Ok, now that my computer has AI, I am looking forward to the day when it is smart enough and fast enough – Bytor, and his many brethren combined – to eliminate the need for caching. Caching is a crutch. Not a nice new aluminum crutch with the foamy pads for your armpits, but an old, handmade T of sticks found in the woods and used out of necessity.
Here’s what’s wrong with cache… What if you cache something bad? It happens all the time, and to me it has happened a lot lately. Some hideous monstrosity gets stuck in cache – and I don’t mean MY cache, which I could potentially clear with the aid of benevolent ByTor, but other systems’ caches – and then you are stuck looking at it until such time as the cache. Finally. DIES.
Right now, I am looking at an error page being spit out of cache repeatedly. Even though the real page is now text that says simply “hi”. Or maybe “hi” is throwing an error in text format.
