I wish there were. I wonder if we can talk Joshua MacDonald (author of XDelta) into helping us with a port/JNI hooking...
----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Petheram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Slide Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 7:18 PM Subject: Re: Slide and DeltaV > > I have looked at the xdelta code and it is rather obscure, a JNI > approach seems much better to me. > > I willing to have a look, but is there any existing java code to hook into? > > Kelvin Tan wrote: > > > Yeah. I thoroughly agree for the need of the xdelta algorithm. I've been > > meaning to really take the program apart, but my C is really rusty, and from > > what I've seen so far, the code is not exactly thoroughly documented (or > > that could just be my rusty C anyway)... > > > > The Xdelta paper also doesn't have a very complete explanation of the > > algorithm, so it'd be difficult to implement the algorithm based on the > > paper. > > > > The version of Xdelta written in C is also very fast. I'm not sure if > > performance degradation would make a Java port of Xdelta unfeasible to use, > > even assuming it is/can be implemented. > > > > There has been some talk about adding JNI hooks to the C program instead on > > a mailing list (I can't remember which), but no follow up from there. > > > > Any takers for this one? > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
