Relevant? Yes.
Gating? No.
In fact, I would put it the other way around.
The architecture documentis very useful, almost necessary, for deciding
whether the solution is a good one.
The cache management evaluations are another component of such an
evaluation.
Even understanding the cache management quesiton is made significantly
easier by having a clean architecture description.
Yours,
Joel
On 3/14/2012 10:40 AM, John Scudder wrote:
One further remark:
On Mar 13, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
...
It may take engineering and evaluating some cache management schemes
before one can decide whether the archtiecture is a good one.
...
Agreed.
Isn't it relevant to the architecture document, that it be possible for a
reader to judge whether the architecture is a good one or not?
--John