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by namibj 2129 days ago
Soon, when QUIC is widely supported by the swarm (just needs updating to the current version), IPFS should be better than torrents for start-up delay, and much more importantly, it allows for sharing data across "torrents" when using content-defined chunking via rabin or buzhash. This means that things like common larger binaries get shared between images that include them, which should greatly increase the average amount of seeders for the chunks that make up an image.