[JIRA] (JENKINS-16089) Standard view columns interact force builds to be eagerly loaded

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Justin Santa Barbara commented on JENKINS-16089 Standard view columns interact force builds to be eagerly loaded I hit this issue myself. I whipped up a quick proof-of-concept of using caching to fix: https://github.com/justinsb/jenkins/commit/d539c6680ea1fb14f45c63ec21ecf8df046f3352 I debated caching the jobs themselves, but they're not Serializable , so that would eliminate many of the more advanced caching solutions. Instead, I just memoize the function results, recording against each (completed) build the build number of e.g. lastFailure. To retrieve, we walk the build chain as normal, but we can short-circuit as soon as we come across a memoized result. When we find a result, we cache it against the most recent completed build, it isn't already there. This relies on an LRU cache to expire old entries. Currently this is only in-memory, but if we agree that caching is a good answer, I think we'd want to implement a persistent cache so that this survives across restarts. I suspect this memoization approach could well prove helpful for performance in many places in Jenkins. I know the patch is not ready to merge . If someone wants to take the idea and run with it, feel free; otherwise, comments/criticism welcome. If this does have broader applicability, should I post to the Jenkins-dev mail-list?

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