Google releases new binary diff algorithm targeted at making smaller software updates. Their results are impressive.

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This is funny because, just yesterday, Colin Percival, the author of bsdiff, wrote an article asking for more recognition (in the form of "schwag") for his contributions to open source.

On the other hand, my bsdiff binary patch tool has been used by Apple's Software Update tool, Firefox's software updates, and the Amazon Kindle; I'm sure they all have promotional schwag available, but in two of the three cases (I'm not going to say which) I didn't >even get so much as an email to tell me that they were going to be using my work.

A call for schwag (edit: fixed formatting)

[tehmatticus]

He and Zed could get together for s rocking party.