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[Thomas Voegtlin]

Paul Harrison wrote:

>Been looking at protozilla a bit, it looks like there is a cross platform
>javascript variant that just does some kind of url rewriting eg
>circle-file:blibble -> http://localhost:29621/blibble. Couldn't get it
>working on my machine though :-( However, we have the possibility of
>hacking together a really stripped back javascript protozilla that just
>does what we want and that does work on most platforms.

That would be great. I looked at protozilla too, but not enough to 
understand their code. As you mentioned, having circle-file:blah urls 
would make a great publicity to circle.

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>and njh wrote:
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>>It's going to be incredibly slow.  I'll try it when you've been using it
>>for, hmmm, a week.
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>There's no technical reason it should be slow. The hashtable lookup need
>not take more than a few seconds, and we can just download from the
>original server while we're doing the lookup, or even just skip the 
lookup
>on small files.

the hashtable lookup is indeed reasonably fast when the searched 
name is not salted (i.e. when the object that is searched for is 
unique).

this makes me wonder how other DHTs deal with common names. 
Do they use the same technique? I know that Overnet returns 
a limited number of items when you search for 'mp3', and it 
does so relatively fast. A priori circle may return up to 
256^4 results for a given key, which is really a lot...