On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Adam Prime <adam.pr...@utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Igor Chudov wrote >> >> >> I have very little static content. Even images are generated. My site >> generates images of math formulae such as (x-1)/(x+1) on the fly., >> > > I can understand generating them on the fly for flexibility reasons, but > I'd cache them, and serve them statically after that, rather than regenerate > the images on every single request. You can accomplish that in the app > itself, or just by throwing a caching proxy in front of it (maybe you're > already doing this with perlbal) > > I actually do cache generated pictures, I store them in a database table called 'bincache'. This way I do not have to compute and draw every image on the fly. If I have a picture in bincache, I serve it, and if I do not, I generate it and save it. That saves some CPU, but makes mysql work harder. i
