On Sunday 23 February 2003 02:37 pm, Ian Clarke wrote:
> What is the point in forcing every client author to reimplement FEC
> when the FEC code is already present within Fred?

It is kludgy to say the least if you're inserting data into Fred from 
another machine.  The data sent back and forth over the wire (even through 
localhost) is simply unecessary and wasteful.

Even though most inserts are sent to localhost, inserts theoretically can 
occur over a group of nodes all simultaneously (I think fishtools does 
this).

Also, using Fred to do FEC encoding means Fred is now extremely busy, 
meaning I cannot FEC encode another file at the same time with the same 
node.  By moving the encoding offline, in the long run inserts will be 
faster.

-- 
Jay Oliveri                                  "In the land of the blind,
GnuPG ID: 0x5AA5DD54                          the one-eyed man is king."
FCPTools Maintainer
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