### Creating the `Settings` only once with `lru_cache`

Reading a file from disk is normally a costly (slow) operation, so you probably want to do it only once and then reuse the same settings object, instead of reading it for each request.

But every time we do:

```Python
Settings()
```

endif

# List of all binaries to build
# We split the binaries into "agent" binaries and standard ones. This corresponds to build "agent".
# This allows conditional compilation to avoid pulling in costly dependencies to the agent, such as XDS and k8s.
AGENT_BINARIES:=./pilot/cmd/pilot-agent
STANDARD_BINARIES:=./istioctl/cmd/istioctl \
  ./pilot/cmd/pilot-discovery \
  ./pkg/test/echo/cmd/client \

	factor float64

	// maximum sleep cap,
	// set to <= 0 to disable.
	maxSleep time.Duration

	// Don't sleep at all, if time taken is below this value.
	// This is to avoid too small costly sleeps.
	minSleep time.Duration

	// cycle will be closed
	cycle chan struct{}

	// isScanner should be set when this is used by the scanner
	// to record metrics.
	isScanner bool
}

    validations:
      required: false

  - type: input
    id: perf-costs
    attributes:
      label: Performance Costs
      description: "What is the compile time cost? What is the run time cost? "
    validations:
      required: false

  - type: textarea
    id: prototype
    attributes:
      label: "Prototype"

          // Mostly 2-byte UTF-8 sequences - "European" text
          return 0x800;
        } else if (userFriendly.matches("(?i)(?:Chinese|Han|Asian|BMP)")) {
          // Mostly 3-byte UTF-8 sequences - "Asian" text
          return Character.MIN_SUPPLEMENTARY_CODE_POINT;
        } else if (userFriendly.matches("(?i)(?:Cuneiform|rare|exotic|supplementary.*)")) {
          // Mostly 4-byte UTF-8 sequences - "rare exotic" text

          // Mostly 2-byte UTF-8 sequences - "European" text
          return 0x800;
        } else if (userFriendly.matches("(?i)(?:Chinese|Han|Asian|BMP)")) {
          // Mostly 3-byte UTF-8 sequences - "Asian" text
          return Character.MIN_SUPPLEMENTARY_CODE_POINT;
        } else if (userFriendly.matches("(?i)(?:Cuneiform|rare|exotic|supplementary.*)")) {
          // Mostly 4-byte UTF-8 sequences - "rare exotic" text

     jurisdiction.

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 * granted immediately, but it is the <i>next</i> request that will experience extra throttling,
 * thus paying for the cost of the expensive task.
 *
 * @author Dimitris Andreou
 * @since 13.0
 */
// TODO(user): switch to nano precision. A natural unit of cost is "bytes", and a micro precision
// would mean a maximum rate of "1MB/s", which might be small in some cases.
@Beta
@J2ktIncompatible
@GwtIncompatible

         * {@return the list of sub-phases}
         */
        @Nonnull
        List<Phase> phases();

        @Nonnull
        Stream<Phase> allPhases();
    }

    /**
     * A phase alias, mostly used to support the Maven 3 phases which are mapped
     * to dynamic phases in Maven 4.
     */
    interface Alias {
        String v3Phase();

        String v4Phase();
    }

    /**