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> for storing images or MP3s, binary diffs are usually worse than nothing

Editing the ID3 tag of an MP3 file or changing the rating metadata of an image will give a big advantage to block level deduplication. Only a few such cases are needed to more than compensate for that worse than nothing inefficiencies of binary diffs when there's nothing to deduplicate.



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