The key is removed from the main hashtable and thus not accessible by the normal...

janerik on Sept 26, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lazy Redis is better Redis

The key is removed from the main hashtable and thus not accessible by the normal code path. It's appended to the internal list for deletion then. That's basically just moving around a pointer.

A manual rename is not needed.

seivan on Sept 26, 2015 [–]

Ah appreciated. It was a lot going over my head.