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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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