Binary delta compression
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Binary delta compression (BDC) is a technology used in software deployment for distributing patches.
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[edit] Explanation
Downloading large amounts of data over the internet for software updates can induce high network traffic problems, especially when a network of computers is involved. Binary Delta Compression technology allows a major reduction of download size by only transferring the difference between the old and the new files during the update process.
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In real world implementations, it is common to also use standard compression techniques (such as Lempel-Ziv) while compressing. This makes sense because LZW already works by referring back to re-used strings. ZDelta is a good example of this, as it is built from ZLib. The algorithm works by referring to common patterns not only in the file to be compressed, but also in a source file. The benefits of this are that even if there are few similarilties between the original and the new file, a good compression ratio is attained.
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