[development] Drupal 7 node_load and node_save caching behavior bug

[Damien]

>> However, I wonder whether a better default behavior would be to have node_save clear the cache itself?

This issue has been around for a long time, and is linked to the way
Drupal use static variables for caching:

  http://drupal.org/node/221081 for Drupal 5
  http://drupal.org/node/111127 a proposal to cache node_load()

The best answer so far is the 'static cache facility':

  http://drupal.org/node/254491 the static cache facility

Damien Tournoud
http://drupal.org/user/22211