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It doesn't have to understand the topology, it can just understand which peers can serve bytes fastest. (I don't know if it does this, but it's been around lon
by jstanley 8y ago
It doesn't have to understand the topology, it can just understand which peers can serve bytes fastest.
(I don't know if it does this, but it's been around long enough that I'd be surprised if it doesn't).
- bb88 8y agoThat doesn't make it more efficient. It might make it faster at the expense of using your ISP's outgoing bandwidth multiple times over. The most efficient network distribution is one where the data only travels each network link once for all destinations. This is the way multicast works, e.g.