Re: caching of file information?

2000-05-21 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Daniel Pittman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [[ complicated caching mechanism ]] Is the complicated mechanism really necessary, or can we make do with a fairly simple mechanism which caches information for a short time only?

Re: caching of file information?

2000-05-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
"Kai" == Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the complicated mechanism really necessary, or can we make do with a fairly simple mechanism which caches information for a short time only? I think that the sample you showed earlier indicates that we can already win big-time with a

caching of file information?

2000-05-18 Thread Kai Großjohann
Thanks to Lothar who points out that rcp.el transfers 10k to open an empty file. That's quite a bit of stuff. I had never thought it would be this much. So, there seems to be a need for caching. But what data should we be caching, and for how long? One idea which crossed my mind is to use