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Yes. As opposed to sequential access. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_access http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_access
by pg 14y ago
Yes. As opposed to sequential access. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_access http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_access
- stcredzero 14y agoIs there any benefit in a cache? What penalty is there for a cache miss? (Analogy: rehearsed points, needing to say "I'll have to get back to you.")
- RegEx 14y agoThis is why you don't use analogies when speaking with hackers. We take them way too far ;)
- stcredzero 14y agoWhat about level 2 and 3 cache?
- zanny 14y agoIf you faint during the interview, does drinking caffeine afterwords work like a ramdisk or an ssd?
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- sliverstorm 14y agoIf we presume your cache analogy holds, all it costs is a little time.
- einhverfr 14y agoSuppose you are using very slow media and it takes a tenth of a second to retrieve the information. That's an acceptable performance penalty ;-) On the other hand if you are using external storage, with indirect lookups in order to find the information, that might not be so great. At the same time, networked responses are great. There isn't a problem with having a different node respond to the request, since this approach uses a sort of strange architecture and session state is shared between all nodes.