ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Read-through

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Read-through is an adjective meaning (computing) A cache that will fetch information from the original source when asked for information that is not yet cached.

Meaning

(computing) A cache that will fetch information from the original source when asked for information that is not yet cached.

More Meanings

  1. Alternative spelling of readthrough.

Example Sentences

A read-through cache presents a simple abstraction to the calling code, which no longer has to handle the case where the information is available but not cached.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include recached, read-write, mediary, lazy, eager, resident.

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