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Not in the core, simply because most users aren't going to be running it. I see us adding it as a plugin of some description though.

No, it's not, it is a shade more complex in terms of how you set PECL up. The default 'old' extension is trivial to set up, the newer one less so, and most hosts that support memcache do not have the new one set up.

In fact, PECL generally is a pain in the arse to use.

Especially since for session support it requires other changes to how sessions are handled ;)

Though there's no real reason why we couldn't in those circumstances do something imaginative like pushing sessions into a MEMORY table in MySQL which has most of the same benefit (though doesn't shard it across multiple servers and is still going to be slower than memcache, but not nearly as slow as a normal table)

No, it shouldn't, not for the vast majority of Wedge users. There are multiple very good reasons for leaving it how it is in the core, i.e. using MySQL.Make it a memory table, then see how performant it is.Yes, I know that. Except that doesn't actually push sessions over to memcache, you have to specifically reconfigure other things to do that. (I'm the one who approved the mod, which means I had to test it. Which means I had to actually configure it, hence my statement about it being a pain in the arse.)


Here's the crunch point: the time I spend on implementing that (which, if I use Ensi's code means I legally have to ask him about it, I can't just reuse it, or I spend time rewriting it from scratch), including debugging and configuration and so on, is time I'm not spending on things that more than 0.0001% users are ever going to see, and to be honest both Nao and I have more important things to do than cater to an utter minority of users.


So again, this is going to be something we tackle as a plugin rather than a core feature because I'm not building something in that affects a tiny group of users into the core, especially as it will encourage them to expect support for something that I'm not really qualified to provide support for.