## Defaults to $ENV{REDIS_SERVER} or 127.0.0.1:6379
my $redis = Redis::Fast->new;

my $redis = Redis::Fast->new(server => 'redis.example.com:8080');

## Set the connection name (requires Redis 2.6.9)
my $redis = Redis::Fast->new(
  server => 'redis.example.com:8080',
  name => 'my_connection_name',
);
my $generation = 0;
my $redis = Redis::Fast->new(
  server => 'redis.example.com:8080',
  name => sub { "cache-$$-".++$generation },
);

## Use Sentinels, possibly with password
my $redis = Redis::Fast->new(
  sentinels => [ '10.0.0.1:16379', '10.0.0.2:16379', ],
  service   => 'mymaster',
  sentinels_password => 'TheB1gS3CR3T', # optional
);

## Use UNIX domain socket
my $redis = Redis::Fast->new(sock => '/path/to/socket');

## Enable auto-reconnect
## Try to reconnect every 500ms up to 60 seconds until success
## Die if you can't after that
my $redis = Redis::Fast->new(reconnect => 60, every => 500_000);

## Try each 100ms up to 2 seconds (every is in microseconds)
my $redis = Redis::Fast->new(reconnect => 2, every => 100_000);

## Disable the automatic utf8 encoding => much more performance
## !!!! This will be the default after 2.000, see ENCODING below
my $redis = Redis::Fast->new(encoding => undef);

## Use all the regular Redis commands, they all accept a list of
## arguments
## See http://redis.io/commands for full list
$redis->get('key');
$redis->set('key' => 'value');
$redis->sort('list', 'DESC');
$redis->sort(qw{list LIMIT 0 5 ALPHA DESC});

## Add a coderef argument to run a command in the background
$redis->sort(qw{list LIMIT 0 5 ALPHA DESC}, sub {
  my ($reply, $error) = @_;
  die "Oops, got an error: $error\n" if defined $error;
  print "$_\n" for @$reply;
});
long_computation();
$redis->wait_all_responses;
## or
$redis->wait_one_response();

## Or run a large batch of commands in a pipeline
my %hash = _get_large_batch_of_commands();
$redis->hset('h', $_, $hash{$_}, sub {}) for keys %hash;
$redis->wait_all_responses;

## Publish/Subscribe
$redis->subscribe(
  'topic_1',
  'topic_2',
  sub {
    my ($message, $topic, $subscribed_topic) = @_

      ## $subscribed_topic can be different from topic if
      ## you use psubscribe() with wildcards
  }
);
$redis->psubscribe('nasdaq.*', sub {...});

## Blocks and waits for messages, calls subscribe() callbacks
##  ... forever
my $timeout = 10;
$redis->wait_for_messages($timeout) while 1;

##  ... until some condition
my $keep_going = 1; ## other code will set to false to quit
$redis->wait_for_messages($timeout) while $keep_going;

$redis->publish('topic_1', 'message');

my $r = Redis::Fast->new(
  reconnect          => 1, # The value greater than 0 is required
  reconnect_on_error => sub {
    my ($error, $ret, $command) = @_;
    if ($error =~ /READONLY You can't write against a read only slave/) {
      # force reconnect
      return 1;
    }
    # do nothing
    return -1;
  },
);

Benchmark: running 00_ping, 10_set, 11_set_r, 20_get, 21_get_r, 30_incr, 30_incr_r, 40_lpush, 50_lpop, 90_h_get, 90_h_set for at least 5 CPU seconds...
   00_ping:  8 wallclock secs ( 0.69 usr +  4.77 sys =  5.46 CPU) @ 5538.64/s (n=30241)
    10_set:  8 wallclock secs ( 1.07 usr +  4.01 sys =  5.08 CPU) @ 5794.09/s (n=29434)
  11_set_r:  7 wallclock secs ( 0.42 usr +  4.84 sys =  5.26 CPU) @ 5051.33/s (n=26570)
    20_get:  8 wallclock secs ( 0.69 usr +  4.82 sys =  5.51 CPU) @ 5080.40/s (n=27993)
  21_get_r:  7 wallclock secs ( 2.21 usr +  3.09 sys =  5.30 CPU) @ 5389.06/s (n=28562)
   30_incr:  7 wallclock secs ( 0.69 usr +  4.73 sys =  5.42 CPU) @ 5671.77/s (n=30741)
 30_incr_r:  7 wallclock secs ( 0.85 usr +  4.31 sys =  5.16 CPU) @ 5824.42/s (n=30054)
  40_lpush:  8 wallclock secs ( 0.60 usr +  4.77 sys =  5.37 CPU) @ 5832.59/s (n=31321)
   50_lpop:  7 wallclock secs ( 1.24 usr +  4.17 sys =  5.41 CPU) @ 5112.75/s (n=27660)
  90_h_get:  7 wallclock secs ( 0.63 usr +  4.65 sys =  5.28 CPU) @ 5716.29/s (n=30182)
  90_h_set:  7 wallclock secs ( 0.65 usr +  4.74 sys =  5.39 CPU) @ 5593.14/s (n=30147)

Benchmark: running 00_ping, 10_set, 11_set_r, 20_get, 21_get_r, 30_incr, 30_incr_r, 40_lpush, 50_lpop, 90_h_get, 90_h_set for at least 5 CPU seconds...
   00_ping:  9 wallclock secs ( 0.18 usr +  4.84 sys =  5.02 CPU) @ 7939.24/s (n=39855)
    10_set: 10 wallclock secs ( 0.31 usr +  5.40 sys =  5.71 CPU) @ 7454.64/s (n=42566)
  11_set_r:  9 wallclock secs ( 0.31 usr +  4.87 sys =  5.18 CPU) @ 7993.05/s (n=41404)
    20_get: 10 wallclock secs ( 0.27 usr +  4.84 sys =  5.11 CPU) @ 8350.68/s (n=42672)
  21_get_r: 10 wallclock secs ( 0.32 usr +  5.17 sys =  5.49 CPU) @ 8238.62/s (n=45230)
   30_incr:  9 wallclock secs ( 0.23 usr +  5.27 sys =  5.50 CPU) @ 8221.82/s (n=45220)
 30_incr_r:  8 wallclock secs ( 0.28 usr +  4.91 sys =  5.19 CPU) @ 8092.29/s (n=41999)
  40_lpush:  9 wallclock secs ( 0.18 usr +  5.06 sys =  5.24 CPU) @ 8312.02/s (n=43555)
   50_lpop:  9 wallclock secs ( 0.20 usr +  4.84 sys =  5.04 CPU) @ 8010.12/s (n=40371)
  90_h_get:  9 wallclock secs ( 0.19 usr +  5.51 sys =  5.70 CPU) @ 7467.72/s (n=42566)
  90_h_set:  8 wallclock secs ( 0.28 usr +  4.83 sys =  5.11 CPU) @ 7724.07/s (n=39470)o

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Time::HiRes qw/time/;
use Redis;

my $count = 100000;
{
    my $r = Redis->new;
    my $start = time;
    for(1..$count) {
        $r->set('hoge', 'fuga', sub{});
    }
    $r->wait_all_responses;
    printf "Redis.pm:\n%.2f/s\n", $count / (time - $start);
}

{
    my $r = Redis::Fast->new;
    my $start = time;
    for(1..$count) {
        $r->set('hoge', 'fuga', sub{});
    }
    $r->wait_all_responses;
    printf "Redis::Fast:\n%.2f/s\n", $count / (time - $start);
}

Redis.pm:
22588.95/s
Redis::Fast:
81098.01/s