From d861a52ebec2a73451fde5870b92b2ff4fb81620 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Todd Gamblin <tgamblin@llnl.gov>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 18:25:18 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Use cYAML if it is available in Python. (#2010)

---
 bin/spack                          | 10 ++++++++++
 lib/spack/spack/spec.py            |  7 +++++--
 lib/spack/spack/util/spack_yaml.py |  8 ++++++--
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/spack b/bin/spack
index 503ef068bf..29991c070d 100755
--- a/bin/spack
+++ b/bin/spack
@@ -40,6 +40,16 @@ SPACK_PREFIX = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(SPACK_FILE))
 # Allow spack libs to be imported in our scripts
 SPACK_LIB_PATH = os.path.join(SPACK_PREFIX, "lib", "spack")
 sys.path.insert(0, SPACK_LIB_PATH)
+
+# Try to use system YAML if it is available, as it might have libyaml
+# support (for faster loading via C).  Load it before anything in
+# lib/spack/external so it will take precedence over Spack's PyYAML.
+try:
+    import yaml
+except ImportError:
+    pass   # ignore and use slow yaml
+
+# Add external libs
 SPACK_EXTERNAL_LIBS = os.path.join(SPACK_LIB_PATH, "external")
 sys.path.insert(0, SPACK_EXTERNAL_LIBS)
 
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/spec.py b/lib/spack/spack/spec.py
index fc4bf41e34..37a3cf4d7e 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/spec.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/spec.py
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
 import base64
 import hashlib
 import imp
-import sys
+import ctypes
 from StringIO import StringIO
 from operator import attrgetter
 
@@ -203,6 +203,9 @@
 
 legal_deps = tuple(special_types) + alldeps
 
+"""Max integer helps avoid passing too large a value to cyaml."""
+maxint = 2 ** (ctypes.sizeof(ctypes.c_int) * 8 - 1) - 1
+
 
 def validate_deptype(deptype):
     if isinstance(deptype, str):
@@ -969,7 +972,7 @@ def dag_hash(self, length=None):
             return self._hash[:length]
         else:
             yaml_text = syaml.dump(
-                self.to_node_dict(), default_flow_style=True, width=sys.maxint)
+                self.to_node_dict(), default_flow_style=True, width=maxint)
             sha = hashlib.sha1(yaml_text)
             b32_hash = base64.b32encode(sha.digest()).lower()[:length]
             if self.concrete:
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/util/spack_yaml.py b/lib/spack/spack/util/spack_yaml.py
index 7bcdf2d61f..506f56633a 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/util/spack_yaml.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/util/spack_yaml.py
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@
 
 """
 import yaml
+try:
+    from yaml import CLoader as Loader, CDumper as Dumper
+except ImportError as e:
+    from yaml import Loader, Dumper
 from yaml.nodes import *
 from yaml.constructor import ConstructorError
 from ordereddict_backport import OrderedDict
@@ -64,7 +68,7 @@ def mark(obj, node):
     obj._end_mark = node.end_mark
 
 
-class OrderedLineLoader(yaml.Loader):
+class OrderedLineLoader(Loader):
     """YAML loader that preserves order and line numbers.
 
        Mappings read in by this loader behave like an ordered dict.
@@ -156,7 +160,7 @@ def construct_mapping(self, node, deep=False):
     u'tag:yaml.org,2002:str', OrderedLineLoader.construct_yaml_str)
 
 
-class OrderedLineDumper(yaml.Dumper):
+class OrderedLineDumper(Dumper):
     """Dumper that preserves ordering and formats ``syaml_*`` objects.
 
       This dumper preserves insertion ordering ``syaml_dict`` objects