why memcached is called a object cache

[Tsz Ming WONG]

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!


I think it should be related to Distributed shared memory (DSM) ?


Software DSM systems also have the flexibility to organise the shared
memory region in different ways. The page based approach organises
shared memory into pages of fixed size. In contrast, the object based
approach organises the shared memory region as an abstract space for
storing sharable objects of variable sizes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_shared_memory



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tszming