On Feb 2, 2012, at 4:47 AM, Teemu Antti-Poika wrote: > On Feb 1, 7:01 pm, Bill Caputo <logos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> We are looking to add soft-reference based caching to one of our >> applications and I was wondering if anyone could shed light on what the >> issues with clache's implementation were (i.e. is a total loss, or would it >> potentially be a good place for us to start, and so perhaps implement >> something that could be submitted back). > > I know nothing about core.cache's implementation, but I'd warn against > relying on soft references for caching. I've seen out-of-memory > exceptions due to this under heavy loads in one of our server > applications.
Thanks for the feedback, we'll be sure to test our use case thoroughly with that in mind... if other's are approaching fixed-size caching in closure differently, I'd love to hear more. bill -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
