[Audit][Implementation] - Reduce Redundant Operations

[hurali97]

Details

Part of Callstack Performance Audit.

This PR removes the redundant operations like static translation that happens on each loop iteration and this PR also checks beforehand whether the number to parse is a valid phone number and if it is, only then the number is parsed by parsePhoneNumber. The reason is that call to parsePhoneNumber is costly and should only be executed for the numbers that are valid.

Fixed Issues

$ #37275
PROPOSAL: #35234 (comment)

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Offline tests

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[melvin-bot]

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[roryabraham]

Since this is a performance-related PR, can you please update the PR description to include benchmarks?

[roryabraham]

marking this as WIP at least until the caching/memoization/dynamicProgramming has been moved to the existing translation lib

[hurali97]

@roryabraham Thanks for the review and the discussion.

I have accommodated all of the feedbacks including the cache mechanism for translations. Only feedback that's not addressed is regarding the RegExp and formatPhoneNumber.

---

For RegExp, I recall one other reason behind replacing RegExp was that it was being executed whether the displayName contains MERGED_ substring or not. To prevent this happening, I added a check whether a string starts with MERGED_ and if yes, then we replace that string.

Below is a screenshot from Hermes trace with RegExp implementation:

Below is a screenshot from Hermes trace with string.startsWith implementation:

The execution time is more or less the same BUT the main gain is from not testing a string against a RegExp, which doesn't contain the MERGED_ substring. I would like to apologise for stating before that the current implementation is better against RegExp, it was from the top off my head. One thing to emphasize, this doesn't mean that we should still go ahead with RegExp implementation because as I stated with the help of traces that we are repeatedly testing with RegExp.

I would like to have a discussion about how do you guys like to avoid testing a string against a RegExp, which doesn't contain the MERGED_ substring ?

The below code is what we have now, which helps us not to do substring replacement, if string doesn't starts with MERGED_:

    let displayName = passedPersonalDetails?.displayName ?? '';

    // If the displayName starts with the merged account prefix, remove it.
    if (displayName.startsWith(CONST.MERGED_ACCOUNT_PREFIX)) {
        displayName = displayName.substring(substringStartIndex);
    }

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Some explanation on formatPhoneNumber is below:

In the attached screenshot, we already have a helper function isSmsLogin which we can use to decide whether we should call formatPhoneNumber. But it's only used in a couple of places. As you can see that we have 38 instances leveraging formatPhoneNumber and if we decide to use isSmsLogin for each of them the PR will be a big refactor in terms of files changed.

We can go about it two ways:

• One is to remove the formatPhoneNumber changes from this PR and create a separate PR which will use isSmsLogin before calling formatPhoneNumber.

• Second is to keep the sms/ email check in formatPhoneNumber itself, which we already have in this PR.

Let me know what you think about it 👍

---

I also want to share the impact of cache mechanism in translations. I profiled the Android App startup on an account with ~15k reports and below is a snapshot from the hermes trace.

Without cache:

With cache:

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We can see that in Without cache the translate function is being invoked multiple times by getDisplayNamesForParticipant and inside of it we have Localize.translateLocal('common.hidden') . Now, after using the cache mechanism we see the translate calls doesn't happen if it exists in the cache.

[roryabraham]

Otherwise, LGTM. though I do want to wait for @fedirjh to review, test, and complete the checklist before we merge this

[roryabraham]

Cool, now just waiting for @fedirjh to complete the checklist, which he said he will do soon.

[hurali97]

@fedirjh I have addressed your feedback regarding moving cache to translate function. Can you re-review the implementation?

Also, below we can see that we save around ~1344 times translating some phrases that's already translated. Again, thanks for highlighting the right place for the cache 💯

[fedirjh]

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Android: Native

CleanShot.2024-03-14.at.13.36.13.mp4

Android: mWeb Chrome

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iOS: Native

Simulator.Screen.Recording.-.iPhone.Xs.-.2024-03-14.at.14.06.02.mp4

iOS: mWeb Safari

Simulator.Screen.Recording.-.iPhone.Xs.-.2024-03-14.at.14.15.47.mp4

MacOS: Chrome / Safari

MacOS: Desktop

CleanShot.2024-03-14.at.14.19.52.mp4

[fedirjh]

Looks good to me.

cc @roryabraham

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