memcached 1.4 is out now: http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes140
It includes the binary protocol: http://cloud.github.com/downloads/memcached/memcached/protocol-binary.txt I would like to hack up our memcached client to support it..... But at the same time, I would like to slightly refactor our memcached API, so the core event loop / polling can be made plugable, so you could combine it into a single event loop. Thoughts / Anyone else interested in helping? Thanks, Paul
