[p2p-hackers] Re: scalability (was: p2p framework)

Daniel Stutzbach agthorr at cs.uoregon.edu
Wed Nov 30 21:05:11 UTC 2005


On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 09:07:23PM +0100, Ronald Wertlen wrote:
> However, I also believe it is pretty clear that from a search point of 
> view, a random super-peer based network does not scale - it is never 
> going to get the kind of precision and recall that we would call 
> intelligent. It would be too slow or too inaccurate.

Instead of saying "Gnutella does not scale", I think it would be more
accurate to say "Gnutella does not perform the operation I am
interested in".

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Daniel Stutzbach                           Computer Science Ph.D Student
http://www.barsoom.org/~agthorr                     University of Oregon



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