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		rottencupcakes on Oct 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Solving the 100GB Game Download It sounds like it’s just a file system, backed by a local cache and then the network. They can probably monitor file access to figure out what they should cache locally without actually touching any game files.

chaboud on Oct 21, 2023 [–]

Yeah. The probabilistic access patterns for games are going to be comically repeatables for prefetching.

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