Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robert Treat wrote: >> people would always want to have those choices (especially for doing >> development/testing/benchmarking between the different methods) the >> question is is it worth the effort to give people those options?
To me, the question is whether it's worth the additional complexity for users and administrators, and to a lesser extent the code complexity. (I think the answer is "no") > And in the case of the cache strategy, the point is that different > access patterns might be served better by different strategies. Granted -- but IMHO it would be better to concentrate on making sure that ARC adapts to any access pattern so that the set of access patterns where you _really want_ LRU is a small as possible, if not empty. -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
