Constant libp2p::kad::ALPHA_VALUE

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pub const ALPHA_VALUE: NonZeroUsize;
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The α parameter of the Kademlia specification.

This parameter determines the default parallelism for iterative queries, i.e. the allowed number of in-flight requests that an iterative query is waiting for at a particular time while it continues to make progress towards locating the closest peers to a key.

The current value is 3.