Proposal: new caching backend for nginx

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:42:22AM -0500, Brian Akins wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:
> > In
> > particular, with quick look through sources I don't see any
> > interface to store data with size not known in advance, which
> > happens often in HTTP world.
> 
> Would this help? from the docs:
> "'Add transaction' support allows constructing object's value on the fly
>   without serializing it into a temporary buffer (aka 'zero-copy').
>   Uncommited transaction can be rolled back at any time.
>   Think of videos streamed directly into the cache without usage of temporary
>   buffers or complex objects requiring serialization from multiple distinct
>   places before storing them into the cache"
> 
> I haven't looked at the code yet.

I have looked, and the interface (including transaction's one) 
requires to provide size in advance.

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Maxim Dounin
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