[development] Object caching

[Kieran Lal]

On Jul 16, 2006, at 8:23 PM, Karoly Negyesi wrote:

>> I don't understand how you can have a contributed alternate  
>> bootstrap?  If cache.inc would allow for avoiding avoid the Drupal  
>> bootstrap I'd be interested.
>>
>> Kieran
>
> a) Drupal configuration is loaded from settings.php. If herein we  
> find $conf['page_cache_fastpath'] = TRUE then the following happens:
> b) cache.inc is loaded
> c) page_cache_fastpath is called
> d) Drupal exits.
>
> That avoids pretty much all of Drupal. This was added to the  
> cache.inc patch to let you serve the files as fast as possible. I  
> added this with an eye on the file caching patch.

Perfect!

Kieran
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