[Mldonkey-users] md4 computing (was: Re: eMule Mod to emulate mldonkey)

[Michael Panteleit]

MLdonkey <address@hidden> writes:

> Another interesting idea would be to separate the process which
> computes md4 of chunks from mldonkey. This way, someone could
> restart its mldonkey without restarting the other process, so that
> the md4s would be computed less often.

I asked this once or twice before. Why is it necessary to compute the
md4s on each startup? Is it just for verifying?

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