siggen: Fix inefficient string concatenation

As discussed in https://stackoverflow.com/a/4435752/1710392 , CPython
has an optimization for statements in the form "a = a + b" or "a += b".
It seems that this line does not get optimized, because it has a form a = a + b + c:
data = data + "./" + f.split("/./")[1]

For that reason, it does a copy of data for each iteration, potentially copying megabytes
of data for each iteration.

Changing this line causes SignatureGeneratorBasic::get_taskhash to take 0.06 seconds
instead of 45 seconds on my test setup where SRC_URI points to a big directory.

Note that PEP8 recommends explicitely not to use this optimization which is specific to CPython:
"do not rely on CPython’s efficient implementation of in-place string concatenation for statements in the form a += b or a = a + b"

However, the PEP8 recommended form using "join()" also does not avoid the copy and takes 45 seconds in my test setup:
data = ''.join((data, "./", f.split("/./")[1]))

I have changed the other lines to also use += for consistency only, however those were in the form a = a + b
and were optimized already.

Co-authored-by: JJ Robertson <jrobertson@snap.com>
Signed-off-by: Etienne Cordonnier <ecordonnier@snap.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/lib/bb/siggen.py b/lib/bb/siggen.py
index 0e79404f7..26e0243b0 100644
--- a/lib/bb/siggen.py
+++ b/lib/bb/siggen.py
@@ -349,19 +349,19 @@ class SignatureGeneratorBasic(SignatureGenerator):
 
         data = self.basehash[tid]
         for dep in self.runtaskdeps[tid]:
-            data = data + self.get_unihash(dep)
+            data += self.get_unihash(dep)
 
         for (f, cs) in self.file_checksum_values[tid]:
             if cs:
                 if "/./" in f:
-                    data = data + "./" + f.split("/./")[1]
-                data = data + cs
+                    data += "./" + f.split("/./")[1]
+                data += cs
 
         if tid in self.taints:
             if self.taints[tid].startswith("nostamp:"):
-                data = data + self.taints[tid][8:]
+                data += self.taints[tid][8:]
             else:
-                data = data + self.taints[tid]
+                data += self.taints[tid]
 
         h = hashlib.sha256(data.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()
         self.taskhash[tid] = h