On Wednesday 16 December 2009 00:39:24 Gregory Maxwell wrote: > There is a *ton* of available bandwidth on optical fibers. For the > communication part we have Butter's law: "Butters' Law says the amount > of data coming out of an optical fiber is doubling every nine > months"[1]
well, efficiency on transmission is important. the network will be faster for all users if files are smaller. every block less per file spares much bandwidth because the blocks travel several hops per node (bandwidth_per_transfer * 2 * number_of_hops). the encoders are only run once (except for re-inserts). the decoder is only run after successful download at recipient nodes. > Of course, Freenet does a lot of network criss-crossing... this shifts > the balance in favour of stronger compression but that doesn't > magically make compression that only gives a 1% reduction a win. every block less counts, let's give the penalty to the seeders and leechers. good byte -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20091216/0cace9a9/attachment.pgp>
