On 1/16/09, Jeff Moyer <jmo...@redhat.com> wrote:

> My argument is that you're not really saving much.  Just cache the whole
> file.  I agree that you probably want to detect changes, still.  For
> that, you can use mtime or inotify.  You could make a case for either
> side, though I think I'd argue for keeping the mtime approach (as the
> map may change multiple times before we actually try to read it, and
> doing the read in the lookup path really shouldn't be that big of a
> deal).  Of course, I haven't profiled this, so that may be worth doing.

If we can simply flag the cached version as stale, then lazy reloads
should be possible.

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