memcached Binary Protocol
in a Nutshell
memcached Night #1 in Tokyo
September 17th, 2008
Toru Maesaka
http://torum.net

Binary Protocol

A new protocol that will be
introduced from version 1.3

For those that aren’t
familiar…

The original memcached
protocol is a very simple
and small, yet an effective
text based protocol.
bradfitz++

Then why a new protocol?

• Performance
• Extensibility

• Performance
Protocol parsing can be
performed millions of times in
a given instance’s lifetime.

• Performance
Protocol parsing can
happen thousands
of times per second.
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