From: Hugo Ferreira <hmf@inescporto.pt>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cache algorithms: implementation or library available?
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:14:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ABB70B5.4040904@inescporto.pt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090923162628.E840F1B2E80@kicki.hq.vtech>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-24 13:14 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
2009-09-24 13:14 ` Hugo Ferreira [this message]
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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