Re: Patch for simple walk caching

Ted,

I've been working on a cache too. Are you using mod_python? If not,
doesn't a new python process with a new memory segment get created on
every request, meaning that an in-memory cache would never be read?

Peace
Bill Mill
bill.mill at gmail.com

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 00:41:25 -0800, Ted Leung <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've attached a small patch to tools.py which caches the results of
> calls to tools.Walk.  On my blog, I am using pycategories, pyarchives,
> and pycalendar, each of which do a tools.Walk of the entire datadir.
> This was taking up a bunch of time, so I started looking for ways to
> reduce this.
> At the moment the patch caches according to the value of the root
> passed to Walk, and assumes fixed values for the optional parameters.
> This is good enough to reduce the number of calls related to tools.Walk
> dramatically.
> 
> I could just commit the patch, but I wanted to get some feedback on
> whether folks thought this was a good thing.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I also have some hotshot traces of running my blog with various
> caching, etc turn on/off.
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> Ted Leung                          Blog: <http://www.sauria.com/blog>
> PGP Fingerprint: 1003 7870 251F FA71 A59A  CEE3 BEBA 2B87 F5FC 4B42
> 
> 
> 
>


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