I don't think it's an acronym, it just seems to be a convention in the literatur...

		wgjordan on Jan 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Aren't We Sieve-Ing? I don't think it's an acronym, it just seems to be a convention in the literature to capitalize eviction-algorithm names (cf. "CLOCK"). According to the footnote in the paper where the name is first mentioned, "SIEVE sifts out unpopular objects from cache over time".