Drupal Core Performance: JSON:API & Array Dumper Optimizations
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Caching is usually the answer to everything in Drupal performance, but there's a crossover point where the overhead of the cache itself—retrieval and unserialization—outweighs the cost of just doing the work.
Two issues caught my eye today that dig into these micro-optimizations: one challenging the assumption that we should always cache JSON:API normalizations, and another squeezing more speed out of the service container dumper.