memcached debate

[andrew at flypublishing.com]

sure.  not ever gonna be as fast as normal mem... but my boss is
saying i'm crazy to try and access it super often.  says i'll flood
the network.

On 4/19/07, Perrin Harkins <perrin at elem.com> wrote:
> On 4/19/07, andrew at flypublishing.com <andrew at flypublishing.com> wrote:
> > Would it be possible to then use this distributed memory cache as if
> > it were internal memory and access each key many many times.  Say,
> > like 500 key hits every second.  Or, would network latency make this
> > impractical?
>
> Are you asking if it will be as fast an in-memory access to the data?
> No, it won't.  It's using TCP sockets across a network.  If your
> application depends on getting the kind of speed you have with
> in-memory access, then memcached alone will not be enough for you.  I
> don't think it's possible to come close to the speed of in-process
> access with an external cache.
>
> - Perrin
>