[Templates] Storing compiled templates to memcached?

[Jeremiah Foster]

On Sep 9, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Jeremiah Foster wrote:

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

The correct spelling is Leon Brocard (sorry Leon!)

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

Here is the homepage: http://www.danga.com/memcached/

> 	Jeremiah
>