Desktop Application P2P Distribution Acceleration Practice: Full-Chain Integration from Consumer to Publisher Large file distribution for desktop applications has always been a headache—high bandwidth costs, slow download speeds, and poor user experience. This article shares the hybrid distribution solution we implemented in HagiCode Desktop, which accelerates downloads through P2P technology while maintaining HTTP fallback capability, ultimately achieving a complete closed loop between the publisher and consumer sides. Background Desktop application distribution packages are typically not small, often running into hundreds of MB. This is actually quite normal—after all, modern applications have more and more features, so naturally their size increases. For applications like HagiCode Desktop, each version update means distributing large files to a large number of users, which poses a significant challenge to server bandwidth.…