queue2 vs downloadbuffer

Tim Müller tim at centricular.com
Sat Aug 6 10:23:32 UTC 2016


On Wed, 2016-08-03 at 08:43 -0700, Baby Octopus wrote:

Hi,

> I'm going through the property of these two elements. Queue2 seems to
> be superset of download buffer. Isn't it? Is queue2 better?
> 
> Also, is queue2 better than queue since it has disk buffering
> capacity? On the other hand, queue2 seems to be having only one
> signal

Hard to answer these questions without any context what you're trying
to achieve.

queue2 is a superset of downloadbuffer in principle, but IIRC
downloadbuffer has some extra functionality such as filling gaps.
queue2 is a nightmare to maintain because it has so many different
modes, so downloadbuffer was split out as separate dedicated element
for one purpose.

Not sure what made you conclude that downloadbuffer does not provide
disk buffering?

Cheers
-Tim

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