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On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 10:24:52AM -0500, Frank Kastenholz wrote: > At 12:36 AM 2/8/98 -0600, Phil Howard wrote: > >By loading the images in parallel, with the initial part of the image files > >being a fuzzy approximation, you get to see about where every button is > >located, and in many cases you know exactly what it is, and you can click > >on them as soon as you know where to go. > > things like buttons tend to be very very small. > the connections never really get out of slowstart. > loading them all in parallel would help, somewhat, > to fully utilize the b*d of the path. but it isn't > very adaptive. better would be to use a single connection > to load all the images. the tcp will rather quickly settle > on the 'best' bandwidth of the link and your overall > throughput will then be optimal. But, as has been noted, loading things in parallel is a user interface issue (I'm tempted to substitute the word requirement, there... :-) Can we move this over to [email protected], folks, before we piss off Randy, John, and Paul? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com
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