Jan Wieck <JanWieck@yahoo.com> 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