Memcached is a distributed memory object caching system.
We are
using memcached to speed up website by caching lots of things in
EnsEMBL, such as paths to pluggable static files, semi-static rendered
html pages, generated images, image-maps, some database query results
and a lot more.
To get to know more about memcached in general
apply here:
http://www.danga.com/memcached
new functions:
tag_add tag key - adds tag for the key
tag_delete tag - deletes all keys with given tag
tags_delete tag1 tag2 ... - deletes keys which
have all given tags
The modified source code for memcached server could be found in public-plugins/memceched/src, alternatively you can download it here.