> Prefetching is one argument that was used in the mozilla development as
> well, saying that it would speed up web browsing. There were a couple of
> semi academical arguments which basically said, that by needlessly
> prefetching about (let's just assume) 90% of the content, people will be
> clogging all bandwidth away, thus decreasing the overall surfing speed.
>
> I guess the same argument applies against prefetching in this case.
Actually, no, prefetching is uniquely suited to Freenet because the
transfer time is not based on your available bandwidth, but on the HTL
required to reach the file. So most of time when you're requesting a file,
the node is actually idle whereas with web sites it's mostly transferring.
Prefetching a bunch of movies would be dumb, but prefetching a website
would be good. Additionally, prefetching a website means that all items in
a site will have the same popularity (and therefore stay in/fall out
together) and you won't have broken images/links.
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