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Sorry non native english speaker and this confused me a bit "others are operation-based synchronizer" Is it that they only sync with a button push or something

• ars 13y ago
  I'm a native english speaker and I have no idea what that means either.
• Bockit 13y ago
  If I were to guess, I'd say operation based synchronisation is based on syncing user actions and then executing them on the other side to catch up. E.g., user deleted record 23. User added a record with this data. User changed this field to be this new value.
• jdpage 13y ago
  An operation-based synchronizer is a synchronizer which sends just the changes (the "operations") to the server, rather than the whole new state. So if I add a line of text to something, then it would send back a message to the server saying "this line of text was added". Presumably, a state-based synchronizer sends the entire updated state every time, but I don't know offhand.
• lenidot 13y ago
  See slide #5 onwards of: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/harmonyslides-2003aug.pdf http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/harmonyslides-2003... It explains the terms and explores the pros and cons of each approach.