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

[Ryan Boren]

On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 20:44 +0100, Luc Saint-Elie wrote:
> At 18:09 +0000 23/11/05, David House wrote:
> >On 23/11/05, shelby at fauxzen.com <shelby at fauxzen.com> wrote:
> >>  What exactly does the cache do?  I created the directory and made it
> >>  writable and it is now filled with files... but am I supposed to notice
> >>  something on my blog?
> >
> >It should speed up slightly. The cache saves database queries in the
> >wp-content/cache folder so that accessing the database is quicker in
> >future.
> 
> 
> 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 is a page cache.  The built-in cache is an object cache.  We
still render pages dynamically.  The object cache is an attempt to speed
things up a bit while still being dynamic.  WP-Cache is the way to go if
you want a page cache.

Ryan