On 09/07/2010 06:52 AM, Caleb James DeLisle wrote:
> Hi,
> There are 2 reasons I want to stop caching documents when they are stored.
>
> 1. Coherence, it should be impossible for the cache to have a different entry 
> than the store.
> Suppose a document is stored and the storage fails without throwing any 
> error, the document will appear to be
> stored correctly until the cache is purged. Another more likely scenario is 
> that the document loaded from the
> store is slightly different than the document saved to the store and thus the 
> cache will be lying.
>
> 2. Performance, when an attachment is added to a document, the document 
> contains all of the attachment's
> content. My analysis tells me switching to holding the content with a soft 
> reference would be quite complex
> and proving that nothing depends on the attachment content not being null is 
> very difficult.
> The proposed change will prevent the attachment content from ever being 
> stored in the cache and provide an
> improvement in allowable cache capacity and memory footprint.
>

That's an incredibly small but very efficient idea, +1.
Most good ideas seem obvious in retrospect...

Don't forget to remove the document from the cache, if it was already there.
-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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