Making Freenet Find Stuff Faster

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 20, 2003 @10:35AM from the chugging-through-the-data dept.

Sanity writes "Many probably saw the recent announcement of Freenet 0.5.2. This release represented a vast amount of work - primarily in reducing Freenet's CPU and memory requirements. However, streamlining Freenet's current functionality isn't all we've been working on. I just finished an article that describes the most fundamental improvement to Freenet's core algorithm since its original design over three years ago, it is called "Next Generation Routing" and has the potential to dramatically increase the speed with which Freenet retrieves information. It could even make Freenet faster than the World Wide Web in many circumstances, all without compromizing anonymity and while remaining immune to the /. effect."

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Challange? by traskjd · 2003-07-20 10:40 · Score: 5, Funny

"immune to the /. effect."

If this isn't a challange I don't know what is :-)

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1. Re:Challange? by Surak · 2003-07-20 10:48 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly downloaded Freenet in a fury and it was suddenly silenced. :-P
  
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Beware the Federation by Vagary · 2003-07-20 10:51 · Score: 5, Funny

You know what'd be really impressive? Finding a way to make FreeNet slower. It'd be so slow you could make a Beowulf cluster of FreeNet nodes and use it as a time machine. Personally, I'd use it to go back to Ian Clarke's dorm room and convince him to get drunk and high rather than wasting his life making a P2P system that will be useful around the same time we have to start worrying about being censored by the United Federation of Planets. But that's just me.