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Breadth-First Arvo Move Order

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2 Months

Switching from Arvo's current "depth-first" move order to "breadth-first" intends to improve the reliability of parts of the kernel, including upgrades and breach handling, by switching to chronological ordering of intra-event delivery of moves to vanes.

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Pointer Compression: Cell Compression

duration

2-4 Months

An optimization would be to ensure that any page of memory inside the "loom" (noun memory arena) stores only cells (pairs) or atoms (numbers).

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HTTP Mutable URL Caching

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1 Month

Urbit should be able to serve websites at custom URLs efficiently to support serving websites to the old web from a single ship without needing to configure caching reverse proxies such as nginx or varnish.

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Jet Dashboard Experiments

duration

2-4 Months

Experimenting with different designs for the jet dashboard could improve performance, security, and general simplicity of the codebase.

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Memory-Efficient Meld

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1-2 Months

A more memory-efficient implementation of `|meld` should reduce dangerous memory pressure. This would reduce maintenance burden.

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Basic Remote Scry Protocol

duration

1-2 Months

The "Fine" remote scry protocol will form the foundation of scalable content distribution in Urbit, by allowing many subscriber ships to read data efficiently from a publisher ship without incurring excessive load on the publisher.

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Typed Paths

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1 Week

Typed paths should improve performance and developer experience, and it could unblock a typed interface to publications.

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Validate Ames Packets in Vere

duration

1 Month

One of the first things we can do to begin protecting against DoS is to validate packets in Vere before injecting them as Arvo events. This will make it harder for an attacker to lock up a victim's event loop, and it should be a straightforward project.