Posted by Jochem Maas on 10/18/96 11:36

Mark wrote:
> 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.

That does sound very interesting. I woudl still suggest that you change the name
to something that reflects the nature of the beast - namely its ability to
handle concurrency and the fact that it's designed for a distributed/load-balanced
env. There are alot of 'Cache' and 'Session' named things out there - and especially
in the php world these names don't evoke the functional abilities you
tool seems to have. just a thought.

>
>
>>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.

ok; although that doesn't answer my question.
another thing if it's not really intended for a signle server site then
youre audience here is rather limited - I'm guessing that there are not
many here running distributed/load-balanced systems.

I don't atm; but it almost makes me want to go out and get a server
to try it out.

>
>>
>>>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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