Re: [Mldonkey-users] compressed transfer mode

[Ivo]

> Emule has a compressed transfer mode, so that transfers between two emule
> clients are much faster. Each chunk, that is transfered is being compressed
> on the uploading PC und decompressed again on the downloading PC. This is a
> much more effective use of bandwith than sending uncompressed chunks.  Would
> it be possible to make MLdonkey able to send compressed chunks to other
> MLdonkey or Emule Clients? That would probably increase CPU load, but I
> think, normally the limitating factor is the available upload/download
> bandwith and not the CPU. 
> 
> What do you think about this feature?

Would that make much of a difference? Most shared files are (should be)
compressed already; would extra compression make it much smaller?

Ivo