client send data over network

server receive data

server process data and check that it's a query command

server check query cache and return if found (that's how query cache execute today, right?)

(here no query was found in query cache)

server parse/optimize the query

(here where i want to include the 'normalized' query cache)

server execute the query

server send result to client (caching to query cache when possible)

server end query command