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Introduction
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The extension implements a memcached backend for the caching framework. As the memcache-PHP-module isn't supported by PHP7 this backend uses the PHP-module memcached instead. It's a backport of the TYPO3 8.7 memcached backend for TYPO3 7.6.

Memcached is a free and open source, high-performance, distributed
memory object caching system.
To learn more about Memcached, go to
`http://memcached.org <http://memcached.org/>`_ .