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aaronblohowiak on Oct 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Redis 2.6.0 Released

WME-style is optimistic, so you might have to retry over and over again to succeed. Lua scripts are queued up so you will make progress in the order you get in line. (Think spin lock vs queue)

pjscott on Oct 23, 2012 | [–]

It also saves you a network round-trip and a surprising amount of code complexity.

ecoffey on Oct 23, 2012 | [–]

Yes that is correct, thanks!

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