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		chopsueyar on April 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 7% of Americans Subscribe to Netflix, Now Larger t... Does it work the same for binaries as text?

allenp on April 26, 2011 [–]

There are definitely systems that will just send the bytes that have changed (and their locations naturally). DropBox does this:

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=17631

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