On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:35:55PM +1100, fish wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > other splitfile improvements > > specifically: can we stream FEC splitfiles? it is certainly > > possible to stream non-FEC splitfiles, (although we still > > have to wait for the first block), but if it is FEC... > > it might take a large number of randomly chosen blocks to > > generate the first output block. So how do we do this? Any > > constructive suggestion would be appreciated... > > streaming non-FEC splitfiles is definantly not an ideal situation for > normal downloading, because the latter parts of the file will fall off the > network - we need to be getting the blocks in a random order for *all* > splitfiles If we have sufficient threads available, we should download all the chunks simultaneously for latency reasons. However I would argue that we need to request in order for a non-FEC splitfile, to reduce the latency of the first successful byte. If the user fetches the whole file, then all blocks are propagated. > > - fish >
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