Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 13:56:49 -0600 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fast diff command for large files? Message-ID: <200511041356.53629.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <0BC163E3-5E1D-4E7D-B7AD-C92AAA616228@mac.com> References: <200511040956.19087.kirk@strauser.com> <200511041129.17912.kirk@strauser.com> <0BC163E3-5E1D-4E7D-B7AD-C92AAA616228@mac.com>
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--nextPart1375379.uV3AlG0Dm5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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. =46or 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=20 silently applying them to a target file. It seems to be pretty good at=20 comparing large files quickly... </thinking> =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser --nextPart1375379.uV3AlG0Dm5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQBDa70F5sRg+Y0CpvERAp4sAJ9hlGdw2XtZbKi4jVtbc1mhIref5wCfbbGh /w3gltPtmAN+FsjeFlUyvls= =Jh0H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1375379.uV3AlG0Dm5--
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