To lend some weight to this, I've implemented an LRU loc mem cache and have done some benchmarking. There are some graphs in the readme: https://github.com/kogan/django-lrucache-backend - which I've written a little about https://devblog.kogan.com/blog/a-smarter-local-memory-django-cache-backend (I don't think my particular implementation is useful to core, as it relies on a 3rd party C lib, but using OrderedDict is cool!).
You can also get a very nice bump in throughput if you eliminate the `validate_key` check, which does a character by character check of the key to avoid issues with particular characters in memcache. We don't want to be promoting locmemcache too much, but that said, if we can provide a better default then we should in my opinion. On Friday, 5 January 2018 10:12:39 UTC+11, Grant Jenks wrote: > > Hi all-- > > Long time user, first time poster, here. Thank you all for Django! > > The current local memory cache (locmem) in Django uses a pseudo-random > culling strategy. Rather than random, the OrderedDict data type can be used > to implement an LRU eviction policy. A prototype implementation is already > used by functools.lru_cache and Python 3 now supports > OrderedDict.move_to_end and OrderedDict.popitem to ease the implementation. > > I have created an example set of changes at > https://github.com/grantjenks/django/tree/ticket_28977 in commit > https://github.com/grantjenks/django/commit/b06574f6713d4b7d367d7a11e0268fb62f5fd1d1 > > Is there a consensus as to the value of these changes? > > Sincerely, > Grant Jenks > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/fdb91901-c378-4258-9201-d24a9f5f103e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
