Hi Eric, > >> But in case they haven't, I'm wondering if >> anyone has considered using digital fountain codes as a means to >> communicate patches between repositories? > > With apologies for being obtuse, this is something you are proposing as > a way of speeding up operations like darcs get and pull. In other > words, this is proposed as an optimisation? My reading of the below was > that we could use this as a way to simultaneously fetch different pieces > of the same patch(es) from more than place. Sorry for trying to > executive-summarise it :-)
Yes, fountain codes could speed up push and pulls by doing it in parallel without having to synchronize which repositories are sending which data. -Tom _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
