Saving Data: Reducing the Size of App Updates by 65%

Re:Saving Data: Reducing the Size of App Updates by 65% by franciscop on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @03:47AM (#13121305)

Is this basically something like git? Isn't it crazy that something like this hasn't been implemented until today?

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Re:Saving Data: Reducing the Size of App Updates by 65% by StreamBright on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @04:41AM (#13121471)

I am not sure what you mean by git. This is binary data diffing using bsdiff, applied at the individual file level instead of the whole package (single file).

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Re:Saving Data: Reducing the Size of App Updates by 65% by ksashikumar on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @08:43AM (#13122423)

Even in git there are lot of challenges: http://githubengineering.com/how-we-made-diff-pages-3x-faste...

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