Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Adding a `blame' interface.

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Jun 12, 2006, 14:59 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606120754460.5498@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060612082448.GA11857@verplant.org>

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Florian Forster wrote:

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> Would it help to cache `git-annotate's output, e.g. using one of the
> `Cache::Cache' modules? Or is browsing of blobs too sparse for this to
> result in a performance gain? I'm sure the modules could be integrated
> as a weak precondition.

The apache setup at least on kernel.org is already set up to do caching, as long as the generated headers for the page allow it in the first place.

So caching inside gitweb is generally pointless, at least when it's at the level of one result page. At a higher level, if the internal caching might improve performance of _other_ pages because it caches the result of some intermediate important thing, it might be a different issue.

		Linus