[jstimpfle]

Is it practical to make diffs of recompiled binaries? Don't you need to compile to position independent code? Or otherwise make sure that most of the code's position does not change when some statically linked library changes?

[jdc0589]

Slightly different comparison, but I remember some google project to do this for shipping updates a while ago. Must have been for android, but I can't remember.

[infogulch]

Chrome, actually. Called Courgette [1]. This would actually be really awesome to apply to statically-linked distro updates.

[1]: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/softwar...