Re: Zend fast cache

On Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 07:17 PM, Sterling Hughes wrote:

The problem I see with an array approach from an api perspective is simply when a bucket is free'd, in order to have efficient memory usage, we'd need a second level array scan for every ALLOC_ZVAL(). Perhaps a linked list would be a better choice for this, as we can just be smart about bucket access, and eliminate the need for a scan (could be possible I'm missing something?)

I agree, a singly linked list seems like a no-brainer; it's an ideal memory-pool data structure because inserts and deletes occur only at the front of the list (so they're constant-time), the links are free, and the implementation is straightforward.