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File patching using data compression with flushing (richg42.blogspot.com)
12 points by _wmd on Oct 27, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


I thought this was interesting because most languages have compression bindings that at least support flush, and I can think of a huge variety of use cases even where a small (32k) window would be sufficient. For example all Python installations have a zlib binding, whereas getting access to something like bsdiff requires a third party library and binding to be installed on both sides of the connection.


I hsd good results with versioned compression dictionary.


This is a fascinating idea!




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