Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!prisma.UUCP!mo From: mo@prisma.UUCP (Mike O'Dell) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Variable length addresses Message-ID: <8812071620.AA06614@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 7 Dec 88 16:19:26 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 9 Has anyone considered the performance hit by doing this? My guess is that it will be non-trivial. One could argue that 96 bits is easily enough (fixed size) since that number is big enough to enumerate some very sustantial fraction of all the subatomic particles in the known universe. "If it's variable, it probably ain't fast." -Mike O'Dell