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⚡ Optimize json serialization for static endpoints - #79

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💡 What:

  • Extracted the static response for the root endpoint (/) into a pre-computed module-level constant (STATIC_ROOT_RESPONSE).
  • The constant is serialized using compact JSON formatting (separators=(',', ':')) and pre-encoded to bytes.
  • Updated the send_json method to accept bytes directly, writing them to the response stream without invoking json.dumps.

🎯 Why:
The previous implementation performed dynamic JSON serialization on every request. For entirely static content like the root endpoint, this was a significant and unnecessary CPU/memory overhead. Furthermore, ensuring that the fallback dynamic serialization explicitly skips indentation (indent=2) reduces network payload size.

📊 Measured Improvement:
Using a local load testing script (bench.py), benchmarking the root endpoint (/) before and after the change revealed:

  • Baseline: ~866 Requests Per Second (RPS)
  • Improved: ~947 Requests Per Second (RPS)
  • Change over baseline: An improvement of ~9.4% in overall server throughput.
    Additionally, bypassing json.dumps and .encode() completely for static data saves measurable micro-seconds per request.

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This pull request optimizes the simple_seismic_server.py by pre-encoding the static root response and updating the send_json method to handle both raw bytes and JSON-serializable objects. A suggestion was made to refactor the send_json method to reduce redundancy in the write operation by ensuring the data is converted to bytes before a single write call.

Comment thread simple_seismic_server.py
Comment on lines +117 to +120
if isinstance(data, bytes):
self.wfile.write(data)
else:
self.wfile.write(json.dumps(data, separators=(',', ':')).encode())

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The logic in send_json can be simplified to avoid repeating the self.wfile.write() call. By first ensuring the data variable is in bytes format, you can have a single, unconditional write call at the end. This makes the method's control flow more linear and easier to follow.

        if not isinstance(data, bytes):
            data = json.dumps(data, separators=(',', ':')).encode()
        self.wfile.write(data)

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This pull request optimizes the simple_seismic_server.py by pre-serializing the root endpoint's JSON response into a constant and updating the send_json method to support writing raw bytes directly. I have no feedback to provide.

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