki::glob2re($glob);
146 - if ($page=~/^$regexp$/i) {
147 + # Instead of converting the glob to a regex every time,
148 + # cache the compiled regex to save time.
149 + if (!exists $glob_cache{$glob}
150 + or !defined $glob_cache{$glob})
152 + my $re=IkiWiki::glob2re($glob);
153 + $glob_cache{$glob} = qr/^$re$/i;
155 + if ($page =~ $glob_cache{$glob}) {
156 if (! IkiWiki::isinternal($page) || $params{internal}) {
157 return IkiWiki::SuccessReason->new("$glob matches $page");
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