<p>This issue is now 7 years old, we have > 6 billion objects in the database today (and even much more object versions).</p>
<p>Rather than requesting one object at a time (where in theory caching would still be an option), people should be using one of the available bulk interfaces to request many objects in a row. Even better, don't use the API at all, if you're not planning to use the data for editing purposes</p>
<p>Let's close this issue. It's no longer relevant in 2019.</p>

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