Perf: Cache ts offset guesses for quickDT

src/datetime.js

@@ -370,6 +370,36 @@ function normalizeUnitWithLocalWeeks(unit) {
   }
 }
 
+// cache offsets for zones based on the current timestamp when this function is
+// first called. When we are handling a datetime from components like (year,
+// month, day, hour) in a time zone, we need a guess about what the timezone
+// offset is so that we can convert into a UTC timestamp. One way is to find the
+// offset of now in the zone. The actual date may have a different offset (for
+// example, if we handle a date in June while we're in December in a zone that
+// observes DST), but we can check and adjust that.
+//
+// When handling many dates, calculating the offset for now every time is
+// expensive. It's just a guess, so we can cache the offset to use even if we
+// are right on a time change boundary (we'll just correct in the other
+// direction). Using a timestamp from first read is a slight optimization for
+// handling dates close to the current date, since those dates will usually be
+// in the same offset (we could set the timestamp statically, instead). We use a
+// single timestamp for all zones to make things a bit more predictable.
+//
+// This is safe for quickDT (used by local() and utc()) because we don't fill in
+// higher-order units from tsNow (as we do in fromObject, this requires that
+// offset is calculated from tsNow).
+function guessOffsetForZone(zone) {
+  if (!zoneOffsetGuessCache[zone]) {
+    if (zoneOffsetTs === undefined) {
+      zoneOffsetTs = Settings.now();
+    }
+
+    zoneOffsetGuessCache[zone] = zone.offset(zoneOffsetTs);
+  }
+  return zoneOffsetGuessCache[zone];
+}
+
 // this is a dumbed down version of fromObject() that runs about 60% faster
 // but doesn't do any validation, makes a bunch of assumptions about what units
 // are present, and so on.
@@ -379,8 +409,7 @@ function quickDT(obj, opts) {
     return DateTime.invalid(unsupportedZone(zone));
   }
 
-  const loc = Locale.fromObject(opts),
-    tsNow = Settings.now();
+  const loc = Locale.fromObject(opts);
 
   let ts, o;
 
@@ -397,10 +426,10 @@ function quickDT(obj, opts) {
       return DateTime.invalid(invalid);
     }
 
-    const offsetProvis = zone.offset(tsNow);
+    const offsetProvis = guessOffsetForZone(zone);
     [ts, o] = objToTS(obj, offsetProvis, zone);
   } else {
-    ts = tsNow;
+    ts = Settings.now();
   }
 
   return new DateTime({ ts, zone, loc, o });
@@ -448,6 +477,18 @@ function lastOpts(argList) {
   return [opts, args];
 }
 
+/**
+ * Timestamp to use for cached zone offset guesses (exposed for test)
+ */
+let zoneOffsetTs;
+/**
+ * Cache for zone offset guesses (exposed for test).
+ *
+ * This optimizes quickDT via guessOffsetForZone to avoid repeated calls of
+ * zone.offset().
+ */
+let zoneOffsetGuessCache = {};
+
 /**
  * A DateTime is an immutable data structure representing a specific date and time and accompanying methods. It contains class and instance methods for creating, parsing, interrogating, transforming, and formatting them.
  *
@@ -1000,6 +1041,11 @@ export default class DateTime {
     return expanded.map((t) => t.val).join("");
   }
 
+  static resetCache() {
+    zoneOffsetTs = undefined;
+    zoneOffsetGuessCache = {};
+  }
+
   // INFO
 
   /**

src/settings.js

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import SystemZone from "./zones/systemZone.js";
 import IANAZone from "./zones/IANAZone.js";
 import Locale from "./impl/locale.js";
+import DateTime from "./datetime.js";
 
 import { normalizeZone } from "./impl/zoneUtil.js";
 import { validateWeekSettings } from "./impl/util.js";
@@ -172,6 +173,7 @@ export default class Settings {
   static resetCaches() {
     Locale.resetCache();
     IANAZone.resetCache();
+    DateTime.resetCache();
     resetDigitRegexCache();
   }
 }