[Fwd: [Dev] memcached option to always use non-serialized primitive types?]

[Evan Martin]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 10:28:39PM -0800, Kevin A. Burton wrote:
> [snip]
>
> If we assume the basic types are interned we could use the first byte as 
> the type with the remaining bytes as the value.  Then on get() we could 
> read the first byte to determine the type and then construct the correct 
> object for it.  This would prevent the ClassCastException I talked about 
> above.

You can also use the memcached per-item flags to specially store a few
sorts of types: n bits allows for 2^n different representations.  Byte,
int, and string ought to be enough for most uses.

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Evan Martin
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