[development] Object caching

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

Adrian Rossouw wrote:
> 
> On 20 Jul 2006, at 11:32 PM, Dries Buytaert wrote:
> 
>>
>> That is one hell of a menu.  Would be good if we could actually 
>> improve the menu system.  Have you looked into that?
> I've been on the verge of bringing this up for a while.
> 
> The issue we have with the menu is the exact same issue we had with the 
> aliases until 4.7.
> We load the entire path alias into memory on every load.

Past tense.

We've replaces the one big load by a plethora of small loads. I am 
convinced this isn't a an improvement in all cases. E.g. on drupal.org, 
we got plenty of memory to burn, so the old setup probably wasn't much 
of a problem.

> I didn't mention it because i thought it was unlikely that someone had 
> that many menu items i was wrong (and that's one hell of a menu).

IMNSHO this is a screwed up setup, nothing more.

Cheers,
	Gerhard