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I'm not sure if the website allows for diffs against arbitrary tree states, but if it does than the diff space is completely unbounded, and the ram demand is theoretically infinite.
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cache all of them? no... but you could cache some of them, likely the newer are accessed more frequently.
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Per the article, the vast majority of traffic is scrapers that are generating effectively random, permuted URLs. Even if they're already caching their popular-with-real-humans most recent data, that efficiency gain is a tiny drop in a very large bucket.
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