File backed UIImageView vs. NSURL Cache Control Policies

I am working on an image heavy iPad app. We implemented our own table view-esque control which reuses UIImageViews as a user scrolls the screen. To reduce network calls and make it perform better, I implemented a file backed UIImageView that writes the loaded i开发者_运维百科mages to the NSTemporaryDirectory and checks that before making a call to get a new image.

I should have looked at this before but I was later pointed to the different NSURLRequest Cache Policies.

My question is, is there any reason my custom file cache could perform better than the default cache?

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From what I gather the iOS cache is memory only, so your homebrew cache will work better across app starts.