2008/6/5 Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Previously Laurence Rowe wrote:
>> > ATImage actually stores copies of the image at all defined scales.
>> > Reflecto can not do that, and on-the-fly scaling can be very expensive.
>>
>> I thought there was a cache somewhere for storing these things, but
>> looking again it's not existed for a long time, or I'm misremembering.
>
> As far as I can remember there never was a cache, but I only started
> using Plone about 3 years ago.
>
>> Would this be easily cacheable in Varnish? I guess not if not viewable
>> by anonymous.
>
> Indeed. It also adds a lot of complexity that I'ld rather not have in
> Reflecto. Reflecto is meant to be as simple as possible. In some places
> are already walking a very fine line there, and I don't want to cross
> it.

An alternative would be to use plone.transforms for its image
transforms and access them through a view. This view could then cache
to the filesystem, maybe through an extension of something like
lovely.responsecache. It wouldn't be tied to Reflecto then either.

Laurence

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