[darcs-users] Clever idea for storing binaries, comments?

[Taral]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 05:06:32PM +1300, Quag wrote:
> > xdelta3 is garbage. Look up 'bsdiff'. It would be possible to augment
> > the algorithm with a small amount of extra metadata that would enable
> > reversibility.
> 
> I hadn't come across bsdiff. Thanks for the link, it looks
> interesting. I have no love for xdelta3, so please don't take this the
> wrong way, but what makes xdelta3 garbage?

Mostly the fact that it's so heavily interlaced with the PRCS stuff. At
least that's what I saw the last time I looked at it... Not to mention
that bsdiff performs _far_ better.

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