On 06/03/2008, Chris Darroch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was a little puzzled by the name "socache" because I assumed > "so" meant "shared object", like mod_so, until I read the code comments. > I wondered if it was true that people would only use this kind of > interface to store small objects -- I won't, for one. (We can > migrate our session cache to this interface and we cram all kinds of > data in there.)
mod_sob > Also, I wondered if the term "cache" was necessarily accurate, if > some providers allow unlimited persistent storage (DBM, DBD, etc.) > I'm hoping to be able to store things with expiry=0 to mean "persist as > long as possible". "Cache" also overlaps with the mod_cache and > friends which implement something rather different. mod_sob_store > With those thoughts in mind, some other possible names presented > themselves -- perhaps grouped under modules/foo, where foo is the > name of choice? I thought of map, dict, store, table, and hash, > possibly with a "d" (data, distributed) or "s" (shared) prefix, e.g., > mod_dtable, mod_dtable_distcache, etc. I kind of like mod_dict myself, > or mod_dtable or mod_dmap. mod_sob_story I'll get my coat. -- noodl
