macmouse
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join:2002-05-30
Saratoga, CA
| reply to wheelzoff
Re: Sounds a lot like emule / edonkey
Yes. This works because bittorrent makes one "list" or central server keeping track of everything. So pretty much instantly, you can get ahold of a list of all users and be able to fill up connections. With edonkey,gnutella,etc there is no central server, and thus it takes much longer for the message (and user "list") to be passed along.
Imagine the differences like this. A message being send across the "grapevine," from one neighbor to the next. "Did you hear? bob got a new car!". Vs an announcement being made on the local newspaper. Everyone picks up the paper and gets the whole information on the spot, instead of running around and getting bits and pieces together.
The benefit of central is speed, but the benefit of decentralized is it can't be shut down (and "no one" to blame). |
