Re: thoughts on memory usage...

From: Assar Westerlund <assar@dont-contact.us>
Date: 20 Aug 1997 10:59:51 +0200

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"Andres Kroonmaa" <andre@ml.ee> writes:
> For URL search all we need is a uniq identifier that can be calculated
> from any given URL. thus we'd need an alogritm that gives always a uniq
> (hash) id from any possible URL. It could be 64 bits, or whatever is
> possible to make it uniq enough. This algoritm could well be
> non-reversible.

> ICP could use these cryptic ID's to ask for hits from peering caches,
> (if they have negotiated to use the same algoritm), reducing ICP traffic
> and remote cpu usage.

Didn't I read in some of the ICP-docs something about using the MD5 of
the URL instead of the entire URL?

/assar

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