Re: Ideas/solutions to caching identical objects ...

From: Duane Wessels <wessels@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 96 11:10:11 -0800

J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk writes:

>Why not index the cache by the MD5 of the content. Then identical files will
>clash... Of course different files may also clash (1 in 2^128 times), but
>thats a SMOP. Of course MD5 may not be cheap enough to run each time we load
>an object...

Then how do you map a requested UR[LIN] to the MD5?

Duane W.
Received on Tue Dec 03 1996 - 11:19:42 MST

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