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....in scenarios where there are several versions of a file or many similar files, such as software revision control systems, distribution of software updates, content distribution networks, or efficient storage of related files. Several generic tools for delta compression, such as bdiff, vcdiff [8, 9], Xdelta [10] and zdelta [16] are freely available. We refer to [15] for an overview of delta compression techniques and their applications. 1.1 Delta Compression for Web Access A number of authors have proposed the use of delta compression techniques to improve the efficiency of web access ....

J. Hunt, K. P. Vo, and W. Tichy. Delta algorithms: An empirical analysis. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 7, 1998.

....past versions. For example, the RCS (Revision Control System) package [45] uses the diff delta compressor to reduce storage requirements. For more discussion on delta compression in the context of such systems, and an evaluation of different compressors, see the work of Hunt, Vo, and Tichy [25]. Delta Compression at the File System Level: The Xdelta File System (XDFS) of MacDonald [29] aims to provide efficient support for delta compression at the file system level using a delta compressor called xdelta. This allows the efficient implementation of revision control systems, as well as ....

....each. In the next subsection we describe one such technique in more detail. 2.3 LZ77 Based Delta Compressors The best general purpose delta compression tools are currently copy based algorithms based on the Lempel Ziv [52] approach. Example of such tools are vdelta and its newer variant vcdiff [25], the xdelta compressor used in XDFS [29] and the zdelta tool [47] We now describe the implementation of such a compressor in more detail, using the example of zdelta. The zdelta tool is based on a modification of the zlib compression library of Gailly [21] with some additional ideas inspired ....

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J. Hunt, K. P. Vo, and W. Tichy. Delta algorithms: An empirical analysis. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 7, 1998.

....compressors are software tools for compactly encoding the differences between two files or strings in order to reduce communication or storage costs. Examples of such tools are the diff and bdiff utilities for computing edit sequences between two files, and the more recent xdelta [16] vdelta [12], vcdiff [15] and zdelta [26] tools that compute highly compressed representations of file differences. These tools have a number of applications in various networking and storage scenarios; see [21] This project was supported by a grant from Intel Corporation, and by the Wireless Internet Center ....

....our experimental results. Finally, Section 5 provides some open questions and concluding remarks. 1. 2 Related Work For an overview of delta compression techniques and applications, see [21] Delta compression techniques were originally introduced in the context of version control systems; see [12, 25] for a discussion. Among the main delta compression algorithms in use today are diff and vdelta [12] Using diff to find the difference between two files and then applying gzip to compress the difference is a simple and widely used way to perform delta compression, but it does not provide good ....

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J. Hunt, K. P. Vo, and W. Tichy. Delta algorithms: An empirical analysis. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 7, 1998.

....of data, distribution of software updates, delta compression of backup files, or compression at the file system level. The compressor, called zdelta, could be viewed as a modification of the zlib compression library [4] with some additional ideas inspired by the vdelta vcdiff tool of Vo [5]. We also present experimental results comparing zdelta to other delta compression tools. Additional information about zdelta, including source code and updates, is available at http: cis.poly.edu zdelta . This project was supported by a grant from Intel Corporation. Torsten Suel was also ....

....window really needs to be in memory at the same time) 4 Results This section presents a few experimental results comparing zdelta against vcdiff , xdelta, and gzip. The experiments were conducted on two different sets of files 1. The gcc and emacs data sets used in the performance study in [5], consisting of versions 2.7.0 and 2.7.1 of gcc, and 19.28 and 19.29 of emacs. The newer versions of gcc and emacs consist of and files, respectively. 2. A set of artificially created files that model the degree of similarity between two files. In particular, we created two ....

J. Hunt, K. P. Vo, and W. Tichy. Delta algorithms: An empirical analysis. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 7, 1998.

....compressors are software tools for compactly encoding the differences between two files or strings in order to reduce communication or storage costs. Examples of such tools are the diff and bdiff utilities for computing edit sequences between two files, and the more recent xdelta [16] vdelta [12], vcdiff [15] and zdelta [26] tools that compute highly compressed representations of file differences. These tools have a number of applications in various networking and storage scenarios; see [21] for a more detailed discussion. In a communication scenario, they typically exploit the fact that ....

....our experimental results. Finally, Section 5 provides some open questions and concluding remarks. 1. 2 Related Work For an overview of delta compression techniques and applications, see [21] Delta compression techniques were originally introduced in the context of version control systems; see [12, 25] for a discussion. Among the main delta compression algorithms in use today are diff and vdelta [12] Using diff to find the difference between two files and then applying gzip to compress the difference is a simple and widely used way to perform delta compression, but it does not provide good ....

