Improve markdown rendering performance

Reuse the markdown instance and cache data

.gitignore

@@ -174,3 +174,5 @@ poetry.toml
 pyrightconfig.json
 
 # End of https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/python
+
+cache/

yamdl_playground/core/views.py

@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ from django.http import HttpResponse
 from django.db import connections
 from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404
 import markdown
+from django.core.cache import caches
+from threading import Lock
+
+md = markdown.Markdown()
+md_lock = Lock()
 
 def search(request):
     with connections["default"].cursor() as cursor:
@@ -11,7 +16,14 @@ def search(request):
     pages = Page.objects.filter(id__in=row)
     return HttpResponse(str(pages), content_type="text/plain")
 
+
 def content(request, slug):
     page = get_object_or_404(Page, slug=slug)
 
-    return HttpResponse(markdown.markdown(page.content), content_type="text/html")
+    if (cached_content := caches["default"].get(f"page-content-{slug}")) is None:
+        with md_lock:
+            cached_content = md.convert(page.content)
+            md.reset()
+        caches["default"].set(f"page-content-{slug}", cached_content)
+
+    return HttpResponse(cached_content, content_type="text/html")

yamdl_playground/settings.py

@@ -84,6 +84,13 @@ YAMDL_DIRECTORIES = [
 
 YAMDL_LOADER = "yamdl_playground.core.utils.CustomYamdlLoader"
 
+CACHES = {
+    "default": {
+        "BACKEND": "django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache",
+        "LOCATION": BASE_DIR / "cache",
+    }
+}
+
 # Password validation
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators