[HN Gopher] Caching is often enough (2003)
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       Caching is often enough (2003)
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2024-04-11 17:56 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | PaulKeeble wrote:
       | We surely have some spare computation time nowadays to put
       | towards better algorithms than least recently used or least
       | frequently used.
        
       | sam_lowry_ wrote:
       | "There are two hard problems in computer science: cache
       | invalidation and naming things".
        
         | yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
         | ...and off by one errors.
        
       | bevekspldnw wrote:
       | If you're doing web application development the absolute first
       | stop on performance tuning is caching static content, pre-
       | rendering every view possible, and handling everything else with
       | thoughtful db indexing.
       | 
       | That's always going to be the biggest performance jumps, but I
       | think a lot of people end up doing a lot of other marginal
       | improvements prior to nailing those basics.
        
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