binary file compare...

Nigel Rantor wiggly at wiggly.org
Wed Apr 15 13:09:27 EDT 2009


Grant Edwards wrote:
> We all rail against premature optimization, but using a
> checksum instead of a direct comparison is premature
> unoptimization.  ;)

And more than that, will provide false positives for some inputs.

So, basically it's a worse-than-useless approach for determining if two 
files are the same.

    n



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