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This module provides a shared memory cache accessed as a
tied hash.
Shared memory is an area of memory that is available to
all processes. It is accessed by choosing a key, the
ipc_key arguement to tie. Every process that accesses
shared memory with the same key gets access to the same
region of memory. In some ways it resembles a file
system, but it is not hierarchical and it is resident in
memory. This makes it harder to use than a filesystem but
much faster. The data in shared memory persists until the
machine is rebooted or it is explicitely deleted.
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