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<p>This documents describes the algorithm libtorrent uses to satisfy time critical
piece requests, i.e. streaming.</p>
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<h1>streaming vs sequential_download</h1>
<p>Libtorrent's <tt class="docutils literal">sequential_download</tt> mod