Hi, I have a question about how the disk cache stores objects.
Suppose I have two caches - one for Book objects and one for Bookcase objects. Bookcase objects can contain collections of Books. Presumably, in a MemoryCache what are stored are references to objects on the heap. So, in the Book cache, the values in the cache are pointers to the memory addresses of the actual Book objects sitting out on the heap. The Bookcase cache would work the same way. If a Bookcase object contained some Book objects that also happened to be in the Book cache as well, the cache for this Bookcase object would contain references to the same Book memory addresses on the heap. In other words, we wouldn't have duplicates of the same Book objects in both caches, only duplicates of their references or pointers. Now if the contents of both caches get serialized to the same disk cache will we have a similar "duplicate-free" storage of each cache's object graph? Will Books contained by a Bookcase object be simply be pointers to the same Book addresses that are in the serialized Book cache? Or will the contents of the Bookcase cache and the Book cache be independent of one another? In other words, would it be possible to have duplicates of a particular Book in the disk cache? Thanks for any insight. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
