Re: [naviserver-devel] Cache compiled Tcl page bytecode

[Stephen D. <sd...@gm...>]

On 7/12/06, Andrew Piskorski <at...@pi...> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 04:03:37PM -0400, Vlad Seryakov wrote:
> > Naviserver does it automatically, it was ported a long time ago
>
> Awesome, that's good to know.
>

It doesn't actually...

Byte code can only be cached per-interp and our caches are
server-wide.  Currently, it's just caching the read of the Tcl source
from disk.

I think the way to go here is to merge Tcl pages in with the ADP page
code.  What's the difference between an ADP page like this:

<%
    # Entire page is Tcl...
%>

...and a *.tcl page under the page root?  Nothing, practically.
They're both 'ADP pages' with one Tcl chunk.

The ADP stuff in aolserver 4.5 has *output* caching.  Tcl pages would
be able to take advantage of output caching if they were just
one-chunk ADP pages.

This is on my todo list, but not for a while, so this might make a
nice project for someone. Someone needs to write a few tests for the
ADP stuff first -- aolserver seems to have broken the ADP stuff during
development.  A nice small project for someone...