cravelight/options-framework-plugin — comment on commit 1a36c981d26621bc1ef6f4b6fd807d4478e4f69d
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By devinsays:

My understanding is that the options are cached by WordPress, and get_option will always attempt to use the cached version first. So the code in this pull request would be just as performant as what is being currently used.

When I look at the page load in Debug Bar (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/debug-bar/) it also appears that all the requests are cached.

If I'm incorrect, please argue me down and help me out with a couple examples.