[Jdbm-general] Re: TGIM

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boi...@ex... said:
> "Works like a charm"?  That's not what my experience tells me.  There
> are a few cases where I would use weak refs but generally, I think
> it's a poor design choice to rely on them.

Weak refs? Soft refs! (or am I the one mixing them up this time? Normally=
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can keep them apart :-)) Ok, I buy your JDK 1.1 argument, but for a JDK1.=
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environment soft refs are really a better choice. It's a cache so you rea=
lly =

don't care anyway what is thrown out when, and by soft-reffing your cache=
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entries all your caches will be treated as one giant LRU cache, with the =

oldest entries in any given "local" cache being kicked out first. That's =
quite =

hard to do by yourself, and caching stuff yourself, not taking into =

consideration what's going on elsewhere in the JVM might be considered a =
bit =

selfish...



> salud, amor, dinero :)
=A1y el tiempo para gastar lo!

Cees




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