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Started by the-pi-guy, Mar 13, 2016, 10:39 PM

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darkknightkryta

Increasing cache memory can actually decrease performance if using a FIFO algorithm.  

It never hurts performance in least frequent or least recent algorithms.

But for FIFO, there are work loads where having a smaller cache gives better results.  
What are you?  An Engineer?  Call it a queue like a normal computer scientist!