On Friday 04 November 2005 13:39, Charles Swiger wrote: > OK, but even if only one line out of 1000 changes, you still can't > make either diff or Colin Percival's bsdiff run on gigabyte sized > files and have it fit into MAXDSIZE on 32-bit address space.
For the record, textproc/2bsd-diff works fine - it's just slow. <thinking out loud> I wonder if rsync could be modified to output its patches rather than silently applying them to a target file. It seems to be pretty good at comparing large files quickly... </thinking> -- Kirk Strauser
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