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Weak hashtables & aggressive caching

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From:	Richard Jones <rich@a...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Weak hashtables & aggressive caching

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 08:58:29AM -0600, Matt Gushee wrote:
> It seems to me it might be useful to implement an aggressive caching 
> strategy--i.e., since the files to be loaded are known in advance (from 
> the command line),[...]

Please no!  When running X remotely this will cause images to be
transferred (uncompressed) over the network and stored inside the X
server when they may not even be viewed.  This sort of thing is
already a serious problem with programs like 'eog', making them
virtually unusable remotely.

Rich.

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