GitLab

Created by: rspeicher

Commit#safe_message was getting called several times for every commit message, which slowed down the "Commit History" page quite a bit because it was constantly converting the same message to utf8.

Benchmarks:

Calling `commit.title` on the same commit, 500 times each run:

                         user     system      total        real
performance branch:  0.600000  17.450000  18.050000 ( 18.058806)
master branch:       2.520000 280.670000 283.190000 (283.191723)

In terms of actual performance, on the master branch it takes my system about 3.5 to 4 seconds to load the first page of the commit history for GitLab itself in the development environment, and after this change it takes about 800 ms. That number should still be lower, but this is a start.