Re: [freenet-devl] prefetching (was: integrating zlib...)

[Oskar Sandberg]

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:16:18AM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:08:45AM -0500, Brandon wrote:
> > 
> > > And if someone links to a bunch of huge files on a website?  You don't
> > > think that would have massive repercussions on the network?
> > 
> > Prefetching is only useful if done reasonably. Reasonably includes not
> > prefetching large files.
> 
> And in Freenet, how do you determine the size of a file without
> requesting it?

Maybe we should use byte 21 after all. Only make it the log of the total
size of the document instead - that way you would know for sure before
requesting something.

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