Thanks for that explanation Ikai. Since the details are still being worked out, should we not use the namespace argument, in case its implementation suddenly changes?
If it is indeed safe to use now (and the namespace argument actually does "work" and is not just there as a placeholder), what is the data type? A string? On 17 February 2010 08:57, Ikai L (Google) <[email protected]> wrote: > Nickolas, I thought the same thing when I first read about namespaces. As > it turns out, namespaces with App Engine's memcache instance are not the > same thing as prefixes. They are actual namespaces with their own LRU in > addition to the global LRU. The details are still being worked out, though, > but the idea is that you'll have features like constant time flushing of a > namespace and nested namespaces, something you can't do with the > distribution of Memcached that is available on the internet. This version of > Memcache was necessary to ensure that users could not stomp on other users' > memcache data. > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Nickolas Daskalou <[email protected]>wrote: > >> What's the difference between key_prefix and namespace when using the >> Memcache.*_multi() functions? >> >> Maybe my understanding of namespace is wrong, but I thought namespace was >> basically a (string) prefix on the cache key. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Ikai Lan > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine > http://googleappengine.blogspot.com | http://twitter.com/app_engine > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
