[Zope] Caching on-the-fly resized photos (implemented)

[Markus Schaber]

Hi,

Ron Bickers wrote:

> The timeout is the tricky part.  Ideally, every time a display is requested,
> an *access* time of that object would be updated and thus the age of the
> display would be reset to 0.  This way, commonly accessed display sizes
> would never be purged.  Since ZODB doesn't keep an access time, I could just
> use the mod time and update it when the display is requested.  The problem
> with this is that it would cause a large number of writes to the ZODB, and
> since ZODB is append only, it would quickly bloat.

Why don't you invent an "access time" attribute yourself, and just update it at every access?

markus

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