Is writing a perfectly space efficient data format comparable to hand writing assembly today? Today's generic compression algorithms are excellent.
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Spent a bunch of time learning about text diffing algorithms this evening.
"Myers Algorithm" refers to a specific paper written by Eugene Myers, and he published faster algorithms later!
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/wiki/LCS-Algorithms
When writing long-lived programs (daemons etc) in Rust, I find myself asking *where* I should put data.
In a GC'd language it's just "I have a string" but Rust forces me to find somewhere to put it.
You do get a performance benefit for this work though.
IPv6 adoption is approaching half!
https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html shows 46% as of today.