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by brickteacup 821 days ago
> Multiple clients racing can't be fixed.

Really? You can't think of a single way for multiple clients to operate on the same data without racing? (Here's a hint if you're still having trouble: https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/Commands#cas.)

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Now to in order to multiply a sequence of numbers correctly in a "high performance" shared store, you have external process synchronization. Just awesome. Thank you for the lesson. I had no idea concurrent processing could be so easy.