C API?

[Evan Martin]

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 18:18, Anatoly Vorobey wrote:
> > I was just talking to Whitaker about this.  Maybe I'll do it tonight...
> 
> One thing worth remembering, if you do, is that multi-get should be
> tighter than it is in existing APIs, if you're going to the trouble
> of writing it in C: after splitting the gets and sending them to various 
> servers, it's probably best not to read replies server-after-server,
> like perl/PHP APIs do, but use select/poll/whatever to read them 
> simultaneously, so as not to let a slower server become a bottleneck.

I was worrying about this, too... are there cases where you'd want to be
able to integrate the memcache client reads into a centralized event
loop?  In that case, we need to somehow (either by returning file
descriptors or requiring a register_fd callback argument) let the user
do the select().  Same for put().  Yikes.

And then, should we really use select?  Or is this another job for
libevent?  :\

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