On Tuesday 10 May 2005 16:40, JFL wrote:
> I found this interesting article on o'reilly.
> http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/05/google_web_a
>cce_1.html

It seems to firm up that prefetching is the basic 
architecture of the accelerator. That's interesting, 
because their online tutorial states it (optionally, but 
recommended) does an IMS on a page before it loads it.

I think prefetching, in addition to the limitations 
mentioned at the link above, is a bad idea - it's 
wasteful in the case of large sites (and they are many) 
using more disk space than necessary, and uses more 
bandwidth in the background than it should; if at all 
this really is the design.

Mark.

>
> On 5/10/05, Mark Tinka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 12:54, Patrick Okui wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 01:48 pm, Mark Tinka wrote:
> > > > It sort of like Download Accelerator. It's
> > > > designed mostly for contention-based access
> > > > solutions, e.g., dial-up, broadband, cable,
> > > > wireless, e.t.c.
> > >
> > > true that, I think I also read (somewhere on
> > > google support) that it tries a fetch off google's
> > > cache. can anyone with billos verify (possibly
> > > with tcpdump et al)
> >
> > In that respect, that would make sense, especially
> > if a local cache of Google's resources are a couple
> > of ms away.
> >
> > I don't see the business sense, but hey, this is a
> > techie's list :).
> >
> > Mark.
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