| An interface for controlling the behaviour of a cache.
This is separated from the main
Cache interface
so that methods return an object that can set control
parameters on a cache, without granting read/write access
to the cache itself.
Cache's may be enabled or disabled. A disabled cache
is a silent cache; it will silently not return objects
from its store and not update its store. It will operate
as if the cache always missed.
Cache's keep statistics on their accesses. On a long
running cache the numbers may exceeed the size of the
variables counting the statistics, in which case, the
fields counting gets hits and puts are reduced
proportionately.
author:
bwm
version:
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