RE: [freenet-devl] prefetching (was: integrating zlib...)

[Benjamin Coates]

>From Sebastian Sp�th <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>>> Prefetching a bunch of movies would be dumb, but prefetching a website
>>> would be good.
>
>That would mean you want to prefetch certain types of files
>(html,txt,...) and leaving out others (.gif,mp3)? That would
>artificially raise the popularity of the former file types.
>E.g. an often visited dmoz.org like directory would to never having
>pages dropping out of freenet which it links to, even if they are
>uninteresting.
>
>Seb
>

You get a pretty good guess of how big the document is from the key (SSK, SVK,
KSK <= 32k, CHK has a size byte) so you could just prefetch anything up to a
certain size (say, 128kB on a fast connection), without having to figure out
the type...

--
Benjamin Coates


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