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Announcing core.cache version 0.6.1

Jul 13, 2012

core.cache v0.6.1 Release Notes

core.cache is a new Clojure contrib library providing the following features:

  • An underlying CacheProtocol used as the base abstraction for implementing new synchronous caches

  • A defcache macro for hooking your CacheProtocol implementations into the Clojure associative data capabilities.

  • Immutable implementations of some basic caching strategies

    • First-in-first-out (FIFOCache)
    • Least-recently-used (LRUCache)
    • Least-used (LUCache)
    • Time-to-live (TTLCache)
    • Soft-Reference cache (SoftCache)
    • Naive cache (BasicCache)
  • Implementation of an efficient buffer replacement policy based on the low inter-reference recency set algorithm (LIRSCache) described in the LIRS paper

  • Factory functions for each existing cache type

Absorb

You can use core.cache in your Leiningen and Cake projects with the following :dependencies directive in your project.clj file:

[org.clojure/core.cache "0.6.1"]

For Maven-driven projects, use the following slice of XML in your pom.xml‘s <dependencies> section:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.clojure</groupId>
  <artifactId>core.cache</artifactId>
  <version>0.6.1</version>
</dependency>

Enjoy!

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Changes from v0.5.0

The v0.6.1 version of core.cache contains the following changes:

  • The addition of a cache built on Java soft references

  • Bug fix for LRU and LU caches disabling the eviction of duplicate keys prior to threshold.

  • The factory function optional argument named :limit was changed to :threshold.

  • The default thresholds set by the factory functions were adjusted.

Plans

The following capabilities are under design, development, or consideration for future versions of core.cache:

  • Make ClojureScript compatible
  • Asynchronous caching protocol
  • FunCache implementation
  • LIRSCache evict
  • Hardening of the seed function implementations
  • test.generative usage
  • Deprecation of Clache
  • More documentation and examples

More planning is needed around capabilities not listed nor thought of.

Thanks

I would like to thank Paul Stadig for his work in fixing the SoftCache implementation.

:F

One Comment, Comment or Ping

  1. dimagog

    LRUCache uses min-key when searching for eviction candidate. This is a linear scan, i.e. O(N) operation. This is only acceptable for small cache sizes.

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