David Barrett wrote:
>
> I guess it kinda makes sense because latency can only improve so much --
> there's an asymptotic approach toward instant -- while bandwidth can improve
> infinitely.
"Pipes get wider but not shorter."
In approximately the year 2000, Mark Miller [*] told me that this was one of
the principles at Electric Communities [3] (circa 1980's). This was why E [4]
was designed to aggressively pipeline in order to reduce round-trips.
Regards,
Zooko
[*] Mark S. Miller [1] was one of the architects of project Xanadu [2], and
Electric Communities [2] and is currently the architect of the E secure
decentralized programming language ("P2P Scripting Language") [4].
[1] http://www.caplet.com/
[2] http://xanadu.com/
[3] http://www.fudco.com/chip/lessons.html
[4] http://erights.org/
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