From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:16:12 GMT
Subject: Re: .git/info/refs
Message-ID: <45C2124C.5070308@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702011501250.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just had another idea: why not generate the content of the "cover page" 
> in a cron job, every minute or so, and save it into a static index.html? 
> This should take quite a load from the server, since not even Perl has to 
> be started to serve that page.
> 

Ehm... because it often takes longer than that to generate the page?

We can pre-generate the page before the first hit, but that's not a 
replacement for update-time caching.

	-hpa