No, this is not very expensive. We use memcached for a lot of our rate-control here.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Beyza <anlamar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > This is not an important question, but I wonder the answer. > > When I develop websites by using memcache, I also use it for spam > checking. > > For example; When someone post a comment, or report something, or > search something, I create a memcache object and set an expiration > time, i.e. 5 seconds. It goes something like that > > memcache_set($memcache, "comment-check-userid", '1', 0, 5); > > I check every time whether this value is set or not. If it's set, I > consider it as a spam. > > My question is that, is it expensive to create this if you compare > with other options for this purpose? I could not find any information > about this on the internet. I am just curious :) > > Thanks from now on, > -- awl
