 utilize.</p>
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<h1>piece picking</h1>
<p>The standard bittorrent piece picker is peer-centric. A peer unchokes us or we
complete a block from a peer and we want to make another request to that peer.
The piece picker answers the question: which block should we request from this
peer.</p>
<p>When streaming, we have a number of <em>time critical</em> pieces, the ones the video
or audio player will need next to keep up with the stream. To keep the deadlines
of thes