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What is the cache for?

April 26, 2017cache

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What is the cache for?

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It saves a Wiki page from being put through the WikiEngine between several read accesses. The WikiEngine has to apply so called ‘regular expressions’ on the Wiki code – these are a rather time consuming operations. The cache contains HTML file fragments. Head and footer are added on every request. The data directory itself contains files with Wiki mark-up. See also Features and Installation. Developers might want to have a look at Development.