why memcached is called a object cache

[Prateek Mathur]

I think to make it object-oriented, you would need to the cache to store and
understand an "object model" of a particular programming language, so that
you could seamlessly retrieve objects and stores objects in that programming
language. Memcached right now without being object oriented, can support
many clients of any programming language.
The memcached server could be running on C/c++ code and have clients of
perl,java,.net etc...Since it stores objects in bytes and doesnt have to
understand what the object is.And using network socket programming under the
hood , it could read and write that object.
If it has to be object oriented, then it would have to understand the object
model of different types of languages for which it has to support.So I think
this could be one reason why it isnt..

Thanks
Prateek.

On 12/19/06, zhang Jackie <jackieict at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hi,everyone
>    As we all know, memcached is a object cache. But why it is not called
> object-oriented cache?
> any reply is appreciated!
>
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