Comment on Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M recordsComments−ajconway4yIt would be interesting to understand why ipfs was so slow in prior experiments.−m-p-34yMy guess is that you don't have much control over which chunks of data you can request over IPFS compared to BitTorrent.−ajconway4yIf I’m reading this correctly, file blocks in ipfs are individually addressablehttps://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/how-ipfs-works/#directed-acycl...−zozbot2344yPerhaps IPFS implementations do a worse job of prioritizing rarely-seen blocks when seeding content.
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It would be interesting to understand why ipfs was so slow in prior experiments.
My guess is that you don't have much control over which chunks of data you can request over IPFS compared to BitTorrent.
If I’m reading this correctly, file blocks in ipfs are individually addressable
https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/how-ipfs-works/#directed-acycl...
Perhaps IPFS implementations do a worse job of prioritizing rarely-seen blocks when seeding content.