On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:24:02AM +0200, Sebastian Sp?th wrote:
> Brandon schrieb:
> >
> > > Actualy, this brings me to something I was thinking about
> > > a while back. Right now, a person downloading a freesite must
> > > make a seperate request for every image on the site. This could
> > > be improved by putting an entire freesite (or a chunk of one
> > > if it's really big) in a .tar.gz, with files being extracted from
> > > the tarball as needed, instead of going out and requesting something
> > > new each time.
> >
> > The same effect could be achieved by adding prefetching to FProxy.
>
> Prefetching is one argument that was used in the mozilla development as
> well, saying that it would speed up web browsing. There were a couple of
> semi academical arguments which basically said, that by needlessly
> prefetching about (let's just assume) 90% of the content, people will be
> clogging all bandwidth away, thus decreasing the overall surfing speed.
>
> I guess the same argument applies against prefetching in this case.
Not to mention the artificial effects on file popularity ;)
--
# tavin cole
#
# "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect,
# a continual flight from wonder."
# - Albert Einstein
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