From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias@virtutech.se>
To: dbm@refined-audiometrics.com
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cache algorithms: implementation or library available?
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:26:28 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090923162628.E840F1B2E80@kicki.hq.vtech> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9A577121-0353-4402-924B-F4653AA39016@refined-audiometrics.com> (message from David McClain on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:19:37 -0700)
>> 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).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-23 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-22 10:29 Hugo Ferreira
2009-09-22 11:26 ` [Caml-list] " Martin Jambon
2009-09-23 7:54 ` Hugo Ferreira
2009-09-23 7:58 ` Hugo Ferreira
2009-09-23 15:09 ` Damien Doligez
2009-09-23 15:19 ` David McClain
2009-09-23 16:26 ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
2009-09-24 13:14 ` Hugo Ferreira
2009-09-23 12:54 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2009-09-23 14:11 ` Jan Kybic
2009-09-23 15:02 ` Dario Teixeira
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