gitweb: gravatar url cache

Views which contain many occurrences of the same email address (e.g.
shortlog view) benefit from not having to recalculate the MD5 of the
email address every time.
Signed-off-by: NGiuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

gitweb/gitweb.perl

@@ -1512,6 +1512,27 @@ sub format_subject_html {
 	}
 }
 
+# Rather than recomputing the url for an email multiple times, we cache it
+# after the first hit. This gives a visible benefit in views where the avatar
+# for the same email is used repeatedly (e.g. shortlog).
+# The cache is shared by all avatar engines (currently gravatar only), which
+# are free to use it as preferred. Since only one avatar engine is used for any
+# given page, there's no risk for cache conflicts.
+our %avatar_cache = ();
+
+# Compute the gravatar url for a given email, if it's not in the cache already.
+# Gravatar stores only the part of the URL before the size, since that's the
+# one computationally more expensive. This also allows reuse of the cache for
+# different sizes (for this particular engine).
+sub gravatar_url {
+	my $email = lc shift;
+	my $size = shift;
+	$avatar_cache{$email} ||=
+		"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/" .
+			Digest::MD5::md5_hex($email) . "?s=";
+	return $avatar_cache{$email} . $size;
+}
+
 # Insert an avatar for the given $email at the given $size if the feature
 # is enabled.
 sub git_get_avatar {
@@ -1522,8 +1543,7 @@ sub git_get_avatar {
 	my $size = $avatar_size{$opts{-size}} || $avatar_size{'default'};
 	my $url = "";
 	if ($git_avatar eq 'gravatar') {
-		$url = "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/" .
-			Digest::MD5::md5_hex(lc $email) . "?s=$size";
+		$url = gravatar_url($email, $size);
 	}
 	# Currently only gravatars are supported, but other forms such as
 	# picons can be added by putting an else up here and defining $url