No intermediate Django cache?

[adamchainz]

The time difference between a Model.objects.all() and cache.get on our database isn't particularly large, for example with gargoyle data:

In [13]: %timeit list(Switch.objects.all())
100 loops, best of 3: 2.71 ms per loop

In [14]: %timeit caches['gargoyle'].get('SwitchManager:Switch:key')
1000 loops, best of 3: 1.18 ms per loop

Why don't we just stop using Django's cache system? It's making misses a lot more complicated...

[adamchainz]

I think the best way to do this would be to drop modeldict and have a simple key-value cache object in gargoyle

[adamchainz]

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