Speed improvements on Record init

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pynetbox version

v7.4.1

NetBox version

v4.1.7

Feature type

Change to existing functionality

Proposed functionality

Hi,

We've built a caching layer to Pynetbox where responses are stored as json inside a Redis cache, then Record objects are reconstructed from there on cache hit.

However I've noticed that the _init_ of a Record object can still take a substantial amount of time due to the various processing steps

As a first step I have:

• simplified the _endpoint_from_url method so that it doesn't need urlsplit leading to a 50% speed improvement of that method
• used marshall dump/load instead of deep_copy for cache initialization
• refactored the _parse_values method to limit the number of instance type checking and number of key/value that need further processing

All in all, according to a few benchmarks I made, the whole Record init shows more than 50% speed improvement. Below is an example when loading 14407 records.

Benchmark using cProfile with Pynetbox v7.4.1

      ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
142153/14407    0.829    0.000    8.681    0.001 .venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pynetbox/core/response.py:278(__init__)

Benchmark using cProfile with our fork

      ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
142153/14407    0.343    0.000    4.037    0.000 .venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pynetbox/core/response.py:263(__init__)

Would you be interested in having any/all of these things merged into upstream?

Use case

General speed improvement of the library

External dependencies

None