Re:Redis weekly update #6 - 2.2 and VM
by keytweetlouie on Friday July 09, 2010 @03:13PM
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Please bring support for windows. @ keytweet.com we are compiling the source against cgwin. I have been using redis in place of mysql for certain tasks. I don't think I would go full redis unless the virtual memory could write keys to the filesystem as well. Hard disks are always going to be bigger than ram and machines with gigs of ram are expensive. Thanks for the hard work. We're making good use of redis
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why Windows? Redis is a service over socket, thus, you can have a *nix box running Redis and talk to the box with your asp.net/c# I suppose. Windows has a very different socket model, I think that supporting Windows will scarify to much for Redis.
Windows has pretty the same socket model, from BSD. The difference is in the I/O event notification facility, for asynchronous network programming one would use "epoll" in Linux, "kqueue" in FreeBSD, they are conceptually pretty similar, while Windows has only the classic "select" and "poll", maybe something new windows-only thing (IOCP?) as well, but who cares.. Free Software rule.