Improving the performance of callbacks by keeping a hash of the

callbacks in the CallbackChain, so you don't have to iterate over all
callbacks when checking for duplicates.

Benchmark results when the tests in
activerecord/test/cases/associations_test.rb were run with and without
the change:

== On master (when scanning all of the callbacks):

 ---------------------------------------------------------
  %   cumulative   self              self     total
 time   seconds   seconds    calls  ms/call  ms/call  name
 ---------------------------------------------------------

  1.85     9.26      0.82    18412     0.04     0.05
ActiveSupport::Callbacks::Callback#matches?
  1.22    12.32      0.54    18412     0.03     0.08
ActiveSupport::Callbacks::Callback#duplicates?
  0.93    14.61      0.41    19600     0.02     0.21
ActiveSupport::Callbacks::CallbackChain#remove_duplicates

Finished tests in 1.217065s, 30.4010 tests/s, 53.4072 assertions/s.
 ---------------------------------------------------------

== On my branch (when using a hash to check callback duplication):

 ---------------------------------------------------------
  %   cumulative   self              self     total
 time   seconds   seconds    calls  ms/call  ms/call  name
 ---------------------------------------------------------
  0.15    29.63      0.06     1188     0.05     0.72
ActiveSupport::Callbacks::CallbackChain#handle_duplicates
  0.00    40.50      0.00       84     0.00     0.12
ActiveSupport::Callbacks::Callback#matches?
  0.00    40.50      0.00       84     0.00     0.12
ActiveSupport::Callbacks::Callback#duplicates?
  0.00    40.50      0.00       91     0.00     0.22
ActiveSupport::Callbacks::CallbackChain#scan_and_remove_duplicates

Finished tests in 1.117757s, 33.1020 tests/s, 58.1522 assertions/s.
 ---------------------------------------------------------

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb
index 893c2500d7..f0389d0a1c 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb
@@ -132,6 +132,10 @@ module ActiveSupport
         @@_callback_sequence += 1
       end
 
+      def object_filter?
+        @_is_object_filter
+      end
+
       def matches?(_kind, _filter)
         if @_is_object_filter
           _filter_matches = @filter.to_s.start_with?(_method_name_for_object_filter(_kind, _filter, false))
@@ -337,6 +341,7 @@ module ActiveSupport
           :terminator => "false",
           :scope => [ :kind ]
         }.merge!(config)
+        @callbacks_hash = Hash.new { |h, k| h[k] = [] }
       end
 
       def compile
@@ -361,20 +366,37 @@ module ActiveSupport
 
       private
 
-      def append_one(callback)
-        remove_duplicates(callback)
-        push(callback)
-      end
+        def append_one(callback)
+          handle_duplicates(callback)
+          push(callback)
+        end
 
-      def prepend_one(callback)
-        remove_duplicates(callback)
-        unshift(callback)
-      end
+        def prepend_one(callback)
+          handle_duplicates(callback)
+          unshift(callback)
+        end
 
-      def remove_duplicates(callback)
-        delete_if { |c| callback.duplicates?(c) }
-      end
+        # We check to see if this callback already exists. If it does (i.e. if
+        # +callback.duplicates?(c)+ for any callback +c+ in the list of
+        # callbacks), then we delete the previously defined callback.
+        #
+        # We make use of the rep-invariant that only one callback exists which
+        # might match the new callback. The +@callbacks_hash+ is keyed on the
+        # +kind+ and +filter+ of the callback, the attributes used to check if
+        # two callbacks match.
+        def handle_duplicates(callback)
+          if callback.object_filter?
+            scan_and_remove_duplicates(callback)
+          else
+            hash_key = [callback.kind, callback.filter]
+            delete @callbacks_hash[hash_key] if @callbacks_hash[hash_key]
+            @callbacks_hash[hash_key] = callback
+          end
+        end
 
+        def scan_and_remove_duplicates(callback)
+          delete_if { |c| callback.duplicates?(c) }
+        end
     end
 
     module ClassMethods