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7a96b3490d [internal copy of #30137] perf(realtime): eliminate redundant per-frame JSON work on OpenAI realtime relay (#30142)
* perf(realtime): eliminate redundant per-frame JSON work on OpenAI realtime relay

The GA realtime support added in #27110 made backend_to_client_send_messages
parse every backend frame up to three times for beta clients (OpenAI-Beta:
realtime=v1), build a discarded Pydantic object per frame for logging, and
re-serialize even frames that need no translation. For high-frequency
response.output_audio.delta frames carrying multi-KB base64 payloads, that
serialized CPU work on the hottest relay path drove the latency regression
between v1.83.14 and v1.88.1 for gpt-realtime-1.5 and gpt-realtime-2.

This parses each frame once via _parse_backend_event and threads the dict into
_handle_raw_backend_message, store_message, and _translate_event_to_beta;
short-circuits store_message before the Pydantic build for events not in the
logged set; returns the original event unchanged from _translate_event_to_beta
when no rename applies so the raw frame is forwarded without re-serialization;
and only json.dumps when the type is actually renamed.

* fix(realtime): widen store_message type hint to accept plain dict

The parse-once refactor passes the dict produced by _parse_backend_event into
store_message, but the parameter was typed as str | bytes | OpenAIRealtimeEvents
(a union of TypedDicts), which mypy does not consider compatible with a plain
dict. Add dict to the accepted union; the body already handles it.

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Co-authored-by: Miguel Armenta <maarmenta92@gmail.com>
2026-06-11 09:56:35 +05:30
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