From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:54:32 GMT
Subject: Re: kernel.org mirroring (Re: [GIT PULL] MMC update)
Message-ID: <457998C8.3050601@garzik.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612080830380.3516@woody.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I could write a simple C caching thing that just hashes the CGI arguments 
> and uses a hash to create a cache (and proper lock-files etc to serialize 
> access to a particular cache object while it's being created) fairly 
> easily, but I'm pretty sure people would much prefer a mod_perl thing just 
> to avoid the fork/exec overhead with Apache (I think mod_perl allows 
> Apache to run perl scripts without it), and that means I'm not the right 
> person any more.
> 
> Not that I'm the right person anyway, since I don't have a web server set 
> up on my machine to even test with ;)
> 	
> 		Linus
> 
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This is quite nice and easy, if memory-only caching works for the 
situation:  http://www.danga.com/memcached/

There are APIs for C, Perl, and plenty of other languages.

	Jeff