This makes gears.color() cache patterns in a weak table and returns that cached
pattern when we get called with the same argument again.
To benchmark this change, the following code was used:
local time = require("socket").gettime
function benchmark(func)
local begin = time()
local iter = 0
while time() - begin < 1 do
func()
iter = iter + 1
end
return iter
end
for _, arg in pairs({
"#00aa00",
"solid:#00aa00",
"radial:50,50,10:55,55,30:0,#ff0000:0.5,#00ff00:1,#0000ff",
"linear:1,2:3,4:0,#000000:1,#ffffff",
"png:/home/psychon/Wallpaper/Bars.png",
{ type = "solid", color = "#00aa00" },
{ type = "radial", from = { 50, 50, 10 }, to = { 55, 55, 30 }, stops = { { 0, "#ff0000" }, { 0.5, "#00ff00" }, { 1, "#0000ff" } } },
{ type = "linear", from = { 1, 2 }, to = { 3, 4 }, stops = { { 0, "#000000" }, { 1, "#ffffff" } } },
{ type = "png", file = "/home/psychon/Wallpaper/Bars.png" },
}) do
collectgarbage("collect")
print(benchmark(function() gears.color.create_pattern(arg) end), arg)
end
Before this change (larger numbers are better, this measures how many times we
can create the given pattern per second):
29525 #00aa00
29344 solid:#00aa00
3446 radial:50,50,10:55,55,30:0,#ff0000:0.5,#00ff00:1,#0000ff
4845 linear:1,2:3,4:0,#000000:1,#ffffff
32855 png:/home/psychon/Wallpaper/Bars.png
29883 table: 0x1bb67e0
3868 table: 0x1bb6830
5339 table: 0x1bb6c60
32772 table: 0x1bb6fe0
After this change:
126188 #00aa00
125962 solid:#00aa00
125125 radial:50,50,10:55,55,30:0,#ff0000:0.5,#00ff00:1,#0000ff
125213 linear:1,2:3,4:0,#000000:1,#ffffff
113659 png:/home/psychon/Wallpaper/Bars.png
125586 table: 0x1232680
125249 table: 0x12326d0
125468 table: 0x1232b00
113711 table: 0x1232e80
As you see, this makes some cases about 35 times faster (although I have to
admit that something like this can be expected from such a synthetic benchmark).
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
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