Computer scientists have invented a highly effective, yet incredibly simple, algorithm to decide which items to toss from a web cache to make room for new ones. Known as SIEVE, the new open-source ...

Introduced in the early 2000s by computer scientists Daniel Spielman and Shang-Hua Teng, this is a general paradigm to bridge the gap between the average-case and worst-case performance of algorithms.

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