Lookaside clone support proof of concept

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Fri Oct 5 15:51:00 CDT 2012


On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Could you explain what it does, and why it's supposed to be helpful?

Just a guess: because you can put up a straight file instead of an
interactive repository thing, which facilitates straight sending out
of bytes through a fast web server (which is faster than streaming
chunks through Python) and things like mirrors and edge caching.

Cheers,

Dirkjan


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