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  Buffcacher

What should a ‘cache’ be? It means a lot of things, but to my mind the default programming type should be:“keep around expensive-to-generate bits of read-only data in case we need them again, or until the computer really needs that RAM for something else”I was writing a custom video editing program in Python (interesting choice of language for that problem) and I wanted to cache decoded frames; but I just wasn’t happy with the memory management of explicit caches.  It means making a decision about how much RAM to ring-fence for something without having g...

2,462 0       MEMORY WEB BROWSER RAM CACHE BUFFER


  RAM is the new disk...

Jim Gray, a man who has contributed greatly to technology over the past 40 years, is credited with saying that memory is the new disk and disk is the new tape. With the proliferation of "real-time" web applications and systems that require massive scalability, how are hardware and software relating to this meme? Tim Bray, in his discussions about grid computing before it became such a hot topic, pointed out how advances in hardware around RAM and networking were allowing for the creation of RAM clusters that were faster than disk clusters. [M]emory is several orders of magnitude faster than d...

3,157 0       MEMORY FLASH FUTURE RAM DISK