> Umm, we don't want them on Freenet.
Just because they are potentially infinite doesn't mean that the clients will necessarily insert infinite number of blocks. What if it turns out that if FEC was capable of producing 1.7n rather than 1.5n blocks out of each file the chances of retrieval would increase significantly? There probably is a treshold of redundancy that provides "sufficient" retrievability and does not flood the network. Otherwise all arguments against these codes could have been applied against FEC in the first place ;-) Also, from a brief overlook of the algorithm it looks like it will require much less cpu as its mostly XORs, and various limitations such as chunk size, # of chunks per segment, etc. don't seem to apply. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
