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When you optimize a Crystal program, pay attention to language features that inline code. For example, pay attention to how you use blocks (consequences here and here).
Also pay attention to how you use macros. Macros, like ECR.embed
and Slang.embed
, inline code at the point where they are invoked. This can be powerful, because macros actually generate code—but, ten invocations later, you have ten copies of the code.
Here's a case of too many copies, but with a very happy ending...
Ktistec uses both ECR.embed
and Slang.embed
to generate web pages from views and partials. I wrote code to count the number of places Ktistec used embed
for each view and partial it renders. There's a long tail, but here are the big ones:
| src/views/layouts/default.html.ecr | 204 | | src/views/partials/modals.html.slang | 204 | | src/views/partials/header.html.slang | 204 | | src/views/partials/footer.html.slang | 204 | | src/views/pages/generic.html.slang | 155 | | src/views/partials/object/label.html.slang | 36 | | src/views/partials/object/content.html.slang | 36 | | src/views/partials/collection.json.ecr | 28 | | src/views/partials/thread.html.slang | 12 | | src/views/partials/detail.html.slang | 12 | | src/views/partials/object.html.slang | 12 | | src/views/partials/actor-panel.html.slang | 11 | | src/views/partials/object.json.ecr | 11 | | src/views/partials/paginator.html.slang | 11 | | src/views/objects/thread.json.ecr | 8 | | src/views/partials/activity/label.html.slang | 6 | | src/views/mentions/index.json.ecr | 6 | | src/views/remote_follows/index.json.ecr | 6 | | src/views/settings/settings.json.ecr | 6 | | src/views/tags/index.json.ecr | 6 | | src/views/activities/activity.json.ecr | 5 | | src/views/partials/editor.html.slang | 5 | | src/views/objects/object.json.ecr | 5 | | src/views/actors/remote.json.ecr | 4 | ...
The layout is part of every page and is rendered with every view, so lots of copies. Every page has a header and a footer (and some default modal dialogs) so you get those, too. The generic view is a little less obvious. It's used to render pages for which there is no more specific view—typically pages served for 400 Bad Request or 401 Unauthorized. Objects (posts) are rendered in a variety of contexts, so it's no surprise label.html.slang
and content.html.slang
are popular.
ECR.embed
and Slang.embed
inline templates at the point where they are invoked, but beyond that they don't really customize the generated code—they just duplicate it. What we want is one function for each view or partial, which wraps embed
and returns JSON or HTML.
Those changes mostly occur in commits from 399287cf to 4b025f50. To say that they made a huge difference is a gross understatement. Executable size decreased by ~13%. Build time decreased by ~50%, and the memory required to build decreased by ~30%.