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[FEATURE] Hot Rodding - Removing unneeded calls, reflection and allocations from page render performance

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Description

Feature Title

Improvements to page rendering performance

Problem

While I am testing performance, I see there are a number of tiny performance hicups when rendering velocity that could be smoothed out to help with performance. We are doing things like calling Contentlet.toString in our debug logging methods - the Contentlet.toString uses reflection to build its representation which is real slow.

Additionally, we can optimize some code paths to improve performance.

Goal

Make page rendering faster/more efficient.

Target Personas
  • Developer teams
  • Content teams
  • DevOps teams
  • System administrators (dotCMS)
Demo Expectations

How performance has been improved.

Acceptance Criteria

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by profiling page rendering and locating the debug logging and Contentlet.toString call paths described in the issue. Compare the relevant render paths for unnecessary calls, reflection, and allocations. Done means measurable page-rendering performance improvements, but the issue provides no named files, tests, or concrete acceptance criteria.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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