How does SVN compare difference of large binary file?

From: Li Ma <lima01_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:05:36 -0500

I remember SVN only find out difference of two version of large binary files
and send the difference to server only. My question is how the algorithm was
built to make comparison efficient?
Thanks!

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