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Maybe there should be a margin factor, just like in architecture. Build it for 5x the load, then 10x that.
by agumonkey 4y ago
Maybe there should be a margin factor, just like in architecture. Build it for 5x the load, then 10x that.
- em3rgent0rdr 4y agoWell ARPA already had a margin factror...they had about 256 computers that needed addresses, and left space for 2^24 times 256, or 4,294,967,296 computers. The growth ended up to be exponential over time. So maybe a better margin would be expressed exponentially along the lines of "build it for 2^(doubling_constant * number_of_years) the load."
- agumonkey 4y agofair enough but cerf seemed to hint at the fact that 32bit was their lower estimate, I meant to multiply that number.