[gjenks]

Author here. I created this because the filebased cache backend that ships with Django is really broken for caches with more than 1,000 keys. The design of DiskCache is based on SQLite and the filesystem which is a pretty solid combination. Frequent cache reads are stored in shared memory-mapped files while remaining thread and process safe. That makes lookups faster than networked options like memcached and redis.

[mdomans]

Is your point here to deliver better than dummy/file cache for Django for development purposes?

Because I can't see how file based cache can replace cache for distributed server farms.

Another question: what's the impact of extra I/O due to memory mapped files?