Java Library + Consistent Hashing

[Rakesh Rajan]

Dustin, thanks a ton for all your inputs!

It would be great if we could also add memcache server's roadmap in the
wiki,  like features planned in each release, small descriptions/links,
people who are contribution/leading the effort, timeline  etc.

thoughts ?

-Rakesh

On Nov 16, 2007 5:18 AM, Dustin Sallings <dustin at spy.net> wrote:

>
> On Nov 15, 2007, at 14:33 , Rakesh Rajan wrote:
>
>
> If you want to play with it, I can help you get it up and running.
> >
>
> Yups, I would love to take a look at this. Could you point me to any
> resource to set it up ?
>
>
> My latest tree is always here:
>
> http://hg.west.spy.net/hg/hacks/memcached-binary-full/archive/tip.tar.gz
>
> It doesn't have the very latest CAS stuff from the last couple of days,
> and it is failing a CAS unit test right now since I've started work on
> updating it with recent changes, so I'd say it's about three days behind
> memcached trunk and with one remaining bug.
>
> I think I was not clear in putting my point across. Let me explain with an
> > example
> >
> >
> *Case 1:*
>
>   Set<Integer> idSet  = new HashSet<Integer>() {{add(1); add(2); add(3) }
> };
>   cache.set("test1",idSet);
>
> In this case the collection's serialized version would be stored ( without
> any optimization ).
>
> *Case 2:*
>
> Class A implement Serializable {
>    int a ;
>    float b ;
>    Date now ;
> }
> cache.set("test2",new A());
>
> Again the individual members in this class would not be compressed.
> Atleast in this case I can think of making this class implement
> Externalizable and perform the compression of the individual class member,
> if possible.
>
>
> Ah, yes.  I haven't considered doing anything with that, but it doesn't
> sound too hard.  It'd need to recurse on my transcoder, though, and I'd have
> to deal with cycle suppression.  That's pluggable, though, so an
> experimental transcoder could easily co-exist with the current one.
>
> 1.2.4 is imminent, but isn't a particularly exciting release for me.
> >
>
> Hmm.. This is surprising. I was greatly looking forward for features like
> 64 bit counter, atomic operations, tags :)  The feature that I am really
> waiting for is atomic operations. Currently the memcache code that I have
> written are not "thread-safe" ( concurrent read and write ). So hoping that
> java library would start supporting CAS soon.
>
>
> Well, tags aren't there yet, but yeah, some of the other stuff is
> marginally interesting to me, but I'm mostly interested in some of the 1.3stuff.  I think we'll be able to do some really nice stuff.
>
> --
> Dustin Sallings
>
>
>
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