[webkit-dev] Disk cache

[Antti Koivisto]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Alex Christensen <
alex.christensen at flexsim.com> wrote:

> Would anything special need to be done for Windows?
>

Is there some Windows port that uses network process? As I mentioned
enabling the feature would require Windows specific backend implementation.
Just compiling it out requires no action.


   antti


>
> Alex
>
> On Oct 31, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Antti Koivisto <koivisto at iki.fi> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm planning to add an experimental HTTP cache implementation to WebKit (
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30322). The main motivations are:
>
> - Improving performance by bringing the cache closer. For example we can
> serialize WebKit response objects directly instead of converting to/from
> platform types.
> - Making future innovation around caching easier. Closer coordination
> between cache and WebKit opens new optimization possibilities.
>
> The cache lives in the network process. Most of the code is
> cross-platform. The storage backend uses libdispatch IO though it wouldn't
> be hard to add a generic posix one too.
>
> The code will be behind NETWORK_CACHE feature flag.
>
>
>   antti
>
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