Organize Your Closet Like a Computer Organizes Memory
By the way, that article is an advertisement for &quot;Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions&quot; [1] in case you&#x27;re triggered by native advertising. That out of the way ...<p>As the article states, caching is useful when you have memory stores with different access speeds. This is (frequently, in my experience, caveat caveat etc.) not the case in reality, where you only have the one storage area that has a fixed, fairly low access speed. People are mostly bottlenecked by scanning rate, so it&#x27;d make more sense to use an indexing mechanism. Maybe b-trees for closets? B-trees, perhaps, if you store things in boxes?<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1627790365&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1627790365&#x2F;</a>