From: Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Show binary file size change in diff --stat
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:26:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4613D1C1.6010002@dawes.za.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0704041819340.4045@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Rogan Dawes wrote:
>
>> Andy Parkins wrote:
>>
>>> As an example: compress a file, change a byte, compress it again,
>>> perform a binary diff; what is that diff telling you about the change?
>>> (My answer is: not much).
>> Well, at least as much as the resulting sizes tell you, if not more.
>
> The subtle difference: your approach is _expensive_ in terms of CPU time,
> while the byte change approach is _dirt cheap_.
I don't dispute that for a second.
> Since it seems that there are gazillions of examples where one or the
> other (or both) do not make sense, I'd rather have the fast one.
Fair enough.
Rogan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-04 13:14 [PATCH] Show binary file size change in diff --stat Andy Parkins
2007-04-04 13:34 ` Rogan Dawes
2007-04-04 14:40 ` Geert Bosch
2007-04-04 16:00 ` Rogan Dawes
2007-04-04 14:40 ` Andy Parkins
2007-04-04 15:51 ` Rogan Dawes
2007-04-04 16:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-04 16:26 ` Rogan Dawes [this message]
2007-04-04 16:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-04 16:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-04 17:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-04 17:47 ` Junio C Hamano
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-28 13:03 Andy Parkins
2007-02-28 14:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 14:51 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-28 15:15 ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-28 15:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 18:42 ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-28 19:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 15:26 ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-28 18:58 ` Rogan Dawes
2007-02-28 19:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 21:27 ` Rogan Dawes
2007-03-01 1:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-01 6:58 ` Rogan Dawes
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