At 10:16 AM +0200 2005-09-12, Henk P. Penning wrote:
Please read again ; I asked if it is true that
A is close to B -->IMPLIES--> B is close to A
If it is true, the config file can be half as big ; thats all.
I understood that, and I gave a counter-example. If you go to
the CIA World Factbook and pull up a page on a given country, you'll
find a list of border countries specified. Try doing a full listing,
and I think you'll find that the matrix is relatively sparse. All
sorts of countries may be directly bordering other countries, but
that doesn't necessarily mean that any of those border countries are
necessarily close to any of the other border countries.
If that were the case, then all of Europe would be filled with
points where four or more countries touch or come very close
together, and that's just not what happens.
For what countries would 'region close first' be worse than
'europe random' ?
If it is true in the majority of cases, it is a good first
approximation. Exceptions can be easily specified.
But it's still a lot of work for marginal additional value, and
as network connections go up/down or get congested, etc... the
network topology is going to be relatively far away from the simple
case of knowing what country you're in, and considerably further away
from knowing what countries you're close to.
That sort of thing would be appropriate for someone who was
trying to tweak the last nanosecond out of their clock, and I don't
believe that's a suitable target market for the pool.
Now, this would be an interesting exercise for a computer science
class, looking at graph theory or somesuch, but it's a lot of work
for relatively little operational benefit.
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