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The Rarely Seen, but Beautiful Content-Addressable Memory (Cam)
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thememoryguy.com
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7 points
by
PaulHoule
on April 1, 2022
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mikewarot
on April 3, 2022
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In it's own unique way, GIT has a content addressable storage... objects are stored according to a hash of their content, not their filename. If you have thousands of duplicates of a small file, GIT will only store it once.
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