[arch-general] What happened to Powerpill?

[Cédric Girard]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/3/28 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric at gmail.com>:
> > On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Marek Otahal <markotahal at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I started
> >> using it recently for it's aria2c multithreaded downloads
> >>
> >
> > Hi,
> > You may continue to use aria2c with various techniques explained here:
> >
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Improve_Pacman_Performance#Using_aria2
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Cédric Girard
> >
> Unfortunately those techniques don't give the biggest speedup -
> simultaneous download of multiple files. Does help, though =)
>

Downloading one file from several mirrors should be equivalent to
downloading multiple files from one mirror (or even better). Or am I wrong?

-- 
Cédric Girard