On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Philip Oakley <philipoak...@iee.org> wrote: > I thought it worth bring to the list's attention a recent article on > CodeProject that may be of interest to those looking at splitting binary > files into deterministic hunks. > > http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/801608/Using-a-rolling-hash-to-break-up-binary-files > > It's based on Rabin and Karp's algorithm > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabin%E2%80%93Karp_algorithm.
If I remember right, this is how bup[1] works. Its certainly what we do for delta compressing files. [1] https://github.com/bup/bup -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
