Swifty-0.02 and Perl Binding
This is the announcement of swifty version 0.02 and its perl binding Cache-Swifty 0.02.
To install swifty, run configure, make, and make install. To install Cache-Swifty, run perl Makefile.PL, make, and make install. Changes from the previous version are:
- added configure script
- expiration handling by modification time and a global lifetime property
- introduction of perl binding
As part of the perl binding, I created a benchmark comparing swifty and memcached (the benchmark script is included in the perl binding).
$ perl -Iblib/lib -Iblib/arch -Ilib benchmark/memcached.pl
Write (16 bytes):
Rate Cache::Memcached Cache::Swifty
Cache::Memcached 6.96/s -- -94%
Cache::Swifty 108/s 1444% --
Read (16 bytes):
Rate Cache::Memcached Cache::Swifty
Cache::Memcached 3.87/s -- -99%
Cache::Swifty 291/s 7420% --
Write (1024 bytes):
Rate Cache::Memcached Cache::Swifty
Cache::Memcached 6.88/s -- -93%
Cache::Swifty 101/s 1375% --
Read (1024 bytes):
Rate Cache::Memcached Cache::Swifty
Cache::Memcached 3.77/s -- -99%
Cache::Swifty 281/s 7357% --
displayed units are 1,000 iterations
It is difficult to draw a single conclusion from this benchmark, since the design goals of the softwares are quite different (see my previous post for the design of swifty). For example, swifty concentrates on speeding up a shared-memory cache on a single server, while memcached is a disributed system. But looking at the numbers, clear advantage seems to exist for swifty in single-server systems. Also it seems to be logical to use swifty as a frontend for memcached.
05:06pm added: Benchmark against Cache::FastMmap. Which cache module is better depend would depend on the cache access pattern and how high the penalty cost of cache misses are.
$ perl -Iblib/lib -Iblib/arch -Ilib benchmark/all.pl
Write (16 bytes):
Rate Cache::FastMmap Cache::Swifty
Cache::FastMmap 8.63/s -- -92%
Cache::Swifty 108/s 1157% --
Read (16 bytes):
Rate Cache::FastMmap Cache::Swifty
Cache::FastMmap 36.5/s -- -88%
Cache::Swifty 296/s 709% --
Write (1024 bytes):
Rate Cache::FastMmap Cache::Swifty
Cache::FastMmap 8.57/s -- -92%
Cache::Swifty 104/s 1113% --
Read (1024 bytes):
Rate Cache::FastMmap Cache::Swifty
Cache::FastMmap 35.5/s -- -87%
Cache::Swifty 282/s 695% --
Comments
please tell me the memcached version and Cache::Memcached version.
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September 13, 2007 11:39 AM
and, do you use Cache::Memcached::GetParserXS?That module make faster to read cache from the memcached.
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September 13, 2007 12:03 PM
Thank you for your interest.
I used memcached 1.2.2 provided by MacPorts. And I didn't have a chance to use Cache::Memcached::GetParserXS, since the MacPorts package did not include memcached.h.
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September 16, 2007 06:23 PM