title: is it time to move from memcache to memcached
body: <p>In 2009-07-07 was released the first stable of <a href="http://pecl.php.net/package/memcached" rel="nofollow noreferrer">memcached</a>, the php library based on libmemcached.</p>
  
  <p>Now you have two options (in php) memcache or memcached.</p>
  
  <p>memcache is the usual one, but memcached promise many improvements over the other one: one of my favorites are fact of use libketama for keys which allow sharing keys between languages (like Ruby, Python, etc.)</p>
  
  <p>so, did you have a chance to use/test it, do you feel is it ready for a live enviroment?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong> the reason I ask this is because move from one driver to other means a great effort that I'm not sure to yet.</p>