Re: Delta performance

Bryan and Karl made a couple of references to:
> In other words, gzip is good at eliding redundant data. I don't
> think the fact that a diff contains unnecessary information will
> affect its overall size significantly.

Actually, I was using diff -e (diff -ae on binary files), which
doesn't include any information from the source file. (Unless you
count the unchanged parts of lines.) Sorry I wasn't clear about that.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:10 2006