Performance hit in a django view

We saw a performance hit on one of our stats pages where we query around 800 rows of data each one of them has around 15-20 columns, some of them query json fields and some arrays.

We discovered that the issue is in django-dirtyfields, which we use a lot, but not in this specific view.

There is no easy way to turn off the checks, we patched the _as_dict method as a workaround.

Would be great if we could have a way to turn the dirtyfields off in specific cases where its not needed and not just globally with FIELDS_TO_CHECK.

[YAmikep]

Hi @romgar

I work with @OrDuan I created a PR to show our current solution using a queryset method if that can help: https://github.com/romgar/django-dirtyfields/pull/134

IMO, it’s quite hacky as it requires to override some core django components so if you have a better solution, feel free to ignore all or most of it. 😄

Thanks

[LincolnPuzey]

Since no-one objected to my suggestion above, I went ahead and documented it in #193. Going to close this issue now.