On 07/12/14 15:12, Steve Dougherty wrote: > On 08/26/2011 11:18 AM, Robert Hailey wrote: >> On 2011/08/25 (Aug), at 2:15 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: >> >>> And we never, ever, ever, have enough data to evaluate a single build, >>> even on the simplest metrics (see the push-pull tests). I could write >>> a plugin to get more data, but digger3 promises to do it eventually >>> and anyway I don't have time given the remaining funding and >>> unlikeliness of getting more. And it's always been this way! >>> >>> Our whole business model forces me to just do things and not evaluate >>> them! >> I think we had an idea for empirical stepwise advancement earlier. >> >> With an investment of developer time, we could separate the current >> freenet code into three interfaced sections (link-layer, routing-layer, >> user/client-interface-layer). >> >> If we then were to modify the outer layers to accept two routing-layers >> (e.g. client requests round-robin between the two but thereafter stay in >> that network) we could have "two networks in one" a stable-net (for the >> nay-sayers, a disaster/fallback, and as a control for measurement), and >> a development-net where experimentation could take place. >> >> Drawing the interface lines on theory (rather than present code-state) >> would be critical [e.g. load-balancing should be in the middle layer, >> imo]. The goal being, reliable communication with >> near-guaranteed/methodical improvement. > Yes, very much this, please. I've been trying to move toward such > separation with a well-defined plugin interface being the first step, > but having funding for a full or part-time developer would help things > along immensely. Right, but what about his specific idea - every node runs a (still anonymous) testnet as well as the main network? It would cut performance in half for the bandwidth- or cpu- limited majority of nodes?
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