[Templates] Storing compiled templates to memcached?

[Jeremiah Foster]

On Sep 9, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Bill Moseley wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 12:28:58PM -0400, Peter Hartzler wrote:
>> I'm hoping to reduce the overall memory footprint without losing the
>> benefits of caching.  (Lazy AND greedy!)  Tmpl->Perl parsing  
>> overhead is
>> less of an issue for us, for the reason you mention.
>>
>> Our site currently has around 200 templates.  What I *think* I'm  
>> seeing
>> is memory consumption where each apache instance (child w/ mod_perl)
>> keeps its own cache.  The next step from there is the idea of
>> centralized caching.
>
> I see.  When you mentioned memcached that made me think you wanted to
> share across servers.  I don't see memcached helping here, but I might
> be wrong.  It's not like you can use memcached as extra memory for
> your process.
>

Though I do not claim to be an expert in this area, memcached is in  
fact a "giant hash table distributed across machines" and does in  
fact allow for significant speed increase. Caveat emptor.

Here is a link from the most recent YAPC::EU by Leon Brocade  
presenting memcached.

http://www.slideshare.net/acme/scaling-with-memcached

	Jeremiah