Multiple delete & set?

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

We could always add a command like commands_start and commands_end to
cork/uncork replies from the server's end, but there wouldn't be a big
win.  Perhaps in the future, if we're feeling sick.


On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Brion Vibber wrote:

> I've noticed that while 'get' supports fetching many items in one call,
> 'delete' and 'set' & co don't seem to.
>
> Would it be useful to have such a thing? If we need to touch potentially
> a few hundred items in one go (say, invalidating cached HTML of many
> pages due to a change of state in some resource they share), it might be
> nice to not have to go through a command/ack sequence for every one. On
> the other hand, it might not be a huge win, and such cases should be
> rarer than reads.
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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