[mnet-devel] Re: [mnet-cvs]terminology doc (icepick could double-check)

[icepick at icepick.info]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 06:03:04PM -0400, Zooko wrote:
> 
> By the way, using oprofile, and asking the performance gurus on #oprofile for 
> advice, I've figured out something that will *probably* accelerate fec 
> encoding significantly -- perhaps by a factor of two or even more.
> 
> However, there is a tradeoff -- the trick would involve generating all the 
> shares in parallel rather than in sequence, which would mean we would have to 
> store them on disk while generating but before publication has completed.
> 
> Also, of course, I may have misunderstood how the algorithm works so this 
> trick wouldn't help.

No, I think this would work great.  I *sorta* understand the algo behind
(going read the paper again), but there is no reason I can think of that
this wouldn't work.

Could you describe the trick?

icepick




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