On Feb 21, 2008, at 16:56, Clint Webb wrote:
I do have working code of a very similar protocol used for a different purpose and was curious how easy it would be to integrate it into memcached since Dustin mentioned that the protocol handling was abstracted.
I may not have sufficiently communicated just how slightly it was started. I did the minimum required to wedge in the protocol I was implementing with a goal of not massively disrupting the codebase.
So when I looked at the memcached code (binary branch) I realized that the protocol abstraction could be improved a bit, so thats what I've been looking at. I wouldn't say that the performance improvements would be massive, but I do think that it would be something measurable at least.
It certainly can. My goal was to make it work. I think it's mostly solidifying and a branch *from* there for experimenting would be good.
Of course, we can't do too much without some kind of benchmarking tool in place to get a feel for whether we're making things better or worse, though. That can, of course, happen later, but we've been guessing a lot in this tree already.
-- Dustin Sallings
