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		jbverschoor 63 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Caching is an abstraction, not an optimization Everything is caching. Almost nothing operates on the target data directly.

necovek 63 days ago [–]

Do you think that's a useful definition of the term?

If everything is caching, why even introduce the term: language should help us describe ideas, it should not be superfluous.

jbverschoor 62 days ago | [–]

Because you can operate directly on data

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