* Re: [9fans] mail problems.. trip down memory lane
@ 2003-08-18 11:58 matt
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From: matt @ 2003-08-18 11:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
matt wrote :
>> Your original argument was against the local cache pushing something to
>> the client over UDP because UDP doesn't scale.
boyd wrote :
>no it doesn't and my other point is it's not reliable, so you just bang out
>packets until one finds its destination. this, in a >worst case scenario,
>would flood the 'network'.
>it 'works' by virtue of the fact that the problem has been reduced in scale.
>'caches are multiplicative' i think rob said in his sam paper.
>and there's NAT and firewalls, just for extra points etc, etc ...
I should have looked it up at the time.
I got the impression you were using the argument against the cacheing.
What he actually says is :
Caches pay off in surprising ways.
Also, they tend to be independent, so their performance improvements are multiplicative.
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