Re: LYNX-DEV Optimizing relative URLs

[David Combs]

> From address@hidden Wed Oct 23 15:17:39 1996
> From: Al Gilman <address@hidden>
> Subject: LYNX-DEV Optimizing relative URLs
> 
> Lately I have been following the lynx-dev discussion by browsing
> the archive.  When you spend that much time wandering around one
> weakly-served site, you notice things.  Like the time spent
> repeating name lookup each time you move between pages at the
> same site.
> 
> I have been able to speed up my own meandering around the archive
> by perhaps 30-40% by starting with an URL which has an IP number
> for the host path.  Because I am navigating with relative URLs
> around the site, I pick up appreciable speed by the time not
> spent repeating name lookup.
> 
> This suggest two possible avenues of optimization:
> 
>       Rob could use IP-number URLs in the root page at
>       lynx.browser.org for at least the Lynx-dev
>       Archive and the Lynx Enhanced Pages.  This would 
>       accelerate the navigation at those sites for people
>       finding their way thence from lynx.browser.org [or
>       caching a bookmark from a visit started thus].
> 
>       Lynx itself could cache the IP number form of host-path
>       as part of BASE when known, and use it in the construction
>       of synthesized URLs relative to this BASE.  This 
>       introduces failures on the odd chance that the IP node
>       serving a domain name changes during the lifetime of
>       a BASE memory in Lynx [perhaps not our most prevalent
>       failure mode].  This would offer some speedup for all
>       navigation via relative URLs.
> 
> Both of these are armchair punditry because I am not in a
> position to Just Do It.  But I at least wanted to pass on the IP
> number acceleration idea for anyone who wants to juice up their
> most-used bookmarks.
> 
> Al Gilman

This too should go into some kind of "temp until fixed" user-doc.

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