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That's not universally true. Android makes significant use of binary diffs for patching to reduce OTA upgrade sizes, for example. However they're not appropriat
by jfindley 6y ago
That's not universally true. Android makes significant use of binary diffs for patching to reduce OTA upgrade sizes, for example. However they're not appropriate for all situations, and there's a bunch of legitimate reasons Apple may have chosen not to pursue this for kernel updates.
- saagarjha 6y agoChrome does too, I hear.
- greggman3 6y agohttps://blog.chromium.org/2009/07/smaller-is-faster-and-safer-too.html https://blog.chromium.org/2009/07/smaller-is-faster-and-safe... Yes, and smaller updates is arguable better security for users because they'll actually update. A 3gig download and a 15 to 45 minute down time is a huge incentive to NOT update.