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		whateveracct 17 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Caching is an abstraction, not an optimization additional layers (or software in general) are not inherently additional complexity

TeMPOraL 17 days ago [–]

In some sense they are, since establishing an abstraction is strictly additive. Abstractions help manage complexity.

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