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Show HN: CasCache – multi-generational cache with optimistic concurrency control

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Re: Show HN: CasCache – multi-generational cache with optimistic concurrency control

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In a data context CAS expands to content addressible storage. CasCache is "compare and set cache" which is definitely cool and useful as well as totally different from what I initially thought it was.

In a cache context CAS is compare and swap, content addressable didn’t cross my mind