At 12:19 PM -0500 4/18/00, awlydick wrote:
>#5 A quick note. Search results should be cached like any other
>Freenet data.
Consider the pathological case where there is only one copy of a document
(perhaps it's very large? or a live updated document?) but everyone is
searching for it.
Without caching, this would generate traffic proportional to the square
of the number of nodes involved - the system grinds to a halt.
With caching, if the search result were cached on each node it passed through,
then the network traffic is just proportional to the number of nodes. Bliss.
In the "real world" Internet, cases that approach pathology are not uncommon...
wait till the bootleg of the next Spice Girls song appears on Freenet.
<wince/><duck/>
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