From a5fcf21a1204223d58fed730a025e1383f0c697c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: correctmost <134317971+correctmost@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 07:04:41 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Speed up _parse_package_output by caching normalized key
 strings (#3239)

This commit helps avoid ~260,000 chained strip(), lower(), and
replace() sequences.
---
 archinstall/lib/packages/packages.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/archinstall/lib/packages/packages.py b/archinstall/lib/packages/packages.py
index 885bb3b8..27d834ac 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/packages/packages.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/packages/packages.py
@@ -139,6 +139,11 @@ def list_available_packages(
 	return packages
 
 
+@lru_cache(maxsize=128)
+def _normalize_key_name(key: str) -> str:
+	return key.strip().lower().replace(' ', '_')
+
+
 def _parse_package_output[PackageType: (AvailablePackage, LocalPackage)](
 	package_meta: list[str],
 	cls: type[PackageType]
@@ -148,7 +153,7 @@ def _parse_package_output[PackageType: (AvailablePackage, LocalPackage)](
 	for line in package_meta:
 		if ':' in line:
 			key, value = line.split(':', 1)
-			key = key.strip().lower().replace(' ', '_')
+			key = _normalize_key_name(key)
 			package[key] = value.strip()
 
 	return cls.model_validate(package)