updatinator benchmarking (Was: rsync benchmarking)

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Wed Jul 11 09:59:14 EDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 23:47 +1000, tridge at samba.org wrote:
> Alexander,
> 
> I should mention that doing better than rsync with a custom solution
> is not unexpected. rsync tries to be fairly general purpose, and
> special purpose delta tools can almost always do better, as they can
> take advantage of more information about the data.

Yeah, I didn't expect that rsync would be better. It clearly doesn't
have enought data to do that. Don't take this work as a complaint about
rsync.






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