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Cache algorithms: implementation or library available?

Hugo Ferreira
- Martin Jambon
  - Hugo Ferreira
    - Hugo Ferreira
    - Damien Doligez
      - David McClain
        
        Mattias EngdegÃ¥ rd
        
        Hugo Ferreira
- Gerd Stolpmann
  - Jan Kybic
- Dario Teixeira

Date:	2009-09-24 (13:14)
From:	Hugo Ferreira <hmf@i...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Cache algorithms: implementation or library available?

Hello,

I would like to thank Mattias Engdegård, Dario Teixeira, Gerd Stolpmann
and Martin Jambon for their suggestions. I going through the code and
article.

Regards,
Hugo F.


Mattias Engdegård wrote:
>>> The Weak module is never the right tool for implementing a cache.
>> I'm not disputing this, but I would like you hear your thoughts on  
>> this topic. Why?
> 
> Weak references go away at the whim of the GC, not when it would be
> useful to flush the cache. A longer explanation and more about weak
> references can be found in the Cuoq/Doligez article in last year's
> workshop on ML (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1411308).
> 
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