[HN Gopher] Cache Management Lessons Learned
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       Cache Management Lessons Learned
        
       Author : timf
       Score  : 47 points
       Date   : 2021-01-23 14:38 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | lrossi wrote:
       | > So at least on Linux, cache performance hasn't been an issue
       | with LMDB. It's noticeably worse on Windows, as is memory
       | management in general on Windows, but obviously Windows is not a
       | high performance platform to begin with.
       | 
       | This made me smile.
        
         | KMag wrote:
         | It's also why "just run WSL" or "just run Linux in a VM on OSX"
         | is unsatisfying. The performance characteristics are quite
         | different, which makes a big difference if you're trying to
         | reproduce a race condition.
        
       | mvolfik wrote:
       | What the hell is going on with the line breaks there? That's
       | painful to read on mobile
        
       | harryf wrote:
       | One thing I've seen smart developers do on multiple occasions is
       | unknowingly throw out their ability to reason about their code
       | while adding caching (
       | https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3512...
       | ). Then when some weird bugs start showing up it's like "Ummm...
       | this shouldn't be happening" and then end up having to restart
       | _everything_ because the interplay between layers of caching and
       | the rest of the program no longer make any sense.
        
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