Improve startup performance when files not changed

[DominicWatson]

When files have not changed, we are still needing to parse each file's content for dependency info, etc. Cache this state to the file system so that full restarts are faster.

[afrex]

I like this improvement. Any idea when 0.8.0 will be released ?
And will the less engine get an update as well ?

Kind regards,

Alexander

[DominicWatson]

I'm currently working on another open source project which we were using CfStatic on. The way in which we were using it has led us to then write a separate asset management solution that is much slimmer and more configurable:

https://github.com/pixl8/sticker

The current release of Sticker does all the per-request asset management that CfStatic does. We are working on configurable pre-processors and this will likely happen before any changes to CfStatic.

I think at that point I will be advising moving to Sticker as a better solution. Compilation only happening in development and startup being way way quicker.