On 9/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Janice Caron</b> <<a href="mailto:caron800@googlemail.com">caron800@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q"></span>The thing is, all the data was in a file, and so the function had to open a file, read it, close the file, and return the data. Well, naturally, it cached some data internally</blockquote><div><br>These days, of course, the data source might not even be a file - it might be an resource you have to fetch from a remote site on the internet using HTTP. Caching is, occasionally, really necessary.
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