http://cmunezero.com Where code meets love... and a lot of awkward silences... Tue, 11 May 2010 21:17:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://cmunezero.com/2008/05/12/memcached-equals-time-saver/ http://cmunezero.com/2008/05/12/memcached-equals-time-saver/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 15:02:25 +0000 chanel http://cmunezero.com/2008/05/12/memcached-equals-time-saver/ Memcached is a wonderful tool to offload database calls by storing the needed information in cache. One trick I’ve been using to increase productivity is that whenever I know I will be using complex or long running queries, I use a local instance of Memcached to cache the initial database calls. As I debug the output or tweak the logic, the average runtime of the script stays almost constant because the bulk of the processing, database calls, has been cached.

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