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Re: These new diffs are great, but...



On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 10:53:14PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote:
> it might be easier to just generate fewer diffs on the server side, if
> there is no matching diff available apt will fall back to using the
> standard method. you will however find out that the size of all diffs
> together is already less than the size of the regular packages file.

There is a penalty per-request (both on the client and the server side), and
a penalty for piecing the diffs back together on the receiving end, both of
which are > ε.

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