Cache metadata for set of posts

I did a lot of digging into wordpress, and it looks like WP_Query ends up calling (indirectly) update_postmeta_cache($postIDs); which looks like it is exactly what I need.

Hope that helps somebody else out. In 3.5.1 it’s located in wp-includes/post.php#2735.

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