discourse/app/serializers/topic_tracking_state_serializer.rb
Martin Brennan e15c86e8c5
DEV: Topic tracking state improvements (#13218)
I merged this PR in yesterday, finally thinking this was done https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/12958 but then a wild performance regression occurred. These are the problem methods:

1aa20bd681/app/serializers/topic_tracking_state_serializer.rb (L13-L21)

Turns out date comparison is super expensive on the backend _as well as_ the frontend.

The fix was to just move the `treat_as_new_topic_start_date` into the SQL query rather than using the slower `UserOption#treat_as_new_topic_start_date` method in ruby. After this change, 1% of the total time is spent with the `created_in_new_period` comparison instead of ~20%.

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History:

Original PR which had to be reverted **https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/12555**. See the description there for what this PR is achieving, plus below.

The issue with the original PR is addressed in 92ef54f402

If you went to the `x unread` link for a tag Chrome would freeze up and possibly crash, or eventually unfreeze after nearly 10 mins. Other routes for unread/new were similarly slow. From profiling the issue was the `sync` function of `topic-tracking-state.js`, which calls down to `isNew` which in turn calls `moment`, a change I had made in the PR above. The time it takes locally with ~1400 topics in the tracking state is 2.3 seconds.

To solve this issue, I have moved these calculations for "created in new period" and "unread not too old" into the tracking state serializer.

When I was looking at the profiler I also noticed this issue which was just compounding the problem. Every time we modify topic tracking state we recalculate the sidebar tracking/everything/tag counts. However this calls `forEachTracked` and `countTags` which can be quite expensive as they go through the whole tracking state (and were also calling the removed moment functions).

I added some logs and this was being called 30 times when navigating to a new /unread route because  `sync` is being called from `build-topic-route` (one for each topic loaded due to pagination). So I just added a debounce here and it makes things even faster.

Finally, I changed topic tracking state to use a Map so our counts of the state keys is faster (Maps have .size whereas objects you have to do Object.keys(obj) which is O(n).)

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# frozen_string_literal: true
class TopicTrackingStateSerializer < ApplicationSerializer
attributes :topic_id,
:highest_post_number,
:last_read_post_number,
:created_at,
:category_id,
:notification_level,
:created_in_new_period,
:unread_not_too_old,
:treat_as_new_topic_start_date
def created_in_new_period
return true if !scope
object.created_at >= treat_as_new_topic_start_date
end
def unread_not_too_old
return true if object.first_unread_at.blank?
object.updated_at >= object.first_unread_at
end
end