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Re:BitTorrent v2 by tleb_ on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @04:31AM (#24406374)
The idea is that on none random data, you are able to use a heuristic that would create variable-sized chunks that fit the data. The simplest way seems to detect padding zeros and start a new block on the first following none zero byte. There probably are other ways, knowing the data type should help.
Re:BitTorrent v2 by hinkley on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @11:46AM (#24409533)
That seems fairly unlikely. Not a lot of big files have zero padding, and if they did them compress them. It will reduce your transfers more than and range substitutions ever will.