RE: [Freenet-dev] Map files for FProxy

[Benjamin Coates]

>From "Mark J. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>I don't think my (derivative of Brandon's) MSK proposal can be implemented
>like the other keytypes, because it is very different. It's not an
>extension of any existing keytype, and it's not a full-fledged keytype in
>itself. Furthermore, the efficiency of MSKs relies on caching a hashtable
>of filename=key pairs, and thus it is better implemented as I have, with a
>MapHandler you instantiate that manages a cache of any number of
>MapFiles. You feed it a URI, i.e., "freenet:pigdogjournal//", and it sends
>back the URI of that file in the map. If the map is not already cached, it
>requests it and caches it.

Why is there an efficiency problem with just re-requesting the map key?  The 
node already does cacheing for all keytypes, and that lets MSKs be "normal" 
keys.

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Benjamin Coates


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