[wp-testers] wp-includes/cache ??

[Owen Winkler]

Luc Saint-Elie wrote:
> And how does it compare with Wp-cache ?
> http://mnm.uib.es/gallir/wp-cache-2/
> 
> WP-cache serves in fact static files so the server load is minimal

WP-cache caches output.  The built-in cache caches database data.

WP-cache is somewhat difficult to cofigure to NOT cache parts of pages 
that are dynamic but outside of what dynamic parts wordpress provides. 
For example, a counter written in PHP to output a text-based hit count 
for a page would not work well with WP-cache.

The built-in cache does not cache complex queries.  So some of those 
crazy "most recent commenter" plugins will not benefit from it if they 
are not written to take advantage of it.

The caches can compliment each other, although I doubt you'd see a 
significant performance gain when running both unless you had a lot of 
data fetching that was geared toward one or the other caching methods.

Owen