From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2009-04-05T01:36:09+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Localmemcache-0.2.0: The beauty of memcached.  For local data.  Blazingly fast.

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:17:45 +0900
"Sven C. Koehler" <schween@snafu.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am happy to announce the next version of localmemcache (0.2.0), a
> library that aims to provide an interface similar to memcached but for
> accessing local data instead of remote data.  It's based on mmap()'ed
> shared memory for maximum speed.  

This sounds great, can't wait to add it as a caching option to Ramaze.


> * http://localmemcache.rubyforge.org/
> 
> Changes for 0.2.0:
>   * Localmemcache uses logging now: In case your application is
> terminated while accessing the shared memory (eg by a kill -9),
> localmemcache is now able to restore the integrity of your data.
>   * \0 character can now be used in keys and values
>   * The ruby binding now features a keys() method.
>   * Added a C API.
> 
> 0.2.0 facts:
>   - lightweight: The core library is just about 1300 lines of C code
>   - fast: About 40% slower than Ruby's hash (or about 36 times
>     faster than a local memcached).
> 
> EXAMPLE
> =======
> 
> require 'localmemcache'
> $lm = LocalMemCache.new :namespace => "viewcounters"
> $lm[:foo] = 1
> $lm[:foo]
> $lm.delete(:foo)

I tried that, but $lm[:foo] always returned nil.
That's on ArchLinux, both 32 and 64bit.

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