uncache

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verb

To remove from a cache.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

verbuncache (third-person singular simple present uncaches, present participle uncaching, simple past and past participle uncached)

present singular third person uncaches · participle present uncaching · participle past uncached · past uncached

  1. transitiveTo remove from a cache.

    What widdershins of tread / Will now uncache the haunted gold, the buried heart, / From secret mould?

    1962, Harriet Monroe, Morton Dauwen Zabel, George Dillon, Poetry, volumes 99-100, page 287
    1 more example

    Already we're seeing fewer cache misses by avoiding creating cache entries for the idle task and expect to see even fewer with changes to the TLB reload code to uncache the page tables.

    1999, Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Operating Systems

Origin

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