[moralestapia]

>depending on the hit rate

Yes, a different usage pattern could give you the worse of both worlds.

That's a very deep insight from queue theory and similar topics, I don't know if you wrote what you wrote with that in mind (I'm not being an ass, I just want to highlight this observation).

A system's behavior is highly dependent, to the point of it being fundamental, on how it is going to be used.