Re: [freenet-devl] integrating zlib compression into freenet

[Brandon]

> No, it really wouldn't.  The "perceived performance surfing Freenet
> websites" is caused by the latency traversing the network to
> search for the data.   Compression of the data wouldn't help with that at
> all.

BTW, I figured out how to eliminate this problem. The solution is to have
a pre-fetching caching web proxy between your browser and FProxy. That way
whenever you go to a site all of the links will be already cached in your
node. This will also help with site propagation because sites will
propagate altogether rather than having the index page receive a lot more
hits, resulting in often broken links.

Of course there are some necessary tweaks. For instance you probably don't
want to prefetch links to movies.

I've found, unfortunately, that there are no working pre-fetch web proxies
currenly in existing (some old ones from 96 that don't work, though). So
someone should really add a parameter to FProxy to turn on internal
pre-fetching. Alas, I don't have time to write this right now.



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