[OT] Re: mod_perl shared memory with MM

2001-03-11 Thread DeWitt Clinton
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 03:33:12PM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: I've looked at Cache::FileCache now and think it's (currently) not possible to use for IPC::FsSharevars: I really miss locking capabilities. Imagine a script that reads a value at the beginning of a request and writes it

Re: [OT] Re: mod_perl shared memory with MM

2001-03-11 Thread Perrin Harkins
I'm very intrigued by your thinking on locking. I had never considered the transaction based approach to caching you are referring to. I'll take this up privately with you, because we've strayed far off the mod_perl topic, although I find it fascinating. One more suggestion before you take

Re: [OT] Re: mod_perl shared memory with MM

2001-03-11 Thread Greg Cope
DeWitt Clinton wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 03:33:12PM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: I've looked at Cache::FileCache now and think it's (currently) not possible to use for IPC::FsSharevars: I really miss locking capabilities. Imagine a script that reads a value at the beginning

Re: [OT] Re: mod_perl shared memory with MM

2001-03-11 Thread Perrin Harkins
Can I ask why you are not useing IPC::Sharedlight (as its pure C and apparently much faster than IPC::Shareable - I've never benchmarked it as I've also used IPC::Sharedlight). Full circle back to the original topic... IPC::MM is implemented in C and offers an actual hash interface backed by

Re: [OT] Re: mod_perl shared memory with MM

2001-03-11 Thread Greg Cope
Perrin Harkins wrote: Can I ask why you are not useing IPC::Sharedlight (as its pure C and apparently much faster than IPC::Shareable - I've never benchmarked it as I've also used IPC::Sharedlight). Full circle back to the original topic... IPC::MM is implemented in C and offers an