Greetings, I'd like to take the community's temperature on developing a global object caching strategy for drupal core 7.0. In effect, this would mean pulling the functionality of advcache module into core, though the code would doubtless be a bit different. This has been previously discussed by Robert Douglass and Steve Rude, and I think both the short-term and strategic value here is clear. As memcached permeates the collective consciousness of the web-development community, and as "cloud" computing becomes more and more prevalent, best practices in architecture increasingly point towards caching full objects whenever possible. This also fits well with Drupal's existing architecture. There are great functional points (e.g. node_load()) to mount this functionality. I'm certain I'm not the only one thinking along these lines. Anyone want to throw out their ideas? cheers -josh