From: Bakul Shah via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
To: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Be there a "remote diff" utility?
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 10:12:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A5DC2242-12E0-4425-B14B-0DAB287D4752@iitbombay.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiVk9ZrcwpWVhEbfUAWSMhbK89XKgogWb8GV9BL=gQP3+w@mail.gmail.com>
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An interesting question is whether there exists a diff algorithm
which *minimizes* data movement across the network. Assuming similar
lengths, you can halve it by running the diff at one of the hosts
but can one do better if the two files are fairly similar? Is this
even a theoretical possibility? I don't see links to any such
algorithm on wikipedia's diff page but I figured there might be
someone on TUHS who may have speculated or know about this!
Bakul
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-16 12:31 Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-16 17:12 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS [this message]
2024-05-16 18:12 ` Rich Salz
2024-05-16 18:38 ` Ben Greenfield via TUHS
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2024-05-16 6:34 [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2024-05-16 6:51 ` [TUHS] " arnold
2024-05-16 7:33 ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-16 8:59 ` George Michaelson
2024-05-16 9:01 ` arnold
2024-05-16 17:08 ` ron minnich
2024-05-16 18:51 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2024-05-16 19:51 ` Marc Donner
2024-05-16 19:53 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-06-19 23:20 ` Alan D. Salewski
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