Cache vs

See Otto’s description at wp-tavern

https://www.wptavern.com/forum/troubleshooting/785-when-use-cache-when-options.html#post6512

and/or this more recent explanation
https://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2010-July/033505.html

Thanks – had looked for some explanation and had always come up empty!

I’m still a little confused though, and this may be because I’ve an example with sits somewhere in the middle.

If I have a plugin that gets some information from a remote site and then needs to recall it and use it in each post, which would be best? According to those notes, storing information from a remote site would be best for transients. However, repeated recalling looks best for wp_cache.

Any thoughts?
David.