Hi physikerwelt, you're correct, the overhead is a very small hash table
entry for each module in the ResourceLoader registry—but this gets sent
on every pageview. It's something like 12 bytes. See
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202154 and
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Performance_Team/Page_load_perform…
for more background.
These small entries add up quickly, as you can imagine!
The one situation where you would *not* want to merge modules is if one
module will be loaded very often, and the second module is rarely
needed. What you describe sounds like it might be one of these cases,
so you'll have to estimate how much average overhead the merged module
will cause, compared to the overhead of an additional module entry.
Since there are a huge number of pageviews, it's usually a net benefit
to coalesce ResourceLoader modules together even when they're used in
slightly different workflows.
Sorry for the inconvenience of having to make this micro-optimization.
Regards,
Adam W.
On 12/4/20 9:17 AM, Physikerwelt wrote:
Dear all,
I am trying to understand the performance impact of adding new
ResourceLoader modules. I am currently stuck in the code review of
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Math/+/638094
as I am not convinced that it is a good idea to bundle an OOUI widget
module and a special page js snippet into one module. One thing is a
general-purpose control that is planned to be used in other contexts
whereas the other is a very specific js code only executed on one
particular special page. However, since this seems to be the critical
point in the code review, I would like to better understand the impact
of the additional resource module call.
I was looking at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:ResourceLoader_Client_lifecycle_2020.png
and according to that overview, an additional module is just one entry
in the module registry. I was hoping that minifying and caching is
something the ResourceLoader would take care of.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you
physikerwelt
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