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In message <20060704200124.25467.qmail@web30301.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, "R. B. Rid
dick" writes:

>I just wrote a new(?) GEOM class:
>  geom_cache

Sounds interesting.

How do you allocate memory for the cache ?

Is it a fixed size cache ?

Poul-Henning


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