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diff --git a/devel/p5-Set-ConsistentHash/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-Set-ConsistentHash/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2092ae0eb66 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/p5-Set-ConsistentHash/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Consistent hashing is a scheme that provides hash table functionality +in a way that the addition or removal of one slot does not +significantly change the mapping of keys to slots. In contrast, in +most traditional hash tables, a change in the number of array slots +causes nearly all keys to be remapped. + +Consistent hashing was introduced in 1997 as a way of distributing +requests among a changing population of web servers. More recently, it +and similar techniques have been employed in distributed hash tables. + +WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Set-ConsistentHash/ |