Optimize performance
Streamlit provides powerful cache primitives for memoization and storing heavyweight singleton objects across sessions. They allow your app to stay performant even when loading data from the web, caching the results of expensive computations, and storing singleton objects (like TensorFlow/Torch/Keras sessions and/or database connections).
The two new primitives: st.experimental_memo and st.experimental_singleton are conceptually simpler and much, much faster than @st.cache, with the potentional to replace @st.cache at some point in 2022.
Caching
Function decorator to memoize function executions.
@st.cache(ttl=3600)
def run_long_computation(arg1, arg2):
# Do stuff here
return computation_output
Memo
Experimental function decorator to memoize function executions.
@st.experimental_memo
def fetch_and_clean_data(url):
# Fetch data from URL here, and then clean it up.
return data
Singleton
Experimental function decorator to store singleton objects.
@st.experimental_singleton
def get_database_session(url):
# Create a database session object that points to the URL.
return session
Clear memo
Clear all in-memory and on-disk memo caches.
@st.experimental_memo
def fetch_and_clean_data(url):
# Fetch data from URL here, and then clean it up.
return data
if st.checkbox("Clear All"):
# Clear values from *all* memoized functions
st.experimental_memo.clear()
Clear singleton
Clear all singleton caches.
@st.experimental_singleton
def get_database_session(url):
# Create a database session object that points to the URL.
return session
if st.button("Clear All"):
# Clears all singleton caches:
st.experimental_singleton.clear()