Persistent Publications, CPU Heavy pub-function, global observers

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Hi,

Is there a way to have a publication’s observe cursor persist so that the server doesn’t have to call the CPU heavy tasks in my publication function every time a subscription changes for a user?

I was thinking of having a per-session collection, and a global server side Data.find().observe({…}), so that I wouldn’t have to compute things 10-50 times over per session, since the publications would be re-run regularly.

The computation is that of a group, reduce. It doesn’t make sense to have to recompute all of this, for example, when I want to display the next 20 results to the user.

Thanks.

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The thought comes to mind that you could simply use your own little computation cache, i.e. just store the results in a simple (global) map and recompute only when necessary?

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yep that’s what I ended up doing, thanks!

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