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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-1 Haven't we seen this already? by Monkelectric · 2003-07-20 10:51 · Score: 0, Troll

Oops ... wrong site :D

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good by shaklee · 2003-07-20 15:18 · Score: 1, Troll

I installed freenet for the first time and it took 10 minutes to perform the first search, kazaa takes about 3 seconds.
Worthless Trash by Synic · 2003-07-20 19:23 · Score: 0, Troll

This supposed program Freenet doesn't let you do anything really. It takes for-fricken-ever just to download all the images from the front page (I am using an un-firewalled Mozilla Firebird latest nightly to test it) and then clicking any of the pages like Yoohoo (or whatever the hell it's called) doesn't result in it going anywhere.

Vaporware in physical form, I say.