Bug#632585: Debian bug#632585 bsdiff: make it a little less memory hungry

2016-11-01 Thread Jari Aalto
tags 632585 + fixed pending thanks On 2016-10-31 23:28, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: | | I re-opened #632585 and added three patches to it. I seems I forgot #1 | back then. I applied everything and then tested it via: | | cat libreoffice_4.3.2.orig-external.tar.xz\ |

Bug#632585: bsdiff: make it a little less memory hungry

2016-10-31 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
control: reopen -1 On 2016-10-29 14:15:26 [+0200], Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > I moved away from bsdiff and don't need this anymore. This improvement help a > little the main reason for moving away is that the average file was getting > bigger to a point where bsdiff was still too hungry

Bug#632585: bsdiff: make it a little less memory hungry

2016-10-24 Thread Jari Aalto
Hi Colin https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632585#22 Just a reminder that Sebastian provided an improvement to the program. Would there now be a good time to consider including it to the orginal sources? Thanks, Jari

Bug#632585: bsdiff: make it a little less memory hungry

2011-09-23 Thread jari
On 2011-07-04 21:32, Colin Percival wrote: | 2011-07-03 22:04 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior sebast...@breakpoint.cc: | | Package: bsdiff | | Version: 4.3-10 | | Severity: wishlist | | Tags: patch | | | | bsdiff requires 17x the size of the old file in the initial phase which | | is something.

Bug#632585: bsdiff: make it a little less memory hungry

2011-07-05 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
* Thus spake Colin Percival (cperc...@daemonology.net): Hi, Hi, I disapprove of using 'signed int' here since 'int' isn't always a consistent size. Either int32_t (if you want a 2GB limit) or ssize_t (if you want anything which will fit into RAM) is what you want. Please find attached the

Bug#632585: bsdiff: make it a little less memory hungry

2011-07-04 Thread Jari Aalto
forwarded 632585 Colin Percival (upstream) cperc...@daemonology.net thanks 2011-07-03 22:04 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior sebast...@breakpoint.cc: | Package: bsdiff | Version: 4.3-10 | Severity: wishlist | Tags: patch | | bsdiff requires 17x the size of the old file in the initial phase which | is

Bug#632585: bsdiff: make it a little less memory hungry

2011-07-04 Thread Colin Percival
Hi, I disapprove of using 'signed int' here since 'int' isn't always a consistent size. Either int32_t (if you want a 2GB limit) or ssize_t (if you want anything which will fit into RAM) is what you want. Aside from that these look reasonable; but I'm not going to commit them to the central

Bug#632585: bsdiff: make it a little less memory hungry

2011-07-03 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Package: bsdiff Version: 4.3-10 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch bsdiff requires 17x the size of the old file in the initial phase which is something. This two patches try push it down to 8x. The limitation is that max old file size is 2GiB - 1. A diff of file of that size requires with patches