Quick analysis of improving xdelta3 extraction speed.

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Fri Jun 22 02:21:17 BST 2007


On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 19:02 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
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> I finally read all the way through the VCDIFF document. It is actually
> pretty interesting what they let you do. Ultimately, though, I think
> there will only be so much that we can do to improve extraction
> performance and stay compatible with the VCDIFF spec. While we could
> write an encoder that would generate valid VCDIFF output which would be
> friendly to our decoder, the decoder wouldn't be 100% compatible with
> the full VCDIFF spec.

... how does this tie to xdelta3? Is xdelta3 output vcdiff compatible?

-Rob
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