# go-cache
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ℹ ️ go-cache ](https://github.com/patrickmn/go-cache ) library that was written by @patrickmn . The main defference is that it relies on generics instead of reflection.
go-cache is a in-memory key:value store/cache similar to memcached that is
suitable for applications running on a single machine. Its major advantage is
that, being essentially a thread-safe `map[string][T]` with expiration
times, it doesn't need to serialize or transmit its contents over the network.
Any object can be stored, for a given duration or forever, and the cache can be
safely used by multiple goroutines.
Although go-cache isn't meant to be used as a persistent datastore, the entire
cache can be saved to and loaded from a file (using `c.Items()` to retrieve the
items map to serialize, and `NewFrom()` to create a cache from a deserialized
one) to recover from downtime quickly. (See the docs for `NewFrom()` for caveats.)
### Installation
`go get github.com/num30/go-cache`
### Usage
```go
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/num30/go-cache"
"time"
)
func main() {
// Create a cache with a default expiration time of 5 minutes, and which
// purges expired items every 10 minutes
c := cache.New[string](5*time.Minute, 10*time.Minute)
// Set the value of the key "foo" to "bar", with the default expiration time
c.Set("foo", "bar", cache.DefaultExpiration)
// Set the value of the key "baz" to "lightning", with no expiration time
// (the item won't be removed until it is re-set, or removed using
// c.Delete("baz")
c.Set("baz", "lightning", cache.NoExpiration)
// Get the string associated with the key "foo" from the cache
foo, found := c.Get("foo")
if found {
fmt.Println(foo)
}
// Want performance? Store pointers!
structCache := cache.New[MyStruct](5*time.Minute, 10*time.Minute)
structCache.Set("foo", & MyStruct, cache.DefaultExpiration)
if x, found := c.Get("foo"); found {
fmt.Println(")
}
}
```
Run this example with `go run examples/main.go` .
## Performance Comparison
Comparison of performance with original [go-cache ](https://github.com/patrickmn/go-cache ) implementation.
Spoiler alert! The difference is insignificant.
| Test | [Non generic ](https://github.com/patrickmn/go-cache )| | This version | |
|----------------------------------------------|-----------|-------------|-----------|---------------|
| < sub > BenchmarkCacheGetStringExpiring-8 < / sub > | < sub > 29884011< / sub > | < sub > 41.45 ns/op< / sub > | < sub > 28318041< / sub > | < sub > 43.31 ns/op< / sub > |
| < sub > BenchmarkCacheGetStringNotExpiring-8 < / sub > | < sub > 91891774< / sub > | < sub > 14.20 ns/op< / sub > | < sub > 72259294< / sub > | < sub > 14.02 ns/op< / sub > |
| < sub > BenchmarkCacheGetConcurrentExpiring-8 < / sub > | < sub > 26299849< / sub > | < sub > 42.58 ns/op< / sub > | < sub > 30129078< / sub > | < sub > 39.53 ns/op< / sub > |
| < sub > BenchmarkCacheGetConcurrentNotExpiring-8 < / sub > | < sub > 28991383< / sub > | < sub > 41.25 ns/op< / sub > | < sub > 30760544< / sub > | < sub > 38.09 ns/op< / sub > |
| < sub > BenchmarkCacheGetManyConcurrentExpiring-8 < / sub > | < sub > 55589712< / sub > | < sub > 44.90 ns/op< / sub > | < sub > 56991110< / sub > | < sub > 38.86 ns/op< / sub > |
| < sub > BenchmarkCacheGetManyConcurrentNotExpiring-8 < / sub > | < sub > 30105078< / sub > | < sub > 43.98 ns/op< / sub > | < sub > 46270045< / sub > | < sub > 41.54 ns/op< / sub > |
| < sub > BenchmarkCacheSetStringExpiring-8 < / sub > | < sub > 18392893< / sub > | < sub > 63.41 ns/op< / sub > | < sub > 17788724< / sub > | < sub > 61.42 ns/op< / sub > |
| < sub > BenchmarkCacheSetStringNotExpiring-8 < / sub > | < sub > 46400654< / sub > | < sub > 28.45 ns/op< / sub > | < sub > 40226074< / sub > | < sub > 27.41 ns/op< / sub > |
| < sub > BenchmarkCacheSetDelete-8 < / sub > | < sub > 18703620< / sub > | < sub > 60.75 ns/op< / sub > | < sub > 18270448< / sub > | < sub > 59.90 ns/op< / sub > |
| < sub > BenchmarkCacheSetDeleteSingleLock-8 < / sub > | < sub > 32633755< / sub > | < sub > 39.34 ns/op< / sub > | < sub > 32415156< / sub > | < sub > 36.96 ns/op< / sub > |
| < sub > BenchmarkCacheGetStructExpiring-8 < / sub > | < sub > 30487856< / sub > | < sub > 41.60 ns/op< / sub > | < sub > 26925226< / sub > | < sub > 40.55 ns/op< / sub > |
| < sub > BenchmarkCacheGetStructNotExpiring-8 < / sub > | < sub > 91921044< / sub > | < sub > 13.94 ns/op< / sub > | < sub > 96379750< / sub > | < sub > 13.08 ns/op< / sub > |
| < sub > BenchmarkCacheSetStructExpiring-8 < / sub > | < sub > 13977464< / sub > | < sub > 86.44 ns/op< / sub > | < sub > 13364509< / sub > | < sub > 87.69 ns/op< / sub > |
| < sub > BenchmarkCacheSetStructNotExpiring-8 < / sub > | < sub > 22749384< / sub > | < sub > 54.14 ns/op< / sub > | < sub > 23207397< / sub > | < sub > 52.58 ns/op< / sub > |
| < sub > BenchmarkCacheSetFatStructExpiring-8 < / sub > | < sub > 11718718< / sub > | < sub > 103.3 ns/op< / sub > | < sub > 12051895< / sub > | < sub > 102.3 ns/op< / sub > |
| < sub > BenchmarkCacheGetFatStructNotExpiring-8 < / sub > | < sub > 88695709< / sub > | < sub > 13.92 ns/op< / sub > | < sub > 83220014< / sub > | < sub > 13.76 ns/op< / sub > |
