<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 16, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Ken Rickard wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">One question: has file-based caching made it into HEAD yet?</SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>There was interest in having it and then it seems the feeling was it's complex. the Caching API allows modules to implement a cache. However, the real benefit of file based caching is 1) Use lightweight webservers threads to serve files 2) Don't need to bootstrap Drupal 3) Don't need an expensive MySQL thread.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Keep asking for it and it's more likely to get in since the code is available to be patched against head.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Kieran</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>