A more efficient up2date service using binary diffs

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:03:11 +0000, Joe Desbonnet 
> 2) bsdiff needs *lots* of memory to generate the diff 

Hard numbers on resource use.. its always better if you can produce them.
Things are always about tradeoffs and client side benefits must be
weighed against serverside resource constraints... and the only way to
do that is to give relevant resource numbers for all resources of
concern. Focusing on the resource the benefits.. is not going to win
over people concerned about other aspects. I think everyone will
stipulate to the fact that patches or deltas tend to save bandwidth if
all you have to transfer over the wire are the patches or deltas..
that's never been in dispute. The dispute is... is it worth it to
implement. And you can't answer that question till you start looking
at other resource constraints.

-jef