Template rendering optimization

.changes/unreleased/Features-20230424-163611.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+kind: Features
+body: Optimize template rendering for common parse scenarios
+time: 2023-04-24T16:36:11.24088-04:00
+custom:
+  Author: peterallenwebb
+  Issue: "7449"

core/dbt/clients/jinja.py

@@ -565,6 +565,8 @@ def _requote_result(raw_value: str, rendered: str) -> str:
 # is small enough that I've just chosen the more readable option.
 _HAS_RENDER_CHARS_PAT = re.compile(r"({[{%#]|[#}%]})")
 
+_render_cache: Dict[str, Any] = dict()
+
 
 def get_rendered(
     string: str,
@@ -579,16 +581,28 @@ def get_rendered(
     # If this is desirable in the native env as well, we could handle the
     # native=True case by passing the input string to ast.literal_eval, like
     # the native renderer does.
-    if not native and isinstance(string, str) and _HAS_RENDER_CHARS_PAT.search(string) is None:
-        return string
+    has_render_chars = _HAS_RENDER_CHARS_PAT.search(string)
+
+    if not has_render_chars:
+        if not native:
+            return string
+        elif string in _render_cache:
+            return _render_cache[string]
+
     template = get_template(
         string,
         ctx,
         node,
         capture_macros=capture_macros,
         native=native,
     )
-    return render_template(template, ctx, node)
+
+    rendered = render_template(template, ctx, node)
+
+    if not has_render_chars and native:
+        _render_cache[string] = rendered
+
+    return rendered
 
 
 def undefined_error(msg) -> NoReturn: