Point out why using go-cache might be desirable

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Patrick Mylund Nielsen 13 years ago
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go-cache is an in-memory key:value store/cache similar to memcached that is go-cache is an in-memory key:value store/cache similar to memcached that is
suitable for applications running on a single machine. Any object can be stored, suitable for applications running on a single machine. Its major advantage is
for a given duration or forever, and the cache can be safely used by multiple that, being essentially a thread-safe map[string]interface{} with expiration
goroutines. times, it doesn't need to serialize or transmit its contents over the network.
Any object can be stored, for a given duration or forever, and the cache can be
safely used by multiple goroutines.
Although go-cache isn't meant to be used as a persistent datastore, the entire Although go-cache isn't meant to be used as a persistent datastore, the entire
cache may be saved to and loaded from a file (or any io.Reader/Writer) to recover cache may be saved to and loaded from a file (or any io.Reader/Writer) to
from downtime quickly. recover from downtime quickly.
== Installation == Installation

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