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Re: concurrency suggestions for Gnus


From: Justin Lilly
Subject: Re: concurrency suggestions for Gnus
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 07:55:50 -0500

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>> Tom> If we went the "lock anything" route, I would suggest a weak hash table
>> Tom> for locks, instead of putting the lock into the object.
>>
>> A bloom filter would guarantee no false negatives, which as you noted is
>> the vast majority of the cases, requires very little space per element
>
> A bloom filter...?!
>
> http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/pubs/1995/SSZG95.html
>
> -miles
>
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