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Cloudflare Developers•2y ago
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Expected latency of cache accesses

Hi!

I've been messing around with Workers for a bit for a research project, and have been using the cache API.
All the worker does a put or match to the cache depending on the pathname of the url, using these functions:
async function putter(key, value) {
  const start = performance.now()
  await testCache.put(key, value.clone());
  const end = performance.now()
  const time = end-start
  return [value, time];
}

async function getter(key) {
  const start = performance.now();
  const cacheValue = await testCache.match(key);
  const end = performance.now();
  const time = end-start;
  return [cacheValue, time];
}

The worker is deployed under a custom domain. This works exactly how I'd expect: values are stored in the cache, and can be retrieved.
However, the performance surprised me; the latencies reported by the above functions average ~5ms for a match request. Is this expected?
If not, are there any pointers towards improving performance? Perhaps I configured the cache headers incorrectly?
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