markjaquith/WP-TLC-Transients — pull request #10 by markjaquith (2012-12-20 02:57:29+00:00)
Title: autoload should be 'no'

The transients are stored in wp_options with autoload='yes'. This means if you're storing a lot of different TLC transients with a lot of data (e.g. fetching and caching many URLs), Wordpress will take long to load all the options with autoload='yes' (including the transients), which can cause performance issues.

I think it would be better to store the transients with autoload='no'. Unfortunately, I didn't see a quick fix, because the WordPress transients API only sets autoload when an explicit expiration is set.