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Courgette isn't BSDiff, it is Google's replacement for/improvement upon BSDiff. They were using BSDiff for Chrome updates before they switched to Courgette.


Courgette is a preprocessing stage to reduce the number of differences (disassembly + offset fixup + reassembly) plus BSDiff to catch anything else (using lzma instead of bzip2).




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