From 7e322f5cf8f35d6e95caca68775bbc1e8055e1d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pat Hawks <pat@pathawks.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 23:18:51 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Performance improvement: `default` filter

---
 lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb b/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
index caeb5d4..651ea36 100644
--- a/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
+++ b/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
@@ -341,9 +341,12 @@ module Liquid
       raise Liquid::FloatDomainError, e.message
     end
 
-    def default(input, default_value = "".freeze)
-      is_blank = input.respond_to?(:empty?) ? input.empty? : !input
-      is_blank ? default_value : input
+    def default(input, default_value = ''.freeze)
+      if !input || input.respond_to?(:empty?) && input.empty?
+        default_value
+      else
+        input
+      end
     end
 
     private