[Zope-dev] Caching

[Damian Morton]

This is an interesting problem; a significant proportion of a dynamic website is not driven by the user requesting a page, but is rather driven by certain triggering conditions.

In an ideal world, you be able to write your website as a dynamic website, and some kind of magic would determine what the conditions triggring the rendering of a page were and then set up some kind of notification mechanism to cause the re-rendering of the page as the conditions are triggered. 

For example, a news page only needs to be re-rendered when the news on the page changes.

Being able to identify which parts of a page need to be re-rendered is even more fine-grained.

To do this, youd have to timestamp virtually every single object, from variables on up, with a last-modified date. This could be tricky.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Christopher Petrilli <petrilli@digicool.com>
To: Paul Mokbel <pm@webhosting.com>; <Zope-Dev@zope.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Caching


> > In ROXEN (RXML); There is a tag line where by you can cache certain content
> > within the <CACHE> brackets.  Is there something similar within Zope?
> 
> What has been thought of is doing more "rendered caching" (i.e. cache
> rendered results, thereby short-circuiting the DTML process).  This could be
> very advantageous, but gets into a lot of issues of management of the cache
> which is non-trivial (Vignette, one of our competitors that does
> "consultant-ware" has several patents on it), so... patches accepted. Note
> that performance will be one of our "watch words" in the coming months.
> 
> Chris
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