[Koha-devel] RFC: Koha::Persistent - for plack and general performance

[Chris Cormack]

2012/4/6 Ian Walls <koha.sekjal at gmail.com>:
> Would it be practical and efficient to cache shared data to file (or a
> series of files)?  My understanding is that reading files is faster than
> doing SQL queries, but not as fast as accessing memcached.  But, the file
> would have the advantage of being non-threaded.  I don't think configuration
> things like sysprefs, frameworks or issuing rules would change frequently
> enough for us to need to worry about concurrent writes, but I suppose that
> should also be factored in...
>
>
If you are going to cache to files, you might as well just cache to
memcached or redis, which are also non-threaded and a lot faster.

Chris