Re: [Mldonkey-users] Re: similar chunks detection

[Jörg Maisenbacher]

Sven Hartge wrote:
> Brett Dikeman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > At 8:07 AM +0100 3/3/03, Volker wrote:
> >
> >
> > > o Added detection of similar chunks between files, not used yet
>
>
> > > IMHO that's a great idea - i'm looking forward to it.
>
>
> > I can't see any files having the same ~10MB in common, to be honest.
> > Has anyone actually worked out how often this occurs, if at all?
>
>
> This is rare, indeed, but if the test is cheap enough, then why not? It
> could save you some bytes to download, but you don't lose anything, if
> this test does nothing for you.

IMHO it's for fixing maybe corrupted files. If you download a file, 
where 2 bits were flipped, you get a different MD4, but most of the 
chunks are absolut identical.

Dek

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