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 

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