...on real workloads, random tends to do worse than other algorithms. But what if we take two random choices and just use LRU between those two choices?
"2-random" is his short hand for the above scenario.
[edit: formatting, I have no idea how to signify a quote; I don't want preformatted because it makes a scroll box.]
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...on real workloads, random tends to do worse than other algorithms. But what if we take two random choices and just use LRU between those two choices?
"2-random" is his short hand for the above scenario.
[edit: formatting, I have no idea how to signify a quote; I don't want preformatted because it makes a scroll box.]