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viraptor on Feb 15, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Opening the Filecoin Project Repos

What scale is "noticeable"? Is it slower than "we're going to pretend the network is slow and send you 1KB/s until we generate the rest"?

askmike on Feb 15, 2019 | [–]

I wouldn't be surprised if regenerating it a few times is more expensive than simply storing it once.

darawk on Feb 15, 2019 | [–]

1kb is much larger than most hashes.

viraptor on Feb 17, 2019 | [–]

I'm not sure what you're trying to say by that.

darawk on Feb 17, 2019 | | [–]

I'm saying that strategies like that won't work when the data required fits into a single packet.

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