Rearranging the cache

[Frosttall]

Hey guys,

I just switched back from lua to itemcache to retrieve the informations about items. Reading the cache was the method I used for years, but switched to lua because I came to the conclusion that it's just more efficient.

The cache is only filled, if the information was requested - and here is the problem: A simple async lua-call will request the server for the informations, but I want to keep it as effective as possible. My idea is a ConcurrentDictionary with the ItemId as key and a tuple of the row in ItemSparse and ItemEntry - the question is here if WoW rearranges these rows while the client is running (without relogging) or if I can continue with my approach.

[Apoc]

Hey guys,

I just switched back from lua to itemcache to retrieve the informations about items. Reading the cache was the method I used for years, but switched to lua because I came to the conclusion that it's just more efficient.

The cache is only filled, if the information was requested - and here is the problem: A simple async lua-call will request the server for the informations, but I want to keep it as effective as possible. My idea is a ConcurrentDictionary with the ItemId as key and a tuple of the row in ItemSparse and ItemEntry - the question is here if WoW rearranges these rows while the client is running (without relogging) or if I can continue with my approach.

If I remember correctly, WoW will unload the cache, and reload it once in a while (otherwise it could just eat memory like crazy). I may be wrong. It's not very hard to figure out though, they only have 1 function for loading the caches.