optimise dumping to reduce unnecessary overhead

When dumping many objects, marshmallow is calling the same field methods
over and over again, which return the same values. Parts of this process
can be called only once per dump, which reduces python method call
overhead significantly.

`Field.get_serializer` returns the optimized serializer for the current
dump operation, avoiding the expensive lookups for properties which will
not change during a single dump (such as `data_key`, `default`, etc)

Also, the default `Schema.get_attribute` is also not used because all it
does is calling `utils._get_value_for_key(s)`.

AUTHORS.rst

@@ -159,3 +159,4 @@ Contributors (chronological)
 - Stephen Rosen `@sirosen <https://github.com/sirosen>`_
 - Vladimir Mikhaylov `@vemikhaylov <https://github.com/vemikhaylov>`_
 - Stephen Eaton `@madeinoz67 <https://github.com/madeinoz67>`_
+- Dusko Simidzija `@dsimidzija <https://github.com/dsimidzija>`_

src/marshmallow/fields.py

@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
     missing as missing_,
     resolve_field_instance,
     is_aware,
+    _get_value_for_key,
+    _get_value_for_keys,
 )
 from marshmallow.exceptions import (
     ValidationError,
@@ -304,6 +306,50 @@ def _validate_missing(self, value):
             if hasattr(self, "allow_none") and self.allow_none is not True:
                 raise self.make_error("null")
 
+    def get_serializer(
+        self,
+        attr: str,
+        accessor: typing.Optional[
+            typing.Callable[[typing.Any, str, typing.Any], typing.Any]
+        ] = None,
+        **kwargs
+    ) -> typing.Callable[[typing.Any], typing.Any]:
+        """Return an optimized serializer for this Field object.
+
+        :param str attr: The attribute or key on the object to be serialized.
+        :param dict kwargs: Field-specific keyword arguments.
+        :return: Serializer function.
+        """
+        if not self._CHECK_ATTRIBUTE:
+            return lambda obj: self._serialize(None, attr, obj, **kwargs)
+
+        attribute = getattr(self, "attribute", None)
+        check_key = attr if attribute is None else attribute
+        default = None
+        callable_default = False
+        has_default = hasattr(self, "default")
+        if has_default:
+            default = self.default
+            callable_default = callable(default)
+        if accessor:
+            accessor_func = accessor
+        else:
+            if not isinstance(check_key, int) and "." in check_key:
+                accessor_func = _get_value_for_keys
+                check_key = check_key.split(".")
+            else:
+                accessor_func = _get_value_for_key
+
+        def _serializer(obj):
+            value = accessor_func(obj, check_key, missing_)
+            if value is missing_ and has_default:
+                value = default() if callable_default else default
+            if value is missing_:
+                return value
+            return self._serialize(value, attr, obj, **kwargs)
+
+        return _serializer
+
     def serialize(
         self,
         attr: str,

src/marshmallow/schema.py

@@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.fields = {}  # type: typing.Dict[str, ma_fields.Field]
         self.load_fields = {}  # type: typing.Dict[str, ma_fields.Field]
         self.dump_fields = {}  # type: typing.Dict[str, ma_fields.Field]
+        self.dump_serializers = {}  # type: typing.Dict[str, typing.Callable]
         self._init_fields()
         messages = {}
         messages.update(self._default_error_messages)
@@ -469,7 +470,7 @@ def handle_error(
         """
         pass
 
-    def get_attribute(self, obj: typing.Any, attr: str, default: typing.Any):
+    def default_get_attribute(self, obj: typing.Any, attr: str, default: typing.Any):
         """Defines how to pull values from an object to serialize.
 
         .. versionadded:: 2.0.0
@@ -479,6 +480,8 @@ def get_attribute(self, obj: typing.Any, attr: str, default: typing.Any):
         """
         return get_value(obj, attr, default)
 
+    get_attribute = default_get_attribute
+
     ##### Serialization/Deserialization API #####
 
     @staticmethod
@@ -513,19 +516,41 @@ def _serialize(
         .. versionchanged:: 1.0.0
             Renamed from ``marshal``.
         """
-        if many and obj is not None:
-            return [
-                self._serialize(d, many=False)
-                for d in typing.cast(typing.Iterable[_T], obj)
-            ]
-        ret = self.dict_class()
-        for attr_name, field_obj in self.dump_fields.items():
-            value = field_obj.serialize(attr_name, obj, accessor=self.get_attribute)
-            if value is missing:
-                continue
-            key = field_obj.data_key if field_obj.data_key is not None else attr_name
-            ret[key] = value
-        return ret
+        if not self.dump_serializers:
+            accessor = (
+                None
+            )  # type: typing.Optional[typing.Callable[[typing.Any, str, typing.Any], typing.Any]]
+            if self.get_attribute != self.default_get_attribute:
+                accessor = self.get_attribute
+
+            for field_name, field_obj in self.dump_fields.items():
+                key = (
+                    field_obj.data_key if field_obj.data_key is not None else field_name
+                )
+                self.dump_serializers[key] = field_obj.get_serializer(
+                    field_name, accessor
+                )
+
+        source_obj = [None]  # typing: typing.List[typing.Any]
+
+        if not many:
+            source_obj = [typing.cast(typing.Any, obj)]
+        elif many and obj is not None:
+            source_obj = typing.cast(typing.List[typing.Any], obj)
+
+        output = []
+        for current_obj in source_obj:
+            ret = self.dict_class()
+            for key, serializer in self.dump_serializers.items():
+                value = serializer(current_obj)
+                if value is missing:
+                    continue
+                ret[key] = value
+            output.append(ret)
+
+        if not many:
+            return output[0]
+        return output
 
     def dump(self, obj: typing.Any, *, many: typing.Optional[bool] = None):
         """Serialize an object to native Python data types according to this
@@ -1018,6 +1043,7 @@ def _init_fields(self) -> None:
         self.fields = fields_dict
         self.dump_fields = dump_fields
         self.load_fields = load_fields
+        self.dump_serializers = {}
 
     def on_bind_field(self, field_name: str, field_obj: ma_fields.Field) -> None:
         """Hook to modify a field when it is bound to the `Schema`.