Comment 4 for bug 636151

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 636151] Re: Front page could be faster

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Curtis Hovey
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> All project/team icons are in the library. I sent an email to the dev
> list a few months ago about the formatters we use for icon. I thought it
> was a good candidate for memcache because we know that icons change very
> rarely, and we could invalidate the cache when the icons change. I still
> have a scribbling on my whiteboard about how to generate a predictable
> memcache key for ObjectFormatterAPI

It will almost certainly take longer to query memcache than to just
linkify the icons, now that the file alias and file content stuff has
been cleaned up.

> The private issue for bugs, and branches is moot I think. We are showing
> counts of objects, if the count is valuable for public objects, then I
> think it will also be valuable to include private objects.

We don't differentiate though: As an example.
Spm, an admin, sees 123456 projects.
Fred, an anonymous user see 123423 projects.

Will Either of them notice the difference if we showed count(*) rather
than filtering on visibility?

-Rob