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Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

#5325 closed defect (bug) (fixed)

sanitize_post and sanitize_post_field are very expensive no-ops

Reported by: quandary's profile Quandary Owned by:
Milestone: 2.3.2 Priority: normal
Severity: major Version: 2.3.1
Component: Optimization Keywords: has-patch
Focuses: Cc:

Description

Simple, commonly-called template functions (the_title, get_permalink, etc.) are all channeled through the get_post function. While get_post implements caching, it caches content before it's been filtered, not after. This means that sanitize_post is called for each and every call to get_post.

I loaded a test page 5 times in a test configuration that had 86 calls to get_post (mostly via get_the_title and get_permalink). Instrumentation results from APD indicate that fully 8-15% (~9.5% avg.) of the page generation time was spent in sanitize_post and sanitize_post_field, even though nearly all of the calls were for "raw" data, and no filtering was actually taking place. I added a simple early bail-out to bypass the no-op actions, and this reduced the hit to .1-.2% across another 5 page loads (no, that's not a typo ;).

I'm attaching a patch to fix this bug, but this is only the immediate problem (get_post appears to be called with "raw" way more frequently then with "display"). Opening another bug on the filtering implementation may be warranted.

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do_nothing_faster.diff (647 bytes) - added by Quandary 16 years ago.
Be almost two orders of magnitude faster at doing nothing.

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Change History (5)

@Quandary
16 years ago

Be almost two orders of magnitude faster at doing nothing.

#1 @Quandary
16 years ago

  • Keywords has-patch added

#2 @ryan
16 years ago

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

(In [6321]) Skip sanitization altogether for raw context. Props Quandary. fixes #5325

#3 @ryan
16 years ago

  • Resolution fixed deleted
  • Status changed from closed to reopened

Thanks. Applied to trunk. I also did this for sanitize_term. Nominating for 2.3 inclusion.

#4 @ryan
16 years ago

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from reopened to closed

(In [6322]) Skip sanitization altogether for raw context. Props Quandary. fixes #5325 for 2.3

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