Isn’t this library already a wrapper for Hiredis: https://github.com/markmo/HiRedis.jl ?
— John On Nov 29, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Matt Gushee <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Avik-- > > On Saturday, November 29, 2014 4:13:18 PM UTC-7, Avik Sengupta wrote: > > Thanks, that looks good. There was another effort at a Redis client > https://github.com/msainz/Redis.jl . > > Oh, interesting. It didn't occur to me to search GitHub, but I did verify > that there was no Redis client in the official package directory before > starting. Anyway, the Redis API & protocol are pretty simple - I think I've > spent about 6 hours on the project so far, including a lot of > documentation-checking. > > > > If would be good to see some performance numbers. Is there a significant > overhead of using a Julia client? > > Good question, and I would be interested to know that too. I don't know much > about database performance testing - any suggestions about where to start > with that? > > BTW, I was considering writing a wrapper to the hiredis C library, but it > looked like Julia doesn't provide a good facility for handling the structs > that are returned by some of the hiredis functions - and I'm not much of a C > programmer, so I figured a pure Julia client would be a much safer way to go. > > -- > Matt Gushee
