On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:29:44PM +0100, Theodore Hong wrote:
> Oskar Sandberg <oskar at freenetproject.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:15:55AM +1200, David McNab wrote:
> > > > Where are you getting the idea that whatever observed slowness is due to
> > > > fproxy being written in Java?
> > > 
> > > On my system, FProxy can't stream MP3s.
> > > FwProxy (written in C) streams them beautifully.
> > 
> > Maybe FwProxy does not handle all data by copying it into memory as an
> > array of Strings, then into an array of byte arrays, then into one long
> > byte array, then onto the user socket...
> 
> I have to say I don't know why you have conceived this obsessive hatred of
> fproxy.  First, the mumail stuff only happens on insert, not request, so it
> has absolutely no bearing on fproxy's ability or lack thereof to stream
> mp3s.  (Anyway, I didn't even write that code.)

I didn't name this thread, and I don't have an obsessive hatred of it, I
just didn't like a lot of what I saw inside there. You have to admit
that the HTTP implementation could have been better (doing > /dev/null
with all the options just rubs me the wrong way).

> Second, the encrypt/decrypt cycle you're complaining about isn't new to
> fproxy, but goes all the way back to the original design of InsertClient
> and RequestClient as lightweight nodes instead of a client
> protocol/interface.

Did I say otherwise?

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Oskar Sandberg
oskar at freenetproject.org

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