(For gurus) Embed functions in webpages like in PHP?

[Denis S. Otkidach]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Thomas Guettler wrote:

TG> The problem with caching: When is
TG> the data outdate?
TG>
TG> You could use this approach:
TG> Run a cron-job every hour which does the complicated
TG> query which needs long to compute. Dump
TG> the result into a file (Look for "pickle"
TG> in the module index of the docs).
TG>
TG> Load this file for every request
TG> and insert this into the template.

Similar approach is used in QPS (http://ppa.sf.net/#qps), where
static and semi-static pages are generated with cron job and/or
on data update events.  It is successfully used for several large
(>2Gb of HTML files) heavy loaded (millions of requests/day)
frequently udated (thousands of updates/day).  Unfortunately it
lacks documentation (at least in English) so you need to read
source and ask for support in mail list.

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Denis S. Otkidach
http://www.python.ru/      [ru]