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- Excerpts from ext.WorldWideWeb: 15-Apr-93 Re: Project Gutenberg's Rog..
- Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl (815)
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- > Why is avoiding a name server roundtrip important to you? There's one
- > anyway in links of this type (the hostnames that it links to).
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- Right, and consulting a name-server every time would double the
- round-trips. It can also involve TCP setup around here, and process
- context switches with your application (yep, every machine runs a local
- name server). All expensive -- and we're trying to keep our objects
- light-weight.
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- Bill
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