ansible/ansible — pull request #3041 by sergevanginderachter (2013-05-28 11:13:56+00:00)
Title: performance optimization in inventory.groups_list()

don't calculate all hosts for every parent group of every group
when that parent group was already in the cache

I had a case where running ansible became dead slow, due to heavy group usage (>500), where the same parent groups get a group.get_hosts call over and over again.

This patch makes it 90% more efficient:
``` bash
$ time ansible localhost -m ping -o -c local
localhost | success >> {"changed": false, "ping": "pong"}
real	0m35.008s
user	0m34.646s
sys	0m0.160s

$ . ~/src/ansible/hacking/env-setup
Setting up Ansible to run out of checkout...
(...)

$ time ansible localhost -m ping -o -c local
localhost | success >> {"changed": false, "ping": "pong"}
real	0m3.589s
user	0m3.380s
sys	0m0.168s
```