Caching is an Abstraction, Not an Optimization.
Justin Jaffray (30 June 2025)🔗 https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/caching-is-an-abstraction-not-an-optimization/
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An interesting perspective on the idea of caching:
I’ve always been told that caching is a tool to make software faster. […] My feelings now are that that perspective on caching is wrong, or at least incomplete. […] I think now caching is probably best understood as a tool for making software simpler.