From: Roger Pack Date: 2008-01-02T07:33:05+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby dht libs Hemant Kumar wrote: > Why not use Memcache? ( As Ford Prefect would have said, "My mouth > will shut itself, If i don't speak the obvious" ) That's a very good idea. I guess the only reason is that theoretically they should scale better if you get say 1 million clients. Downloading the list of clients would be problematic, whereas DHT's don't need knowledge of the entire system at the get go. But I'm with you memcache would be easier :) -Roger -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.