From 9fe360883e14c3373014e276b2c9db66f77049c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Muskalla <bmuskalla@github.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:01:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Cache `is_vision_available` result (#29280)

Cache `is_vision_available`

This check is used quite often during process in image models and can take up a serious amount of time compared to the other processing steps.
---
 src/transformers/utils/import_utils.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/transformers/utils/import_utils.py b/src/transformers/utils/import_utils.py
index 57b4e840414b..8cf6c1a14f37 100644
--- a/src/transformers/utils/import_utils.py
+++ b/src/transformers/utils/import_utils.py
@@ -741,6 +741,7 @@ def is_tokenizers_available():
     return _tokenizers_available
 
 
+@lru_cache
 def is_vision_available():
     _pil_available = importlib.util.find_spec("PIL") is not None
     if _pil_available: