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Subject: Re: problems with export and :cache
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:17:59 +0000
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To: Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org

Hi Andreas,

2015ko urriak 29an, Andreas Leha-ek idatzi zuen:
> Thanks a lot.  I applied your patch but it seems that your patch does
> not solve the problem in this specific situation.  Or do I miss
> something?

That patch only solves one possible source of the problem.  There are
others, which are likely affecting you.

>=20
>=20
>> I personally regard the babel cache as dangerous and unpredictable in
>> its present form.  You=E2=80=99re much better off using language-specific
>> caching/memoization features and/or a disciplined regime of manual
>> reevaluation.
>=20
> I agree and avoid the caching mechanism generally.  But all alternative
> approaches do involve more work, so I am regularly tempted to use it
> again.
>=20
> Generally, I think that caching is a sensitive area.  And if we think
> that it is unpredictable and advise people to stay off of it, we are
> better off removing it than offering it in this state.  At least until
> it behaves (more) predictable.

I agree.  I would be in favor of putting strong warnings in the
documentation that caching is not to be relied on.  (We shouldn=E2=80=99t
remove it from the codebase entirely for backwards compatibility
reasons.)  But we should hear a consensus from the community before
proceeding down this road.

--=20
Aaron Ecay