Tavin Cole schrieb: > > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:41:00AM -0500, Brandon wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > Actually, no, prefetching is uniquely suited to Freenet because the > > transfer time is not based on your available bandwidth, but on the HTL > > required to reach the file. So most of time when you're requesting a file, > > the node is actually idle whereas with web sites it's mostly transferring.
Actually in Freenet you have the requesting overhead *plus* the transferral time. So the arguments are IMHO still valid. > > 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 _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
