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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite algorithms? by majewsky on Monday January 30, 2017 @05:34AM (#13519957)
> 2. The algorithm behind rsync.

Do you mean the rolling checksum part?

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite algorithms? by wmu on Monday January 30, 2017 @06:03AM (#13520090)
All parts, I like how the simple parts were composed to built pretty complicated algorithm.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite algorithms? by The_Hoff on Monday January 30, 2017 @09:57AM (#13521639)
Yeah, I assume majewsky is wondering if you mean just the rolling checksum part because that's the most complex part. Rsync, as a whole, is certainly one of my favorites and the algorithm(s) it uses are some of the ones I most often call explicitly.