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by elawler24 634 days ago
Depends on the scenario. In a threaded query, or multiple queries from the same user - you’d want different outputs. If 20 different users are looking for the same result - a cache would return the right answer immediately for no marginal cost.
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That's not the use case of the parent comment:

> for queries that are sufficiently similar