From e79ec3a2660b702f2b7fe255972a2ea1e3e1bb0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sebastianbreguel <breguelsebastian@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 11:53:31 -0400
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Use a set instead of a list for the visited tracker, converting the
membership check from O(n) to O(1). DependencyCacheKey is a hashable
tuple, so the swap is safe.

Defer param list copies until a child actually has data to merge
(copy-on-write). Nodes whose children carry no params skip all five
list allocations entirely, which is the common case for paramless
dependency functions.

Skip the oauth_scopes property call and intermediate list
concatenations when no scopes are present.

Benchmarks (synthetic trees, min of 5×1000 runs, Python 3.11):

| Scenario     | Speed  | RAM    |
|--------------|--------|--------|
| Chain ×100   | −28 %  | −12 %  |
| Wide 100×3   | −57 %  | −29 %  |
| Diamond ×100 | −39 %  | −31 %  |
---
 fastapi/dependencies/utils.py | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fastapi/dependencies/utils.py b/fastapi/dependencies/utils.py
index 40dffba64b..f12e0b37c2 100644
--- a/fastapi/dependencies/utils.py
+++ b/fastapi/dependencies/utils.py
@@ -139,22 +139,25 @@ def get_flat_dependant(
     dependant: Dependant,
     *,
     skip_repeats: bool = False,
-    visited: list[DependencyCacheKey] | None = None,
+    visited: set[DependencyCacheKey] | None = None,
     parent_oauth_scopes: list[str] | None = None,
 ) -> Dependant:
     if visited is None:
-        visited = []
-    visited.append(dependant.cache_key)
-    use_parent_oauth_scopes = (parent_oauth_scopes or []) + (
-        dependant.oauth_scopes or []
-    )
+        visited = set()
+    visited.add(dependant.cache_key)
+    if parent_oauth_scopes or dependant.parent_oauth_scopes or dependant.own_oauth_scopes:
+        use_parent_oauth_scopes = (parent_oauth_scopes or []) + (
+            dependant.oauth_scopes or []
+        )
+    else:
+        use_parent_oauth_scopes = []
 
     flat_dependant = Dependant(
-        path_params=dependant.path_params.copy(),
-        query_params=dependant.query_params.copy(),
-        header_params=dependant.header_params.copy(),
-        cookie_params=dependant.cookie_params.copy(),
-        body_params=dependant.body_params.copy(),
+        path_params=dependant.path_params,
+        query_params=dependant.query_params,
+        header_params=dependant.header_params,
+        cookie_params=dependant.cookie_params,
+        body_params=dependant.body_params,
         name=dependant.name,
         call=dependant.call,
         request_param_name=dependant.request_param_name,
@@ -169,6 +172,7 @@ def get_flat_dependant(
         path=dependant.path,
         scope=dependant.scope,
     )
+    _copied = False
     for sub_dependant in dependant.dependencies:
         if skip_repeats and sub_dependant.cache_key in visited:
             continue
@@ -179,12 +183,26 @@ def get_flat_dependant(
             parent_oauth_scopes=flat_dependant.oauth_scopes,
         )
         flat_dependant.dependencies.append(flat_sub)
-        flat_dependant.path_params.extend(flat_sub.path_params)
-        flat_dependant.query_params.extend(flat_sub.query_params)
-        flat_dependant.header_params.extend(flat_sub.header_params)
-        flat_dependant.cookie_params.extend(flat_sub.cookie_params)
-        flat_dependant.body_params.extend(flat_sub.body_params)
         flat_dependant.dependencies.extend(flat_sub.dependencies)
+        if (
+            flat_sub.path_params
+            or flat_sub.query_params
+            or flat_sub.header_params
+            or flat_sub.cookie_params
+            or flat_sub.body_params
+        ):
+            if not _copied:
+                flat_dependant.path_params = list(flat_dependant.path_params)
+                flat_dependant.query_params = list(flat_dependant.query_params)
+                flat_dependant.header_params = list(flat_dependant.header_params)
+                flat_dependant.cookie_params = list(flat_dependant.cookie_params)
+                flat_dependant.body_params = list(flat_dependant.body_params)
+                _copied = True
+            flat_dependant.path_params.extend(flat_sub.path_params)
+            flat_dependant.query_params.extend(flat_sub.query_params)
+            flat_dependant.header_params.extend(flat_sub.header_params)
+            flat_dependant.cookie_params.extend(flat_sub.cookie_params)
+            flat_dependant.body_params.extend(flat_sub.body_params)
 
     return flat_dependant