From 35f374047aab09b62dbaa28a5b5f1be5ba5b42b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cory McWilliams <cory@unprompted.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2025 14:20:26 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ssb: Faster loads around the profile page.  An experiment
 with caching SQL queries, and make one query just plain faster.

---
 apps/ssb.json          |  2 +-
 apps/ssb/app.js        | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 apps/ssb/tf-profile.js | 18 +++++++++++++-----
 3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apps/ssb.json b/apps/ssb.json
index fe355fc1..a169a749 100644
--- a/apps/ssb.json
+++ b/apps/ssb.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
 	"type": "tildefriends-app",
 	"emoji": "🦀",
-	"previous": "&k075s5Ij+NjRS52GJ6AD8Pl2ZGNseuj63AKBeV4LMQg=.sha256"
+	"previous": "&Tozi8g5lPpLW7znc+jm7xDZxoTq1G3DJAh2YhG+FRAQ=.sha256"
 }
diff --git a/apps/ssb/app.js b/apps/ssb/app.js
index 163903b4..3373c85f 100644
--- a/apps/ssb/app.js
+++ b/apps/ssb/app.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import * as tfrpc from '/tfrpc.js';
 
 let g_database;
 let g_hash;
+let g_sql_cache = {};
 
 tfrpc.register(async function localStorageGet(key) {
 	return app.localStorageGet(key);
@@ -51,14 +52,38 @@ tfrpc.register(async function connect(token) {
 tfrpc.register(async function closeConnection(id) {
 	await ssb.closeConnection(id);
 });
-tfrpc.register(async function query(sql, args) {
+tfrpc.register(async function query(sql, args, options) {
 	let start = new Date();
 	let result = [];
-	await ssb.sqlAsync(sql, args, function callback(row) {
-		result.push(row);
-	});
+	let key = options?.cacheable ? JSON.stringify([sql, args]) : undefined;
+	let entry = key ? g_sql_cache[key] : undefined;
+	const k_ideal_count = 64;
+	if (entry) {
+		result = entry.result;
+	} else {
+		await ssb.sqlAsync(sql, args, function callback(row) {
+			result.push(row);
+		});
+		if (key) {
+			g_sql_cache[key] = {
+				result: result,
+				time: new Date().valueOf(),
+			};
+			if (Object.keys(g_sql_cache).length > k_ideal_count * 2) {
+				let aged = Object.entries(g_sql_cache).map(([k, v]) => [v.time, k]);
+				aged.sort();
+				for (let i = 0; i < aged.length / 2; i++) {
+					delete g_sql_cache[aged[i][1]];
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
 	let end = new Date();
-	print((end - start) / 1000, sql.replaceAll(/\s+/g, ' ').trim());
+	print(
+		(end - start) / 1000,
+		entry ? 'from cache' : 'from db',
+		sql.replaceAll(/\s+/g, ' ').trim()
+	);
 	return result;
 });
 tfrpc.register(async function appendMessage(id, message) {
diff --git a/apps/ssb/tf-profile.js b/apps/ssb/tf-profile.js
index 208d2834..240fb4c9 100644
--- a/apps/ssb/tf-profile.js
+++ b/apps/ssb/tf-profile.js
@@ -37,16 +37,22 @@ class TfProfileElement extends LitElement {
 			this.following = undefined;
 			this.blocking = undefined;
 
+			let latest = (
+				await tfrpc.rpc.query('SELECT MAX(rowid) AS latest FROM messages')
+			)[0].latest;
+
 			let result = await tfrpc.rpc.query(
 				`
 				SELECT json_extract(content, '$.following') AS following
 				FROM messages WHERE author = ? AND
 				json_extract(content, '$.type') = 'contact' AND
 				json_extract(content, '$.contact') = ? AND
-				following IS NOT NULL
+				following IS NOT NULL AND
+				messages.rowid <= ?
 				ORDER BY sequence DESC LIMIT 1
 			`,
-				[this.whoami, this.id]
+				[this.whoami, this.id, latest],
+				{cacheable: true}
 			);
 			this.following = result?.[0]?.following ?? false;
 			result = await tfrpc.rpc.query(
@@ -55,10 +61,12 @@ class TfProfileElement extends LitElement {
 				FROM messages WHERE author = ? AND
 				json_extract(content, '$.type') = 'contact' AND
 				json_extract(content, '$.contact') = ? AND
-				blocking IS NOT NULL
+				blocking IS NOT NULL AND
+				messages.rowid <= ?
 				ORDER BY sequence DESC LIMIT 1
 			`,
-				[this.whoami, this.id]
+				[this.whoami, this.id, latest],
+				{cacheable: true}
 			);
 			this.blocking = result?.[0]?.blocking ?? false;
 		}
@@ -238,7 +246,7 @@ class TfProfileElement extends LitElement {
 		let profile = this.users[this.id] || {};
 		tfrpc.rpc
 			.query(
-				`SELECT SUM(LENGTH(content)) AS size, MAX(sequence) AS sequence FROM messages WHERE author = ?`,
+				`SELECT size AS size, max_sequence AS sequence FROM messages_stats WHERE author = ?`,
 				[this.id]
 			)
 			.then(function (result) {