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I think that hundreds of thousands of peer machines would be way faster than a few centralized repositories... right? It seems you would have essentially unlim

• tiluha 3y ago
  Finding peers is somewhat slow. When downloading via torrent it takes a while to really ramp up in speed. With a centralized repository you can start downloading basically right away. For many small files the latency is more important than the bandwidth, given that most repositories are not short on bandwitdth.
  • strangesmells02 3y ago
    That seems easy to work around. You could write it in such a way that it would have a live cache of peers ready to go plus also the centralized peers would always be available. I personally suspect that having centralized repos is a legacy technology from pre-torrent days when also disk wasnt cheap.
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• kortilla 3y ago
  Picking a peer you have good bandwidth to is a hard problem.