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by Karellen 825 days ago
To me, it's more that invalidating the cache without it requires knowledge of implementation details (i.e. where the cache is stored, and how the cache files are named) that ideally shouldn't have to "leak" for the cache to be generally useful.

(Buy hey, we are talking about what is famously one of the hard problems in comp sci, so (respectful) disagreements on how best to do it should be expected :-)

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I appreciate the sentiment! Makes a ton of sense.