On Sep 7, 2007, at 0:34, Venkatesh KS wrote:
memcached supports variable length keys. But I am just curious as to why not use md5 instead of lengthy keys. The keylen requirements for my cache (which is very similar to squid proxy) is very high and I am planning on using md5. I will read up to find out about the false positive probability. But going md5 way will certainly cap the keylen to 16bytes.
You certainly can, but md5(``somestring'') is a lot more costly to compute than ``somestring''
-- Dustin Sallings
