[squeak-dev] [Q] BitTorrent Implementation in Squeak

Karl Ramberg karlramberg at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 16:41:01 UTC 2009


On 2009-04-08 18:07, Joshua Gargus wrote:
> karl ramberg wrote:
>> I think the Croquet Teatime implementation was inspired from BitTorrent
>
> There's actually no relationship between them, other than both using 
> "P2P networking" (and each means something different by the term).  
> BitTorrent is focused on getting everyone all the chunks of a file 
> efficiently, but in no particular order.  Croquet aims to maintain 
> identical replicas of a groups of objects with minimimal latency; it 
> does this by ensuring that each peer receives an identical stream of 
> messages.
>
> A BitTorrent implementation could be used in Croquet to share large, 
> immutable data chunks (such as meshes or textures) that don't need to 
> be available at an exact time (just ASAP).
>
> Cheers,
> Josh
But would Croquet work as a BitTorrent like system as_it_ is for any 
file/object in a space?
(Just asking for curiosity )

Karl


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>> Karl
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Chun, Sungjin <chunsj at embian.com 
>> <mailto:chunsj at embian.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Peer protocol is for downloading? Maybe I need both...
>>
>>
>>     On Apr 8, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Philippe Marschall wrote:
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>>         2009/4/8 "S.J.Chun" <chunsj at embian.com
>>         <mailto:chunsj at embian.com>>:
>>
>>             Hi,
>>
>>             are there any reference implementation for BitTorrent in
>>             Squeak/Smalltalk?
>>
>>
>>         Tracker or peer protocol or both?
>>
>>         Cheers
>>         Philippe
>>
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