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Re:PHP Performance Benchmarks by Firehed on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @11:27PM (#4667374)
> And to the caching point -- having data cached locally in memory is great, but you can't trust that.

You can if you design around handling a possibly-stale cache.

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Re:PHP Performance Benchmarks by encoderer on Thursday October 18, 2012 @06:32PM (#4671418)
Not really. There is no system that ever has had an always-fresh cache.

Are you disputing the premise or just disagreeing for the sake of it?

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Re:PHP Performance Benchmarks by Firehed on Friday October 19, 2012 @05:00AM (#4672776)
I'm saying that having a stale cache won't be a problem for an application that is designed around the fact that you will occasionally have stale data.
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