protocols

How does DHT in torrents work?

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With trackerless/DHT torrents, peer IP addresses are stored in the DHT using the BitTorrent infohash as the key. Since all a tracker does, basically, is respond to put/get requests, this functionality corresponds exactly to the interface that a DHT (distributed hash table) provides: it allows you to look up and store IP addresses in the … Read more

What’s the correct way to implement default properties when doing default implementation of protocols in Swift?

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It’s been a few weeks since I posted this, but I believe what Aaron Brager said is true. While Protocol-Oriented-Programming is rather new in itself, the idea of protocols has been present in Objective-C for a long time, they are in Swift, and they have their variants in languages such as Java. Due to the … Read more