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by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 702 days ago
That's clever. I'd wondered how you can transfer files with "any order, as long as the entire file completes as fast as possible" semantics, that is, without head-of-line blocking, without incurring a lot of overhead. I guess the answer is to use lots of big chunks and lots of streams, instead of lots of tiny packet-sized chunks in 1 stream.
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it's exactly the way torrents have worked for decades, so it's pretty well tested.