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SubjectRe: [patch] arca-vm-2.2.5
Hi,

On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 15:04:36 +0200 (CEST), Andrea Arcangeli
<andrea@e-mind.com> said:

> I also think that I'll implement the cookie thing suggested by Mark since
> I am too much courious to see how much it will help (even if my mind is
> driven by RB-trees ;).

Trees are bad for this sort of thing in general: they can be as fast as
hashing for lookup, but are much slower for insert and delete
operations. Insert and delete for the page cache _must_ be fast.
Expanding a hash table does not cost enough to offset the performance
problems.

--Stephen


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