On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Todd Walton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > 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.
Perhaps I'm missing your point. What I'm trying to say here is that "LRU cache" seems to be commonly mixed up, like "their", "they're", and "there" in the English language. You present "LRU cache" as something in opposition to "pcaching", but it's not. They both exist at the same time. Pcaching defines how data gets *in* to the cache, LRU defines how data gets *out* of the cache. You were implying that the "LRU cache" had been replaced by "pcaching", when, in reality, it's "cache everything" that has been replaced by "pcaching". -todd _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
