Re: Reactions/PRCS Josh MacDonald (jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU)
Wed, 12 Apr 2000 07:17:56 -0700

Quoting Jonathan S. Shapiro (shap@eros-os.org):
>
> 2. PRCS spends a lot of effort on delta management. I'm not going to in the
> first version. Disk is relatively cheap, and we can add delta handling in
> the store later. For wire communication, I have in mind to simply use Josh's
> existing XDELTA work or simply a binary diff. My view here is to first make
> it correct, then make it compact.

Greetings,

I've just joined in on the DCMS discussion.

For a preview of the work I've been doing on delta compression, for which I will soon receive my master's degree, there is a draft available at:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jmacd/masters.ps.gz

The software described there is basically ready for release, there are just a few things holding it up. I'm interested in your feedback.

-josh