Re: Design doc questions

Bill Tutt <billtut@microsoft.com> writes:
> > > It might be useful to spend a paragraph comparing it, or if one of the
> > > vdelta docs makes the comparison, then mentiong that would also be cool.
>
> > vdelta docs do this comparison
>
> Err, I must be blind. I dug up "Delta Algorithms: An Emprical Analysis" ACM
> Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Vol 7, No. 2, April
> '98, and it compares vdelta against diff, diff + gzip, and bdiff, but not
> against xdelta.

Sorry, you're right (I misremembered). It was the XDelta paper that
compared itself against vdelta (though comparing algorithm, not
formats).

Either of them is good enough.

Talked to Josh MacDonald about using XDelta a while back; he couldn't
immediately volunteer to do it, and the work of librarizing XDelta
to be independent of XDFS seems equivalent to just implementing
vdelta/vcdiff.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:06 2006