Re: Patch for simple walk caching

>Also, as Wari said, permalinks don't even benefit from caching much.
>The question is how to determine that something is a permalink - I
>think I'll just set the cache up to ignore filelists with only one
>entry.
>
Hey, Bill, let me retract that. Caching really just keeps data about the 
entry. Permalinks may contain comments, which are not really part of the 
pyblosxom caching system. Pyblosxom caches entries, and comments are 
just extensions to the entry, but does not touch it. What I was trying 
to say was, permalink/single entry pages does not benefit by being 
statically generated (that is, output is a physical file) if the 
comments plugins is in use. In most cases, only a file update 
invalidates the entry cache, and re-reads the entry from there. Comments 
does not update the entries in anyway.

If an entry is a word DOC file, and a DOC_reader plugin is used to read 
the entry, and say it costs about 10-20 seconds to read the DOC file and 
to render to the appropiate HTML, then save to the entry_cache, the 
subsequent reads would then costs 10 miliseconds (this is all 
hypothetical of course:).  That Bill, is why one wants a cache, even for 
permalinks.


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