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anubis-mirror/internal/gzip.go
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Julien Voisin 3dc962b301 perf(internal/gzip): pool *gzip.Writer per middleware instance (#1654)
gzip.NewWriterLevel allocates fresh deflate window and hash table
buffers (~1.18 MiB) on every request. This commit pools them in a closure-local
sync.Pool so each middleware instance reuses its writers.

The level is validated once at setup (NewWriterLevel against
io.Discard); pooled writers are reset to io.Discard on Put so the
pool doesn't pin response writers between requests.

Only call site is RenderIndex (lib/http.go), which serves the
challenge page, so this directly cuts the per-challenge allocation
footprint.

I benchmarked the change using the following benchmark,
put in the commit message instead of in a file since it's pretty much useless
outside of this particular change.

```
package internal

import (
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"net/http/httptest"
	"testing"
)

func BenchmarkGzipMiddleware(b *testing.B) {
	payload := make([]byte, 4096)
	for i := range payload {
		payload[i] = byte(i)
	}

	inner := http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		w.Write(payload)
	})
	h := GzipMiddleware(1, inner)

	b.ReportAllocs()
	b.RunParallel(func(pb *testing.PB) {
		req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/", nil)
		req.Header.Set("Accept-Encoding", "gzip")
		for pb.Next() {
			rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
			h.ServeHTTP(rec, req)
			io.Copy(io.Discard, rec.Body)
		}
	})
}
```

The results are pretty nice:

Benchmarks (Linux arm64, count=10, benchstat, vs origin/main):

  GzipMiddleware-8  sec/op     158.8µs ± 4%  ->   5.2µs ± 3%  -96.72% (p=0.000)
  GzipMiddleware-8  B/op       1180.6 KiB    ->   1.9 KiB     -99.84% (p=0.000)
  GzipMiddleware-8  allocs/op  32            ->  13           -59.38% (p=0.000)

Signed-off-by: jvoisin <julien.voisin@dustri.org>
2026-05-30 00:52:37 -04:00

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Go

package internal
import (
"compress/gzip"
"io"
"net/http"
"strings"
"sync"
)
func GzipMiddleware(level int, next http.Handler) http.Handler {
// Validate the level once at setup; gzip.NewWriterLevel only fails for
// invalid levels and we'd rather panic now than mid-request.
if _, err := gzip.NewWriterLevel(io.Discard, level); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
// Per-middleware pool of *gzip.Writer. Each entry carries ~40 KiB of
// deflate buffers; reusing them avoids that allocation on every request.
pool := sync.Pool{
New: func() any {
gz, _ := gzip.NewWriterLevel(io.Discard, level)
return gz
},
}
return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
if !strings.Contains(r.Header.Get("Accept-Encoding"), "gzip") {
next.ServeHTTP(w, r)
return
}
w.Header().Set("Content-Encoding", "gzip")
gz := pool.Get().(*gzip.Writer)
gz.Reset(w)
defer func() {
gz.Close()
gz.Reset(io.Discard)
pool.Put(gz)
}()
grw := gzipResponseWriter{ResponseWriter: w, sink: gz}
next.ServeHTTP(grw, r)
})
}
type gzipResponseWriter struct {
http.ResponseWriter
sink *gzip.Writer
}
func (w gzipResponseWriter) Write(b []byte) (int, error) {
return w.sink.Write(b)
}