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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Bunch of FUD by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-20 10:47 · Score: -1, Redundant

Welcome to the World Wide ... "WOW".

Nice Article, Not Impressed.
and the point is? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-20 11:05 · Score: -1, Redundant

sorry, but i still don't see the gap that freenet is trying to fill. there are far better ways of spreading information in countries that such is banned, and freenet does a very poor job as a file-sharing client. i'd rather see focus on a truly anonymous file-sharing network.