Todd Walton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > I wish we *would* go back to the simple LRU cache. It seemed to work > > a lot better than probabilistic caching does. > > You're confusing word function. The original poster mislead with the use > of "LRU cache". It should be "LRU'd cache" or some such. Cache is a noun > in "LRU cache" and a verb in "probabilistic caching".
LRU stands for "Least Recently Used" and is a description of a caching strategy. An "LRU cache" is an implementation of that strategy. It's what Freenet used to use up until a few months ago, at which point the strategy became more complex. The new strategy is called "probabilistic caching", or "pcaching" for short. "LRU'd" would be "Least Recently Used'd" which is just inane. I can't tell where you picked up your grammar, but mine's fine. Oh, and I still think pcaching is hurting more than it's helping. But the last time we had this discussion, it was pointed out that the Horrible Breakage actually occurred *before* pcaching went in. So nobody's really sure what's wrong; just that things are Not Good right now, and haven't been for about 3 months. -- Greg Wooledge | "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - The Red Hot Chili Peppers http://wooledge.org/~greg/ |
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