From: Chris Wanstrath <chris@...>
Date: 2007-07-18T05:26:12+09:00
Subject: Re: memcache C extension

On 7/17/07, snacktime <snacktime@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've decided I want to become more proficient in C, so the project is
> chose is a ruby memcache C extension.  I found the following site with
> a hash algorithm that seems to be an improvement on the default on,
> can anyone think of a reason why not to use this?
>
> http://www.last.fm/user/RJ/journal/2007/04/10/392555/

For what it's worth, there is a pure Ruby implementation of this idea.
 It's the MemCacheWithConsistentHashing gem.

Info can be found in this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/acts_as_cached/browse_thread/thread/a01d22ce0fc9ccec

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Chris Wanstrath
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