Storing large objects in memcache

largeobjects.rb

require 'dalli'
require 'benchmark'

client = Dalli::Client.new

# As an example, generate a large random string
@mylargeobject = (0...5000).map{ ('a'..'z').to_a[rand(26)] }.join

@mykey = "mykey"

Benchmark.bm do |b|

  b.report("multi_set") do
    1000.times do
      client.multi do
        i = 0
        while (j = i * 1000; increment = @mylargeobject[j..(j + 999)]; increment.size > 0)
          client.set("#{@mykey}_#{i}", increment)
          i += 1
        end
        client.set(@mykey, i)
      end
    end
  end

  b.report("multi_get") do
    1000.times do
      i = client.get(@mykey)
      keys = (0..(i-1)).map {|j| "#{@mykey}_#{j}"}
      client.get_multi(keys).values.join("")
    end
  end
end