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J. Hunt, K. P. Vo, and W. Tichy. Delta algorithms: An empirical analysis. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 7, 1998.

....control devices, and cellular devices. The data contents of these devices are often updated by transmitting the new version over a network. However, low bandwidth channels and heavy Internet traffic often makes the time to perform software update prohibitive. Differential or delta compression [3, 13, 9, 8], encoding a new version of a file compactly as a set of changes from a previous version, reduces the size of the transmitted file and, consequently, the time to perform software update. Currently, decompressing delta encoded files requires scratch space, additional disk or memory storage, used to ....

....performed this task using time quadratic in the length of the input files. Delta compression algorithms were improved to run in linear time and linear space. Algorithms with these properties have been derived from suffix trees [27, 18, 16] and as a generalization of Lempel Ziv data compression [12, 13, 8]. Like algorithms based on greedy methods and dynamic programming, these algorithms generate optimally compact delta encodings. Recent advances produced algorithms that run in linear time and constant space [3] These differencing algorithms trade a small amount of compression, verified ....

J. J. Hunt, K.-P. Vo, and W. F. Tichy. Delta algorithms: An empirical analysis. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 7(2):192--214, 1998.

....papers are [9, 16] the space requirements prevent practical application of this algorithm for differencing large inputs. Linear time and linear space algorithms that are more space efficient are formulated using LempelZiv [29, 30] style compression techniques on versions. The Vdelta algorithm [12] generalizes the library of the Lempel Ziv algorithm to include substrings from both the reference string and the version string, although the output encoding is produced only when processing the version string. The Vdelta algorithm relaxes optimal encoding to reduce space requirements, although ....

....string and the version string, although the output encoding is produced only when processing the version string. The Vdelta algorithm relaxes optimal encoding to reduce space requirements, although no sublinear asymptotic space bound is presented. Based on the description of this algorithm in [12], it appears to use space proportional to the length of the reference string if the reference string is not compressible, even when the reference and version strings are highly correlated. Chan and Woo [5] describe an algorithm that encodes a file as a set of changes from many similar files ....

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J. J. Hunt, K.-P. Vo, and W. F. Tichy. Delta algorithms: An empirical analysis. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 7(2):192--214, 1998.

....the kinds of artifacts that are being manipulated. For example, it is well known that certain algorithms for computing the difference between twoversions of an artifact work better for textual data, such as documents and program code, than for binary data, such as images or program executables [27]. Incorporating such a biased differencing algorithm into the abstraction would violate its ability to properly handle different kinds of artifacts. ffl The abstraction layer should be able to support traditional CM functionality. Even though the abstraction layer is meant to support the ....

J.J. Hunt, K.-P.Vo, and W.F. Tichy. Delta algorithms: An empirical analysis. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 7(2):192--214, April 1998.

....Compression can be divided into lossy and lossless. Lossy compression is usually applied to graphical and audio objects, and lossless compression is applied to text and binary objects. The benefits of using lossless data compression algorithms such as gzip (which is based on LZ77 [15] and vdelta [10] to compress non video and non audio objects is studied in [12] The use of data specific technique for reducing object size is described in [6] Reduction was achieved by lossy compression, for example by reducing resolution and or color of a graphics object. The Mowgli architecture [1] uses ....

....see for example [4] 5] 8] and [14] Differencing compares an earlier version of an object to the current version. Usually, only two objects of the same URL or output of CGI script with different parameters are considered. Some of the differencing algorithm used are UNIX diff and vdelta [10]. In [2] the issue of what objects should be used in differencing was mentioned as an open question. This is a question which we provide an answer to in this paper. client select apply decode encode server select Client Side Server Side data control existing objects requested object ....

James J. Hunt, Kiem-Phong Vo, and Walter F. Tichy. Delta algorithms: an empirical analysis. ACM Transactions on software Engineering and Methodlogy, 7(2):192--214, Apr 1998.

....Components Managing the history of individual components is a well understood SCM task. Tools like SCCS [25] and RCS [28] are being used for more than two decades now. Efficient means to store and retrieve huge amounts of versions in a repository are available and have been thoroughly validated [17]. Identifying and reconstructing a configuration by means of its components or changes applied to a baseline is a task easily solved with all available SCM tools. SCM at the component level may well be the SCM area that is best understood of all. 3.3 Structure Versioning of structures, i.e. ....

