Using Memcached

From Colourphon

pre req

• memcached installed on the machine
• PECL memcache installed for PHP

experiments

16.7 million colours calculated over approximately 3 days. that is only a rough guess, as I only ran calculations when the PC was on, and sometimes there were more than one instance of the pre_load_colours.php script running.

speed

approx 10,000 colours processed in 4 minutes

Memory usage

when complete approx 1.6 MB

Time to load CSV into memcached

approx 15 to 20 mins.