On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:41:00AM -0500, Brandon wrote: > > > 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.
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? -- # tavin cole # # "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, # a continual flight from wonder." # - Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
