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LYNX-DEV Optimizing relative URLs
From: |
Al Gilman |
Subject: |
LYNX-DEV Optimizing relative URLs |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Oct 1996 17:18:43 -0400 (EDT) |
Lately I have been following the lynx-dev discussion by browsing
the archive. When you spend that much time wandering around one
weakly-served site, you notice things. Like the time spent
repeating name lookup each time you move between pages at the
same site.
I have been able to speed up my own meandering around the archive
by perhaps 30-40% by starting with an URL which has an IP number
for the host path. Because I am navigating with relative URLs
around the site, I pick up appreciable speed by the time not
spent repeating name lookup.
This suggest two possible avenues of optimization:
Rob could use IP-number URLs in the root page at
lynx.browser.org for at least the Lynx-dev
Archive and the Lynx Enhanced Pages. This would
accelerate the navigation at those sites for people
finding their way thence from lynx.browser.org [or
caching a bookmark from a visit started thus].
Lynx itself could cache the IP number form of host-path
as part of BASE when known, and use it in the construction
of synthesized URLs relative to this BASE. This
introduces failures on the odd chance that the IP node
serving a domain name changes during the lifetime of
a BASE memory in Lynx [perhaps not our most prevalent
failure mode]. This would offer some speedup for all
navigation via relative URLs.
Both of these are armchair punditry because I am not in a
position to Just Do It. But I at least wanted to pass on the IP
number acceleration idea for anyone who wants to juice up their
most-used bookmarks.
Al Gilman
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- LYNX-DEV Optimizing relative URLs,
Al Gilman <=
Re: LYNX-DEV Optimizing relative URLs, Subir Grewal, 1996/10/23
Re: LYNX-DEV Optimizing relative URLs, Benjamin C. W. Sittler, 1996/10/24