I'm not currently suffering from this. In the past with .NET I have
definitely suffered from some long memory loads of DLLs.
The stuff I'm doing now is a lot of back end batch processing where how
fast the initial response is is pretty negligible compared to a process
that lasts for 10+ minutes.
Fred,
The thread (and Ben) is talking about "lazy load" in the sense of "wait until
the first request comes in, only then load things". This used to be the way all
of Django behaved until 1.7 and the app refactor. These days, it only applies
to some parts -- middleware is the topic of this thre
Ben,
If lazy loading is causing you problems, here's good info on how to
force Django to load everything up front, by calling select_related()
and prefetch_related() in cases where you need to. And also how to
make that the default via use_for_related_fields and custom managers:
- https://docs.d
I'm not too familiar with the code you're referencing, but I'm personally
really annoyed by lazy loading. It has a tendency to make selenium tests
timeout inconsistently in CI, as well as give the impression to my bosses
that the app is slow rather than just the first load which is usually what
