[Koha-devel] [Discussion Tech] Cache handling in koha

[MJ Ray]

Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen at gmail.com>
> Back to the ENV use I think we must make a desicion:
>  - Do we want to cache koha-conf.xml ?

Yes, I think so.

We were burning time on every request reloading it, weren't we?

[...]
> 2) Memoization in Koha
> Do we plan to use memoization in the mid/long-term? Or are we thinking
> of a more abstract set of 'cache' utilities which provide an interface
> to memcached?
> 
> Using memoization is nice, clean and simple. It has the disadvantage
> that caching is done in an implicit way, and there are hidden problems
> (read side-effects) that have to be taken into account. For example,

Is there a good list of the example disadvantages somewhere?

Have other projects made this decision faced with similar circumstances,
and can we see their reasoning?

Hope that helps,
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