Re: [Chicken-users] memcached

[Alaric Snell-Pym]

On 20 Jun 2007, at 3:12 am, Graham Fawcett wrote:

> Since Chicken continuations are serializable, you could also store
> them as values in the cache. Not sure of a use-case, but there you
> are.

Interesting... Well, continuation-based web frameworks often want to
cache continuations. I'll have to take a look at a serialised
continuation; I've always wondered about how to serialise closures in
general.

Hmmm, how to serialise them? (write mycont) just spits out an
unreadable object, "#<procedure (a6802 . results753)>"

Oh, I see, there's an s11n egg...

*plays about*

Cool!

> Personally, I'd only be interested in the memcached egg. If you're
> implementing the memcached protocol (i.e. not depending upon a
> libmemcache library) then having one common egg doesn't seem bad to
> me. If there is a library dependency, then I'd vote for separating out
> the library-dependent ones into a separate egg. (Note, there's a rule
> (unwritten?) about providing only one extension module per egg.)

There's no external C library brought in, nah. This one's pure Scheme.

> > Either way, I'd like a subversion repository login, please. Whether
> > or not I have an egg called 'memcached' as well, I'll certainly make
> > an egg which I propose to innovatively called 'cache'.
>
> Hm, maybe something a bit less generic? "Cubby", "pigeonhole", and
> "haberdashery" are all available...

Ok, so that's one vote for separate 'memcached' and 'cache' eggs.

> > My favourite username is 'alaric', and my favourite colour is dark
> > blue.
>
> (Dark blue?! Great, another one of those.) Good luck with the egg,
> Alaric.

Ta!

> Graham

ABS

> PS: I visited your blog; I was also the Akela of a Cub pack for many
> happy years. Dyb-dyb-dyb on that egg! :-)

Where was that? I'm Cranham, Stroud&Tetbury district, Gloucestershire
county, UK...

ABS

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