Posted by Mark on 10/03/49 11:36

Jochem Maas wrote:

> hi Mark,
>
> Mark wrote:
>> I have a program called MCache, it used to be MSession. I'm trying to get
>
> why 'Cache' - its a session handler right? (I think the name is a little
> confusing, but maybe its just me - I have been adding cache mechanisms
> to a site for the last month or so!)

Because it is more of a cache, I envision using it to cache PHP objects
independent of sessions. Think of how you'd implement a poll site. MCache
is designed to handle concurrency and provide some limited atomic numeric
functions.

>
> is this better than using the 'files' session handler and setting the
> session save path to a tmpfs filesystem (in effect a RAM disk) in a
> signle server env.?

This is not really intended for a single server site, but could provide
some benefit as a way of abstracting file or SQL session storage.
>
>
>> the word out and get some testers.
>>
>> The server itself is GPL, the PHP extension is under the PHP license. I
>> will be checking it in to the PHP main CVS repository when I'm pretty
>> sure that it will play nice.
>>
>> The server can be accessed via CVS from www.mohawksoft.org.
>>
>> If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
>>

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