Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation Research

Re:Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation R... by mips_avatar on Thursday January 30, 2025 @09:44AM (#42878178)

Decompilers aren’t just for security research they’re a key part of data compression of software updates. Delta compressors make deltas between decompiled code. So an improvement in mapping of decompiled files could have as much as a 20x improvement in software update size.

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Re:Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation R... by mahaloz on Thursday January 30, 2025 @12:04PM (#42879695)

I love this use case! Do you have any public links acknowledging/mentioning/showing this use case? Including it in the Applications portion of the Dec Wiki would be great.

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Re:Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation R... by auguzanellato on Thursday January 30, 2025 @07:08PM (#42883535)

Don’t delta updates usually use some binary diffing algorithm? Even if they didn’t I can understand why would they make deltas using decompiled code and not the disassembled one.

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Re:Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation R... by pjc50 on Friday January 31, 2025 @05:34AM (#42886422)

? I thought delta compressors operated on the binary directly, can you provide an example of one which does actual decompilation/recompilation?

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Re:Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation R... by mips_avatar on Friday January 31, 2025 @08:46AM (#42887585)

Pretty much only Microsoft msdelta does it. Google courgette only does a disassembly.

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