> Here are some ideas:
>
> 1) You don't need to mail back all the intermediate residues to see if
> they are matching - you only need to send a checksum, which could be
> as small as a few hundred bytes!
or just 4 bytes for a 32 bit residue. Or why not 8 bytes for a nice,
"safe", 64 bit residue.
> 2) Users could elect how often to save the residue, by % or by
> iteration #, depending on their free hard drive space.
Better not let the user pick how often. Better to just let the client
software "hardcode" at what points it saves residues, just to make sure
everyone is doing it the same way.
> This process could help save work from mid-point gimp quitters, by
> letting them at least send in their mid-point residue. (Or is this
> already done - I've never quit!)
For someone to be able to pick up where someone else left off, it'd have to
send the whole intermediate file to some server. Those files are getting
larger and larger...
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