[development] Re: Caching, caching, caching

[Dries Buytaert]

On 21 Jul 2006, at 21:35, Ken Rickard wrote:
> Perhaps we could write an advanced path.module settings page that  
> lets site admins turn of alias lookups for specific path types --  
> where a path type is defined, essentially, by arg(0).  I can think  
> of the following paths that might qualify:
>
> - node
> - comment
> - admin
> - taxonomy
> - user
> - blog
>
> This wouldn't require regex lookups on-the-fly, and would be turned  
> off by default.  But it might allow me to say: only do the  
> following path lookups.
>
> The gain is minor on small sites, but not large ones.
>
> Drawback (and there may be more): Might need a module hook to let  
> module 'register' themselves with path.module's settings.

This would be another possible solution.  I don't think we need a  
hook to register paths; just a textarea to enter a list of URLs.  We  
use similar lists on the blog configuration page.

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