[Catalyst] Maybe there is a need for some speedups of 'config' method ?

[Jonathan Rockway]

* On Sat, Feb 21 2009, Oleg Pronin wrote:
> I use Catalyst in extremely loaded projects (currently 60.000.000 pageloads / day).
> Thereforce i'm perfomance paranoid man.
>
> One of 'black stones' is the ->config method. It has dramatically slow perfomance at
> config_method:  1 wallclock secs ( 1.06 usr +  0.00 sys =  1.06 CPU) @ 3808.94/s (n=
> 4047)

I have to ask... is this actually slowing down your application?  Let's
say that your app spends 1% of its time in $c->config.  If you made
$c->config 10000x faster, you would only make your app 1% faster.

> It would be VERY GREAT if we somehow make ->config works a hundred
> times faster because everybody use ->config without any suspicions on
> its speed.

Although I haven't noticed config calls slowing down my application, I
look forward to seeing your patch for this.

FWIW, I usually only call $c->config at app startup time; I read it and
pass values in it as arguments to other classes that need configuration
information.  I'm pretty sure this is the intended use; you shouldn't be
looking in it during requests.

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway

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