[Chicago-talk] [ANNOUNCE] Cache::Mmap 0.09 (fwd)

Steven Lembark lembark at wrkhors.com
Wed Nov 16 12:05:28 PST 2005


Another way of making simple databases in core: use
something like DBD::CSV with the Mmap to keep the
accessed records in core with a persistent store on 
the disk.

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From: Peter Haworth <pmh at edison.ioppublishing.com>
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Cache::Mmap 0.09

> The uploaded file
> 
>     Cache-Mmap-0.09.tar.gz
> 
> has entered CPAN as
> 
>   file: $CPAN/authors/id/P/PM/PMH/Cache-Mmap-0.09.tar.gz
>   size: 21463 bytes
>    md5: fef44673771a0f1f14982ae719f57221
> 
> This is a bugfix release, especially for users of operating systems which
> enforce mmap()'s specified behaviour of failing to map locked files.
> 
> From the README:
> 
> This module provides a shared cache, using a memory mapped file. Very
> useful for mod_perl applications. If routines are provided which interact
> with the underlying data, access to the cache is completely transparent,
> and the module handles all the details of refreshing cache contents, and
> updating underlying data, if necessary.
> 
> -- 
> 	Peter Haworth	pmh at edison.ioppublishing.com
> ``oh sure, that's what Microsoft WANT - but it'd be no good waking up in
> the   morning feeling blue and thinking "I did not correctly fall asleep.
> To   prevent myself thinking this again I must select sleep from my start
> menu"'' 		-- Andrew Feldhaus

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