[darcs-users] Binary patches

[Sean E. Russell]

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On Friday 05 December 2003 06:08, David Roundy wrote:
> That's correct.  The only use of a binary diff would be to save disk space,
> since you don't want to do any merging of changes to binary files.

... which would be a very important use, considering that binary files tend to 
be an order of magnitude (or more) larger than source files.

> If you like (and if Ruby can easily call C), the conversion to and from hex
> is now written in C (in fpstring.c), so you could use it rather than

Its pretty easy to convert to and from hex in Ruby, but doing it via the C 
library would be much faster.  However, this would make Yarcs depend on 
compiled code, and I suspect that Kevin's shooting for a pure Ruby solution.

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