[wp-hackers] siteurl option queried from database on every load

[Ryan Boren]

On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 08:36 -0500, Mark Jaquith wrote:
> The siteurl option is queried individually on every page load:
> 
>      [0] => Array
>          (
>              [0] => SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE  
> option_name = 'siteurl'
>              [1] => 0.0012500286102295
>          )
> 
> It is line 124 in wp-settings.php:
> 
> $db_check = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT option_value FROM $wpdb->options  
> WHERE option_name = 'siteurl'");
> 
> The options cache is up and running at this point... but the wp- 
> include files haven't been uploaded... so get_option() is  
> unavailable.  Can we move this check to a later point, so that the  
> option can be grabbed the the cache with get_option()?  Looks to me  
> like an easy way to trim one query from every page load... every  
> little bit helps!

We need something to serve as a DB sanity check.  What that check is and
how early we execute it are debatable.

Ryan