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

[Kevin A. Burton]

Evan Martin wrote:

>On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 10:28:39PM -0800, Kevin A. Burton wrote:
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>>[snip]
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>>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.
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>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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Yeah... honestly I saw that and it looked interesting. Whats the size of 
the flag? How many bits?

I really only have 10 types I have to represent and right now the 
java-memcached driver only needs to represent 11 flags (one being gzip 
compression).

Kevin

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