[rabbitmq-discuss] Cherly

Thu Nov 12 18:22:14 GMT 2009

Good points. Well, next time we run into a place where a solid LRU cache
is required, we can look into it again... I'm guessing that eventually
we'll need to address the issue of binary deps, but for now we can avoid
them, so we probably should.

Cheers,
  Tony

Cliff Moon wrote:
> Actually I designed it for larger binaries (> 64 bytes) since I'm using
> the vector API's to avoid any copying on larger binaries.  The LRU data
> structure is a simple doubly linked list that keeps pointers into the
> judy array.  One issue you might have with integrating it into something
> like rabbitmq is that you are now introducing binary dependencies. 
> Cherly is mostly C, and judy is all C.  I have not done any work on
> getting cherly to run on windows, and I'm not sure if judy arrays run on
> windows either.
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