[Web][PROPOSAL]: implement ArtifactCache using OPFS #17510
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Motivation
OPFS has better persistence, performance, and consistent support for large files across browsers.
Personally I would like to see this caching strategy for https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm.
This PR doesn't implement all required changes and hasn't been proved to work yet - I just created a PoC class implementing the
ArtifactCacheTemplate
.Potentially a problem with this approach would be that this cache uses OPFS on main thread with async APIs. A better solution could be to use Web Worker and sync file handlers - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System_API/Origin_private_file_system#manipulating_the_opfs_from_a_web_worker. Both approaches could be valid for different use cases, so I propose creating 2 new caching strategies -
opfs
andopfs-worker
.I could finish the required work if we find it useful. Otherwise I would just move caching higher up in my stack and just do it for my specific use case.