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(stable) Fix an issue with the Herald engine field value cache

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(stable) Fix an issue with the Herald engine field value cache

Summary:
To improve the performance of Herald, we attempt to generate the value for each field (e.g., a task title) only once.

For most field values this is cheap, but for some (like a commit's branches) it can be quite expensive. We only want to pay this cost once, so we cache field values.

However, D12957 accidentally added a check where we bypass the cache and generate the value for every field, before reading the cache. This causes us to generate each field for every rule that uses it, plus one extra time.

Instead, use the cache for this check, too. Also allow the cache to cache null, since it can be expensive to generate null even though the value isn't too interesting.

The value of this early hit isn't even used (we only care if it throws or not).

Test Plan:

  • Wrote a rule like "if any condition matches: branches contain a, branches contain b, branches contain c".
  • Put phlog(new Exception()) in DiffusionCommitBranchesHeraldField.
  • Before patch, saw bin/repository reparse --herald <any commit> compute branches three times.
  • After patch, saw only one computation.
  • Verified field values in the transcript view

Reviewers: chad

Reviewed By: chad

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D15451

Details

Provenance
epriestleyAuthored on Mar 9 2016, 6:17 PM
epriestleyPushed on Mar 10 2016, 2:43 AM
Reviewer
chad
Differential Revision
D15451: Fix an issue with the Herald engine field value cache
Parents
rP2c67d9c8ace2: (stable) Promote 2016 Week 10
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Build 13752: Run Core Tests