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