Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet

Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by jnurmine on Saturday July 28, 2018 @10:57AM (#17633418)

Interesting with zwischenspeicher... In Finnish terminology "cache" is "välimuisti" which seems to be the same kind of word-construction.

I have wondered how people came up with translations to computer terminology. In retrospect, borrow from the German language, of course - as the saying goes, they have a word for everything!

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Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by blattimwind on Sunday July 29, 2018 @06:47AM (#17637416)

It just occurred to me that there are two very different kinds of caches which aren't really distinguished by terms:

- Cache, as in processor cache: total access mediation, i.e. all operations go through the cache. Cache bypass might be possible but rare in practice.

- Cache, as in application cache (e.g. redis/memcached/@lru_cache): thing were you put some result to recall later conditionally. Exactly the opposite of total access mediation: application needs to explicitly use cache.

The first one I'd call Zwischenspeicher. The second I'd call Ergebnisabrufspeicher.

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