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    <h1>Spyglass</h1>
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    Spyglass is a very fast Clojure client for <a href="http://memcached.org/">Memcached</a> built on top of <a href="http://code.google.com/p/spymemcached/">Spy Memcached</a>
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    <h2>Very fast</h2>
    <p>Spy Memcached is battle tested and highly optimized. Spyglass has very low overhead on top of that.</p>
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    <h2>Feature complete</h2>
    <p>Spyglass supports almost all of the Memcached protocol operations as well as both binary and text protocols.</p>
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    <h2>Asynchronous or synchronous</h2>
    <p>Spyglass supports synchronous and asynchronous implementations of protocol operations.</p>
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    <h2>Not just Memcached</h2>
    <p>Spyglass can also be used with <a href="http://www.couchbase.com/membase">Membase Server</a> and the <a href="https://github.com/robey/kestrel/blob/master/docs/guide.md">Kestrel message queue</a> and other servers that use the Memcached protocol.</p>
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