[pmwiki-users] Pagelists caching

[Christophe David]

Repost, as the original did not seem to reach the list.

Pm,

Can you please give a recommendation ?

Thank you in anticipation.

Christophe


I could not resist the temptation to experiment with PmWiki as data storage,
> as several recipes already do.
>
> Compared to a database table structure,
>
> - a PmWIki group represents a table
> - a PmWiki page in this group represents a row of the table
> - PageTextVariable represent columns of the row
>
> Using pagelists and pagelist templates, this approach works extremely well
> and offers many advantages, especialy considering there is no need for a
> database engine and the associated work.
>
> One drawback is of course the performance: a filtered/sorted/well
> presented pagelist with 2.500 pages/rows takes about 30 seconds to render
> on my host, which is much too long to be acceptable.  The data I store do
> not currently change often (less than once a week).
>
> I understand there is work in progress on pagelist caching.  Can we expect
> major speed improvement or is it not realistic ?
>
> If not, or as a quick improvement before more important changes, could we
> somehow add an option to the pagelist markup like "StoreresultToPage=
> groupname.pagename", that would save the result to a static page (which
> would not need to be recalculated each time) ?
>
> If yes, this could be further improved by letting this process
> automagically happen once every n minutes, so that only one visitor every n
> minutes would have to wait for the full generation ?
>
> Any other ideas to improve speed ?
>
> Thank you in anticipation.
>
> Christophe
>
>
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