More performance improvements to metadata lazyloading.
Comment and term meta lazyloading for WP_Query loops, introduced in 4.4,
depended on filter callback methods belonging to WP_Query objects. This meant
storing WP_Query objects in the $wp_filter global (via add_filter()),
requiring that PHP retain the objects in memory, even when the local variables
would typically be expunged during normal garbage collection. In cases where a
large number of WP_Query objects were instantiated on a single pageload,
and/or where the contents of the WP_Query objects were quite large, serious
performance issues could result.
We skirt this problem by moving metadata lazyloading out of WP_Query. The
new WP_Metadata_Lazyloader class acts as a lazyload queue. Query instances
register items whose metadata should be lazyloaded - such as post terms, or
comments - and a WP_Metadata_Lazyloader method will intercept comment and
term meta requests to perform the cache priming. Since WP_Metadata_Lazyloader
instances are far smaller than WP_Query (containing only object IDs), and
clean up after themselves far better than the previous WP_Query methods (bp
only running their callbacks a single time for a given set of queued objects),
the resource use is decreased dramatically.
See [36525] for an earlier step in this direction.
Props lpawlik, stevegrunwell, boonebgorges.
Fixes #35816.