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by TheLoneWolfling 3933 days ago
What bugs me is not so much caching as redundant caching.

I've seen applications that have 5 redundant caches, if not more (on-disk cache, OS cache, VM OS cache, stdlib cache, programmer-visible cache). And then you end up killing the actually-important caches (CPU caches, etc) from the amount of redundant copying required...