On 09/09/2012 19:44, Mark Thomas wrote: > This is part of issue b) in Konstantin's comments in TOMCAT-NEXT.txt > > The current DirContext implementation supports caching in most but not > all circumstances. It would be possible to insert a cache into the > StandardRoot implementation but I am not convinced it is necessary. The > read-cache built into most HDDs may be sufficient. Before starting a > cache implementation, I would like to see some performance test cases > that demonstrate that the DirContext implementation with caching is > significantly faster than the new implementation without caching.
I would add that if even if the new implementation without caching performs roughly the same as the old implementation with caching but adding caching makes the new implementation even faster than that would also convince me of the need to add caching although not with the same priority. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
