Importance of Caching

Cache is very important in large and time consuming applications. There are many examples of applications that employ caching mechanism, In those applications the time consumed at providing results, that are not frequently changed are displayed faster, by reducing or skipping the procedure to again calculate the results.

In web applications, Magento employs template and data caching so that template files are not to be complied each time, thus improving the page load time. There is also another example, phpBB that is forums application. It compiles the view files and converts to php code and then caches them for faster response.