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Transcendent (?) memory

Posted Jul 8, 2009 23:46 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
Parent article: Transcendent memory

What's supposed to be "transcendent" about this memory? It seems more "transient" to me. We're not talking about memories of past lives or Jungian archetypes.

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Transcendent (?) memory

Posted Jul 9, 2009 3:54 UTC (Thu) by firasha (subscriber, #4230) [Link]

Dan explained his choice of "transcendent" in the original thread:

> While true that this memory is "exceeding usual limits", the more
> important criteria is that it may disappear.
>
> It might be clearer to just call it "ephemeral memory".
Ephemeral tmem (precache) may be the most interesting, but there is persistent tmem (preswap) as well. Both are working today and both are included in the patches I posted.
Looking for a term encompassing both, I chose "transcendent".