TumblrArchive/TMCache

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

TMCache is a fast parallel key/value object cache for iOS and OS X, combining an in-memory cache (TMMemoryCache) with an on-disk cache (TMDiskCache), both backed by GCD and thread-safe. It is designed for persisting temporary objects that are expensive to reproduce, such as downloaded images or slow processing results.

Use cases

• cache downloaded images in an iOS app
• persist expensive computation results on disk
• add a thread-safe in-memory cache to an Objective-C app
• automatically clear cached objects on iOS memory warnings
• limit disk cache size by bytes or age
• cache objects shared across multiple threads

When to choose

• you maintain a legacy Objective-C iOS or OS X codebase already using TMCache
• you need a simple NSCoding-based two-tier memory and disk cache with GCD-backed thread safety

When to avoid

• you are starting a new project - the library is no longer actively maintained
• you need Swift-native caching or modern async/await APIs
• you need cross-platform support beyond Apple platforms

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

caching concurrency mobile-development developer-tools performance cpp objective-c memory-cache disk-cache gcd nscoding key-value-store ios macos swift

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