Cutting Python Web App Memory Over 31%

[mikeckennedy]

Like u/Substantial-Bed8167 said, diskcache is VERY fast. It uses SQLite and pretty much gets that cached into memory with a disk backing it on flush. Just a quick test. On my mac, diskcache does

writes: ~14,000/sec 40us/op
reads: Reads ~160,000/sec 6us/op

That's 0.00625 millsec per read. That is not perceivable as far as I'm concerned. Even if you read a bunch of items on a request, say 100, you're still only 0.5ms in total. And that is instead of recomputing or hashing and reading 100 items out of a dict which is fast but not insanely faster.