Re: [Mldonkey-users] compressed transfer mode

[MLdonkey]

>  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?

As already said, compressing already compressed data is almost
useless, so it will not be implemented in mldonkey. The only part of
the protocol that should probably be compressed is the transfer of
file descriptions, ie shared file lists and results of search
queries. If it is not that important for clients, it is very important
for servers (each time you download a file, the full list of shared
files with the new file has to be sent to the server! with 100 files,
it is 100kB, so imagine a 1000-clients server...). 

- MLDonkey