AppFabric/NCache - will these solve HttpRuntime.Cache objects being updated by reference?
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Products like NCache and AppFabric also perform serialization before storing the object in an out-of-process caching service. So you'd still take that serialization hit, plus you'd get slowed down even further by going out-of-process (or maybe even over the network) to access the serialized object in the caching service. Implementing...
AppFabric vs. NCache - A Detailed Feature Comparison
This comparison is between AppFabric v1.1 and NCache 4.3 SP1. It describes major feature differences between both products.