On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 09:13:07PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > the best thing to do is shorten your hash chains. use a bigger hash
> > table, a hash function that randomizes better, or a better bucket data
> > structure.
> >
> > executive summary: LRU buckets ain't worth it.
>
> They are sometimes. You can easily profile to find those cases. Networking
> has some for example. In generally though I agree
Mach uses splay trees for many things. these are basically LRU trees
instead of LRU lists. i don't think they're a good idea because it
means you have to take a write lock instead of a read lock when you're
searching for things.
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