On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:52 AM, SimonT <[email protected]> wrote: > My understanding is that memcached (or similar distributed cache) > really comes into it's own when several web nodes share the same cache > cluster.
That's correct. There is the overhead of the TCP connections. On a local machine, something like BerkeleyDB or mmap'ed files will beat memcached. - Perrin
