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Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Sun Sep 17 10:48:59 EDT 2006


Paul Rubin wrote:
> "Eric S. Johansson" <esj at harvee.org> writes:
> 
>>a wise person you are.  I've often thought that most of the pages
>>generated by web frameworks (except for active pages) should be cached
>>once rendered.
> 
> 
> Fancy frameworks do use caching, but I think of that as a kludgy
> workaround for lousy performance of the framework itself.  A fast
> framework should not need caching, except maybe caching gzip output
> for large blocks of contiguous text.  
> 
The value of caching is mostly for heavy-duty applications built on top 
of the framework. The framework has no control over how much computation 
the application does, but can offer savings by  "short-circuiting" the 
repeated execution of lengthy page computations in application code.

regards
  Steve
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