On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:56:06AM -0500, Jason Hudgins wrote:
> > The metaphor is a close one, but not quite exact.  Freenet searches are
> > depth first hill-climbing searches, a B+ tree *could* be adapted in this
> > manner, but you'd have to have upward references so you could backtrack.
> 
> Sorry guys, I'm really behind here, playing catchup.. are the freenet
> servers now using btree's rather than hash's?  That would make more
> sense
> to me for searching purposes...
They're using hashes, because hashes are far more efficient for getting
at a key.  (O(1) vs O(log n))

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