Kendall Clark wrote: > Huh? You really lost me here. My question was way simpler than that. The > fact that the Web scales to 5B+ documents is a surprise to computer > scientists. One of the prevailing explanations is that HTTP got smarter > (basically, it became more cachable by intermediaries and proxies) and that > those technical changes (the changes aren't *theoretical* or "theory", and I > didn't imply that) were the critical change which has let the Web scale to > 5B+ documents. >
i posted this already, but i will repeat my question: could you explain further what you mean by the "web scales to 5b+ documents"? and who are the computer scientists who are surprised by this? there are some interesting questions with respect to scaling and the web -- for instance, the issue of scaling individual servers w.r.t simultaneous access. for eg see the c10k problem/project: http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html -- is this the sort of thing you are talking about? but your messages are a bit confusing... --ravi
