From abf1e5c52669bd41ad803d4645809b6efdfcd61d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 10:38:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Tiny optimisation for _get_handler_for_request (#6950)

we have hundreds of path_regexes (see #5118), so let's not convert the same
bytes to str for each of them.
---
 changelog.d/6950.misc  | 1 +
 synapse/http/server.py | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 changelog.d/6950.misc

diff --git a/changelog.d/6950.misc b/changelog.d/6950.misc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1c88936b8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/6950.misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Tiny optimisation for incoming HTTP request dispatch.
diff --git a/synapse/http/server.py b/synapse/http/server.py
index 04bc2385a2..042a605198 100644
--- a/synapse/http/server.py
+++ b/synapse/http/server.py
@@ -353,10 +353,12 @@ class JsonResource(HttpServer, resource.Resource):
         if request.method == b"OPTIONS":
             return _options_handler, "options_request_handler", {}
 
+        request_path = request.path.decode("ascii")
+
         # Loop through all the registered callbacks to check if the method
         # and path regex match
         for path_entry in self.path_regexs.get(request.method, []):
-            m = path_entry.pattern.match(request.path.decode("ascii"))
+            m = path_entry.pattern.match(request_path)
             if m:
                 # We found a match!
                 return path_entry.callback, path_entry.servlet_classname, m.groupdict()
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