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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:12:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Optimize safe_get_stop_event
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The optimization introduces **thread-local caching** for event loops to eliminate redundant creation overhead. The key change is replacing direct `asyncio.new_event_loop()` calls with a cached version stored on the current thread using `current_thread()._safe_event_loop`.

**What changed:**
- Added `threading.current_thread` import and conditional caching logic
- Event loops are now created only once per thread and reused across multiple function calls
- The expensive `asyncio.new_event_loop()` operation (91.7% of original runtime) now executes just once per thread instead of every call

**Why it's faster:**
Creating new event loops is computationally expensive in asyncio. The profiler shows `asyncio.new_event_loop()` consumed 91.7% of the original function's time. By caching the loop per thread, subsequent calls skip this expensive operation entirely - the optimized version only creates the loop once (line hit count drops from 582 to 1).

**Performance impact:**
The optimization delivers a **955% speedup** (9.98ms → 946μs) and shows dramatic improvements across all test cases:
- Single calls: 6-10x faster (58.5μs → 7.67μs)
- Sequential calls in same thread: 11x faster (24.2μs → 1.96μs)
- Stress test with 300 iterations: 10x faster (4.71ms → 443μs)

**Real-world benefits:**
Based on `function_references`, this function is called during App initialization in `gradio/routes.py` to create `self.stop_event`. In web server scenarios where multiple requests or operations might trigger App initialization on the same thread, this caching prevents repeated expensive event loop creation, significantly improving startup performance and reducing latency.

The optimization is thread-safe and maintains identical behavior - it only affects performance, not functionality.
---
 gradio/utils.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gradio/utils.py b/gradio/utils.py
index bccb877289..8c5efe7afe 100644
--- a/gradio/utils.py
+++ b/gradio/utils.py
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
     UserProvidedPath,
 )
 from gradio.exceptions import Error, InvalidPathError
+from threading import current_thread
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:  # Only import for type checking (is False at runtime).
     from gradio.blocks import BlockContext, Blocks
@@ -113,8 +114,9 @@ def safe_get_stop_event() -> asyncio.Event:
     try:
         loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
     except RuntimeError:
-        loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
-        asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)
+        if not hasattr(current_thread(), "_safe_event_loop"):
+            current_thread()._safe_event_loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
+        asyncio.set_event_loop(current_thread()._safe_event_loop)
     return asyncio.Event()