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Measure performance impact of recent async changes #444

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radekmie opened this issue Dec 18, 2023 · 1 comment
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Measure performance impact of recent async changes #444

radekmie opened this issue Dec 18, 2023 · 1 comment
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While getting ready for Meteor 3.0, we've done a lot of internal changes (#412, #413, #424, #428; soon also one for #443). Most of them are simply adding on top of the existing logic to support Promises virtually everywhere; some are actual redesigns (e.g., shape of _scopeBindings).

Of course, adding more logic always comes with a cost, and we should check, whether it's acceptable. So far we didn't hear about any visible regressions, but it should be checked nevertheless.

It's strongly connected to #383, since the majority of the benchmarks should remain synchronous-only, so we could compare the results with previous versions.

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I've looked into it over the week, and I have a problem on how to approach it.

  • On the one hand, we'd like to measure the performance change in a real-life scenario. That involves a complete data change -> render -> DOM change cycle. However, the non-DOM operations take so little computation here, that it's barely visible in the profiler.
  • On the other, we could focus on the underneath helpers, like Spacebars.dot. However, as written above, in a real-life scenario, these account for 1-3% of CPU.

I did prepare a basic example that rerenders a lot of times on click.

Templates
<head>
  <title>blaze-benchmarks</title>
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
</head>

<body>
  {{> benchmark template='let_alias' iterations=1000}}
  {{> benchmark template='let_object_shallow' iterations=1000}}
  {{> benchmark template='let_object_deep' iterations=1000}}
</body>

<template name="benchmark">
  <button>Run</button>
  <code style="display: inline-block; width: 20ch"><b>{{template}}</b></code>
  {{#if summary}}
    <code>{{summary}}</code>
  {{/if}}
  <br>

  <div style="display: none">
    {{> Template.dynamic data=data template=template}}
  </div>
</template>

<template name="let_alias">
  {{#let x=a}}{{x}}{{/let}}
</template>

<template name="let_object_shallow">
  {{#let x=a.b}}{{x}}{{/let}}
</template>

<template name="let_object_deep">
  {{#let x=a.b.c.d.e.f}}{{x}}{{/let}}
</template>
import { Template } from 'meteor/templating';
import { ReactiveVar } from 'meteor/reactive-var';

import './main.html';

const values = new ReactiveVar({
  a: { b: { c: { d: { e: { f: '' } } } } }
});

Template.benchmark.onCreated(function () {
  this.summary = new ReactiveVar(null);
});

Template.benchmark.events({
  'click button'(event, { data: { iterations }, summary }) {
    const timings = [];

    // Warmup.
    for (let iteration = 0; iteration < iterations; ++iteration) {
      values.dep.changed();
      Tracker.flush();
    }

    // Measurement.
    for (let round = 0; round < 100; ++round) {
      const now = performance.now();
      for (let iteration = 0; iteration < iterations; ++iteration) {
        values.dep.changed();
        Tracker.flush();
      }
      timings.push(performance.now() - now);
    }

    // Summary.
    const ps = [25, 50, 90, 95];
    timings.sort();
    summary.set(ps.map(p => `p${p}=${Math.floor(timings[p - 1])}`).join(' '));
  },
});

Template.benchmark.helpers({
  data: () => values.get(),
  summary: () => Template.instance().summary.get(),
});

But, as expected, these all take basically the same amount of time.
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What do others think about it?

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