[Radiant] Caching and optimizations

[John W. Long]

Frederico Oliveira wrote:
> Still, giving users the chance to change the ResponseCache expiry
> times in, say, a config file would be a safe bet.

Actually, you can do that. Just drop the following in config/environment.rb:

   ResponseCache.defaults[:expire_time] = 2.days

There are a couple of other defaults that you can use to configure 
caching. They are listed at the top of this file:

http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/browser/trunk/radiant/app/models/response_cache.rb

But I must ask: Is this actually an issue for you or are you 
anticipating that it might be? I ask because I believe that a lot of 
people make assumptions about caching based on what was once required on 
old hardware. I believe that modern hardware has changed the game and 
CPU time is no longer an issue for all but mega Web sites.

Jason Hoffman did a study on Radiant and caching and posted some 
interesting screenshots about it on Flickr:

http://flickr.com/photos/textdriveinc/179393665/in/photostream/

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John Long
http://wiseheartdesign.com