Re: Disk cache

On Apr 9, 2006, at 16:56, Luboš Doležel wrote:

> Arvid Norberg píše v Ne 09. 04. 2006 v 16:25 +0200:
> > Is there any points having a cache at all?
> My personal opinion is that caching should be (and is) performed by
> operating system and not by application because it's more effective:
>
> When some more memory is needed by some other app and there is no free
> mem left, OS simply decides to free some cache - but when caching is
> done directly by applicaton, swapping may occur and this can IMHO  
> result
> in an even bigger slowdown.

Any caching would of course be optional.


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Arvid Norberg




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