On Sunday 30 July 2006 18:57, Florent Daigni?re wrote:
> * Juiceman <juiceman69 at gmail.com> [2006-07-30 17:19:04]:
> 
> > On 7/30/06, Florent Daigni?re (NextGen$) <nextgens at freenetproject.org> 
> > wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >        Would someone mind if I remove "pentium" optimized native big
> > >        integer libraries ? what about pentiummmx too ?
> > >        The asset beeing a space gain.
> > >
> > >        Atm, we have : none, pentium, pentiummmx, pentium2, pentium3,
> > >        pentium4, k6, k62, k63, athlon, x86_64
> > >
> > >        IMHO, freenet 0.7 can't run "well enough" on a pentium. I'm
> > >        running a node on a pentium2 and I'm already short of resources.
> > >
> > >        I've got one other idea: what about distributing
> > >        YetAnotherJarfile with only optimized libraries ?
> > >
> > >        one for windows, one for linux (half space gain)
> > >        or one per processor type (including both linux and win32 libs :
> > >        big space gain)
> > >
> > >        any thought ?
> > >
> > 
> > Honestly, I think this is more work than it is worth.  Freenet.jar is
> > half the size of the freenet-ext.jar but is downloaded dozen's of
> > times more often.  In the big picture this is a small percentage of
> > the bandwidth.  Our target audiance is broadband users to which 1
> > extra megabyte once in a great while is not an issue.  Also, I think
> > this will lead to possible support and configuration issues if users
> > get the wrong .jar's or mess around trying for better performance from
> > different files,
> > 
> > I would much rather see the energy spent making the nodeupdater detect
> > new versions amd update the freenet-ext.jar file in-Freenet.  My 2
> > cents.
> 
> The problem is that many people aren't using update-over-freenet but the
> mirrors.

Even then they download the .ext very seldomly.  Think that there is nothing
to gain (except complexitity) by splitting this jar.

Thanks
Ed Tomlinson

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