From 0db86a95409f293a0995b13ec3e64f3baad3d2a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Darren <darren@darrenwhitlen.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 12:46:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Shave .7s from startup by caching member lookups in
 memberlist

---
 client/src/models/memberlist.js | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/client/src/models/memberlist.js b/client/src/models/memberlist.js
index 77beb06..41a6cde 100644
--- a/client/src/models/memberlist.js
+++ b/client/src/models/memberlist.js
@@ -47,13 +47,48 @@ _kiwi.model.MemberList = Backbone.Collection.extend({
             return 0;
         }
     },
+
+
     initialize: function (options) {
         this.view = new _kiwi.view.MemberList({"model": this});
+        this.initNickCache();
+    },
+
+
+    /*
+     * Keep a reference to each member by the nick. Speeds up .getByNick()
+     * so it doesn't need to loop over every model for each nick lookup
+     */
+    initNickCache: function() {
+        var that = this;
+
+        this.nick_cache = Object.create(null);
+
+        this.on('reset', function() {
+            this.nick_cache = Object.create(null);
+
+            this.models.forEach(function(member) {
+                that.nick_cache[member.get('nick').toLowerCase()] = member;
+            });
+        });
+
+        this.on('add', function(member) {
+            that.nick_cache[member.get('nick').toLowerCase()] = member;
+        });
+
+        this.on('remove', function(member) {
+            delete that.nick_cache[member.get('nick').toLowerCase()];
+        });
+
+        this.on('change:nick', function(member) {
+            that.nick_cache[member.get('nick').toLowerCase()] = member;
+            delete that.nick_cache[member.previous('nick').toLowerCase()];
+        });
     },
+
+
     getByNick: function (nick) {
         if (typeof nick !== 'string') return;
-        return this.find(function (m) {
-            return nick.toLowerCase() === m.get('nick').toLowerCase();
-        });
+        return this.nick_cache[nick.toLowerCase()];
     }
 });
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