28 Feb
2008
28 Feb
'08
6:56 a.m.
On Thursday 28 February 2008 04:38, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
If you're streaming, the buffer is usually just enough to filter out
network timing issues, not downloading the entire content so that you
can play/rewind/fast forward/etc. Like I said, like listening to a
radio station (perhaps I should add "on an old AM/FM radio":).
Pat
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"Streaming" tends to imply no disk cache copy, more like listening
to a radio station...
What difference does it make where it's being buffered? The behavior
of the process in either case is identical.