On 04/15/2011 09:04 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: > http://cedarandthistle.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/on-binary-delta-algorithms/ Read the article and parts of the thesis. So, the final version of the algorithm still remains with the University of Oxford??
I downloaded the bsdiff srpm for fc15 and built it. I then used it to diff -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3699072 Feb 6 23:09 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686 vs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3702144 Mar 31 15:26 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.12-88.fc14.i686 and the resulting patch -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3554921 Apr 15 22:17 vmlinux-2.6.35.11-83--2.6.35.12-88.patch So, you can see that the patch is almost the same size as the files diffed. Obviously, version 4.3-8 does not contain the unpublished optimizations that Colin Percival mentions in his thesis. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
