Re: Prefecting, a good idea?

From: Kenichi Chinen (k-chinen@is.aist-nara.ac.jp)
Date: Sun Aug 29 1999 - 10:54:23 MDT

From: ipv6 <ipv6@go.com>

> So, is prefetching Web objeccts a good
> idea?

What is "good" ?

Remember, conventional WWW caching is "probability gamble" too.
Because most of cached objects are garbage. It is known as "Zipf's law".

Anyway, if you want fast retrieval, prefetching is a good idea.

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