Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dmitry Borodaenko <angdr...@debian.org>
* Package name : syncache Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Dmitry Borodaenko <angdr...@debian.org> * URL : http://samizdat.nongnu.org/ * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Thread-safe time-limited cache for Ruby SynCache stores cached objects in a Hash that is protected by an advanced two-level locking mechanism which ensures that: . * Multiple threads can add and fetch objects in parallel. * While one thread is working on a cache entry, other threads can access the rest of the cache with no waiting on the global lock, no race conditions nor deadlock or livelock situations. * While one thread is performing a long and resource-intensive operation, other threads that request the same data will be put on hold, and as soon as the first thread completes the operation, the result will be returned to all threads. This was previously part of libsamizdat-ruby package, now it's released as a separate module upstream, so it can be packaged in its own source package in Debian. Apart from the obvious benefit of allowing to use this module (and the syncache-drb server) without other parts of Samizdat, it allowed me to build libsyncache-ruby1.9.1 that can be used with Ruby 1.9 even though Samizdat itself depends on some libraries that are only packaged for Ruby 1.8 (rmagick, mahoro, algorithm-diff). -- Dmitry Borodaenko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100315113911.ga22...@localhost
