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

[Oleg Pronin]

*we should now -> we should not :-)

2009/2/22 Oleg Pronin <syber.rus at gmail.com>

> 1% here and 1% there. You won't detect any place that takes longer. All of
> load is 1%+1%+....
> Don't you agree ? Plus a number of plugins calls ->config on startup which
> slow downs startup as well)
>
> P.S.
>   I use many actions that take params from config in runtime, for example
>   sub pay_for_vip : Private {
>        ...
>        my $price =3D $c->cfg->{vip}{price};
>   }
>
> And in my deepest opinion we should now spend CPU time anywhere even if it
> is not a concern.
>
> Thanks anyway)
>
> This is convenient + good HUP support for deamon servers (that use cataly=
st
> as well) - all you need to do is to refresh config on HUP.
>
> 2009/2/22 Jonathan Rockway <jon at jrock.us>
>
> * 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 =3D  1.06 CPU)=
 @
>> 3808.94/s (n=3D
>> > 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
>>
>> --
>> print just =3D> another =3D> perl =3D> hacker =3D> if $,=3D$"
>>
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