Re: thoughts on memory usage...

From: Assar Westerlund <assar@dont-contact.us>
Date: 20 Aug 1997 11:02:43 +0200

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Oskar Pearson <oskar@is.co.za> writes:
> > In conclusion, if this idea is worth anything, squid RAM usage could
> > drop from average 100 bytes per URL to 6-10, giving more ram and speeding
> > up lookups.
> I think that md5 is the 'way to go'. Using md5 would mean that we essentially
> don't have to worry about collisions... but it's CPU intensive.

Is it really? The URL-s aren't that long. My back-of-the-envelope
calculations is that you should be able to do ~100000 MD5/s (assuming
a URL of ~ 64 bytes).

/assar

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