[MarkLogic Dev General] Connection Caching

[Lee, David]

I read that the ML xcc library handles "connection pooling" .. .but does it handle "connection caching" ?
What I mean is this.
Suppose I were to do 10 XCC operations (say run newAdhocQuery).
Is there a significant advantage to reusing a session ?
Vs. creating a new session for each one.  

The context of the question ... I'm working on the ML connector to xmlsh (www.xmlsh.org) and I'm wondering if there is a significant advantage to complicating the API.  Right now every ML operation creates a new session  (from a connection string like "xcc://user:pass@host:port/DB") then runs the operation.
Would there be a significant advantage to instead having a kind of "login" method and then reusing the session instead of creating a new one.

Any opinions welcome !

-David Lee

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David A. Lee
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Epocrates, Inc.
dlee at epocrates.com
812-482-5224