Who's in the mood for a new memcached release?
Steven Grimm
sgrimm at facebook.com
Fri Aug 18 07:26:09 UTC 2006
Ugh, my bad. I was looking at the wrong source directory! It is in the
release. I think I have too many versions of memcached on my hard disk. :)
-Steve
Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Hrm, I don't remember excluding it on purpose.
>
> I'm actually somewhat impressed I was able to accidentally exclude it,
> given how intertwined all the changes were.
>
> Got a patch?
>
>
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Steven Grimm wrote:
>
>
>> I notice that this release doesn't have our powers-of-N allocation
>> change -- was there something wrong with it such that it wasn't
>> appropriate to include in the release? It gives us substantially more
>> efficient memory usage and doesn't really have a downside that I'm aware
>> of (but maybe there's one I'm not aware of?)
>>
>> -Steve
>>
>>
>> Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
>>
>>> There was a "bget" command (binary get) in trunk
>>> that had to be removed. It's still in the 1.2.0-rc1, kinda, in that you
>>> can do "bget" which sets the binary flag, but the getter code doesn't do
>>> it now.
>>>
>>> We were doing that so C clients could be more efficient (and easier/safer
>>> to write).
>>>
>>> - Brad
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Steven Grimm wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> What did you have to leave out due to conflicts?
>>>>
>>>> -Steve
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> This is a merge of facebook's changes into the main version, with some
>>>>> of the new features that were conflicting removed, others partially
>>>>> still there, etc, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> WARNING: we're not using it in production. I can't vouch for its
>>>>> quality. Facebook can vouch for the version they used, but maybe I messed
>>>>> it up merging it in. HERE BE DRAGONS. Be scared.
>>>>>
>>>>> That said,
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.danga.com/memcached/dist/experimental/memcached-1.2.0-rc1.tar.gz
>>>>>
>>>>> Notice the /experimental/ in the URL? PACKAGERS: Don't package this yet.
>>>>> It's a dev release.
>>>>>
>>>>> Everybody else: bang on it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Let's find any issues and get a release out. It's been too long, and I
>>>>> want to finish vbuckets, but want a stable tree to hack on.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also wanted: benchmarks between this and last stable release.
>>>>>
>>>>> Feedback requested....
>>>>>
>>>>> - Brad
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
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