From c81de297b028c5a9c54d5f698114d3819b0cf4a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miguel Fonseca <150562+mcsf@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:24:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add per-block caching when extracting rich-text values

---
 packages/core-data/src/footnotes/index.js | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/core-data/src/footnotes/index.js b/packages/core-data/src/footnotes/index.js
index 211755f5b42aa7..7a7ce5e58e9a8c 100644
--- a/packages/core-data/src/footnotes/index.js
+++ b/packages/core-data/src/footnotes/index.js
@@ -12,13 +12,25 @@ const { getRichTextValues } = unlock( blockEditorPrivateApis );
 
 let oldFootnotes = {};
 
+const cache = new WeakMap();
+
+function getRichTextValuesCached( block ) {
+	if ( ! cache.has( block ) ) {
+		const values = getRichTextValues( [ block ] );
+		cache.set( block, values );
+	}
+	return cache.get( block );
+}
+
 export function updateFootnotesFromMeta( blocks, meta ) {
 	const output = { blocks };
 	if ( ! meta ) return output;
+
 	// If meta.footnotes is empty, it means the meta is not registered.
 	if ( meta.footnotes === undefined ) return output;
 
-	const _content = getRichTextValues( blocks ).join( '' ) || '';
+	const _content = blocks.map( getRichTextValuesCached ).join( '' );
+
 	const newOrder = [];
 
 	// This can be avoided when