HUNT, J. J., VO, K.-P., AND TICHY, W. F. Delta algorithms: An empirical analysis. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 7, 2 (Apr. 1998), 192--214.

....texts only, i.e. source programs or other lifecycle documents. Efficient delta techniques exist for such texts, reducing the storage demand to 2 3 of the original one. Efficient diff merge tools are also available. Later on, delta algorithms have been generalized to binary files; see [HVT98] for an empirical evaluation of a set of currently used delta algorithms. However, groupware editors for synchronous co editing are usually separate from SCM tools, also when it comes to data representation. Recently, much effort has been put into versioning of .html documents, in the context ....

....be 2.8 Industrial Experiences SCM is an established and recognized area of software engineering, with a spectrum of methods, techniques and tools available. We should then expect that there is a huge body of empirical data to demonstrate its effectiveness but not so. As described in [HVT98] much data has been collected to assert the effectiveness of delta storage on the low end. On the high end, Lucent Technology has in retrospect gone through millions of change requests to classify their purpose (perfective etc. MV98] and to estimate their associated effort [GM98] Still, the ....

James Hunt, Kiem-Phong Vo, and Walter Tichy. Delta algorithms: An empirical evaluation. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 7(2):192--214, April 1998.

....the kinds of artifacts that are being manipulated. For example, it is well known that certain algorithms for computing the di erence between two versions of an artifact work better for textual data, such as documents and program code, than for binary data, such as images or program executables [HVT98] Incorporating such a biased di erencing algorithm into the abstraction layer would violate its ability to properly handle di erent kinds of artifacts. The abstraction layer should support traditional CM functionality. Even though the abstraction layer is meant to support the construction of ....

.... to the models and applicability of CM systems (e.g. platform independent derivation rules to support shorter and more under 20 standable Make les [Tib96, WS97] inter le branching to promote variants to easily identi ed entities [Sei96] better compression techniques to save storage space [HVT98] and syntactic analysis of source code to improve merge results [Buf95] Of interest to this dissertation are the advances made in groups one and three. Unlike the advances in group two that change neither the model nor the policy, the advances in groups one and three are directly concerned ....

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J.J. Hunt, K.-P. Vo, and W.F. Tichy. Delta algorithms: An empirical analysis. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 7(2):192-214, April 1998.

....Compression can be divided into lossy and lossless. Lossy compression is usually applied to graphical and audio objects, and lossless compression is applied to text and binary objects. The benefits of using lossless data compression algorithms such as gzip (which is based on LZ77 [15] and vdelta [10] to compress non video and non audio objects is studied in [12] The use of data specific technique for reducing object size is described in [6] Reduction was achieved by lossy compression, for example by reducing resolution and or color of a graphics object. The Mowgli architecture [1] uses ....

....see for example [4] 5] 8] and [14] Differencing compares an earlier version of an object to the current version. Usually, only two objects of the same URL or output of CGI script with different parameters are considered. Some of the differencing algorithm used are UNIX diff and vdelta [10]. In [2] the issue of what objects should be used in differencing was mentioned as an open question. This is a question which we provide an answer to in this paper. client select apply decode encode server select Client Side Server Side data control existing objects requested object ....

James J. Hunt, Kiem-Phong Vo, and Walter F. Tichy. Delta algorithms: an empirical analysis. ACM Transactions on software Engineering and Methodlogy, 7(2):192--214, Apr 1998.

....First, the repository currently does not use a delta mechanism to save space when new versions of artifacts are stored. Such a mechanism can be added with relative ease through the adoption of a delta and compression library like vdelta [18] or bdi# [47] a comparison of which can be found in [23]) In particular, it is our intention to enhance the function nc add with a parameter that allows a CM client to control whether the storage of an artifact should use compressed deltas or not. Second, the repository does not provide atomicity and recovery capabilities. We consider those outside of ....

J.J. Hunt, K.-P. Vo, and W.F. Tichy. Delta Algorithms: An Empirical Analysis. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 7(2):192--214, April 1998.

....renaming detection, because it tends to keep base sequences that were split up by modifications in the original order. McCreight s suffix tree algorithm[9] appears to be an ideal basis for a fast token sequence comparator. In fact, it has already been used to implement effective delta compressors[6]. However, it has one major drawback for sequence comparison: only the first best match is stored in each node of the suffix tree. Finding all others requires an expensive search. Just being able to find the first best match is not sufficient, because the first best match is not always the one ....

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