From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:35:22 GMT Subject: Re: kernel.org mirroring (Re: [GIT PULL] MMC update) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <45798FE2.9040502@zytor.com> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > This goes back to the "gitweb needs native caching" again. It should be fairly easy to add a caching layer, but I wouldn't do it inside gitweb itself - it gets too mixed up. It would be better to have it as a separate front-end, that just calls gitweb for anything it doesn't find in the cache. I could write a simple C caching thing that just hashes the CGI arguments and uses a hash to create a cache (and proper lock-files etc to serialize access to a particular cache object while it's being created) fairly easily, but I'm pretty sure people would much prefer a mod_perl thing just to avoid the fork/exec overhead with Apache (I think mod_perl allows Apache to run perl scripts without it), and that means I'm not the right person any more. Not that I'm the right person anyway, since I don't have a web server set up on my machine to even test with ;) Linus