April 1998
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
16h 11m
English
book
Sun Performance and Tuning: Java™ and the Internet, Second Edition
by Adrian Cockcroft, Richard Pettit
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Chapter 12. Caches
Caches store a small amount of information for repeated fast access. Many types of caches occur throughout computer hardware and software systems. We’ll take a look at the common principles, with examples of CPU cache, directory name lookup cache (DNLC), and name service cache. Then, we’ll discuss some caches used with local disks and caches used with networks.