> > The advantage of the fountain code part is that the receiver doesn't > have to say > > Well, bar.org has twice the bandwidth of foo.org, so I'll ask > foo.org for the first third, and bar.org for the remaining > two-thirds. > > i.e. it doesn't need to know the relative throughput for the various > hosts. It can just say, to both foo.org and bar.org
Nor does it care if the bandwidth of foo.org changes or if bar.org dies half way through. Also, a repo could be in the process of downloading a patch, while transmitting the patch to another repo at the same time. Any site that has at least partial information can broadcast useful information to others. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
