As CPU cores become both faster and more numerous, the limiting factor for most programs is now, and will be for some time, memory access. Hardware designers have come up with ever more sophisticated memory handling and acceleration techniques–such
ASP.NET has an in-memory cache exposed through a public cache API since 1.0. In ASP.NET 4.0 the goal is to provide a new factored cache API that is available to both web and non-web applications. The API includes extensibility points that enable thi