This was supposed to go out yesterday, but I mistyped the address. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Piete Brooks <Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:

I wrote:

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... but I still think the prefetching of some more segments would be useful.

I'm seeing calls from calpoly.edu and albany.net taking less than a second. Are you **REALLY** worried about wasting that sort of time, when even a single segment usually takes a quarter of an hour even on the faster machines ?

Wow, I knew it had been sped up, but I didn't realize... You've convinced me. :-)

[ Getting down to the implementation details 1) it would be hard for brloop to know that brutessl is 3/4s done. 2) I can't think how to do prefetching in a safe way, and without disc use ]

Good points. Never mind the pre-allocation. Abashed, -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMEKVMREcrOJethBVAQENBQP5AeM1crT8+fqAkWKtFPQHi+ljbP2cwnIy 36jcC4WCQVdKtor5hZZu+0yfyENAirGI6SKFesJFrRi9avMHmOYTo2QTvnhZQYy/ patw2wRXDwrfWY6ndklmssROM59pLhZmngkMlIzEd1QVrmy2YGbKnJOvzIrUwaYL rGzztIzvLVo= =UAte -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- David R. Conrad, ab411@detroit.freenet.org, http://www.grfn.org/~conrad Finger conrad@grfn.org for PGP 2.6 public key; it's also on my home page Key fingerprint = 33 12 BC 77 48 81 99 A5 D8 9C 43 16 3C 37 0B 50 Jerry Garcia, August 1, 1942 - August 9, 1995. Requiescat in pace.