Re:Saving Data: Reducing the Size of App Updates by 65%
by user5994461 on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @05:07PM
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Don't know about how bsdiff operate, maybe it's naive.
Good deduplication and diff algorithms have adaptive block size detection.
However, the resulting differences don't seem nearly as amenable to the bsdiff algorithm as the changes to the underlying uncompressed data. In almost all cases, you'll likely get better results with bsdiff on the uncompressed data (and bsdiff internally compresses its result).