RE: WC permissions

John Peacock Wrote:

> There is also the issue that if the individual files are very large, the time
to produce > the version delta may be so large that the system would have
difficulty keeping up
> (depending on the speed of the changes). Scaling has a lot more to do with
the whole
> process, not just the storage.

I don't know the internals of how svn does its binary diffing... But from my
past experences with other binary diff tools, it is VERY memory intensive...

I have worked with bsdiff, which takes around 17 times the size of the file to
do its diffs... http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/

Granted this is a little extreme, but in general, unless you really are making
small changes to binary files, as opposed to not outright changing them
dramatically, this may not be the best tool for the job...

-Alan

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Received on Wed Dec 10 21:32:24 2003