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Re:Saving Data: Reducing the Size of App Updates by 65% by js2 on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @10:58AM (#13123459)
These programs were originally named bdiff and bpatch, but the large number of other programs using those names lead to confusion; I'm not sure if the "bs" in refers to "binary software" (because bsdiff produces exceptionally small patches for executable files) or "bytewise subtraction" (which is the key to how well it performs). Feel free to offer other suggestions.
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