purge_all() and purge_by_definition() look in the configuration
for which caches are available and then creates them to purge them.
The configuration stores the values used by initialise(), not
initialise_unit_test_instance() and would therefore fail to purge
all caches if they were not purged by another means.
In the case of filestore, it's purged by unit tests, in the case
of memcache(d), it purges the whole store when a single definition
is requested.
Therefore all configuration was moved into the configuration file
during unit tests and does not have any special override codes in
the unit test infrastructure.
Static cache has a very flexible storage capability
and does not need all the checks performed on it.
Enabling dereferencing handling and multiple identifiers
removes a lot of unneeded overhead for request caches that
have many get calls.
The changes were modelled on the static acceleration changes
done in MDL-53208.
isset is much faster than array_key_exists. For caches we need to
ensure as much performance as possible. To all null to continue to
be stored and provide correct results, non ttl also now saves in
$this->store[$key][0]. As isset($this->store[$key]) will return
true in all cases.
time() as found in cache::now() can be slow on some platforms and
we shouldn't bother checking it unless needed. It also stops non-ttl
caches paying the ttl price.
Unit tests were adjusted to ensure null is still handled correctly
when we are only using isset.
wehr