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

[Scott G. Miller]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:22:56PM -0500, Brandon wrote:
> 
> > 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.
Yeah, thats a good solution.  0.4 is actually fixing the network in
certain ways that *should* (might?) help significantly.  

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