thanks for the reply, it may be an XY problem :)

Basically I want some data structures to persist in memory between requests. I don't want to write them to a file, a db, memcached etc, because that's somewhat slower and memory will work just fine.

Ideally they'd expire after so long and then I'll reupdate them when I see they've expired. It doesn't matter to me if a module handles the expiration or I do it myself from a time stamp in the structure. The data itself doesn't literally need to be global everywhere, if I can get it from the context that's fine.

Something like Catalyst::Plugin::Cache with Cache::Memory as a backend would work, but from my experimenting it doesn't look like the cache persists between requests :/. Perhaps I am no utilizing it correctly however.

In my application class I merely do 

__PACKAGE__->config->{'Plugin::Cache'}{backend} = {                   
+                     
    class => "Cache::Memory",
    default_expires => '600 sec'                                      
+                     
};

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Then access it via $cache = $c->cache; in my controller. But the data isn't persisting between requests alas

thank you again

In reply to Re^2: Catalyst fcgi engine w. persistent variables by damian45
in thread Catalyst fcgi engine w. persistent variables by damian45

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