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It would be interesting to understand why ipfs was so slow in prior experiments.
by ajconway 5y ago
It would be interesting to understand why ipfs was so slow in prior experiments.
- m-p-3 5y agoMy guess is that you don't have much control over which chunks of data you can request over IPFS compared to BitTorrent.
- ajconway 5y agoIf I’m reading this correctly, file blocks in ipfs are individually addressable https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/how-ipfs-works/#directed-acyclic-graphs-dags https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/how-ipfs-works/#directed-acycl...
- zozbot234 5y agoPerhaps IPFS implementations do a worse job of prioritizing rarely-seen blocks when seeding content.